By Jetsun Milarepa རྗེ་བཙུན་མི་ལ་རས་པ།, Christopher Stagg (Translator), Tsangnyön Heruka (Preface) Shambhala Publications, Boulder, Colorado, 2016 Powerful and deeply inspiring, there is no book more beloved by Tibetans than The Hundred Thousand Songs, and no figure more revered than Milarepa, the great eleventh-century poet and saint. An ordinary man who, through sheer force of effort, faith, and …
By Thich Nhat Hanh Parallax Press, Berkeley, California, 1991 Old Path White Clouds presents the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha སངས་རྒྱས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ།. Drawn directly from 24 Pali, Sanskrit, and Chinese sources, and retold by Thich Nhat Hanh in his inimitably beautiful style, this book traces the Buddha’s life slowly and gently over the course of 80 …
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By Maitreya བྱམས་པ། Snow Lion, An Imprint by Shambhala Publications, Dharmachakra Translation Committee, Boulder, Colorado, 2006 Middle Beyond Extremes contains a translation of the Buddhist masterpiece Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes. This famed text, often referred to by its Sanskrit title, Madhyantavibhaga, is part of a collection known as the Five Maitreya Teachings བྱམས་ཆོས་སྡེ་ལྔ་།. Maitreya, the Buddha’s regent, …
By Dza Patrul Rinpoche རྫ་དཔལ་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། Shambhala Publications, 1998 (first published 1991) Words of My Perfect Teacher: A Complete Translation of a Classic Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism is a favorite of Tibetans and recommended by the Dalai Lama and other senior Buddhist teachers, this practical guide to inner transformation introduces the fundamental spiritual practices common to all …
Words of My Perfect Teacher
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By Nagarjuna ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ། (Author), Kanyyur Kyabje Rinpoche (Commentary), The Padmakara Translation Group (Translator) Snow Lion, Boston & London, 2013 Nagarjuna’s poetic presentation of the fundamental teachings of the Great Vehicle, or Mahayana, is remarkable for its concise style and memorable imagery, making it one of the most widely quoted sources in other commentaries on the …
Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend
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By Shantideva ཞི་བ་ལྷ། (Author), Padmakara Translation Group (Translator) Shambhala Publications, Boston & London, 2006 Treasured by Buddhists of all traditions, The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. This text has been studied, practiced, and expounded upon in an …
The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryavatara)
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ། Read More »
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