Gyurme Dorje

Thupten Jinpa

Graham Coleman

'You will be happy in this life and joyful in the next' The Tibetan Book of the Dead is overwhelmingly the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West and one of the greatest works created by any culture. Offering one of the most detailed and compelling portrayals of the after-death state in world literature, it contains comprehensive guidance and practices related to transforming our daily lives, on preparing to use death as a means of liberation, on recognizing death when it comes and on how to help those who are dying or bereaved. Created in close co-operation with a remarkable range of contemporary Tibetan masters, this first complete and unabridged English translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead remains entirely faithful to the breathtaking beauty and clarity of the original text.

First Complete Translation

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

David R. Loy

John Stanley

Applies Buddhist insights into cutting-edge scientific understandings about global warming, demonstrating how to combine Buddhist meditative practices with social action, in a volume that shares the perspectives of such leaders as the Dalai Lama, Chatral Rinpoche, and Thich Nhat Hanh on topics ranging from peak oil and deforestation to renewable energy and fossil fuel dependence. Original.

A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency

John Eskenazi

Smin-glin Lo-chen Dharma-Sri

With the Moonbeams Treatise of Lo-Chen Dharmásii

Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings : Illuminated Manuscripts from the White Beryl of Sangs-Rgyas RGya-Mtsho

Bdud-ʼjoms ʼJigs-bral-ye-śes-rdo-rje

The most complete and exhaustive reference work on the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism available.

The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: The translations

Travelers to the Himalayan region will appreciate this complete overview which focuses on Tibet, the cultural heart of Inner Asia, as well as Nepal and Bhutan, where the cultures of the Tibetan world and the Indian subcontinent converge.

With Bhutan

Tibet Handbook

Tibet is the cultural heart of inner Asia and the highest region on earth. This updated handbook has details of the entire country, including the provinces of Kham and Amdo. It aims to give insight into Tibet and the mountain kingdom of Bhutan, with the access points for travellers from Kathmandu and China. Practical information is included on the five gateway cities including Kathmandu.

Lying at the center of an ancient network of Buddhist temples in the Great Temple of Lhasa, the Jokhang Temple is the heart of spiritual and economic life in Tibet. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is the atmospheric focal point of Lhasa, from which bustling narrow lanes of commerce radiate outward in all directions.

Tibet's Most Sacred Buddhist Temple

Jokhang

Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye

Koṅ-sprul Blo-gros-mthaʼ-yas

Jamgön Kongtrul's encyclopedic Treasury of Knowledge presents a complete account of the major lines of thought and practice that comprise Tibetan Buddhism. Among the ten books that make up this tour de force, Book Six is by far the longest—concisely summarizing the theoretical fields of knowledge to be studied prior to the cultivation of reflection and discriminative awareness. The first two parts of Book Six, contained in this volume, respectively concern Indo-Tibetan classical learning and Buddhist phenomenology. The former analyzes the traditional subjects of phonology and Sanskrit grammar, logic, fine art, and medicine, along with astrology, poetics, prosody, synonymics, and dramaturgy. The principal non-Buddhist philosophical systems of ancient India are then summarized and contrasted with the hierarchical meditative concentrations and formless absorptions through which the “summit of cyclic existence” can genuinely be attained. Part Two examines the phenomenological structures of Abhidharma—the shared inheritance of all Buddhist traditions—from three distinct perspectives, corresponding to the three successive turnings of the doctrinal wheel.

Gyurme Dorje

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