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100 Verses Advice of Padampa Sangye Dilgo Khentse (PDF)
Padampa Sangye wrote 100 verses on advice and all aspect of a practitioner's life and Practice. “An extraordinary treasure: a moving and deeply transforming teaching by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of the greatest masters of our time.” —Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living...
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10th Karmapa Golden Swan:Life of 10th Karmapa by Shamar Rinpoche
Shamar Rinpoche points out that there is very little written about the 10th Karmapa and so this book is an extensive biography of the tenth Karmapa. "This book is divided into three parts. The first surveys Tibetan history from the 13'h through the 17'h centuries. It provides the context for the...
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15th Karmapa Former Lives of the Karmapa (PDF)
"First and foremost of the Tibetan tulkus, the 17th Gyalwa Karmpa have long been famous as th guiding light of the Karma Kagyu tradition and erstwhile gurus of the empoerors of China. The 15th Karmapa one told Khuentse Rinpoche about ten former lives that the had mainly in other time-space...
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16th Karmapa Incredible Encounters with Black Crown Buddha by Levine
In this book Norma Levine compiled over 100 stories by many individuals of what the Karmapa taught them, not in big lectures, but personally. The 16th Karmapa also performed many amazing miracles. To give an example one story i heard from his long time secretary was that the Karmapa was asked to...
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17th Karmapa Heart is Noble: Changing the World (PDF)
"I am encouraged that this book came about as a consequence of the interaction between the Karmapa Rinpoche and a group of young, intelligent American university students. The result is not so much a presentation o f a Buddhist point o f view, but an example of the contribution Buddhist ideas...
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17th Karmapa Interconnected Embracing Our Global Society (PDF)
The full title is Interconnected: Embracing Life in our Global Sociery. “This important book will convince you that a commitment to social and environmental justice flows naturally from mindfulness of interdependence. The Karmapa’s vision of a heart-centered spiritual practice fills one...
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17th Karmapa Music in the Sky by Michele Martin (PDF)
"Like the Dalai Lama, the Karmapa is regarded as an embodiment of com- passion, represented by the deity Chenrezik. The sole purpose of the Karmapa’s incarnation is to lead living beings from the suffering of samsara into freedom— the realization of mind’s deepest, pure...
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17th Karmapa The Dance Of 17 Lives by Mick Brown
The full title is: The Dance of 17 Lives: the Incredible True Story of Tibet's 17th Karmapa. This book tells the story of the Karmapa and most of the story centers around his escape from Tibet and arival in Nepal where the 17th Karmapa has a monastery about a mile from the Dalai Lama's...
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17th Karmapa Traveling the Path of Compassion (PDF)
The full title is Traveliing the Path of Compassion: A commentary on the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva by Ngutchu Thogme. A Buddhist is encouraged to develop compassion as an important part of their religion. A person who does this can follow the bodhisattva way and become a bodhisattva. The 37...
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1st Karmapa Dusum Khyenpa's Songs and Teachings (PDF)
This is a collection of works by the first Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpo. they are: MAHAMUDRA,THE THUNDERBOLT DoHA2 FROM THE DOHA CoLLECTION DoHA3 FROM THE DOHA CoLLECTION DoHA4 FROM THE DOHA CoLLECTION DoHA 5F FROM THE DOHA CoLLECTION DoHA 6 FROM THE DOHA CoLLECTION DoHA 7 FROM THE DOHA...
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1st Karmapa The Life and Teachings of Dusum Khyenpa (PDF)
The First Karmapa, Dusum K.hyenpa, was famous as the first person in history to reincarnate in a recognizable way so that he could continue caring for his disciples. This collection of teachings and biographies allows us to see what is less well known: how someone could develop a skillful...
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2nd Karmapa (Karma Pakshi) Tibetan Mahasiddha
Karma Pakshi is known as being a very early example in Tibetan history of such a child. In his case, his predecessor was a veritable saint: Düsum Khyenpa (1110–1193). As an adult, Karma Pakshi wrote several times that he was “no different” from Düsum Khyenpa, his teacher’s teacher’s...
