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Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West

10 best books like Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West (Michaela Haas): Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun, No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva, The Life of Milarepa, The Way of the White Clouds, Born in Tibet, A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness, Reflections On A Mountain Lake: Teachings On Practical Buddhism, Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism, Women Of Wisdom, Awake at Work: 35 Practical Buddhist Principles for Discovering Clarity and Balance in the Midst of Work's Chaos

Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun
AuthorAni Pachen
ISBN1568363230
Since the publication of Sorrow Mountain in 2000, I have received letters from people throughout the world who felt inspired by Ani Pachen's example. Her courage in the face of devastation, as well as the Buddhist teachings that helped her endure, brought comfort to people experiencing illness, depression,...
No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva
AuthorPema Chödrön
ISBN1590301358
Over the years, Pema Chödrön's books have offered readers an exciting new way of living: developing fearlessness, generosity, and compassion in all aspects of their lives. In this new book, she invites readers to venture further along the path of the "bodhisattva warrior," explaining in depth...
The Life of Milarepa
AuthorTsangnyön Heruka
ISBN0140193502
The Life of Milarepa is the most beloved story of the Tibetan people amd one of the greatest source books for the contemplative life in all world literature. This biography, a true folk tale from a culture now in crisis, can be read on several levels: a personal and moving introduction to Tibetan Buddhism,...
The Way of the White Clouds
AuthorLama Anagarika Govinda
"A devoted Buddhist and a spokesman for Tibetan culture, Lama Anagarika Govinda was one of the last foreigners to journey through Tibet before the Chinese invasion of 1950. Govinda's luminous and candid account is a spectacular and gloriously poetic story of exploration and discovery, and a sensitive...
Born in Tibet
AuthorChögyam Trungpa
ISBN1570627142
Chögyam Trungpa—meditation master, scholar, and artist—was identified at the age of only thirteen months as a major tulku, or reincarnation of an enlightened teacher. As the eleventh in the teaching lineage known as the Trungpa tulkus, he underwent a period of intensive training in mediation,...
A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness
AuthorSharon Salzberg
ISBN1570624283
The Buddhist teachings have the power to transform our lives for the better, says Sharon Salzberg, and all we need to bring about this transformation can be found in the ordinary events of our everyday experiences. Salzberg distills more than twenty-five years of teaching and practicing meditation...
Reflections On A Mountain Lake: Teachings On Practical Buddhism
AuthorTenzin Palmo
ISBN1559391758
This book is a spiritual classic, instantly and deeply meaningful to any reader who is looking for real guidance on the path towards meaning and purpose in life.

