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• Books (4)
• Canonical Works (2)
• Documents (21)
• Audio/Video (15)
• Subtopics (1)

Books (4)

Mt Kailash: A Pilgrim’s Companion (2020) – Bhante Shravasti Dhammika

Finding Genuine Practice: The Eight Verses of Training the Mind (2020) – The Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje

Mind Training: The Seventy-Two Exhortations (2020) – Kharak Gomchung

Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built (2018) – Jessica Marie Falcone

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Canonical Works (2)

The Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (1979) – Śāntideva

The Bodhisattva’s Confession of Downfalls (2020)

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Documents (21)

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• Tilling the Fields of Merit: The Institutionalization of Feminine Enlightenment in Tibet’s First Khenmo Program (2020) – Jue Liang and Andrew S. Taylor
  🥇 Best of

  “A monastery is a place where equality is preached but not practiced; a gar is a place where equality is practiced but not preached.”

  32 pages

  pdf pdf
• gTer ­ston and­ Tradent: Innovation­ and ­Conservation­ in­ Tibetan Treasure­ Literature (2014) – Robert Mayer
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  While many assume Treasure to be innovative, those developed Treasure tradition texts we inspected can, at least in their final published versions, better be described as conservative, and often extremely so.

  16 pages

  Online pdf
• Explaining the Dalai Lama (2011) – Bhante Shravasti Dhammika

  Who is he and why is he so famous?

  3 pages

  Online pdf

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The Aura of Buddhist Material Objects in the Age of Mass-Production (2019) – Trine Brox

Christina “the Astonishing” Meets the Tibetans Returning from the Beyond (2007) – Paul Williams

Youth Buddhism: The Centrality of “Youth” in Modern Buddhism (2021) – Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg

Living with the Mountain: Mountain Propitiation Rituals in the Making of Human-Environmental Ethics in Sikkim (2021) – Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia

Female Authority and Privileged Lives: The Hagiography of Mingyur Peldrön (2018) – Alison Melnick Dyer

Sa skya pandita’s Account of the bSam yas Debate: History as Polemic (1982) – Roger Jackson

Ethics in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism (2017) – Charles Goodman

Violently Peaceful: Tibetan Self-Immolation and the Problem of the Non/Violence Binary (2015) – John Soboslai

Bodhicaryāvatāra: Teaching Methods & Overview (2008) – Alak Zenkar Rinpoche

Song of the Enchanting Wildwoods (2016) – Longchen Rabjam

The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas (2006) – Gyalse Tokme Zangpo

Advice for Alak Dongak (2014) – Patrul Rinpoche

Excellent Intention: A Simple Nyungné Ritual (2019) – Jigme Lingpa

The Blissful Path of Action Tantra: A Ritual for Taking the One-Day Vows of a Lay Practitioner (2021) – Jigme Lingpa

From the Oral Tradition (2013) – Nyarong Tertön Sogyal Rinpoche

Vomiting Gold (2015) – Khenpo Gangshar Wangpo

An Exhortation to Tibetans (2017) – Khenmo Rigdzin Chödrön

Four-Point Advice (2020) – Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

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Audio/Video (15)

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• Renunciation and Longing (2022) – Annabella Pitkin
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  Khunu Lama (1895–1977) was a master scholar and strict renunciant who was also a teacher to many of the twentieth century’s most famous masters, including His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. In this interview about his life, Annabelle Pitkin reflects on the tension between solitude and connection in the lives of Tibetan, Buddhist monastics.

  1h 21m

  Online
• Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa (2021) – Brenton Sullivan
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  How did the Geluk school come to dominate Tibetan Buddhism?

  1h 12m

  Online
• Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing (2019) – Matthew W. King
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  What is the “otherwise” of modernism in Mongolia and Inner-Asia?

  64 min

  Online
• The Oracle: Reflections on Self (2006) – David Cherniack
  
  54 min

  YouTube
• Nepal: The Great Plunder (2018) – Steve Chao
  
  26 min

  YouTube
• The Dalai Lama’s Succession Strategy (2009) – Journeyman Pictures
  
  15 min

  YouTube
• Unmistaken Child (2008) – Nati Baratz
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  This is thousands and thousands of times more important than my own life.

  1h 43m

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See also:

Himalaya: Path to the Sky (2008) – Marianne Chaud

Becoming the First Female Geshe (2017) – Geshema Kelsang Wangmo

Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet (2019) – Jane Caple

Ritual in Contemplation: Text and Tools in Tantric Buddhism (2011) – Robert Thurman

The Buddha Party: How the People’s Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism (2017) – John Powers

Travels in the Netherworld: Buddhist Popular Narratives of Death and the Afterlife in Tibet (2011) – Bryan J. Cuevas

Seven Line Prayer of Guru Rinpoche (2009) – Ani Choying Drolma

The Buddha on the Alter of Drepung Loseling Monastery (2020) – Dadul Namgyal

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Subtopics (1)

• History of Tibetan Buddhism