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3rd Karmapa (Rangjung Dorje) Master of Mahamudra by Ruth Gamble (PDF)
Ruth Gample has a biography of the 3rd Karmapa and then translations of 11 short writings of Rangjung Dorje. These are: 1. The Liberation Story of Past Lives and The Liberation Story of the In- Between State 2 A Dream of Saraha 3. A Mālā of Mountain Dharma’s Siddhis 4. The Dancer, from...
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3rd Karmapa Consciousness, Wisdom, and Buddha Nature by Brunnholzl (PDF)
The Title of this book is actually Luminous Heart: The Third Karmapa of Consciousness, Wisdom, and Buddha Nature. It is 475 page book on the translation and commentary on: The autocommentary on The Profound Inner Reality The ornament That explains the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga Four Poems by...
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3rd Karmapa Ranjung Dorje The Profound Inner Principles (PDF)
Th e p r o f o u n d and visionary world of the Karmapa Rangjung Dorje is on display in his monumental Profound Inner Principles. The self- proclaimed, and recognized, incarnation of Karmapa Karma Pakshi, Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339) studied with the great masters of his time, absorbing the immense...
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3rd Karmapa Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism by Ruth Gamble (PDF)
This book is a complete description of the life of Rangjung Dorje the Third Karmapa. The book is 300 pages long and covers his entire life. "When Rangjung Dorjé was five, Orgyenpa recognized him as the reincarnation of Karma Pakshi (1204–1283). Karma Pakshi, known as “the Karmapa,” had, in...
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7th Karmapa (Chodra Gyatso) Establishing Validity (PDF)
This book is a commentary on the Pramana which is the Buddhist logical way of establishing if something is valid or not by the 7th Karmapa . . It is the First Chapter of Karmapa Chodrak Gyatso's Ocean ofLiterature on Logi,c and the Corresponding Chapter from Dha.rmak1rti's Commentary on...
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9th Karmapa (Wangchuk Dorje) Ocean of Certainty with Traleg Rinpoche
This is another book on the 9th Karmapa's Ocean of Certainty with a translation of the root text and a commentry by Traleg Rinpoche.
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9th Karmapa Middle Way Feast for the Fortunate (PDF)
All Buddhist philosophical systems explain how they adhere to a “mid- dle way” or middle path, whether that middle way is one of view, medita- tion, or conduct. However, it is only the system of Nāgārjuna outlined in his six treatises on reasoning, along with the tradition of exposition...
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9th Karmpa Mahamudra: Ocean of True Meaning (PDF)
This is a translation by Henrik Havlat. Thrangu Rinpoche also has a book on this topic. The book covers the Four Prelminaries, then the Four Uncommon Preliminaries (Ngondro). then Shamatha (Calm Abiding), then Vipahsyana (Intuitive Iinsight), Dispelling of obstacles to practice and finally...
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A Practice of Padmasambhava by Gyaltsap IV (PDF)
IN THIS VOLUME, the reader will find translations of two commentaries on the practice of the enlightened teacher, Padmasambhava. This great master, also known as Guru Rinpoche, is accredited with establishing the Buddhist tantric teaching in Tibet during the golden age in the ninth century, a time...
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Advice on Dying by the Dalai Lama (PDF)
This book by the Dalai Lama contains chapters on: Awareness of Death Liberation from Fear Preparing to Die Gaining Favorable Condition for the Time of Death Mediting while Dyaing Clear Light of Death and several other chapters.
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Always Maintain a Joyful Mind by Pema Chodron (PDF)
This book is a teaching on the Seven Points of Mind Training. There are 59 one line instructions which are sometimes called slogans that one can memorize or refer to when something comes up and it will help answer your doubts.
Always Maintain a Joyful Mind by Pema Chödrön (PDF)
Pema Chödrön is one of the three most read Buddhist teachers. She has the amazing ability to take problems and concerns that we ordinary people all have and to show us how to get through this using the wisdom of Buddhism. In this book Pema present the Seven Points of Mind Training which are a...
