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The Ninth Karmapa's Ocean of Definitive Meaning

By: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

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The Ninth Karmapa's Ocean of Definitive Meaning

By: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

The most in-depth and famed text on Mahamudra ever written, The Ocean of Definitive Meaning by the Ninth Karmapa offers a detailed, uniquely comprehensive presentation. Thrangu Rinpoche has distilled the essence of the Ninth Karmapa’s massive text and gives guidance in implementing the instructions. The availability of the translation of this text has traditionally been restricted to advanced students only. However, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche has consented to the publication of these core teachings. He believes Mahamudra is especially appropriate for Westerners because it can be realized in the context of virtually any lifestyle, revealing the radiant display of mind.

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1559397330

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9781559397339

Essentials of Mahamudra

Looking Directly at the Mind

By: Rinpoche Thrangu

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Looking Directly at the Mind

By: Rinpoche Thrangu

Mahamudra practice can lead to a profound realization, but it is also a peaceful and gentle practice.

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Simon and Schuster

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0861713710

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Tilopa's Wisdom

His Life and Teachings on the Ganges Mahamudra

By: Khenchen Thrangu

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Tilopa's Wisdom

His Life and Teachings on the Ganges Mahamudra

By: Khenchen Thrangu

Accessible and practical teachings on both the life of Tilopa, who founded the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, and one of his most important texts on the practice of Mahamudra. Most traditions of Mahamudra meditation can be traced back to the mahasiddha Tilopa and his Ganges Mahamudra, a “song of realization” that he sang to his disciple Naropa on the banks of the Ganges River more than a thousand years ago. In this book, Khenchen Thrangu, a beloved Mahamudra teacher, tells the extraordinary story of Tilopa’s life and explains its profound lessons. He follows this story with a limpid and practical verse-by-verse commentary on the Ganges Mahamudra, explaining its precious instructions for realizing Mahamudra, the nature of one’s mind. Throughout, Thrangu Rinpoche speaks plainly and directly to Westerners eager to receive the essence of Mahamudra instructions from an accomplished teacher.

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1559394870

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9781559394871

Showing the Path of Liberation

By: Rinpoche Thrangu,Zhyisil Chokyi Ghatsal Trust

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Showing the Path of Liberation

By: Rinpoche Thrangu,Zhyisil Chokyi Ghatsal Trust

This teaching by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche on Penkarwa's "Short Prayer to Dorje Chang" is one of Rinpoche's first published teachings. It was given by Rinpoche at the request of His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa especially for the benefit of Western students so that they may understand the nature of the path. Here Rinpoche gives a verse by verse commentary which covers all aspects of the path and the practice according to the tradition of Mahamudra. He also gives a brief history of the lineage and the early lineage masters. "This supplication to Dorje Chang or Vajradhara is the one in common use in all the major schools of the Kagyu tradition. It is also used in personal practice, not only within the monasteries, but by all lay people who practice Mahamudra. The reason why this particular lineage supplication is so much emphasized, is that it was composed by the great teacher Penkar Jampal Zangpo, after his completion of eighteen years of solitary retreat practice meditating on Mahamudra on an island in the middle of a lake in northern Tibet. It is regarded as being a summary of his experience and realization, gained through years of intense practice, and therefore it is held to have unparalleled blessing." The prayer itself here is in Tibetan, phonetics and English. Also included are charts of the Kagyu schools and lineages, an outline of the Karma Kagyu lineage tree with the names of all the lineage masters.

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1931571007

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9781931571005

Advice from a Yogi

An Explanation of a Tibetan Classic on What Is Most Important

By: Khenchen Thrangu,Padampa Sangye

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Advice from a Yogi

An Explanation of a Tibetan Classic on What Is Most Important

By: Khenchen Thrangu,Padampa Sangye

This new translation of Padampa Sangye's One Hundred Verses, beautifully rendered into English, provides timely guidance for people trying to practice the Buddhist path in the workaday world. The urgency of spiritual practice has seldom been as simply and powerfully conveyed as it is in Padampa Sangye’s One Hundred Verses. This Tibetan Buddhist classic is an antidote to the tendency we all have to waste our precious human lives. Khenchen Thrangu’s lively commentary on the text brings to light its subtleties and amplifies its applicability to our daily struggles, showing how an understanding of its teaching on impermanence is the key to working with common difficulties such as loneliness, craving, betrayal, competitive colleagues, or squabbling families. It speaks to us today as profoundly as it did to the people of Dingri, Tibet, to whom it was first addressed a millennium ago.

