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Alpha One Sixteen: A Combat Infantryman's Year in Vietnam
A Military Book Club main selectionPeter Clark's year in Vietnam began in July 1966, when he was shipped out with hundreds of other young recruits, as a replacement in the 1st Infantry Division. Clark was assigned to the Alpha Company....
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The Art of Chinese Calligraphy: The essential stroke-by-stroke guide to making over 300 beautiful characters
Practice the ancient art of Chinese calligraphy with this step-by-step guide to rendering more than 300 individual characters for use in arts, crafts and design projects. With characters as beautifully decorative as they are meaningful, this elegant script can be...
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Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
The artistic fusion of words and images is an intrinsic part of the cultural, social, and spiritual beliefs of Asia. From traditional calligraphy to contemporary forms of digital and mixed media, the blending of artwork with written language has the...
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Zen Vows for Daily Life
A poetic classic from a major figure of American Zen.Zen Vows for Daily Life is a collection of gathas, vows in verse form for daily practice, similar to prayers or affirmations for use at home, at work, and in the meditation hall...
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The Tradition of Everlasting Bön: Five Key Texts on Scripture, Tantra, and the Great Perfection (9)
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The Tradition of Everlasting Bön: Five Key Texts on Scripture, Tantra, and the Great Perfection (9)
An annotated translation of five key texts of the Everlasting (Yungdrung) Bön school selected by the late H. H. Menri Trizin Rinpoché that includes scriptural teachings, a root tantra based on revealed teachings of the unconditioned absolute, a canonical commentary...
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The Theravada Abhidhamma: Inquiry into the Nature of Conditioned Reality
A lucid explanation of the basic contours of the Theravada Abhidamma system for serious students of Buddhist thought.The renowned Sri Lankan scholar Y. Karunadasa examines Abhidhamma perspectives on the nature of phenomenal existence. He begins with a discussion of dhamma...
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The Tara Tantra: Tara's Fundamental Ritual Text
A groundbreaking English translation of a key tantric text in the history of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.This volume contains an English translation of the “root text” of the Tara-mula-kalpa, a scripture-ritual compendium that captures an important Buddhist tantric tradition in mid-formation. In this...
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Superiority Conceit in Buddhist Traditions: A Historical Perspective
Renowned scholar-monk writes accessibly on some of the most contentious topics in Buddhism—guaranteed to ruffle some feathers.Armed with his rigorous examination of the canonical records, respected scholar-monk Bhikkhu Analayo explores—and sharply criticizes—four examples of what he terms “superiority conceit” in...
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The Sublime Continuum and Its Explanatory Commentary: With the Sublime Continuum Supercommentary - Revised Edition
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The Sublime Continuum and Its Explanatory Commentary: With the Sublime Continuum Supercommentary - Revised Edition
Explore an in-depth explanation of buddha nature and self-emptiness.The original Sublime Continuum Explanatory Commentary was written by Noble Asanga to explain the verses received from the bodhisattva Maitreya in the late fourth century CE in northern India. Here it is introduced and...
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Stages of the Path and the Oral Transmission: Selected Teachings of the Geluk School (6)
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Stages of the Path and the Oral Transmission: Selected Teachings of the Geluk School (6)
A major contribution to the literature on Buddhist practice according to the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism from its foremost interpreter.Although it was the last major school to emerge in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the Geluk school has left an...
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Sounds of Innate Freedom: The Indian Texts of Mahamudra, Volume 4
The fourth volume in an historic and noteworthy 6-volume series containing many of the first English translations of the classic mahamudra literature compiled by the Seventh Karmapa as well as extensive commentary that brilliantly unravels enigmas and clarifies cryptic verses.Sounds...
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Sounds of Innate Freedom: The Indian Texts of Mahamudra, Volume 3
The third volume in a historic six-volume series containing many of the first English translations of the classic mahamudra literature compiled by the Seventh Karmapa.Sounds of Innate Freedom: The Indian Texts of Mahamudra are historic volumes containing many of the first...
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Sounds of Innate Freedom: The Indian Texts of Mahamudra, Vol. 5
The first volume in an historic and noteworthy 6-volume series containing many of the first English translations of the classic mahamudra literature compiled by the Seventh Karmapa.Sounds of Innate Freedom: The Indian Texts of Mahamudra are historic volumes containing many of...
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The Six Perfections: The Practice of the Bodhisattvas
A practical and actionable guide to the six perfections, a backbone of the Buddhist path, by an internationally beloved teacher.The six perfections are the actions of the bodhisattvas—holy beings who have transcended selfless concerns. But they’re also skills we can and...
