Shambhala: 1067 books
The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 15 to 17
The Essential Tantras of Mahayoga
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In 1838, Choying Tobden Dorje, a yogin and scholar of northeastern Tibet, completed a multivolume masterwork that traces the entire path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end. Written by a mantra practitioner for the benefit of mantra practitioners living among the lay...
On the Prayer of Jesus
The Classic Guide to the Practice of Unceasing Prayer Found in The Way of a Pilgrim
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Thousands have fallen in love with the anonymously authored book The Way of a Pilgrim—the account of an ordinary man's encounter with the Eastern Orthodox Christian practice of the Jesus Prayer, which consists of the constant repetition of the short phrase, "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy upon...
Tilopa's Mahamudra Upadesha
The Gangama Instructions with Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
All lineages of Mahamudra meditation have their source in a verse teaching—a "song of realization"—sung by the Mahasiddha Tilopa to his disciple Naropa on the banks of the Ganges River more than a thousand years ago. Since that time, the meaning of Tilopa’s instructions has been passed...
The Royal Seal of Mahamudra
Volume One: A Guidebook for the Realization of Coemergence
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
This guidebook for cultivating the meditative practices of stability and insight—the first major work from the Drukpa Kagyu lineage to become available in English—stands out among works of its kind as one of the clearest and most comprehensive presentations of coemergence, or mahamudra. In it,...
by Tai Situ
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2002
The Mahamudra Prayer by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje is a short yet thorough and profound text which presents all the essential points of Mahamudra teaching in terms of view, practice, and fruition. It is a classic that, especially in the tradition of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
A text belonging to the same cycle as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, this instruction on the method of self-liberation presents the essence of Dzogchen, The Great Perfection, regarded in Tibet as the highest and most esoteric teaching of the Buddha. Teaching the attainment of Buddhahood in a single...
Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend
With Commentary By Kangyur Rinpoche
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2006
The great Indian Buddhist master Nagarjuna wrote his celebrated poem Letter to a Friend as a gift of advice to a South Indian king, and it has since become a monument in the Indian shastra tradition. Despite its short length (only 123 verses), it covers the entire Mahayana path, combining a practical...
by Jeffrey Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
In fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Tibet there was great ferment about what makes enlightenment possible, since systems of self-liberation must show what factors pre-exist in the mind that allow for transformation into a state of freedom from suffering. This controversy about the nature of mind,...
by Khenchen Thrangu
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
This introduction to Buddhist psychology supplies essential instructions for successful meditation practice. Rinpoche presents meditation practices that can powerfully influence and ultimately transform the mind into the purified mind of a Buddha. He clearly describes how consciousnesses operate in...
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;...
by Tsongkhapa, The Dalai Lama
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
His Holiness the Dalai Lama illuminates the highly practical and compassionate use of Tantra for spiritual development in this important classic work.
Yoga Tantra is the third volume in The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra series in which the Dalai Lama offers illuminating commentary on Tsongkhapa’s...
The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Five
Buddhist Ethics
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 it was preserved in Tibet. This volume is the fifth book of that work and is considered by many scholars to be...
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...