Tibetan Buddhism Books
North Atlantic Books,U.S. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Awakening Upon
Book SynopsisThe Tibetan Book of the Dead: Awakening Upon Dying, with introductory commentary by Dzogchen Buddhist master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, is a new translation of the ancient text also known as The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Intermediate State. Both a practical guide and intriguing historical, cultural, and spiritual document, this new version incorporates recent discoveries that have allowed for a better translation of previously ambiguous passages. Revealing a set of instructions designed to facilitate the inner liberation of the dead or dying person, the book provides a guide to navigating the bardo--the interval between death and rebirth. Originally composed by Padmasambhava, an important Indian master of the eighth century, the Tibetan Book of the Dead was concealed in Tibet until it was discovered in the fourteenth century by Karma Lingpa, a famous Tibetan tertön (discoverer of ancient texts). Describing in detail the characteristics and fantastic visions of each stage beyond death, the book includes invocations to be read aloud to the dying person, to help his or her successful journey toward the stage of liberation. Chögyal Namkhai Norbu''s introduction clarifies the texts from the Dzogchen point of view and provides a scholarly summary of the ancient material based on his oral teachings and written works. In addition, material from several of Namkhai Norbu''s more recent written works and oral teachers have been added, including an essay on the four intermediate states after death entitled Birth, Life, and Death. A full-color 16-page insert of traditional Tibetan art highlights Tibet''s unique aesthetic wisdom.
£15.29
Shambhala Publications Inc The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa, Volume
Book SynopsisVolume ten includes Chögyam Trungpa''s three most recent books and many selected writings.The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa brings together in ten volumes the writings of one of the first and most influential and inspirational Tibetan teachers to present Buddhism in the West. Organized by theme, the collection includes full-length books as well as articles, seminar transcripts, poems, plays, and interviews, many of which have never before been available in book form. From memoirs of his escape from Chinese-occupied Tibet to insightful discussions of psychology, mind, and meditation; from original verse and calligraphy to the esoteric lore of tantric Buddhism—the impressive range of Trungpa’s vision, talents, and teachings is showcased in this landmark series.Volume Ten begins with Chögyam Trungpa’s three most recent books: Work, Sex, Money, Mindfulness in Action, and Devotion and Crazy Wisdom. The first two books in the volume emphasize the importance of meditation in action and bringing awareness, mindfulness, intentionality, and a sense of the sacred into everyday life. The third book explores devotion and discusses mutual commitment and surrendering between teacher and student. The selected writings in this volume range from older articles originally published in the Vajradhatu Sun to recently edited articles, including several that have not yet appeared in print. Overall, these articles show us how Trungpa Rinpoche worked deeply and directly with many interest groups and subsections of the community, and how he infused each situation with dharma, taking every opportunity to present essential teachings.
£52.25
Wisdom Publications,U.S. Freeing the Heart and Mind: Part Three: Teachings
Book SynopsisA plain-English introduction to a major school of Tibetan Buddhism, by His Holiness the Sakya Trichen, its emeritus head.LUMINOUS WISDOM DIRECTLY FROM HIS HOLINESS THE SAKYA TRICHEN. Collected from teachings by His Holiness, this book is a warm and comprehensive introduction to the Buddhist path as told by the patriarch of the Sakya order. His Holiness offers explanations of the philosophical tenets of the Mahayana path and in particular the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism—giving down-to-earth advice for practicing in the world today, including • the principles of tantra, • the value of retreat, • the history of the Sakya lineage, • ecology from a Buddhist perspective, • biographies of great women practitioners, • and other fascinating topics. This is a must-read for anyone interested in following a Buddhist spiritual path.
