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| Suggested Reading List for the Visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Los Angeles, 2006 |
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We have put together a short list of books that we believe would provide a good foundation for those attending the teachings. The text His Holiness will teach, Arya Nagarjuna's splendid and concise Jangchup Semdre, Commentary on Bodhicitta (mind of enlightenment), is currently being translated and will be provided for free to those attending the teaching. Through all of our efforts and these precious teachings, may the Dharma flourish and end all suffering for sentient beings. |
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The Dalai Lama: A Policy Of Kindness This introduction to the life and teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama is an excellent book for those attending a public talk of His Holiness for the first time. "The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness brought me gently and pleasantly into the life and mind of this extraordinary spiritual leader and assured the success of my interview with him." — Bill Moyers, PBS Television, Public Affairs TV, Inc. |
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Essence of the Heart Sutra: The Dalai Lama's Heart of Wisdom Teaching This volume comprises the Dalai Lama''s famous Heart of Wisdom teachings of 2001, including an overview of Buddhism, background material, as well as commentary on the text. The Heart Sutra is a presentation of profound wisdom on the nature of emptiness and selflessness, but these terms can be easily misunderstod. The Dalai Lama identifies misconceptions an shows how an understanding of emptiness leads not to nihilism, but to a view of reality and to a deep and compassionate understanding. |
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Essential Teachings: His Holiness the Dalai Lama From a series of talks given by the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India—the site of the Buddha's enlightenment. His precise and eloquent commentary on the "Path of the Bodhisattva," one of the most important teaching texts of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, offers a step-by-step guide to thirty-seven practices designed to help cultivate the spirit of compassion for all life and service to others that is at the heart of Buddhism. In Part Two of this book, "The Key of Madhyamika," the Dalai Lama draws on many important Tibetan Buddhist texts to present a well-reasoned and clear explanation of the Middle Way, a key Buddhist understanding. |
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Mind Training: The Great Collection |
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The Way to Freedom: Core teachings of Tibetan Buddhism The Way to Freedom, the inaugural volume of the landmark Library of Tibet series, is the essential primer on Tibetan Buddhism for both neophytes and advanced students. Based on a fifteenth-century text never before translated for a general audience, it is the revered heart of Tibetan practice, presented here in easy-to-understand steps by the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual and political leader. |
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The World of Tibetan Buddhism With characteristic humility, His Holiness the Dalai Lama begins this landmark survey of the entire Buddhist path saying, “I think an overview of Tibetan Buddhism for the purpose of providing a comprehensive framework of the Buddhist path may prove helpful in deepening your understanding and practice.” |
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Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment: His Holiness the Dalai Lama In this book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama gives a commentary to not only Atisha's revolutionary work but also to Lines of Experience, a short text written by Lama Tsong Khapa, who was perhaps the greatest of all Tibetan lam-rim authors. In bringing together Atisha, Lama Tsong Khapa and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this book offers readers one of the clearest and most authoritative expositions of the Tibetan Buddhist path ever published, and it is recommended for those at the beginning of the path, the middle and the end. This is the first time a major teaching by the Dalai Lama has been published for free distribution |