Shambhala: 1067 books
The Jeweled Path
The Biography of the Diamond Approach to Inner Realization
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
An intimate account of the development of a spiritual tradition and a biography of its creators--told by one of the Diamond Approach cofounders.
The Jeweled Path invites you to enter into the storyof how the modern spiritual path of the Diamond Approach emerged. With humor and intimacy, Karen...
Miyamoto Musashi
His Life and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Miyamoto Musashi, who lived in Japan in the fifteenth century, was a renowned samurai warrior. He has become a martial arts icon, known not just as an undefeated dueler, but also as a master of battlefield strategy. Kenji Tokitsu turns a critical eye on Musashi's life and writings, separating fact...
by William Gilkerson
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Nova Scotia, 1952. Not exactly the place you’d expect to run into pirates. But an old mariner, his boat driven ashore in a gale, brings with him enough stories about buccaneers and their lore to make it seem that he must have had firsthand experience of the pirate life. But how is that possible?...
One Robe, One Bowl
The Zen Poetry of Ryokan
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
The hermit-monk Ryokan, long beloved in Japan both for his poetry and for his character, belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. His reclusive life and celebration of nature and the natural life also bring to mind his younger American contemporary, Thoreau. Ryokan's...
Love the House You're In
40 Ways to Improve Your Home and Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Love the House You’re In is about more than creating a beautiful space; it’s about creating a home that reflects you and all that you find comforting and inspiring in your life. Decorating your home can be daunting and overwhelming, but here’s the secret: If you want to love your house, the...
Take My Spouse, Please
How to Keep Your Marriage Happy, Healthy, and Thriving by Following the Rules of Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
In love as in comedy, timing is everything. One bad night doesn’t mean it’s time to quit. Have patience: great marriages, like a successful comedy career, take time. Turns out the cardinal rules of comedy have an uncanny resemblance to the "rules" of building a strong marriage. With...
Creative Recovery
A Complete Addiction Treatment Program That Uses Your Natural Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
For writers, artists, musicians, and creators in every field, this book offers a complete addiction recovery program specifically designed for the creative person. Full of explanations and exercises, this book presents ways to use your own innate creative abilities in service of your recovery and...
Daddy Long Legs
The Natural Education of a Father
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
John Price appears to have thrown in the towel. He has spent the last year struggling to support his family, neglecting to spend time with his wife and children, and becoming increasingly cynical about the degraded state of the natural world around him. After a heart-attack scare, however, his wife...
The Five Ways We Grieve
Finding Your Personal Path to Healing after the Loss of a Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
In this new approach to understanding the impact of grief, Susan A. Berger goes beyond the commonly held theories of stages of grief with a new typology for self-awareness and personal growth*.* She offers practical advice for healing from a major loss in this presentation of five basic ways, or types,...
The Great Secret of Mind
Special Instructions on the Nonduality of Dzogchen
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Dzogchen (Great Perfection) goes to the heart of our experience by investigating the relationship between mind and world and uncovering the great secret of mind's luminous nature. Weaving in personal stories and everyday examples, Pema Rigtsal leads the reader to see that all phenomena are the spontaneous...
The Treasury of Knowledge: Books Two, Three, and Four
Buddhism's Journey to Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Jamgön Kongtrül’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...
The Life of Longchenpa
The Omniscient Dharma King of the Vast Expanse
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Renowned as a peerless teacher, practitioner, and scholar, Longchenpa thoroughly studied and mastered every one of the many Buddhist vehicles and lineages of teachings existing in Tibet at his time. Through his radiant intellect and meditative accomplishment, in both his teachings and written works,...
Vajra Wisdom
Deity Practice in Tibetan Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Vajra Wisdom presents the commentaries of two great nineteenth-century Nyingma masters that guide practitioners engaged in development stage practice through a series of straightforward instructions. The rarity of this kind of material in English makes it indispensable for practitioners and scholars...
The Life and Visions of Yeshé Tsogyal
The Autobiography of the Great Wisdom Queen
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A new biography of Yeshé Tsogyal, the mother of Buddhism in Tibet, who is considered an enlightened being by millions throughout the Himalayan region as well as the West and remains a powerful female role model of spiritual accomplishment and perfection.
The many layers of the heroic life...