Tibetan Buddhist Chant
Author: Walter Kaufmann
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13:
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The Sound of Vultures' Wings
Author: Jeffrey W. Cupchik
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2024-02-01
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1438464436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sound of Vultures' Wings offers the first in-depth exploration of the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition, which is based on the liturgical song-poems of the twelfth-century Tibetan female ascetic Machik Labdrön (1055–1153). Chöd is a musical/meditative Vajrayāna method for cutting off the root of suffering, namely, egoic identification with the body, or the belief that the "I" is the locus of the "self." Chöd is regarded by many Tibetan Lamas as one of the most effective Buddhist practices for spiritual and social transformation. Jeffrey W. Cupchik details the significance of the complex, interwoven performative aspects of this meditative ritual and explains how its practice can bring about experiences of insight and inner transformation. In doing so, he undoes the notion of meditation as exclusively an experience of silence and stillness.
Music in the Sky
Author: Michele Martin
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a biography of the seventeenth Karmapa, discussing a history of his life, including his escape from Chinese occupied Tibet to northern India, and offering some of his teachings, wisdom, and accomplishments.
Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
Author: John Powers
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2007-11-09
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 1559392827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the most comprehensive and authoritative introduction to Tibetan Buddhism available to date, covering a wide range of topics, including history, doctrines, meditation, practices, schools, religious festivals, and major figures. The revised edition contains expanded discussions of recent Tibetan history and tantra and incorporates important new publications in the field. Beginning with a summary of the Indian origins of Tibetan Buddhism and how it eventually was brought to Tibet, it explores Tibetan Mahayana philosophy and tantric methods for personal transformation. The four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as Bön, are explored in depth from a nonsectarian point of view. This new and expanded edition is a systematic and wonderfully clear presentation of Tibetan Buddhist views and practices.
Where the Heart Beats
Author: Kay Larson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-07-30
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0143123475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA “heroic” biography of John Cage and his “awakening through Zen Buddhism”—“a kind of love story” about a brilliant American pioneer of the creative arts who transformed himself and his culture (The New York Times) Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself—and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. “Remarkably researched, exquisitely written,” Where the Heart Beats weaves together “a great many threads of cultural history” (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s. Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Allan Kaprow, Morton Feldman, and Leo Castelli were among those influenced by his ‘teaching’ and ‘preaching.’ Where the Heart Beats shows the blossoming of Zen in the very heart of American culture.
Tibetan Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Matthew Kapstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 0199735123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does Tibetan Buddhism teach? Just what is the position of the Dalai Lama, and how will his succession be assured? This Very Short Introduction offers a brief account responding to these questions and more, in terms that are easily accessible to those who are curious to learn the most essential features of Tibetan Buddhist history, teachings, and practice.
Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism
Author: Rebecca McClen Novick
Publisher: Crossing Press
Published: 2012-02-15
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0307813975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Tibetan, the word for Buddhist means “insider”—someone who looks not to the world but to themselves for peace and happiness. The basic premise of Buddhism is that all suffering, however real it may seem, is the product of our own minds.Rebecca Novick’s concise history of Buddhism and her explanations of the Four Noble Truths, Wheel of Life, Karma, the path of the Bodhisattva, and the four schools help us understand Tibetan Buddhism as a religion or philosophy, and more important, as a way of experiencing the world.
Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region
Author: Victoria Sujata
Publisher: Brill's Tibetan Studies Librar
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 490
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first commentary in Western literature on the Mgur 'bum, or Collected Songs of Spiritual Realization, of the great Tibetan scholar and siddha, Skal ldan rgya mtsho (1607-1677). Dr. Sujata provides the original Tibetan verses alongside her translations throughout her commentary. A unique CD is included that contains the author's recordings of Skal ldan rgya mtsho's songs as they are sung today in the vicinity of his favorite hermitage.
Vajra Wisdom
Author: Shechen Gyaltsap IV
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2013-04-08
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0834829002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVajra Wisdom presents the commentaries of two great nineteenth-century Nyingma masters that guide practitioners engaged in development stage practice through a series of straightforward instructions. The rarity of this kind of material in English makes it indispensable for practitioners and scholars alike. The goal of development stage meditation in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition is to directly realize the inseparability of phenomena and emptiness. Preceded by initiation and oral instructions, the practitioner arrives at this view through the profound methods of deity visualization, mantra recitation, and meditative absorption.
The Rain of Wisdom
Author: Chögyam Trungpa
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The art of composing spontaneous songs that express spiritual understanding has existed in Tibet for centuries. Over a hundred of these profound songs are found in this collection of the works of the great teachers of the Kagyü lineage, known as the Practice Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Many readers are already familiar with the colorful life of the yogin Milarepa, an early figure in the Kagyü lineage, some of whose songs are included here. Songs by over thirty other Buddhist teachers are also presented, from those of Tilopa, the father of the lineage, to those of the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, as well as several songs by Chögyam Trungpa, the noted teacher of Buddhism in America who directed the translation of The Rain of Wisdom"--Publisher.