£13.99
Orange Palm and Magnificent Magus Publications Inc Emaho Tibet! Blessings from the Land of the
Book SynopsisThis book is a reverberant homage to the country of Tibet which inhabits and inspires the author. It is also a living testimony to the pilgrims who ambulate this holy land, a circumstantiation of their ardent faith, and of their desire to be free from the samsaric cycles and of the karma that perpetually propels and nourishes the Dharma Path of the earth''s ever-recurrent planetary rounds. More importantly, this volume becomes for those who peruse it, a powerful guide for meditation, reflection and comprehension for the different stages of our evolution. Moreover, it shows the path towards the Realisation of what we are called to become, as beings who are Divinely human. Behind each of the author''s visionary picture-words, is occulted a Truth which if understood, can reveal the path to follow in order to attain the Perfection of our Being, as well as the realization of a Divine humanity that seeks purely to express itself and to grow to maturity within each one of us. A Photographic Pilgrimage of Ongoing Spirituality -- Simhananda
£39.94
Asian Educational Services Religion of Tibet
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£20.99
Asian Educational Services The Religion of Tibet
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£11.48
Motilal Banarsidass, Atisa and Tibet: Life and Works of Dipamkara Srijnana in Relation to the History and Religion of Tibet with Tibetan Sources
£26.59
Motilal Banarsidass, The Reflexive Nature of Awareness: A Tibetan
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£19.99
Books Faith Buddhism in Tibet
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£13.12
Paljor Publications An Ode to H.H. the Dalai Lama
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£999.99
Paljor Publications A Handful of Flowers
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£8.92
Library of Tibetan Works and Archives The Excellent Vessel of Ambrosia
Book SynopsisHis guidelines are relevant for the neophyte and seasoned practi-tioner, as well as others who may have an interest in developing the mind and gaining a deeper understanding of reality.
£14.11
Vajra Books A Concise History of The Glorious Sakyapa School
Book SynopsisA Concise History of the Sakyapa School summarizes the history of that venerable tradition, briefly describing also its scholastic curriculum and even enumerating many of its most prominent branch monasteries. A precious contribution when its author wrote it in the late 1960s, when the Tibetans in Indian exile desperately needed such a historical synopsis, it remains helpful and relevant today.
£30.39
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Book Synopsis“A magnificent achievement. In its power to touch the heart, to awaken consciousness, [The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying] is an inestimable gift.”—San Francisco Chronicle A newly revised and updated 30th Anniversary edition of the internationally bestselling spiritual classic, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, written by Sogyal Rinpoche, is the ultimate introduction to Tibetan Buddhist wisdom. An enlightening, inspiring, and comforting manual for life and death that the New York Times calls, “The Tibetan equivalent of [Dante’s] The Divine Comedy,” this is the essential work that moved Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions, to proclaim, “I have encountered no book on the interplay of life and death that is more comprehensive, practical, and wise.”
£18.69
Penguin Putnam Inc The Tibetan Book of the Dead First Complete
Book SynopsisThe first complete translation of a classic Buddhist text on the journey through living and dyingGraced with opening words by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the Penguin Deluxe Edition of The Tibetan Book of the Dead is immaculately rendered in an English both graceful and precise. Translated with the close support of leading contemporary masters and hailed as “a tremendous accomplishment,” this book faithfully presents the insights and intentions of the original work. It includes one of the most detailed and compelling descriptions of the after-death state in world literature, practices that can transform our experience of daily life, guidance on helping those who are dying, and an inspirational perspective on coping with bereavement. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the b
£21.25
Oxford University Press The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet
