[ BOOKS BY KHEN RINPOCHE ]
Khen Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Mahayana Sutra & Tantra Press. He is one of the most senior Tibetan Buddhist masters alive today. The press publishes a number of his translations of Buddhist classics along with some of Khen Rinpoche's oral commentaries.
The following is a list of books available from the Mahayana Sutra & Tantra Press:
| Achieving Bodhichitta | |
| A compilation of oral teachings given in the 1980s by Sermey Khensur Lobsang Tharchin on the two methods of achieving bodhichitta--the Sevenfold Instruction on Cause and Effect and Equality and Exchange Between Self and Others. |
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The Essence of Mahayana Lojong Practice | |
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| An oral commentary to Geshe Langri Tangpa's poem Mind Training in Eight Verses. Lojong, or Mind Training, is a form of Mahayana Buddhist practice common to both the Sutra and Tantra traditions. |
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Essence of Nectar | |
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| A translation of an extensive Lamrim prayer by Yeshe Tsöndru, a nineteenth-century Gelukpa lama from the Kongpo House of Sera Mey College. |
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The Key to the Treasury of Shunyata | |
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| This latest release in our Oral Commentary Series combines explanations of two unique works on the singularly important topic of transcendent wisdom. |
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King Udrayana and the Wheel of Life | |
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| The story of King Udrayana tells how the Buddha devised a painting to illustrate the twelve-part teaching on dependent origination. |
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Liberation in Our Hands- Part One: The Preliminaries | |
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| This book is the first volume of a twenty-four-day teaching on the Lamrim by the renowned Lama Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche. |
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Liberation in Our Hands-Part Two: The Fundamentals | |
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| Part Two of Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche's Lamrim work. |
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Liberation in Our Hands- Part Three: The Ultimate Goals | |
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| Part Three of Liberation in Our Hands. |
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Logic & Debate Tradition of India, Tibet, & Mongolia | |
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| The main body of the text presents in bilingual format three topics from Buddhist logic, psychology, and epistemology, respectively. |
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Nagarjuna's Letter | |
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| Arya Nagarjuna's poem in 123 verses, which is addressed to his patron, King Udayabhadra, contains a comprehensive review of fundamental Buddhist teachings common to all traditions. |
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Preparing for Tantra | |
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| This book is a translation of an oral commentary by Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche on the last part of a famous prayer of supplication to the lineage lamas of the Lamrim tradition--popularly known as "Source of All My Good" and "Begging for a Mountain of Blessings." |
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Principal Teachings of Buddhism | |
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| A translation of an extensive oral commentary by the Tibetan Lama Pabongka Rinpoche on Je Tsongkapa's Three Principal Paths, a poem in fourteen verses. |
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Six-Session Guru Yoga | |
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| The Six-Session Guru Yoga ritual is an essential practice for those who have received an initiation of either a Yoga Tantra or Anuttarayoga Tantra deity. |
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Sublime Path to Kechara Paradise | |
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| This oral commentary by Sermey Khensur Lobsang Tharchin on the Highest Yoga Tantra practice of Holy Vajrayogini, is based on Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche's extensive Vajrayogini sadhana, the Short Path to Great Bliss |
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To order copies of any of Khen Rinpoche's books: Visit the Mahayana Sutra & Tantra Press website www.mstp.us Or write to: Mahayana Sutra & Tantra Press, 112 West Second Street, Howell, NJ 07731, USA. | |
The Tibetan Book of Yoga : Ancient Buddhist Teachings on the Philosophy and Practice of Yoga
by Geshe Michael Roach.
Hardcover - 114 pages (January 6, 2004)
Doubleday; ISBN: 0385508379
Yoga came to Tibet from India more than a thousand years ago, and it was quickly absorbed into the culture's rich traditions. In this small book readers will discover Heart Yoga, which developed over the centuries in the Gelukpa tradition of the Dalai Lamas. The program presented here combines popular yoga exercises wtih special Tibetan poses, and methods of working from the inside to give a healthy and a happy heart.
Geshe Michael Roach discovered a number of previously unknown Tibetan works on yoga in the course of his ongoing efforts to find and preserve ancient Tibetan Buddhist texts. He discusses the ideas and insights presented in these texts and places them within the context of the Buddhist tradition. To help readers incorporate this ancient wisdom in their daily lives, he provides a specific regime of yoga postures and meditations. Combining instructive illustrations with the unique philosophical underpinnings of the Buddhist approach, Geshe Michael Roach has created a unique program for yoga on a physical and spiritual level.
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How Yoga Works: Healing Yourself and Others With the Yoga Sutraby Geshe Michael Roach & Christie McNally
Paperback - 416 pages, 6 x 9", 2004
Diamond Cutter Press; ISBN: 1-57467-105-7
Everyone knows that The Yoga Sutra is the ultimate source of all yoga. What you may not realize is that this ancient book also contains all the secrets you need to know in order to heal both your body and your heart; to overcome any kind of illness or unhappiness, and reach a place of splendid health, strength, and peace.
The secrets of how yoga really works to make us truly whole are revealed here in a delightful story based on how these precious teachings reached Tibet from their home in India, over a thousand years ago.
The authors have spent many years in Tibetan monasteries, trained by some of the last great Lamas of Old Tibet, to read and practice the original ancient manuscripts about how yoga works.
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The Diamond Cutter : The Buddha on Strategies for Managing Your Business and Your Life
by Geshe Michael Roach.
Hardcover - 256 pages (February 15, 2000)
Doubleday; ISBN: 0385497903
" One rule my Tibetan Lama had given me about going to work in a normal business office was that I keep quiet about being a Buddhist... I was to be a Buddhist sage on the inside, and a normal American businessman on the outside."
"This book is the story of how I built the Diamond Division at Andin International, using principles culled from the ancient wisdom of Buddhism, from nothing into a worldwide operation, generating many millions of dollars per year."
From the forward to the book.
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The Garden : A Parable
by Geshe Michael Roach
Paperback - 256 pages (February 15, 2000)
Doubleday; ISBN: 038549789X
With The Garden, centuries of Tibetan Buddhist wisdom are brought to life for readers by one of its greatest Western teachers, Michael Roach. Through a parable in which a young man is brought into a mystical garden by a beautiful embodiment of Wisdom, Roach presents the pantheon of great Tibetan teachers.
The nameless seeker lured to the garden meets the dominant historical figures who have contributed fundamental teachings to Tibetan Buddhism, such as Tsong Khapa, the first Dalai Lama, and Master Kamalashila. Unique among works of Buddhism now available, the Garden is destined to become a classic for its lucid revelation of the secrets of the Tibetan tradition and for the wisdom Geshe Michael Roach evokes.
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