{"title":"4. Free PDF Downloads of Books by other Buddhist teachers","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo spread the Dharma, we have collected PDFs of important Buddhist teachings from many different teachers representing many sects and lineages. If you \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003ehold the copyright \u003c\/span\u003eto any of these works and do not want us to use them, just email us (ClarkJohnson2011@gmail.com) and we will take them down within a week.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"x-bokar-rinpoche-chenrezig-the-lord-of-love-pdf","title":"Bokar Rinpoche Chenrezig, The Lord of Love (PDF)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Times',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eCHENREZIG LORD OF LOVE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Times',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eChenrezig is the most popular deity in Tibet. This is a very easy Vajrayana practice that develops a person's compassion. One high lama has said, \"However far you are one the path of compassion, that is how far along you are on the road to enlightenment.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Times',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Times',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eOne does not need an empowerment to do Chenrezig, it has a very simple, but powerful visualization, and the mantra is very concise: OM MANI PEDME HUNG.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Times',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Times',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eIn this 110 page book Bokar Rinpoche begins with explaining why one needs to do Chenrezig (sometimes called Avalokitishvara) practice, the principles behind this practice, and the phases one goes through in this practice. He then goes through basic information on meditation practice in general and then how one can apply these principles after one gets of the meditation cushion and continues one's daily life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Times',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Times',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eIf you are interested in doing this practice, please go to the practice section of this website and you can get a practice booklet with the whole practice in Tibetan and English with visualizations and other information for free download. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Times',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Times',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eChenrezig also has a tune which you can download from the Practice section and there are also many Chenrezig videos on YouTube. You will find the practice has different tunes and pronounces the Tibetan words slightly differently.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44483822616712,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/chenreziglordofloveCOVER.png?v=1763426970"},{"product_id":"bokar-rinpoche-chod-practice-manual-pdf","title":"Bokar Rinpoche Chod Practice Manual (PDF)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Chod practice is a special practice for reducing one's attachment to the self which is important in becoming a compassionate person. This practice developed by a highly realized Tibetan woman (Machig Labdrön) involves a liturgy in which we, to greatly simplify, visualize ourself and then visualize ourselves cutting up our body and self into pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBokar Rinpoche in this 142 page book explains the reasoning behind this  practice which was developed by the 14th Karmapa and  then presents in great detail (including dozens of diagrams) how to perform this practice in English. It also has an appendix which has the Tibetan text in pecha form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eObviously, to do the practice properly and get the most benefit from it, we should find a teacher who has done the practice and is qualified to give the empowerment for this practice. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44483908763784,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/BokarChodCOVER.png?v=1763428492"},{"product_id":"x-bokar-rinpoche-a-day-of-a-buddhist-practitioner-pdf","title":"Bokar Rinpoche Day of a Buddhist Practitioner (PDF)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eThis book by Bokar Rinpoche is something I have rarely seen in any other book. It begins when we wake up each day and what our first thought is, then how we expel the residual breath of the night. Then he gives instructions of setting up a simple shrine and a brief thought of Vajrasattva, then taking refuge and raising bodhichitta, then doing a very brief Chenrezig practice. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eBokar Rinpoche gives 6 simple mantras we can use in our daily life for certain situations and what we can do when we encounter negative thoughts in our daily life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eThis book of 96 pages then gives a 12 picture photo essay showing Bokar Rinpoche doing each of these activities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44483912368264,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/DayofBpractitionerCOVER.png?v=1763428831"},{"product_id":"bokar-rinpoche-death-and-the-art-of-dying-pdf","title":"Bokar Rinpoche Death and the Art of Dying (PDF)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFirst of all this 140 page book explains what happens when we die. Bokar Rinpoche describes the process of dying for ordinary beings, practitioners and also great practitioners. After we have stopped breathing, our mind continues on through the bardo of the moment of death, then the bardo of dharmata when the mind separates from the body, and finally the bardo of becoming in which we choose a rebirth. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eTo prepare for the process of dying, going through the bardos and being reborn to into a favorable body requires a great deal of practice before we die. Bokar explains these within understandable and lucid language and offers a great many insights of how to prepare for death.