Wisdom Publications: 444 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Enjoy popular Tibetan collections of advice, fables, and aphorisms for following the way of the wise and avoiding the paths of fools.
The Tibetan Book of Everdyay Wisdom: A Thousand Years of Sage Advice presents a genre of Tibetan works known as “wise sayings” (leksh**é). While most Tibetan...
Awakening Through Love
Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
Mother Theresa. The Dalai Lama. Nelson Mandela. Gandhi. Some admire such figures from afar and think, "How special they are; I could never be like that." But, as John Makransky has learned, the power of real and enduring love lies within every one of us. Awakening Through Love is his guide to finding...
Steps on the Path to Enlightenment
A Commentary on Tsongkhapa's Lamrim Chenmo. Volume 5: Insight
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
The final installment of the Steps on the Path to Enlightenment series examines the nature of reality with a master class in Buddhist Middle Way philosophy and meditation.
The late Geshe Sopa was a refugee monk from Tibet sent to the United States by the Dalai Lama in 1963. He became a professor...
The Buddha's Dream of Liberation
Freedom, Emptiness, and Awakened Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Explore the three great teachings of the Buddha with this plain-English primer
• The First Turning of the Wheel: Insight into the nature of suffering—and the way out of it—from the four noble truths and the eightfold path
• The Second Turning of the Wheel: Teachings on emptiness...
by Joanne P. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Zen and the Gospel of Thomas illuminates sacred, mysterious wisdom from two traditions, revealing how these profound teachings apply to our everyday life and spiritual practice.
Imagine that the Buddha asked Jesus to write a text for a Zen audience that would explain his take on the mysteries...
by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, Shohaku Okumura
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Abandon your treasured delusions and hit the road with one of the most important Zen masters of twentieth-century Japan.
Eschewing the entrapments of vanity, power, and money, "Homeless" Kodo Sawaki Roshi refused to accept a permanent position as a temple abbot, despite repeated offers....
Heart of the Great Perfection
Dudjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The revelations of Düdjom Lingpa, a highly influential mystic of 19th century Tibet, translated by B. Alan Wallace, widely respected for his lucid and readable translations of Tibetan Buddhism.
Düdjom Lingpa (1835–1904) was one of the foremost tantric masters of his time. This new series...
Luminous Mind
The Way of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Luminous Mind is a remarkable compilation of the oral and written teachings of the late Kalu Rinpoche - who was called "a beacon of inspiration" by the Dalai Lama. A master of meditation and leader of the Shangpu Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, Kalu Rinpoche taught with an inviting, playful and...
Essence of the Heart Sutra
The Dalai Lama's Heart of Wisdom Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2005
For more than two thousand years, the Heart Sutra has been part of the daily life of millions of Buddhists. This concise text, so rich and laden with meaning, concentrates the very heart of Buddhism into a powerful and evocative teaching on the interdependence of all reality.
In Essence of...
Mind in Comfort and Ease
The Vision of Enlightenment in the Great Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Here, in a teaching of outstanding completeness and clarity, the Dalai Lama sets out the key principles of Buddhism, showing how the mind can be transformed, and suffering overcome, through love, compassion, and a true understanding of the nature of reality. By illustrating his brilliant overview...
by Dudjom Lingpa, Sera Khandro
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The revelations of Düdjom Lingpa, a highly influential mystic of 19th century Tibet, translated by B. Alan Wallace.
The practice of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, is the pinnacle of the nine vehicles of practice taught in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. The highly influential mystic...
Food for the Heart
The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
Renowned for the beauty and simplicity of his teachings, Ajahn Chah was Thailand's best-known meditation teacher. His charisma and wisdom influenced many American and European seekers, and helped shape the American Vipassana community. This collection brings together for the first time Ajahn Chah's...
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Thubten Chodron
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The first volume in a multi-volume collection presenting the Dalai Lama’s comprehensive explanation of the Buddhist path.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been publicly teaching Buddhism for decades. This series collects his presentations of every step of the path to enlightenment, compiled...
Natural Perfection
Longchenpa's Radical Dzogchen
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Dzogchen, or the "Great Perfection," is considered by many to be the apex of Tibetan Buddhism, and Longchen Rabjam is the most celebrated of all the saints of this remarkable tradition. Natural Perfection presents the radical precepts of Dzogchen, pointing the way to absolute liberation from conceptual...