Shambhala imprint: 827 books
Sacred Therapy
Jewish Spiritual Teachings on Emotional Healing and Inner Wholeness
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2005
In Sacred Therapy Estelle Frankel travels to the heart of Jewish mysticism to reveal how people of any faith can draw upon this rich body of teachings to gain wisdom, clarity, and a deeper sense of meaning in the midst of modern life. In an engaging and accessible style, Frankel brings together tales...
Inner Christianity
A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
Inner Christianity is the first introduction to mystical and esoteric Christianity for the general reader. It speaks from a nonsectarian point of view, unearthing insights from the whole of the Christian tradition, orthodox and heretical, famous and obscure. The esoteric tradition has traditionally...
Beyond Happiness
The Zen Way to True Contentment
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Many books have been published in recent years on happiness. Ezra Bayda, a remarkably down-to-earth Zen teacher, believes that the happiness "boom" has been largely a bust for readers. Why? Because it's precisely the pursuit of happiness that keeps us trapped in cycles of dissatisfaction...
Being Zen
Bringing Meditation to Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
We can use whatever life presents, Ezra Bayda teaches, to strengthen our spiritual practice—including the turmoil of daily life. What we need is the willingness to just be with our experiences—whether they are painful or pleasing—opening ourselves to the reality of our lives without trying to...
Bring Me the Rhinoceros
And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Bring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private encounters between teacher and student. This book deftly retells more than a dozen traditional...
Infinite Circle
Teachings in Zen
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2003
In Infinite Circle, one of America's most distinctive Zen teachers takes a back-to-basics approach to Zen. Glassman illuminates three key teachings of Zen Buddhism, offering line-by-line commentary in clear, direct language:
1. The Heart Sutra: the Buddha's essential discourse on emptiness,...
Two Zen Classics
The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Records
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used traditionally in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, Mumonkan (The Gateless Gate ) and Hekiganroku (The Blue Cliff Record), both compiled during the...
The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa: Volume 2
The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa brings together in eight volumes the writings of the first and most influential and inspirational Tibetan teachers to present Buddhism in the West. Organized by theme, the collection includes full-length books as well as articles, seminar transcripts, poems,...
Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind
Trilogy of Rest, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
A new translation of Longchenpa's famous work that presents the entire scope of the Buddhist view combined with pith instructions pointing out the nature of one's mind.
Longchenpa’s classic Buddhist manual for attaining liberation teaches us how to familiarize ourselves with our most basic...
by Thinley Norbu
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 1993
In The Small Golden Key, Thinley Norbu Rinpoche explains in simple, concise language the important ideas and practices of Buddhism, with special attention to the Vajrayana teachings of Tibetan Buddhism. He discusses the origins of Buddhism in India and its spread to Tibet; the important lineages of...
Beyond Thinking
A Guide to Zen Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Spiritual practice is not some kind of striving to produce enlightenment, but an expression of the enlightenment already inherent in all things: Such is the Zen teaching of Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) whose profound writings have been studied and revered for more than seven hundred years, influencing...
Shattering the Great Doubt
The Chan Practice of Huatou
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Huatou is a skillful method for breaking through the prison of mental habits into the spacious mind of enlightenment. The huatou is a confounding question much like a Zen koan. Typical ones are "What is wu [nothingness]?" or "What was my original face before birth-and-death?" But...
The Great Medicine That Conquers Clinging to the Notion of Reality
Steps in Meditation on the Enlightened Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
In these inspiring teachings on how to open the heart, a contemporary Tibetan Buddhist master shows us how to change our self-centered attitude and develop concern for the well-being of others. He teaches that when we acknowledge our own wish for happiness, we realize that all beings wish for the...
Song of Mind
Wisdom from the Zen Classic Xin Ming
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
"No words can explain enlightenment," says the seventh-century Zen classic Xin Ming, or "Song of Mind," yet, paradoxically, this poem is a masterpiece of expressing the inexpressible. In his commentary on it, Chan Master Sheng Yen takes a practical approach, opening up the language...