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44483915874440,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/DeathandartdyingCOVER.png?v=1763429095"},{"product_id":"bokar-rinpoche-tara-the-feminine-devine-pdf","title":"Bokar Rinpoche Tara the Feminine Devine (PDF Download)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eTara is one of most loved feminine deities in India and Tibet. Tara, like a good mother, has the main purpose of providing protection for those who need it. Tara came out of a tear of compassion of Chenrezig and provides protection from things such as poisonous snakes (a serious problem in India and other Buddhist countries), being falsely locked up or confined, drowning at sea thieves, and demons. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eThere are two major Tara practices: White Tara and the 21 Green Taras. The Practice Materials section carries both these practices.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eThis particular book of 178 pages he gives an extensive explanation of Green Tara practice in amazing 65 pages explaining the meaning of Tara.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eThese practices include both the original Tibetan text and the English translation of that text and an explanation of the verse and the visualization.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eThen Bokar Rinpoche has a whole chapter on Buddhism and women. And then presents line drawing of each of the 21 Taras with their the qualities mudras, and implements.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eIn short, this is an incredible book that gives the reader everything needed to understand and do the Green Tara practice. Of course, it is highly recommended that one learns the practice from a qualified teacher who has done the practice and to receive the empowerment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44483921051784,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/TarafeminedivineCOVER.png?v=1763430188"},{"product_id":"bokar-rinpoche-open-door-to-certainty-pdf","title":"Bokar Rinpoche Open Door to Certainty (PDF)","description":"\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; background: white;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times',serif; color: black; background: white;\"\u003eThrangu Rinpoche gave a commentary on the \u003ci\u003eOcean of Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e (Namo Buddha Publications carries the paperback and also the PDF of his commentary). Here Bokar Rinpoche's book has an extensive translation of the who \u003ci\u003eOcean of Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e text with the Tibetan script on the left page and a translation in English of the right page.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44484279107720,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/OpeningDoortoCertaintyCOVER.png?v=1763437066"},{"product_id":"dilgo-khentse-brilliantmoon-his-autobiography-free-downloads","title":"Dilgo Khentse Brilliant Moon: His Autobiography (PDF)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche was the perfect example of how a teacher can be source of inspiration. By reading the life story of such a great teacher, we can gain some understanding about what we could achieve if we were to follow such a teacher and receive , receive his instructions, and practice the way he did. What inspired me most in Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche is the beauty of his inner freedom no matter what happened around him.\"\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 2;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e––Sechen Rabjam\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44685789855880,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/DilgoKhentseBrilliantMoonHisautobiobgraphy2copy.png?v=1768253502"},{"product_id":"dowman-84-mahasiddhas-with-illustrations-downloaded-pdf","title":"Dowman 84 Mahasiddhas with Illustrations ( PDF download)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis book is on the 84 Mahamiddhas by Keith Dowman and illustrated by Robert Beer. This is a classic book because it is a sample of the mahasiddhas who lived in India and reached enlightenment. Some were farmers, some bakers, some thieves, hunters, madmen, and kings. These stories formed the basis of reaching realization using the methods of tantra. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e“There is no better illustration of the nature of Tantric Buddhism than the lives of the masters who founded it. These beautifully illustrated stories of the extraordinary men and women attained enlightenment and magical powers by disregarding convention.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44685841531016,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/DowmanandBeer84Mahasiddha2copy.png?v=1768254603"},{"product_id":"dowman-the-devine-madman-free-pdf","title":"Dowman: The Devine Madman (Free PDF download)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis is the story of Drukpa Kunley who was a completely free mahasiddha who used his powers to very conventional ways of helping people. In his time he was considered a madman, but since then the stories of his Dharma activities have become famous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eKeith Dowman has compiled and translated Drukpa Kunley’s\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003estories into text.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44685902119048,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/DowmanDivineMadman2copy.png?v=1768257168"},{"product_id":"dowman-guide-to-kathmandu-power-places-free-download","title":"Dowman Guide Power Places in Kathmandu (PDF)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Kathmadu Valley where Kathmandu is located has many, many places where positive has accumulated from worship and deities of many religions including Buddhism. These places have been worshiped for over 1,000 years and this guide of over 100 pages gives locations to where these places are and why they are sacred. