I am reading:
Volume 1 of the Abhidharmakosabhasyam
I just ordered:
The Cakrasamvara Tantra: A Study and Annotated Translation by David B. Gray
What Buddhist Books Did You Order, or are Reading?
What Buddhist Books Did You Order, or are Reading?
- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
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Mind Beyond Death by Dzogchen Penlop
Luminous Essence: A Guide to the Guhyagarbha Tantra by Jamgon Mipham
and Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Francesca Freemantle
Thinking about ordering (having a bit of sticker shock!):KEY TO THE PRECIOUS TREASURY: A Concise Commentary on the General Meaning of the "Glorious Secret Essence Tantra"
by Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpa'i Nyima, translated by Lama Chönam and Sangye Khandro of the Light of Berotsana Translation Group
http://www.snowlionpub.com/html/product_10140.html
ok i see i have a theme going on here
On my kindle: 'A tale of two S'kittys' by Mercedes Lackey & 'Out of the black' by Lee Doty
Luminous Essence: A Guide to the Guhyagarbha Tantra by Jamgon Mipham
and Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Francesca Freemantle
Thinking about ordering (having a bit of sticker shock!):KEY TO THE PRECIOUS TREASURY: A Concise Commentary on the General Meaning of the "Glorious Secret Essence Tantra"
by Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpa'i Nyima, translated by Lama Chönam and Sangye Khandro of the Light of Berotsana Translation Group
http://www.snowlionpub.com/html/product_10140.html
ok i see i have a theme going on here
On my kindle: 'A tale of two S'kittys' by Mercedes Lackey & 'Out of the black' by Lee Doty
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"Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise." --Surangama Sutra
Phenomenon, vast as space, dharmata is your base, arising and falling like ocean tide cycles, why do i cling to your illusion of unceasing changlessness?
Phenomenon, vast as space, dharmata is your base, arising and falling like ocean tide cycles, why do i cling to your illusion of unceasing changlessness?
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Just got these...
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Silent Bob
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Reading: "Machik's Complete Explanation" tr. by Sarah Harding and "Vivid Awareness" by Thrangu Rinpoche
(SHOULD BE READING: lecture notes for Nithartha Institute online Uttaratantra course)
Chris
(SHOULD BE READING: lecture notes for Nithartha Institute online Uttaratantra course)
Chris
"All the sublime teachings, so profound--to throw away one and then grab yet another will not bear even a single fruit. Persevere, therefore, in simply one."
--Dudjom Rinpoche, "Nectar for the Hearts of Fortunate Disciples. Song No. 8"
--Dudjom Rinpoche, "Nectar for the Hearts of Fortunate Disciples. Song No. 8"
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Just read treasury of Philosophy Instructions by Longchen Rabjampa.
Reading a book called Essential Practice on Kamalashila's Stages of meditation by Thrangu Rinpoche.
Reading a book called Essential Practice on Kamalashila's Stages of meditation by Thrangu Rinpoche.
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Ezra Pound's "Cantos," along with Terrell's "Companion" to same.....slow going. And Charles Wright's poems, "Scar Tissue" at the moment....
Oh, Buddhist books, only?
Taranatha's Lam Rim, "Essence of Ambrosia," daily, in the mornings, on the bus.
Kongtrul's SheJa KunKhyab, "Treasury of Knowledge, Book Eight, Part Four, Esoteric Instructions"--re-reading this, more closely this time around.
Will be ordering some things from Nithartha though.....
Oh, Buddhist books, only?
Taranatha's Lam Rim, "Essence of Ambrosia," daily, in the mornings, on the bus.
Kongtrul's SheJa KunKhyab, "Treasury of Knowledge, Book Eight, Part Four, Esoteric Instructions"--re-reading this, more closely this time around.
Will be ordering some things from Nithartha though.....
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དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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Have you read the other books in the Precious Treasury yet?tamdrin wrote:Just read treasury of Philosophy Instructions by Longchen Rabjampa.
