Best Tibetan Buddhism Books
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1. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Author: by Pema Chodron
Shambhala
English
176 pages
Pema Chdrn’s perennially best-selling classic on overcoming life’s difficulties cuts to the heart of spirituality and personal growth-now in a newly designed 20th-anniversary edition with a new afterword by Pema-makes for a perfect gift and addition to one’s spiritual library.
How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apartwhen we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chdrn suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving toward painful situations and becoming intimate with them can open up our hearts in ways we never before imagined.
Drawing from traditional Buddhist wisdom, she offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy.
2. The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
Author: by Thich Nhat Hanh
Harmony
English
304 pages
With poetry and clarity, Thich Nhat Hanh imparts comforting wisdom about the nature of suffering and its role in creating compassion, love, and joy all qualities of enlightenment. Thich Nhat Hanh shows us the connection between personal, inner peace, and peace on earth.
His Holiness the Dalai LamaIn The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching, now revised with added material and new insights, Nhat Hanh introduces us to the core teachings of Buddhism and shows us that the Buddha’s teachings are accessible and applicable to our daily lives.
Covering such significant teachings as the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, the Three Doors of Liberation, the Three Dharma Seals, and the Seven Factors of Awakening, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching is a radiant beacon on Buddhist thought for the initiated and uninitiated alike.
3. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Author: by Graham Coleman
Penguin Classics
English
535 pages
The first complete translation of a classic Buddhist text on the journey through living and dyingGraced with opening words by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the Penguin Deluxe Edition of The Tibetan Book of the Dead is “immaculately rendered in an English both graceful and precise.” Translated with the close support of leading contemporary masters and hailed as a tremendous accomplishment, this book faithfully presents the insights and intentions of the original work.
It includes one of the most detailed and compelling descriptions of the after-death state in world literature, practices that can transform our experience of daily life, guidance on helping those who are dying, and an inspirational perspective on coping with bereavement.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
4. Kindness, Clarity, and Insight: The Fundamentals of Buddhist Thought and Practice (Core Teachings of Dalai Lama)
Author: by Dalai Lama
B089G4DQTZ
October 13, 2020
English
176 pages
161180597X
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Pema Chdrn’s perennially helpful guide to transforming the pains and difficulties in our lives into opportunities for genuine joy and personal growthWe all want to be fearless, joyful, and fully alive. And we all know that it’s not so easy.
We’re bombarded every day with false promises of ways to make our lives betterbuy this, go here, eat this, don’t do that; the list goes on and on. But Pema Chdrn shows that, until we get to the heart of who we are and really make friends with ourselves, everything we do will always be superficial.
In this perennial self-help bestseller, Pema offers down-to-earth guidance on how we can go beyond the fleeting attempts to fix our pain and, instead, to take our lives as they are as the only path to achieve what we all yearn for most deeplyto embrace rather than deny the difficulties of our lives.
These teachings, framed around fifty-nine traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims, point us directly to our own hearts and minds, such as Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment, Be grateful to everyone, and Don’t expect applause. By working with these slogans as everyday meditations, Start Where You Are shows how we can all develop the courage to work with our own inner pain and discover true joy, holistic well-being, and unshakeable confidence.
6. The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times (Deckled Edge)
Author: by Pema Chödrön
English
144 pages
1611805961
Lifelong guidance for learning to change the way we relate to the scary and difficult moments of our lives, showing us how we can use all of our difficulties and fears as a way to soften our hearts and open us to greater kindness.
We always have a choice in how we react to the circumstances of our lives. We can let them harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and allow our inherent human kindness to shine through.
Here Pema Chdrn provides essential tools for dealing with the many difficulties that life throws our way, teaching us how to awaken our basic human goodness and connect deeply with othersto accept ourselves and everything around us complete with faults and imperfections.
She shows the strength that comes from staying in touch with what’s happening in our lives right now and helps us unmask the ways in which our egos cause us to resist life as it is. If we go to the places that scare us, Pema suggests, we just might find the boundless life we’ve always dreamed of.
7. Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
Author: by Pema Chodron
Shambhala (March 27, 2018)
English
152 pages
108 practical teachings for cultivating mindfulness and compassion in the face of fear and uncertainty, from the author of When Things Fall Apart Comfortable with Uncertainty offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living.
More than a collection of thoughts for the day, it offers a progressive program of spiritual study, leading the reader through essential concepts, themes, and practices on the Buddhist path. Readers do not need to have prior knowledge of Buddhist thought or practice, making Comfortable with Uncertainty a perfect introduction to Pema Chdrn’s teaching.
