Wisdom Publications: 444 books

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The Four Noble Truths

The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 1

by Geshe Tashi Tsering
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005

The four noble truths are well known as the Buddha's first and most essential explanation of his enlightened realizations. The truths diagnose the human existential crisis--suffering and its origin--and prescribe a solution--cessation and the path. To understand the four noble truths is to understand...
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The Flight of the Garuda

The Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism

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Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012

Dzogchen, a tradition of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, is considered by many to be an extremely powerful path to enlightenment. This ground-breaking book offers translations of four sacred texts of the Dzogchen tradition: Secret Instruction in a Garland of Vision, The Flight of the Garuda,...
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Awakening from the Daydream

Reimagining the Buddha's Wheel of Life

by David Nichtern
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Hell realms, gods, and hungry ghosts—these are just a few of the images on the Buddhist wheel of life. In Awakening from the Daydream, discover how these ancient symbols are still relevant to our modern life. In Awakening from the Daydream, meditation teacher David Nichtern reimagines the...
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Essentials of Mahamudra

Looking Directly at the Mind

by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

What would you see if you looked directly at your mind? The Tibetan Buddhist teachings on mahamudra are known for their ability to lead to profound realization. Peaceful and infinitely adaptable, these teachings are as useful for today's busy world as they have been for centuries. Written...
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On Zen Practice

Body, Breath, and Mind

by Wendy Egyoku Nakao, John Daishin Buksbazen
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012

This updated landmark volume makes available for the first time in decades the teachings that were formative to a whole generation of American Zen teachers and students. Conceived as an overarching primer on the practice of Zen, chapters in this volume address every aspect of practice: beginning practice,...
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Opening the Hand of Thought

Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice

by Kosho Uchiyama
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005

For over thirty years, Opening the Hand of Thought has offered an introduction to Zen Buddhism and meditation unmatched in clarity and power. This is the revised edition of Kosho Uchiyama's singularly incisive classic. This new edition contains even more useful material: new prefaces, an index,...
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Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness

Walking the Buddha's Path

by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011

In the same engaging style that has endeared him to readers of Mindfulness In Plain English, Bhante Gunaratana delves deeply into each step of the Buddha's most profound teaching on bringing an end to suffering: the noble eightfold path. With generous and specific advice, Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness...
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by Barry Magid
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008

We all have a right to the pursuit of happiness - but could we actually be happier if we gave that whole thing up? This surprising new book from Zen teacher, psychoanalyst, and critical favorite Barry Magid inspires us - in gentle and winking prose - to move on and make peace with the perfection...
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Wholesome Fear

Transforming Your Anxiety About Impermanence and Death

by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, Kathleen McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009

With the right perspective, our anxiety around sickness, old age, and death can be a "wholesome fear"--a fear with a positive quality that ultimately enriches and nourishes our lives. Lama Zopa Rinpoche shows us how we can use our anxiety as a high-octane fuel to really live what's most important....
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Buddhahood in This Life

The Great Commentary by Vimalamitra

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016

Discover a profound text that has influenced Tibetan teachers for generations. Buddhahood in This Life is a complete translation of the earliest Tibetan commentary on the Dzogchen secret instructions. Available for the first time in English, Buddhahood in This Life presents the Great Commentary...
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The Two Truths Debate

Tsongkhapa and Gorampa on the Middle Way

by Sonam Thakchoe
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016

All lineages of Tibetan Buddhism today claim allegiance to the philosophy of the Middle Way, the exposition of emptiness propounded by the second-century Indian master Nagarjuna. But not everyone interprets it the same way. A major faultline runs through Tibetan Buddhism around the interpretation...
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Imagine All the People

A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be

by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016

If you could sit down with the Dalai Lama and talk with him about anything, what would you discuss? Fabien Ouaki, a prominent French businessman, was granted such an opportunity and asked the Dalai Lama for his thoughts on the everyday issues that fill our newspapers and our lives. This is the record...
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The Beautiful Way of Life

A Meditation on Shantideva's Bodhisattva Path

by Rene Feusi
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015

Enter into the presence of a wise Buddhist master through this modern distillation of a spiritual classic. The most enduring and widely read spiritual work to emerge from Buddhism's classical age in India is surely Shantideva's Bodhisattva Way of Life. Among its many fans is the Dalai Lama,...
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Song of the Road

The Poetic Travel Journal of Tsarchen Losal Gyatso

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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012

In Song of the Road, Tsarchen Losal Gyatso (1502-66), a tantric master of the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, weaves ecstatic poetry, song, and accounts of visionary experiences into a record of pilgrimage to central Tibet. Translated for the first time here, Tsarchen's work, a favorite of the...
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