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HOSTAGE OF BEIJING: The Abduction of the Panchen Lama Ref: RED767

Gilles van Grasdorf

In May of 1995, six-year-old Guenden Tcheukyi Nyima was officially recognised by the Dalai Lama as the eleventh incarnation of the Panchen Lama, Tibet's second most important spiritual leader. Two months later the boy and his family were removed from their village by Chinese authorities. Shortly thereafter, Beijing produced its own Panchen Lama, another boy from the same village. According to Tibetan tradition, the Panchen Lama plays a key role in identifying the next incarnation of the Dalai Lama. Will Gendun Chokyi Nyima, the world's youngest political prisoner, be allowed to fulfill this pivotal role? Or, in a move calculated to give them control over the spiritual and temporal leadership of Tibet, will the Chinese use their puppet Panchen Lama to nominate the next Dalai Lama?

288pp, 9x6 ... Hardback

Published price £18.99 -- You save £12.00 ... 63%
Price: £6.99

HOW TO PRACTICE: The Way to a Meaningful Life Ref: RSP036

The Dalai Lama

As human beings, we possess one common desire: the need for happiness and a meaningful life. According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the ability to find true fulfillment lies within each of us. Now, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, Nobel Prize winner, and bestselling author helps listeners begin the path to enlightenment in a very special audiobook - an easy-access reference for daily practice as well as a stunning new illumination of the timeless wisdom of His Holiness. For the serious seeker this audio program offers elegant clarity on the paradoxes at the heart of life.

3 Cassettes

Published price £19.99
Price: £4.07 Including VAT at 20%

INNER REVOLUTION: Life, LIberty, and the Pursuit of Real Happiness Ref: RED604P

Robert Thurman

Robert Thurman, who was the first Western Tibetan Buddhist Monk, and according to Time magazine, one of the 25 most influential people in America, has enjoyed a 35-year friendship with the Dalai Lama, and is the father of Hollywood actress Uma Thurman! Backed by incomparable credentials and experience, Professor Thurman tells us how Buddhism can change your daily life. Written with insight, enthusiasm, and impeccable scholarship, this is both a practical primer on Buddhist traditions, and a wide-ranging look at the course of our civilization and how we can alter it for the better. As the world modernized, Thurman argues, Tibet modernized too. But while the West's modernity was "outer," Tibet's modernity was "inner." It explored inner rather than outer space, championed the spiritual over the material, sacralized rather than secularized the world, and put its trust in individuals over bureaucracies. Nonviolent and tolerant, it achieved its apogee in the monasteries of the "psychonauts" of Tibet. Militaristic modernity, Thurman concludes, has brought us to the brink of nuclear annihilation. Our challenge is to marry inner and outer modernity -- to create a global society (a "United Nations of Earth") that is both spiritually and technologically advanced. REMAINDER MARK.

336pp, 8.25x5.5, ... ISBN 1573227196 ... Paperback

Published price £11.99 -- You save £7.00 ... 58%
Price: £4.99

THE KEY: And the Name of the Key is Willingness Ref: RED298

Cheri Huber

Simple, profound and very intelligent, this book asks how we can move from trying to get what we want by altering the "externals" of our lives - friends, lovers, money, possessions, opinions, ideas, death, etc - to creating change from the inside out. The answer, says Huber, is simple. There is nothing more important than just ‘being’, right here, right now, present - aware, attentive, accepting. This book explains how to do just that, in straight-forward and compassionate language. The book is hand-written so that it can be read slowly with the heart, instead of quickly with the head.

142pp, 8½x5½, illus. ... Paperback

Published price £6.99 -- You save £3.00 ... 43%
Price: £3.99

LIVE IN A BETTER WAY: Reflections on Truth, Love & Happiness Ref: RFD419

The Dalai Lama

As accessible as it is inspirational, this selection gathers together a decade's worth of public lectures given in India to audiences from all walks of life. Following each talk are the original question-and-answer sessions, in which His Holiness opens himself up to his listeners and - now - to readers everywhere. His characteristically candid guidance on living fully and responsibly as we cross into a new millennium focuses on specific themes that range from religious tolerance to compassion and nonviolence. With a practical and highly readable introduction to Buddhism and the Dalai Lama's own spiritual heritage, written by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, this is the perfect book for seekers at any stage along the path of life.