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Ascertaining Certainty About the View by Khenpo Tsultrim (PDF)
Khenpo Tsultrim and Thrangu Rinpoche taught the four Kagyu regents of the Kagyu lineage in Rumtek, India after the 1959 cultural revolution. Khenpo Tsultrim spent many years before as a yogi wandering in Tibet, but was also a Khenpo having studied the classic texts in Buddhism. He has always tried...
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Aspirational Prayer for Mahamudra by Tai Situpa (PDF)
Khentin Tai Situpa was one of the four regents of the Kagyu Lineage and perticipated in Thrangu Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsultrim’s first shedra at Rumtek. He speaks fluent English and has been teaching for 40 years, but unfortuantely very few of books in English are available in English . The...
Bardo Teachings-- Primordial Essence by Tai Situ Rinpoche (PDF)
Khentin Tai Situpa was one of the four regents of the Kagyu Lineage and perticipated in Thrangu Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsultrim’s first shedra at Rumtek. He speaks fluent English and has been teaching for 40 years, but unfortuantely very few of books in English are available in English . ...
Bardo: Interval of Possibility by Khenpo Karthar (PDF)
The Bardo is the interval that everyone goes through when they die and are reborn. This is an excellent book of 130 pages on this subject which is based on the commentary on this complex subject by Chokyi Wangchuk who was the sixth Shamar Rinpoche. This book gives and explanation in a very...
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Beacon of Certainty By Mipham Rinpoche (PDF)
This is an exploration ofthe critical philosophi- cal approach of Tibetan scholasticism,~ especially its traditions of interpretation of Madhyamaka (Middle Way) philosophy, and the relationship of Madhyamaka to Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) or the Great Perfection, one of the most important and...
Beautiful Song of Marpa by Khenpo Tsultrim (PDF)
In 1991 Khenpo Tsultrim Rinpoche gave a far ranging teaching on the Shentong view or reality and Buddha nature. So the first half of this book is devoted to this topic. In 1994 Khenpo Tsultrim gave a set of talks at Karma Ling in which he discussed four Spritual Songs by Milarepa. The first was...
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Biography of Padmasambhava (Consensed) by Duff
The actual title of this book is The Condensed Chronicle by Orgyan Padma and is shortener biography that Padmasambha wrote in his lifetime. Tony Duff has translated this biography whic is 12 pages long.
Biography of Tai Situ Rinpoche (PDF)
This short booklet of 27 pages gives a short history of Tai Situ and his lineage as well as monastery of Sherab Ling in India. There are also a number of nice pictures in this booklet.
Brilliant Moon:Biography of Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche (PDF)
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was a brilliant practitioner and teacher. He spent years in Tibet many of it in retreat in caves and escaped to Nepal in the 1960s. In Nepal he built a monastery with his wife and son (both also great practioners) and began teaching and giving empowerments from Remi Buddhist...
Buddha Nature by Khenpo Tsultrim (PDF)
Buddha Nature by Khenpo Tsultrim is a very detailed examination of the Uttaratantra Shatra which is also known as the Sublime Coninuum . The Uttaratantra is one of the five books of the Maitreya Buddha which were given to Asanga in the Fourth Century CE. This book is considered to be one of the...
Buddhist Masters of Enchantment by Dowman and Beer (PDF)
These are more stories on extradinary people achieving enlightenment and madical powers by disregarding ordinary conventions and pradticing outside the monasteries.. Dowman highly readable translation of these legends from Tibetan oral tradition shows the power of meditation in daily life....
Ceaseless Echoes (the Heart Sutra) by Palden Sherab
Palden Sherab Rinpoche and his brother Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche have produced a series of very readable books taking on many major Buddhist Topics. If you were able to attend any of their teachings you would see Palden Sherab teaching in Tibetan and his brother translating. This team which...
