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In Snow Lion Meets Europe, the Buddhist monk Khenpo Kyosang Rinpoche delivers a series of lectures to a mostly German audience, in which he gently but firmly confronts the vagaries and inconsistencies of Western culture from an Eastern perspective. The result is a highly readable book that is provocative, humorous, and insightful.
The 2019 commercial edition of this book is an exemplary edition with a very good foreword and numerous notes. It is the full version of Rinpoche's teaching. We encourage everyone to buy this excellent edition which is available on amazon.com. This version of the book, published on a non-commercial basis under Creative Commons International License, allows everyone who is interested in Tibetan Buddhism in general and in Kyosang Rinpoche's enigmatic personality in particular, to get acquainted with Rinpoche's teaching for free. We have honestly tried to remove from the text everything which is not a part of Rinpoche's teaching. As a result, this version contains only the barest minimum. It has no foreword, no story of how the book was written, no explanatory notes, all of which are there in the commercial version. KHENPO in the name of the actual author is a honorary title whose validity we can neither refute nor confirm. In order to avoid controversy, we have decided to remove it.
In this journey of samsaric life, which is full of dissatisfaction, sufferings, and uncertainties, let's make these wisdom messages of the Buddha our beacon of hope and light. While Khenpo Rinpoche writes these lines, we are living in an unusual era of a global pandemic, the COVID-19. So through this book, Rinpoche wishes to send us a message of hope and healings. In our struggles in battling this deadly pandemic, he sincerely hope and pray that we could mask-up ourselves with the practice of mindfulness, to purify ("sanitize") our mind-streams with the medicine of Dharma and also to "distant" ourselves from anything or anyone that is unwholesome or non-virtuous. By doing these spiritual practices, added with following the medical advices given by the health experts, the author truly believe that we could definitely win against all illnesses and dis-eases of all kinds, be it physical or mental, worldly or spiritual. Khenpo Rinpoche dedicates all merits to all patients, front-liners, doctors, healers and all sentient beings, may this pandemic quickly vanish and may we all live a normal, healthy and productive life - in its own perfect timing, for the highest good of all!
Buddhist scholar and teacher Khenpo Tsultrim talks about the path of reason and the presentation of the two truths by six different philosophical schools.
Thirty-seven Practices of a Bodhisattva is an ancient text written in the 14th Century BCE by Tokme Zangpo, a Buddhist monk and scholar who was born in Puljung, south west of the Sakya Monastery in Tibet. Thirty-seven Practices seeks to make clear the day-to-day behavior of a Bodhisattva (an nlightened being on their way to attaining full Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings). It serves as a practical guide for those people seeking to travel the path of enlightenment. Though short in length, a person could spend a lifetime perfecting the practices. The work can be seen as a companion to Santideva's classic work the Bodhicaryavatara. While there are English translations of this t...
Transcending Vision provides an overview of Christian theology that strikes a careful balance between academic analysis and popular-level inspirational writing. The result is an accessible but rigorous exposition of invaluable theological truth. In an age given to a love of empirical science and technological novelty, this book promises to guide distracted, worldly-minded souls back to the knowledge of Jesus Christ himself: the Light of the world.