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Chod - The Sacred Teachings on Severance
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.
Staff Picks
- A Revolutionary Artist of Tibet
- 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 Six Lamps
- 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)
- Grains of Gold
- 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)
- Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol
- 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
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
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.
Translations from 2019
Books · Translations
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
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, Academic Publications, Scholarly Editions
Buddha Nature Reconsidered - Vol 2
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
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.
Newly Added: Books
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 · 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 · 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]
Newly Added: Tibetan Publications
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Bod kyi ri mo'i sgyu rtsal las lha sku'i thig rtsa dang shing tshon sogs kyi rmang gzhi'i shes bya 'gro phan blo gsar dga' skyed (Mi rigs dpe skrun khang 2009)
Phun tshogs rdo rje. Lha skuʼi thig rtsa dang shing tshon sogs kyi rmang gzhiʼi shes bya ʼgro phan blo gsar dgaʼ skyed. Par thengs bdun pa. Pe cin: Mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2009.
Tibetan Publications · Volume
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
Sdom gsum rnam par nges pa'i mchan 'grel (Shechen Publications 2024)
Mnga' ris paN chen pad+ma dbang rgyal and Dge mang mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho. sdom gsum rnam par nges pa'i mchan 'grel rig 'dzin 'jug ngogs Shechen Shedra Series 2. Kathmandu: Shechen Publications, 2024.
Newly Added: Articles
Articles · Chapters in a Book
Issues of Controversy and Their Development
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.
Articles · Chapters in a Book
Madhyamaka in Tibet
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.
Articles · Chapters in a Book
Calling into Question the Gelug Interpretation of the Wisdom Chapter
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.
Articles · Chapters in a Book
The Light of the Day Star, Mipham's Reply to Drakar
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.
Articles · Chapters in a Book
Literary and Socio-historical Background
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.
Articles · Chapters in a Book
An Overview of Mipham's Interpretation of Madhyamaka
Fletcher, Wulstan, and Helena Blankleder (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. "Mipham's Interpretation of Madhyamaka." In The Wisdom Chapter: Jamgön Mipham's Commentary on the Ninth Chapter of "The Way of the Bodhisattva," 45–62. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017.
Articles · Chapters in a Book
Context of the Controversies: Historical Development
Viebeck, Markus. "Context of the Controversies: Historical Development." In Polemics in Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism: A Late 19th-Century Debate Between 'Ju Mi pham and Dpa' ris Rab gsal, 29–38. Vienna: Association for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 2014.
Articles · Chapters in a Book
The Explanation Lineage of Teachers of the Bodhisattva-caryāvatāra through Butön
Kretschmar, Andreas, trans. "The Explanation Lineage of Teachers of the Bodhisattva-caryāvatāra through Butön." In Drops of Nectar: Khenpo Kunpal's Commentary on Shantideva's Entering the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas. Vol. 1. Edited by Judith S. Amtzis and John Deweese. Kathmandu: Padma Karpo Translation Committee, 2004.
Articles · Chapters in a Book
A Short Account of the Commentarial Tradition in Tibet
Blankleder, Helena, and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. Translators' Introduction to The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech: A Detailed Commentary on Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva, xi–xiv. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2007.
Articles · Chapters in a Book
The Transmission of the Bodhicaryāvatāra in Tibet
Liland, Fredrik. "The Transmission of the Bodhicaryāvatāra in Tibet." In "The Transmission of the Bodhicaryāvatāra: The History, Diffusion, and Influence of a Mahāyāna Buddhist Text," 26–37. MA Thesis, University of Oslo, 2009.
Newly Added: Dissertations
Dissertations · MA Thesis
A Study and Annotated Translation of Ju Mipham Gyamtso's (1846–1912) Short Commentary on the Profound Song on the View (Anselme 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.
Dissertations · PhD diss.
Sacred Illusion: On Purity and Creation in Je Tsongkhapa's Philosophy of Tantra (Natanya 2017)
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
Dissertations · MA Thesis
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) (Smith 2023)
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.
Dissertations · MA Thesis
Who Is the Author? Mangtö Ludrup Gyatso's Essential Nectar in the Collected Works of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (Fregiehn 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.
Dissertations · PhD diss.
Contributions to the Development of Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Century (Kuijp 1979)
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.
Newly Added: Periodical Issues
New Dissertations
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.
New Periodical Issues
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Strauch, Ingo, Eric Greene, and Jowita Kramer, eds. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 46, 2023.
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McLeod, Melvin, ed. Lion's Roar. Vol. 8 No. 5. San Francisco: Lion's Roar Foundation, 2023.
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McLeod, Melvin, ed. Lion's Roar. Vol. 8 No. 4. San Francisco: Lion's Roar Foundation, 2023.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Vol. 91 No. 3. Cary, NC: Oxford University Press, 2023.
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McLeod, Melvin, ed. Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly 22, No. 3, 2024.
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McLeod, Melvin, ed. Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly 22, No. 2, 2024.
New Articles
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.
