Category: Tibetan

By Dzogchen Ponlop

ISBN-10: 1559393017

ISBN-13: 9781559393010

An imperative guidebook during the trip of existence and demise, brain past loss of life weaves a synthesis of knowledge notable in its scope. With hot informality and profound knowing of the Western brain, The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche makes the mysterious Tibetan teachings at the bardos—the periods of lifestyles, demise, and beyond—completely on hand to the fashionable reader.Drawing on a wide ranging diversity of fabric, brain past loss of life exhibits us how the bardos can be utilized to overcome loss of life. operating with the bardos ability taking carry of lifestyles and studying how one can reside with fearless abandon. Exploring all six bardos—not simply the 3 bardos of death—Mind past loss of life demonstrates that the key to a very good trip via and past loss of life lies in how we live.Walking skillfully throughout the bardos of dream, meditation, and everyday life, The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche takes us deep into the mysterious demise periods, introducing us to their fantastic mindscape. This travel de strength provides us the data to remodel dying, the best situation, into the main strong chance for enlightenment. With either nuts-and-bolts meditation concepts and impressive illumination, brain past demise bargains a transparent map and a robust car that may accurately delivery the reader in the course of the tough transitions of this existence and the perilous bardos past demise.

By Shantarakshita, The Padmakara Translation Group, Jamgon Mipham

ISBN-10: 1590302419

ISBN-13: 9781590302415

Madhyamaka, or the center approach, is approved via all faculties of Tibetan Buddhism because the so much profound expression, in philosophical phrases, of vacancy, the real nature of phenomena. vacancy is the root on which the total of Mahayana perform is based, from the mind-training meditations on bodhichitta to the complicated yogas of tantra and dzogchen. The Madhyamaka culture, inaugurated by way of Nagarjuna and dominant in India for over 1000 years, continues to be a colourful strength in Tibetan Buddhism.

Shantarakshita's view, quintessentially expressed within the Madhyamakalankara, results a synthesis among the Madhyamaka of Nagarjuna, the Mind-Only teachings traced again to Asanga, and the logico-epistemological culture of Dignaga and Dharmakirti. This nice paintings marks the ultimate degree within the evolution of Madhyamaka and used to be the final significant improvement of Buddhist philosophy in India.

Composed towards the tip of the 19th century, Mipham's terrific and looking out remark has been defined as the most profound examinations of Madhyamaka ever written. In offering and protecting Shantarakshita's view, Mipham throws down the gauntlet to the philosophical institution and demands a big reassessment of the Madhyamaka box. This tough yet worthwhile textual content is quintessential to a balanced realizing of Tibetan Buddhist proposal. This e-book is a center learn textual content for either students and practitioners of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.

By Joe B. Wilson

ISBN-10: 0937938343

ISBN-13: 9780937938348

This whole textbook on classical Tibetan is acceptable for starting or intermediate scholars. It starts off with principles for studying writing and saying Tibetan, steadily wearing the reader during the styles noticeable within the formation of phrases and into the repeating styles of Tibetan words, clauses, and sentences. scholars with earlier event will locate the seven appendices—which evaluate the principles of pronunciation grammar and syntax—provide an imperative reference. It balances conventional Tibetan grammatical and syntactic research with a use of terminology that displays English preconceptions approximately sentence constitution. in response to the approach constructed via Jeffrey Hopkins on the college of Virginia, this ebook offers in classes with drills and examining routines a pragmatic advent to Tibetan grammar syntax and technical vocabulary utilized in Buddhist works on philosophy and meditation. a very good designed studying method, it serves as an creation to examining and translating and to Buddhist philosophy and meditation. via simply memorizable paradigms the scholar involves realize and comprehend the recurrent styles of the Tibetan language. every one bankruptcy encompasses a vocabulary filled with worthy Buddhist phrases.

