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.
Vasubandhu
Seven Works of Vasubandhu - the Buddhist Psychological Doctor - by Stefan Anacker
The seven treatises presented here are complete works with a most varied range of topics and serve at least as an introduction to his thought.
Abhidhammattha Sangaha
A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma - The Abhidhammattha Sangaha of Acariya Anuruddha — by Bhikkhu Bodhi
This is the classical introduction to the study of Abhidhamma - the Buddhist philosophy of mind and mental processes.
Transcending Ego
Transcending Ego - Distinguishing Consciousness From Wisdom — by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje
This work presents a translation of Rangjung Dorje's brilliant 36 verse doha spanning this topic and includes a lucid and accessible commentary on these verses by Thrangu Rinpoche.
Twelve Examples of Illusion
Twelve Examples of Illusion — by Jan Westerhoff
The author offers an engaging look at a dozen illusions - including magic tricks, dreams, rainbows, and reflections in a mirror - showing how these phenomena can give us insight into reality. Makes both Buddhist philosophical ideas and the latest theories of mind and brain come alive for the general reader.
Buddhism With an Attitude
Buddhism With an Attitude - The Tibetan Seven-Point Mind Training — by B. Alan Wallace
This work explains Lojong - a fundamental type of Buddhist mental training which is designed to shift our attitudes so that our minds become pure wellsprings of joy instead of murky pools of problems, anxieties, fleeting pleasures, hopes, and frustrations.
Kindly Bent to Ease Us
Kindly Bent to Ease Us — by Longchenpa
Longchenpa offers a guide to enlightenment that begins with traditional reflections on the preciousness of a human existence, finite in time but unlimited in opportunities. The translator - Dr. H. V. Guenther - introduces each chapter with explications based on Longchenpa's own commentaries.
Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas
Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas - A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness — translated by David Ross Komito
This volume contains a translation of Seventy Stanzas - a fundamental work of Nagarjuna on the Madhyamika system of Buddhist philosophy, along with a commentary from the Prasangika viewpoint by Geshe Sonam Rinchen.
In Praise of Dharmadhatu
Nagarjuna's In Praise of Dharmadhatu - with 3rd Karmapa's commentary
This book explores the scope, contents, and significance of Nagarjuna's scriptural legacy in India and Tibet, focusing primarily on the title work. It also provides an overview of the Third Karmapa's basic outlook, based on seven of his major texts. Very finely tuned synthesis of the two great traditions of Indian mahayana Buddhism - Madhyamaka and Yogacara.
Psychology and Self-Improvement
Psychology and Self-Improvement — Lectures by Manly P. Hall
1 - An Invitation to Insight
2 - Anger - Its Cause and Cure
3 - Are We Morally Responsible for the Advice We Give?
4 - As the Twig Is Bent Hazards of Growing Up
5 - Be Your Own Psychotherapist