202pp, 8x5 ... Hardback

Published price £15.99 -- You save £9.00 ... 56%
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LOVINGKINDNESS: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness Ref: RWB0491

Sharon Salzberg

Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and find a greater sense of connection with others. Our fear of intimacy - both with others and with ourselves - creates feelings of pain and longing. But these feelings can also awaken in us the desire for freedom and the willingness to take up the spiritual path. In this inspiring book, Sharon Salzberg, one of America's leading spiritual teachers, shows us how the Buddhist path of lovingkindness (metta in Pali), can help us discover the radiant, joyful heart within each of us. This practice of lovingkindness is revolutionary because it has the power to radically change our lives, helping us create true happiness in ourselves and genuine compassion for others. The Buddha described the nature of such a spiritual path as "the liberation of the heart, which is love." The author draws on simple Buddhist teachings, wisdom stories from various traditions, guided meditation practices, and her own experience from twenty-five years of practice and teaching to illustrate how each one of us can cultivate love, compassion, joy, and equanimity - the four "heavenly abodes" of traditional Buddhism. REMAINDER MARK.

256pp, 7x4.5 ... ISBN 1590301870 ... Hardback

Published price £11.99 -- You save £6.00 ... 50%
Price: £5.99

MANY WAYS TO NIRVANA Ref: REA100

The Dalai Lama

Invaluable wisdom from one of the most revered and trusted leaders and writers in the world. His Holiness the Dalai Lama continues his interpretation of the ancient wisdom of the Buddha for the modern world. He speaks to us about the paths to self-realisation, and the need to overcome negative emotions in order to develop one's inner consciousness. Wise, compassionate and pragmatic, he offers advice on many everyday issues such as how best to free yourself from emotional afflictions and petty cravings, and how to transform anxiety and depression into contentment.

192pp, 9x6 ... Paperback

Published price £10.99 -- You save £6.00 ... 55%
Price: £4.99

MIND OF CLEAR LIGHT: Advice on Living Well & Dying Consciously Ref: RWF0275RM

The Dalai Lama

"Everyone dies, but no one is dead," goes the Tibetan saying. It is with these words that Advice on Dying takes flight. Using a seventeenth-century poem written by a prominent scholar-practitioner, His Holiness the Dalai Lama draws from a wide range of traditions and beliefs to explore the stages we all go through when we die, which are the very same stages we experience in life when we go to sleep, faint, or reach orgasm (Shakespeare's "little death").

The stages are described so vividly that we can imagine the process of traveling deeper into the mind, on the ultimate journey of transformation. In this way, His Holiness shows us how to prepare for that time and, in doing so, how to enrich our time on earth, die without fear or upset, and influence the stage between this life and the next so that we may gain the best possible incarnation. As always, the ultimate goal is to advance along the path to enlightenment. Advice on Dying is an essential tool for attaining that eternal bliss. REMAINDER MARK.

240pp, 7x4.75 ... ISBN 0743244699 ... Paperback

Published price £8.99 -- You save £5.30 ... 59%
Price: £3.69

MOMENT BY MOMENT: The Art & Practice of Mindfulness Ref: REA345

Jerry Braza

Practising mindfulness means performing all activities consciously. Jerry Braza offers simple exercises for applying mindfulness to our daily lives. He includes specific guidance and exercises for managing stress, quietening the mind, transforming feelings, enhancing productivity and completing unfinished emotional business..

136pp, 7x5 ... Paperback

Published price £6.95 -- You save £3.56 ... 51%
Price: £3.39

NAMMA: A Tibetan Love Story Ref: RFD819

Kate Karko

A beautiful book. Receives our highest recommendation. Kate Karko’s conventional, comfortable upbringing did not prepare her for meeting her Tibetan husband, Tsedup, in Northern India where he was living in exile. They came to live in England and after a total of nine agonising years away from his family he was eventually given permission to travel home as a British Citizen. Kate left her job as a designer on a magazine for life in a tent on the Roof of the World. She was welcomed as one of the tribe, given the name “Namma”, and lived with them on the vast and remote grasslands of Amdo at the far east of the Tibetan Plateau. From milking yaks to collecting dung, cracking open the ice on the stream to wash each morning and battling with her lack of communication skills, it was a constant education in another way to be. She observed the nomads’ ancient shamanic rituals and buddhist religious practices and through their worship of nature, she discovered a love for her new environment. The enormous cultural differences she encountered often led to a struggle with her identity and a questioning of her western values, but she found comfort in the knowledge that despite the polarity of the two cultures, life with her nomad family was a strangely familiar experience. It was love that had brought her and her husband together and it was love that brought her close to her new family and made her a part of them. This book is about an exhange of cultures. A sharing. It is about discovering another people and discovering another self. There has never been such an intimate portrayal of the life of the Tibetan nomads. Beautifully written and compellingly told, Namma is a travel book and a love story for our times.

