Thupten Jinpa: 8 books

Compassie houdt in dat we medeleven hebben met anderen en met onszelf. Ieder mens wordt geboren met een vermogen tot compassie. Maar we zijn bang om gebruikt te worden door anderen of om een slappeling te worden. Daarom ligt het voor de westerse mens niet voor de hand om zijn compassie-spier te trainen....

A prática budista da atenção plena encontrou seu espaço no Ocidente quando as pessoas descobriram a importância dos benefícios deste método para o dia a dia. Agora, o ex-monge e intérprete oficial do Dalai Lama mostra que o cultivo da compaixão pode trazer resultados ainda mais surpreendentes...

Thupten Jinpa hat an der Stanford Medical School ein bahnbrechendes Mitgefühl-Training initiiert. Eines seiner interessantesten Forschungsergebnisse bestand in der Erkenntnis, dass viele Mitgefühl zunächst einmal fürchten. Sind wir zu mitfühlend mit anderen oder auch mit uns selbst, so denken...

For more than two thousand years, the Heart Sutra has been part of the daily life of millions of Buddhists. This concise text, so rich and laden with meaning, concentrates the very heart of Buddhism into a powerful and evocative teaching on the interdependence of all reality. In Essence of...

The Buddhist practice of mindfulness caught on in the west when we began to understand the everyday, personal benefits it brought us. Now, in this extraordinary book, the highly acclaimed thought leader and longtime English translator of His Holiness the Dalai Lama shows us that compassion can bring...

The Passion**Book is the most famous work of erotica in the vast literature of Tibetan Buddhism, written by the legendary scholar and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-1951). Soon after arriving in India in 1934, he discovered the Kama Sutra. Realizing that this genre of the erotic was unknown in Tibet, he...

In a remote Himalayan village in 1721, the Jesuit priest Ippolito Desideri wrote a treatise in classical Tibetan intended to refute key Buddhist doctrines and dispel the darkness of idolatry from Tibet. Dispelling the Darkness provides extended excerpts from this unfinished masterpiece and a full translation of a companion work.

The work explores the historical and intellectual context of Tsongkhapa's philosophy and addresses the critical issues related to questions of development and originality in Tsongkhapa's thought. It also deals extensively with one of Tsongkhapa's primary concerns, namely his attempts to demonstrate...