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How she wished her hair was straight and smooth like the rest of her family. Amma and Appa had adopted Avantika and her brother when she was three-and-a-half years old and Avnish a six-month-old baby. She often wonders if their birth mother had curly hair. There are so many questions and emotions in Avantika’s head. Happily, she finds a confidante in the mysterious \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003epaati\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e she meets in the park.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhy Is My Hair Curly?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a delightful celebration of curly hair and the courage it takes to be yourself. 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Earlier works on this subject have tended to focus on the broad philosophical implications arising from the Buddhist theory of matter and were based more on earlier sources, such as the Pali canonical texts. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Buddhist Analysis of Matter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e provides a much-needed micro view of the topic with a detailed examination of the Theravadins’ list of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003erupa-dammas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—the ultimate irreducible factors into which material existence is analyzed. It exposes the basic material elements into which the whole of material existence is resolved and explains their interconnection and interdependence on the basis of conditional relations. 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The practice of Guhyasamaja, one of the earliest and most influential of the highest Tantras, along with its remarkable hermeneutic system, created a framework that was applied to other so-called unexcelled Tantras. Still very much a living tradition, in our time the Fourteenth Dalai Lama confers its empowerment every year. In this work, the Panchen Lama not only clarifies each step of the sadhana meditation ritual, but he also offers general insights into the practice and its workings. It is an Essence because it distills the much longer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOcean of Attainments\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecommentary on the practice composed by Khedrup Jé (1385–1438), one of two key disciples of Tsongkhapa, the founder of Tibetan Buddhism’s Geluk school. The Panchen Lama identifies core elements of sadhana and with unparalleled precision clarifies many seminal points.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her introduction, Yael Bentor surveys the creation stage of unexcelled Tantra as presented by the founding fathers of the Geluk school and unpacks the contents of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEssence of the Ocean of Attainments\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e for readers. 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Both Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche and Kyabje Ling Rinpoche, the junior and senior tutors of the 14th Dalai Lama, accounted him as their root guru. 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It contrasts three different paths to liberation: Shravakayana (the way of the disciple), Pratyekabuddhayana (the way of the self-enlightened buddha), and Mahayana (the way of the bodhisattva), which is our way, our boundless intention to seek refuge in order to free all sentient beings from samsaric suffering.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Kyabjé Dodrupchen Rinpoché","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43800250515632,"sku":"1614296634","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/71_yLREn9qL._AC_UY218.jpg?v=1722024640"},{"product_id":"living-treasure-buddhist-and-tibetan-studies-in-honor-of-janet-gyatso","title":"Living Treasure: Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in Honor of Janet Gyatso","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSenior 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 for readers interested in Tibetan and Buddhist studies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJanet Gyatso has made substantial, influential, and incredibly valuable contributions to the fields of Buddhist and Tibetan studies. Her paradigm-shifting approach is to take a topic, an idea, a text, a term—often one that had long been taken for granted or overlooked—and turn it inside out, to radically reimagine the kinds of questions that might be asked and what the answers might reveal. The twenty-nine essays in this volume, authored by colleagues and former students—many of whom are now also colleagues—represent the breadth of her interests and influence and the care that she has taken in training the current generation of scholars of Tibet and Buddhism. They are organized into five sections: Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Biography and Autobiography; the Nyingma Imaginaire; Literature, Art, and Poetry; and Early Modernity: Human and Nonhuman Worlds. Contributions include José Cabezón on the incorporation of a Buddhist rock carving in Central Asian culture; Matthew Kapstein on the memoirs of an ambivalent reincarnated lama; Willa Baker on Jikmé Lingpa’s theory of absence; Andrew Quintman on a found poem expressing worldly sadness on the forced closure of a monastery; and Padma ’tsho on Tibetan women’s advocacy for full female ordination. 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They range from summaries of the entire path of Mahamudra to pithy four-liners that point directly to the buddha within us. The authors include famous masters such as Saraha and Naropa, dakinis, kings, and also courtesans and cobblers—showing that realization is accessible to all of us, right here in our lives.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Karl Brunnhölzl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43800328929456,"sku":"1614296227","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/81J-IIW6XtL._AC_UY218.jpg?v=1722025875"},{"product_id":"milarepas-kungfu-mahamudra-in-his-songs-of-realization","title":"Milarepa's Kungfu: Mahamudra in His Songs of Realization","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLion's Roar says, \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThis book is a treasure of subtle revelation.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe view is the wisdom of being empty\u003cbr\u003eMeditation is luminosity without fixation\u003cbr\u003eConduct is a continual flow free of attachment\u003cbr\u003eFruition is nakedness bare of any stain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first stanza of Milarepa’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eUltimate View, Meditation, Conduct, and Fruition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e pith instructions originally sang to the great yogi Rechungpa, Milarepa’s disciple. 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We are introduced to some of Sera’s most important lamas and hermits, as well as its curriculum, yearly calendar, the daily life of scholar monks, and the role Sera monks played in the political history of Tibet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormer Sera monks themselves, Cabezón and Dorjee demonstrate their firsthand knowledge of the monastery, its traditions, and daily life on every page. Scrupulously researched over decades, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSera Monastery\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the most comprehensive history of a Tibetan monastery ever written in a Western language.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"José Cabezón, Penpa Dorjee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43802623606960,"sku":"1614296111","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/813d7e7-XgL._AC_UY218.jpg?v=1722098504"},{"product_id":"the-six-perfections-the-practice-of-the-bodhisattvas","title":"The Six Perfections: The Practice of the Bodhisattvas","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA practical and actionable guide to the six perfections, a backbone of the Buddhist path, by an internationally beloved teacher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe six perfections are the actions of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ebodhisattvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—holy beings who have transcended selfless concerns. 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