Wisdom Publications: 444 books
Tantric Ethics
An Explanation of the Precepts for Buddhist Vajrayana Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Tantra, or Vajrayana, Buddhism is a set of esoteric practices that involve mantra recitation and complex visualizations. Tantra constitutes the fabric of a Tibetan Buddhist's daily practice, but no practice of tantra can be successful without adherence to the tantric precepts, the highest of three...
Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics
The Physical World
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Explore the nature of our material world in a unique sourcebook, conceived by the Dalai Lama, collecting the scientific observations found in classical Buddhist treatises.
Under the visionary supervision of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics...
Kalachakra Tantra
Rite of Initiation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Associated with the promotion of world peace, the Kalachakra - or "Wheel of Time" - tantra is one of the most detailed and encompassing systems of theory and practice within Tibetan Buddhism. This book contains a complete translation of the Kalachakra initiation ritual as it was conferred by His Holiness...
Pointing Out the Great Way
The Stages of Meditation in the Mahamudra Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Many books have been published in recent years on the topic of mahamudra, or meditation on the fundamentally clear nature of the mind. This book is different in the systematic way it draws from a variety of source texts in order to construct a complete, graded path of practice informed by an understanding...
A Life Unforeseen
A Memoir of Service to Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
One of the only government officials in pre-Communist Tibet to have been educated in English recounts the pivotal events that changed his homeland, and the fate of his people, forever.
Rinchen Sadutshang was born in 1928 near the Tibet-China border to a well-off trading family, educated in...
Before Buddha Was Buddha
Learning from the Jataka Tales
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Discover how ordinary beings—a deer, a robber, a monkey, a parrot, and more—make up the past lives of the Buddha before he was Buddha.
The jataka tales are ancient Buddhist stories found in both the Pali Canon and Sanskrit tradition, recounting the many past lives and ongoing spiritual...
by Changkya Rölpai Dorjé, Donald Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2019
The most lucid and penetrating survey of classical Indian philosophy in the Tibetan language.
Beautiful Adornment of Mount Meru by Changkya Rölpai Dorjé (1717–86) is a work of doxography, presenting the distinctive philosophical tenets of the Indian Buddhist and non-Buddhist schools in...
Joyously Through the Days
Living the Journey of Spiritual Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Drawing inspiration from such diverse sources as Khalil Gibran, Virginia Woolf, and Frank Sinatra, as well as the Bible and the great Zen masters of old, this book offers a path to rich and lasting happiness achieved through what Huston Smith calls "goal-attaining patience." In Joyously Through the...
Brave Parenting
A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Raising Emotionally Resilient Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
How do we build resilient children who can handle life's challenges?
As parents today, we often feel that our role is to protect our children from the world: to cushion them when they fall, to lift them over obstacles, and to remove sharp rocks from their path. But controling a child’s entire...
Svatantrika-Prasangika Distinction
What Difference Does a Difference Make?
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Madhyamaka, or "Middle Way," philosophy came to Tibet from India and became the basis of all of Tibetan Buddhism. The Tibetans, however, differentiated two streams of Madhyamaka philosophy--Svatantrika and Prasangika. In this collection, leading scholars in the field address the distinction on various...
Tales for Transforming Adversity
A Buddhist Lama's Advice for Life's Ups and Downs
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
One of the world's most popular Tibetan lamas shares accessible advice for working with adversity and living a spiritual life.
Enjoy a variety of meditations on topics from flattery and jealousy to karma and compassion. In each brief chapter Khenpo Sodargye weaves in stories from ancient classics...
Reason's Traces
Identity and Interpretation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Reason's Traces addresses some of the key questions in the study of Indian and Buddhist thought: the analysis of personal identity and of ultimate reality, the interpretation of Tantric texts and traditions, and Tibetan approaches to the interpretation of Indian sources. Drawing on a wide range of...
Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason
Santaraksita and Kamalasila on Rationality, Argumentation, and Religious Authority
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
The great Buddhist scholars Santaraksita (725 - 88 CE.) and his disciple Kamalasila were among the most influential thinkers in classical India. They debated ideas not only within the Buddhist tradition but also with exegetes of other Indian religions, and they both traveled to Tibet during Buddhism's...
Bodhichitta
Practice for a Meaningful Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
An accessible, inspiring book on one of the most important topics in Tibetan Buddhism, written by one of its renowned masters, who has an international following of thousands.
Bodhichitta is a Sanskrit word meaning “the mind of enlightenment” or “the awakening mind”—the mind that...