Treasures from Juniper Ridge
The Profound Instructions of Padmasambhava to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal
Written by Padmasambhava and Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Edited by Marcia Schmidt, Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang
Price: $18.00
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Treasures from Juniper Ridge is a collection of “hidden” or terma teachings given by Padmasambhava, the Tantric master who brought Vajrayana Buddhism to Tibet. According to Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Padmasambhava hid many teachings to be uncovered later by “revealers of hidden treasures.” The special quality of the terma teachings is that...
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The Great Gate
A Guidebook to the Guru's Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles
Written by Tsikey Rinpoche Chokling, Tulku Rinpoche Urgyen, Chokyi Rinpoche Nyima and Rinpoche Dudjom
Price: $13.95
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Vajrayana Buddhism differs from other branches of Buddhism in providing an accelerated path to enlightenment based on Dzogchen principles. The word dzogchen, translated variously as Great Perfection and Great Completeness, conveys the idea that our nature as intrinsic awareness has many qualities that make it “perfect”: indestructibility, incorruptible purity, non-discriminating openness...
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Skillful Grace
Tara Practice for Our Time
Written by Marcia Schmidt and Erik Kunsang
Price: $15.95
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Tara is one of the most inspiring of Buddhist deities, embodying the most compelling and vital qualities of the feminine: beauty, grace, and the ability to nurture, care for, and protect. This complex goddess, whose practice transcends sect and class, is also a true warrior, vanquishing fear and ignorance–in a sense...
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Wellsprings of the Great Perfection
The Lives and Insights of the Early Masters
Compiled by Erik Kunsang, Translated by Erik Kunsang
Price: $35.95
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For centuries, Dzogchen, often translated as the "Great Perfection," was a secretly transmitted teaching, unknown beyond the Tibetan culture. Wellsprings of the Great Perfection explains how the Dzogchen teachings came into the world, who received them, and through whom they passed. This impressive collection of translations, many of which have never...
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Quintessential Dzogchen
Confusion Dawns as Wisdom
Written by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Translated by Marcia Schmidt and Erik Kunsang
Price: $18.00
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This hands-on guidebook adapts the Dzogchen path for the modern student while adhering to traditional principles. The book is based on the direct, accessible style of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and offers a thorough grounding in how to study, contemplate, and meditate in this rich spiritual environment. Guided by an introductory teaching...
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Repeating the Words of the Buddha
Written by Tulku Rinpoche, Translated by Erik Kunsang
Price: $14.00
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Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche spent many years in retreat, assimilating the teachings within his experience. He spoke with humor and true understanding, expressing plainly and simply what he himself had undergone. Consequently, his teachings are uniquely accessible, with a powerfully beneficial impact on those who hear or read his words. This book...
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Blazing Splendor
The Memoirs of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Written by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Foreword by Sogyal Rinpoche, Introduction by Daniel Goleman
Price: $29.95
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With unsurpassed honesty and humility, the highly influential meditation master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche offers a glimpse into the remarkable reality of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as an in depth portrait of the lost culture of old Tibet. This grand narrative stretches across generations, providing an inspiring glimpse into a realm of...
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Dzogchen Essentials
The Path That Clarifies Confusion
Written by Padmasambhava, Edited by Marcia Schmidt, Translated by Erik Kunsang
Price: $18.00
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Dzogchen Essentials offers a collection of teachings which are principally about clarifying confusion, the mistaken ways we normally relate to our perceptions of environment, body, and senses. Rather than continue the habits of insisting on a solid reality, we are given skillful alternatives and practices and the method to integrate them...
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The Lotus-Born
The Life Story of Padmasambhava
Written by Yeshe Tsogyal, Translated by Erik Kunsang, Foreword by Dilgo Rinpoche
Price: $22.00
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In English for the first time is the complete story of how Buddhism was planted in Tibet. The Lotus-Born is a translation of a biography that was concealed as terma treasure—as protection from the changes of time—and revealed centuries later ba a tertön, a reincarnation of an accomplished student of Padmasambhava...
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As It Is, Volume 1
Essential Teachings from the Dzogchen Perspective
Written by Tulku Rinpoche, Translated by Erik Kunsang, Introduction by Chokyi Rinpoche
Price: $20.00
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The teachings presented in As It Is, Volume I are primarily selected from talks given by the Dzogchen master, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, in 1994 and 1995, during the last two years of his life. The unambiguous Buddhist perception of reality is transmitted in profound, simple language by one of the foremost...
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Dakini Teachings
A Collectin of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal
Written by Padmasambhava, Translated by Erik Kunsang
Price: $20.00
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Padmasambhava, the Indian mystic and tantric Buddhist master, is second only to Buddha Shakyamuni as the most famous personage in the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism. In the ninth century, he made the journey across the Himalayan Mountains to establish Buddhism for the people in that country. Now, more than 1,000 years...
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The Light of Wisdom, Volume 2
A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Togyal and Other Clos e Disciples
Written by Padmasambhava, Edited by Marcia Schmidt, Commentaries by Jamgon Kongtrul
Price: $20.00
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The Light of Wisdom Vol. II contains the root terma - hidden treasure text – of Padmasambhava, The gradual Path of the Wisdom Essence and its commentary The Light of Wisdom by Jamgon Kongtrul the Great. Annotations on the commentary Entering the Path of Wisdom spoken by Jamyang Drakpa and recorded...
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Advice from the Lotus-Born
A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Clo se Disciples
Written by Padmasambhava, Edited by Marcia Schmidt, Translated by Erik Kunsang
Price: $18.00
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Padmasambhava is the primary master of Vajrayana, the teachings for our time. Out of his great compassion and wisdom, he instructed his main disciple Yeshe Tsogyal to conceal terma treasures to be revealed at the destined time for future practitioners. The profundity of this advice is meant to be personally applied...