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Sera Monastery
The definitive history of Sera Monastery, one of the great monastic universities of Tibet, from its founding to the present.Founded in 1419, Sera Monastery was one of the three densas, the great seats of learning of the Geluk school of Tibetan...
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Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol. 4
This fourth and final Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics volume provides, through extensive passages, a window into the works of the great thinkers from the flowering of philosophy in classical India.This is the second philosophy volume in the Science and...
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Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol. 3
Deepen your understanding of meaning and truth with the third volume of the Dalai Lama’s esteemed series Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics.Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics compiles classical Buddhist explorations of the nature of the material...
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Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol. 2: The Mind
The second volume in a prominent new series on Buddhism and science, directed by the Dalai Lama and previously covered by the BBC.Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics compiles classical Buddhist explorations of the nature of our material world,...
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Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature (3)
“The material in this volume is invaluable for those who sincerely wish to understand the Buddhist path and begin to follow it.”—Venerable Sangye Khadro, author of How to MeditateIn this new book from the Dalai Lama, the reader will discover the...
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Reasons and Lives in Buddhist Traditions
The celebrated career of a venerated scholar inspires incisive new contributions to the field of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism.Particularly known for his groundbreaking and influential work in Tibetan studies, Matthew Kapstein is a true polymath in Buddhist and Asian studies...
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Ornament to Beautify the Three Appearances: The Mahayana Preliminary Practices of the Sakya Lamdré Tradition
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Ornament to Beautify the Three Appearances: The Mahayana Preliminary Practices of the Sakya Lamdré Tradition
The latest offering from a renowned translator in the Buddhist world of one of the most important texts in the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. This translation was made at the request of the head of the Sakya tradition.Ornament to...
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Mind Seeing Mind: Mahamudra and the Geluk Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
A definitive study of one of the most important practices in Tibetan Buddhism, with translations of a number of its key texts.Mahamudra, the “great seal,” refers to the ultimate nature of mind and reality, to a meditative practice for realizing...
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Milarepa's Kungfu: Mahamudra in His Songs of Realization
Lion's Roar says, "This book is a treasure of subtle revelation."The view is the wisdom of being emptyMeditation is luminosity without fixationConduct is a continual flow free of attachmentFruition is nakedness bare of any stainThis is the first stanza of...
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Luminous Melodies: Essential Dohas of Indian Mahamudra
Essential poetic teachings from beloved Tibetan Buddhist masters in their first-ever English translation.Presented here for the first time in English is a collection of dohas, or songs of realization, carefully and thoughtfully selected and translated from the large compendium the Indian Texts...
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Living Treasure: Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in Honor of Janet Gyatso
Senior scholars and former students celebrate the life and work of Janet Gyatso, professor of Buddhist studies at Harvard Divinity School. Inspired by her contributions to life writing, Tibetan medicine, gender studies, and more, these offerings make a rich feast...
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Liberation from Samsara: Oral Instructions on the Preliminary Practices of Longchen Nyingthik
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Liberation from Samsara: Oral Instructions on the Preliminary Practices of Longchen Nyingthik
This rare offering by Kyabjé Dodrupchen Rinpoché is a uniquely concise volume of the teachings of the path to liberation that is authentic, authoritative, and complete.In Liberation from Samsara, the Fourth Kyabjé Dodrupchen Rinpoché presents the Longchen Nyingthik preliminary teachings, with a special...
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Freedom through Correct Knowing: On Khedrup Jé's Interpretation of Dharmakirti
Darkness.Composed at the request of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this translation with commentary on key parts of Khedrup Jé’s Clearing Mental Darkness: An Ornament of Dharmakirti’s “Seven Treatises on Valid Cognition” is intended for all levels of understanding. You’ll learn how...
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The Fourteenth Dalai Lama's Stages of the Path, Volume 1
Discover His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s advice for finding happiness, helping others, and applying insights from Buddhist thought to everyday life—for a life of greater harmony, meaning, and joy, for ourselves, others, and in our world.This first volume of The Fourteenth...
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Four Tibetan Lineages: Core Teachings of Pacification, Severance, Shangpa Kagyü, and Bodong (8)
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Four Tibetan Lineages: Core Teachings of Pacification, Severance, Shangpa Kagyü, and Bodong (8)
New translations of teachings on meditative practice from four highly influential Tibetan Buddhist traditions.Drawing primarily from the Pacification, Severance, Shangpa Kagyü, and Bodongpa traditions, Four Tibetan Lineages presents some of Tibet’s most transformative yet lesser-known teachings on meditative practice. Most...
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