Transmitting the Ideal
Original Perfection - Vairotsana's Five Early Transmissions — by Keith Dowman
The root of Dzogchen - main practice of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Sparkling translation and commentary provide insight and historical background.
Diamond Sutra
The Diamond Sutra - Perfection of Wisdom — by Red Pine
This is the Buddhist teaching on the perfection of wisdom and cuts through all obstacles on the path of practice.
Virtue of Wisdom
The Treatise on the Great Virtue of Wisdom of Nagarjuna - Mahaprajnaparamitasastra - in five volumes — compiled by Etienne Lamotte
Meditation on Emptiness
Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness — by Tsultrim Gyamtso
Author presents the main schools of Buddhist philosophy with their progressively more subtle and refined views of reality.
Perfect Clarity
Perfect Clarity - A Tibetan Buddhist Anthology of Mahamudra and Dzogchen — translated by Erik Pema Kunsang
An anthology of essential writings on Mahamudra and Dzogchen for the student of Tibetan Buddhism. Translator has selected works by legendary masters both ancient and modern.
Great Disciples of the Buddha
Great Disciples of the Buddha - Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy — by Nyanaponika Thera & Hellmuth Hecker
Another one part of Teachings of the Buddha series. Twenty-four of the Buddha's most distinguished disciples are brought to life in ten chapters of rich narration. Drawn from a wide range of authentic Pali sources, the material in these stories has never before been assembled in a single volume.
Heart Lamp
Heart Lamp - Lamp of Mahamudra and Heart of the Matter — by Tsele Natsok Rangdrol
This book main idea is that intrinsic to the heart, mind and spirit in every human being is an identical essence which can be realized. This realization makes any man or woman a Buddha.
Mahamudra - The Moonlight
Mahamudra - The Moonlight - Quintessence of Mind and Meditation — by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal
Mahamudra meditation is simultaneously the most profound of meditative disciplines and the most accessible for modern practitioners. Traditionally passed orally from teacher to disciple, mahamudra instructions point the meditator to the innate perfection of every experience.
Basking in the Sun
Old Man Basking in the Sun - Longchenpa's Treasury of Natural Perfection — by Keith Dowman
Through the precept 'nonaction' - which is savoured like 'an old man basking in the sun' - Dzogchen teaches the natural perfection of all our experience, and all our lives, just as it is, without need of any alteration.
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.