Mishap Lineage
The Mishap Lineage - Transforming Confusion Into Wisdom — by Chögyam Trungpa
Lively history of the Trungpa tulkus - a lineage within the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
Fantasy History
A Brief Fantasy History of a Himalayan - Autobiographical Reflections — by Thinley Norbu
Personal stories with most direct and trenchant instructions on the view of Buddhism and on what practitioners need to do on the Buddhist path.
Seven-Line Prayer
The Sole Panacea
A Brief Commentary on the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche That Cures the Suffering of the Sickness of Karma and Defilement
— by Thinley Norbu
Wellsprings
Wellsprings of the Great Perfection - The Lives and Insights of the Early Masters — translated by Erik Pema Kunsang
Collection of original translations from a vast number of classical Tibetan documents.
Holy Sites
What To Do at India's Buddhist Holy Sites – by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
The tradition of going on pilgrimage - a practice that's been encouraged by all the great religions of the world for millennia.
Rite of Initiation
The Kalachakra Tantra - Rite of Initiation For the Stage of Generation – by the XIV Dalai Lama and Jeffrey Hopkins
A commentary on the text of Kay-drup-ge-lek-bel-sang-bo , and the text itself.
Song of Saraha
The Royal Song of Saraha - A Study in the History of Buddhist Thought — by Herbert V. Guenther
A treatise on one of Saraha's Three cycles of Dohās: the forty-stanza Song on human action or King Dohās , with accompanying text and commentaries.
Engaging Buddhism
Engaging Buddhism - Why It Matters to Philosophy — by Jay L. Garfield
A book for those who want to extend their horizons and see how Buddhist theory articulates with contemporary philosophy.
Tibet
Tibet, Tibet - A Personal History of a Lost Land — by Patrick French
With immense learning and a clear but compassionate eye, the author gives us a sober new understanding of a culture's senseless catastrophe.
Women Chan Masters
Eminent Nuns - Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China ― by Beata Grant
An important perspective on female monasticism in China, and the contribution of Buddhist nuns to the history of Chinese women's writing.