Outlines a meditation practice embodied by the Buddhist tradition of Chenrezig, a figure honored by Buddhists for his examples of protection, friendship, and inspiration, in an accessible manual for western readers that explains how to incorporate compassionate practices into daily life. Original.[...]

This unique book -- the first from the International Mahayana Institute -- contains meditations written by eighteen nuns and monks of the IMI Sangha. These meditations center on different Buddhist themes and provide a good resource for the practicing meditator. The book also includes brief spiritual[...]

Lama Yeshe was both one of the most beloved Tibetan Buddhist masters of the late twentieth century and a remarkably effective teacher and communicator. "Becoming the Compassion Buddha is one of a series of his books that examine key Tantric deity practices in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. As with [...]

Presents the Buddhist approach to the fundamental issues and concerns of daily life.

"Working with Anger" presents a variety of Buddhist methods for subduing and preventing anger, and learning to live with angry tendencies by turning them into productive ones.[...]

It can be hard for those of us living in the twenty-first century to see how fourteenth-century Buddhist teachings still apply. When you're trying to figure out which cell phone plan to buy or brooding about something someone wrote about you on Facebook, lines like "While the enemy of your own anger[...]

New edition of this perennial classic. "The best introductory work on Tibetan Buddhist tantra available today."--Janet Gyatso, Harvard University
What is tantra? Who is qualified to practice it? How should it be practiced? What are the results? According to Buddhism, every human being has the po[...]