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1559394471

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Songs of Naropa

Commentaries on Songs of Realization

By: Rinpoche Thrangu

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Songs of Naropa

Commentaries on Songs of Realization

By: Rinpoche Thrangu

This translation contains subtle and penetrating wisdom expressed through the age-old tradition of spiritual songs. Two songs by the great Indian master Naropa are explained in detail by Thrangu Rinpoche, a realized Tibetan Buddhist teacher of the present time. His approach is traditional, but his style is conversational and pragmatic. He includes refutations and limitations of other approaches, a comparison of Mahamudra vs. regular Shamatha, 5 wisdoms, as well as the 6 paramitas. Reading this book, one realizes that Mahamudra ultimately encourages turning the eye on the "I.

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Rangjung Yeshe Publications

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9627341282

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9789627341284

An Ocean of the Ultimate Meaning

Teachings on Mahamudra

By: Khenchen Thrangu

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An Ocean of the Ultimate Meaning

Teachings on Mahamudra

By: Khenchen Thrangu

In this new book, Khenchen Thrangu provides an exhaustive commentary on the longest and most comprehensive of the three classic treatises on Mahamudra composed by the sixteenth-century scholar Wangchuk Dorje, the Ninth Karmapa. Khenchen Thrangu's teachings encompass the entire path of Mahamudra, including the preliminaries, the main practice, removing obstacles, and attaining the result of buddhahood—with detailed instruction in tranquility and insight meditation. This is the only available volume that presents Khenchen Thrangu's detailed commentary on this entire text.

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1590300556

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9781590300558

Life of Tilopa and the Ganges Mahamudra

By: Rinpoche Thrangu,XIII. Karma-blo-gros-chos-dpal-bzaṅ-po

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Life of Tilopa and the Ganges Mahamudra

By: Rinpoche Thrangu,XIII. Karma-blo-gros-chos-dpal-bzaṅ-po

Thrangu Rinpoche's account of the life of Tillopāda, 988-1069, the master of Mar-pa, and the Ganges Mahamudra, Tillopāda's instructions for attaining enlightenment.

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1877294225

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Crystal Clear

Practical Advice for Mahamudra Meditators

By: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

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Crystal Clear

Practical Advice for Mahamudra Meditators

By: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

Crystal Clear, by the learned and realized Tibetan Master Thrangu Rinpoche, is a companion volume to the classic medi¬tation manual--Clarifying the Natural State. In his straightfor¬ward and lucid style Rinpoche gives us an indis¬pen¬sable guidebook for insight practice (vipashyana). For people who want more than just theory, this is a handbook that begins with watch¬ing the breath and leads practitioners through stages of realization, all the way to complete enlightenment. "In Mahamudra, as one takes the path of direct percep¬tion, a per¬son can obtain true and complete enlightenment within the same body and lifetime. Whatever the situation, Mahamudra provides appropriate methods and techniques. So, whether one is able to undertake a lot of hardship or not, whether one is very diligent or not, whichever type of person you might be there is always great benefit in practic¬ing Mahamudra. The practice can be done in the solitude of retreat or while involved in the daily complexities of mod¬ern life. Mahamudra training is always applicable in any situation, at any moment of life." --Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

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Rangjung Yeshe Publications

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9627341517

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9789627341512

Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma

By: Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche

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Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma

By: Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche

The five volume set, Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma, includes the text as taught by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra (KTD) from 1999 to 2003, with translations by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso and Chojor Radha. Volume two examines the complete path of Mahamudra from initial experience to full realization. There is emphasis on how to conduct a proper retreat, including the use of geomancy in determining the appropriate site, the longevity practices of White Tara and Tseringma, chA practice, and how to use compassion as protection from fear and danger. This volume introduces the tantras, and gives anuttara yoga tantra instructions for Vairochana purification practices both for oneself and for the deceased.

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KTD Publications

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0974109215

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The Ninth Karmapa's Ocean of Definitive Meaning

By: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

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By: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

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King of Samadhi

Commentaries on the Samadhi Raja Sutra and the Song of Lodro Thaye

By: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

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King of Samadhi

Commentaries on the Samadhi Raja Sutra and the Song of Lodro Thaye

By: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

The Samadhi Raja Sutra forms the perfect link between the Mahayana training of a bodhisattva and the profound tradition of Buddhist meditation practice known as Mahamudra. The profound lectures by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, in the style of pith instructions, contain the words of the Buddha as well as an explanation by Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche on Mahamudra. Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche is a realized teacher of Tibetan Buddhism's Kargyu Lineage, possessing the three qualities of learning, pure conduct and noble-mindedness. He is an expert in exposition, debate and composition.

