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

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

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"This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to the famous and secret Tibetan sky-gazing meditation known as "Skullward Leap" "--

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Examines the female in the philosophy and symbolism of Tibetan Buddhism. This book approaches female identity through the context of archaic images of the female, and takes a psychoanalytical view on the philosophy surrounding the figure of female embodiment in Tibetan Buddhism, the "dakini".

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Looking into the Sakya lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, This book provides readers with an overview of the history, view, key lineage figures, and crucial teachings. It is suitable for Western students of the Sakya lineage.

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Through demonstrating the interrelationship of the outer, inner, and secret teachings and a textual analysis of the words of four renowned Dzogchen yogis, this book makes clear that the practice of Bodhichitta is a necessary aspect of every practice within Tibetan Buddhism. It presents the union through concrete methods for practice.

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According to Tibetan traditions, the Indaian Buddhist Prasangika-Madhyamika school is the one that represents the final, literally true thought of the Buddha.

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Offers a variety of practical tools for Zen training. In addition to helpful techniques for learning Zen practice, this book also presents what's at the heart of Zen - waking up to one's daily experience.