Suggested
Reading
****PLEASE
keep in mind that these
books are very helpful and give information about dharma but that the
traditional way teachings are given is through an oral lineage of
teachings
directly from teacher to disciple.
So, though
you can get information from books, the way to practice and gain
realization is
only through the instructions of the teacher which provide the key to
understanding and experience. Especially
do not read books about esoteric practices involving deities, Dzogchen
(great
perfection), or Mahammudra without the oral transmission, and in the
traditional manner in which these teachings are preceded by preliminary
mind
trainings and practice as well as empowerment.
…Paloma
Basic
books that one can read without transmission
Basic Dharma Books
Gates to Buddhist
Practice
By Chagdud Rinpoche,
Padma Publishing
Change of Heart,
Bodhisattva Peace Training of Chagdud Tulku
By Lama Shenpen Drolma,
Padma Publishing
A Hundred Verses
of Advice
By Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse
Rinpoche
This Precious Life
By Khadro Rinpoche
The Thirty-Seven
Practices of a Bodhisattava
By Gyalse Togme,
translated by Susanne Fairclough, Padma Publishing
The Twelve Links
of Interdependent Origination
By Khenchen Thrangu
Rinpoche, from
Buddhist
Photographs by Mathieu
Ricard, Harry
Abrams
ISBN# 0-8109-34-89-2
Life in Relation
to Death
By Chagdud Rinpoche,
Padma Publishing
Old Path White
Clouds
By Thich Nhat Hanh
When Things Fall
Apart
By Pema Chodron
The Monk and the
Philosopher
By Mathieu Ricard and
Jean-Francois Revel
Dalai Lama Books
**(Dalai
Lama’s Auto biography listed below in Life Stories and
Examples
of past Saints)
An Open Heart,
Practicing Compassion in Every Day
By the Dalai Lama
A Simple Path: Basic Buddhist
Teachings
by His Holiness the
Dalai lama
How to
Practice: The Way
to a Meaningful Life
by the Dalai Lama
The Four Noble
Truths: Fundamentals
of the Buddhist
Teachings
by His Holiness the
Dalai Lama
Healing Anger: The
Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective
By the Dalai Lama,
The Path to
Enlightenment
by His Holiness the
Dalai Lama
Ethics for the New
Millennium
by His Holiness the
Dalai Lama
Science,
Psychology and Buddhism
The Universe in a
Single Atom
By the Dalai Lama
New Physics and
Cosmology
By the Dalai Lama, Mind
and Life conference 1997
Destructive
Emotions
Conversations with the
Dalai Lama, Mind and Life Conference 2000
Healing Emotions
Conversations with the
Dalai Lama, Mind and Life conference 1990
Visions of
Compassion
Conversations with the
Dalai Lama, Mind and Life conference 1995
Consciousness at
the Crossroads
Conversations with the
Dalai Lama, Mind and Life Conference 1989
Gentle Bridges
Conversations with the
Dalai Lama, Mind and Life Conference 1987
Sleeping,
Dreaming, and Dying
Conversations with the
Dalai Lama, Mind and life Conference 1992
The Quantum and
the Lotus
By Mathieu Ricard
Life Stories and
Examples of past Saints
Freedom In Exile: An Autobiography of the
Dalai Lama
By the Dalai Lama
The Life of Milarepa; a new
translation from the Tibetan
By Anonymous, translated
by Lobsang P. Lhalungpa
Lord of the Dance: Autobiography of
a Tibetan Lama
By Chagdud Rinpoche
Women of Wisdom
By Tsultrim Allione
Delog, Journey to
Realms Beyond Death
Delog Dawa Drolma by
Padma Publishing
Blazing Splendor,
Memoirs of Tulku Orgyan Rinpoche
By Eric Pema Kunzang and
Marcia Binder, Rangjung Yeshe Publications
Marvelous
By Nyoshul Khenpo,
translated by Richard Barron, by Padma Publishing
Journey To
Enlightenment
Photographs and
narrative by Mathieu Ricard (about Dilgo Khyentse
Rinpoche)
Cave in the Snow
By Vickie Mckenzie, RR
Donelly and Sons Company
Historical Books
and Lineage
The
By Dudjom Rinpoche,
translated by Gyurmed Dorje and Mathew Kaptsein
Published by Wisdom
Masters of
Meditation and Miracles, The Longchen Nyinthig Lineage of Tibetan
Buddhism
By Tulku Dondup,
Published by Shambhala