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Buddhist Psychology : The Foundation of Buddhist Thought - Volume 3

Geshe Tashi Tsering

Publié en 2006

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This new volume from the Foundation of Buddhist Thought series, provides a stand-alone and systematic - but accessible - entry into how Buddhism understands the mind. Geshe Tashi, an English-speaking Tibetan monk who lives in London, was trained from boyhood in a traditional Tibetan monastery and is adept in communicating this classical training to a modern Western audience. Buddhist Psychology addresses both the nature of the mind and how we know what we know. Just as scientists observe and catalog the material world, Buddhists for centuries have been observing and cataloging the components of inner experience. The result is a rich and subtle knowledge that can be harnessed to the goal of increasing human well being.

Language: English.

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The Awakening Mind : The Foundation of Buddhist Thought - Volume 4

Geshe Tashi Tsering

Publié en 2008

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Bodhichitta, often translated as "great compassion," is the gem at the heart of Buddhism. From this altruistic desire to serve others, all other Buddhist practices naturally flow, therefore, this state of mind is one Buddhists should understand and cultivate. In The Awakening Mind, Geshe Tashi Tsering leads us through the two main methods to develop bodhichitta that have been developed by the great Indian and Tibetan Buddhists over the centuries: the seven points of cause and effect, and equalizing and exchanging the self with others. This is the fourth release from Geshe Tashi's Foundation of Buddhist Thought series, which individually and collectively represent an excellent introduction to Tibetan Buddhism. These unique and friendly books are based on the curriculum of a popular course of the same name, developed by Geshe Tashi himself. Geshe Tashi's presentations combine rigor and comprehensiveness with lucidity and accessibility, never divorced from the basic humanity and warmth of his personality. In Geshe Tashi, we encounter the new generation of Tibetan monk-scholars teaching in the West who are following in the footsteps of such revered and groundbreaking teachers as Geshe Wangyal and Geshe Sopa.

Language: English.

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Tantra : The Foundation of Buddhist Thought - Volume 6

Geshe Tashi Tsering

Publié en 2012

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In this sixth and final volume in the Foundation of Buddhist Thought series, Geshe Tashi Tsering brings his familiar, helpful approach to the esoteric practices of Buddhist tantra. Anticipating the many questions Westerners have upon first encountering tantra's colorful imagery and veiled language, Tantra uses straight talk to explain deities, initiations, mandalas, and the body's subtle physiology of channels and chakras. Tantric Buddhism provides a quick avenue to buddhahood by means of dissolving the body's wind energies into the central channel at the heart, mimicking the transformations of consciousness that occur at the time of death. Guiding readers systematically from tantra's generation stage through to the full enlightenment of the completion stage, Geshe Tashi Tsering even unpacks a simple compassion practice composed by the Dalai Lama, using it to illustrate the building blocks common to all such visualization techniques. Tantra is a fitting conclusion to this accessible and practical series.

Language: English.

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The Hundred verses of advice of Padampa Sangye

Dilgo Khyentse

Publié en 2002

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Vajra Heart

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Publié en 1988 Rangjung Yeshe Publications
134 p.

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Dzogchen teachings

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Vajra Heart

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Publié en 1988 Rangjung Yeshe Publications
134 p.

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Dzogchen teachings

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Food of Bodhisattvas, Buddhist teachings on abstaining from meat

Lama Shabkar, Jatang Tsogdruk Rangdrol

Publié en 2004 Shambala, Shambhala
144 p.

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This book offers the most compelling and impassioned indictment of meat-eating to be found in Tibetan literature and is pertinent to anyone interested in vegetarianism as a moral or spiritual issue.

Translated by the Padmakara translation group

Langue : Anglais

Food of Bodhisattvas, Buddhist teachings on abstaining from meat

Lama Shabkar, Jatang Tsogdruk Rangdrol

Publié en 2004 Shambala, Shambhala
144 p.

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This book offers the most compelling and impassioned indictment of meat-eating to be found in Tibetan literature and is pertinent to anyone interested in vegetarianism as a moral or spiritual issue.

