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The World of Tibetan Buddhism: An Overview of Its Philosophy and Practice

Introduces the basic beliefs of Buddhism, discusses the practice of loving kindness, and looks at Vajrayana Buddhism and the path of tantra

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Hardcover:

9780861711000 | Wisdom Pubns, March 1, 1995, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Introduces the basic beliefs of Buddhism, discusses the practice of loving kindness, and looks at Vajrayana Buddhism and the path of tantra

CD/Spoken Word:

9781531835712 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, August 9, 2016), cover price $9.99 | also contains The World of Tibetan Buddhism: An Overview of Its Philosophy and Practice

Kindness, Clarity, and Insight: The Fourteenth Dalai Lama His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso

Product Description: This beloved classic brings together in one volume all the major themes of the Dalai Lamaâs teachings. Drawn from the lectures he gave during his first three visits to North America, the book covers the core subject matter of Tibetan Buddhism, as presented for the first time to an English-speaking audience...read more

By Dalai Lama XIV, Jeffrey Hopkins (editor) and Elizabeth Napper (editor)

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9781559394031 | Snow Lion Pubns, January 8, 2013, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This beloved classic brings together in one volume all the major themes of the Dalai Lamaâs teachings.

Magic and Mystery in Tibet

Product Description: Originally published in English in 1932, Magic and Mystery in Tibet is an account of traveler and spiritualist Alexandra David-Neel's 14 years in Tibet, at a time when the country was closed to foreigners. This true story reads like a novel compared to earlier travel books from the 19th century, artfully invoking pictures of what it was like to live in Tibet during a time when few outsiders had seen its soil...read more

By Alexandra David-Neel

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9780809484065 | Time Life Education, February 1, 1995, cover price $25.01 | About this edition: For centuries Tibet has been known as the last home of mystery, the hidden, sealed land, where ancient mysteries still survive that have perished in the rest of the Orient.

Paperback:

9781616407544 | Cosimo Inc, December 31, 2012, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Originally published in English in 1932, Magic and Mystery in Tibet is an account of traveler and spiritualist Alexandra David-Neel's 14 years in Tibet, at a time when the country was closed to foreigners.

9781585090976 | Book Tree, February 1, 2000, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: David-Neel illustrates the point that there is much more to life than is found on the surface.

9780486226828 | Dover Pubns, June 1, 1971, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The author describes her experiences during a fourteen-year stay in Tibet, as she studied and participated in the occult philosophies of mystics and magicians

Sacred Tibet

By Philip Rawson

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9780500810323 | Thames & Hudson, May 1, 1991, cover price $15.95

Earthquake Disasters in Latin America: A Holistic Approach

Product Description: This book is an attempt to demonstrate the analytical power of the holistic approach for understanding disasters. Six major earthquakes in Latin America are used as an example: the general idea is to place disasters in a broad social and regional context...read more

By Cinna Lomnitz

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9789400728097 | Springer Verlag, January 3, 2012, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This book is an attempt to demonstrate the analytical power of the holistic approach for understanding disasters.

9780226649870, titled "The Tibetan Symbolic World" | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1982, cover price $14.00 | also contains The Tibetan Symbolic World

Heartfelt Advice

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9781559393461 | 1 edition (Snow Lion Pubns, April 1, 2010), cover price $14.95

Jokhang: Tibet's Most Sacred Buddhist Temple

Product Description: A definitive and beautifully illustrated book on this sacred Tibetan site. Lying at the center of an ancient network of Buddhist temples in the Great Temple of Lhasa, the Jokhang Temple is the heart of spiritual and economic life in Tibet...read more

By Andre Alexander

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9780500976920 | Thames & Hudson, May 1, 2010, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: A definitive and beautifully illustrated book on this sacred Tibetan site.