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The Bardo Guidebook
Written by Chokyi Rinpoche, Edited by Marcia Schmidt, Translated by Erik Kunsang
Price: $17.00
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Existence is an endless cycle of experience called the four bardos. These four periods include our present life, the process of dying, the after-death experience, and the quest for a new rebirth. Drawing from his intimate knowledge of the innermost Vajrayana teachings, the Tibetan master Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche presents in The...
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Empowerment and the Path of Liberation
Written by Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Edited by Marcia Schmidt, Translated by Erik Kunsang
Price: $14.00
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Empowerment and the Path of Liberation presents an in-depth clarification of the key points of Vajrayana by one of the most accomplished masters of 17th-century Tibet. The empowerment ritual is sometimes called the indispensable entrance door to Vajrayana Buddhism. It activates our natural right to an enlightened rule over our life...
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Enlightened Living
Teachings of Tibetan Buddhist Masters
Translated by Tulku Thondup
Price: $15.00
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This collection of translated writings addresses the issue of engaging in secular life with Buddhist intentions. It includes practical advice by great Tibetan teachers such as Paltrul Rinpoche and Jigme Lingpa. Combining folktales and poetry, their teachings pieces impart the essence of spirituality in a pithy, direct fashion.
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Gateway to Knowledge, Volume 1
A Condensation of the Tripitaka
Written by Jamgon Rinpoche, Edited by Kathy Morris, Translated by Erik Kunsang
Price: $16.00
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Gateway to Knowledge is a condensation of the Tripitaka and its accompanying commentaries by the Tibetan Buddhist master Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche. Consolidating the intent of Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings into a unified body of textbooks, it is the philosophical backbone of the living tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. This rich source book embodies...
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Gateway to Knowledge, Volume 2
A Condensation of the Tripitaka
Written by Jamgon Rinpoche, Edited by Kathy Morris, Translated by Erik Kunsang
Price: $18.00
North Atlantic Books
Gateway to Knowledge is a condensation of the Tripitaka and its accompanying commentaries by the Tibetan Buddhist master Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche. Consolidating the intent of Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings into a unified body of textbooks, it is the philosophical backbone of the living tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. This rich source book embodies...
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Lamp of Mahamudra
The Immaculate Lamp that Perfectly and Fully Illuminates the Meaning of Mahamudr a, the Essence of All Phenomena
Written by Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Edited by Marcia Schmidt, Translated by Erik Kunsang
Price: $14.00
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A timeless instruction on the heart of Buddhist practice. Lamp of Mahamudra is a meditation manual on one of the most advanced practices of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. This precise text distills the instructions of the practice lineage and describes the entire path of meditation leading to the ultimate fruition. The...
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Present Fresh Wakefulness
A Meditation Manual on Nonconceptual Wisdom
Written by Chokyi Rinpoche, Compiled by Marcia Schmidt, Translated by Erik Kunsang
Price: $20.00
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Present Fresh Wakefulness is more than a set of general instructions on how to practice, it is the quintessential advice of an experienced, living master on what he considers to be the absolute necessities today's yogis to arrive at liberation and complete enlightenment.
In this series of teachings and conversations, Chokyi Nyima...
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The Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen
Written by Chokyi Rinpoche, Edited by Marcia Schmidt, Translated by Erik Kunsang
Price: $18.00
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In simple and direct language, the Union of Mahamudra & Dzogchen contains Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche's teachings on a complete path to enlightenment, based on eight songs by the 17th century yogi and poet Karma Chagmey. As the first book by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, a living master of the Practice Lineage, the...
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Vajra Speech
A Commentary on The Quintessence of Spiritual Practice, The Direct Instructions of the Great Compassionate One
Written by Tulku Rinpoche, Compiled by Marcia Schmidt, Translated by Erik Kunsang
Price: $15.00
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This book contains selected pith instructions from a master of the Practice Lineage. Vajra Speech, by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, renowned for his extraordinary experience and realization, is a wide-ranging collection of pith instructions for the Dzogchen yogi. This Tibetan master’s advice reduces negative emotions and naturally enables loving kindness, compassion and...
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Gateway to Knowledge, Volume 3
A Condensation of the Tripitaka
Written by Jamgon Rinpoche, Edited by Kathy Morris, Translated by Erik Kunsang
Price: $18.00
North Atlantic Books
Gateway to Knowledge is a condensation of the Tripitaka and its accompanying commentaries by the Tibetan Buddhist master Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche. Consolidating the intent of Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings into a unified body of textbooks, it is the philosophical backbone of the living tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Volume III of this rich...
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Crystal Clear
Practical Advice for Mahamudra Meditators
Written by Khenchen Rinpoche, Edited by Michael Tweed, Translated by Erik Kunsang
Price: $18.00
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Crystal Clear, by the learned and realized Tibetan Master Thrangu Rinpoche, is a companion volume to the classic meditation manual Clarifying the Natural State. In his straightforward and lucid style Rinpoche gives us an indispensable guidebook for insight practice (vipashyana). For people who want more than just theory, this is a...
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King of Samadhi
Commentaries on the Samadhi Raja Sutra and the Song of Lodro Thaye
Written by Khenchen Rinpoche, Translated by Erik Kunsang, Foreword by Chokyi Rinpoche
Price: $17.00
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King of Samadhi contains two commentaries given by His Eminence Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche in January 1993, as part of his yearly Namo Buddha Seminar at his monastery in Boudhanath, Nepal. The first commentary is on the King of Samadhi Sutra, a famous sutra spoken by the Buddha. The second is on...
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