By John Myrdhin Reynolds, Namkhai Norbu

ISBN-10: 1559397365

ISBN-13: 9781559397360

A textual content belonging to an analogous cycle as The Tibetan booklet of the Dead, this guideline at the approach to  self-liberation offers the essence of Dzogchen, The nice Perfection, appeared in Tibet because the maximum and so much esoteric instructing of the Buddha. instructing the attainment of Buddhahood in one lifetime, this article used to be written and hid by way of Guru Padmasambhava within the 8th century and rediscovered six centuries later by means of Karma Lingpa. The observation by means of the translator is predicated at the oral teachings of Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and Lama Tharchin Rinpoche.

By Thubten Chodron

The liked deity Tara is the female embodiment of enlightenment. for hundreds of years, practitioners have became to her for defense from either exterior and inner risks, from fireplace to audacity. This well-written e-book, offered in conversational variety, is an authoritative advisor to the perform of Tara.Includes very useful chapters at the whys and hows of varied Tara practices.

By Tsong-ka-pa. Kensur Lekden, Jeffrey Hopkins, Lati Rinbochay, Barbara Frye, Anne Klein, Elizabeth Napper

ISBN-10: 0937938041

ISBN-13: 9780937938041

By Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje, The Padmakara Translation Group

The rules of Vajrayana perform are laid out with eloquence and precision the following by way of one of many maximum Tibetan Buddhist masters of our age. His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche’s statement at the initial practices (ngöndro) is knowledgeable by way of his profound consciousness and wide-ranging scholarship, and illuminated with an array of quotations from the Vinaya, Sutra, and Tantra traditions. as well as the statement at the outer and internal initial practices, he offers different worthwhile directions at the right view, behavior, and task of a practitioner. Dudjom Rinpoche taught that the conclusion of the lessons of the good Perfection relies totally at the perform of those initial practices, hence his compassionate exposition of them the following makes this ebook a very helpful source for somebody who seeks to take away the stumbling blocks among themselves and the whole freedom of enlightenment.

Translated via Padmakara Translation workforce.

By Barbara Gerke

ISBN-10: 9004217037

ISBN-13: 9789004217034

Life-Span techniques and toughness Practices between Tibetans within the Darjeeling Hills, India

Longevity and long-life practices were a pan-Tibetan quandary for a long time, yet have rarely been studied by means of anthropologists. This e-book provides ethnographic bills and textual fabric demonstrating how Tibetans within the Darjeeling Hills, India, view the life-span and map out definite life-forces in a variety of components of information. those life-forces stick with day-by-day, per thirty days, and annual cycles. Divinations and astrological calculations are greatly yet varyingly utilized by Tibetans to evaluate the energy of life-forces and forecast tricky classes of their lives. Loss, exhaustion, or periodic weaknesses of life-forces are taken care of medically or via Tibetan Buddhist practices and rituals. In a lot of these occasions, temporality and employer are deeply interlinked within the ways that Tibetans improve their power, delay their life-spans, and keep away from ‘untimely deaths.’

By Dilgo Khyentse, Dalai Lama, Sogyal Rinpoche, Dzongsar Khyentse, Ani Jinba Palmo

Via vigorous anecdotes and tales this hugely respected Buddhist meditation grasp and pupil tells approximately his lifetime of research, retreat, and educating. The formative occasions of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s existence, and people insights and stories that brought on him to mature into the nice and cozy, tremendous, and hugely discovered meditation grasp and instructor he was once, are deeply inspiring. the second one 1/2 the publication includes reminiscences by way of his spouse; his grandson, Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche; Tenga Rinpoche; the Queen mom of Bhutan; and lots of popular academics.

By Khedrup Norsang Gyatso, Gavin Kilty, Thupten Jinpa Ph.D. Ph.D.

ISBN-10: 0861714520

ISBN-13: 9780861714520

The Kalachakra (literally, "Wheel of Time") tantra, a center perform of Tibetan Buddhism, is a technique for remodeling the universe by means of operating with the physique and brain. this primary quantity of the Library of Tibetan Classics sequence used to be hand-picked via the Dalai Lama — who famous it because the most interesting attainable explication of this tradition.