What's New - learn about recent arrivals in that are hot off the press!
What's Noteworthy - see which books are being used in our various classes and discussions!
What's Next - the books that are due to be released from the publisher in the near future!
What’s New? Check out these recent releases in Dharma publishing!
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Into the Heart of Life by Jetsumna Tenzin Palmo
The real test of our Buddhist practice happens not on the cushion or in the protected space of retreat but moment-to-moment in daily life, particularly when we find ourselves in uncomfortable situations. How do we respond? In this book, one of the most respected Western figures of contemporary Buddhism, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, offers insights gleaned from more than forty years of engagement with Buddhist practice. Her perspective is vast, with a well-grounded understanding of how the timeless Buddhist teachings apply to the demands and challenges of modern life. -
All 2012 Calendars are now 50% OFF!
- Tibetan Art (oversize from Wisdom) $16.50
- Tibet: Breaking the Silence (International Campaign for Tibet) $7.50
- Liberation (LPP with auspicious days, Buddhist Holy days & more) $5.50
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Enlightenment to Go: Shantideva and the Power of Compassion to Transform Your Life byDavid Michie
Michie provides a lively, accessible introduction to the 'best of' Shantideva. He shows how modern psychology confirms the insights of Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, and he unpacks its powerful antidotes to contemporary problems, including stress, anxiety and depression. He also offers a structured meditation program to help readers integrate transformational insights at deeper levels of consciousness where genuine change becomes possible. -
Minding Closely: The Four Applications of Mindfulness by B. Alan Wallace
By closely minding the body and breath, we relax, grounding ourselves in physical presence. Coming face to face with our feelings, we stabilize our awareness against habitual reactions. Examining mental phenomena nakedly, we sharpen our perceptions without becoming attached. Ultimately, we see all phenomena just as they are, and we approach the ground of enlightenment. -
Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
A stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve human life on individual, community, and global levels—including a guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values. Ten years ago, in his best-selling Ethics for a New Millennium, His Holiness the Dalai Lama first proposed an approach to ethics based on universal rather than religious principles. Now, at his most compassionate and outspoken, His Holiness elaborates and deepens his vision for the nonreligious way. This is a system of secular ethics that transcends religion as a way to recognize our common humanity and so contributes to a global human community based on understanding and mutual respect. -
How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness by Jan Chozen Bays
Geshe Gelek recently discussed part of Shantideva's teachings which describe the mind as being as powerful - and as wild - as an elephant. A growing body of research is showing that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve physical health, and improve one’s overall quality of life. Jan Chozen Bays, MD has developed a series of simple practices to help us cultivate mindfulness as we go about our ordinary, daily lives. Exercises include: taking three deep breaths before answering the phone, noticing and adjusting your posture throughout the day, eating mindfully, and leaving no trace of yourself after using the kitchen or bathroom. Each exercise is presented with tips on how to remind yourself and a short life lesson connected with it. -
Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are by Jack Kornfield
If you want to find inner peace and wisdom, you don't need to move to an ashram or monastery. Your life, just as it is, is the perfect place to be. Jack Kornfield shares this and other key lessons gleaned from more than forty years of committed study and practice, including:How to cultivate loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity; Conscious parenting; The way of forgiveness; and Committing ourselves to healing the suffering in the world. Bringing Home the Dharma includes simple meditation practices for awakening our buddha nature—our wise and understanding heart—amid the ups and downs of our ordinary daily lives. -
Essential Mind Training by Thupten Jinpa
Essential Mind Training is drawn from the earliest collection of Tibetan spiritual literature known as "mind training” or lojong in Tibetan. Tibetans revere the mind training tradition for its pragmatic and down-to-earth advice, especially the teachings on "transforming adversity into opportunity.” This volume contains eighteen individual works, including such renowned teachings as Atisa’s Bodhisattva’s Jewel Garland, Langri Thangpa’s Eight Verses on Mind Training, and Chekawa’s Seven-Point Mind Training, together with the earliest commentaries on these seminal texts. -
The Art of Disappearing: Buddha's Path to Lasting Joy by Ajahn Brahm
We all want life to go smoothly but things rarely go as expected. Whether mere bumps in the road or genuine crises, we live in a world of unwanted events that no willpower can prevent. In The Art of Disappearing, Ajahn Brahm helps us learn to abandon the headwind of false expectations and follow instead the Buddha’s path of understanding. Releasing our attachment to past and future, to self and other, we can directly experience the natural state of serenity underlying all our thoughts and discover the bliss of the present moment. -