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44685971128456,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/GuidetoKathmanduPowerPlaces.png?v=1768259845"},{"product_id":"dilgo-khentse-100-verses","title":"Dilgo Khyentse 100 Verses (PDF)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eThis commentary on Padampa Sangye’s classic verses of advice to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eTibetan villagers of Tingri—by renowned and beloved meditation \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003emaster Dilgo Khyentse—offers guidance for people trying to lead a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003edharmic life in the workaday world. These hundred verses, studied for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003ecenturies by Tibetans and students of Buddhism, contain a complete\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003esurvey of the Tibetan Buddhist path. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eDilgo Khyentse’s lively explication of each stanza brings to light subtleties and amplifies the richness of the words and their pertinence to our lives. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eThese two \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003evenerable teachers advise us in relating to everyday difficulties such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eloneliness, craving, family squabbles, competition in business, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003edisagreements with neighbors, and betrayal by friends—as challenging \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eto us as they have been to meditators for centuries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003ePadampa Sangye wrote 100 verses on advice and all aspect of a practitioner's life and Practice. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e“An extraordinary treasure: a moving and deeply transforming teaching by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of the greatest masters of our time.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e—Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44692287160456,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/DilgoKhyentse100VersesofAdvice2copy.png?v=1768515019"},{"product_id":"dilgo-khentse-brilliant-moon-his-autobiobgraphy-free-pdf-download","title":"Dilgo Khyentse Brilliant Moon His Autobiography (PDF)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDilgo Khentse was a great Buddhist teacher as is shown in this beautiful autobiography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\"Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche was the perfect example of how a teacher can be source of inspiration. By reading the life story of such a great teacher, we can gain some understanding about what we could achieve if we were to follow such a teacher and receive , receive his instructions, and practice the way he did. 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This is the aim of what we call the preliminary practices, which establish the foundations of all spiritual progress. You may feel like dispensing with these foundations in order to practice teachings that you think are more profound, but if you do so, you are building a palace on the surface of a frozen lake.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-outline-level: 3; background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eHere is an explanation of these preliminary practices. 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In Nepal he built a monastery with his wife and son (both also great practitioners) and began teaching and giving empowerments from Remi Buddhist movement (the move to unify all major lineages of Tibet) to thousands of high lamas, monks, laypersons, and westerners. He was so prominent that when Dudjom Rinpoche passed away, he was asked to head the Nyingma Lineage. A 97-minute video of his life can be viewed on YouTube.com (under Dilgo Khyentse) showing his amazing life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis book is a teaching on the Atisha's \u003ci\u003eSeven Points of Mind Training\u003c\/i\u003e and was translated by the Padmakara Translation Group, Mind training is an important practice to do in our ordinary life rather than on the meditation cushion. These are a set of about 50 instructions such as \"Do not praise with hidden motives\" and in this book Khyentse Rinpoche is a teaching on the behavior is and why it needs to be corrected.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44692436517000,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/DilgokhyentseEnlightenedCourage2.png?v=1768519670"},{"product_id":"dilgo-khyentse-heart-of-compassion-free-pdf-download","title":"Dilgo Khyentse Heart of Compassion (PDF)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a teaching from Khyentse on the 37 Practices of Ngulchu Thogma\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese 37 practices are famous because they take the vast Bodhisattva's Way of Life book of how we should all practice in our daily life and condenses it into 37 practices which is easy to memorize and remembered as we go through our life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44692450705544,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/DilgoKheyentseHeartofCompassion2.png?v=1768520407"},{"product_id":"devine-madman-free-pdf-download","title":"Dowman Devine Madman (PDF)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis is the story of Drukpa Kunley who was a completely free mahasiddha who used his powers to very conventional ways of helping people. 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This tantra explains that everything that we experience of phenomena is \"light.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe first 60 pages of the 300 pages of this book is an extensive commentary by Keith Dowman on the tantra. 