Sakya Pandita
A profound, down-to-earth, and practical guide to the art of living, the Sakya Legshe - or Treasury of Good Advice - has been fundamental to the development of Tibetan culture and character for a thousand years. Sakya Pandita uses proverbs and stories to address the basic question: "How are we to live peacably with ourselves and with others?" With great humour and grace, he offers inspiration and advice relevant to human life in every era and in all cultures, addressing questions of achievement and failure, anger and kindness, deceit and desire, intelligence and foolishness, and wealth and wisdom.
384pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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Thich Nhat Hanh
This is a translation and commentary on the Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone, the earliest teaching of the Buddha on how to live fully in the present moment.
54pp, 8x5.5 ... Paperback
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The Dalai Lama
FREEDOM IN EXILE - Here, in his own words, The Dalai Lama describes what it was like to grow up revered as a deity among his people, reveals his innermost feelings about his role, and discusses the mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism. He tells of secret deals struck with the CIA as Tibet continued to struggle for independence, talks freely of the many world leaders he has known, and talks of the West's malaise from his standpoint as a spirtual and temporal figure of world reknown. ANCIENT WISDOM, MODERN WORLD - With wit, gentle good sense and with penetrating insight, the Dalai Lama shows how the truths that have stood the test of generations of practise can provide us with the tools to live happy, fulfilled and meaningful lives.
592pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback
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Jae Woong Kim
In Polishing the Diamond, Enlightening the Mind, Master Jae Woong Kim explains the teachings of The Diamond Sutra, one of the most beloved and profound scriptures in East Asian Buddhism, believed to contain the heart of the Buddha's teachings. Through forthright instruction, allegorical tales, and personal stories about his own teacher, Kim reveals the technique of "surrendering"—an accessible practice to help keep the peacefulness of sitting meditation in any situation.
240pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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Vicki Mackenzie
Reincarnation tells the remarkable story of a small child destined to become one of the most important and unusual spiritual leaders of our time. Osel Hita Torres, the son of humble Spanish parents, became the focus of world attention when at the age of 14 months he was recognized by the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of Lama Yeshe, a prominent Tibetan lama who died in California in March 1984. This story tells of Lama Yeshe's life, death, and rebirth as the little Lama Osel, while explaining the controversial phenomenon of reincarnation in a clear, engaging, and practical way. Remainder mark.
178pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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Heinrich Harrer
Originally published in 1953, this adventure classic recounts Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer's 1943 escape from a British internment camp in India, his daring trek across the Himalayas, and his happy sojourn in Tibet. Warmly welcomed, he eventually became tutor and friend to the Dalai Lama. The author's vivid descriptions of Tibetan rites and customs capture its unique traditions before the Chinese invasion in 1950, which prompted Harrer's departure. A 1996 epilogue details the genocidal havoc wrought over the past half-century.
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The Sun My Heart was written as the sequel to Thich Nhat Hanh's enduringly popular The Miracle of Mindfulness. In his simple, compassionate style, Thich Nhat Hanh draws from Buddhist psychology, epistemology and contemporary physics, and uses many anecdotes to accompany the reader on this journey from mindfulness to insight.
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Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers daily guidance for becoming free of the strong emotions that make us suffer the most. Everyone wants peace, but as anyone who has tried to find it knows, the biggest obstacle is often our own powerful emotions. In Taming the Tiger Within, Thich Nhat Hanh offers short meditations and contemplations for applying his advice to daily life - for transforming anger, fear, jealousy, and other difficult emotions.
304pp, 7.5x5 ... Hardback
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Jean-Pierre & Rachel Cartier
In this luminous and graceful biography, French journalists Jean-Pierre and Rachel Cartier describe daily life in a typical retreat at Plum Village, a religious community in south western France founded by the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. They describe practices (The Five Precepts, for example), which will be familiar to Buddhist practitioners, as well as other programs (such as "Beginning Anew," designed especially for couples) that are hallmarks of Thich Nhat Hanh's teaching. Thich Nhat Hanh has always been distinguished as the leader of a Buddhism of social and political involvement. This biographical compendium will serve as a powerful introduction to his teachings.
