Tibet is now open to anyone wishing to explore its ancient culture. This book, based on a nineteenth-century guide for Tibetan pilgrims by the renowned Lama Jamyang Kyentse Wangopo , describes the location, site, relics and background to places of major religious and historic significance. To complete the guide, the author followed in Jamyang Kyentse's footsteps, visiting 150 temples, monasteries, sacred caves, lakes and mountains.

The Power Places of Central Tibet: The Pilgrim's Guide

Dowman, Keith

Religion & Spirituality

Penguin??Books

Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel

Woman has a special place in the Tantra and Yeshe Tsogyel, consort of the great guru Padma Sambhava, is the most famous of the enlightened women of Tibet.

Describes the life of Yeshe Tsogyel, the consort of a distinguished Tibetan guru, and portrays her path to enlightenment

Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel (English and Tibetan Edition)

Viking Pr

Provides excellent insight into both ancient and modern Tibet.

The Sacred Life of Tibet

Buddhism

Thorsons Pub.

New translations of key texts from a tradition many consider the most direct path to enlightenment.

The Flight of the Garuda

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Wisdom Pubns

Masters of Enchantment: The Lives and Legends of the Mahasiddhas

New Age & Spirituality

Inner Traditions

Award-winning photographer Kevin Bubriski captures in stunning detail the sacred places of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. Noted scholar Keith Dowman provides history and commentary on the significance of the sites.

Power Places of Kathmandu: Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of Nepal

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

The Divine Madman is the secret biography of one of Tibet's best-loved saints, the buddha Drukpa Kunley. Drukpa Kunley was a "nyomba", a crazy yogi who taught through outrageous behavior and ribald humor, through symbolic action, songs and poetry. Using people's emotion, neuroses and sexuality, as a tantric yogi through skillfull means and crazy wisdom he awakened their buddha-nature. He belonged to the lineage of Tilo, Naro, Marpa and Milarepa and taught the same profound Mahamudra yoga, but his most secret teaching was radical Dzogchen, Tibet's existential yoga. He wandered as a tantric beggar through Central and Southern Tibet in the 15th century and is still well-known there as the hero of anti-establishment and anti-monastic tales and the author of bawdy songs. But in Bhutan he became more than an icon, he still is the patron saint of a country where the phallus is revered as a religious icon. This book is a collection of anecdotes and songs compiled by a Bhutanese scholar, Geshe Chaphu, made last century, which became a best seller in the Himalayas. It has been translated by Keith Dowman into easily accessible prose and poetry. Lee Baarslag has illustrated the work with her fine line-drawings.

The Divine Madman: The Sublime Life and Songs of Drukpa Kunley

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This famous seminal text of radical Dzogchen provides a profound yet simple poetic statement of how it is to immerse oneself in the matrix of the now and recognize buddha. It is the personal statement of a peerless yogin-adept. Certainly the magic of his poetry impresses us that way and surely this Treasury of the Dharmadhatu, the Choyingdzo, reveals the consummation of Dzogchen. In it we are assured that over and above all the yogas and dhyanas of Hindustan, all the ritual and magic of Tibet and all the quasi religious new-age therapies of the West there exists a simple, timeless manner of being, easy of access, requiring no onerous technique or renunciate lifestyle, that can give us some constant satisfaction in this vale of laughter and tears between birth and dying. With Longchenpa, Dzogchen Ati reaches its most complete revelation; the Choyingdzo is Longchenpa's most revealing statement about the vajra-heart, and Keith Dowman has made a fine translation. The pathless path of Dzogchen comes alive in this poetic exposition of the apex of Tibetan mysticism. The form of language, the translation, the use of poetic invention creates as atmosphere of understanding, as if a mahasiddha were writing in Oxford English with a touch of American slang. This is radical Dzogchen not only in the actual teaching itself, but also in the translation that strikes the flint of idiom to create sparks of wisdom that reveal the whole hologram.

Spaciousness: The Radical Dzogchen of the Vajra-Heart: Longchenpa's Treasury of the Dharmadhatu

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The Power Places of Central Tibet: The Pilgrim's Guide

Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel

Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel

Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel (English and Tibetan Edition)

The Sacred Life of Tibet

The Flight of the Garuda

Masters of Enchantment: The Lives and Legends of the Mahasiddhas

Power Places of Kathmandu: Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of Nepal

The Divine Madman: The Sublime Life and Songs of Drukpa Kunley

Spaciousness: The Radical Dzogchen of the Vajra-Heart: Longchenpa's Treasury of the Dharmadhatu