Harding, Sarah, trans. Chöd: The Sacred Teachings on Severance. Vol. 14 of The Treasury of Precious Instructions: Essential Teachings of the Eight Practice Lineages of Tibet (gdams ngag rin po che'i mdzod), compiled by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas). Tsadra Foundation Series. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion, 2016.
Books · Translations
Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind
Fletcher, Wulstan, and Helena Blankleder (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind. Volume 1 of The Trilogy of Rest. By Longchenpa (klong chen rab 'byams pa dri med 'od zer). Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017.
Books · Translations
The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Book 13
Dorje, Gyurme, trans. The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Book 13: Philosophical Systems and Lines of Transmission. By Choying Tobden Dorje (chos dbying stobs ldan rdo rje). Tsadra Foundation Series. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion, 2017.
Books · Translations
The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Book 14
Zangpo, Ngawang (Hugh Leslie Thompson) trans. The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Book 14: An Overview of Buddhist Tantra. By Choying Tobden Dorje (chos dbying stobs ldan rdo rje). Tsadra Foundation Series. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion, 2017.
Books · Translations
The Just King
Cabezón, José Ignacio, trans. The Just King: The Tibetan Buddhist Classic on Leading an Ethical Life. By Jamgön Mipham. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion, 2017.
Books · Translations
The Wisdom Chapter
Fletcher, Wulstan, and Helena Blankleder (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Wisdom Chapter: Jamgön Mipham's Commentary on the Ninth Chapter of "The Way of the Bodhisattva." Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017.
Another beautifully printed art book from the Rubin Museum including the excellent scholarship of David Jackson. "Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized and presented by the Rubin Museum of Art, New York, September 5, 2014 through February 2, 2015....David Jackson focuses on the Khyenri style, the least known among the three major painting styles of Tibet, dating from the mid-fifteenth through the seventeenth century. The painting of Khyentse Chenmo, the founder of the Khyenri style who flourished from the 1450s to the 1490s, was significant for his radical rejection of the prevailing, classic Indic (especially Nepalese-inspired) styles with formal red backgrounds, enthusiastically replacing them with the intense greens and blues of Chinese landscapes. Jackson also brings to light several of Khyentse's paintings in museums outside Tibet, including some that have been unrecognized for over a century." (Source)
The Instructions on the Six Lamps is a profound and important work from the Bön Dzogchen tradition and is one of the root texts of the Zhangzhung Nyengyü (Oral Transmission of Zhangzhung) series of orally transmitted teachings. Considered to be the central work of the inner cycle of these teachings, it expertly details the principles of the natural state and its visionary marvels. The root text describes highly secret precepts of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) practice—the teachings of Trekchö and Thögel—as revealed by Tapihritsa to Gyerpung Nangzher Löpo.
The teachings in this text represent oral instructions transmitted by a single master to a single disciple in the mode known as “single transmission.” It is through such a practice that one can see the clear light of one’s own mind before achieving complete buddhahood. In this respect, the text contains a complete teaching of Dzogchen, from beginning to end. (Source: Wisdom Publications)
In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903–51) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native land after twelve years in India and Sri Lanka. But he did not receive the welcome he imagined: he was arrested by the government of the regent of the young Dalai Lama on trumped-up charges of treason. He emerged from prison three years later a broken man and died soon after.
Gendun Chopel was a prolific writer during his short life. Yet he considered that manuscript, which he titled Grains of Gold, to be his life’s work, one to delight his compatriots with tales of an ancient Indian and Tibetan past, while alerting them to the wonders and dangers of the strikingly modern land abutting Tibet’s southern border, the British colony of India. Now available for the first time in English, Grains of Gold is a unique compendium of South Asian and Tibetan culture that combines travelogue, drawings, history, and ethnography. Gendun Chopel describes the world he discovered in South Asia, from the ruins of the sacred sites of Buddhism to the Sanskrit classics he learned to read in the original. He is also sharply, often humorously critical of the Tibetan love of the fantastic, bursting one myth after another and finding fault with the accounts of earlier Tibetan pilgrims. Exploring a wide range of cultures and religions central to the history of the region, Gendun Chopel is eager to describe all the new knowledge he gathered in his travels to his Buddhist audience in Tibet.
