Shambhala imprint: 827 books
The Essence of T'ai Chi
Selections from the T'ai Chi Classics on the Great Power and Inner Meaning of thiis Ancient Martial Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
The deepest benefits of T’ai Chi cannot be realized without an understanding of its underlying principles. This book presents these principles through translations of three core classics of T’ai Chi that are often considered the "T’ai Chi Bible," accompanied by the author’s insightful...
Only Don't Know
Selected Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 1999
Here is the inimitable Zen Master Seung Sahn up close and personal—in selections from the correspondence that was one of his primary modes of teaching. Seung Sahn received hundreds of letters per month, each of which he answered personally, and some of the best of which are included here. His frank...
Zen Chants
Thirty-Five Essential Texts with Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A Zen chant is like a compass that sets us in the direction of the awakened life; it is the dynamic, audible counterpart to the silent practice of zazen, or sitting meditation; and it is a powerful expression of the fact that practice happens in community. Here is a concise guide to Zen chants for...
The Gnostic Bible
Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE—with earlier antecedents and later flourishings—whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian...
The Book of Leadership and Strategy
Lessons of the Chinese Masters
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1992
The subtle arts of management and leadership have been developed over thousands of years by the Chinese. The Book of Leadership and Strategy represents the Taoist culmination of this long tradition and is one of the most prestigious works of ancient Chinese thought. Collected here are insightful...
Dreaming Yourself Awake
Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Some of the greatest of life’s adventures can happen while you’re sound asleep. That’s the promise of lucid dreaming, which is the ability to alter your own dream reality any way you like simply by being aware of the fact that you’re dreaming while you’re in the midst of a dream. There is...
Karma
What It Is, What It Isn't, Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The Buddha’s teaching on karma (literally, "action") is nothing other than his compassionate explanation of the way things are: our thoughts and actions determine our future, and therefore we ourselves are largely responsible for the way our lives unfold. Yet this supremely useful teaching...
Seven Taoist Masters
A Folk Novel of China
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2004
History and legend are interwoven in this folk novel that both entertains and instructs. Written by an unknown author, Seven Taoist Masters is the story of six men and one woman who overcome tremendous hardships on the journey to self-mastery. These characters and their teacher, Wang Ch'ung-yang,...
Cultivating Stillness
A Taoist Manual for Transforming Body and Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 1992
Equanimity, good health, peace of mind, and long life are the goals of the ancient Taoist tradition known as "internal alchemy," of which Cultivating Stillness is a key text. Written between the second and fifth centuries, the book is attributed to T'ai Shang Lao-chun—the legendary figure...
Tao Te Ching
A New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Renowned translator William Scott Wilson has rendered Lao Tzu's classic in the most authentic way possible, using both the ancient text and the even older Great Seal script used during Lao Tzu's time. The result is a new and nuanced translation, accompanied by Chinese ink paintings and ancillary material....
Taoist Meditation
Methods for Cultivating a Healthy Mind and Body
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2000
The ancient meditation techniques of Taoism encompass a wide range of practices—with an aim toward cultivating a healthy body as well as an enlightened mind. These selections from classic texts of Taoist meditation represent the entire range of techniques—from sitting meditation practices to internal...
Holding Yin, Embracing Yang
Three Taoist Classics on Meditation, Breath Regulation, Sexual Yoga, and the Cir culation of Internal Energy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
In Holding Yin, Embracing Yang, Eva Wong presents translations of three key texts containing the highest teachings of the Eastern and Western schools of Taoist internal alchemy—the discipline of cultivating health, longevity, and immortality by transforming the energetic structures of body and...
by Lui I-Ming
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
The Tao is the ancient Chinese "Way" that has inspired numerous books, from The Tao of Physics to The Tao of Sex . This book might be called "The Tao of Tao." In 142 brief meditative essays, the author uses simple language and natural imagery to express the essence of the wisdom...
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1998
No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le Guin's striking new version. Le Guin, best known for thought-provoking science fiction novels that have helped to transform the genre, has studied the Tao Te Ching for more than forty years. She has consulted...