It features the most essential and stirring passages from Chdrn’s previous books, exploring topics such as lovingkindness, meditation, mindfulness, “nowness,” letting go, and working with fear and other painful emotions. Through the course of this book, readers will learn practical methods for heightening awareness and overcoming habitual patterns that block compassion.
8. The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living
Author: by Dalai Lama
Riverhead Books
English
352 pages
An updated edition of a beloved classic, the original book on happiness, with new material from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Dr. Howard Cutler. Nearly every time you see him, he’s laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling.
He’s the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and a hugely sought-after speaker and statesman. Why is he so popular? Even after spending only a few minutes in his presence you can’t help feeling happier.
If you ask him if he’s happy, even though he’s suffered the loss of his country, the Dalai Lama will give you an unconditional yes. What’s more, he’ll tell you that happiness is the purpose of life, and that the very motion of our life is toward happiness.
How to get there has always been the question. He’s tried to answer it before, but he’s never had the help of a psychiatrist to get the message across in a context we can easily understand. The Art of Happiness is the book that started the genre of happiness books, and it remains the cornerstone of the field of positive psychology.
9. In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
Author: by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
English
288 pages
0525512543
A rare, intimate account of a world-renowned Buddhist monk’s near-death experience and the life-changing wisdom he gained from itOne of the most inspiring books I have ever read. Pema Chdrn, author of When Things Fall ApartThis book has the potential to change the reader’s life forever.
George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the BardoAt thirty-six years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan masters and the respected abbot of three monasteries. Then one night, telling no one, he slipped out of his monastery in India with the intention of spending the next four years on a wandering retreat, following the ancient practice of holy mendicants.
His goal was to throw off his titles and roles in order to explore the deepest aspects of his being. He immediately discovered that a lifetime of Buddhist education and practice had not prepared him to deal with dirty fellow travelers or the screeching of a railway car.
He found he was too attached to his identity as a monk to remove his robes right away or to sleep on the Varanasi station floor, and instead paid for a bed in a cheap hostel. But when he ran out of money, he began his life as an itinerant beggar in earnest.
10. An Introduction to Buddhism (Core Teachings of Dalai Lama)
Author: by The Dalai Lama
Shambhala (July 17, 2018)
English
136 pages
The Core Teachings of the Dalai Lama series begins with this small book of teachings by His Holinessthe perfect introduction to traditional Tibetan Buddhist thought and practice There is no one more suited to introduce beginnersand remind seasoned practitionersof the fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism than His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Speaking to an audience of Western students, the Dalai Lama shows us how to apply basic Buddhist principles to our day-to-day lives. Starting with the very foundation of Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths, he provides the framework for understanding the Buddha’s first teachings on suffering, happiness, and peace.
He follows with commentary on two of Buddhism’s most profound texts: The Eight Verses on Training the Mind and Atisha’s Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, often referring to the former as one of his main sources of inspiration for the practice of compassion.
With clear, accessible language and the familiar sense of humor that infuses nearly all of his work, the Dalai Lama invites us all to develop innermost awareness, a proper understanding of the nature of reality, and heartfelt compassion for all beings.
11. Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
Author: by Pema Chodron
Shambhala (April 16, 2019)
English
104 pages
Learn to free yourself from destructive habits and live a life of courage and compassion with these heart-to-heart teachings from “one of the world’s wisest women” (O, the Oprah Magazine). Ever feel trapped in the same old habits and painful emotions time and time again?
These are patterns we all face, and sometimes they feel impossible to shake. So how can we get unstuck? Drawing on time-honored Buddhist teachings on shenpa (all the attachments and compulsions that cause us suffering), Pema Chdrn shows how certain habits of mind tend to hook us and get us stuck in states of anger, blame, self-hatred, addiction, and so much moreand, most of all, how we can liberate ourselves from them.
This path entails uncovering three basic human qualities, explains Pema. They are natural intelligence, natural warmth, and natural openness. Everyone, everywhere, all over the globe, has these qualities and can call on them to help themselves and others. Pema shares insights and exercises from her lifetime of practice that we can immediately put to use in our lives to awaken these essential qualities and help us to take a bold leap toward a new way of livingone that will bring about positive transformation for ourselves and for our troubled world.
12. Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change
Author: by Pema Chödrön
Shambhala
English
144 pages
Instant bestseller: Buddhist teacher Pema Chdrn shares life-changing practices for living with wisdom, confidence, and integrity amidst confusing situations and uncertain timesWe live in difficult times. Life so often seems like a turbulent river threatening to drown us and destroy our world.
Why, then, shouldn’t we cling to the certainty of the comfortableto our deep-seated habits and familiar ways? Because, Pema Chdrn teaches, that kind of fear-based clinging keeps us from the infinitely more powerful experience of being fully alive. The Buddhist teachings she presents hereknown as the Three Commitmentsprovide a treasure trove of wisdom for learning to step right into the unknown, to completely and fearlessly embrace the groundlessness of being human, for people of all faiths.
When we do, we begin to see not only how much better it feels to live an openhearted life, but we find that we begin to naturally and more effectively reach out to help and heal all those around us.
13. Becoming Bodhisattvas: A Guidebook for Compassionate Action
Author: by Pema Chödrön
English
408 pages
1611806321
Best-selling American Buddhist nun Pema Chdrn presents a friendly and encouraging guide to spiritual practice for all those who want to take up the path of the bodhisattva-one who aspires to live life with courage, generosity, patience, fearlessness, and compassion.
The Way of the Bodhisattva has long been treasured as an indispensable guide to enlightened living, offering a window into the greatest potential within us all. Written in the eighth century by the scholar and saint Shantideva, it presents a comprehensive view of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition’s highest idealto commit oneself to the life of a bodhisattva warrior, a person who is wholeheartedly dedicated to the freedom and common good of all beings.
And it has inspired many of the tradition’s greatest teachers, providing a remarkable source of insight on the means by which we may heal ourselves and our troubled world. These essential teachings present the core of the Buddhist path, from cultivating deep-seated confidence to infusing one’s life with selflessness, joyfulness, kindness, and compassion.
14. The Pocket Pema Chodron (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
Author: by Pema Chödrön
Shambhala
English
176 pages
A collection of short inspirational readings by one of the world’s wisest women and author of When Things Fall Apart (O, the Oprah Magazine)Pema Chdrn, beloved Buddhist nun and best-selling author, offers this treasury of 108 short selections from her more than four decades of study and writings.
Here she presents teachings on breaking free of destructive patterns; developing patience, kindness, and joy amid our everyday struggles; becoming fearless; and unlocking our natural warmth, intelligence, and goodness. Designed for on-the-go inspiration, this is a perfect guide to Buddhist principles and the foundations of meditation and mindfulness.
The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts. The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman. The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible, reader-friendly, and applicable to everyday life.
15. The Wisdom of No Escape: and the Path of Loving-Kindness
Author: by Pema Chödrön
Shambhala (July 31, 2018)
English
128 pages
The down-to-earth, unsentimental, [and] high-humored Pema Chdrn classic on learning to face our lives just as they are (Los Angeles Times) It’s true, as they say, that we can only love others when we first love ourselvesand we can only experience real joy when we stop running from pain.
The key to understanding these truisms is simple but not easy: we must learn to open ourselves up to life in all its manifestations. Here, spiritual teacher and When Things Fall Apart author Pema Chdrn presents a uniquely practical approach to doing just that, showing us the true value in having no escape from the ups and downs of life.
Drawing from her own experiences with marriage, divorce, motherhood, and more, Pema reveals that when we embrace the happiness and heartache, the inspiration and confusionall the twists and turns that are part of natural lifewe can begin to discover a true wellspring of courageous love that’s been within our hearts all along.
As she writes in chapter four: Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.
16. Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
Author: by Pema Chödrön
English
192 pages
1611805651
From the bestselling author of When Things Fall Apart, an open-hearted call for human connection, compassion, and learning to love the world just as it is during these most challenging times. In her first new book of spiritual teachings in over seven years, Pema Chdrn offers a combination of wisdom, heartfelt reflections, and the signature mix of humor and insight that have made her a beloved figure to turn to during times of change.
In an increasingly polarized world, Pema shows us how to strengthen our abilities to find common ground, even when we disagree, and influence our environment in positive ways. Sharing never-before told personal stories from her remarkable life, simple and powerful everyday practices, and directly relatable advice, Pema encourages us all to become triumphant bodhisattvas-compassionate beings-in times of hardship.
Welcoming the Unwelcome includes teachings on the true meaning of karma, recognizing the basic goodness in ourselves and the people we share our lives with-even the most challenging ones, transforming adversity into opportunities for growth, and freeing ourselves from the empty and illusory labels that separate us.
