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A Revolutionary Artist of Tibet

A Revolutionary Artist of Tibet

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The Six Lamps

The Six Lamps

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Grains of Gold

Grains of Gold

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Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol

Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol

Newly Added: Books

2019

Books · Translations, Academic Publications, Scholarly Editions

Tibetan Pure Land Buddhism

Cook, Lowell. Tibetan Pure Land Buddhism: Mipham Rinpoche on Self-Power and Other-Power. Kathmandu, Nepal: Vajra Books, 2019.

2019

Books · Translations, Edited Dharma Teaching

Refining Gold

Dalai Lama, 14th. Refining Gold: Stages in Buddhist Contemplative Practice. Edited and translated by Glenn H. Mullin. Core Teachings of the Dalai Lama. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2019.

2019

Books · Translations, Buddhist Topic Monographs

Atiśa Dīpamkara: Illuminator of the Awakened Mind

Apple, James B. Atiśa Dīpamkara: Illuminator of the Awakened Mind. Lives of the Masters. Boulder: Shambhala Publications, 2019.

2019

Books · Translations

Seeing the Sacred in Samsara

Lopez Jr., Donald S. Seeing the Sacred in Samsara: An Illustrated Guide to the Eighty-Four Mahāsiddhas. Boulder: Shambhala Publications, 2019.

1996

Books · Translations, Edited Dharma Teaching

The Excellent Path to Enlightenment (Ricard 1996)

Khyentse, Dilgo. The Excellent Path to Enlightenment: Oral Teachings on the Root Text of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. Ricard, Matthieu, trans. Edited by The Padmakara Translation Group. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1996.

2015

Books · Translations

Secret Map of the Body

Guarisco, E. Rgyal ba yang dgon pa, Spyan snga ba rin chen ldan. Chasnoff, J. ed. Secret Map of the Body: Visions of the Human Energy Structure consisting of The Great Mirror: Praise-Biography of the Precious One from Lhadong by Chen Ngawa Rinchen Den and The Hidden Description of the Vajra Body by Gyalwa Yangonpa. Arcidosso: Shang Shung Publications, 2015.

2009

Books · Academic Publications

Plants in Early Buddhism and the Far Eastern Idea of the Buddha-Nature of Grasses and Trees

Schmithausen, Lambert. Plants in Early Buddhism and the Far Eastern Idea of the Buddha-Nature of Grasses and Trees. Lumbini, Nepal: Lumbini International Research Institute, 2009. https://archive.org/details/earlyplantsinearlybuddhismfareasternideaofbuddhanatureofgrassestreeslambertschmithausensentinan_218_v/mode/2up.

1997

Books · Buddhist Topic Monographs, Transcriptions

The Buddha Nature: Death and Eternal Soul in Buddhism

Dalai Lama, 14th, and Peter Michel. The Buddha Nature: Death and Eternal Soul in Buddhism. Woodside, CA: Bluestar Communications, 1997.

2014

Books · Translations

The Secrets of Tantric Buddhism

Cleary, Thomas. The Secrets of Tantric Buddhism: Understanding the Ecstasy of Enlightenment. San Francisco: Weiser Books, 2014.

2017

Books · Academic Publications

Khenpo Sangye Tenzin and the Career of Serlo Shedrup Zungdrel Ling Gonpa

Berg, E. Khenpo Sangye Tenzin and the Career of Serlo Shedrup Zungdrel Ling Gonpa, that evolved into one of the Most Important Monasteries Among the Sherpas of NE Nepal. Bhairahawa: Lumbini International Research Institute, 2017.

2016

Books · Translations

The Karmapas and Their Mahamudra Forefathers

Phuntsok, Sherap. The Karmapas and Their Mahāmudrā Forefathers. Translated by Michele Martin. Somerville: Wisdom Publications, 2016.

2017

Books · Translations, Academic Publications

Building a Tradition

Ducher, Cécile. Building a Tradition: The Lives of Mar-pa the Translator. Collectanea Himalayica 5. Munich: Indus Verlag, 2017.

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Newly Added: Tibetan Publications

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2009

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Dge 'dun chos 'phel (2009) - 1 copies available.

A sngags tshe ring bkra shis. dge 'dun chos 'phel. Chengdu: si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2009.

ཨ་སྔགས་ཚེ་རིང་བཀྲ་ཤིས། དགེ་འདུན་ཆོས་འཕེལ། སི་ཁྲོན་མི་རིགས་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་ཁང་།

Anak Tsering Tashi. Biography of Gendun Chophel. Chengdu: Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House, 2009.

1997

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Shes bya kun khyab mdzod - 1 copies available.

'jam mgon kong sprul. shes bya kun khyab mdzod. delhi: zhe chen dpe skrun khang, 1997. འཇམ་མགོན་ཀོང་སྤྲུལ། ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་མཛོད། ཞེ་ཆེན་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་ཁང་། Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye. The Encyclopedia of Knowledge. 4 Volumes. Delhi: Shechen Publications, 1997.

