Mahayana Buddhism

The feeling that it is five minutes to midnight is known to many by now, and is often referred to as the "Doomsday Clock." As the many crises faced by humanity and planet Earth gather and tumble toward an emergency, some have even reduced the time left...

We remove dust to sweep away our worldly desires. We scrub dirt to free ourselves of attachments. We live simply and take time to contemplate the self, mindfully living each moment. It's not just monks that need to live this way. Everyone in today's busy...

25th Anniversary Edition Over 3 Million Copies Sold 'I couldn't give this book a higher recommendation' BILLY CONNOLLY Written by the Buddhist meditation master and popular international speaker Sogyal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book clarifies...

Discover the mind and body benefits of yantra yoga exercises, Buddhist wisdom, and Tibetan philosophy for a happier and healthier life.  Allow the teachings of sacred Himalayan philosophy to improve your mind, body, and soul. These Tibetan rituals...

Reflecting sixteen years of intensive fieldwork, this book is a rich chronicle of the daily lives, belief systems, and healing rituals of four highly revered Tibetan shamans forced into exile by the Chinese invasion during the 1950s. Larry Peters lived...

This concise yet profound guide to Buddhist pilgrimage will be an essential companion of any Mahayana or Tibetan Buddhist pilgrim. Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse's fresh and easy-to-read writing style appeals to anyone generally interested in Buddhist topics;...

Stop Biting the Tail You're Chasing: Using Buddhist Mind Training to Free Yourself from Painful Emotional Patterns

This short and easy-to-read guide teaches us to follow the Buddha's path by embracing both joy and sadness in our lives. Through being open to whatever experiences and hardships we may face, we can develop a genuine attitude to help all beings who suffer...

A collection of short inspirational readings by "one of the world's wisest women"--O, the Oprah Magazine. Here is a treasury of 108 short selections from the best-selling books of Pema Chodron, the beloved Buddhist nun. Designed for on-the-go...

A pocket-sized treasury of short teachings on living life with courage and compassion--from one of the most influential Buddhist teachers of our time. Here is a treasury of 108 short teachings by Chögyam Trungpa, one of the most influential Buddhist...

Now in paperback. His Holiness the Dalai Lama provides intimate details on an advanced meditation practice called Dzogchen using a visionary poem by the 19th-century saint Patrul Rinpoche, author of the Buddhist classic Words of My Perfect Teacher. The...

At the beginning of a North American teaching career that would span seventeen years, the meditation master Chšgyam Trungpa conducted five pivotal seminars covering various dharmic topics. The transcripts from these seminars are collected here so that...

What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind

A popular American Buddhist teacher explores the creative relationship between faith and doubt, knowing and not-knowing, and shows how an awakened life results from living from the place in between. Faith ("the F word," as the author calls it) is a...

Practical instruction in a Tibetan Buddhist method for developing radical compassion--from a contemporary master with a gift for making the ancient teachings speak to modern hearts. Practical instruction in a Tibetan Buddhist method for developing...

Zen Chants: Thirty-Five Essential Texts with Commentary

Using mindfulness to work with and resolve the inevitable interpersonal conflicts that arise in all areas of life. Everything Is Workable gives readers the tools they need for dynamic, vital, and effective relationships, both personal and professional...

An anthology of the most inspiring and instructive texts on spiritual enlightenment from great Tibetan masters--handpicked by a best-selling author and Tibetan Buddhist monk Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard has selected and translated some of the most...

Insights and strategies for claiming victory over fear, from "one of the most remarkable and brilliant teachers of modern times" (Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart)     Many of us, without even realizing it, are dominated by fear. We might be...

The definitive companion guide to Patrul Rinpoche’s Words of My Perfect Teacher, the classic text on Tibetan Buddhist practices and teachings    This guide provides readers with essential background information for studying and practicing with Patrul...

While we are more and more familiar with popular ideas of enlightenment and spiritual awakening, life still comes at us full force, and hope can turn to frustration as the gulf between our spiritual belief and our everyday life seems to loom ever larger...

Connect more meaningfully to the cultural wisdom and spiritual teachings of Buddhism. Explore Buddhist traditions and older ways of connecting with spirituality by going straight to the heart of mystical traditions. Zen Buddhism explores the spiritual...

The "Core Teachings of the Dalai Lama" series begins with this small book of teachings by His Holiness, the perfect introduction to traditional Tibetan Buddhist thought and practice. There is no one more suited to introduce beginners--and remind seasoned...

