Courage and Compassion
A Fearless Heart — by Thupten Jinpa
This book shows us how to train our compassion muscle to relieve stress, fight depression, improve our health, achieve our goals, and change our world.
Stainless Light
Ornament of Stainless Light - An Exposition of the Kalacakra Tantra — by Khedrup Norsang Gyatso (Library of Tibetan Classic - volume 14)
The Kalacakra texts present an amazingly detailed theory of cosmology and astronomy, especially about the movements of the various celestial bodies.
Buddhist Tantra
Systems of Buddhist Tantra — by Jamgon Kongtrul - The Treasury of Knowledge - Volume 6
This volume sets forth the various systems that constitute the tantric path, both those of the ancient tantra tradition and of the new tradition. A superb resource for advanced Buddhist practitioners students and scholars.
Profound Inner Principles
The Profound Inner Principles — by The Third Karmapa Rangjug Dorje
With masterful clarity and precision, this work delineates the principles and foundations of Vajrayana practice. Includes a commentary by Jamgon Kongtrul with extensive footnotes containing extracts from all the other important commentaries to the root text.
Seven-Point Mind Training
The Seven-Point Mind Training - A Tibetan Method for Cultivating Mind and Heart — by B. Alan Wallace
Lojong - the Seven-Point Mind Training - is a thousand-year-old set of Tibetan teachings for cultivating an open mind and a compassionate heart. This Mind Training is especially well-suited for an active life. It helps us to reexamine our relationships - to family, friends, enemies, and strangers - and gradually transform our responses to whatever life throws our way.
Mind Training
Mind Training — by Ringu Tulku
This work gives instructions for tonglen breathing practice that ties the concepts of lojong to the physical act of breathing. Focuses simply on giving up, self-cherishing, and transforming self-centered thinking into compassion, egoistic feelings into altruism, desire into acceptance, and resentment into joy.
Six Yogas of Naropa and Mahamudra
The Six Yogas of Naropa and teachings on Mahamudra — by Garma C. C. Chang
By spiritual exercises and the application of Tantric techniques-such as the Six Yogas - one can soon realize that his body, mind, and the "objective world" are all manifestations of the divine Buddhahood.
Natural Perfection
Natural Perfection - Longchenpa's Radical Dzogchen — by Keith Dowman
This work presents the radical precepts of Dzogchen, pointing the way to absolute liberation from conceptual fetters and leading the practitioner to a state of pure, natural integration into one's true being. Transcending the Tibetan context or even the confines of Buddhist tradition, Longchen Rabjam delivers a manual full of practical wisdom.
Highest Yoga Tantra
Highest Yoga Tantra - An Introduction to the Esoteric Buddhism of Tibet — by Daniel Cozort
This extraordinary book clearly outlines and discusses the methods for transforming both body and mind through the highest forms of tantric practice.
Master of Wisdom
Master of Wisdom - Writings of the Buddhist Master Nagarjuna
An excellent introduction to Madhyamika. This book contains two hymns of praise to the Buddha, two treatises on Shunyata, and two works that clarify the connection of analysis, meditation, and moral conduct. Includes Tibetan verses in transliteration and critical editions of extant Sanskrit.