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Mipham's Gateway to Knowledge Vol 4
Gifted with a natural intelligence, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche became extremely learned. He was accomplished in all five fields of knowledge and remains the example of perfect scholarship. When we reflect on him as a practitioner, it seems that he spent his entire life in retreat. If we contemplate his...
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Mipham's Gateway to Knowledge Vol 3 (PDF)
Gifted with a natural intelligence, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche became extremely learned. He was accomplished in all five fields of knowledge and remains the example of perfect scholarship. When we reflect on him as a practitioner, it seems that he spent his entire life in retreat. If we contemplate his...
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Mipham's Gateway to Knowledge Vol 2 (PDF885)
Gifted with a natural intelligence, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche became extremely learned. He was accomplished in all five fields of knowledge and remains the example of perfect scholarship. When we reflect on him as a practitioner, it seems that he spent his entire life in retreat. If we contemplate his...
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Mipham's Gateway to Knowledge Vol 1 (PDF)
Gifted with a natural intelligence, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche became extremely learned. He was accomplished in all five fields of knowledge and remains the example of perfect scholarship. When we reflect on him as a practitioner, it seems that he spent his entire life in retreat. Ifwe contemplate his...
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Mipham's Dialectic and Debates on Emptiness (PDF)
This book explores a number of themes in connection with the concept of Emptiness, a highly technical but very central notion in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. It examines the critique by the leading Nyingma school philosopher Mipham (1846–1912), one of Tibet’s brightest and most versatile minds,...
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Mipam on Buddha Nature Translator Duckworth (PDF)
“The author brings impressive detail and erudition to bear on this topic; he is clearly well read in the relevant Tibetan materials, the Indian background, and relevant contemporary scholarship. This book represents a significant contribution to the fields of Tibetan and Buddhist studies, and it...
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Mind Training by Ringu Tulku (PDF)
This book is on the traditional practice of mind traing In Tibetan, lo means “mind” and jong means “training,” and this training is regarded as the most important single teaching in Buddhism. Based on developing a deep compassion for ourselves and for other beings, it gives us a simple...
Milarepa's Seven Ways Things Shine by Khenpo Tsultrim (PDF)
Khenpo Tsultrim is well known for his commentaries on the Spritual Songs of Milarepa, Tibet's greatest yogi. In this teaching he describes and gives a commentary on Milarepa's song which he spontaneously sang to his students.
Meditation on Emptiness by Khenpo Tsultrim (PDF)
Khenpo Tsultrim has always stressed the importance of the Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness. Whenever Rinpoche was invited for dharma expositions for the first time, he taught the meditation on emptiness. Rinpoche has mentioned repeatedly that, before the dharma spread in Tibet, the...
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Meditation in Action by Chogyam Trunga (PDF)
In 1973 when Chogyam Thrungpa Rinpoche moved to Boulder, Colorado he taught his first formal teaching of a course in Eastern Religions at the University of Colorado in 1973. I and my wife were there at this teaching and after just a few classes, we both became Buddhist because of Trungpa's...
Meditation Advice to Beginners by Bokar Rinpoche (PDF)
We have a number of books on techniques to do several kinds of meditation, but this book of 150 pages by Bokar Rinpoche in many ways is unique in that it begins talking to the reader as if the reader knows nothing about meditation. For example, he asks the question "what is the sky?" and shows that...
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Masters of Mahamudra trans by Dowman (PDF)
This book is a translation of stories of the 84 mahasiddhas. These Mahasiddhas were accomplished practitioners who lived outside the monasteries in India and praticed Mahamudra without the constraints of vows and certain behaviors in the 8th to 12th century in India. The stories are fascinating...
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Marvelous Primordial State: the Mejung Tantra by Namkhai Norbu
THE MARVELOUS PRIMORDIAL STATE OF TOTAL PERFECTION is a profoundly important root text of the Mind series of Dzogchen. These are: The Marvelous Primordial State in forty chapters; The Tantra of the Marvelous Primordial State in eleven chapters; The Section of the Marvelous Primordial...
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Mahamudra Teachings 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 . We are...
Luminous Mind: Way of the Buddha by Kalu Rinpoche (PDF)
Luminous Mind : The Way of the Buddha by Kalu Rinpoche Foreword by HH The 14th Dalai Lama. : Thinking of the forefathers of the Kagyu tradition, we remember Marpa Lotsawa for the hardships he underwent in obtaining Buddhist teachings from India and his scholarship in translating them into Tibetan....
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Longsal Terma Teachings Vol 6 by Namkhai Norbu (PDF)
The Longsal Cycle or The Luminous Clarity of the Universe, Heart Essence ofthe Dakinis is the col ection of Namkhai Norbu's rediscovered teachings. This series of publications contains translations ofthe original texts together with the histories of their discovery. This sixth volume...
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Longsal Terma Teachings Vol 2 by Namkhai Norbu
The Longsal Cycle or The Innermost Essence of the Dakinis of the Luminous Clarity of the Universe is the collection of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu's rediscovered teachings. This publication of teachings from theLongsal Cycle contains three upadeshas received through dreams (mnal chos), including the...