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9627341193

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Crystal Clear

Practical Advice for Mahamudra Meditators

By: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

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Practical Advice for Mahamudra Meditators

By: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

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From a Mountain In Tibet

A Monk’s Journey

By: Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche

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From a Mountain In Tibet

A Monk’s Journey

By: Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche

Brilliant and riveting. This book shows us that freedom is a choice we can all make' Gelong Thubten, author of A Monk's Guide to Happiness 'A fascinating story of an incredible life, told with unflinching honesty' Dr John Sellars author of Lessons in Stoicism ___________________________________________________________________________________ Lama Yeshe didn't see a car until he was fifteen years old. In his quiet village, he and other children ran through fields with yaks and mastiffs. The rhythm of life was anchored by the pastoral cycles. The arrival of Chinese army cars in 1959 changed everything. In the wake of the deadly Tibetan Uprising, he escaped to India through the Himalayas as a refugee. One of only 13 survivors out of 300 travellers, he spent the next few years in America, experiencing the excesses of the Woodstock generation before reforming in Europe. Now in his seventies and a leading monk at the Samye Ling monastery in Scotland - the first Buddhist centre in the West - Lama Yeshe casts a hopeful look back at his momentous life. From his learnings on self-compassion and discipline to his trials and tribulations with loss and failure, his poignant story mirrors our own struggles. Written with erudition and humour, From a Mountain in Tibet shines a light on how the most desperate of situations can help us to uncover vital life lessons and attain lasting peace and contentment.

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Penguin UK

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0241988969

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9780241988961

Blazing Splendor

The Memoirs of the Dzogchen Yogi Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

By: Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

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Blazing Splendor

The Memoirs of the Dzogchen Yogi Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

By: Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

An insightful memoir illuminating the profound experiences and magical world of a Tibetan Buddhist master. “Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche was among Tibetan Buddhism’s greatest teachers of the twentieth century. His memoir, Blazing Splendor, invites us to join him as he looks back over a life that put him at the center of an unparalleled spiritual abundance. Through his unblinking eyes we meet remarkable contemplative adepts. And through the lens of his awakened awareness, we see the world from a fresh, eye-opening perspective. It is a sweeping account that shares with readers a world where miracles, mystery, and deep insight are the order of the day—a world as reflected through the open, lucid quality of Tulku Urgyen’s mind.” —from the foreword by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence Blazing Splendor is a rare and profound gift: an intimate view into the world of one of the most celebrated and influential meditation masters of the last century. In these memoirs, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920–96) recounts with incredible lucidity and humility his unique spiritual and familial heritage, his training in Tibetan Buddhism, and remarkable encounters with some of the most renowned masters of Tibet. This wide-reaching narrative stretches across generations to provide insight into the lived experience of contemplative adepts and into life before and after the Cultural Revolution, which left Tibet changed forever. Born the great-grandson of the seminal terma-revealer Chokgyur Lingpa and a holder of both Nyingma and Kagyu lineages, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche tells us of his unique family legacy, in which each generation has been saturated with spiritual accomplishments. He tells of how he, in time, became responsible for learning and then transmitting this lineage of Buddhist teachings, which continues today in the flourishing activities of his surviving sons Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche. Blazing Splendor is a window into the life of a Mahamudra and Dzogchen master that illuminates the transmission of sacred teachings in a modern world—a world we inhabit too, where the miraculous and the mundane exist side by side. This special, revised edition of the modern classic includes new images and color illustrations.

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Simon and Schuster

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1614298432

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Essentials of Mahamudra

Looking Directly at the Mind

By: Rinpoche Thrangu

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Looking Directly at the Mind

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Mahamudra practice can lead to a profound realization, but it is also a peaceful and gentle practice.

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Songs of Naropa

Commentaries on Songs of Realization

By: Rinpoche Thrangu

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Commentaries on Songs of Realization

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9627341282

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A Song for the King

Saraha on Mahamudra Meditation

By: Rinpoche Thrangu

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A Song for the King

Saraha on Mahamudra Meditation

By: Rinpoche Thrangu

Mahamudra is the basic meditation practice for many Tibetan Buddhists, particularly of the Kagyu tradition. It is particularly adaptable for modern people, since it involves no rituals and can be incorporated into all daily activities. Saraha's "Song for the King" is a short verse text from classical India that is a basis for the tradition and is widely known in Tibetan Buddhist circles. It is often the basis for teachings given in the West, but there is only one outdated translation of it in print, first published in 1969. Michele Martin has produced a stellar new translation, which is accompanied by a commentary from the well-known teacher Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, who is uniquely skilled and concerned with making this method of meditation available to Westerners. While pithy and accessible, the book easily stands up to academic scrutiny, and includes the original Tibetan as well - making it ideal for the popular, scholarly, and Tibetan audiences all at once.

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0861715039

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