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Center of the Sunlit Sky by Brunnholzl (PDF)
The Center of the Sunlit Sky is a book on the Madhyama from the point of the Kagyu Tradition. The predominate tradition in Tibet was to treat the second turning of the wheel of Dharma as basically proving that everything is empty which became known as the Rongtong view of emptines. In this book...
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Chandrakirti Entrance to Middle Way - Khenpo Tsultrim (PDF)
The Buddha taught three turnings of the wheel of Dharma--the Foundation vehicle, the Mahayana vehicle, and the Vajrayana vehicle. The second turning founded by Nagarjuna based a great deal of their additions and expositions on the concept of emptiness. If a praactitioner does not understand the...
Chenrezig: Lord of Love by Bokar Rinpoche (PDF)
Chenrezig is the most popular deity in Tibet. This is a very easy Vajrayana practice that developes a person's compassion. One high lama has said, "However far you are one the path of compassion, that is how far along you are on the road to enlightement." One does not need an empowerment to...
Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teaching by Pema Chödrön(PDF)
Pema Chödrön is one of the three best selling Buddhist teachers. She has the amazing ability to take problems and concerns that we ordinary people all have and to show us how to get through this using the wisdom of Buddhism. In this book Pema Chödrön presents 108 short teachings on how to...
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Confusion Arises as Wisdom Mahamudra Ringu Tulku (PDF)
"How could confusion arise as wisdom? According to the Mahamudra view, confusion arises as wisdom when we realize that everything we experience is the radiance of the mind’s own nature. And what is the nature of our mind? And how do we come to recognize that? These are the questions Gampopa...
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Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Trungpa Rinpoche (PDF)
In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of...
Day Of A Buddhist Practitioner by Bokar Rinpoche (PDF)
This book by Bokar Rinpoche is something I have rarely seen in any other book. It begins when we wake up each day and what our first thought is, then how we expel the residual breath of the night. Then he gives instructions of setting up a simple shrine and a brief thought of Vajrasattva,...
Death And The Art of Dying by Bokar Rinpoche (PDF)
This 140 page book first of all explains what happens when we die. Bokar Rinpoche describes the process of dying for ordinary beings, practitioners and also great practitioners. After we have stopped breathing, our mind continues on through the bardo of the moment of death, then the...
Dharma Paths by Khenpo Karthar (PDF)
Dharma Paths by Ven. Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche Translated by Ngodup Burkhar and Chójor Radha. First published in 1992. This book is Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche's classic introduction to Buddhist path and practice. Khenpo Karthar is well known as abbot of Karma...
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Distinguishing Phenomena and Pure Being by Maitreya (PDF)
Distinguishing Phenomena and Pure Being was composed by Maitreya, the regent of the Lord Buddha, during the golden age of Buddhism in India. The name Maitreya means “loving kindness,” a name he will continue to bear when he manifests as the fifth of the one thousand historical buddhas of our...
Dream Yoga and Practice Natural Light by Namkhai Norbu (PDF)
Dream Yoga is the practice of lucid dreaming which is being aware that you are deaming when you are dreaming. Do this is usually quite difficult for most people but it is an important practice because it trains the mind to realize that all the outer phenomena are also "empty" or we can...
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Dying with Confidence by Anyen Rinpoche (PDF)
Tulku Thondrup Rinpoche says, "A powerful guidebook and a source of comfort at life's most crucial monment." Every person has to die and since this is a normal transition in life, we should not be terribly frightened, but rather we should prepare for it. Fortunately, the Tibetan Buddhist...
Dzogchen and Zen by Namkhai Norbu (PDF)
There are many, many books on Dogchen, the principle meditation of the Nyingma Lineage. Dzogchen is a meditation of looking directly at one's mind and is similar to Mahamudra. Zen is, of course, a major type of meditation that originated in Japan and this meditation too involves looking at one's...
