Snow Lion imprint: 135 books
Buton's History of Buddhism in India and Its Spread to Tibet
A Treasury of Priceless Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
This fourteenth-century Tibetan classic serves as an excellent introduction to basic Buddhism as practiced throughout India and Tibet and describes the process of entering the Buddhist path through study and reflection.
It begins with setting forth the structure of Buddhist education and the...
Healing with Form, Energy, and Light
The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
In the shamanic worldview of Tibet, the five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space are accessed through the raw powers of nature and through non-physical beings associated with the natural world. In the Tibetan tantric view the elements are recognized as five kinds of energy in the body and...
King of the Empty Plain
The Tibetan Iron Bridge Builder Tangtong Gyalpo
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2007
King of the Empty Plain is familiar to every Tibetan yet nearly unknown in the rest of the world. Tangtong Gyalpo's incredible lifespan, profound teachings, unprecedented engineering feats, eccentric deeds, and creation of Tibetan opera have earned this fascinating figure a unique status in Tibetan...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Six-session yoga practices are a common commitment of highest yoga tantra initiations. The Dalai Lama endorsed these four six-session yoga practices given with the Kalachakra initiation.
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...
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...
by Glenn H. Mullin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
The Kalachakra spiritual legacy is a vital and central part of Tibetan Buddhism. Presented here is a detailed and practical overview of this unique spiritual path.
In Part One, the author discusses the tantric path to enlightenment by drawing on the writings of great scholar-practitioners of...