Shambhala: 1067 books
Destroying Mara Forever
Buddhist Ethics Essays in Honor of Damien Keown
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
A thought-provoking collection of essays on Buddhist ethics by some of the leading thinkers in the field. The reader is provided with engaging explorations of central issues in Buddhist ethics, insightful analyses of the ways Buddhist ethical principles are being applied today in both Asian and Western...
The God-Powered Life
Awakening to Your Divine Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
You are an individual expression of God; that’s the teaching of the ancient Jewish mystical tradition. Here Rabbi David Aaron shows that when we truly connect to our inner self, that fact becomes wonderfully obvious. Each of us has a divine mission in life, he says, and when we understand this,...
Luminous Clarity
A Commentary on Karma Chagme's Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
This book grows out of an oral teaching that Khenchen Thrangu gave in Crestone, Colorado, on Karma Chagme’s text Meaningful to Behold: The Essential Instructions of the Compassionate One on the Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. Thrangu Rinpoche explains in lucid detail the advanced meditation practices...
The Mahamudra Lineage Prayer
A Guide to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The only book in English on a popular Tibetan Buddhist lineage prayer that explains how it can be used as a guide to practice.
One of the most beloved and oft-recited prayers in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, The Mahamudra Lineage Prayer combines a supplication to the Mahamudra lineage...
Ornament of Reason
The Great Commentary To Nagarjuna's Root Of The Middle Way
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
In the Root of the Middle Way, Nagarjuna presents a magical method of reasoning, inviting everyone who encounters these lucid and fearless contemplations to follow him on a journey to the heart of transcendent insight. Inspired by the Buddha's teachings on profound emptiness in the Prajnaparamita...
The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, Volume One
Tantra in Tibet (Revised Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Tantra in Tibet is the first volume in The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra series in which the Dalai Lama offers illuminating commentary on Tsongkhapa’s seminal text on Buddhist tantra. It is followed by Volume II: Deity Yoga and Volume III: Yoga Tantra.
This revised work describes the...
The Treasury of Knowledge: Book One
Myriad Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
In Tibetan religious literature, Jamgön Kongtrül's Treasury of Knowledge in ten books stands out as a unique, encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as they were preserved in Tibet. In his monumental Treasury of Knowledge, Jamgön Kongtrül presents a complete...
by Jamgon Kongtrul
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
It is crucial for students of Vajrayana Buddhism to find an authentic wisdom teacher and know how to properly rely upon that teacher in order to awaken to their buddha nature and thereby attain full enlightenment. Fortunately, the topic has been thoroughly explored by Jamgon Kongtrul in the tenth...
Buddha Nature
The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra with Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
The Buddha's definitive teachings on how we should understand the ground of enlightenment and the nature and qualities of buddhahood.
All sentient beings, without exception, have buddha nature—the inherent purity and perfection of the mind, untouched by changing mental states. Thus there...
From the Heart of Chenrezig
The Dalai Lamas on Tantra
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The lineage of the reincarnated line of Dalai Lamas has held primary spiritual authority and, until recently, temporal power in Tibet since the beginning of the fifteenth century. The translations in this book represent a curated set of their writings specifically on tantra, the advanced path of Tibetan...
Everything Is God
The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This exploration of the radical, yet ancient, idea that everything and everyone is God will transform how you understand your life and the nature of religion itself. While God is conventionally viewed as an entity separate from us, there are some Jews—Kabbalists, Hasidim, and their modern-day heirs—who...
The Compassionate Brain
A Revolutionary Guide to Developing Your Intelligence to Its Full Potential
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2006
Here is the ultimate explanation of the brain for everyone who thinks: a guide to how the brain works, how our brains came to operate the way they do, and, most important, how to use your precious gray matter to its full capacity.
The brain, according to current research, is not some kind of...
Rants from the Hill
On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, and Other Encounters with the Wild in the High Desert
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
“If Thoreau drank more whiskey and lived in the desert, he’d write like this.”—High Country News
Welcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers. The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy)...
Desert Father
A Journey in the Wilderness with Saint Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
The spiritual exploits of Saint Anthony the Great—the prototype of the Christian "Desert Father"—have been immortalized in stories and art since the fourth century. Here is the stunning account of a modern seeker's quest to get beneath the legends that surround Anthony and to determine...