Snow Lion imprint: 135 books
by Longchenpa
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Just as the images on television are nothing more than light, so are our experiences merely the dance of awareness. Often we form attachments to or feel enslaved by these experiences. But they are only reflections. As easily as television pictures vanish when the channel is changed, the power of our...
The Supreme Siddhi of Mahamudra
Teachings, Poems, and Songs of the Drukpa Kagyu Lineage
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
The first major collection of core texts from masters of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
The Drukpa Kagyu lineage is renowned among the traditions of Vajrayana Buddhism for producing some of the greatest yogis from across the Himalayas. After spending many years in mountain retreats,...
by Lama Dudjom Dorjee
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Heartfelt Advice offers readers an overview of basic Buddhist topics in small easily digestible bites that illuminate the main principles of Buddhist practice. Lama Dudjom Dorjee skillfully guides students through the vast array of considerations on the path, highlighting what is essential, as he...
Parting from the Four Attachments
A Commentary on Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen's Song of Experience on Mind Training and the View
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2003
The teaching on Parting from the Four Attachments is universally regarded as one of the jewels of Tibetan Buddhism. Rinpoche leads the reader through a detailed and lucid exploration of the nature of mind, pointing out inevitable pitfalls in spiritual practice and showing how they can be avoided.
by Tsongkhapa, The Dalai Lama
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
His Holiness the Dalai Lama illuminates the highly practical and compassionate use of Tantra for spiritual development in this important classic work.
Deity Yoga is the second volume in The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra series in which the Dalai Lama offers illuminating commentary on Tsongkhapa’s...
by Khenpo Karthar
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Since its initial publication, Dharma Paths has quietly gained a reputation as one of the most useful introductory texts on Tibetan Buddhism. Assuming no prior background or knowledge of Buddhist terminology, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche presents Buddhist ways of working with anxiety and frustration, the...
Ornament of the Great Vehicle Sutras
Maitreya's Mahayanasutralamkara with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The Buddhist masterpiece Ornament of the Great Vehicle Sūtras, often referred to by its Sanskrit title, Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra, 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. Maitreya, the...
by Thubten Chodron
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2001
Anger plagues all of us on a personal, national, and international level. Yet we see people, such as the Dalai Lama, who have faced circumstances far worse than many of us have faced—including exile, persecution, and the loss of many loved ones—but who do not burn with rage or seek revenge. How...
Impermanence
Embracing Change - From The Multi-Media Art Exhibition
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
What does it mean that we are constantly changing? How do people confront ideas like death and change? Asked to contribute to an exhibit celebrating the work of the Dalai Lama, multimedia artists David and Hi-Jin Hodge interviewed over a hundred people about impermanence and change in their lives....
Preparing for Tantra
Creating the Psychological Ground for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The preliminary practices of Tantra aren't a hurdle to be gotten through in order to get somewhere else; they're an extraordinarily rich collection of practices which have much to offer as a means of cultivating and maturing the practitioner's psychological ground. They can enable experiences to unfold,...
The Six Perfections
An Oral Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
The Six Perfections of generosity, ethical discipline, patience, enthusiastic effort, concentration, and wisdom are practiced by Bodhisattvas who have the supreme intention of attaining enlightenment for the sake of others. These six are perfections because they give rise to complete enlightenment....
Preparing to Die
Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
We all face death, but how many of us are actually ready for it? Whether our own death or that of a loved one comes first, how prepared are we, spiritually or practically? In Preparing to Die, Andrew Holecek presents a wide array of resources to help the reader address this unfinished business.
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The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 1 to 10
Foundations of the Buddhist Path
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
In 1838, Choying Tobden Dorje, a Buddhist yogi-scholar of eastern Tibet, completed a multivolume masterwork that traces the entire path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end. Written by a lay practitioner for laypeople, it was intended to be accessible, informative, inspirational,...
The Art of Awakening
A User's Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Art and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
A presentation on the Tibetan Buddhist path to enlightenment, through the lens of an artist's eye and experience.
The sacred arts play an essential, intrinsic role in Tibetan Buddhist practice. Here, one of the great practitioners and master artists of our time presents a guide to the Tibetan...