Snow Lion imprint: 135 books
by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A new translation of Tibet's most important manual for Mahāmudrā view and meditation
This classic Buddhist work, written in the sixteenth century, comprehensively presents the entire scope of the Tibetan Kagyu Mahāmudrā tradition. These profound yet accessible instructions focus on becoming...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
Here in one compact volume are all of the stages of instruction on the path of Mahāmudrā. Included are concise and complete formal instructions on the ground, path, and fruition of this penetrating practice. This vast and profound commentary originates with the Eighth Situpa, a remarkable scholar and practitioner who is considered the most accomplished of all the Situ emanations.
Gone Beyond (Volume 2)
The Prajnaparamita Sutras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
The Abhisamayalamkara summarizes all the topics in the vast body of the Prajnaparamita Sutras. Resembling a zip-file, it comes to life only through its Indian and Tibetan commentaries. Together, these texts not only discuss the "hidden meaning" of the Prajnaparamita Sutras—the paths and...
Groundless Paths
The Prajnaparamita Sutras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Nyingma Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
The Abhisamayalamkara summarizes all the topics in the vast body of the prajñaparamita sutras. Resembling a zip-file, it comes to life only through its Indian and Tibetan commentaries. Together, these texts not only discuss the "hidden meaning" of the prajñaparamita sutras—the paths...
Mining for Wisdom within Delusion
Maitreya's Distinction between Phenomena and the Nature of Phenomena and Its Ind ian and Tibetan Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Maitreya’s Distinction between Phenomena and the Nature of Phenomena distinguishes the illusory phenomenal world of saṃsāra produced by the confused dualistic mind from the ultimate reality that is mind’s true nature. The transition from the one to the other is the process of "mining...
The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Book 13
Philosophical Systems and Lines of Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Chöying Tobden Dorje's magnum opus presented in English for the first time, in an authoritative translation prepared under the auspices of well-known and highly respected Tibetan teachers and translators.
In 1838, Choying Tobden Dorje, a yogin and scholar of northeastern Tibet, completed a...
When the Clouds Part
The Uttaratantra and Its Meditative Tradition as a Bridge between Sutra and Tant ra
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
"Buddha nature" (tathāgatagarbha) is the innate potential in all living beings to become a fully awakened buddha. This book discusses a wide range of topics connected with the notion of buddha nature as presented in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and includes an overview of the sūtra sources of...
Visionary Encounters
The Dzogchen Teachings of Bönpo Treasure-Revealer Shense Lhaje
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Visionary Encounters presents four chapters from the collection known as The Golden Teaching of Trenpa Namkha, a cycle of Dzogchen teachings recovered or rediscovered by the thirteenth-century master Shense Lhaje, an important scripture-revealer in the Bön tradition. These chapters include unusual...
Mountain Doctrine
Tibet's Fundamental Treatise on Other-Emptiness and the Buddha Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Translated here for the first time into any language, Mountain Doctrine is a seminal fourteenth-century Tibetan text on the nature of reality. The author, Dol-bo-ba Shay-rap-gyel-tsen, was on of the most influential figures of that dynamic period of doctrinal formulation, and his text is a sustained...
Strand of Jewels
My Teachers' Essential Guidance on Dzogchen
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The teachings here are the distillation of a lifetime’s commitment to Dzogchen realization and practice. Khetsun Sangpo offers to readers with varying levels of experience the peak of Dzogchen wisdom, largely from hermit masters unknown in the West.
The Bodhisattva Path to Unsurpassed Enlightenment
A Complete Translation of the Bodhisattvabhumi
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Ārya Asanga’s Bodhisattvabhūmi, or The Stage of a Bodhisattva, is the Mahāyāna tradition’s most comprehensive manual on the practice and training of bodhisattvas—by the author’s own account, a compilation of the full range of instructions contained in the entire collection of Mahāyāna sutras....
by Anyen Rinpoche
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2006
An illuminating look at key aspects of Tibetan Buddhist practice--of interest to many practitioners--is presented in this practical and interesting book. Through demonstrating the interrelationship of the outer inner and secret teachings and a textual analysis of the words of four renowned Dzogchen...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The Quintessence Tantras of Tibetan Medicine is a thorough, detailed, and systematic analysis of the characteristics of healthy and diseased bodies. Discussed are the diagnostic techniques of pulse and urine analysis, principles of right diet, right lifestyle, and behavioral factors—and a treasury...
Absorption in No External World
170 Issues in Mind-Only Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Dzong-ka-ba's The Essence of Eloquence is still considered so important to Tibetan Buddhists that the Dalai Lama keeps a copy with him wherever he goes. This book examines many fascinating points raised in six centuries of Tibetan and Mongolian commentary concerning the first two sections of this...