Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun
10 best books like Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun (Ani Pachen): Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate, Ramakrishna and His Disciples, Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Autobiography, The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri La, Return to Tibet, The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk, The Way of the White Clouds, Born in Tibet, Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, Called To Question: A Spiritual Memoir
Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate
| Author | Annelie Rozeboom |
| ISBN | 9881774209 |
Why does the issue of Tibet rouse such passions on both sides? To find out, Annelie Rozeboom interviewed Tibetans inside and outside Tibet, as well as Chinese and Western observers and the Dalai Lama himself. As these people explain their experiences, the reader sees why they think the way they do, and...
Ramakrishna and His Disciples
| Author | Christopher Isherwood |
This book forms my first comprehensive introduction to Sri Ramakrishna.
It presents the story of an era where the strength of a man and his stature in society was not measured by his materialistic views and wealth but by the simplicity of his life, his devotion towards fellow beings and his spiritual...
| Author | Diki Tsering |
| ISBN | 0670889059 |
Told in the first-person and accompanied by photographs from family archives, this autobiography follows Diki Tsering, a poor girl born in 1901, the Year of the Ox, to a peasant family, who eventually marries at age sixteen and gives birth to the future H.H. Dalai Lama. The story is told chronologically,...
The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri La
| Author | Alec Le Sueur |
| ISBN | 1571431012 |
On a par with the best of Bill Bryson and Pico Iyer, Alec Le Sueur's bestselling insider account of life at the world-famous Holiday Inn, Lhasa, Tibet (altitude 14,000 feet) pits Communist owners against capitalist manager to create a chain hotel in Shangri-La. Against all odds, heroic Tibetan workers...
| Author | Heinrich Harrer |
| ISBN | 0874779251 |
Seven Years in Tibet told the incredible story of an idyllic life on the "roof of the world, " before it was destroyed by the invading Chinese army. Now Austrian adventurer Heinrich Harrer revisits the people and places he left behind, in the extraordinary Return to Tibet. Against a backdrop of ruined...
| 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...
The Way of the White Clouds
| Author | Lama 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...
| Author | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1570627142 |
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,...
| Author | Michaela Haas |
| ISBN | 1559394072 |
What drives a young London librarian to board a ship to India, meditate in a remote cave by herself for twelve years, and then build a flourishing nunnery in the Himalayas? How does a surfer girl from Malibu become the head of the main international organization for Buddhist women? Why does the daughter...
| Author | Joan D. Chittister |
| ISBN | 1580511430 |
Called to Question is Sr. Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Centered around a series of conversations with spiritual writers featured in her private journal, Sr. Joan looks at the common questions or dimensions of life as we know them in our daily lives-not answers as we've...
| Author | Patrick French |
| ISBN | 1400034175 |
At different times in its history Tibet has been renowned for pacifism and martial prowess, enlightenment and cruelty. The Dalai Lama may be the only religious leader who can inspire the devotion of agnostics. Patrick French has been fascinated by Tibet since he was a teenager. He has read its history,...
| Author | Irina Tweedie |
| ISBN | 0963457454 |
A friend lent me this book the past week. Sometimes with spiritual books I like to just open them up to a random page and see if the book speaks to me. That’s what I did with this book the past week.
There are so many beautiful paths in the world, and this book reminds me of the commonalities between...
| Author | Scott Cairns |
| ISBN | 0060843225 |
While walking on the beach with his Labrador, poet and literature professor Scott Cairns ran headlong into his midlife crisis. A fairly common experience among men nearing the age of fifty, midlife crises are usually manifested in the form of sports cars and younger women; not so for this Baptist turned...
On Christmas Eve I unexpectedly met two of Mother Teresa's nuns. They were standing at the back doors of my church. They are never at my church. I must admit I get sort of depressed at holiday time, being alone and without a family to celebrate with. I made the "mistake" of going to the 4pm Christmas Eve mass....
| Author | Randall Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0751530220 |
In a tiny, dilapidated trailer in northeastern Oregon, a young Mexican woman saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in an ordinary landscape painting hanging on her bedroom wall. After being met with skepticism from the local parish, the Catholic diocese officially placed the matter "under investigation."...
| Author | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon |
| ISBN | 1595479260 |
Madame Guyon was a French noblewoman who was born in an unprincipled time fated to its corruption. She grew up in a church as licentious as the world in which it was established: spiritually despondent and plagued by ignorance. Regardless of these tormenting conditions, she rose to the inimitability...
| Author | Sylvia Boorstein |
| ISBN | 0345448103 |
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...
| Author | Dzogchen Ponlop |
| ISBN | 1559392762 |
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,...
Nikolai Grozni was a music prodigy, a jazz pianist training at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, when suddenly he decided to transform his life. He moved to India to become a Buddhist monk: shaving his head, learning Tibetan, and donning long traditional robes. In the Himalayas, living...
| Author | Shirley du Boulay |
| ISBN | 0974240524 |
This intelligent, balanced portrait of an irreverent, intense, and fiery Renaissance woman and her times includes moving excerpts from her letters and sublime spiritual writings. Her unconventional, progressive views on prayer and worship, her outstanding administrative and literary talents,...
Redeemed: A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God, Marginal Sanity, and the Peace That Passes All Understanding
| Author | Heather King |
| ISBN | 0670018635 |
An NPR commentator’s story of an unlikely epiphany and the healing power of faith
After years of sleeping around, working as a waitress, and suffering booze- induced blackouts, Heather King settled into sobriety, marriage, and a financially lucrative but unfulfilling career in a Beverly...
Facing East: A Pilgrim's Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy
| Author | Frederica Mathewes-Green |
| ISBN | 0060850000 |
The Classic Story of a Family's Pilgrimage into the Orthodox Church: Veiled in the smoke of incense, the Eastern Orthodox Church has long been an enigma to the Western world. Yet, as Frederica Mathewes-Green discovered, it is a vital, living faith, rich in ritual beauty and steadfast in integrity....
Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master
| Author | Amy Schmidt |
| ISBN | 0974240559 |
This book is a series of stories written by people who knew Dipa Ma, a renowned meditation master within the Theravada tradition. Dipa Ma was acknowledged to have fully developed the 'supranatural powers'. She continued through cultural and institutionalized obstacles along her path as a female...
Across Time And Death: A Mother's Search For Her Past Life Children
| Author | Jenny Cockell |
| ISBN | 0671889869 |
Jenny Cockell retained memories of a former life. In these memories, she died young and left children behind. Across Time and Death documents her acceptance of the memories and her search to find her previous family.
In childhood, my dreams were swamped by memories of Mary's death. ... All...
Practicing Peace in Times of War
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1590304012 |
With war and violence flaring all over the world, many of us are left feeling vulnerable and utterly helpless. In this book Pema Chödrön draws on Buddhist teachings to explore the origins of aggression, hatred, and war, explaining that they lie nowhere but within our own hearts and minds. She goes...
