Path to Awakening
A Practice of Padmasambhava - Essential Instructions on the Path to Awakening — by Sechen Gyaltsap IV and Rinchen Dargye
Two practical and compelling works related to a visualization and mantra practice of Padmasambhava.
Great Liberation
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation - Or the Method of Realizing Nirvana Through Knowing the Mind — by Padmasambhava
The repository of teachings of paramount importance, transmitted to the peoples of Occident from most illustrious Teachers of Tibet and of India.
Padmasambhava
The Life of Padmasambhava — by Taranatha
Biography of Padmasambhava - the famed master from Oddiyana who introduced Tantric Buddhism in Tibet in the eighth century.
Great Accomplishment
Great Accomplishment - Teachings on the Drubchen Ceremony — by Padmasambhava and others Masters
Detailed explanations of Vajrayana practices and the underlying theories from which they derive.
Heart Practices
Guru's Heart Practices - Texts for Dispeller of Obstacles — by Padmasambhava
This extensive cycle contains teachings and practices for the preliminaries up to and including Dzogchen.
Longchen Nyingtig
Longchen Nyingtig - A set of Dzogchen practices and prayers by Jigme Lingpa
These works looks at a seminal figure of this lineage, Jigme Lingpa - an eighteenth-century Buddhist scholar and meditation master whose cycle of teachings - the Longchen Nyingtig - has been handed down through generations as a complete path to enlightenment.
Lotus-Born
The Lotus-Born - The Life Story of Padmasambhava by Yeshe Tsogyal
Biography of the great master recorded in the ninth century. The complete story of how Buddhism was planted in Tibet.
Dispeller of Obstacles
Dispeller of Obstacles - The Heart Practice of Padmasambhava
This is the heart essence of the accomplished master Padmasambhava who perceives the three times in the entirety.
Pema Lingpa
The Life and Revelations of Pema Lingpa — translated by Sarah Harding
An important introduction to Buddhism and to the teachings of Guru Padmasambhava. In particular, it includes selections from the treasures revealed by the great Bhutanese master Pema Lingpa.
Natural Liberation
Natural Liberation - Padmasambhava's Teachings on the Six Bardos — translated by B. Alan Wallace
This book illuminates the most profound questions about who we are and provides a map for the journey through life, death, and rebirth in great depth and simplicity. A perfect companion to the well-known Tibetan Book of the Dead.