T. Lobsang Rampa
T. Lobsang Rampa was preordained to be a Tibetan priest, a sign from the stars that could not be ignored. When he left his wealthy home to enter the monastery, his heart was filled with trepidation, with only a slight knowledge of the rigorous ... [... more]
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Judith Simmer-Brown
The primary emblem of the feminine in Tibetan Buddhism is the dakini, or "sky-dancer," a semi-wrathful spirit-woman who manifests in visions, dreams, and meditation experiences. Western scholars and interpreters of the dakini, influenced by ... [... more]
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Robert Hartzema
In nine accessible chapters, You Are the Weaver of Your World examines the forces that stunt spiritual growth and offers strategies for countering them. Based on the author's 15 years of operating a Tibetan Buddhist center, readers learn how to ... [... more]
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Tsele Natsok Rangdrol
This presentation of Tibetan Buddhist teachings on the endless cycle of experience, the four bardos-life, death, after-death, and rebirth-is aimed at inspiring and helping the practitioner achieve liberation from deluded existence and awaken to ... [... more]
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Jean-Claude Van Itallie
The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Reading Aloud is famed playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie's poetic adaptation of traditional Tibetan passages used to aid and comfort at the time of death. His lyrical and insightful poetry is accompanied by Gerry ... [... more]
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Stephen Butterfield
In The Double Mirror, the author's personal history-- as a student of the late Tibetan master Chogyam Trungpa, known for his unconventional lifestyle and "crazy wisdom" teaching style-- is the framework for an incisive and eloquent examination [... more]
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Erik Kunsang
For centuries, Dzogchen, often translated as the "Great Perfection," was a secretly transmitted teaching, unknown beyond the Tibetan culture. Wellsprings of the Great Perfection explains how the Dzogchen teachings came into the world, who ... [... more]
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Richard Grossinger
An avant garde set of improvisational essays, Richard Grossinger's The Bardo of Waking Life is a meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist bardo realm which, in popular culture, is viewed as the bridge between lives, the state people enter after death ... [... more]
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Kathy Morris
Gateway to Knowledge is a condensation of the Tripitaka and its accompanying commentaries by the Tibetan Buddhist master Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche. Consolidating the intent of Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings into a unified body of textbooks, it is the ... [... more]
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Khenchen Rinpoche
Crystal Clear, by the learned and realized Tibetan Master Thrangu Rinpoche, is a companion volume to the classic meditation manual Clarifying the Natural State. In his straightforward and lucid style Rinpoche gives us an indispensable guidebook ... [... more]
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Drubwang Rinpoche
Fearless Simplicity is about training in the awakened state of mind, the atmosphere within which all difficulties naturally dissolve. Here, the gifted Tibetan meditation master and author of Carefree Dignity, Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche, in his ... [... more]
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Claude Levenson
This exciting and often intense biography describes the Dalai Lama's rigorous education and his full assumption of power at the age of fifteen following the Chinese invasion in 1950. Though Tibetan tradition holds that the Dalai Lama is a ... [... more]
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