I am reading:
Volume 1 of the Abhidharmakosabhasyam
I just ordered:
The Cakrasamvara Tantra: A Study and Annotated Translation by David B. Gray
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What Buddhist Books Did You Order, or are Reading?
What Buddhist Books Did You Order, or are Reading?
by Mr. G » Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:14 pm
- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by gnegirl » Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:38 pm
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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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by Silent Bob » Thu Mar 31, 2011 5:37 pm
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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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by tamdrin » Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:00 pm
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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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by conebeckham » Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:35 pm
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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བདག་གི་ཡོངས་སུ་བཟུང་མེད་པར།
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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by Josef » Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:37 pm
tamdrin wrote:Just read treasury of Philosophy Instructions by Longchen Rabjampa.
Have you read the other books in the Precious Treasury yet?
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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by tamdrin » Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:45 pm
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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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by Pero » Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:28 pm
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.
Actually four (maybe five?) have been translated.
Although many individuals in this age appear to be merely indulging their worldy desires, one does not have the capacity to judge them, so it is best to train in pure vision.
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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by Caz » Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:46 pm
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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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by tamdrin » Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:38 pm
Pero,
Cool!
Thanks.
Cool!
Thanks.
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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by Lazy_eye » Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:21 pm
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...
How are you liking "Scar Tissue"? I'm a fan of Charles Wright's work, particularly "China Trace" and "The Southern Cross".
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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by Astus » Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:15 pm
The Great Perfection by Samten Gyaltsen Karmay
"While teachers of the middle way, mind only, transcendent wisdom, mantra, and other schools may have their own assertions, the fulfillment of those intentions is the same. There is not a single thing that is not contained within mind."
(Gampopa to Düsum Khyenpa, in "The First Karmapa", KTD Pub, p 254)
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(Gampopa to Düsum Khyenpa, in "The First Karmapa", KTD Pub, p 254)
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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by conebeckham » Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:44 pm
Lazy_eye wrote: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...
How are you liking "Scar Tissue"? I'm a fan of Charles Wright's work, particularly "China Trace" and "The Southern Cross".
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.
དགེ་བའི་ཚོགས་རྣམས་བསགས་པ་ཀུན།
བདག་གི་ཡོངས་སུ་བཟུང་མེད་པར།
སེམས་ཅན་མ་ལུས་ཀུན་དོན་དུ།
ཆོས་དབྱིངསླ་ན་མེད་པར་བསྔོ།།
བདག་གི་ཡོངས་སུ་བཟུང་མེད་པར།
སེམས་ཅན་མ་ལུས་ཀུན་དོན་དུ།
ཆོས་དབྱིངསླ་ན་མེད་པར་བསྔོ།།
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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by justsit » Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:16 am
Short clip about Charles Wright here.
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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by heart » Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:54 am
Karmey Khenpos "Brilliant Light" over and over again.
/magnus
"The direct, hard to understand, subtle field of knowing, the Great Path, is non-conceptual (akalpana), and entirely beyond the grasp of intellectual thought. Divorced from verbal ideation, it is difficult to point out and as difficult to enquire into. It cannot be communicated through words and [therefore] is not within the scope of the neophyte (adikarmika). Nevertheless the path is to be approached through studying scriptures (sutra) of the World-Teacher and following the personal instructions (upadesa) of one's Guru-ji."
Bodhicittabhavana by Acarya Sri Manjusrimitra
Bodhicittabhavana by Acarya Sri Manjusrimitra
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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by tomamundsen » Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:55 am
How approachable is this text?
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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by LastLegend » Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:18 am
I listen
NAMO AMITABHA
NAM MO A DI DA PHAT (VIETNAMESE)
NAMO AMITUOFO (CHINESE)
NAM MO A DI DA PHAT (VIETNAMESE)
NAMO AMITUOFO (CHINESE)
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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by Adamantine » Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:12 am
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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Re: What Are You Reading? What Did You Just Order to Read?
by heart » Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:30 am
Adamantine wrote:about to order The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise - Ian Baker
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.
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"The direct, hard to understand, subtle field of knowing, the Great Path, is non-conceptual (akalpana), and entirely beyond the grasp of intellectual thought. Divorced from verbal ideation, it is difficult to point out and as difficult to enquire into. It cannot be communicated through words and [therefore] is not within the scope of the neophyte (adikarmika). Nevertheless the path is to be approached through studying scriptures (sutra) of the World-Teacher and following the personal instructions (upadesa) of one's Guru-ji."
Bodhicittabhavana by Acarya Sri Manjusrimitra
Bodhicittabhavana by Acarya Sri Manjusrimitra
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