This book is a very good one to begin with because  Bokar Rinpoche has done 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...

Bokar Rinpoche has written this very good book of 140 pages directed towards students beginning the practice of meditation. In this book he begins with why do we meditate and what are the results of meditation. He then goes in a very direct way explaining problems which may come up in meditation...

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...

Cutting Off or Chod (pronounced Cho) Practice was developed by Machig Labrag is one of the only Buddhist practices to be developed in Tibet and was then taken back to India. Chod literally means "cutting off" and refers to cutting off one's ego. This book gives the practice as...