At once the account of the experiences of a tragic figure in Tibetan history and the work of an extraordinary scholar, Grains of Gold is an accessible, compelling work animated by a sense of discovery of both a distant past and a strange present. (Source: University of Chicago Press)
We tend to think that the Buddha has always been seen as the compassionate sage admired around the world today, but until the nineteenth century, Europeans often regarded him as a nefarious figure, an idol worshipped by the pagans of the Orient. Donald S. Lopez Jr. offers here a rich sourcebook of European fantasies about the Buddha drawn from the works of dozens of authors over fifteen hundred years, including Clement of Alexandria, Marco Polo, St. Francis Xavier, Voltaire, and Sir William Jones.
Featuring writings by soldiers, adventurers, merchants, missionaries, theologians, and colonial officers, this volume contains a wide range of portraits of the Buddha. The descriptions are rarely flattering, as all manner of reports—some accurate, some inaccurate, and some garbled—came to circulate among European savants and eccentrics, many of whom were famous in their day but are long forgotten in ours. Taken together, these accounts present a fascinating picture, not only of the Buddha as he was understood and misunderstood for centuries, but also of his portrayers. (Source: University of Chicago Press)
Translations from 2020
Books · Translations
A Guide to the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva
Stagg, Christopher. A Guide to the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion, 2020.
Books · Translations, Edited Dharma Teaching
A Harmony of Views
Thrangu Rinpoche. A Harmony of Views: Three Songs by Ju Mipham, Changkya Rolpay Dorje, and Chögyam Trungpa.Boulder, CO: Snow Lion, 2020.
Books · Translations
A Mirror of Jewels which Clears Away Errors
Ehrhard, Franz-Karl. A Mirror of Jewels which Clears Away Errors: A Critical Guide to the Buddhist Sacred Sites of the Nepal Valley. Bhairahawa, Nepal: Lumbini International Research Institute, 2020.
Books · Translations, Dharma Practice Booklets
Chöd Khandro Gadyang: Sound of Dakini Laughter
Rigdzin, Chimed, ed. Chöd Khandro Gadyang: Sound of Dakini Laughter - The Method for Cutting the Ego by Padmasambhava and Jigme Lingpa. Berlin, Germany: Wandel Verlag, 2020.
Books · Translations, Contemporary Buddhist Writings
Forbidden Memory
Woeser, Tsering. Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2020.
Books · Translations
Jigme Lingpa's Yeshe Lama
Lama Chönam and Sangye Khandro (Light of Berotsana), trans. Jigmed Lingpa's Yeshe Lama: An Extensive Oral Commentary by Khenchen Namdrol Rinpoche. Ashland, OR: Berotsana Publications, 2020.
Books · Translations
Jonang: The One Hundred and Eight Teaching Manuals
Dorje, Gyurme, trans. Jonang: The One Hundred and Eight Teaching Manuals. Vol. 18 of The Treasury of Precious Instructions: Essential Teachings of the Eight Practice Lineages of Tibet (gdams ngag rin po che'i mdzod), compiled by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas). Tsadra Foundation Series. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion, 2020.
Books · Translations
Le Tantra du Choral des noms de Mañjuśrī Commenté par Vimalamitra
Carré, Patrick, trans. Le Tantra du Choral des noms de Mañjuśrī Commenté par Vimalamitra. Collection Tsadra. Le Plantou, France: Éditions Padmakara, 2020.
Books · Translations
Les Systèmes Philosophiques Bouddhistes (Charrier 2020)
Charrier, Christian, trans. Trésor de connaissances: Les systèmes philosophiques bouddhistes - Volume 1. By Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas). Collection Tsadra. Le Plantou, France: Éditions Padmakara, 2020.