"All phenomena of samsara depend on the mind, so when the essence of mind is purified, samsara is purified. Since the phenomena of nirvana depend on the pristine consciousness of vidyā, because one remains in the immediacy of vidyā, buddhahood arises on its own. All critical points are summarized with those two." - Longchenpa
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Hi Nangwa,
I think the only other one translated is the treasury of pith instructions.. At least that is what I saw on snow lion... I found the treasury of philosophical instructions to be a pretty good text.. definitely stuff you don't read once and then be done with them..
I think the only other one translated is the treasury of pith instructions.. At least that is what I saw on snow lion... I found the treasury of philosophical instructions to be a pretty good text.. definitely stuff you don't read once and then be done with them..
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I read "Empowerment and the path of liberation" by Tsele Natsok Rangdrol this past weekend. Am reading "Treasures from Juniper Ridge" bit by bit and a sci-fi book, Dune Messiah.
Actually four (maybe five?) have been translated.Tamdrin wrote: I think the only other one translated is the treasury of pith instructions.
Although many individuals in this age appear to be merely indulging their worldly desires, one does not have the capacity to judge them, so it is best to train in pure vision.
- Shabkar
- Shabkar
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Currently trying to commit to memory Eight verses of mind training 
Abandoning Dharma is, in the final analysis, disparaging the Hinayana because of the Mahayana; favoring the Hinayana on account of the Mahayana; playing off sutra against tantra; playing off the four classes of the tantras against each other; favoring one of the Tibetan schools—the Sakya, Gelug, Kagyu, or Nyingma—and disparaging the rest; and so on. In other words, we abandon Dharma any time we favor our own tenets and disparage the rest.
Liberation in the Palm of your hand~Kyabje Pabongkha Rinpoche.
Liberation in the Palm of your hand~Kyabje Pabongkha Rinpoche.
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Pero,
Cool!
Thanks.
Cool!
Thanks.
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How are you liking "Scar Tissue"? I'm a fan of Charles Wright's work, particularly "China Trace" and "The Southern Cross".conebeckham wrote:Ezra Pound's "Cantos," along with Terrell's "Companion" to same.....slow going. And Charles Wright's poems, "Scar Tissue" at the moment...
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The Great Perfection by Samten Gyaltsen Karmay
1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?
2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.
3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.
4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?
2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.
3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.
4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
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conebeckham
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Lazy_eye wrote:How are you liking "Scar Tissue"? I'm a fan of Charles Wright's work, particularly "China Trace" and "The Southern Cross".conebeckham wrote:Ezra Pound's "Cantos," along with Terrell's "Companion" to same.....slow going. And Charles Wright's poems, "Scar Tissue" at the moment...
Quite a bit...read it twice so far. I've got most (all?) of his stuff, except any chapbooks and there's one large format illustrated thing I don't own.....
Wright is in my top "Favorites." "Scar Tissue" is a bit of a departure....getting away from "Landscape" a bit, and seems tighter, over-all. He's got a unique voice, and one that resonates with me.
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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Short clip about Charles Wright here.
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Karmey Khenpos "Brilliant Light" over and over again.
/magnus
"We are all here to help each other go through this thing, whatever it is."
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
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How approachable is this text?
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reading Thinley Norbu's WHITE SAIL once again. . . also Blazing Splendor by Tulky Urgyen for the first time, -both great reads.
about to order The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise - Ian Baker
about to order The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise - Ian Baker
Contentment is the ultimate wealth;
Detachment is the final happiness. ~Sri Saraha
Detachment is the final happiness. ~Sri Saraha
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I liked it, but it is bit strange here and there. It is a huge volume, maybe it should have been shortened a little. At one point he start talking about karma mudra and how he found a qualified consort and so on.Adamantine wrote: about to order The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise - Ian Baker
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"We are all here to help each other go through this thing, whatever it is."
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)