Book SynopsisThe Tibetan district of Tsari with its sacred snow-covered peak of Pure Crystal Mountain has long been a place of symbolic and ritual significance for Tibetan peoples. In this book, Toni Huber provides the first thorough study of a major Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage center and cult mountain, and explores the esoteric and popular traditions of ritual there. The main focus is on the period of the 1940s and ''50s, just prior to the 1959 Lhasa uprising and subsequent Tibetan diaspora into South Asia. Huber''s work thus documents Tibetan life patterns and cultural traditions which have largely disappeared with the advent of Chinese colonial modernity in Tibet. In addition to the work''s documentary content, Huber offers discussion and analysis of the construction and meaning of Tibetan cultural categories of space, place, and person, and the practice of ritual and organization of traditional society in relation to them.Trade Reviewan extremely valuable contribution both to the study of religion and ritual in general and to Tibetan studies in particular ... Specialists and nonspecialists alike will benefit from several readings of this work. Its rich accounts of tantric cosmology, ritual regimes, and local lifeways are accessibly written with relatively few technical terms, yet supplemented with long footnotes and a glossary of Wylie transliterations for all Tibetan words rendered phonetically in the text ... overall though, this work is a ground breaking and important that should be required reading for all students of Tibet, Asian Studies, pilgrimmage, and religion and ritual in general. * Charlene Makley, Journal of the American Academy of Religion *
£175.00
Oxford University Press The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book SynopsisThe Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones, lakes, and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and age were somehow unprepared for their teachings. Now, in the form of the ever-popular Tibetan Book of the Dead, these teachings are constantly being discovered and rediscovered by Western readers of many different backgrounds--a phenomenon which began in 1927 with Oxford''s first edition of Dr. Evans-Wentz''s landmark volume. While it is traditionally used as a mortuary text, to be read or recited in the presence of a dead or dying person, this book--which relates the whole experience of death and rebirth in three intermediate states of being--was originally understood as a guide not only for the dead but also for the living. As a contribution to the science of death and dying--not to mention the belief in life after death, or the belieTrade ReviewDr. Evans-Wentz, who literally sat at the feet of a Tibetan lama for years in order to acquire his wisdom...not only displays a deeply sympathetic interest in those esoteric doctrines so characteristic of the genius of the East, but likewise possesses the rare faculty of making them more or less intelligible to the layman. * Anthropology (on the previous edition) *Table of ContentsForeword by Donald S Lopez Jr ; Suggested Readings ; Preface to the 1960 Paperback edition ; Preface to the Third Edition ; Preface to the Second Edition ; Preface to the First Edition ; Book I, Part I: The Bardo of the Moments of Death ; Book I, Part II: The Bardo of the Experiencing of Reality ; Book II, Part I: The Sidpa Bardo ; Book II, Part II: The Process of Rebirth ; Afterword: The Long Life of 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead' by Donald S Lopez Jr. ; Index
£46.07
Oxford University Press Inc Ocean of Reasoning
Book SynopsisTsong khapa (14th-century) is arguably the most important and influential philosopher in Tibetan history. An Ocean of Reasoning is the most extensive and perhaps the deepest extant commentary on Nagarjuna''s Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way), and it can be argued that it is impossible to discuss Nagarjuna''s work in an informed way without consulting it. It discusses alternative readings of the text and prior commentaries and provides a detailed exegesis, constituting a systematic presentation of Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy. Despite its central importance, however, of Tsong khapa''s three most important texts, only An Ocean of Reasoning remains untranslated, perhaps because it is both philosophically and linguistically challenging, demanding a rare combination of abilities on the part of a translator. Jay Garfield and Ngawang Samten bring the requisite skills to this difficult task, combining between them expertise in Western and Indian philosophy, and fluency in Tibetan, Sanskrit, and English. The resulting translation of this important text will not only be a landmark contribution to the scholarship of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, but will serve as a valuable companion volume to Jay Garfield''s highly successful translation of The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way.
