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This 74 page booklet gives a clear and concise overview of how to do basic sitting meditation. The author Thrangu Rinpoche has spent the last 40 years teaching meditation and other Buddhist topics to both Western and asian students. The process of developing good meditation is to begin with...
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There are two ways to approach the teachings on emptiness: one can study the vast Prajna-paramita sutras and commentaries using logic until one has grasped this intellectually or one can look directly at mind in one's meditation. The Harmony of Views is a fascination book which contains...
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A Life of Happiness: A Practice Guide for Older Practitioners is the first Buddhist practice guide intended for older people. Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche is a highly regarded lama with many students and centres worldwide. He has dedicated his life to serving the Dharma and is one of...
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A new original teaching by Thrangu Rinpoche on the Tibetan classic by Padampa Sangye's One Hundred Verses . Padampa Sangye is best known as Machig Labrang's teacher, the famous yogini who developed the widely practiced Cutting-off or Chod Practice. This work has been featured in this...
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Thrangu Rinpoche is author of 60 books on Buddhism. You need only to peruse this book section to see all the different topics Thrangu Rinpoche has taught on. We have made PDFs of each of these books and made they searchable and put them in a folder and made the cost of this folder $30.00 If...
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Creation and Completion is a unique guide to the practice of Tibetan Buddhist tantra. Drawing on experiential explanations from two great masters, it is both concise and thorough, both authoritative and clear. In the creation stage of tantra, practitioners visualize themselves in the form of...
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Crystal Clear an important meditation manual on Mahamudra by Thrangu Rinpoche is a commentary to the classic meditation manual on Mahamudra meditation by Tashi Namgyal's Clarifying the Natural State . In his straightforward and lucid style Rinpoche gives us an indispensable guidebook for...
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Atisha was a great Bengal scholar who went to Sumatra to a thriving Buddhist community there and met his root guru and studied the Mahayana for 12 years. When he returned to India, he was invited to go to Tibet which was undergoing many Dharma difficulties after the Tibetan King Langdarma had tried...
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The entire path of Buddhism can be characterized as a quest for understanding the mind and then ridding the obstacles to mind. While the mind is the foundation of Buddhism, it is rarely directly described in its complexity. For this reason the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, wrote a treatise...
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Asanga was given five treatises from the Buddha Maitreya. Distinguishing Dharma from Dharmata was one of these texts. This text which is 1,400 years old and consists of 56 root verses is memorized and extensively studied by the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages. This text is studied even today because it...
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One of the main concepts in Buddhism is that our external world is not solid and real. The Buddha in several sutras stated that this world is a dream, a mirage, an illusion. This idea was further expanded by Nagarjuna and the Middle Way school around the first century of our era. He presented...
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"The great Indian master Kamalashila's Stages of Meditation in the Middle Way School opens the door of philosophy and practice to meditators at all levels. With brevity and clarity, it covers all the main topics one needs to know from developing compassion, through numerous...
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The Tibetan Buddhist teachings on Mahamudra are known for their ability to lead to profound realization. These teachings are as useful for today's busy world as they have been for centuries. Essentials of Mahamudra is a commentary on Tashi Namgyal's famous Moonlight of Mahamudra a text that...
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This introduction to Buddhist psychology supplies essential instructions for successful meditation practice. Everyday Consciousness and Primordial Awareness sets forth the nature of mind and human potential and presents meditation practices that can powerfully influence and ultimately transform the...
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Thrangu Rinpoche describes in a lucid manner the Tibetan view of mind by giving the function and the properties and importance of the eight Consciousnesses of mind. These consciousnesses interacting with each other and the outside world give us our view of the world and in their normal functioning...
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Gampopa (1079 - 1153) was a physician from Gampo, Tibet and the foremost student of the famous Tibetan yogi Milarepa. Gampopa is known for combining the Kadampa tradition of Atisha with the Mahamudra teachings, thus establishing the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Gampopa’s Four Dharmas...
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Thrangu Rinpoche discusses the four common foundations, which are the four thoughts to contemplate before beginning any spiritual practice. The first foundation, precious human birth, explains in detail why practice is important. The second foundation, impermanence, teaches us to find something...
