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10 best books like The Life of Milarepa (Tsangnyön Heruka): The Way of the Bodhisattva, The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, The Words of My Perfect Teacher, The Way of the White Clouds, Crazy Wisdom, Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism, Indestructible Truth: The Living Spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism, A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night: A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, Essential Tibetan Buddhism

The Way of the Bodhisattva
AuthorŚāntideva
ISBN1590300572
One of the great classics of Mahayana Buddhism, The Way of the Bodhisattva ( Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. Presented in the form of a personal meditation in verse, it outlines...
The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
AuthorMilarepa
ISBN1570624763
Tibetans accord The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa a classic status comparable to that of the Mahabharata and the Bible, and revere its author as probably the best single exemplar of the religious life. Milarepa was an eleventh-century Buddhist poet and saint, a cotton-clad yogi who avoided the...
The Words of My Perfect Teacher
AuthorPatrul Rinpoche
ISBN1570624127
My favorite quote so far...

There is not a single being in samsara, this immense ocean of suffering, who in the course of time without beginning has never been our father or mother. When they were our parents, these beings' only thought was to raise us with the greatest possible kindness, protecting...
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...
Crazy Wisdom
AuthorChögyam Trungpa
ISBN1570628947
Chögyam Trungpa describes "crazy wisdom" as an innocent state of mind that has the quality of early morning—fresh, sparkling, and completely awake. This fascinating book examines the life of Padmasambhava—the revered Indian teacher who brought Buddhism to Tibet—to illustrate the principle...
Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
AuthorMichaela Haas
ISBN1559394072
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...
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,...
Indestructible Truth: The Living Spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism
AuthorReginald A. Ray
ISBN1570629102
Indestructible Truth is one of the most thorough introductions to the Tibetan Buddhist world view ever published; at the same time it is also one of the most accessible. The author presents complex and sophisticated teachings and practices in nontechnical language, using engaging stories and personal...
A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night: A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life
AuthorDalai Lama XIV
ISBN0877739714
Compassion is the guiding principle of the bodhisattvas, those who vow to attain enlightenment in order to liberate all sentient beings from the suffering and confusion of imperfect existence. To this end, they must renounce all self-centered goals and consider only the well-being of others. The...
Essential Tibetan Buddhism
AuthorRobert A.F. Thurman
ISBN0785808728
An accessible introduction to this rich spiritual tradition through its own vibrant literature, much of it only recently available in the West. Here are teachings about the Buddha, subsequent Buddhas, and our Buddhist nature; prayer texts and meditation techniques; the stories of hermits and yogis;...
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
AuthorNāgārjuna
ISBN0195093364
The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating...
The Jewel Ornament of Liberation: The Wish-Fulfilling Gem of the Noble Teachings
AuthorGampopa
ISBN1559390921
In all his studies, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation is one of the texts that Khenpo [Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche, the translator of this edition] found to be most inspiring. Lord Gampopa lays out the teachings in a clear and systematic way that is understandable to beginners. At the same time, the work...
Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
AuthorJohn Powers
ISBN1559390263
Ommmm, I want to immerse myself in the robed peace of the Tibetan monks. Here's a paraphrased excerpt from the Introduction of this book: A lotus is born in the muck and mud at the bottom of a swamp, but when it emerges on the surface of the water and opens its petals, a beautiful flower appears, unstained...
Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines: Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path, According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
AuthorW.Y. Evans-Wentz
ISBN0195133145
Books, audiotapes, and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread, but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years, in fact. In the early part of the 20th century, it was the pioneering efforts of keen scholars...
The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0271006013
This book presents the major teachings of Mah y na Buddhism in a precise, dramatic, and even humorous form. For two millennia this S tra, called the jewel of the Mah y na S tras, has enjoyed immense popularity among Mah y na Buddhists in India, central and southeast Asia, Japan, and especially China, where...
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 Treasure of the Enlightened Ones: The Practice of View, Meditation, and Action: A Discourse Virtuous in the Beginning, Middle, and End
AuthorDilgo Khyentse
ISBN0877734933
In this book, two great Tibetan Buddhist masters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries challenge us to critically examine our materialistic preoccupations and think carefully about how we want to spend the rest of our lives. At the same time, they provide practical guidance in following the Buddhist...
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...
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