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They were transmitted by a Tibetan monk called Vairotsana who distinguished himself not only in the field of translation, emerging as the greatest of the Tibetan lotsawas, but also as a traveler and pilgrim who left the Land of the Snows for the hills of the Hindu Kush to bring back a canon of Dzogchen texts from its closely guarded source. Returning from Oddiyana, where he had received the transmission of Dzogchen Ati from Shri Singha, he immediately translated these five tantras into Tibetan, and they became known as the Five Early Translations and constitute the root and essence of Dzogchen in Tibet-basic, raw Dzogchen precepts that are appropriately designated 'radical Dzogchen'.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44700159541384,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/DowmanEyeoftheStorm2copy.png?v=1768783966"},{"product_id":"dowman-flight-of-the-garuda-free-pdf-download","title":"Dowman Flight of the Garuda (Free PDF Download)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eThis book contains the English translation of four Dzokchen texts belonging to the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eDzokchen, the Great Perfection, is the quintessence of the tantric paths to Buddhahood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e         \u003c\/span\u003eAmong these texts, Secret Instruction in a Garland of Vision is one of three texts said to have been written by Padmasambhava, Tibet’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003egreat Guru, who visited Tibet in the eighth century. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e         \u003c\/span\u003eThe Flight of the Garuda, written by Shabkar Lama in the nineteenth century, comprises a series of twenty-three spiritual songs designed to inspire and instruct the yogin practicing Dzokchen trekcho meditation.  And \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e two shorter works from extracts from two termas” Emptying the Depths of Helu revealed by Guru Chowong and The Wishing Prayer of Kuntu Zangpo, revealed by Rikdzin Godemchan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eDowman Flight of the Geruda\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eThis book contains the English translation of four Dzokchen \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003etexts belonging to the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eDzokchen, the Great Perfection, is the quintessence of the tantric \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003epaths to Buddhahood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eAmong these texts, Secret Instruction in a Garland of Vision is one \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eof three texts said to have been written by Padmasambhava, Tibet’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003egreat Guru, who visited Tibet in the eighth century. 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In this book Dzigar Kongtrul carefully follows the Mind Training practice and explain how one can develop true Compassion in one's practice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-outline-level: 3; background: white; margin: 15.0pt 4.5pt 15.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003eThrangu Rinpoche also has two books on the Mind Training practice--\u003ci\u003eThe Seven Points of Mind Training\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of Dharma\u003c\/i\u003e available on this website.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44743601750152,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/DzigarKongtrulIntelligentHeart2.png?v=1769971659"},{"product_id":"dzigar-kongtrul-it-is-up-to-you-pdf","title":"Dzigar Kongtrul It is Up to You (PDF)","description":"\u003cp style=\"background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;\"\u003eHave you ever wondered it you could explain all the important ideas and beliefs in Buddhism without using any complicated Buddhist words, not using concepts such as bodhichitta, disturbing emotions Shamatha and so on,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 15.5pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWell, this has been done by Dzigar Kongtrul in his book \u003cem\u003eIt is Up to You\u003c\/em\u003e. For example, he describes emptiness as \"Training in emptiness means relaxing and letting go.\" or explaining the problemes of self-cherishing as \"seeing the world as our tangerine.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 15.5pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;\"\u003eThis is a very nicely produced book of 120 pages and you can give this book to any friend who was curious about Buddhism, but knew very little about it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44743605616776,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/DzigarKongtrulItsUptoYou2.png?v=1769972003"},{"product_id":"dzigar-kongtrul-light-comes-through-pdf","title":"Dzigar Kongtrul Light Comes Through (PDF)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-outline-level: 3; background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003eIn this book of 123 pages Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche devotes the first half of the book to a chapter each on the five disturbing emotions that must be overcome to make progress on the Buddhist path. These are not dry Dharma teachings about the characteristics of these emotions, but are written with explanations of these from his heart. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-outline-level: 3; background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003e\"Light Comes Through\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003e is an inspired, well-written, and creative examination of topics such as faith, romance, developing happiness for others, and facing our own suffering with perspective and compassion. It is a wonderful guidebook for living a very different kind of life.