352pp, 9x6 ... Hardback

Published price £17.99 -- You save £11.00 ... 61%
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NATURAL RADIANCE: Awakening to Your Great Perfection (Hb + CD) Ref: REA432

Lama Surya Das

"One moment of total awareness is one moment of perfect enlightenment.” This is the ultimate insight of Dzogchen, or “the Great Perfection,” the pinnacle teaching of Tibetan Buddhism. With his previous bestselling books including Awakening the Buddha Within, Lama Surya Das has taught millions about the innate wakefulness and liberation that can be our natural was of being. Now, with Natural Radiance, he offers his first complete daily practice program for the personal experience of the “swift and direct path” of Dzogchen. Dzogchen affirms that we are all Buddhas by nature - infinitely open, luminous, compassionate, wise, and free. This profound realization, say the teachings, cannot be understood intellectually or studied mentally, but it can be passed from teacher to student through the spoken word. With Natural Radiance, you can now learn these time-honoured practices. Includes CD with seven guided Dzogchen techniques.

110pp, 7.75x6.5 ... Hardback + CD

Published price £16.99 -- You save £10.00 ... 59%
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NOTHING HAPPENS NEXT Ref: RWB0271

Cheri Huber

Meditation is a gift we give ourselves. When we sit down and focus on the stillness, out thoughts and feelings become clearer to us. We begin to see that, underneath our social conditioning, we are good and kind and gentle. American Zen teacher Cheri Huber has been asked just about every question imaginable regarding meditation practice. Here are her clear, insightful, often humorous responses to many of those questions.

144pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback

Published price £6.99 -- You save £3.50 ... 50%
Price: £3.49

OCEAN OF DHARMA: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa Ref: RWB0487

Chogyam Trungpa

Here is an inspiring collection of short teachings from the writings of the renowned Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa. Pithy and immediate, these teachings can be contemplated and practiced every day - or any day - of the year. Drawn from a wide variety of sources - including never-before-published writings - Ocean of Dharma addresses a range of topics, including fear and fearlessness, accepting our imperfections, developing confidence, helping others, appreciating our basic goodness, and everyday life as a spiritual path. REMAINDER MARK.

384pp, 7x5 ... ISBN 1590305361 ... Paperback

Published price £11.99 -- You save £6.00 ... 50%
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ON THE WAY TO SATORI: A Woman's Experiences of Enlightenment Ref: RWB0344

Gerta Ital

Gerta Ital was the first Western woman to be admitted as a student to a Japanese Zen monastery in the early fifties. She was a sophisticated European woman cushioned by a comfortable upbringing when, by choice, she first experienced the sparse simplicity of life in a Zen Buddhist monastery. In this account, she recalls her childhood and formative influences, particularly reading Jung's memoirs. Then in dramatic contrast to those early years, we follow her experiences in Shofuku-Ji, where she describes her innermost journeying and the glorious surrender which eventually culminated in Satori.

288pp, 9x6 ... Paperback

Published price £9.99 -- You save £5.50 ... 55%
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AN OPEN HEART: Practising Compassion in Everyday Life Ref: RFD976

The Dalai Lama

In the Dalai Lama's own words: "it is my hope that the reader of this small book will take away a basic understanding of Buddhism and some of the key methods by which Buddhist practitioners have cultivated compassion and wisdom in their lives. The methods discussed have been taken from three sacred texts of Buddhism. I would like to stress at the outset, however, that one doesn't have to be a Buddhist to make use of these meditation techniques. Meditation is merely the process whereby we gain control over the mind and guide it in a more virtuous direction. Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we dimish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones. Yet the techniques themselves do not lead to enlightenment or a compassionate and open heart. That is up to you, and the effort and motivation you bring to your spiritual practice."

208pp ... Paperback

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Price: £3.99

AN OPEN HEART: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life Ref: RFD384

Dalai Lama

Weaving together the contents of three sacred texts, His Holiness shows that the path to compassion is a series of meditations. An Open Heart lays out this course of meditation, from the simplest to the most challenging, describing the mental training techniques that will enable anyone of any faith to change their minds and open their hearts. Remainder mark.

192pp, 9x6 ... Hardback

Published price £15.99 -- You save £9.00 ... 56%
Price: £6.99

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