Buddhism category: 3907 books
Meditation in the Wild
Buddhism's Origin in the Heart of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Meditation in the Wild takes the reader on an adventure with the Buddhist forest monks and hermits of the last 2500 years. Walking into jungles and living on mountain sides, their encounters with nature teach us about the meaning of life and death, our struggles with our own minds and how we treat each...
Vajrayogini
Her Visualization, Rituals, and Forms
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Vajrayogini is a tantric goddess from the highest class of Buddhist tantras who manifests the ultimate development of wisdom and compassion. Her practice is prevalent today among practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism. This ground-breaking book delves into the origins of Vajrayogini, charting her evolution...
Masters of Meditation and Miracles
Lives of the Great Buddhist Masters of India and Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 1999
Masters of Meditation and Miracles presents colorful biographies of thirty-five realized teachers whose lives were full of peace, enlightenment, and amazing miracles. They flourished in Tibet, the Roof of the World, in its golden days. These teachers belong to the Longchen Nyingthig lineage of the...
The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Seven and Book Eight, Parts One and Two
Foundations of Buddhist Study and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Jamgön Kongtrul’s ten-volume Treasury of Knowledge is a unique encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as they were preserved in Tibet. Tibetan Buddhist teachers expected their students to study Buddhist philosophical texts as well as practice reflection and meditation;...
The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Six, Parts One and Two
Indo-Tibetan Classical Learning and Buddhist Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Jamgön Kongtrul’s encyclopedic Treasury of Knowledge presents a complete account of the major lines of thought and practice that comprise Tibetan Buddhism. Among the ten books that make up this tour de force, Book Six is by far the longest—concisely summarizing the theoretical fields of knowledge...
Great Perfection
Outer and Inner Preliminaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
In the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, the Great Perfection is considered the most profound and direct path to enlightenment. The instructions of this tradition present a spiritual shortcut—a radically direct approach that cuts through confusion and lays bare the mind's true nature of luminous...
Unbounded Wholeness
Dzogchen, Bon, and the Logic of the Nonconceptual
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
In this book, Anne Carolyn Klein, an American scholar and teacher of Buddhism, and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, a rigorously trained Tibetan Lama who was among the first to bring Bon Dzogchen teachings to the West, provide a study and translation of the Authenticity of Open Awareness, a foundational...
Establishing Appearances as Divine
Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2008
Establishing Appearances as Divine, a concise treatise by the eleventh-century Tibetan Buddhist philosopher Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo, sets out to prove the provocative point that everything that appears is actually deity manifest. Many books on Tibetan Buddhism address the important themes of mind training,...
Dignaga's Investigation of the Percept
A Philosophical Legacy in India and Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
While a short work of only eight verses and a three-page autocommentary, the Investigation of the Percept has inspired epistemologists for centuries and has had a wide-ranging impact in India, Tibet, and China. Dignaga, one of the major figures in Buddhist epistemology, explores issues such as the...
by Jerome Edou
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Machig Labdron is popularly considered to be both a dakini and a deity, an emanation of Yum Chenmo, or Prajnaparamita, the embodiment of the wisdom of the buddhas. Historically, this Tibetan woman, a contemporary of Milarepa, was an adept and outstanding teacher, a mother, and a founder of a unique...
Emptiness
The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
In Emptiness, the fifth volume in The Foundation of Buddhist Thought series, Geshe Tashi Tsering provides readers with an incredibly welcoming presentation of the central philosophical teaching of Mahayana Buddhism. Emptiness does not imply a nihilistic worldview, but rather the idea that a permanent...
Taking the Result as the Path
Core Teachings of the Sakya Lamdre Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The tradition known as the Path with the Result, or Lamdre, is the most important tantric system of meditation practice and theory in the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. This volume contains an unprecedented compilation of eleven vital works from different periods in the history of the Path with...
by His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
This beloved classic brings together in one volume all the major themes of the Dalai Lama’s teachings. Drawn from the lectures he gave during his first three visits to North America, the book covers the core subject matter of Tibetan Buddhism, as presented for the first time to an English-speaking...
Steps on the Path to Enlightenment
A Commentary on Tsongkhapa's Lamrim Chenmo, Volume 3: The Way of the Bodhisattva
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2007
Geshe Lhundub Sopa's Steps on the Path to Enlightenment is a landmark commentary on what is perhaps the most elaborate and elegant Tibetan presentation of the Buddhist path, Tsongkhapa's monumental Lamrim Chenmo. In this third volume of five, readers are acquainted with the bodhisattva's path and...