The Dalai Lama
His Holiness describes how to bring love and compassion into our daily lives. He explores the fundamentals of the Buddha's teaching, from basic advice on how to love more fully to the importance of compassion.
128pp, 5x4.25 ... Paperback
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Thubten Samphel & Tendar
Beautifully illustrated with color photographs and archival photos, this book traces the history of the Dalai Lamas back to Gedun Drub, the First Dalai Lama, in the 15th century. With their origins in the union of Mongol might with Tibetan wisdom (dalai is the Mongol word for ocean, lama the Tibetan for teacher, hence "ocean of wisdom"), the Dalai Lamas instituted an Asian power structure of religious leaders with military patronage, and often with temporal power over their homeland as well. Looking at Tibetan history in various contexts, the book provides capsule histories of each Dalai Lama, focusing on the achievements and leadership qualities of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama, The Great Thirteenth, and the Nobel Prize-winning Fourteenth, who, though forced into exile in India by Chinese communists, has managed to both create a global power base for Tibetan Buddhism and to fast-forward the medieval structure of Tibetan leadership into a modern, democratic system.
128pp, 11.5x9.5, illus. ... Hardback
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Daniel Goleman & the Dalai Lama
Can the worlds of science and philosophy work together to recognise our destructive emotions such as hatred, craving, and delusion? Out of a week-long discussion between the Dalai Lama and small group of eminent psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers, Goleman weaves together a compelling narrative account, offering fresh insights into how we can recognise and transform the destructive emotions that pose grave dangers to our individual and collective fate.
320pp, 8x5 ... Paperback
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The Dhammapada is regarded as the foremost testament of early Buddhism. It is a spiritual guidebook for resolving the many problems of everyday life as it points to a true way of freedom from suffering. These teachings of the Buddha join together to make a simple method of thought and action leading to personal liberation. There is no doubt the Dhammapada breathes the very spirit of the Teacher, and has always been used as a handbook of Buddhist devotion and meditation.
128pp, 8.25x6 ... Paperback
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These teachings on Dzogchen, the heart essence of the ancient Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, were given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Western students in Europe and North America. Paying tribute to the uniqueness of Dzogchen, His Holiness sets it within the broader context of Tibetan Buddhism. He explains the essence of Dzogchen practice and addresses such questions as why Dzogchen is called "the pinnacle of all vehicles," and discusses its special features and the crucial principles of other Buddhist paths that a Dzogchen practitioner should know.
272pp, 9x6 ... Hardback
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Janice D Willis
Here for the first time in any Western language are the sacred biographies of six great tantric meditators from the Gelukpa school of Tibetan Buddhism. These life stories are actually tales of liberation. Part of a distinct tradition in Tibetan Buddhism, they are meant not only to inspire but also to instruct others on the path to enlightenment.
304pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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"The Dalai Lama bemoans the apparent erosion of ethical behaviour around the world. People have embraced materialism, foolishly thinking that possessions will make them happy; they have turned to violence (both physical and ideological) because they no longer feel connected to one another. He calls for an ethic based on human interconnection. When we truly experience one another's pain, we learn compassion, which is the basis of morality. The exiled Tibetan leader is careful to distinguish religion from spirituality; religion may or may not encompass the value of compassion, while spirituality always must. True happiness is based on an inner peace which is unperturbed by circumstance; such peace is only attained when our actions are motivated by a concern for others.'' We need discipline to look beyond ourselves and past the fleeting pleasures of immediate gratification, toward a more rewarding (and permanent) quiet joy. And although we try mightily to avoid suffering, pain can engender the empathy which unites us with others and makes morality possible." - Kirkus Reviews.
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Joseph Goldstein
Here is a modern classic of unusually clear, practical instruction for the practice of Buddhist meditation: sitting and walking meditation, how one relates with the breath, feelings, thought, sense perceptions, consciousness, and everyday activities. Basic Buddhist topics such as the nature of karma, the four noble truths, the factors of enlightenment, dependent origination, and devotion are discussed.
192pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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Sharon Salzberg
Faith is a word that is often misunderstood - we may think the innocent lucky few have it while the rest of us couldn't possibly, or that we have to give up independence to attain it. In this book, Sharon Salzberg strips away negative conceptions that dismiss faith as being divisive or requiring blind adherence to a belief system. She offers advice on understanding faith as a healing quality that is grounded in common sense, intelligence and, most importantly, our own experience. Weaving her own personal story into the text (her father became mentally ill and her mother died suddenly when she was a child), the author speaks of her search for meaning. She chronicles her encounter with the East and with Buddhism, but tells the story in an everyday style that should appeal to Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.
256pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Hardback
Chogyam Trungpa
A provocative, personal exploration of the ego by renowned meditation master Chogyam Trungpa. The Abhidharma is a collection of Buddhist scriptures that investigates the workings of the mind and the state of human consciousness. Trungpa presents the practice of meditation as the means to enhance psychological clarity.
128pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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Rinpoche Nawang Gehlek
Rinpoche Gehlek is the grand nephew of the thirteenth Dalai Lama and is one of the last incarnate Lamas alive who was fully educated in Tibet. For the last 20 years he has lived and taught Westerners techniques tested over the course of 2500 years - techniques which teach us how to take control over our lives and our fears, now and for the future. This is a book which addresses the fundamental questions of life - Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? How do we get there?
208pp, 9x6 ... Hardback
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Lewis Richmond
"Richmond had it all: loving wife, great address in the San Francisco Bay area and a successful multifaceted career as software designer, Buddhist teacher, musician and author. He'd even beaten cancer once. Then viral encephalitis a rare disease attacked his brain and sent him into a coma for 10 days. While recovering, he experienced an acute neuropsychiatric complication from a therapeutic drug that posed a second life-threatening challenge. This page-turning account of his slow and spotty recovery is a vivid, affecting and painfully honest Buddhist dharma (teaching) story. This overachieving California-style corporate executive and former Buddhist priest whose previous book was Work as a Spiritual Practice: A Practical Buddhist Approach to Inner Growth and Satisfaction on the Job here learns that the central Buddhist teaching of life as suffering and impermanence has literal as well as spiritual meaning. Providing additional depth to his archetypal story of near-death and recovery, the author portrays the deeply rooted fears and anxieties that became his companions on the healing journey... Richmond made a descent to the inner underworld, and returned a sadder, wiser man. His psychic excavations will enrich all who read this gripping account." - Publishers Weekly. Remainder mark.
288pp, 9x6 ... Hardback
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