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The Second Dalai Lama: His Life and Teachings by Glenn H. Mullin
azw3 |eng | 2005-09-25 | Author:Glenn H. Mullin

While residing at Tashi Lhunpo, the Second Dalai Lama made frequent visits to other holy places and monasteries in the area, teaching and giving initiations in them. Included in the ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
The Story of Tibet: Conversations With the Dalai Lama by Thomas Laird
azw3 |eng | 2007-10-10 | Author:Thomas Laird

I came back to the Dalai Lama armed with my research. As I briefly narrated, with a sense of indignation and outrage, the game Russia and Britain had played, the ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed by Donald S. Lopez Jr
azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-11-02 | Author:Donald S. Lopez Jr.

And as science changes, does Buddhism, renowned for its doctrine of impermanence, remain ever the same? Historians have duly documented the various transformations of Buddhist thought that have occurred across ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
The Autobiography of Jamgon Kongtrul: A Gem of Many Colors by Richard Barron
azw3 |eng | 2003-03-25 | Author:Richard Barron

The causes of all these situations is said to be the four ways in which moral failings occur-that is, due to ignorance, lack of respect, heedlessness, and a plethora of ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
Echoes From an Empty Sky: The Origin of the Buddhist Doctrine of the Two Truths by John B. Buescher
azw3 |eng | 2005-03-17 | Author:John B. Buescher

A TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST SECTION OF NGAWANG BELDEN'S An Explanation of the Meaning of the Conventional and the Ultimate in the Four Tenet Systems, The Spring Cuckoo's Song of ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
Niguma: Lady of Illusion by Sarah Harding
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Sarah Harding

The Ḍākinī’s Personal Instructions: Five Short Texts on Yogic Techniques 8 INTRODUCTION THESE FIVE BRIEF personal or oral instructions (zhal gdams) that are attributed to Niguma in the Peking Tengyur ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism by Jacob P. Dalton
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:Jacob P. Dalton

In many ways, the Dalai Lama’s language here follows the well-worn tracks of the language of ritual violence and of past Tibetan prophets warning of threats from the borderlands. Pointing ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World by Robert Thurman
azw3 |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Robert Thurman

A particularly sad fact of human history is that conflicts have arisen in the name of religion. Even today, individuals are killed, their communities destroyed, and societies destabilized as a ...
( Category: Diplomacy January 22,2015 )
Tibet: A History by Sam van Schaik
azw3 |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:Sam van Schaik

WHOSE GAME? By the close of the nineteenth century, British India was very different from what it had been in the days of Warren Hastings and George Bogle. The gentleman ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
Tibetan Ritual by Jose Ignacio Cabezon
azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-12-07 | Author:Jose Ignacio Cabezon

Accordingly, when many Mongol troops led by one called Khathasu arrived that Pig year (1587), they rushed from Oyug33 up to Nyugda.34 At that time, I had no aquaintance with ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
The Making of Buddhist Modernism by McMahan David L
azw3 |eng | 2008-11-14 | Author:McMahan, David L. [McMahan, David L.]

If we look into this sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. If the sunshine is not there, the forest cannot grow.... And if ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
Rimey Lama Chopa: A Tibetan Rimey Tantric Feast by Khyentse Dilgo
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Khyentse, Dilgo [Khyentse, Dilgo]

[*In which every instruction of the Buddha can be integrated for the enlightenment of an individual practitioner; called “wondrous” because texts, precepts and oral instructions are all brought into harmony.] ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
The Life of Gampopa by Jampa Mackenzie Stewart
azw3 |eng | 2004-06-01 | Author:Jampa Mackenzie Stewart

The Kagyupa order is a loose conglomerate of monastic centers, each of which functions independently, while remaining loyal to the common history and heritage-rather like a necklace with many strings. ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
Establishing Appearances as Divine: Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity by Heidi I. Koppl
azw3 |eng | 2008-06-25 | Author:Heidi I. Koppl

Mipham is adamant in advocating the intrinsic purity of all phenomena and rebukes the idea of purity or divinities being merely skillful means (thabs), an approach already evident in Rongzom's ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State January 22,2015 )
The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life (The Terry Lectures Series) by Lopez Donald S
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Lopez, Donald S. [Lopez, Donald S.]

INTERLUDE A Primer on Buddhist Meditation An essential element in the modernization of meditation is the claim that a particular form of practice is not “religious.” It may be “Buddhist,” ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )

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