Featured Books[edit]
Harding, S.. Snow Lion Publications, Shambhala Publications, 2016. Contains a translation.
Mi pham rgya mtsho. Snow Lion Publications, 2017. Contains a translation.
Klong chen pa. Shambhala Publications, 2017. Contains a translation.
Mi pham rgya mtsho, Brag dkar blo bzang dpal ldan bstan 'dzin snyan grags. Shambhala Publications, 2017. Contains a translation.
Staff Picks[edit]
- 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 2019[edit]
Gyaltsen, Kalsang, Chodron, Kunga. Tsechen Kunchab Ling, 2019. Contains a translation.
Lcang skya rol pa'i rdo rje. Wisdom Publications, 2019. Contains a translation.
Bsod nams rtse mo, Śāntideva. Dechen Foundation, 2019. Contains a translation.
Tsong kha pa. American Institute of Buddhist Studies, Wisdom Publications, 2019. Contains a translation.
Schmidt-Leukel, P.. Peeters Publishers, 2019. Contains a translation.
Shamarpa, 14th. Bird of Paradise Press, 2019. Contains a translation.
Higgins, D., Draszczyk, M.. Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien, 2019. Contains a translation.
Yamamoto, K., Gyurme, Tsultrim. , 2019. Contains a translation.
Klong chen pa, Dowman, K., Norbu, Namkhai. Dzogchen Now! Books, 2019. Contains a translation.
Woods, P., Mang, S., Samye Translations. Rangjung Yeshe Publications, Samye Translations, 2019. Contains a translation.
Engle, A., Khensur, Gyumed. Snow Lion Publications, Shambhala Publications, 2019. Contains a translation.
Tsong kha pa. American Institute of Buddhist Studies, Wisdom Publications, 2019. Contains a translation.
Translations from 2018[edit]
Asaṅga. Snow Lion Publications, Shambhala Publications, 2018. Contains a translation.
Asaṅga. Snow Lion Publications, Shambhala Publications, 2018. Contains a translation.
Asaṅga, Brunnhölzl, K.. Snow Lion Publications, Shambhala Publications, 2018. Contains a translation.
Mi pham rgya mtsho, Asaṅga, Maitreya. Shambhala Publications, 2018. Contains a translation.
Karmapa, 15th, 'jigs med gling pa, Tshul khrims bzang po. Wisdom Publications, 2018. Contains a translation.
Palmo, Jetsunma Tenzin, Thargay, L., Jinpa, Tsunma Ngawang, Carvalho, G., Cronjaeger, T.. Drukpa Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2018. Contains a translation.
Kun bzang dpal ldan. Berotsana Publications, 2018. Contains a translation.
Trinlae, L.. Vajra Books, 2018. Contains a translation.
Dalai Lama, 14th. Shambhala Publications, 2018. Contains a translation.
Śāntideva, Chödrön, P.. Shambhala Publications, 2018. Contains a translation.
Mi pham rgya mtsho, Dpal sprul rin po che, Pearcey, A., Mdo sngags chos kyi rgya mtsho, Chos dbyings rang grol, Padma badzra, 'Jam dpal rol ba'i blo gros, Dodrupchen, 3rd. Snow Lion Publications, Shambhala Publications, 2018. Contains a translation.
Tshul khrims bzang po. Dzogchen Now! Books, 2018. Contains a translation.
New Book Additions[edit]
Ehm, C.. Vajra Books, 2024.
Bucknell, R., Kang, C.. Routledge, 1997.
Mathes, K., Szanto, P.. Wisdom Publications, 2024.
Sodargye, Khenpo. Wisdom Publications, 2024.
Wallace, A.. Wisdom Publications, 2011.
Wallace, A.. Wisdom Publications, 2018.
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New Tibetan Publications[edit]
se ra mkha' 'gro bde chen bde ba'i rdo rje'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 7 Chengdu: Si khron dpe skrun tshogs pa (Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House), 2015.
se ra mkha' 'gro bde chen bde ba'i rdo rje'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 6 Chengdu: Si khron dpe skrun tshogs pa (Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House), 2015.
se ra mkha' 'gro bde chen bde ba'i rdo rje'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 5 Chengdu: Si khron dpe skrun tshogs pa (Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House), 2015.
se ra mkha' 'gro bde chen bde ba'i rdo rje'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 4 Chengdu: Si khron dpe skrun tshogs pa (Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House), 2015.
se ra mkha' 'gro bde chen bde ba'i rdo rje'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 3 Chengdu: Si khron dpe skrun tshogs pa (Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House), 2015.
se ra mkha' 'gro bde chen bde ba'i rdo rje'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 2 Chengdu: Si khron dpe skrun tshogs pa (Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House), 2015.
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New Dissertations[edit]
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.
Schlosser, Andrea. "On the Bodhisattva Path in Gandhāra: Edition of Fragment 4 and 11 from the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts". PhD diss., Free University of Berlin, 2016.
New Periodical Issues[edit]
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Vol. 91 No. 2. Cary, NC: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Blancke, Kristin, and Etienne Bock, eds. "New Research on the Mi la ras pa Biographical Compendia." Special issue, Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines 69 (March 2024).
McLeod, Melvin, ed. Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly 22, No. 1, 2023.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Vol. 91 No. 1. Cary, NC: Oxford University Press, 2023.
McLeod, Melvin, ed. Lion's Roar. Vol.8 No. 6 San Francisco: Lion's Roar Foundation, 2024
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Vol. 90 No. 4. Cary, NC: Oxford University Press, 2022.
New Articles[edit]
Goodman, Charles. "Can We Know Whether Śāntideva was a Consequentialist?" In Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics and Morality. Essays in Honor of Mark Siderits. Edited by Christian Coseru, 437–57. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Publishing, 2023.
Griffiths, Paul J. "A Hymn of Praise to the Buddha's Good Qualities." In Buddhism in Practice, edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr., 39–49. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Kramer, Jowita. "Kategorien der Wirklichkeit im frühen Yogācarā : der Fünf-vastu-Abschnitt in der Viniścayasaṃgrahaṇī der Yogācārabhūmi." Contributions to Tibetan Studies, Vol. 4 (2005)
Pecchia, Cristina. "Is the Buddha Like ‘a Man in the Street’? Dharmakīrti’s Answer." Vienna Journal of South Asian Studies 51 (2007): 163–92.
La Vallée Poussin, Louis de. "The Buddhist Councils." Indian Antiquary 37 (1908): 3–18; 81–106.
Szanto, Peter-Daniel. "A Critical Edition of Bodhicaryāvatāraṭippaṇī 0.2". Unpublished version.