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Lions Gaze of Patrul Rinpoche by Palden Sherab (PDF)
A commentary by the Venerable Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and the Venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche on The Special Teaching of the Wise and Glorious Sovereign by Patrul Rinpoche and The Three Words that Strike the Crucial Point by Vidyadhara Garab Dorje.
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Lion's Roar That Proclaims Zhantong (Shentong) (PDF)
The Lion’s Roar that Proclaims Zhantong (Also spelled Shentong) focusses on the issues of emptiness and the two truths as they are proclaimed within the Zhantong system. The text begins with a clear explana- tion of the lineage of teachers through which the Zhantong view came down from the...
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Line Drawings of Nyingma Deities and Masters text by Dowman (PDF)
This book has drawings by Gomchen Oleshe, a Sherpa hermit who drew 93 line drawing of all the major Nyingma deities and lineage holders.
Light Comes by Dzigar Kongtrul (PDF)
In this book of 123 pages Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche devotes the first half of the book to a chapter each on the five disturbing emotions that must be overcome to make progress on the Buddhist path. These are not dry Dharma teachings about the characteristics of these emotions, but are written with...
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Life and Times of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (PDF)
This is the biography of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He was born in Tibet received teachings from many great lamas and spent many years in isolated retreat. When he came to Nepal he established a monastery and began teaching tousands of Rinpoches, Buddhist monks and nuns, and western and Asian...
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Life and Legacy of Dudjom Rinpoche by Dongyal (PDF)
The full title is Light of Fearlesss Indestructible Wisdom: The Life and Legacy of Dudjom Rinpoche by Tsewang Dongyal Dudjom Rinpoche was head of the Nyingma lineage for many years and and did vast teachings and had a miraculous death. A few of his activities are listed below: (1) His writings...
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Legend of the Great Stupa and Story of Padmasambhava (PDF)
The Legend of the Great Stupa, focuses on incarnation, adoration, disaster, and rebirth to convey the power of meritorious action, aspiration, and vow. It is a Tibetan means of instructing the visionary along the spiritual path, a path that begins with an initial flash of insight into the...
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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...
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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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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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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 (mahasiddha) Tangtong Gyalpo, “King of the Empty...
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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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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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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 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 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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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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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...
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...
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 of...
Jamgong Kongtrul Treasury of Knowledge Book 5 (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. Kongtrul is perhaps best known for his writings: he composed more than ninety volumes...
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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 volume contains books two, three, and four of Jamgon Kongtrul's huge...
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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...
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 ....
Introduction to Kalachakra Initiation by Berzin (PDF)
"For several decades, masters from all four lineages of Tibetan Buddhism have been conferring the Kalachakra initiation in India, Mongolia, Southeast Asia and the West. Thousands of people from Buddhist and non-Buddhist cultures alike have either received the empowerment as active participants or...
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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...
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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...
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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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...
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...
Illusions's Game: Life and Teachings of Naropa by Trungpa Rinpoche (PDF)
Illusion's Game: The Life and Teachings of Naropa Naropa was an Indian Yogi who held the important teachings of Tilopa. He originally taught at Nalanda University and then in a vision, realized that he understood the Vajrayana teachings only intellectually. He then left the University and began the...
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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
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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 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 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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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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Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava) His Life and Times
Guru Rinpoché succeeded in implanting the practice of tantric Buddhism 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 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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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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Gently Whispered Oral Teachings by Kalu Rinoche (PDF)
This book is a collection of a variety of Kalu Rinpoche's teachings including teachings on the nature of mind, the refuge vow, the bardo, vajrayana and mantrayana practices, the bodhisattva vows, and on Mahamudra which is the main practice of the Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
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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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...
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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
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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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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 book...
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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...
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Essence of Clear Light by Mipham (PDF)
"The root cause for the perpetual wandering of beings in samsara, 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...
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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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.
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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...
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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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...
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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 1999 by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. For the last twenty-five years, Rinpoche has worked to...
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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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...
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 say an...
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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...
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Dispeller of obstacels by Padmasambhava (PDF)
Dispeller of Obstacles: the Heart Practice of Padmasambhava This book is a collection of famous Tibetan Rinpoches on the contribution of Padmasambhava who was the founder of Buddhism in Tibet. "This book includes teachings by Jamgon Kongtrul, Karmey Hhenpo Rinche Dargey, Dilgo Khentse, Tulku...
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 Triyana...
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...
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,...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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...
Buddhist Path: Nyingma Traditions by Palden Sherab (PDF)
Palden Sherab and his brother Tsewang Dongyal are two Rinpoche's who have produced a wonderful set of teachings on many Buddhist topics. There books are extremely clear and directed to practitioners. "Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche is the author of works on Tibetan, grammar, poetry, philosophy,...
Buddhist Masters: The 84 Mahasiddhas by Dowman and Beer.
The 84 Mahasiddhas were accomplished practitioners who lived outside the monasteries in India and practiced Mahamudra without the constraints of vows and certain behaviors in the 8th to 12th century in India. The stories are fascinating because the practitioners were ordinary men and women...
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....
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...
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...
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.
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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.
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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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...
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