Snow Lion imprint: 135 books
From Here to Enlightenment
An Introduction to Tsong-kha-pa's Classic Text The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
When the Dalai Lama was forced to go into exile in 1959, he could take only a few items with him. Among these cherished belongings was his copy of Tsong-kha-pa’s classic text The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. This text distills all of the essential points of Tibetan...
Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Intrinsic Nature
Maitreya's Dharmadharmatavibhanga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Miph am
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The Buddhist masterpiece Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Intrinsic Nature, often referred to by its Sanskrit title, Dharmadharmatāvibhaṅga, is part of a collection known as the Five Maitreya Teachings, a set of philosophical works that have become classics of the Indian Buddhist tradition....
Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle
Dzogchen as the Culmination of the Mahayana
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The first English translation of a classic treatise on how the Tibetan practice of Dzogchen, or Great Perfection, is in fact the culmination of the path of Mahayana Buddhism.
Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo wrote this treatise in the eleventh century during the renaissance of Buddhism in Tibet that...
by Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
*A Study of Svātantrika *represents an important contribution to our understanding of Mādhyamika philosophy in India and Tibet. The Mādhyamika is considered to have two subschools, Svātantrika and Prāsaṅgika. The Prāsaṅgika school of Candrakīrti is better known than Svātantrika,...
Don't Believe Everything You Think
Living with Wisdom and Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
It can be hard for those of us living in the twenty-first century to see how fourteenth-century Buddhist teachings still apply. When you’re trying to figure out which cell phone plan to buy or brooding about something someone wrote about you on Facebook, lines like "While the enemy of your...
The Power and the Pain
Transforming Spiritual Hardship into Joy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
We all encounter obstacles on a daily basis—from small inconveniences and nuisances to the really big hardships wreaking havoc with our lives. Sometimes just the small things are enough to set us reeling. Andrew Holecek offers us a progressive path beginning with common, easily understood hardships...
by Dalai Lama, Alexander Berzin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Mahamudra, the great sealing nature, refers to systems of meditation on both the conventional and ultimate natures of the mind. These have been transmitted through the Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelug traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Within the Gelug, Mahamudra teachings occur in a combined Gelug/Kagyu tradition...
How to Practice Shamatha Meditation
The Cultivation of Meditative Quiescence
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
In 1988, Gen Lamrimpa, a Tibetan monk, led a one-year retreat in the Pacific Northwest, during which a group of Western meditators devoted themselves to the practice of meditative quiescence (shamatha). This book is a record of the oral teachings he gave to this group at the outset of the retreat....
Tales of the Turquoise
A Pilgrimage in Dolpo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
In the early spring of 1961, Dr. Corneille Jest undertook a three-week circumambulation of the valley in the company of Tibetans visiting temples, shrines, and sacred mountains. His companion Karma, an elderly nomad from Western Tibet and a gifted storyteller, punctuated the journey with traditional...
Wise Teacher, Wise Student
Tibetan Approaches To A Healthy Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
The relationship between a teacher and student can be a most rewarding and life-enhancing experience, yet it can also be fraught with problems and misunderstandings. For Westerners working with Eastern teachers, the difficulties can be compounded by cultural differences, language barriers, and divergent...
Being Right Here
A Dzogchen Treasure Text of Nuden Dorje Entitled The Mirror of Clear Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
The treasure text of Nuden Dorje renders a very clear and authentic account of the view and essential meditation of dzogchen the practice of nondual experience. The presentation is in the Men ngag style, a personal instruction distilling the author's own realization in a manner both beautiful and...
Living Life Fully
Finding Sanity and Goodness in the Unpredictable
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
We are all imprisoned by the projections of our minds, and we all have the power to free ourselves. To gain this freedom, we must do three things: know that we are imprisoned, investigate how we entrap ourselves, and discover how to overcome our habitual patterns. The discipline of the sitting practice...
The Just King
The Tibetan Buddhist Classic on Leading an Ethical Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
A translation of a popular Buddhist work on worldly ethics by Tibet's most famous philosopher.
Leadership. Power. Responsibility. From Sun Tzu to Plato to Machiavelli, sages east and west have advised kings and rulers on how to lead. Their motivations and techniques have varied, but one thing...
The Heart Attack Sutra
A New Commentary on the Heart Sutra
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The radical message of the Heart Sūtra, one of Buddhism's most famous texts, is a sweeping attack on everything we hold most dear: our troubles, the world as we know it, even the teachings of the Buddha himself. Several of the Buddha's followers are said to have suffered heart attacks and died when...