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...

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...

Vietnamese Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh's Old Path White Clouds tells the life story of the historical Buddha from select Sutras.  It reads as a collection of short stories, and is based on historic records, with practical common language translation.  Accessible for...

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...

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...

The Tantric Path

The Bodhisattva Path

A Symphony of Great Bliss

Patrul Rinpoche was a living buddha, a bodhisattva in the flesh, so of course his teaching can be trusted and relied on completely. He wouldn’t lie to us! Moreover, Khenchen Palden Sherab and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal are exceptional, compassionate masters of our time, not ordinary lamas. I...

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...

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. This book covers a number of topics. It begins with...

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...

The Places that Scare You has the subtitle A Guide to Frearlessness in Difficult Times. Pema begins with a quote from the famous female yogi Machig Labdron detailing how one should practice and ending with "go to place that scare you." This PDF is an exact copy of the 138 page book which...

This book is a compilation of Pema Chodron's teachings that covers a large number of different topics (many just a few pages long). It covers among other things: taking refuge, maitri, Shamatha, bodhichitta, ming training, obstacles on the path,i mpermanence, emptiness, equanimity, karma,...

This is a book byTaranatha who collected a lot of stories about Tara and these were  translated by Templeman. Taranatha apparently through together 89 references to Tara of mostly non-scholars had never heard of. It is a testament to Taranatha's apparent photographic memory, but it is a...