Thubten Chodron: 17 books
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Thubten Chodron
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The first volume in a multi-volume collection presenting the Dalai Lama’s comprehensive explanation of the Buddhist path.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been publicly teaching Buddhism for decades. This series collects his presentations of every step of the path to enlightenment, compiled...
Guided Buddhist Meditations
Essential Practices on the Stages of the Path
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
A new edition of a Buddhist classic, an accessible introduction to the stages of the path (lamrim)--including 14 hours of downloadable audio meditations.
The Stages of the Path, or lamrim, presentation of Buddhist teachings (a step-by-step method to tame the mind) is a core topic of Buddhist...
The Compassionate Kitchen
Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Eating as a spiritual practice: wisdom from the Buddhist tradition that you can use at home.
Every aspect of our daily activities can be a part of spiritual practice if done with compassion—and this compact guide offers wisdom from the Buddhist tradition on how eating mindfully can nourish...
Buddhism
One Teacher, Many Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Explore the common ground underlying the diverse expressions of the Buddha's teachings with two of Tibetan Buddhism's bestselling authors.
Buddhism is practiced by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, from Tibetan caves to Tokyo temples to redwood retreats. To an outside viewer, it might...
Open Heart, Clear Mind
An Introduction to the Buddha's Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
An open heart is the dwelling place of compassion that extends toward all beings; a clear mind is the source of the penetrating wisdom of deep insight. Their union leads to the enlightened way of life that is at the heart of the spiritual path as taught by the Buddha. This introduction to his teaching...
How to Free Your Mind
The Practice of Tara the Liberator
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Tara, the feminine embodiment of enlightened activity, is a Buddhist deity whose Tibetan name means "liberator," signaling her ability to free beings from the delusion and ignorance that keep them trapped in ever-recurring patterns of negativity. She embodies a challenge, but one that is...
Good Karma
How to Create the Causes of Happiness and Avoid the Causes of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Why do things happen the way they do in our lives? How do we create the causes for a happy life? The Buddhist practice of mind training gives us the answer to these questions: it involves overcoming our self-centered attitude and replacing it with an attitude that cherishes others. This, in turn,...
by Thubten Chodron
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
This user’s guide to Buddhist basics takes the most commonly asked questions—beginning with "What is the essence of the Buddha’s teachings?"—and provides simple answers in plain English. Thubten Chodron’s responses to the questions that always seem to arise among people approaching...
Don't Believe Everything You Think
Living with Wisdom and Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
It can be hard for those of us living in the twenty-first century to see how fourteenth-century Buddhist teachings still apply. When you’re trying to figure out which cell phone plan to buy or brooding about something someone wrote about you on Facebook, lines like "While the enemy of your...
De essentie van het boeddhisme
boeddhisme voor beginners
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Boeddhisme voor beginners
Wat is karma? Wat is het doel van het boeddhistische pad? Hoe ga ik om met angst? Deze praktische gids beantwoordt in duidelijke taal de meestgestelde vragen over de basis van het boeddhisme. Een complete en laagdrempelige eerste kennismaking, en tegelijk een handleiding...
Die Weisheit eines offenen Herzens
Eine Synthese aus buddhistischer Praxis und westlicher Psychotherapie
Language: German
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Wie wir lernen, Mitgefühl im Alltag zu entwickeln
Seit einigen Jahren versteht die westliche Wissenschaft immer besser, was der Buddhismus uns seit Jahrtausenden lehrt: dass das bewusste Entwickeln von Mitgefühl sich positiv auf unseren Geist, unser Gehirn und unser allgemeines Wohlbefinden...
by Venerable Thubten Chodron, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The second volume in the Dalai Lama’s definitive and comprehensive series on the stages of the Buddhist path, The Library of Wisdom and Compassion.
Volume 1, Approaching the Buddhist Path, contained introductory material that set the context for Buddhist practice. This second volume, The...
by Thubten Chodron
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2001
Anger plagues all of us on a personal, national, and international level. Yet we see people, such as the Dalai Lama, who have faced circumstances far worse than many of us have faced—including exile, persecution, and the loss of many loved ones—but who do not burn with rage or seek revenge. How...
An Open-Hearted Life
Transformative Methods for Compassionate Living from a Clinical Psychologist and a Buddhist Nun
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
A life overflowing with compassion. It sounds wonderful in theory, but how do you do it? This guide provides practical methods for living with this wonderful quality, based on traditional Buddhist teachings and on methods from modern psychology—particularly a technique called Compassion-Focused...
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