Newly Added: Articles

2025

Articles · Translations, Editorial Content

The Wheel-Like Path: Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna's Commentary on The Way of the Bodhisattva

Forgues, Gregory, and Khenpo Konchok Tamphel, trans. "The Wheel-Like Path: Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna's Commentary on The Way of the Bodhisattva." With Introduction, Notes, and Appendices. Bodhicitta: A Tsadra Foundation Initiative, June 17, 2025.

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Articles · Chapters in a Book

Women on the Way to Enlightenment

Bentor, Yael. "Women on the Way to Enlightenment." In From Bhakti to Bon: Festschrift for Per Kvaerne. Oslo: Novus Press, 2015.

1991

Articles · Journal Articles

A Study of Svatantrika and The Heart Sutra Explained-Review by Dreyfus

Dreyfus, Georges. "Review of A Study of Svatantrika and The Heart Sutra Explained by Donald Lopez." Philosophy East and West 41:3 (July 1991): 431-437.

2007

Articles · Journal Articles

Buddhism and Ecology: A virtue ethics approach

Keown, Damien. Buddhism and Ecology: A virtue ethics approach. Contemporary Buddhism, Vol. 8, no. 2 (2007): 97-112.

2000

Articles · Journal Articles, Reviews

We Are All Gzhan stong pas: Reflections on the Reflexive Nature of Awareness-Review by Kapstein

Kapstein, Matthew. "We Are All Gzhan stong pas: Reflections on The Reflexive Nature of Awareness: A Tibetan Madhyamaka Defence by Paul Williams." Journal of Buddhist Ethics 7 (2000): 105–25.

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Articles · Digital Publications

Mass Digitization of Books

1994

Articles · Journal Articles

Dependent Arising and the Emptiness of Emptiness: Why Did Nāgārjuna Start With Causation?

Garfield, Jay L. "Dependent Arising and the Emptiness of Emptiness: Why Did Nāgārjuna Start With Causation?." Philosophy East and West, vol. 44, no. 2 (1994): 219-250.

1988

Articles · Journal Articles, Reviews

Lord of the Dance, Destroyer of Illusion by Giercke-Review

Goldberg, Margaret. "Review of Lord of the Dance, Destroyer of Illusion by Giercke." American Anthropologist, vol. 90, no. 3 (Sep., 1988): 782-784.

1991

Articles · Journal Articles

Nomads of Western Tibet by Goldstein and Beall-Review

Goldberg, Margaret. "Review of Nomads of Western Tibet: The Survival of a Way of Life by Goldstein and Beall." American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 93, No. 4 (Dec., 1991): 1018-1019.

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Articles · Chapters in a Book

Tibetan Commentaries on Indian Śāstras

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Articles · Unpublished

Sūtra Commentaries in Tibetan Translation

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Articles · Chapters in a Book

The Canonical Tantras of the New Schools

Skorupski, Tadeusz. “The Canonical Tantras of the New Schools.” In Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre. Edited by José Ignacio Cabezón and Roger R. Jackson, 95-110. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1996.

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Newly Added: Dissertations

2007

Dissertations · PhD diss.

Echoes of Empty Luminosity

Komarovski, Yaroslav. "Echoes of Empty Luminosity: Reevaluation and Unique Interpretation of Yogācāra and Niḥsvabhāvavāda Madhyamaka by the Fifteenth Century Tibetan Thinker Śākya mchog ldan." PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2007.

2005

Dissertations · PhD diss.

The Birth of Prāsaṅgika

2005

Dissertations · PhD diss.

Buddha-Nature and a Dialectic of Presence and Absence in the Works of Mi-pham

Duckworth, Douglas S. "Buddha-Nature and a Dialectic of Presence and Absence in the Works of Mi-Pham (mi pham rgya mtsho)." PhD Diss, University of Virginia, 2005.

1989

Dissertations · PhD diss.

Unique Tenets of the Middle Way Consequence School Dissertation

Cozort, Daniel. "Unique Tenets of the Middle Way Consequence School: the Systematization of the Philosophy of the Indian Buddhist Prāsaṅgika-Mādhyamika School by the Tibetan Ge-luk-ba Scholastic Tradition." PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1989.

1976

Dissertations · PhD diss.

The Sinicization of Buddhism

1990

Dissertations · PhD diss.

Controversy Over Dharmakāya in Indo—Tibetan Buddhism

Makransky, John J. Controversy Over Dharmakāya in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: An Historical-Critical Analysis of Abhisamayālaṃkāra Chapter 8 and its Commentaries in Relation to the Large Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra and the Yogācāra Tradition. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999.

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Newly Added: Periodical Issues

1994

Periodical Issues · Journal Issues

Pacific World/New Series, No. 10, (1994)

The Pacific World: Journal of The Institute of Buddhist Studies. Special 45th Anniversary Issue on Japanese Religions. New Series Number 10, Fall 1994.

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Acta Indologica/Vol VI (1984)

Newly Added: Multimedia

Multimedia · Video

The Way of the Bodhisattva Workshop (Part 3 of 6)

Fletcher, Wulstan. "The Way of the Bodhisattva Workshop: Session 3, The Bodhicharyavatara; Chapters 1–3." Pt. 3 of 6. Produced by Tsadra Foundation and Shambhala Publications, Boulder, CO, May 21, 2016. Video, 1:53:56. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gca8l16sAqQ.