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This beautifully illustrated book of 160 pages was published for Thrangu Rinpoche's creamation. Each prayer is given in Tibetan script, a English transliteration and translation, Chinese transliteration and translation. It includes three different Calling the Guru from Afar and 20 prayers...
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This book is a commentary on Je Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points of Mind Training , one of the best known and most beloved texts of Tibetan Buddhism because of its practical yet effective approach to dealing with the short- and long-term difficulties that all beings face. In this book which...
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In 1991 Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche accompanied a group of western Buddhist students to each of the four major pilgrimage sites from the life of the Buddha (Bodhgaya, Sarnath, Kushinagar and Lumbini). This book contains the teachings Rinpoche gave to the group at each pilgrimage site, enabling...
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How to Recite the Mani Mantra is a small but valuable booklet in which Thrangu Rinpoche writes a commentary on Khenpo Gangshar's The Spiritual Song of the Mani Mantra . Khenpo Gangshar Wangpo was a guru of Thrangu Rinpoche and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in Tibet. He wrote a short Doha of the...
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One of the shining jewels of the Kagyu Lineage is the Dharma Lord Gampopa (1079-1153) who is well-known for merging into one river of Dharma the Kadampa lineage of Atisha with the Mahamudra lineage that he received from his root guru Milarepa. The Jewel Ornament of Liberation is a graded path...
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This is Thrangu Rinpoche's latest book which includes three of Thrangu Rinpoche's teachings on the Bardo. The Bardo is the interval between when we die and when we are reborn. For ordinary persons the experience in the bardo is a very frightening with uncontrolled streams of visions,...
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The King of Samadhi or the Samadhi Raja Sutra is one of the few sutras that discusses Mahamudra. Thrangu Rinpoche in this book gives a full length teaching on this sutra discussing Mahamudra, This sutra also gives the story of how the Buddha predicted the coming of Gampopa. The original sutra...
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Milarepa was one of the greatest Buddhist saints to have ever lived. His incredible story of accomplishing enlightenment in one lifetime is one of the truly inspirational books in Buddhism. What Milarepa practiced, realized, and taught was Mahamudra, which is the main meditation of the Kagyu...
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Gampopa was the main disciple of Milarepa and one of the founders of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism from which originated the four greater and eight lesser schools. Besides writing the Jewel Ornament of Liberation , Gampopa distilled the Buddhist path into four short lines or dharmas known...
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The meditation of Mahamudra and the meditation of Dzogchen are highly appropriate meditations for Western practitioners, who are engaged in their families and their jobs, because these meditations can be done in ordinary life and without elaborate pujas and visualizations, that is, they are done by...
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One of the most beloved and often recited prayers in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The Mahamudra Lineage Prayer , also called the Dorje Chang Prayer combines a supplication to the Mahamudra lineage with a concise guide to Mahamudra practice and the stages of the path to enlightenment. ...
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One of Thrangu Rinpoche's most popular publications is the Medicine Buddha Teachings. This book presents more than just the medicine Buddha practice but includes many basic principles of tantric theory and practice in general. Presented are the stages of practice of the Medicine Buddha...
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Mipham Rinpoche, a 19th century Tibetan scholar and practitioner, gives a definitive explanation of the Middle-way Instructions. For a few years of his life he stayed at the Tenth Thrangu Rinpoche's monastery, where he was supplied with the materials for his prolific writing. One of Mipham...
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Milarepa was Tibet's most famous saint who renouced dark magic and with Buddhist practice was able to become realized in one lifetime. Practicing in the high Himalayan mountains, wearing only a cotton robe, he taught the Dharma through beautiful, imagery-filled spiritual songs making them...
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Tilopa who founded the Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism had one primary pupil who was Naropa. Naropa was a great scholar at Nalanda University a 1,000 years ago and he left his prestigious post to wander in the forests of India looking for Tilopa. He went through great hardship and finally was...
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The Ocean of Definitive Meaning is by the Ninth Karmapa and is one of the most profound and famous texts on Mahamudra and is of vital importance even today in the Kagyu tradition. It contains a detailed and comprehensive presentation of instruction on both the view and the practice. The Ninth...
