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Blazing Splendor
The Memoirs of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
As told to Erik Pema Kunsang and Marcia Binder Schmidt Foreword by Sogyal Rinpoche, Introduction by Daniel Goleman
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche was among the greatest teachers of Tibetan Buddhism of the twentieth century. In Blazing Splendor he relates amazing experiences of his own life as well as accounts of great lineage masters and yogis, all in the most personal and intimate tone. Describing the lost culture of old Tibet in vivid and rich detail, it is evocative and inspiring, remarkable and riveting; a book of great spiritual and historical import. Softcover.
BOBLSPL $19.95
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Buddha's Lions
The Lives of the Eighty-Four Siddhas
Abhayadatta, translated by James B. Robinson
This book chronicles the life stories of eighty-four Tantric masters who achieved the highest results of the Vajrayana path and inspired generations of practitioners. By relying on a qualified teacher, devoted men and women of different backgrounds: cobblers, princes, blacksmiths, and wood-gatherers, were able to take everyday experience as the path and reach enlightenment in a single lifetime. Filled with subtle, concise teachings expressed in the poetic songs of realization of the siddhas. Excellent introduction to the Vajrayana and a good resource for the study of Tibetan. Includes the Tibetan text, iconographical notes, and 84 detailed line drawings.
BOBLION $19.95
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Compassionate Action
Chatral Rinpoche
Kyabje Chatrul Rinpoche, like the great sages and hermits of the past, has spent most of his life in retreat in the Himilayas. Now in his nineties, this quintessential "hidden yogi," a legend in the Buddhist community, is revered as one of the greatest meditation masters and compassionate bodhisattvas to have lived. Father Thomas Merton first met Chatrul Rinpoche in 1968 and famously remarked that he was "the greatest man I ever met."
This book includes Chatrul Rinpoche's biography and autobiography, six essays, five self-composed prayers, an interview with the editor, and fourteen pages of photos. Softcover.
BOCOACT $14.95 Online Price $11.96
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Delog--Sale!
Journey to Realms Beyond Death
Delog Dawa Drolma
As a delog, Dawa Drolma, one of the great realization holders of Vajrayana Buddhism in this century, crossed the threshold of death and journeyed to other realms of experience. What she saw, recounted in these pages, engendered in her a limitless compassion for sentient beings. Softcover.
BODELOG $13.95 Sale $8.37
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Finding Freedom
Writings from Death Row
Jarvis Masters
Finding Freedom is a collection of prison stories - sometimes shocking, sometimes sad, often funny, always immediate - told against a background of extreme violence and aggression, written by a prisoner on death row who has become a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. Softcover.
BOFIFRE $14.95 Online Price $11.96
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The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
Translated by Garma C.C. Chang
Milarepa was an eleventh century Buddhist poet and saint, a cotton clad yogi who avoided the scholarly institutions of his time and wandered from village to village, teaching enlightenment and the path to Buddhahood through his spontaneously composed songs. According to the translator, this book "has been read as the biography of a saint, a guide book for devotions, a manual of Buddhist yoga, a volume of songs and poems, and even a collection of Tibetan folklore and fairy tales." This is the first complete version of this classic to appear in the West. Hardcover, 727 pages.
BOHTSOM $55.00
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Lady of the Lotus-Born
The Life and Enlightenment of Yeshe Tsogyal
Gyalwa Changchub and Namkhai Nyingpo
Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group
The first Tibetan ever to attain complete enlightenment was in all probability the woman Yeshe Tsogyal, closest disciple of Padmasambhava. This book is not only a biography but an inspiring example of how Buddha's teachings may be practiced. Although a text of great antiquity, it nevertheless expresses a tradition that is still alive today and is an archetypal description of the student-teacher relationship. Yeshe Tsogyal follows the complete Buddhist path, including the Dzogchen teachings, and herself becomes a Guru of great power and wisdom. It is a dramatic story, full of beauty and song, and offers an intimate glimpse of Tsogyal's feelings, aspirations, hardships, and triumphs. Softcover.
BOLOLBO $18.95 Online Price $15.16
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The Life of Milarepa
Translated by Lobsang Lhalungpa
The classic biography of the eleventh-century yogin and poet who was the most renowned saint in Tibetan Buddhist history. This is the most beloved story of the Tibetan people and one of the greatest source books for the contemplative life in all of world literature. Softcover.
BOLOMIL $14.95 Online Price $11.96
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Lion of Siddhas
The Life and Teachings of Padampa Sangye
Translated by David Molk
with Lama Tsering Wangdu Rinpoche
Best known as Machig Labdron's teacher, the Indian mahasiddha Padampa Sangye carried the lineage of Chod to Tibet and Buddha's words to China. Padampa Sangye's teaching methods were unorthodox and sometimes extreme: this transcendent and irascible teacher encouraged his disciples to disregard social conventions and go beyond cultural conditioning. Inspiring innumerable highly realized disciples, many of whom were women, his teachings can be found in monasteries and retreat hermitages throughout all schools of Tibetan Buddhism and continue to be practiced with undiminished enthusiasm and diligence.
Lion of Siddhas presents two previously untranslated texts: a biography of Padampa Sangye and a rare collection of his verbal and nonberbal teachings, called Mahamudra in Symbols, recorded by his chief Tibetan disciple almost a thousand years ago. Softcover.
BOLOSID $18.95
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