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Dzogchen Teachings by Namkhai Norbu (PDF)
Namkhai Norbu’s Dzogchen Teachings is a collection of newly edited oral teachings originally published in the Mirror, the newspaper of the international Dzogchen Community established in Italy in 99 by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. For the last twenty-five years, Rinpoche has worked to...
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Dzogchen Teachings on Longsal Terma by Norbu (PDF)
DZOGCHEN TEACHINGS ORAL COMMENTARY ON THE LONGSAL TERMA: THE OPENING OF THE GATE TO THE STATE OF ATI (ATI GoNGPA GoJED) is the complete Title. Dzokchen is the main practice of the Nyingma lineage who has produced many enlightened beings. In this book gives a very lucid and detailed of the...
Eight Movements of Yantra Yoga by Namkhai Norbu (PDF)
Buddhist practice does not just involve meditation using one's mind. It should also involve some excercises to get one's subtle channels flexible and open so the subtle energy (Skt. prana, Tib. lung) moving in our body to help our meditation. Namkai Norbu Rinpoche has this small booklet...
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Empowerment and the Path to Liberations by Natsok Rangdrol (PDF)
We hear that Vajrayana is superior to other vehicles, but for what reason? Its superiority lies entirely in receiving the ripening em powerments and liberating instructions in an authentic way, and in applying them correctly. By doing so we can reach enlightenment, ideally in this very life, or...
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Emptiness From TharLam by Tai Situ Rinpoche (PDF)
This teaching publish in Thar Lam in 36 pages with several pages of pictures makes up a teaching on Emptiness which is one of the more difficult Buddhist concepts to explain. Tai Situ speaks fluent English and teaches on Emptiness in a very interesting way with many informal examples.
Enlightened Courage: 7 Points of Mind Training by Dilgo Khyentse
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was a brilliant practitioner and teacher. He spent years in Tibet many of it in retreat in caves and escaped to Nepal in the 1960s. In Nepal he built a monastery with his wife and son (both also great practioners) and began teaching and giving empowerments from Remi Buddhist...
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Essence of Clear Light by Mipham (PDF)
"THE ROOT CAUSE for the perpetual wandering of beings in sa~psara, tormented by endless suffering, is to hold to an incorrect understanding of the fundamental nature• of phenomena. For this misunderstanding to be purified, the compassionate and skillful Buddha turned the wheel of dharma on...
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Everything is Light by Dowman (PDF)
This is a translation of a Dzogchen tantra called The Circle of Total Illumination. This tantra explains that everthing that we experience of phenomena is "light." The first 60 pages of the 300 pages of this book is an extensive commentary by Keith Dowam on the tantra. What follows is the...
Excellent Buddhism by Kalu Rinpoche (PDF)
Clear Point Press published three books as a series by Kalu Rinpoche. The first was Excellent Buddhism which contains practice in daily life and some background to Kalu Rinpoche. The second book was Profound Buddhism which were teachings on the Foundation and the Mahayana vehicles. This...
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Excellent Path to Enlightenment by Dilgo Khyentse
When we take our first steps on the Path, we are not yet capable of helping others. To accomplish the good of others, we must first perfect ourselves, by purifying and transforming our minds. This is the aim of what we call the preliminary practices, which establish the foundations of all spiritual...
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Eye of the Storm: Vairotsana's Transmissions by Dowman
THIS IS A BOOK OF FIVE DIFFERENT TEXTS ON DZOGCHEN "The five texts translated into English in this book are considered the first transmission of Dzogchen Ati to Tibet. They were transmitted by a Tibetan monk called Vairotsana who distinguished himself not only in the field of translation, emerging...
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Fail Fail Again Fail Better by Pema Chodron (PDF)
This is a short book that contains the greaduating address that Pema Chodron gave to Naropa University in Boulder Colorado
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Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm Thich Nhat
Thich Nhat Hanh was born in Vietnam and is one of the best known Zen Buddhist around the world for his very practical advice on how to live one's life fully and how to deal with one's many problems in Samsara. Unfortunatly we passed away quite recently so we thought we could offer a few of...