Translated by the Padmakara translation group

Langue : Anglais

The Flight Of The Garuda

Dowman Keith

Publié en 1994

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Dzogchen, a tradition of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, is considered by many to be an extremely powerful path to enlightenment. This ground-breaking book offers translations of four sacred texts of the Dzogchen tradition: Secret Instruction in a Garland of Vision, The Flight of the Garuda, Emptying the Depths of Hell, and the Wish-Granting Prayer of Kuntu Zangpo. With an informative introduction by the translator, Flight of the Garuda is an invaluable resource for both practice and scholarship. Flight of the Garuda conveys the heart advice of one of the most beloved nonsectarian masters of Tibet. Ordained as a Gelug monk, the itinerant yogi Shabkar was renowned for his teachings on Dzogchen, the heart practice of the Nyingma lineage. He wandered the countryside of Tibet and Nepal, turning many minds toward the Dharma through his ability to communicate the essence of the teachings in a poetic and crystal-clear way. Buddhists of all stripes, including practitioners of Zen and Vipassana, will find ample sustenance within the pages of this book, and be thrilled by the lyrical insights conveyed in Shabkar's words. Along with the song by Shabkar, translator Keith Dowman includes several other seminal Dzogchen texts. Dzogchen practice brings us into direct communion with the subtlemost nature of our experience, the unity of samsara in nirvana as experienced within our own consciousness. Within the Nyingma school, it is held higher than even the practices of tantra for bringing the meditator face to face with the nature of reality.

Language: English.

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Dakini Teachings : Padmasambhava's Oral Instructions to Lady Tsogyal

Yeshe Tsogyal

Publié en 1990

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Padmasambhava, the Indian mystic and tantric Buddhist master, is second only to Buddha Shakyamuni as the most famous personage in the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism. In the ninth century, he made the journey across the Himalayan Mountains to establish Buddhism for the people in that country. Now, more than 1,000 years later, we are able to hear and be touched by his voice as contained within this collection of oral advice. The selections in Dakini Teachings are timely advice - short, direct instructions relating to the three levels of Buddhist practice: Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. The main emphasis of Padmasambhava's teaching is that spiritual knowledge must be personalized and not remain as mere theory. The book includes an introductory discourse by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and a short biography of Padmasambhava by Jamgon Kongtrul the First.

Language: English. Translator(s) Erik Pema Kunsang

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Magic Dance - The Display Of The Self Nature Of The Five Wisdom Dakinis

Thinley Norbu

Publié en 1985

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This is a unique and powerful presentation of the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism on the five elements: earth, water, air, fire, and space. In their gross and subtle forms, these elements combine to make up the infinite illusory display of phenomenal existence. Through teachings, stories, and his distinctive use of language, Thinley Norbu Rinpoche relates how the energies of the elements manifest within our everyday world, in individual behavior and group traditions, relationships and solitude, medicine and art. He explains their links to the five Buddha families and their respective Wisdom Dakinis, and shows how each element relates to our senses, temperament, passions, habits, and karmic potentials. This magic dance of the elements, he concludes, can be transformed through meditation practice and cultivating the calm, vast, and playful state of consciousness that he calls "playmind."

Language: English.

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Les Cents Conseils de Padampa Sangye

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Publié en 2000

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Ce livre de Padampa Sangyé, grand maître et érudit du XIème siècle, comporte un commentaire de Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpotché. Il prodigue des conseils à tous les méditants qui tentent de vivre dans le monde de tous les jours et veulent maintenir leur pratique des enseignements bouddhistes. Le maître et yogi indien Padampa Sangyé était un grand voyageur. Les chroniques rapportent qu'il franchit la frontière népalo-tibétaine en l'an 1091. Après un séjour de dix ans au Tibet, il voyagea douze ans en Chine, après quoi il revint au Pays des Neiges pour y rester jusqu'à sa mort. On ignore ce que le grand yogi fit en Chine, même si certains aiment à voir en lui un Bodhidharma du second millénaire. En revanche, on sait de source sûre que parmi ses disciples tibétains se trouvait l'excellente adepte de la Connaissance Transcendante, Machik Labdreum (1031-1129). De retour à Tingri, le maître décide, en 1117, d'abandonner son corps : ce sera l'occasion pour lui de prononcer son testament, un enseignement complet où la conscience et la méditation de la mort culminent dans l'Eveil lui-même, lequel, dans les enseignements les plus élevés, constitue la voie proprement dite. Chacune des cent et une strophes de ce testament est généreusement, commentée par Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoché (1910-1991), dont la pensée poursuit et précise les déclarations de son ancêtre spirituel en nous montrant que les " gens de Tingri " ne sont autres que tous les chercheurs de vérité. Point par point, le dernier chant du maître se trouve donc explicité et élargi à l'infini pour que chacun y trouve son compte de consolation et d'instructions pratiques. Comme Padampa Sangyé, c'est avec un amour équanime et sans concessions flatteuses que Khyentsé Rinpoché nous rappelle les secrets de notre liberté fondamentale - sans complications inutiles, mais avec plus de finesse et d'exhaustivité qu'on ne trouvera jamais dans les gloses purement érudites.

Langue : français. Traducteur(s)/Traductrice(s) : RICARD Mathieu ; comité de traduction Padmakara.

Langue : Français