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This book offers an exceptionally clear and accessible presentation of the generation stage pratices of deity yoga.

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Talks about the extraordinary and inspiring life stories of the great masters from India and Tibet who founded the Kagyu lineage of teachings. This book includes Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa, Atisha, Gampopa, Phagmodrupa and Jigten Sumgon, and focuses on the Drikung Kagyu school.

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Robert Thurman, the charismatic, pre-eminent Western expert on Tibetan Buddhism presents his most important teaching and meditation practices for everyday life, for the first time in trade paperback.

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Pema Lingpa's life story rounds outs a beautifully realized and translated masterpiece of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

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Tells the story of the Tibetan people. This title offers an introduction to Tibetan Buddhism. It presents a quest for purification and buddhahood in a single lifetime, tracing the path of a great sinner who became a great saint.

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Chogyam Trungpa was the eleventh tulku in the lineage of the Trungpa tulkus. This title presents the stories of the lives of the Trungpas as a point of departure for the discussion of the principles that guide a practitioner's journey on the path.

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Popular understanding of Zen Buddhism typically involves a stereotyped image of isolated individuals in meditation, contemplating nothingness. This book presents the 'other side of Zen', by examining the movement's growth during the Tokugawa period (1600-1867) in Japan and by shedding light on the Japanese religious landscape during the era.

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In this book, Dennis Merzel brings a friendly and inviting flavour to Zen Buddhist wisdom. Merzel (also known as Genpo Roshi) explains how meditation can gradually lead us to becoming more and more familiar with our own minds, allowing us to better understand ourselves and the nature of human life.

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Dzogchen, or the Great Perfection, is considered in Tibet to be the culmination of all teachings embraced by both Bonpos and the followers of the Nyingma school.

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Exploring key concepts and metaphors, Bernard Faure guides readers to an appreciation of some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese traditions of Chan Buddhism and Japanese Zen. Faure focuses on Chan's insistence on "immediacy"--its denial of all traditional meditations, including scripture, ritual, good works--and yet shows how these mediations have always been present in Chan.

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Layman P'ang (740-808) was a Chan/Zen Buddhist who serves as a model for Buddhist practice for all those who choose to lead the spiritual life outside the bounds of institutionalized monasticism. This title contains the sayings of and stories about Layman P'ang that provide an inspiration to spiritual practice for anyone.

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"The Sun of Wisdom" is a commentary on a famous text by an early Indian Buddhist known as Nagarjuna. He is credited with discovering the Buddha's Vajrayana, or Tantric, teachings, 400 years after his death.

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Translated from the Japanese Shumon mujintoron.

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An account of day-to-day Zen monastic practice. In discussing the activities of the postulants, the meditation monks, the teachers and administrators, and the support monks of the monastery of Songgwang-sa, it reveals a religious tradition that differs radically from the stereotype prevalent in the West.

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Attempts to penetrate the core of spirituality and consciousness by employing a psychological approach to the understanding of religious experience.

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Examines the state of those experiencing suffering, those engaged in the methods leading towards freedom from unhappiness and misery, and those fully enlightened ones who have attained the highest goal of omniscient awakening.

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The sixty-four arts of love-making are lucidly presented.

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Survey of biographies, poetry, novels, histories and other writings covering 1300 years.

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"Presents new methodologies and theoretical frameworks for understanding the contested category of magic in Tibetan contexts"--

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