\"- -Sharon Salzberg,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44743624261768,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/DzigarKongtrulLightComesThrough2copy_82e63715-1c9b-422f-a77f-0846fbce8c56.png?v=1769972566"},{"product_id":"dzigar-rinpoche-peaceful-heart-pdf","title":"Dzigar Kongtrul Peaceful Heart (PDF)","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePeaceful Heart: The Buddhist Practice of Patience\u003c\/em\u003e Dzigar Kongtrul gives a very lucid verse by verse explanation of the Sixth Chapter of Shantideva's\u003cem\u003e A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life\u003c\/em\u003e on the third Paramita of patience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 15.5pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44743640940680,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/DzigarKongtrulPeacefulHeart2.png?v=1769972963"},{"product_id":"dzigar-kongtrul-training-in-tenderness-pdf","title":"Dzigar Kongtrul Training in Tenderness (PDF)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis book whose full title is \u003ci\u003eTraining in Tenderness: Buddhist teachings on tsewa, The radical openness of heart that can change the world\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique teaching in that it explains the whole length and breadth of the Tibetan word\u003ci\u003e tsewa \u003c\/i\u003e(Tib. brtse ba) which can roughly be translated as tenderness, benevolence, or compassion. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e“Deep, inspiring, and disarmingly simple, this book demonstrates our innate capacity for tenderness. A warm heart is the source of compassion, loving- kindness, and equanimity, even in the face of death. Thanks to the clear mind and kind heart of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, we now have a guide to cultivating this most precious quality and letting it shine out to the world.” —Jan Chozen Bays\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e“It is possible to cultivate true happiness in all aspects of our daily lives and to change our reality—and that of the people around us—in the process. It’s all about arousing the warmth of heart that is our birthright as humans. Dzigar Kongtrul’s potent instruction manual shows you how.” —Lodro Rinzler\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44743645069448,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/DzigarKongtrulTraininginTenderness2.png?v=1769973310"},{"product_id":"kalu-rinpoche-dharma-that-illuminates-all-beings-pdf","title":"Kalu Rinpoche Dharma that Illuminates All Beings (PDF)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe Very Venerable Kalu Rinpoche a beloved world-wide for his gentle, sincere, and straightforward way of presenting the Buddhist teachings, the Very Venerable Kalu Rinpoche is universally revered as one of the greatest Tibetan yogis of the century. Spending over 30 years meditating in hermitages and caves in the Himalayas, he achieved a profound level of realization and has often been compared to the great Buddhist saint, Milarepa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis book whose full title is \u003ci\u003eThe Dharma That Illuminates All Beings \u003c\/i\u003eis a set of some of his clear and interesting teachings for beginning students and covers The Four Noble Truths and the Four Dharmas of Gampopa. He then gives an overview of the bardo (the period between dying and rebirth), and the meaning of the mandala. Then he presents the meaning of vows for lay persons and the ordained in a modern context. there is a chapter on \"women, Siddhi (the powers obtained with practice) and Dharma.\" Finally Kalu Rinpoche gives a teaching on the main meditation practice of the Kagyu lineage which is Mahamudra.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44743646806152,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/KaluRinpocheDharmaThatIlluminatesAllBeings2.png?v=1769973802"},{"product_id":"kalu-rinpoche-excellent-buddhism-an-exemplary-life-pdf","title":"Kalu Rinpoche Excellent Buddhism: An Exemplary Life (PDF)","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;\"\u003eThe first was \u003cem\u003eExcellent Buddhism\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003ci\u003eAn Exemplary Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econtains information on how to practice in daily life and also give some background to Kalu Rinpoche.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 15.5pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44743664992392,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/KaluRinpocheExcellentBuddhism2.png?v=1769974297"},{"product_id":"kalu-rinpoche-fourndation-of-buddhist-meditation-pdf","title":"Kalu Rinpoche Four Foundations of Buddhist Meditation (PDF)","description":"\u003cp style=\"background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\"\u003eThe Foundation of Buddhist Meditation outlines the basic meditation practices common to all sects of Tibetan Buddhism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\"\u003eThe late Kalu Rinpoche, the head of the Shang-pa Kagyu tradition, was one of Tibet's foremost living meditation masters, and has guided hundreds of disciples through three-year retreats in many countries. It is hoped that this meditation manual will provide the reader with a deeper insight into the complex scope of Tibetan Buddhist thought and practice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\"\u003eIn this manual, the four teachings which motivate religious practice and the attributes of the Three Jewels are explained. If one completely understands the significance of all these things, one will turn away from the cycle of existence and strive to procure freedom, will believe in action and result (karma), and will either obtain Buddhahood in this life or will become free of this cycle, etc. Moreover when many positive qualities are cultivated, one will consolidate a basis for the holy Dharma. So, please, don't just penetrate the significance of all three things, but, in addition, strive at Dharma practice.