Veggiyana: The Dharma of Cooking: With 108 Deliciously Easy Vegetarian Recipes by Sandra Garson
Veggiyana brings the vitality of the world’s kitchens to your own with timeless wisdom and recipes to nourish, delight, and inspire. Our survival still depends on wholesome, nutritious food, and in keeping with this simple truth, Veggiyana provides 108 tasty, beloved, and simple recipes from around the world. And generously sprinkled throughout are perfectly spiced morsels of time-tested wisdom on how to live a life that nourishes both body and spirit. -
A Profound Mind: Cultivating Wisdom in Everyday Life by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
In 2003 and in 2007, the Dalai Lama was invited to New York to give a series of talks on the essential Buddhist view of selflessness. This new book, the result of those talks, is now offered to help broaden awareness of this essential doctrine and its usefulness in living a more meaningful and happy life. The Dalai Lama offers a full presentation of his teachings on these key philosophical points for contemplation, and also shows readers how to bring these teachings into their own lives with a personal practice. -
My Spiritual Journey by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Now in paperback! The world knows the public face of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. We have read about his near escape from Tibet after the Chinese invasion, his Nobel Peace Prize, and his friendships with world leaders, Hollywood actors, and scientists around the world. But what are his inner, personal thoughts on his own spiritual life? For the first time and in his own words, the Dalai Lama charts his spiritual journey from his boyhood days in rural Tibet to his years as a monk in the capital city of Dharamsala, to his life in exile as a world leader and symbol of peace. -
Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh by Thich Nhat Hanh
This treasury of 365 gems of daily wisdom from one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers of our age is a help and support for anyone who wants to train to meet every moment of life with 100 percent attention. Thich Nhat Hanh shows how practicing mindfulness can transform every area of our lives—and how its benefits radiate beyond us to affect others and the whole, larger world. -
The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Compassion by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Life is hard. Each of us face problems on a daily basis that often seem overwhelming and insoluble. In The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Compassion, the Dalai Lama tells us that while suffering is a given, we can overcome it by taking the path of compassion. In seven concise chapters, His Holiness explores the way of compassion by sharing his thoughts on contentment, joy, living well, facing death, dealing with anger, giving and receiving, and the necessity of interfaith cooperation. -
Masters of Wisdom: His Holiness The Dalai Lama: Infinite Compassion for an Imperfect World by His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is revered throughout the world for his work promoting peace, love, and compassion, as well as for the profound yet practical wisdom of his spiritual teachings. This illuminating anthology covers the major themes of his thought, including Science and Religion, Compassion and the Individual, the Pillars of World Peace, Personal Responsibility, Buddhist Teaching, and Opening the Eye of Awareness. -
The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom edited by Jack Kornfield
When the Buddha set in motion the wheel of Dharma, he knew that the teaching he gave was inexhaustible—that every future generation would find its own skillful ways to convey it to the hearts and minds of those ready to hear. The Buddha Is Still Teaching is testimony to the fulfillment of that promise today. The selections it contains, from today’s most highly regarded contemporary Buddhist teachers, bring the Dharma eloquently to life for us in our own time, place, and culture. -
Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World's Religions Can Come Together by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Now in paperback! In perhaps his most important book, the Dalai Lama shares his hopeful yet realistic views on how humanity must step into the future. In our daily lives today no one is untouched by what happens in the rest of the world. The Dalai Lama understands, and show us, that the essential task of humanity in the twenty-first century is to cultivate peaceful coexistence. -
Stilling the Mind: Shamatha Teachings from Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence by B. Alan Wallace
With his trademark enthusiasm and keen intelligence, Dr. Wallace introduces us to one of the most cherished works of Tibetan Buddhism, Düdjom Lingpa’s Vajra Essence. Written in the nineteenth century, the Vajra Essence presents the practice of Dzokchen, the Great Perfection—the highest of all the meditation traditions — and its contents have only been revealed to those with the requisite training. With permission from his teachers, Alan reveals here the work’s opening section, which presents the methods for calming the mind and bringing it to a state of effortless concentration, the practice of shamatha.