Books · Translations
Lion of Speech
Fletcher, Wulstan, and Helena Blankleder (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. Lion of Speech: The Life of Mipham Rinpoche. By Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2020.
A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
Gyaltsen, Lama Kalsang, and Ani Kunga Chodron, trans. A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas Written by Sazang Mati Panchen: Known as An Extremely Clear Illumination of the Meaning of the Text. Walden, NY: Tsechen Kunchab Ling, 2019. First edition published by The Yeshe Dorje Foundation in 2006.
Books · Translations
Beautiful Adornment of Mount Meru
Lopez, Donald S., Jr., trans. Beautiful Adornment of Mount Meru: A Presentation of Classical Indian Philosophy. By Changkya Rölpai Dorjé (Lcang skya rol pa'i rdo rje). Library of Tibetan Classics 24. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2019.
Books · Translations
Bodhicaryāvatāra with Commentary (O'Sullivan)
O'Sullivan, Adrian, trans. Bodhicaryāvatāra with Commentary. By Śāntideva and Sonam Tsemo. Los Angeles: Dechen Foundation, 2019.
Books · Translations
Brilliantly Illuminating Lamp of the Five Stages (2019)
Thurman, Robert A. F., trans. Brilliantly Illuminating Lamp of the Five Stages (rim lnga rab tu gsal ba'i sgron me): Practical Instruction in the King of Tantras, The Glorious Esoteric Community. By Tsong Khapa Losang Drakpa. Edited by Thomas F. Yarnall. Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences Series, Tengyur Translation Initiative, and Complete Works of Jey Tsong Khapa and Sons Collection. 2nd ed. New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies; Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2019.
Books · Translations
Buddha Mind - Christ Mind
Schmidt-Leukel, Perry. Buddha Mind - Christ Mind: A Christian Commentary on the Bodhicaryāvatāra. With a new translation by Ernst Steinkellner and Cynthia Peck-Kubaczek. Christian Commentaries on Non-Christian Sacred Texts 9. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishers, 2019. https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/buddhistwomen2020/files/2020/03/BCA_Translation.pdf.
Books · Translations, Edited Dharma Teaching
Buddha Nature (Shamar)
Draszczyk, Martina, trans. Buddha Nature: Our Potential for Wisdom, Compassion, and Happiness. By Shamar Rinpoche. Lexington, VA: Bird of Paradise Press, 2019.
Higgins, David, and Martina Draszczyk. Buddha Nature Reconsidered: The Eighth Karma pa's Middle Path. Vol. 2, An Anthology of His Writings: Critical Texts and Annotated Translations. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien, 2019.
Books · Translations
Buddha Nature Sutras
Yamamoto, Kosho, and Tsultrim Gyurme, trans. Buddha Nature Sutras: Translation of the Nirvana Sutra, The Srimaladevi Sutra and the Infinite Life Sutra. San Bernardino, CA, 2019.
Following in Your Footsteps - Vol. 1 (Lhasey Lotsawa 2019)
Lhasey Lotsawa (Stefan Mang, Peter Woods, et al). Following in Your Footsteps: The Lotus-Born Guru in Nepal, Volume 1. Kathmandu, Nepal: Lhasey Lotsawa Translations and Publications, 2019.
Books · Translations
Guhyasamāja Practice in the Ārya Nāgārjuna System - Vol. 1
Engle, Artemus B., trans. Guhyasamāja Practice in the Ārya Nāgārjuna System. Vol. 1, The Generation Stage. By Gyumé Khensur Lobsang Jampa. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion Publications, 2019.