Red Mda' Ba. Buddhist Yogi-scholar of the Fourteenth Century: The Forgotten Reviver of Madhyamaka Philosophy in Tibet

Product Description: Red mda' ba gZhon nu blo gros (1348?1412) played a pivotal role in the history of Tibetan Buddhists' engagement with Indian Madhyamaka philosophy, especially with regard to Candrakirti's interpretation of Nagarjuna. The lasting impact of this historical figure on the shape of Buddhist philosophy in Tibet - and particularly that of Madhyamaka ? has been highly underestimated to date...read more

By Carola Roloff

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9783895006937, titled "Red Mda' Ba Buddhist Yogi-Scholar of the Fourteenth Century: The Forgotten Reviver of Madhyamaka Philosophy in Tibet" | Fol har/ma edition (Reichert Verlag, February 5, 2010), cover price $133.00 | About this edition: Red mda' ba gZhon nu blo gros (1348?

Introducing Tibetan Buddhism

By Geoffrey Samuel

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Hardcover:

9780415456647 | Routledge, June 12, 2012, cover price $135.00

Paperback:

9780415456654 | Routledge, June 12, 2012, cover price $49.95

Buddhism Between Tibet and China

Product Description: Exploring the long history of cultural exchange between 'the Roof of the World' and 'the Middle Kingdom,' Buddhism Between Tibet and China features a collection of noteworthy essays that probe the nature of their relationship, spanning from the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 CE) to the present day...read more

By Matthew T. Kapstein (editor)

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9780861715817 | Wisdom Pubns, April 1, 2009, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Exploring the long history of cultural exchange between 'the Roof of the World' and 'the Middle Kingdom,' Buddhism Between Tibet and China features a collection of noteworthy essays that probe the nature of their relationship, spanning from the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 CE) to the present day.

Living in the Face of Death: The Tibetan Tradition

By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (foreword by) and Glenn H. Mullin

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9781559391009 | Snow Lion Pubns, August 1, 1998, cover price $16.95

Buddhist Himalayas

By Dalai Lama XIV (contributor) and Olivier Follmi (photographer)

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9780810984059 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 2008, cover price $29.95

Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth As the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World

By Robert Thurman

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9781582702209 | Beyond Words Pub Co, June 3, 2008, cover price $24.00

Dreamworlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism: The Third Place

Product Description: Dreamworlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism explores the fertile interaction of Buddhism, shamanism, and Tibetan culture with the subject of dreaming. In Tibetan Buddhist literature, there are numerous examples of statements that express the value of dreams as a vehicle of authentic spiritual knowledge and, at the same time, dismiss dreams as the ultra-illusions of an illusory world...read more

By Angela Sumegi

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9780791474631 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 8, 2008, cover price $65.50 | About this edition: Dreamworlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism explores the fertile interaction of Buddhism, shamanism, and Tibetan culture with the subject of dreaming.

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9780791474648 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 8, 2008, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Explores shamanic and Tibetan Buddhist attitudes toward dreams.

A Concise Introduction To Tibetan Buddhism

By John Powers

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9781559392969 | Snow Lion Pubns, June 15, 2008, cover price $18.95

The Way and the Mountain: Tibet, Buddhism, and Tradition

By Marco Pallis

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9781933316536 | World Wisdom Books, April 1, 2008, cover price $21.95

Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism

Introduces the basic beliefs of Buddhism, discusses how it was brought to Tibet, and explores Tibetan Mahayana philosophy and tantic methods for personal transformation

By John Powers

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9781559390286 | Snow Lion Pubns, November 1, 1996, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Introduces the basic beliefs of Buddhism, discusses how it was brought to Tibet, and explores Tibetan Mahayana philosophy and tantic methods for personal transformation

Paperback:

9781559392822 | Revised edition (Snow Lion Pubns, December 15, 2007), cover price $32.95

9781559390262 | Snow Lion Pubns, January 1, 1995, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Introduces the basic beliefs of Buddhism, discusses how it was brought to Tibet, and explores Tibetan Mahayana philosophy and tantic methods for personal transformation

Religions of Tibet in Practice

Product Description: Originally published in 1997, Religions of Tibet in Practice is a landmark work--the first major anthology on the topic ever produced. This new edition--abridged to further facilitate course use--presents a stunning array of works that together offer an unparalleled view of the Tibetan religious landscape over the centuries...read more

By Donald S. Lopez (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780691011844 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $80.00

Paperback:

9780691129723 | Abridged edition (Princeton Univ Pr, March 5, 2007), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Originally published in 1997, Religions of Tibet in Practice is a landmark work--the first major anthology on the topic ever produced.

