Few teachers in the West possess both the spiritual training and the scholarship to lead us along the path to enlightenment. Robert Thurman is one such teacher. Now, in his first experiential course on the essentials of Tibetan Buddhism, adapted and expanded from a popular retreat he led, Thurman -- the first Westerner ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama himself -- shares the centuries-old wisdom of a highly valued method used by the great Tibetan masters. Using a revered, once-secret text o...
A complete explanation of the Tantric practice of Vajrayogini, the female Buddha of blissful wisdom. This book provides comprehensive instructions on the 11 yogas of generation stage meditation, as well as the essential practices of completion stage meditation. Together, these provide special methods for transforming all our daily activities into a profound spiritual practice. A practical manual for those seeking a swift and blissful path to full enlightenment.
To the Western imagination, Tibet evokes exoticism, mysticism, and wonder: a fabled land removed from the grinding onslaught of modernity, spiritually endowed with all that the West has lost. Originally published in 1998, Prisoners of Shangri-La provided the first cultural history of the strange encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Donald Lopez reveals here fanciful misconceptions of Tibetan life and religion. He examines, among much else, the politics of the term "Lamaism," a pejora...
Himalayan Passages (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, #17)
by Benjamin Bogin and Andrew Quintman
The Collected Works of Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche Volume I (Collected Works of Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche)
by Rinpoche Choekyi Nyima