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Flight of the Garuda (Dzokchen teachings) by Dowman
This book includes a numer of translations by Keith Dowman that illusrate the dzogchen Path practice mainly by the Ningmas. It includes Theory and practice of DZogchen Emptying the depths of hell The flight of the Gaaruda the wissh Grnting Prayer of kuntu Zangpo The Secret Instructions in the...
Foundation of Buddhist Meditation by Kalu Rinpoche (PDF)
From the publisher : The Foundation of Buddhist Meditation by Yen. Kalu Rinpoche was first published as a pamphlet by us in 1973. In 1981 it was included in an anthology Four Essential Buddhist Texts, which was reprinted in 1982 and in booklet form in 1992. Now we are pleased to bring out this new...
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Four Logical Arguments of Middle Way by Mipham (PDF)
Thrangu Rinpoche has a book on understanding the Buddhist concept of emptiness entitled Open Door to Emptiness. In this book he reviews the Four Logical Argument used to prove that things are empty or one could say insubstantial
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Gampopa Teaches Essence of Mahamudra by Duff
Duff gives a good description of Gampopa who was a major Kagyu lineage holder and translates 9 ifferent teachings of Gampopa. Interview Text: Lord Dvagpo’s Personal Advice and Lord Gomtshul’s Interviews InterviewText:DusumKhyenpa’sInterviewsInterview Text; Phagmo Drupa’s...
Gem Ornament of Oral Instructions by Kalu Rinpoche (PDF)
In this book Kalu Rinpoche teaches on the three yanas (Foundation, Mahayana, and Vajrayana), then goes through the four Ngondro Practices (Prostrations, Vajrasattva, Mandala, and Guru Yoga) practices. He also explains the layperson's vows, the Bodhisattva vow, and the tantric vows. Finally,...
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Gently Whispered Oral Teachings by Kalu Rinoche (PDF)
This book is a collection of a variety of Kalu Rinpoche's teachings including teachings on th nature of mind, the refuge vow, the bardo, vajrayana and mantrayana practices, the bodhistaava voews and Mahamudra.
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Great Perfection from the Bon view by Rossi (PDF)
This book actual title is : The Philosophical View of the Great Perfection in the Tibetan Bon Religion. The Great Perfection (Dzokchen) originated in the Bon Religion of Tibet and was adopted by buddhism Followers of the Bon religion maintain that its tenets were first expounded by the...
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Guru Pema: Mythology of Lotus-Born by Dowman (PDF)
Guru Pema (Padmasambhava a wondering yogin from Orgyen who became Tibet's great Guru. He is the precious buddha of the heart center who emanates tulkus to demostrate Dzogchen. In this original work Keith Dowman brings the guru myths together and gives a brilliant introduction showing his...
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Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava) His Life and Times
Guru Rinpoché succeeded in implanting the practice of tantric Bud- dhism throughout the Himalayan region, particularly in Tibet. Although he left the region well over a thousand years ago, he is still remembered vividly and invoked regularly by Tibetan-speaking Buddhists, for whom his presence...
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Guru Yoga: Union of Bliss and Emptiness by Dalai Lama (PDF)
The Dalai Lama, of course, is an extremely popular Buddhist and his books are for the layperson, not scholar and are therefore very easy to read. This book is an advanced book by the Dalai Lama on the practice of Guru Yoga. Guru Yoga is a practice of guru yoga. "Guru yoga is an important aspect of...
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Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse by Jigme Lingpa (PDF)
The full Title is: CLOUDLESS SKY The Mahamudra Path ol the Tibetan Kagyii Buddhist School. This is the third Jamgong Kongtrul commenting on a spiritual song of 1St Jamgon Kongtrul by explaining Ground,Path and Fruition Mahamudra. What is meant by mahamudra? Mahamudra consists ba- sically of three...