What’s Noteworthy? Books that have been mentioned in our teachings for further reading.
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∗ Discovering Buddhism: How to Develop Bodhicitta
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The Awakening Mind by Geshe Tashi Tsering
The Awakening Mind provides a simple, systematic introduction to Buddhist philosophy and practice, exploring the importance of compassion in our daily lives. Here, the always-clear Geshe Tashi gives an intellectual and practical background for developing true spaciousness of heart and love. This volume also offers accessible and precise instructions on the traditional techniques for developing bodhichitta, or "the mind of enlightenment," which aspires to buddhahood in order to liberate all beings from suffering.
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∗ Reading Circle Selection
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Enlightenment to Go: Shantideva and the Power of Compassion to Transform Your Life byDavid Michie
Michie provides a lively, accessible introduction to the 'best of' Shantideva. He shows how modern psychology confirms the insights of Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, and he unpacks its powerful antidotes to contemporary problems, including stress, anxiety and depression. He also offers a structured meditation program to help readers integrate transformational insights at deeper levels of consciousness where genuine change becomes possible.
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∗ Buddhism 101 Selection
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Buddhism in a Nutshell by Lama Yeshe, Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Ven. Amy Miller
Suggested for those taking the introductory class of the same name.
Buddhism in a Nutshell is an overview of the complete Buddhist path to enlightenment that combines the blessings and transformational teachings of Tibetan Buddhist masters Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche with the candidly refreshing perspective of Western teacher Venerable Amy Miller. It provides students with the information they need for their spiritual journey along with advice on how to integrate these teachings into daily life. In addition, readers are given simple meditation techniques to help bring each topic “from the head into the heart.” Also included is an MP3 disc of the original course upon which this book was based, offering 11 hours of clear and accessible teachings from Ven. Amy Miller. -
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide by Kathleen McDonald (a.k.a Ven. Sangye Khadro), edited by Ven. Robina Courtin
Recommended for those in our Meditation 101 class.
In a world seemingly moving at hyperspeed, it can be daunting to simply slow down — or stop — even briefly to try to make sense of things. Meditation has been proven to help. But exactly what is it? Why practice it? Which techniques are best? This popular guide answers these and many more questions for anyone who wants to begin — or is struggling to maintain — a meditation practice. Written by a Western Buddhist nun with solid experience in both the practice and teaching of meditation, How to Meditate contains a wealth of practical advice on a variety of authentic techniques, from what to do with the mind, to how to sit, to visualizations and other traditional practices. Best of all, McDonald's warm, encouraging approach is as close to the intimacy of private instruction as a book can be.
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∗ Sunday Teachings Selection
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A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life by Shantideva
This book is highly recommended as a practical guide for aspirants and followers of the bodhisattva path. From the development of the bodhi-mind to the practice of the six perfections, the book is inspired throughout. The edition translated by Stephen Batchelor and published in India as part of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives is the edition that Geshe Gelek uses and teaches from on Sundays ($16.00 for everyone). We also carry two other editions / translations - one published by Snow Lion and translated by B. Alan & Vesna Wallace ($18.00) and one published by Shambhala and translated by the Padmakara Translation Group($16.00). These editions are also acceptable to use if you prefer the prose of one over another.
What’s Next? Coming soon to our bookstore!
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Escape from the Land of Snows: The Young Dalai Lama's Harrowing Flight to Freedom and the Making of a Spiritual Hero by Stephan Talty
Now in paperback! On the evening of March 17, 1959, as the people of Tibet braced for a violent power grab by Chinese occupiers — one that would forever wipe out any vestige of national sovereignty — the twenty-four-year-old Dalai Lama, Tibet’s political and spiritual leader, contemplated the impossible. The task before him was immense: to slip past a cordon of crack Chinese troops ringing his summer palace and journey across the highest terrain in the world and over treacherous Himalayan passes to freedom. -
How to Be Compassionate: A Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, translated & edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph.D.
Now in paperback! The surest path to true happiness lies in being intimately concerned with the welfare of others. Or, as His Holiness the Dalai Lama would say, in compassion. Each one of us is responsible for all of humankind, and for the environment in which we live. . . . We must seek to lessen the suffering of others. Rather than working solely to acquire wealth, we need to do something meaningful, something seriously directed toward the welfare of humanity as a whole. To do this, you need to recognize that the whole world is part of you.
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