Books · Translations
Illumination of the Hidden Meaning Part 2
Gray, David B., trans. Illumination of the Hidden Meaning: Yogic Vows, Conduct, and Ritual Praxis (sbas don kun gsal); Part II: Chapters 25–51. By Tsong Khapa Losang Drakpa. Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences Series, Tengyur Translation Initiative, and Complete Works of Jey Tsong Khapa and Sons Collection. New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies and Wisdom Publications, 2019.
Jones, Richard H. The Heart of Buddhist Wisdom: Plain English Translations of the Heart Sutra, the Diamond-Cutter Sutra, and other Perfection of Wisdom Texts. New York: Jackson Square Books, 2012.
Books · Academic Publications
A History of Mysticism ( Jones 2024)
Jones, Richard H. A History of Mysticism. New York: State University of New York Press, 2024.
Books · Edited Dharma Teaching
The Six Bardos of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Sherab and Dongyal 2024)
Sherab, Khenchen Palden and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. The Six Bardos of the Tibetan Book of the Dead: Dzogchen Teachings on The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities. Edited by Samye Translation Group. Rochester Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2024.
Books · Academic Publications
Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns (Collett 2016)
Collett, Alice. Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Books · Translations
The Bodhisambhāra Treatise Commentary (Dharmamitra 2009)
Dharmamitra, Bhikshu, trans. The Bodhisambhāra Treatise Commentary. The Early Indian Exegesis on Ārya Nāgārujuna's Treatise on The Provisions For Enlightenment. (Bodhisambhāra Śāstra). Commentary by Bhikshu Vaśitva. Kalavanka Buddhist Classics. Seattle: Kalavinka Press, 2009.
Books · Academic Publications
Is Reality Beyond Good and Evil (Komarovski 2024)
Komarovski, Yaroslav. Is Reality Beyond Good and Evil? : Tibetan Buddhist Inquiry into the Ultimate Virtue. Traditions and Transformations in Tibetan Buddhism. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2024.
Books · Translations
Heart Drops of Kuntuzangpo (Gurung and Brown 2022)
Gurung, Sonam and Daniel P. Brown, trans Heart Drops of Kuntuzangpo.
Books · Translations
The Canonical Book of the Buddha's Lengthy Discourses - Vol. 3 (Ichimura 2018)
Ichimura, Shohei, trans. The Canonical Book of the Buddha's Lengthy Discourses Volume 3 (Taishō Volume 1, Number 1). Moraga: BDK America, Inc., 2018.
Books · Contemporary Buddhist Writings
Nagarjuna: Buddhism's Most Important Philosopher (Jones 2022)
Jones, Richard H. Nagarjuna: Buddhism's Most Important Philosopher. New York: Jackson Square Books, 2022.
Books · Contemporary Buddhist Writings
The Heart of Tibetan Buddhism (Sangpo 2024)
Sangpo, Khenpo Sherab. The Heart of Tibetan Buddhism: Advice for Life, Death and Enlightenment. Boulder: Shambhala Publications, 2024.
Books · Academic Publications
Seeking Śākyamuni (Jaffe 2019)
Jaffe, Richard. Seeing Śākyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism. Buddhism and Modernity. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Books · Scholarly Editions
Gsung 'bum blo bzang 'phrin las (pod ta pa) (sa rA bod kyi dpe skrun khang gis par skrun zhus 2017)
Dung dkar blo bzang ʼphrin las. Gsung 'bum blo bzang 'phrin las (pod ta pa). 1 vol. Dha ram sa la: Dung dkar rjes dran tshogs chung gis rtsom sgrig zhus sa rā bod kyi dpe skrun khang gis par skrun zhus, 2017. Accessed October 14, 2024. http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/W3CN15692. [BDRC bdr:W3CN15692]
Spyod 'jug gi 'grel bshad rgyal sras yon tan bum bzang (Krung go'i bod rig pa dpe skrun khang 2007)
Mi nyag kun bzang bsod nams. Spyod 'jug gi 'grel bshad rgyal sras yon tan bum bzang. Par gzhi dang po. Gangs can shes rig gi nying bcud. Pe cin: Krung goʼi bod kyi shes rig dpe skrun khang, 2007.