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Thrangu Rinpoche's teachings encompass the entire path of Mahamudra, including the preliminaries, the main practice, removing obstacles, and attaining the result of Buddhahood—with detailed instruction in tranquility and insight meditation. This is the only available volume that presents...
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According to Tibetan Buddhist tradition, human beings' true nature, buddha essence, is the foundation from which all wisdom develops. In order to discover our Buddha-essence or Buddha-nature the meditator needs to know how to meditate correctly and must properly understand the reasons for...
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One of the most important concepts in Mahayana Buddhism is the concept of Emptiness. We have external experiences that appear, but when they are examined closely in four careful analyses of the Middle-way (Madhyamaka) they are found to be insubstantial or lack inherent reality. This fact has led...
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The Ornament of Clear Realization is one of the Five Treatises of the Maitreya Buddha transmitted to Asanga in the 4th Century. The Ornament of Clear Realization take the vast teachings of the Prajnaparmita (Perfection of Wisdom) literature which make us thousands of pages and summarized them...
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At the heart of successful Mahamudra practice is the ability to get directly at the nature of mind. The Ninth Karmapa was the acknowledged master of this approach. No more authoritative or useful instructions exist than in his three definitive texts on Mahamudra, of which this easy-to-use manual is...
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The foundation of all meditation practice are the two types of meditation that form the core of Buddhist spiritual practice: Tranquillity (Shamatha) meditation which aims at stilling the mind and Insight meditation (Vipasyana) meditation produces insight into the nature of all phenomena. Shamatha...
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Milarepa, Tibet's greatest saint, had two major disciples: Gampopa, who established the monastic foundation of the Kagyu lineage, and Rechungpa, who traveled to India and brought back profound teachings which were absorbed into several lineages. Rechungpa's biography stands out because of...
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The great Indian Buddhist scholar Atisha went to Indonesia and spent 12 yearrs studying Buddhism there. When he returned to India, he condensed his realization into short one-line instructions on how to behave correctly as a Buddhist and how to develop one's practice to become a Bodhisattva....
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This is one of the most dearly beloved Buddhist texts and has been translated into over a dozen languages because of its relevance to modern times. This book was written by an eighth century Indian Bodhisattva, Shantideva, and is a comprehensive outline of what it is to be a bodhisattva. This...
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The Mahayana path of Buddhism requires the development of vast loving-kindness and compassion. The foundation for developing impartial compassion for all sentient beings is based on understanding the emptiness of self and the emptiness of phenomena. In Shentong and Rangtong Thrangu Rinpoche begins...
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This is a new book by Thrangu Rinpoche. It is the story of his life in his own words. It covers his birth up to his first 46 years of his life. At the end are eight questions that Rinpoche was asked and he then answered these in detail. These questions were: 1. Tell us about your birth 2. How...
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The Sixteen Arhats are 16 different wise teachers who lived in India and who represent many different aspect of the Buddhist experience. Although these adepts lived in India their stories and accomplishments were taken to China, Japan, and Tibet where they are featured in Buddhist ceremonies. The...
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Saraha is credited with being the first person to teach Mahamudra meditation which he learned from a female arrow-maker. After realizing Mahamudra Saraha wrote three treatises on Mahamudra-- the longest being the People's Doha , the middle length being the Queen's Doha , and the shortest...
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Songs of Naropa is now out of print. A much revised and expanded version of this book is now available here at the PDF section entitled Naropa's Wisdom . Naropa's wisdom combines some of the material of this book with much more material from other teachings Thrangu Rinpoche gave on...
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Buddhism was introduced into Tibet quite late in the 8th century by Padmasambhava which lead to the rise of the Nyingma school. Many centuries later in the 11th century, just before the destruction of Buddhist universities in the Moslem invasion of India, Marpa undertook the incredibly difficult...
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Jamgon Kongtrul (1813-1899 CE), also called Lodro Thaye was an incredible practitioner and scholar who composed over 90 volumes of Buddhist works and is especially known for his encyclopedic work the Five Great Treasuries and being a major member of the Rime movement. After doing a long...