150pp, 8x5 ... Paperback
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Michael Willis
With a wealth of specially commissioned artworks and magnificent full-color photographs, Tibet is a superb pictorial record of one of the world's most fascinating cultures. It reveals the broad repertoire of Tibetan symbols and motifs and presents the art of Tibet, from its most monumental temples to its most exquisitely detailed statues of Buddhas, deities, and saints.
144pp, 10x10½, illus. ... Hardback
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Jetsun Pema
Pema, the Dalai Lama's sister, agreed to write this autobiography to tell not only her story but the story of the sufferings of an entire generation of Tibetans. In the early chapters she recounts the warmth of her family life before the Chinese invasion, and the choosing of her brother as the fourteenth Dalai Lama. One of the most moving episodes in the book comes later, involving Pema's return to Tibet in 1980. It revealed for her the full extent of the tragedy - Tibetan women sterilized, a people enslaved and a minority in their own country, a culture destroyed. Jetsun Pema was born five years after her famous brother in the village of Taktser, "a village of about 30 houses on the caravan trail... crossed by a stream and surrounded by rich pastures". By the time Jetsun Pema was five years old, not long after her brother was recognized as the Dalai Lama, they moved to the capital, Lhasa. Jetsun Pema describes many of the important rituals of the time, few of which can be observed on the same scale today. Among them, the Dalai Lama's enthronement and the traditional festivals - now virtually all suppressed by the Chinese authorities, including the Dalai Lama's birthday, "one of the most important days in the life of the country". Of some historical interest are her descriptions the great Tibetan monasteries before they were destroyed by the Chinese, before and during the Cultural Revolution. A powerful and at times disturbing story on this far-away land that feels so close to the heart. Remainder mark.
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Christopher Hansard
Tibetan medicine is one of the world's most ancient and sophisticated systems of healing. In The Tibetan Art of Living, Christopher Hansard guides us into its uniquely empowering worldview. Drawn from the Tibetan Bøn tradition, the principles of Tibetan medicine allow us to achieve ultimate health and are applied to mind, body, and soul. The Tibetan approach relates our emotional state with our physical one, so that we learn how to improve our inner as well as our outer lives. We are our own best healers. Hansard shows us many simple ways we can include Tibetan Bøn wisdom and spirituality in our everyday lives, from dietary guidelines, massage, and rejuvenation techniques to mind-strengthening skills, soul medicine, and Tibetan herbal wisdom for common ailments. Remainder mark.
304pp, 9.5x6 ... Hardback
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Sogyal Rinpoche
'What is it I hope for from this book? To inspire a quiet revolution in the whole way we look at death and care for the dying, and the whole way we look at life and care for the living'. Sogyal Rinpoche brings together, for the first time, the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism with the most pressing contemporary concerns and the latest scientific research. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying clarifies, with unprecedented scope and sweep, the vast and majestic vision of life and death that lies behind The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Rinpoche presents, from the heart of the Tibetan tradition, simple yet powerful practices that anyone can do to transform their lives, to prepare for a peaceful death, to help the dying, and even to help those who are already dead. REMAINDER MARK.
352pp, 9.2x5 ... Paperback
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W. Y. Evans-Wentz
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, which was unknown to the Western world until its first publication in 1954, speaks to the quintessence of the Supreme Path, or Mahayana, and fully reveals the yogic method of attaining Enlightenment. Such attainment can happen, as shown here, by means of knowing the One Mind, the cosmic All-Consciousness, without recourse to the postures, breathings, and other techniques associated with the lower yogas. The original text for this volume belongs to the Bardo Thvdol series of treatises concerning various ways of achieving transcendence, a series that figures into the Tantric school of the Mahayana. Authorship of this particular volume is attributed to the legendary Padma-Sambhava, who journeyed from India to Tibet in the 8th century, as the story goes, at the invitation of a Tibetan king. Padma-Sambhava's text per se is preceded by an account of the great guru's own life and secret doctrines. It is followed by the testamentary teachings of the Guru Phadampa Sangay, which are meant to augment the thought of the other gurus discussed herein. Still more useful supplementary material will be found in the book's introductory remarks, by its editor Evans-Wentz and by the eminent psychoanalyst C. G. Jung. Remainder mark.
358pp, 8.5x5.5 ... ISBN 0195133153 ... Paperback