Although REFLECTIONS ON A MOUNTAIN LAKE isn't the global best seller that it deserves to be, Tenzin Palmo herself is fairly well-known...
Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
AuthorJudith Simmer-Brown
The primary emblem of the feminine in Tibetan Buddhism is the dakini, or "sky-dancer," a semi-wrathful spirit-woman who manifests in visions, dreams, and meditation experiences. Western scholars and interpreters of the dakini, influenced by Jungian psychology and feminist goddess theology,...
Women Of Wisdom
AuthorTsultrim Allione
ISBN1559391413
Women of Wisdom explores and celebrates the spiritual potential of all women, as exemplified by the lives of six Tibetan female mystics. These stories of great women who have achieved full illumination, overcoming cultural prejudices and a host of other problems which male practitioners do not encounter,...
Awake at Work: 35 Practical Buddhist Principles for Discovering Clarity and Balance in the Midst of Work's Chaos
AuthorMichael Carroll
ISBN1590302729
Work can often be frustrating. On the job we frequently face conflicts, difficult personalities, disappointing results—a variety of challenges and obstacles. In this unique book Michael Carroll, a Buddhist meditation teacher and a corporate executive, shares Buddhist wisdom on how to transform...
Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
AuthorJack Kornfield
ISBN1590309138
If you want to find inner peace and wisdom, you don't need to move to an ashram or monastery. Your life, just as it is, is the perfect place to be. Jack Kornfield, one of America's most respected Buddhist teachers, shares this and other key lessons gleaned from more than forty years of committed study and...
Secret of the Vajra World: The Tantric Buddhism of Tibet
AuthorReginald A. Ray
This book provides an entrée into the Tantric (or Vajrayana) Buddhism of Tibet, as conveyed by Tibetan masters teaching in the West, and as received by their Western students. The Tantric tradition is a unique collection of lesser-known texts, concepts, and meditation practices that are usually...
The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0938077112
No one but Thay could make the Abhidharma technicalities and mind-bending paradoxes of emptiness of the Heart Sutra read like simple breathing while looking at clouds. The highest wisdom, prajnaparamita, in Thay's hands shows you its immediacy and practicality for everyday living. After reading...
Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness
AuthorSylvia Boorstein
ISBN0345448103
According to the Buddha, the path of kindness is the path of happiness. Now Sylvia Boorstein, nationally bestselling author of It’s Easier Than You Think, has taken the 2500-year-old practice of developing the qualities of a compassionate heart—the core of the Buddha’s own practice—and...
Not For Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices
AuthorDzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
ISBN1611800307
Do you practise meditation because you want to feel good? Or to help you relax and be “happy”? Then frankly, according to Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, you are far better off having a full-body massage than trying to practise the Dharma.

Khyentse shows that genuine spiritual practice, not...
Mind Beyond Death
AuthorDzogchen Ponlop
ISBN1559392762
Mind Beyond Death is an indispensable guidebook through the journey of life and death. Using humorous analogies and his profound understanding of the Western mind, Dzogchen Ponlop makes the mysterious Tibetan teachings on the bardos--the intervals between waking and sleep, between life and death,...
The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out
AuthorOgyen Trinley Dorje
ISBN1611800013
If you are inspired to take up his challenge, the Karmapa offers a path for participating in a global community that is based on compassion. In these chapters, he shares his vision for bringing social action into daily life, on a scale we can realistically manage through the choices we make every day—what...
Cave in the Snow
AuthorVicki Mackenzie
ISBN1582340455
This is the incredible story of Tenzin Palmo, a remarkable woman who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas.
At the age of 20, Diane Perry, looking to fill a void in her life, entered a monastery in India--the only woman amongst hundreds of monks---and began her battle against...
The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen
AuthorNamkhai Norbu
ISBN1559391359
In The Crystal and the Way of Light, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu examines the spiritual path from the viewpoint of Dzogchen. He discusses the base path and fruit of Dzogchen practice, and describes his education and how he met his principal master who showed him the real meaning of direct introduction to Dzogchen....
The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women
AuthorFlorence Caplow
ISBN0861716590
The Hidden Lamp is a collection of one hundred koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of...
Don't Believe Everything You Think: Living with Wisdom and Compassion
AuthorThubten Chodron
ISBN1559393963
It can be hard for those of us living in the twenty-first century to see how fourteenth-century Buddhist teachings still apply. When you’re trying to figure out which cell phone plan to buy or brooding about something someone wrote about you on Facebook, lines like “While the enemy of your own anger...
The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path
AuthorEthan Nichtern
ISBN0374251932
Do you feel at home right now? Or do you sense a hovering anxiety or uncertainty, an underlying unease that makes you feel just a bit uncomfortable, a bit distracted and disconnected from those around you?

In The Road Home, Ethan Nichtern, a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition,...
Dandelion Hunter: Foraging the Urban Wilderness
AuthorRebecca Lerner
ISBN0762780622
In this engaging and eye-opening read, forager-journalist Becky Lerner sets out on a quest to find her inner hunter-gatherer in the city of Portland, Oregon. After a disheartening week trying to live off wild plants from the streets and parks near her home, she learns the ways of the first people who...
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