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This book is a translation of the complete original King of Samadhi sutra which is over 500 pages long. We offer this free as a supplement to Thrangu Rinpoche's King of Samadhi teaching which was not available when this translation was published.
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Thrangu Rinpoche gave a commentary on the Ocean of Certainty (Namo Buddha Publications carries the paperback and also the PDF of his commentary). Here Bokar Rinpoche's book has an extensive translation of the who Ocean of Certainty text with the Tibetan script on the left page and a translation...
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One of Tibet's greatest masters, Dakpo Tashi Namgyal is famous for writing The Moonlight of Mahamdura . This book is a shorter and more practical manual that covers simply and methodically the path from mindfulness to complete enlightenment by presenting the profound...
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A Supplemental Book to Jewel Ornament of Liberation Thrangu Rinpoche wrote is extensive commentary on the Jewel Ornament of Liberation by Gampopa which is an encyclopedia of Buddhist concepts as arranged and exponded on by one of the major founders of the Kagyu Lineage. It is to the Kagyu lineage...
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This book is a an invaluable book on the bardo or the time between this life and we are reborn in the next. Thrangu Rinpoche used this book as a text for his bardo teachings. This book published in 1987 is out of print and we offer it as a PDF that is an exact copy of the paperback.
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The essence of the teachings of the Buddha is practice. The reason we practice meditation is to attain happiness. This means happiness in both the short term and the long term. The short-term benefits of meditation are more than merely peace of mind, because our physical health as well depends to a...
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King Trisong Detsun, who was king who first introduced into Tibet, asked the Buddhist practitioners to come up with a simple list of what was proper Buddhist conduct for the Tibetans. They came up with ten simple rules and this became a major teaching of how Buddhist sshould conduct...
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This is a biography of Thrangu Rinpoche with 20 pictures. It contains accounts of his childhood, of his recognized as the Thrangu Tulku, what he learned in Tibet, his escape from Tibet, the extensive learning he had in Buxalor, his teaching the Kagyu Rinpoches in India, the building of his...
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Many times Thrangu Rinpoche has said that Buddhist practitioners often concentrate on meditation and that is, of course, good. But if they don't matach their meditation with compassion, unselfish behavior and engaging in virtuous actions, their meditation will never go well. To encourage his...
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This extensive set of teachings was one of Thrangu Rinpoche's introductions to the basic concepts of the three vehicles of Buddhism. When Buddhism came to Tibet, the great masters of meditation determined that to practice Buddhism properly, all three vehicles, or levels, of Buddhism have to be...
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The lineage of the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism begins with Tilopa, who is said to have received the teachings of Mahamudra directly from the buddha Vajradhara. Tilopa expressed his realization in the form of spiritual songs, pithy yet beautiful poems that he sang spontaneously. In this...
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The Buddha taught that our world was not created by some kind of creator. Rather he taught that everything in samsara follows the process of interdependent origination in which one action or event causes another event, which causes another event, and so on. In personal terms, interdependent...
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The Uttaratantra Shastra also called the Sublime Continuum elucidates the Third Turning of the Buddha's Teachings on Buddha-essence--the inherent qualities and potential for Buddhahood present in all beings. This 283 page book includes a translation of the 404 verses of the root...
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Vivid Awareness presents Khenchen Thrangu's commentary on the famous Dzogchen and Mahamudra master Khenpo Gangshar's two texts on Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet . The book also includes translations of both root texts. The instructions in this book are a distillation of the...
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WaterMoons is a unique books which contains 108 pith instructions that Thrangu Rinpoche gave while he was teaching on the three Ninth Karmapa's famous trilogy on Mahamudra (The Ocean of Definitive Meaning, the eliminating the Darkness of Ignorance, and Pointing Out the Dharmakaya). Each pith...
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White Tara is practiced by all four major schools in Tibet. There are actually several Tara practices, but White Tara's special function is to promote long life both for the practitioner and for all others. Ultimately, White Tara is the nature of Dharmakaya and accomplishing her practice leads...