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e–Kalu Rinpoche\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44743689797768,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/KaluRinpocheFoundationofBuddhistMeditation2.png?v=1769974904"},{"product_id":"kalu-rinpoche-gently-whispered-teachings-pdf","title":"Kalu Rinpoche Gently Whispered Teachings (PDF)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; mso-outline-level: 1; background: white; margin: 15.0pt 4.5pt 15.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; background: white;\"\u003eThis book is a collection of a variety of Kalu Rinpoche's teachings including teachings on the nature of mind, the refuge vow, the bardo, Vajrayana and Mantrayana practices, the bodhisattva vows, and Mahamudra meditation. 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This book covers the use of mantras, empowerments, the six dharmas of Naropa as well as teachings on the bardo (the period from death and the next lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44744059388040,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/KaluRinpocheSecretBuddhismtheVajrayana2.png?v=1769983191"},{"product_id":"tai-situ-mahamudra-teachings-pdf","title":"Tai Situ Mahamudra Teachings (PDF)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormalCxSpFirst\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eTai Situpa was one of the four regents of the Kagyu Lineage and Khenpo Tsultrim’s was in the first shedra taught by Thrangu Rinpoche and Khenpo Karthar at Rumtek. 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In the applications of Mahamudra meditation there is no conflict between the responsibilities of daily life and dharma practice...However, in order to understand the essential points of the path it is very useful to be able to read and study the great treatises of the Mahamudra masters of the past...It is also beneficial and easier for the beginner to be able to read commentaries of teachers of the present time...such as His Eminence Tai Situ Rinpoche have the ability to explain the essential points of these treatises and help those on the path to understand the teachings.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e         \u003c\/span\u003eThis PDF of 80 pages is an exact copy of the book which includes three line drawings lineage holders. 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He has been teaching he speaks fluent English and has been teaching for 40 years, but very few of books of his teachings in English are available. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e            \u003c\/span\u003eIn\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWay to Go \u003c\/i\u003eTai Situ begins with an explanation the four seals which are the basis of the entire Buddhist path. Without understanding these, all later Buddhist topics will be incomplete.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e            \u003c\/span\u003eHe then discusses refuge and bodhichitta including the four immeasurables, the six paramitas and the bodhisattva commitments in a very direct way and detailed way. We need to understand these to understand how we should conduct ourselves as Buddhist in the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e            \u003c\/span\u003eIn the last half of this book, Tai Situ Rinpoche gives a detailed teaching on the \u003ci\u003eSeven Points of Mind Training\u003c\/i\u003e with each point covering an important aspect of our behavior in daily life and also in our meditation practice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e            \u003c\/span\u003eThis PDF is 106 pages long and includes 12 original calligraphies by Tai Situ Rinpoche.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44746315235464,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/TaiSituWaytoGo2.png?v=1770057403"},{"product_id":"dilgo-khentse-primordial-purity-pdf","title":"Dilgo Khyentse Primordial Purity (PDF)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eDilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was a brilliant practitioner and teacher. He spent years in Tibet many of it in retreat in caves and escaped to Nepal in the 1960s. In Nepal he built a monastery with his wife and son (both also great practitioners) and began teaching and giving empowerments from Remi Buddhist movement (the move to unify all major lineages of Tibet) to thousands of high lamas, monks, laypersons, and westerners. 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The second turning founded by Nagarjuna based a great deal of their additions and expositions on the concept of emptiness. If a practitioner does not understand the empty and illusory manner of daily phenomena, they will have a great deal of trouble in their meditation and being on the path to enlightenment. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-outline-level: 3; background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;\"\u003eSo the concept of emptiness is important to understand and as a result Tibetan monastic college (\u003ci\u003eshedras\u003c\/i\u003e) devote up to almost a year study emptiness as explained by Chandrakirti's \u003ci\u003eEntrance to the middle Way\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-outline-level: 3; background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;\"\u003eKhenpo Tsultrim Rinpoche besides being an outstanding teacher spent many years of his life as a yogi practicing. 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If you were able to attend any of their teachings you would see Palden Sherab teaching in Tibetan and his brother translating. This team which took on both elementary and very advanced topics--many, but not all from the Nyingma prospective--to give their students a well-rounded set of teachings on Buddhism. We have had to shorten the title of this book and the names of the \"two khenpos\" as they are often called but these teachings are a collaboration of both brothers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eThis book is on a controversy that developed in Tibet concerning the exact meaning and qualities of emptiness. 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