This new translation of Padampa Sangye's One Hundred Verses, beautifully rendered into English, provides timely guidance for people trying to practice the Buddhist path in the workaday world. This commentary on Padampa Sangye's classic verses of advice...

We can realize the highest truth in each moment when we learn to see through the illusion of the self. Anam Thubten, in remarkably easy-to-understand language, provides teachings for doing exactly that, based on the wisdom of the Buddhist traditions. He...

Tara, the feminine embodiment of enlightened activity, is a Buddhist deity whose Tibetan name means "liberator," signaling her ability to liberate beings from the delusion and ignorance that keep them trapped in ever-recurring patterns of negativity. ...

"It can be hard for those of us living in the twenty-first century to see how fourteenth-century Buddhist teachings still apply." It can be hard for those of us living in the twenty-first century to see how fourteenth-century Buddhist teachings still...

In this society, with its hurly-burly pace demanding of our time, it is ever so easy to let life slip by. Looking back after ten, twenty, thirty, years we wonder what we have really accomplished. The process of simply existing is not necessarily...

Bardo Teachings gives readers a precise and vivid description of the way of death and rebirth. It contains a wealth of heretofore untranslated material on the Tibetan presentation of the process of dying, the nature of the intermediate state after death,...

The Four Immeasurables the cultivation of loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity is a rich suite of practices that open the heart, counter the distortions in our relationships to ourselves, and deepen our relationships to others...

An indispensable guidebook through the journey of life and death, Mind Beyond Death weaves a synthesis of wisdom remarkable in its scope. With warm informality and profound understanding of the Western mind, the Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche makes the...

Lucid and economical, the Concise Introduction delivers a brisk, fast-moving survey. For many years, Powers' nearly six hundred-page Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism has served as the field's most authoritative and comprehensive introductory text on...

This is the most comprehensive and authoritative introduction to Tibetan Buddhism available to date, covering a wide range of topics, including history, doctrines, meditation, practices, schools, religious festivals, and major figures. The revised...

A Buddhist manual for replacing an anxious, narrow, uncomfortable identity with one that is expansive, peaceful, and capable.  In the shamanic worldview of Tibet, the five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space are accessed through the raw...

Women of Wisdom

"After his enlightenment, the Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths-the foundation and essence of all forms of Buddhism. The first truth diagnoses the nature of our existential illnesses and neuroses. The second explores their causes and conditions for...

What is Zen? It's an ancient spiritual system rooted in Buddhism that began in China and spread throughout Asia, finally reaching the West. It encompasses meditation, mindfulness, and calming the mind exactly what so many of us need and crave in this...

In conversation with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In April of 2006, the prominent Japanese cultural anthropologist Noriyuki Ueda sat down with the Dalai Lama for a two day conversation. This book is based on that long and lively conversation in...

Robert Thurman explores reality through the teachings of Buddha, drawing on Buddha's own experience, and leads the reader to discover their own path of learning. 'Robert Thurman is a living treasure, one of today's most provocative spiritual thinkers.'...

"This fascinating book unfolds in detail the complex Tibetan Buddhist system of subtle physiology, providing a complete exposition of the channels, drops, and winds which serve as foundations for consciousness. Highest Yoga Tantra simulates processes of...

What is Buddhism? What are its true teachings? What can it bring to our lives? Here Steve Hagen, a Zen priest, cuts through the many misconceptions surrounding Buddhism, and shows us its true purpose. Drawing on down-to-earth examples from everyday life,...

In this rare personal investigation, His Holiness the Dalai Lama discusses his vision of science and faith working hand in hand to alleviate human suffering. Drawing on a lifetime of scientific study and religious practice, he explores the great debates...

One of the greatest works created by any culture and overwhelmingly the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has had a number of distinguished translations, but strangely all of these have been partial...

Tibetan yoga is the hidden treasure at the heart of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist tradition: a spiritual and physical practice in pursuit of an expanded experience of the human body and its energetic and cognitive potential. Ian A. Baker progressively...

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön, in the Thorsons Classics Edition, offers timeless wisdom and compassionate advice for navigating life's most challenging moments. Drawing from her extensive experience as a...

One of the most inspiring spiritual teachers of our time offers simple, practical advice for living with less fear, less anxiety and a more open heart. We always have a choice, Pema Chodron teaches: we can either let the circumstances of our lives harden...