Shambhala: 1067 books
Tibetan Zen
Discovering a Lost Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Until the early twentieth century, hardly any traces of the Tibetan tradition of Chinese Chan Buddhism, or Zen, remained. Then the discovery of a sealed cave in Dunhuang, full of manuscripts in various languages dating from the first millennium CE, transformed our understanding of early Zen. This...
With Heart in Mind
Mussar Teachings to Transform Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Here is a spiritual practice for developing a strong and open heart—drawn from Judaism’s Mussar tradition. Mussar draws from the vast storehouse of Jewish wisdom, law, revelation, and text and brings it right home in a way that is completely practical. Judaism teaches that Torah (the collective...
The Kabbalah Reader
A Sourcebook of Visionary Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
This comprehensive and accessible entrée into the world of Kabbalah covers 1,600 years of Jewish mystical thought and features a variety of thinkers—from the renowned to the obscure—unavailable in any other volume. It’s a fresh take on an ancient tradition compiled by Edward Hoffman, a psychologist...
Turning Confusion into Clarity
A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
By offering detailed instruction and friendly, inspiring advice for those embarking on the Tibetan Buddhist foundation practices, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche provides gentle yet thorough commentary, companionship, and inspiration for committing to the Vajrayana path.
A Practice of Padmasambhava
Essential Instructions On The Path To Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
The Indian master Padmasambhava occupies a special place in the hearts of practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism. By bringing tantric Buddhism to Tibet from India, he inspired a movement of awakening that for centuries has brought countless practitioners to spiritual fulfillment.
A Practice of Padmasambhava...
How to Free Your Mind
The Practice of Tara the Liberator
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Tara, the feminine embodiment of enlightened activity, is a Buddhist deity whose Tibetan name means "liberator," signaling her ability to free beings from the delusion and ignorance that keep them trapped in ever-recurring patterns of negativity. She embodies a challenge, but one that is...
by Tenzin Wangyal
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
"If we cannot carry our practice into sleep," Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche writes, "if we lose ourselves every night, what chance do we have to be aware when death comes? Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake."
by Tenzin Wangyal
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Understanding how our actions, words, and thoughts interact enhances our ability to progress in spiritual practice and brings us closer to self-realization. In a warm, informal style Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche opens up Tibetan meditation practice to both beginners and experienced students, placing as...
Beyond the Ordinary Mind
Dzogchen, Rimé, and the Path of Perfect Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
A unique collection of essays, instructions, letters, and personal advice on Dzogchen, Rimé, and other topics by famous Tibetan Buddhist masters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This selection features profound, provocative, and at times humorous texts from some of the leading figures...
Bardo Teachings
The Way Of Death And Rebirth
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Bardo Teachings gives readers a precise and vivid description of the way of death and rebirth. It contains a wealth of heretofore untranslated material on the Tibetan presentation of the process of dying, the nature of the intermediate state after death, and the process of taking rebirth. This modest...
by Tsong-Kha-Pa
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Tib. Lam rim chen mo) is one of the brightest jewels in the world’s treasury of sacred literature. The author, Tsong-kha-pa, completed it in 1402, and it soon became one of the most renowned works of spiritual practice and philosophy...
Minding Closely
The Four Applications of Mindfulness
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Bringing his experience as a monk, scientist, and contemplative, Alan Wallace offers a rich synthesis of Eastern and Western traditions along with a comprehensive range of meditation practices interwoven throughout the text. The guided meditations are systematically presented, beginning with very...
Steps to the Great Perfection
The Mind-Training Tradition of the Dzogchen Masters
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The mind-training practices contained in the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism have never before been presented in the English language. The main text translated here, The Steps to Liberation, will be of great interest to Western practitioners, since its instructions are pithy and direct, and...
by Geshe Sonam Rinchen
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
How do we free ourselves from the demon of self-concern? These instructions are found in Eight Verses for Training the Mind, one of the most important texts from a genre of Tibetan spiritual writings known as lojong (literally "mind training"). The root text was written by the eleventh-century...