 | The Dharma: That Illuminates All Beings Impartially Like the Light of the Sun and the Moon by Kalu Rinpoche
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $2.16 GENERAL BUDDHISM. A complete manual of the buddhist path, from taking refuge up to the highest levels of Mahamudra.
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 | Gently Whispered: Oral Teachings by the Very Venerable Kalu Rinpoche by Khenpo Kalu Karma-Ran-Byun-Kun-Khyab-Phrin-Las
Buy new: $23.04 / Used from: $9.94 GENERAL BUDDHISM. A book with excellent teachings on taking refuge, meditation, Mahamudra etc. by one of the greatest Kagyu masters of this century.
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 | Profound Buddhism: From Hinayana to Vajrayana by Kalu Rinpoche
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $2.89 GENERAL BUDDHISM. This book teaches how to deal with emotions from a Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana point of view. This volume also includes teachings on the nature of the mind, the relationship between mind and body, emptiness, compassion, the cycle of existence, and Karma.
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 | Secret Buddhism: Vajrayana Practices by Kalu Rinpoche
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $22.50 GENERAL BUDDHISM. Reveals the essentials of Vajrayana, mantras, empowerments, the six yogas of Naropa, Chod, Pure Land, and the six bardos. A history of the Kagyu and Shangpa lineages and some explanation of the principles of Tibetan medicine complete this survey.
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 | Excellent Buddhism: An Exemplary Life by Kalu Rinpoche
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $9.87 GENERAL BUDDHISM. This book contains biographical reminiscences on Kalu Rinpoche, teachings on daily life, inspiring stories on Buddhist practitioners of the past, and reflections on the relationship between Buddhism and the West.
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 | As It Is Vol. 1 (As It Is) by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $11.19 GENERAL BUDDHISM. Instruction on development stage practices selected from talks in the last two years of Tulku Urgyens life.
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 | As It Is, Vol. 2 by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Buy new: $20.65 / Used from: $12.60 GENERAL BUDDHISM. This second Volume contains talks in 1994-1995 which emphasize non-conceptual meditation practice.
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 | Lineage of Diamond Light Crystal Mirror 5 by Tarthang Tulku
Buy used from: $4.68 GENERAL BUDDHISM. This richly illustrated volume contains the history of the Buddhist Dharma in India and Tibet with a special emphasis on the masters and lineages of the Nyingma tradition, and two translations from Longchenpa.
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 | Holy Places of the Buddha Crystal Mirror 9 by Elizabeth Cook
Buy new: $26.00 / Used from: $7.69 GENERAL BUDDHISM. All about the eight great places of pilgrimage, the six Dharma regions of India, the Western and Eastern kingdoms etc.
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 | A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life by Santideva
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.70 MAHAYANA. Shantidevas famous Bodhicharyavatara is one of the most important texts on generating the Mahayana motivation, the altruistic enlightened mind
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 | The Heart Sutra Explained: Indian and Tibetan Commentaries (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies) by Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Buy used from: $50.95 MAHAYANA. Very useful Indian and Tibetan commentaries of the Heart Sutra. With these texts the reader is enabled to see the sutras universal meaning.
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| Mirror of Mindfulness by Tsele Nats Rangdrol
Buy used from: $39.99 DEATH AND REBIRTH. Detailed teachings on the cycle of the Four Bardos by one of the greatest scholars of the 19th century. One of the best bardo books available in English language.
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 | Death and the Art of Dying in Tibetan Buddhism by Bokar Rinpoche
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $11.99 DEATH AND REBIRTH.
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 | The Bardo Guidebook by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
Buy new: $13.26 / Used from: $6.85 DEATH AND REBIRTH. The four Bardo periods include life, death, the after-death experience and the quest for a new rebirth. Based on Tsele N. Rangdröls "Mirror of Mindfulness".
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 | Transition and Liberation: Explanations of Meditation in the Bardo by Tenga Rinpoche
Buy used from: $229.71 DEATH AND REBIRTH. In this book Tenga Rinpoche, one of the great teachers and meditation masters of our time introduces the six kinds of bardo, and gives instructions on how consciousness can be guided through each of these phases and be liberated.
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 | The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Shambala Pocket Classics) by Chogyam Trungpa
Buy new: $7.00 / Used from: $1.83 DEATH AND REBIRTH.
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 | Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava's Teachings on the Six Bardos by Padmasambhava
Buy new: $16.20 / Used from: $10.00 DEATH AND REBIRTH. Describes in detail the six life-processes or bardos, and how to transform them into vehicles for enlightenment. This most extraordinary teaching is here accompanied by meditation instructions and anecdotes in a lucid commentary by Nyingma master Gyaltrul Rinpoche.
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| The Life of the Mahasiddha Tilopa by Chos-Kyi Blo-Gros Marpa
Buy used from: $5.38 LIFE STORIES. This text is thought to be composed in the 11th century by the renowned Tibetan yogi Marpa Lotsawa, is a compelling account of the complete liberation of the guru of Naropa.
