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The Padmakara Translation Group has a distinguished reputation for its translations of Tibetan texts and teachings, and is renowned for its clear and accurate literary style.

Counsels from My Heart

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Dudjom Rinpoche

Counsels from My Heart is one of the few volumes of teachings by Dudjom Rinpoche, a legendary meditation master of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, to become available in English. It features talks to students presented in Dudjom… Read More

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The Excellent Path to Enlightenment

Oral Teachings on the Root Text of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

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Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo,
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

The vow to perfect oneself in order to perfect others is called the thought of enlightenment or bodhichitta. This implies that every single action word or thought even the most trivial is dedicated to the good of all beings.… Read More

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Food of Bodhisattvas

Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat

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Shabkar Natshok Rangdrol

Based on the teachings of the Buddha, this book offers the most compelling and impassioned indictment of meat-eating to be found in Tibetan literature and is pertinent to anyone interested in vegetarianism as a moral or spiritual issue. The Buddha's… Read More

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For the Benefit of All Beings

A Commentary on The Way of the Bodhisattva

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H.H. the Dalai Lama

The fourteenth Dalai Lama, a living embodiment of the bodhisattva ideal, presents detailed practical guidance based on sections of The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva, the best-known text of Mahayana Buddhism. The Dalai Lama explains this classic and beloved… Read More

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The Heart of Compassion

The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva

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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

What would be the practical implications of caring more about others than about yourself? This is the radical theme of this extraordinary set of instructions, a training manual composed in the fourteenth century by the Buddhist hermit Ngulchu… Read More

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The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones

The Practice of View, Meditation, and Action

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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche,
Patrul Rinpoche

In this book, two great Tibetan Buddhist masters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries challenge us to critically examine our materialistic preoccupations and think carefully about how we want to spend the rest of our lives. At the same time,… Read More

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The Hundred Verses of Advice

Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most

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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche,
Padama Sangye

This commentary on Padampa Sangye's classic verses of advise to Tibetan villagers of Tingri—by renowned and beloved meditation master Dilgo Khyentse—offers guidance for people trying to lead a dharmic life in the workaday world. These hundred verses, studied for centuries… Read More

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Lady of the Lotus-Born

The Life and Enlightenment of Yeshe Tsogyal

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Gyalwa Changchub,
Namkhai Nyingpo

The first Tibetan to attain complete enlightenment was in all probability the woman Yeshe Tsogyal, the closest disciple of Padmasambhava, the master who brought Buddhism to Tibet in the eighth century. This classical text is not only a biography but… Read More

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Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend

With Commentary by Kangyur Rinpoche

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Nagarjuna

The great Indian Buddhist master Nagarjuna wrote his celebrated poem Letter to a Friend as a gift of advice to a South Indian king, and it has since become a monument in the Indian shastra tradition. Despite its short length… Read More

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The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech

A Detailed Commentary on Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva

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Kunzang Pelden

The Bodhicharyavatara, or Way of the Bodhisattva, composed by the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva, has occupied an important place in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition throughout its history. It is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment through generating… Read More

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A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom

Complete Instructions on the Preliminary Practices

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Dudjom Rinpoche,
Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje

The foundations of Vajrayana practice are laid out with eloquence and precision here by one of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist masters of our age. His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche’s commentary on the preliminary practices (ngöndro) is informed by his profound realization… Read More

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Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One

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by
Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kyabje Kangyur Rinpoche,
Jigme Lingpa

This book is a translation of the first part of Jigme Lingpa’s Treasury of Precious Qualities, which in a slender volume of elegant verses sets out briefly but comprehensively the Buddhist path according to the Nyingma school. The concision of… Read More

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The Way of the Bodhisattva

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Shantideva

Treasured by Buddhists of all traditions, The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. This text has been studied, practiced, and expounded… Read More

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Zurchungpa's Testament

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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Zurchungpa's Eighty Chapters of Personal Advice was the final teaching given by the great Nyingma master Zurchung Sherab Trakpa before he passed away. His counsels are the distillation of a lifetime's experience and comprise the practical instructions of a… Read More

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The Padmakara Translation Group is a team of translators and editors of various nationalities specializing in the translation of Tibetan texts and teachings, mainly into English, French, German, and Spanish.

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Oral Teachings on the Root Text of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat

A Commentary on The Way of the Bodhisattva

The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva

The Practice of View, Meditation, and Action

Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most

The Life and Enlightenment of Yeshe Tsogyal

With Commentary by Kangyur Rinpoche

A Detailed Commentary on Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva

Complete Instructions on the Preliminary Practices

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