Shambhala: 1067 books
On Becoming an Alchemist
A Guide for the Modern Magician
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
Many regard alchemy as a metaphor for inner transformation. But this is only half the story. According to Catherine MacCoun, alchemy is no mere metaphor. It’s real magic. Transforming the inner world is, for the alchemist, a way to transform the outer world. Through studying the principles of alchemy,...
by Lama Dudjom Dorjee
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Heartfelt Advice offers readers an overview of basic Buddhist topics in small easily digestible bites that illuminate the main principles of Buddhist practice. Lama Dudjom Dorjee skillfully guides students through the vast array of considerations on the path, highlighting what is essential, as he...
Parting from the Four Attachments
A Commentary on Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen's Song of Experience on Mind Training and the View
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2003
The teaching on Parting from the Four Attachments is universally regarded as one of the jewels of Tibetan Buddhism. Rinpoche leads the reader through a detailed and lucid exploration of the nature of mind, pointing out inevitable pitfalls in spiritual practice and showing how they can be avoided.
by Tsongkhapa, The Dalai Lama
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
His Holiness the Dalai Lama illuminates the highly practical and compassionate use of Tantra for spiritual development in this important classic work.
Deity Yoga is the second volume in The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra series in which the Dalai Lama offers illuminating commentary on Tsongkhapa’s...
The Tao of Poop
Keeping Your Sanity (and Your Soul) While Raising a Baby
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
There's a lot of romance about becoming a parent, but at some point the storybook scenarios of serene life with baby are interrupted by the darker side of the motherhood experience: the little "bundle of joy" cries inconsolably, wakes up four times a night, won't take a bottle—the fantasy...
by Khenpo Karthar
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Since its initial publication, Dharma Paths has quietly gained a reputation as one of the most useful introductory texts on Tibetan Buddhism. Assuming no prior background or knowledge of Buddhist terminology, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche presents Buddhist ways of working with anxiety and frustration, the...
What the Stones Remember
A Life Rediscovered
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
In this exquisitely written memoir, poet Patrick Lane describes his raw and tender emergence at age sixty from a lifetime of alcohol and drug addiction. He spent the first year of his sobriety close to home, tending his garden, where he cast his mind back over his life, searching for the memories...
Ornament of the Great Vehicle Sutras
Maitreya's Mahayanasutralamkara with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The Buddhist masterpiece Ornament of the Great Vehicle Sūtras, often referred to by its Sanskrit title, Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra, is part of a collection known as the Five Maitreya Teachings, a set of philosophical works that have become classics of the Indian Buddhist tradition. Maitreya, the...
by Thubten Chodron
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2001
Anger plagues all of us on a personal, national, and international level. Yet we see people, such as the Dalai Lama, who have faced circumstances far worse than many of us have faced—including exile, persecution, and the loss of many loved ones—but who do not burn with rage or seek revenge. How...
Impermanence
Embracing Change - From The Multi-Media Art Exhibition
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
What does it mean that we are constantly changing? How do people confront ideas like death and change? Asked to contribute to an exhibit celebrating the work of the Dalai Lama, multimedia artists David and Hi-Jin Hodge interviewed over a hundred people about impermanence and change in their lives....
Mama Gone Geek
Calling On My Inner Science Nerd to Help Navigate the Ups and Downs of Parenthoo d
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Science is the ultimate parenting tool. After all, it’s really all about observing, asking questions, solving problems, making mistakes, and trying again and again and again—just like being a mom or dad! Come along with Lynn Brunelle as she initiates you into the joys of geek-style parenting....
And in Health
A Guide for Couples Facing Cancer Together
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
This book offers engaging and digestible lessons for couples navigating the life change that a cancer diagnosis brings. Dan Shapiro draws on his more than twenty-five years of clinical work as a health psychologist who has researched and worked with couples facing cancer, and on his own experiences...
Preparing for Tantra
Creating the Psychological Ground for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The preliminary practices of Tantra aren't a hurdle to be gotten through in order to get somewhere else; they're an extraordinarily rich collection of practices which have much to offer as a means of cultivating and maturing the practitioner's psychological ground. They can enable experiences to unfold,...
The Six Perfections
An Oral Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
The Six Perfections of generosity, ethical discipline, patience, enthusiastic effort, concentration, and wisdom are practiced by Bodhisattvas who have the supreme intention of attaining enlightenment for the sake of others. These six are perfections because they give rise to complete enlightenment....