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Alexandra David-Neel
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Portrait of an Adventurer
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978-0-87773-413-0
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This unique biography explores the inner journey of a woman whose outer life was a thrilling story of passion and adventure. Alexandra David-Neel (1868–1969), born in Paris to a socially prominent family, once boasted, "I learned to run before I could walk!" In the course of a lifetime...

Autumn Lightning
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The Education of an American Samurai
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978-1-57062-115-4
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Dave Lowry juxtaposes his singular experience as an adept student of kenjutsu (the art of swordsmanship) under a Japanese teacher in St. Louis with a riveting account of the samurai tradition in Japan. Intertwining tales of the masters with reflections on his own apprenticeship in the samurai's...

Awakened Dreams
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Raji's Journey with the Mirror Dede
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978-0-939660-45-2
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Awakened Dreams was written in the early 1900s at the end of the Ottoman era by Ahmet Hilmi—humorist, revolutionary, and Sufi mystic.

Raji—a young man disillusioned with science, philosophy, religion, and with life as he knows it—meets a grandfather-like "madman"...

Bodhisattva of Compassion
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The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin
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978-1-59030-735-9
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She is the embodiment of selfless love, the supreme symbol of radical compassion, and, for more than a millennium throughout Asia, she has been revered as “The One Who Hearkens to the Cries of the World.” Kuan Yin is both a Buddhist symbol and a beloved deity of Chinese folk religion....

Boomeritis
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A Novel That Will Set You Free
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978-1-59030-008-4
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Ken Wilber's latest book is a daring departure from his previous writings—a highly original work of fiction that combines brilliant scholarship with tongue-in-cheek storytelling to present the integral approach to human development that he expounded in more conventional terms in his recent...

Brilliant Moon
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The Autobiography of Dilgo Khyentse
Includes Recollections from Family, Friends, and Students
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978-1-59030-284-2
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From Translator's Preface

A few years after Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s passing, around 1993, when his collected writings were being prepared for printing, Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche asked me to translate Khyentse Rinpoche’s autobiography. Khyentse Rinpoche...

City of Lingering Splendor
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A Frank Account of Old Peking's Exotic Pleasures
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978-1-57062-637-1
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In his early twenties, John Blofeld spent what he describes as "three exquisitely happy years" in Peking during the era of the last emperor, when the breathtaking greatness of China's ancient traditions was still everywhere evident. Arriving in 1934, he found a city imbued with the atmosphere...

Dragon Thunder
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My Life with Chogyam Trungpa
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978-1-59030-534-8
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“It was not always easy to be the guru’s wife,” writes Diana Mukpo. “But I must say, it was rarely boring.” At the age of sixteen, Diana Mukpo left school and broke with her upper-class English family to marry Chögyam Trungpa, a young Tibetan lama who would go...

Endless Vow
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The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa
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978-1-57062-162-8
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Endless Vow is the first English-language collection of the literary works of Soen Nakagawa Roshi. An intimate, in-depth portrait of the master of Eido Tai Shimano, his Dharma heir, introduces the poems, letters, journal entries, and other writings of Soen Roshi, which are illustrated with...

Falling Hard
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A Journey into the World of Judo
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978-1-59030-715-1
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On his fiftieth birthday, British journalist and self-described “indolent sportsman” Mark Law decides to take up judo on a whim and ends up getting hooked on the sport. Falling Hard is Law’s love letter to judo—the culture, drama, history, and practice. With journalistic...

The Goldfish Went on Vacation
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A Memoir of Loss (and Learning to Tell the Truth about It)
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978-1-59030-564-5
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The moment when Patty Dann’s husband was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, she felt as though the ground had dropped out beneath her. Her grief, however, was immediately interrupted by the realization that she would have to tell their three-year-old son, Jake, that his father was dying....

The Goldfish Went on Vacation
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A Memoir of Loss (and Learning to Tell the Truth about It)
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978-1-59030-428-0
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The moment when Patty Dann’s husband was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, she felt as though the ground had dropped out beneath her. Her grief, however, was immediately interrupted by the realization that she would have to tell their three-year-old son, Jake, that his father was dying....

Grace and Grit
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Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber
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978-1-57062-742-2
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Here is a deeply moving account of a couple's struggle with cancer and their journey to spiritual healing. Grace and Grit is the compelling story of the five-year journey of Ken Wilber and his wife Treya Killam Wilber through Treya's illness, treatment, and, finally, death.

Hard Travel to Sacred Places
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Hard Travel to Sacred Places is the record of a personal odyssey through Southeast Asia, an external and internal journey through grief and the painful realities of a decadent age. Wurlitzer—novelist, screenwriter, and Buddhist practitioner—travels with his wife, photographer Lynn...

In Buddha's Kitchen
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Cooking, Being Cooked, and Other Adventures in a Meditation Center
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978-1-59030-147-0
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Kimberley Snow offers an outrageously funny and honest account of her adventures as head cook at a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center. With her earthy sensibility and sharp sense of humor, the author shows this world in a light devoid of preciousness—while expressing with heart the integrity...

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