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Heart Lamp: The Lamp of Mahamudra by Natsok Rangdrol (PDF)
This state of Mahamudra is the flawless realization of all the learned and accomplished masters of lndia, without exception, the Six Ornaments and Two Supreme Ones as well as the Eighty Mahasiddhas. Simply hearing the word "Mahamudra" leads to the end of samsaric existence. Although the teachings...
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Heart of the Buddha by Trungpa Rinpoche (PDF)
One of the first books published in English language by Tibetan Buddhist master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. The teachings presented were drawn from early teachings the author gave to students in North America. In The Heart of the Buddha , the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam...
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Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones by Dilgo Khentse (PDF)
THE HEART TREASURE OF THE ENLIGHTENED ONES The Practice of View of Meditation and Action A Discourse Virtuous in the Beginning) Middle) and End by Patrul Rinpoche with commentary by Dilgo Khyentse Translated from the Tibetan by The Padmakara Translation Group
Illusions's Game: Life and Teachings of Naropa by Trungpa Rinpoche (PDF)
Illusion's Game: The Life and Teachings of Naropa
In Love with the World by Mingyur Rinpoche
This is an amazing book because Mingjur Rinpoche a head of an important monastery with dozens of attendants and hundreds of monk attending to his ervery need, one day put on regular clothes and spent the next several years traveling unrecognized as an ordinary person through India. The book is the...
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In Praise of Dharmadhatu by Nagarjuna (PDF)
This is a huge book of over 400 pages in which Brunnholzl in which he explores in detail writings by the famous Nagarjuna which are rarely examined. Nagarjuna is known for founding the Middle Way (Madyamaka) school which is the foundation of second turning of the Wheel of Dharma explaining...
Instructions of Gampopa by Khenpo Karthar (PDF)
Gampopa one of the founders of the Kagyu Lineage was asked to give advice to his many students. He then came up with a unique set of 28 lists each which had 10 different instructions in them make a set of 280 instructions. Here Khenpo Kathar explains each of these items in detail so these are not...
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Interbeing: The 14 Mindfulness Trainings by Thich Nhat Hanh PDF
Thich Nhat Hanh was born in Vietnam and is one of the best known Zen Buddhist around the world for his very practical advice on how to live one's life fully and how to deal with one's many problems in Samsara. Unfortunately we passed away quite recently so we thought we could offer a few of...
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Introduction to Contemplation Practice by Norbu (PDF)
Among the many topics taught by the Master Chogyal Namkhai Norbu during a retreat at Monte Faito in spring 1980, that the present writer had the good fortune to attend, he gave the transmission ofa complete and progressive method for those wishing to practise contemplation according to the Dzogchen...
It Is Up to You by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche (PDF)
Have you ever wondered it you could explain all the important ideas and beliefs in Buddhism without using any complicated Buddhist words, not using concepts such as bodhichitta, disturbing emotions Shamatha and so on, Well, this has been done by Dzigar Kongtrul in his book It is Up to You ....
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Jamgon Kongtrul Treasury of Knowledge Book 1 (PDF)
In Tibetan religious literature, Jamgon Kongtrul's Treasury of Knowledge in ten books stands out as a unique encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachingst. This volume one, which serves as a prelude to Kongtrul's survey, describes four major cosmological systems found...
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Jamgon Kongtrul Treasury of Knowledge Books 2-4 (PDF)
In Tibetan religious literature, Jamgon Kongtrul's Treasury of Knowledge in ten books stands out as a unique encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as it was preserved in Tibet. This volumn contains books two, three, and four of Jamgon Kongtrul's huge...
Journey without a Goal by Trungpa Rinpoche (PDF)
This is one of Trungpa Rinpoche's early teachings in 1982 in which he introduced basic tantra to Western audiences. During this time t Vajrayana practice was little known outside of a few teachers such as Kalu Rinpoche in the US. This book discusses Vajra Nature, the Mandala, the purpose...
Joyful Wisdom by Mingyur Rinpoche (PDF)
"I realized that the emotional climate (the media) was describing wasn't at all unique to the modern age. From the twenty-five-hundred-year-old perspective of Buddhism, every chapter in human histbry could be described as an "age of anxiety." The anxiety we feel now has been part...