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 | The Life of Marpa the Translator: Seeing Accomplishes All by Chogyam Trungpa
Buy new: $20.71 / Used from: $8.95 LIFE STORIES. One of the most famous spiritual texts of Tibet: Marpas exciting life. Marpa established the Kagyu lineage in Tibet and was trained by Naropa.
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 | The Life of Milarepa: A New Translation from the Tibetan (Compass) by Anonymous
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.49 LIFE STORIES. A famous classic book of Milas amazing life story
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| Garland of Gold: Early Kagyu Masters in India and Tibet by Jampa Thaye
Buy used from: $23.00 LIFE STORIES. History of the Kagyu fathers, translated by David Stott (Ngagpa Jampa Thaye). The inspiring life stories give access to the continuous blessing of the lineage.
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 | Sky Dancer: The Secret Life & Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel by Keith Dowman
Buy new: $14.21 / Used from: $7.76 LIFE STORIES. Yeshe Tsogyal, consort of Guru Padmasambhava, is the most famous of the enlightened women of Tibet.
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 | Marvelous Companion: The Jatalamala of Aryashura (Tibetan Translation Series) by Aryasura
Buy new: $20.95 / Used from: $5.45 LIFE STORIES. Former Lives of the Buddha - this text is a translation of the Jatakamala, stories about the former lives of the Buddha as a Bodhisattva. They transmit new points of view about selfless acting and karmic connections. Nice and precious volume.
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 | Masters of Mahamudra: Songs and Histories of the Eighty-Four Buddhist Siddhas (Suny Series in Buddhist Studies) by Keith Dowman
Buy new: $26.56 / Used from: $22.00 LIFE STORIES. The tantric teachings of Vajrayana Buddhism have been passed on by 84 great Siddhas, the Mahasiddhas. This precious book contains all about their lives, their practice, and the historical background. Commentary: The difference between this title and "Masters of Enchantment" is that here are no pictures of the Mahasiddhas included.
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| Masters of Enchantment: The Lives and Legends of the Mahasiddhas
Buy used from: $15.00 LIFE STORIES. There is no better illustration of the nature of Tantric Buddhism than the lives of masters who founded it. Keith Dowman's highly readable translation of these legends retains the techniques of personal transcendence and is further enhanced by the perfectly realized illustrations of the tantric saints by Robert Beer.
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 | Divine Madman: The Sublime Life and Songs of Drukpa Kunley
Buy used from: $16.51 LIFE STORIES. This is the "secret biography" of one of Tibet's foremost saints. He is greatly loved by the Tibetans as a "Crazy Wise" teacher and enlightened master. His behaviour and humour were intended to awaken common people and yogis alike from the sleep of religious dogmatism and egoistic self-possession.
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 | Machig Labdron & the Foundations of Chod by Jerome Edou
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $5.95 LIFE STORIES. The first comprehensive presentation of the marvellous life of Machig Labdron and her Chod tradition (cutting through ego clinging). A future classic.
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| Dzalendara and Sakarchupa: Stories from long, long ago of the former lives of the Gyalwa Karmapa
Buy used from: $112.21 LIFE STORIES. From time to time H.H. the 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (1924 - 1981) was telling about his past lives. Some of his stories can be found in this nice book.
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 | The Lives and Liberation of Princess Mandarava: The Indian Consort of Padmasambhava by Sangye Khandro
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $8.23 LIFE STORIES. The lucid translation of a rare Tibetan treasure text makes available for the first time to Western readers the remarkable life story of Princess Mandarava. As the principal consort of Padmasambhava before he introduced tantric Buddhism to Tibet, Mandarava is the Indian Counterpart of the Tibetan consort Yeshe Tsogyal.
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 | Buddha's Lions: The Lives of the Eighty-Four Siddhas (Tibetan Translation Series) by James B. Robinson
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $13.47 LIFE STORIES. Farmers and wood collectors, ministers and kings - the famous 84 tantric masters from India and Tibet have many different lives but all reached the highest point of fulfilment, enlightenment. There are different Tibetan texts about the Mahasiddhas. This English translation is one of the shorter ones.
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 | Mother of Knowledge (Tibetan Translation Series)
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $12.39 LIFE STORIES. The life of the great yogini Yeshe Tsogyal. She has been disciple and consort of Padmasambhava, therefore the reader also learns a lot about him, Guru Rinpoche, who has brought Buddhism to Tibet. This is one of the most famous life stories.
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 | The Life of Shabkar: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin by Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol
Buy new: $25.51 / Used from: $21.36 LIFE STORIES. This biography of a Tibetan Yogi details the life of Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol, an acclaimed early 19th century yogi. He was trained in the Nyingma lineage, practiced Dzogchen, and spent much of his life in solitary retreat. In the minds of many Tibetans, Shabkar is, in fact, virtually a second Milarepa. An excellent translation of a Tibetan Buddhist classic.
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 | Bringing the Teachings Alive Crystal Mirror 4 by Tarthang Tlku
Buy new: $17.94 / Used from: $10.00 LIFE STORIES. Lives of Padmasambhava and his 25 disciples convey the power and scope of the Dharma transmission to Tibet.
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