Kuan Yin is the most important, best-loved deity in the Chinese world. She is the living expression of compassion and the center of devotion in most Chinese homes and workplaces. Yet she is barely kno...
This importnat book has been selected by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso as the text for his 2005 worldwide teaching tour, which includes 25 cities across the U.S.
Seeking to answer the questions "Why do we suffer? "and "Is there a purpose to pain? "this examination offers 12 insights drawn from the Buddha's Four Noble Truths and argues that applying these insig...
Describes two journeys: a journey outward to specific pilgrimage places in Eastern Tibet and a journey inward, to the sacred world of tantra, accessible through contemplation and meditation.
William Ward's account of the Hindu communities among whom he served as a Baptist missionary in Serampore in West Bengal was first published in 1811 and reprinted in this third edition in 1817. It was...
Re-creates (not translation) the important Japanese classic, "Denkoroku: The Record of Transmitting the Light". This work is in a format that follows that of the root text: koan, commentary, and concl...
Early Japanese Buddhism patronized the literate classes and remained a prerogative of the elite until the end of the twelfth century. With the fiscal and political decline of its aristocratic patrons,...
Treasured by Buddhists of all traditions, The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment and to generating the qualities of lov...
This concise but revealing book gives a glimpse inside the relatively unexplored thought world of the Jonangpa School of Tibetan Buddhism. This seminal text from that tradition situates the doctrine o...
Padampa Sangye's influence on the Buddhism of Tibet and China is profound. This translation of his biography introduces us to a transcendent, irascible, and iconoclastic figure. Padampa Sangye encoura...
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