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Kalachakra Tantra by Ngawang Ghargyey
The Kalacharka Tantra is said to be the most advanced Vajrayana practice there is. It was a text brought into India in the 900s AD and covers as fields of knowledge such as calculations to make calendars, Medicine, and the Kalachakra practice which involves 960 Deities. This book is a long...
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Kalachakra Tantra Sadhana Chapter 4 by Vesna Wallace (PDF)
"This is the first complete English translation oft he fourth chapter oft he Buddhist Kalacakra Tantra text and its commentary, the Stainless Light. Building upon the Chapter on the Cosmos which provide the theoretical background to the Chapter on Sadhana, and the reasons for the given structure...
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Karma Chagme's Mountain Dharma by Khenpo Karthar Vol 4 (PDF)
Karma Chagme was a brilliant practitioner and teacher who was of great help to the Tenth Karmapa. He held the teachings of both the Kagyu and Nyingma Lineage. Khenpo Karthar on Karma Chagme's Mountain Dharma at the request of the 17th Karmapa over four years. These teachings covered on...
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Karma Chagme's Mountain Dharma by Khenpo Karthar Vol. 1 (PDF)
Karma Chagme was a brilliant practitioner and teacher who was of great help to the Tenth Karmapa. He held the teachings of both the Kagyu and Nyingma Lineage. Khenpo Karthar on Karma Chagme's Mountain Dharma at the request of the 17th Karmapa over four years. These teachings covered on...
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Karma Chagme's Mountain Dharma by Khenpo Karthar Vol. 3 (PDF)
Karma Chagme was a brilliant practitioner and teacher who was of great help to the Tenth Karmapa. He held the teachings of both the Kagyu and Nyingma Lineage. Khenpo Karthar on Karma Chagme's Mountain Dharma at the request of the 17th Karmapa over four years. These teachings covered on...
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Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma by Khenpo Karthar Vol. 2 (PDF)
Karma Chagme was a brilliant practitioner and teacher who was of great help to the Tenth Karmapa. He held the teachings of both the Kagyu and Nyingma Lineage. Khenpo Karthar on Karma Chagme's Mountain Dharma at the request of the 17th Karmapa over four years. These teachings covered on...
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Karmapa: The Black Hat Lama by Douglas (PDF)
"This remarkable document, scrupulously compiled from authentic Tibetan sources, tells of the transmission of mystic teachings from India to Tibet and their sub- sequent embodiment in the line of successive incarnate Lamas known as the Karmapa Black-Hats. For the first time the Teachers of the...
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King of the Empty Plain by Tongtong Gylpo (PDF)
Countless Buddhist teachers and practitioners have appeared over the centuries in the snowy land of Tibet. None have made a deeper impact on the combined religious, artistic, and technological his- tory of the country than the great adept (mah›siddha, grub chen) Tangtong Gyalpo, “King of the...
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Lady of the Lotus Born by Yeshe Tsogyal (PDF)
When Padmasambhava (Tib. Guru Rinpoche) was invited by the King of Tibet to help build a Buddhist country, he set up what is now the Nyingma lineage and was involved in bringing many, many Vajrayana texts and practices to Tibet. He could not do this without having 25 close deciples and an...
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Lamp That Dispels Darkness by Mipham (PDF)
This is a text by the greatNyingma scholar-practitioner Ju Mipham Namgyal [1846-1912]. Mipham, as he is usually called, has become the most well known ofNyingma scholars. His text here concerns the practice of the innermost level of Great Completion The innermost level of Great Comple tion has...
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Land of Snows by Tucci (PDF)
This book is an extensive discussion of Tibetan culture. It covers Tibet's history, religion, art, daly life, marriage and death ustoms, literature and political organization. It also has over 100 photographs to augment the narrative. Tucci's made many trips to Tibet between 1927 and 1948 ans so he...