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Khyad par du 'phags pa'i bstod pa'i rgya cher bshad pa, dge tshul kA ri kA'i mchan 'grel, rtags rigs kyi rnam gzhag (Shechen Publications 2024)
Slob dpon mtho btsun grub rje, Slob dpon klu grub, Mi pham rgya mtsho, mkhan chen thub bstan brtson 'grus. khyad par du 'phags pa'i bstod pa'i rgya cher bshad pa, dge tshul kA ri kA'i mchan 'grel, rtags rigs kyi rnam gzhag. Shechen Shedra Series 3. Kathmandu: Shechen Publications, 2024.
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Sum rtags 'grel pa nor bu'i me long (Shechen Publications 2024)
Thon mi sam bho Ta, Rdzogs chen mkhan po thub bstan brtson 'grus. sum rtags 'grel pa nor bu'i me long. Shechen Shedra Series 4. Kathmandu: Shechen Publications, 2024.
Anselme, Frederic (Ananda). "A Study and Annotated Translation of Ju Mipham Gyamtso’s (1846–1912) Short Commentary on the Profound Song on the View (lta ba’i mgur zab mo’grel chung)". MA Thesis, Center for Buddhist Studies at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Kathmandu University, 2024.
Natanya, Eva. "Sacred Illusion: On Purity and Creation in Je Tsongkhapa's Philosophy of Tantra." PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2017. https://doi.org/10.18130/V3ZW5V
McClellan, Joseph Mark. "Poisoned Ground, The Roots of Eurocentrism: Teleology, Hierarchy, and Anthropocentrism." PhD diss., Columbia University, 2013.
Smith, Michael D. "The Carefree Dzogchen Yogi of Dolpo, Tadru Orgyan Tenzin (1657-1737): A Partial Translation and Study of The Condensed Life of the Old Beggar Orgyan Tenzin (sprang rgan o rgyan bstan 'dzin pa'i rnam thar bsdus pa). MA thesis, Kathmandu University, 2023.
Fregiehn, Claudia. "Who Is the Author? Mangtö Ludrup Gyatso's Essential Nectar in the Collected Works of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo: A Case Study of the Attribution of Authorship in Tibetan Buddhism." MA thesis, Kathmandu University, 2023.
Kuijp, Leonard W. J. van der. "Contributions to the Development of Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Century." PhD diss., Universität Hamburg, 1979.
Mayer, Robert. "The Sa skya Pandita, the White Panacea, and Clerical Buddhism's Current Credibility Crisis." The Tibet Journal 22, no. 3 (1997): 79-105.
Viehbeck, Markus. "Issues of Controversy and Their Development." In Polemics in Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism: A Late 19th-Century Debate Between 'Ju Mi pham and Dpa' ris Rab gsal, 99–209. Vienna: Association for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 2014.
Fletcher, Wulstan, and Helena Blankleder (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. "Madhyamaka in Tibet." In The Wisdom Chapter: Jamgön Mipham's Commentary on the Ninth Chapter of "The Way of the Bodhisattva", 19–45. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017.
Fletcher, Wulstan, and Helena Blankleder (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. "Translators' Introduction." In The Wisdom Chapter: Jamgön Mipham's Commentary on the Ninth Chapter of "The Way of the Bodhisattva," 1–11. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017.
Fletcher, Wulstan, and Helena Blankleder (Padmakara Translation Group) trans. "The Light of the Day Star, Mipham's Reply to Drakar." In The Wisdom Chapter: Jamgön Mipham's Commentary on the Ninth Chapter of "The Way of the Bodhisattva", 62–75. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017.
Viehbeck, Markus. "Literary and Socio-historical Background." In Polemics in Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism: A Late 19th-Century Debate Between 'Ju Mi pham and Dpa' ris Rab gsal, 39–61. Vienna: Association for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 2014.