Shambhala imprint: 827 books
by Sherab Chodzin Kohn
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
The story of the Buddha and his awakening is more than an account of the birth of a religious tradition: it is also one of the great archetypal tales of the spiritual quest, colorful in its many details and thrilling in its depiction of the world transformed by an enlightened human being. Sherab Chödzin...
Journey to Enlightenment
The Life of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
An inspiring portrait of one of the great spiritual leaders of the twentieth century, this book follows Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche in his travels to Tibet, Bhutan, India, and Nepal, revisiting important places from his past. His birthplace in eastern Tibet, the monastery of Shechen that he entered at...
The Essence of Budo
A Practitioner's Guide to Understanding the Japanese Martial Ways
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
The study of budo, or the Japanese martial arts for self-cultivation, is a lifelong path toward perfection of character. Here, Dave Lowry, a sword master who has practiced and taught budo for over forty years, addresses the myriad issues, vagaries, and inconsistencies that arise for students of karate-do,...
Pith Instructions
Selected Teachings and Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This small collection of commentaries and verse by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of the greatest spiritual leaders of the twentieth century, contains exposition on different stages of the Buddhist path from the perspective of meditative experience and actually putting the teachings into practice. Originally...
Visions and Longings
Medieval Women Mystics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1997
The women mystics of medieval Europe represent the very first feminine voices heard in a world where women were nearly silent. As such, they are striking and unusual, strange, powerful and urgent. Monica Furlong uses key selections from among these women's own writings and writings about them by their...
The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin
A Translation of the Sokko-roku Kaien-fusetsu
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
A fiery and intensely dynamic Zen teacher and artist, Hakuin (1685–1768) is credited with almost single-handedly revitalizing Japanese Zen after three hundred years of decline. As a teacher, he placed special emphasis on koan practice, inventing many new koans himself, including the famous "What...
Autumn Lightning
The Education of an American Samurai
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2001
Dave Lowry juxtaposes his singular experience as an adept student of kenjutsu (the art of swordsmanship) under a Japanese teacher in St. Louis with a riveting account of the samurai tradition in Japan. Intertwining tales of the masters with reflections on his own apprenticeship in the samurai's arts,...
From the Heart of Tibet
The Biography of Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche, the Holder of the Drikung Kagyu Line age
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
"The story of Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche’s life," notes the Dalai Lama, "encompasses a remarkably broad range of Tibetan experience over the past fifty years." This is the story of a young boy, born in 1946 to inherit the role of high-ranking lama. When the Chinese army invaded,...
Siddhartha
A New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2000
This classic of twentieth-century literature chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time of the Buddha—a spiritual journey that has inspired generations of readers. Here is a fresh translation from Sherab Chödzin Kohn, a gifted translator and longtime student of Buddhism...
by Thomas Cleary
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1993
Throughout Zen history, stories and anecdotes of Zen masters and their students have been used as teaching devices to exemplify the enlightened spirit. Unlike many of the baffling dialogues between Zen masters preserved in the koan literature, the stories retold here are penetratingly simple but with...
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
"In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few."
So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple...
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Written during an astonishing outburst of creativity during a period of only two weeks in February 1922, Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus is one of the great poetic works of the twentieth century. Willis Barnstone brings these striking poems into English with an approach honed through years of work on...
Alexandra David-Neel
Portait of an Adventurer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1989
This unique biography explores the inner journey of a woman whose outer life was a thrilling story of passion and adventure. Alexandra David-Neel (1868–1969), born in Paris to a socially prominent family, once boasted, "I learned to run before I could walk!" In the course of a lifetime...
The Wave in the Mind
Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2004
Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the Mind includes...