Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Autobiography

7 best books like Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Autobiography (Diki Tsering): Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun, The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings By and About the Dalai Lama, Magic and Mystery in Tibet, The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk, We Are Not Eaten by Yaks, Secret of the Vajra World: The Tantric Buddhism of Tibet, A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation

Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun

Author	Ani Pachen
ISBN	1568363230

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,...

The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings By and About the Dalai Lama

Author	Dalai Lama XIV
ISBN	0937938912

Who is the Dalai Lama? Beginning with his Nobel Peace Prize lecture, this collection of addresses, interviews, and biographical essays affords readers an in-depth view of His Holiness's personal life, his wide-ranging interests, and his thoughts on issues of global concern. The portrait that emerges...

Magic and Mystery in Tibet

Author	Alexandra David-Néel
ISBN	0486226824

For centuries Tibet has been known as the last home of mystery, the hidden, sealed land, where ancient mysteries still survive that have perished in the rest of the Orient. Many men have written about Tibet and its secret lore, but few have actually penetrated it to learn its ancient wisdom. Among those...

The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk

Author	Palden Gyatso
ISBN	0802135749

Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at 18 — just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of “reform” that would eventually affect all of Tibet’s citizens and nearly...

We Are Not Eaten by Yaks

Author	C. Alexander London
ISBN	0142420565

Eleven-year-old twins Oliver and Celia Navel could care less about adventure and they really do not like excitement. They’d rather be watching television. Unfortunately for them, their thrill-seeking parents have dragged them from continent to continent their entire lives. But when their mother...

Secret of the Vajra World: The Tantric Buddhism of Tibet

Author

Reginald 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...

A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation

Author	Paramananda
ISBN	0760721793

OK, there's no way I can go into everything I learned from this book... Actually, it's all very simple, really, and he makes that point over and over. Simple, yet profound. Meditation has never made much sense to me before. Seriously, I never quite understood what was supposed to happen during it, and...