£110.00
Oxford University Press Inc Ocean of Reasoning
Book SynopsisTsong khapa (14th-century) is arguably the most important and influential philosopher in Tibetan history. This work is a commentary on Nagarjuna's "Mulamadhyamakakarika" ("Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way"). It discusses alternative readings of the text and prior commentaries and provides a detailed exegesis.Trade Review..accuracy cannot be achieved without elegance, and the translators' awareness of this fact is evident throughout. * TLS *Geshe Ngawang Samten and Jay Garfield have succeeded in making available an invaluable resource for the study of Nagarjuna's Root Verses of the Middle Way and the subsequent development of his philosophy by South Asian and Tibetan thinkers. * Felix Holmgren, TLS *
£43.69
Oxford University Press Four Illusions
Book SynopsisThis book provides the first English translation of Candrakirti''s commentary (ca. 6-7th century C.E.) on four illusions that prevent people from becoming Buddhas. Lang''s translation captures the clarity of Candrakirti''s arguments and the lively humour of the stories and examples he uses. Lang''s introduction explores the range of Candrakirti''s interests in religion, philosophy, psychology, politics, and erotic poetry.Trade ReviewLang has done an admirable job of translating an often difficult text into English. ... This book is a significant contribution to the field of Buddhist studies, particularly for those interested in Madhyamaka philosophy. * Religious Studies Review *
£39.42
Oxford University Press The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism
Book SynopsisThanks to the international celebrity of the present Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism is attracting more attention than at any time in its history. Although there have been numerous specialist studies of individual Tibetan texts, however, no scholarly work has as yet done justice to the rich variety of types of Tibetan discourse. This book fills this lacuna, bringing to bear the best methodological insights of the contemporary human sciences, and at the same time conveying to non-specialist readers an impression of the broad domain of Tibetan religious and philosophical thought. For over a millenium a Tibetan Buddhist intelligentsia produced a vast literature in which they explored the legacy of Indian (and to a lesser extent Chinese) Buddhism, often with exceptional rigor and creativity. At the same time, they also articulated perspectives and raised questions that reflected a distinctly Tibetan heritage, above and beyond the impetus derived from foreign sources. The views they generated,Trade Review"...a marvel of erudition....this is a fascinating and informative book."--Parabola "This is an unusual, stimulating piece of scholarship. It is exhaustively researched, linked deeply and broadly to the larger discussions circulating through Tibetan studies and the histories of religions. It is fair-minded in relation to its sources, critical of traditional historiography without being belligerent. Not only will scholars of Tibetan Buddhism benefit from this work, but also historians of Tibet generally, practitioners of tantric Buddhism, philosophers and mythologists should have this book on their shelves."--Transcendent Philosophy
£44.17
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Tibetan Book of Meditation
Book SynopsisMeditation helps us relax, sharpens our minds, and increases our creativity. In The Tibetan Book of Meditation, Lama Christie McNally demonstrates that meditation also provides a much greater gift. It awakens our innate potential to shape our reality, to make moments of joy last forever, and to bring us the peace and contentment that we all ultimately seek. Written in an instructional yet intimate style, the author guides readers through a progression of meditations, from the simple concept of compassion to the transformative concept of emptiness. Teaching technique and content at the same time, this book is unique in its comprehensive approach and will find a special place in the hearts of novice and experienced meditators alike. Christie McNally, a renowned master teacher and lecturer who has studied with some of the greatest Indian, Tibetan, and western Buddhist masters, explains the central tenets of Buddhism and reveals how they apply to everyday life
£13.29
Cengage Learning, Inc Beyond Religion Ethics for a Whole World
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£13.49
£13.40
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Awakening Heart Volume Two
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£16.07
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Here We Settle
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£17.16
Penguin Random House LLC Transcending Madness The Experience of the Six Bardos Dharma Ocean Series
£24.30
Penguin Random House LLC Illusions Game The Life and Teaching of Naropa Dharma Ocean Dharma Ocean Series
£15.29
Penguin Random House LLC Health through Balance An Introduction to Tibetan Medicine
£22.10
Mahasandhi Publishing Illusion of Life and Death
£18.00
Mahasandhi Buddhist Group Songs of Dzogchen Trekcho A detailed commentary on Shabkars Flight of the Garuda
£19.00
Simply Being Collected Works of C R Lama
£23.75
Simply Being Oeuvres choisies de C R Lama
£23.75
Bodhicharya Publications Parables from the Heart
£15.61
Sorig Press Limited The Tibetan Art of Good Karma
£15.61
Jaya Kula No Retreat poems on the way to waking up
£11.69
Unfettered Mind Reflections on Silver River
£11.35
Universal Dharma Mandalas Their Nature and Development Vol4 of a Treatise on Mind
£22.80
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Tibetan Buddhist Rime Institute Inc. Unveiling Your Sacred Truth through the Kalachakra Path Book One The External Reality
£23.47
Sakya Losal Choe Dzong Taming the Elephant Mind A Handbook on the Theory and Practice of Calm Abiding Meditation
£9.38
Tibetan Buddhist Rime Institute Inc. Hidden Treasure of the Profound Path
£19.51
Rigul Trust Chenrezig The Practice of Compassion
£18.57
Sky Press Karmamudra
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