9780691011837 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Religions of Tibet in Practice is a landmark work, the first major anthology on the topic ever produced.

Pointing Out the Great Way: The Stages of Meditation in the Mahamudra Tradition

By Daniel P. Brown and Robert A. F. Thurman (foreword by)

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9780861713042 | Wisdom Pubns, September 28, 2006, cover price $29.95

The Way of the White Clouds

A classic account of a man's spiritual pilgrimage through Tibet just before the Chinese invasion of 1950 features a new introduction that places the author's experiences and discoveries in a historical context.

By Lama Anagarika Govinda and Robert A. F. Thurman (introduced by)

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9781585674657 | Overlook Pr, October 20, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A classic account of a man's spiritual pilgrimage through Tibet just before the Chinese invasion of 1950 features a new introduction that places the author's experiences and discoveries in a historical context.

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9781585677856 | Overlook Pr, September 6, 2006, cover price $19.95

Dharamsala: Tibetan Refuge

Product Description: Dharamsala -- literally, a place for shelter, is surely a name that was meant to be...Home to the Dalai Lama and the Headquarters of his Government-in-Exile, this tiny dot on India's vast landscape is steeped in history and today, boasts a cosmopolitan populace...read more

By Jeremy Russell

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9780893469207 | Heian Intl Pub Co, June 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Dharamsala - literally translated as "a place for shelter" - is home to the Dalai Lama and the headquarters of his government-in-exile.

Paperback:

9788174360861 | Roli Books Private Ltd, August 28, 2006, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Dharamsala -- literally, a place for shelter, is surely a name that was meant to be.

Kindness, Clarity, & Insight

A series of lectures on the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism includes discussions of meditation, karma, compassion, gods, enlightenment, and death.

By Dalai Lama XIV, Jeffrey Hopkins and Elizabeth Napper

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9781559392518 | Rev upd edition (Snow Lion Pubns, April 30, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A series of lectures on the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism includes discussions of meditation, karma, compassion, gods, enlightenment, and death.

Tibetan Renaissance: Tantric Buddhism In The Rebirth Of Tibetan Culture

Product Description: How did a society on the edge of collapse and dominated by wandering bands of armed men give way to a vibrant Buddhist culture, led by yogins and scholars? Ronald M. Davidson explores how the translation and spread of esoteric Buddhist texts dramatically shaped Tibetan society and led to its rise as the center of Buddhist culture throughout Asia, replacing India as the perceived source of religious ideology and tradition...read more

By Ronald M. Davidson

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Hardcover:

9780231134705 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $125.00

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9780231134712 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 13, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: How did a society on the edge of collapse and dominated by wandering bands of armed men give way to a vibrant Buddhist culture, led by yogins and scholars?

The Treasury Of Knowledge: Systems Of Buddhist Tantra

By Elio Guarisco, Kon-Sprul Blo-Gros-Mtha-Yas, Ingrid Mcleod and Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye

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9781559392105 | Snow Lion Pubns, June 30, 2005, cover price $35.95

This Precious Life: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on the Path to Enlightenment

Product Description: Using the traditional Tibetan Buddhist framework of the Four Remindersâthe preciousness of human birth, the truth of impermanence, the reality of suffering, and the inescapability of karmaâKhandro Rinpoche explains why and how we could all better use this short life to pursue a spiritual path and make the world a better place...read more

By Khandro Rinpoche

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9781570623073 | 1 edition (Shambhala Pubns, August 1, 2003), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Using the traditional Tibetan Buddhist framework of the Four Remindersâthe preciousness of human birth, the truth of impermanence, the reality of suffering, and the inescapability of karmaâKhandro Rinpoche explains why and how we could all better use this short life to pursue a spiritual path and make the world a better place.

Paperback:

9781590301746 | Shambhala Pubns, February 15, 2005, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Using the traditional Tibetan Buddhist framework of the Four Remindersâthe preciousness of human birth, the truth of impermanence, the reality of suffering, and the inescapability of karmaâKhandro Rinpoche explains why and how we could all better use this short life to pursue a spiritual path and make the world a better place.

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