Snow Lion imprint: 135 books
by Tenzin Wangyal
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Understanding how our actions, words, and thoughts interact enhances our ability to progress in spiritual practice and brings us closer to self-realization. In a warm, informal style Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche opens up Tibetan meditation practice to both beginners and experienced students, placing as...
Beyond the Ordinary Mind
Dzogchen, Rimé, and the Path of Perfect Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
A unique collection of essays, instructions, letters, and personal advice on Dzogchen, Rimé, and other topics by famous Tibetan Buddhist masters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This selection features profound, provocative, and at times humorous texts from some of the leading figures...
Bardo Teachings
The Way Of Death And Rebirth
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Bardo Teachings gives readers a precise and vivid description of the way of death and rebirth. It contains a wealth of heretofore untranslated material on the Tibetan presentation of the process of dying, the nature of the intermediate state after death, and the process of taking rebirth. This modest...
by Tsong-Kha-Pa
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Tib. Lam rim chen mo) is one of the brightest jewels in the world’s treasury of sacred literature. The author, Tsong-kha-pa, completed it in 1402, and it soon became one of the most renowned works of spiritual practice and philosophy...
Minding Closely
The Four Applications of Mindfulness
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Bringing his experience as a monk, scientist, and contemplative, Alan Wallace offers a rich synthesis of Eastern and Western traditions along with a comprehensive range of meditation practices interwoven throughout the text. The guided meditations are systematically presented, beginning with very...
Steps to the Great Perfection
The Mind-Training Tradition of the Dzogchen Masters
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The mind-training practices contained in the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism have never before been presented in the English language. The main text translated here, The Steps to Liberation, will be of great interest to Western practitioners, since its instructions are pithy and direct, and...
by Geshe Sonam Rinchen
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
How do we free ourselves from the demon of self-concern? These instructions are found in Eight Verses for Training the Mind, one of the most important texts from a genre of Tibetan spiritual writings known as lojong (literally "mind training"). The root text was written by the eleventh-century...
The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Eight, Part Three
The Elements of Tantric Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
Jamgön Kongtrül's Treasury of Knowledge in ten volumes is a unique encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as they were presented in Tibet. Tibetan Buddhist teachers expected their students to study Buddhist philosophical texts as well as practice reflection and...
The Wisdom of Imperfection
The Challenge of Individuation in Buddhist Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
If you have been practicing Buddhism for a while, why do you still have so many problems? And how do you balance the sometimes different needs of spiritual and psychological perspectives? Rob Preece draws on his personal experience—over two decades as a psychotherapist and many years as a meditation...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Tsongkhapa's commentary entitled A Book of Three Inspirations: A Treatise on the Stages of Training in the Profound Path of Naro's Six Dharmas is commonly referred to as The Three Inspirations. Anyone who has read more than a few books on Tibetan Buddhism will have encountered references to the Six...
Sky Burial
An Eyewitness Account of China's Brutal Crackdown in Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
This is a riveting firsthand account by Blake Kerr, an American doctor who inadvertently walked into one of the grimmest scenes of political oppression in the world. Kerr was visiting Tibet with his old college friend John Ackerly. They were enjoying the sights and sounds of Lhasa, the capital of...
Daring Steps
Traversing the Path of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Daring Steps stands out among the multitude of books on Tibetan Buddhism as being a uniquely accessible overview of the Buddhist path that encompasses all three yanas, or traditional Buddhist spiritual paths. Ringu Tulku—renowned for both his insight and approachable style—consistently brings...
by Tsong-Kha-Pa
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Tib. Lam rim chen mo) is one of the brightest jewels in the world’s treasury of sacred literature. The author, Tsong-kha-pa, completed it in 1402, and it soon became one of the most renowned works of spiritual practice and philosophy...
The Practice of Dzogchen
Longchen Rabjam's Writings on the Great Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This classic collection of texts on the meditation practice and theory of Dzogchen presents the Great Perfection through the writings of its supreme authority, the fourteenth-century Tibetan scholar and visionary Longchen Rabjam. The pinnacle of Vajrayana practice in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan...