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Reciting the Names of Manjushri
Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti
Reciting the Names of Manjushri is one of the most important and beloved Buddhist tantras. Here it is presented in a rhythmic, chantable new translation by Khenpo David Karma Choephel from the Sanskrit with reference to the Tibetan translations as well as to various Sanskrit and Tibetan commentaries. It is accompanied by a version arranged for chanting in Tibetan as well as an analysis of the sources.
A Rosary of Rubies
The Chronicle of the Gur-rigs mDo-chen Tradition from South-West Tibet
This book presents a history of a less known Dochen Kagyu school (sub-branch of Drukpa Kagyu), also called Madunpa’s Tradition, written by Dakarwa Chokyi Wangchuk. It was translated and introduced in a rather academic style by Prof. Dr. Franz-Karl Ehrhard, who has agreed that it would be republished by Tsum Research Group as a part of their project – a collection of texts presenting the history of Tibetan religion and culture on the current territory of Nepal.
A String of Pearls
ཚོགས་ཆོས་མུ་ཏིག་ཕྲེང་བ།
A String of Pearls is a collection of dharma talks given by Lord Gampopa in plain-spoken, no-nonsense, and direct language. In them, Gampopa continually exhorts us to remember the qualities that will allow us to practice dharma genuinely—loving-kindness, compassion, and bodhichitta. These talks speak to issues that affect practitioners of today just as much as they did the people who gathered around Gampopa and listened to him teach some 800 years ago.
Invoking Compassion Swiftly
Guru Yoga for Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
This book presents Invoking Compassion Swiftly, a guru yoga for the Ninth Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche written by the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje in an attractive format with the Tibetan original as well as the English and Chinese translations. In addition, it also includes prayers for calling the guru from afar, including one by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, and prayers for Rinpoche’s swift return by over twenty lamas of all the major dharma lineages.
The Million Aspiration Monlam
འབུམ་ཚོགས་སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་འདོན་ཆ་ཕྱོགས་བསྒྲིགས།
In January 2024 the 38th Kagyu Monlam will feature a million recitations of the Noble Aspiration for Excellent Conduct and Samaya Vajra practice. This publication includes the texts to be chanted at the Monlam that are not included in the Kagyu Monlam Book.
365 Daily Teachings
༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡོངས་འཛིན་མཁན་ཆེན་ཁྲ་འགུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཞལ་གདམས་གཅེས་བཏུས།
This book “356 Daily Teachings of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche” is a carefully selected compilation of 365 short and practical heart advice from the teachings of the 9th Very Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. These profound teachings have been selected from more than 35 English books that were skillfully translated, ensuring their authenticity and clarity.
The Profound Essence Tara
དགོངས་གཏེར་སྒྲོལ་མའི་ཟབ་ཏིག་ལས། མཎྜལ་ཆོ་ག་ཚོགས་གཉིས་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།
This Green Tara practice, a terma of Terchen Chokgyur Lingpa, is widely renowned for its efficacy in removing obstacles and fulfilling wishes for our dharma practice and our daily lives. This new electronic edition features recitations in Tibetan of the Homages as well as of the prayers to Guru Rinpoche by the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa. The new English translation was rendered in poetic meter so that it can be sung with the same melodies as the Tibetan, and this eBook includes recordings of the Homages in English as well.
An Overview of the Five Texts of Maitreya
The Sun Rays that Open the Lotus of the Mahāyāna
The five treatises of the next Buddha Maitreya are crucial and celebrated because they provide a comprehensive overview of all the essential elements of mahāyāna motivation, view, meditation, conduct, and fruition in a very concise form. Thus, they resemble zip-files that contain all the profound and vast topics of the entire mahāyāna Buddhism.
A Daily Practice of Chö
This very practical, detailed and illustrated guide specifically describes the practice of the shorter Chö liturgy of Kagyu tradition: A Concise Daily Practice of Offering One’s Body (རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་གྱི་ལུས་སྦྱིན་བསྡུས་པ།). However, it is so informative that it will be of use to all Chö practitioners. The original edition, published in 2008 as Chö: The Garden of All Joy & Generosity of the Body, has now been revised, updated and amended.
Transforming the Mind
The Four Dharmas of Gampopa
This commentary on the Four Dharmas of Gampopa is based on teachings Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche gave at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra. The Tibetan edition, reviewed and revised by Rinpoche, was published by Thrangu Monastery in 2016. A Chinese edition was published soon afterwards, combining the commentary with another short teaching on consciousness and wisdom, given by Rinpoche in Germany in 1988. This eBook presents both these teachings in English.
Prayers for Rebirth in Sukhavati
The three prayers to Buddha Amitabha by Karma Chakme and Tertön Mingyur Dorje that are recited frequently in monasteries, nunneries, and dharma centers around the world, and many practitioners also include them in their daily practice to pray either for themselves or on behalf of recently departed loved ones. In Tibetan, they are frequently sung to the melody for the MAṆI mantra, so they are presented here in a new translation that can easily be sung to that same melody, with instructions, music notation, and recordings at the end of this publication.
Beloved Garden
Brief Notes on the Offering and Gift of the Body
ལུས་མཆོད་སྦྱིན་གྱི་ཟིན་བྲིས་མདོར་བསྡུས་ཀུན་དགའི་སྐྱེད་ཚལ།
This is Jamgön Kongtrul’s well-known and probably most useful instruction on the daily practice of Severance (see A Concise Daily Practice of Offering One’s Body), written at the behest of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. It has been translated several times, with the title rendered variously as “Grove of Delights,” “Garden of All Joy,” “Garden of Pleasures,” and so forth. It is also the basis of many oral commentaries by great contemporary masters such as Venerable Tenga Rinpoche, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, and so on. Indeed, the text is concise and yet thoroughly informative; one might almost call it user-friendly.
A Concise Daily Practice of Offering One’s Body
རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་གྱི་ལུས་སྦྱིན་བསྡུས་པ།
This brief Chö text has become the most popular version for those who wish to do the practice on a regular basis, particularly in the Kagyu lineage. The authorship of the liturgy has not been explicitly established, however all the prayers contained in this short version will have ancient origins in the lineage-holders, such as the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje, and carry these blessings. The text featured in this eBook was prepared according to the instructions given by Dorlop Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche.
ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྙན་གྲགས། • The Glory of Dharma
༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་མཁན་ཆེན་ཁྲ་འགུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་རིམ་བྱོན་གྱི་མཛད་རྣམ་རགས་བསྡུས།
Brief Accounts of the Lives and Deeds of the Incarnations of the Lord of Refuge Thrangu Rinpoche
སྒྲུབ་བརྒྱུད་བསྟན་པའི་མཛེས་རྒྱན་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡོངས་འཛིན་མཁན་ཆེན་ཁྲ་འགུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་འགྲོ་བ་སེམས་ཅན་གྱི་དོན་དུ་ད་བར་སྐུའི་འཕྲེང་བ་རིམ་པ་དགུ་བར་བྱོན་ཡོད། དེ་བས་མགོན་གང་གི་རྣམ་ཐར་རྗེས་དྲན་སླད་གདུང་སྲས་བླ་མ་པདྨ་མཆོག་གིས་བརྙན་དེབ་འདིར་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཁྲ་འགུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་སྐུ་འཕྲེང་རིམ་བྱོན་གྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་སྐུ་ཐང་དང་བཅས་པ་མདོར་བསྡུས་བཀོད་ཡོད་པ་དང་ལྷག་པར་དུ་ཁྲ་འགུ་སྐུ་འཕྲེང་དགུ་པ་ཀརྨ་བློ་གྲོས་རིང་ལུགས་སྨྲ་བའི་སེང་གེ་མཆོག་གི་ཞལ་པར་མང་དག་ཅིག་ཕྱོགས་བསྒྲིགས་བྱས་ཡོད།
The Guru Yoga “Showers of Blessings”
བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་བྱིན་རླབས་ཆར་རྒྱུན། །
On the occasion of the Karmapa 900 celebration of the 900th anniversary of Karmapa Dusum Khyenpa’s birth, His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje wrote this special guru yoga for Dusum Khyenpa. At his request, the heart sons Their Eminences Tai Situ Rinpoche, Jamgön Kongtrul Rinpoche, and Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche also wrote supplications, offerings, and auspicious prayers to be recited during the practice. When recited with faith and devotion, this guru sadhana is certain to plant the seeds of devotion in the practitioner’s heart.
The Sadhana of the Vision of Lord Karma Pakshi
From the Mind Treasure of
the Great Terton Mingyur Dorje
རྗེ་ཀརྨ་པཀྵི་ཞལ་གཟིགས་མའི་ལས་བྱང་༔
This practice text was composed by the great terton Mingyur Dorje, who had a vision of the Second Karmapa Karma Pakshi as the embodiment of all the gurus, yidams, dakas, dakinis and Dharma protectors — the single source of the Three Jewels and the Three Roots. Later other masters, like the Fourteenth Karmapa Tekchok Dorje or Palden Khyentse Özer, the Second Jamgön Rinpoche, added the ritual parts and supplications to create a complete sadhana used nowadays. It should be used with care and only by those who received the appropriate empowerment, transmission and instructions from a qualified lama.
Only the Impossible is Worth Doing
Recollections of the Supreme Life and Activity of Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Revered master of Vajrayana Buddhism, eminent humanitarian and profound innovator in the fields of psychotherapy and medicine, Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche brought immense benefit to the world. After a dramatic escape from his homeland of Tibet in 1959, Rinpoche established and became the spiritual leader of Kagyu Samye Ling, Europe’s first Tibetan Buddhist monastery. From there his activity flourished and gave rise to remarkable projects across the globe.
A Life of Happiness
A Practice Guide for Older Practitioners
This is the first Buddhist practice guide intended for older people. Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche has dedicated his life to serving the Dharma and is one of the most revered teachers in the Karma Kagyu. Rinpoche draws on his own personal experiences of the problems encountered with ageing, declining health and end of life to give advice on the Dharma practices they should follow, the attitudes they should adopt, and the actions they should take. He includes advice to family members and care-givers and instructions about what they should do when someone dies.
Karma Chakme’s Mountain Dharma: Volume 4
Karma Chakme’s Mountain Dharma is a complete text for those who want to practice Tibetan Buddhism, translated and published by KTD Publications in four volumes.
Volume Four explores the conduct and lifestyle that create an appropriate framework for Dharma: how to relate to the sangha; incorporating insights on how to benefit others through the traditions of scholarship and realization. It also includes a comprehensive exploration of the phenomenon of death. We are offered a chapter on Balaha, a horse known to be the emanation of the bodhisattva Chenrezik and a practice method that corresponds to Balaha’s heroism that leads to rebirth in a pure realm.
The Thirty Verses
སུམ་ཅུ་པའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ།
On the occasion of the teachings on Vasubandhu’s Thirty Verses to be given in early 2022 by the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Dharma Ebooks is pleased to present new electronic editions of this seminal text: one with the Tibetan translation by Zhang Yeshe De found in the Dergye Tengyur, one with the Chinese translation by Tang Xuanzang, and this one with a new English translation by Khenpo David Karma Choephel, as well as translations into other languages. We hope that readers find them beneficial.
Karma Chakme’s Mountain Dharma: Volume 3
Karma Chakme’s Mountain Dharma is a complete text for those who want to practice Tibetan Buddhism, translated and published by KTD Publications in four volumes.
Volume Three opens with concise bardo teachings as well as instructions on benefiting people in the bardo state. The book continues with instructions and advice for the practitioner including protecting oneself from potential threats with loving-kindness and compassion; purifying obscurations through invoking wisdom deities; learning the signs that arise during practice; recognizing when your practice gets off track and eradicating the causes; utilizing methods to develop one’s practice; and bringing the five mental afflictions (desire, anger, ignorance, jealousy, and pride) to the path.
Karma Chakme’s Mountain Dharma: Volume 2
Karma Chakme’s Mountain Dharma is a complete text for those who want to practice Tibetan Buddhism, translated and published by KTD Publications in four volumes.
Volume Two examines the complete path of Mahamudra from initial experience to full realization. There is emphasis on how to conduct a proper retreat, including the use of geomancy in determining the appropriate site, the longevity practices of White Tara and Tseringma, chod practice, and how to use compassion as protection from fear and danger. This volume introduces the tantras, and gives anuttara yoga tantra instructions for Vairochana purification practices both for oneself and for the deceased.
A Short Guru Yoga on the Seventeenth Karmapa
With Instructions, a Supplication and It’s Commentary
This Short Guru Yoga on the Root Lama Karmapa by the Third Kyabje Dorlop Tenga Rinpoche is a guru yoga for making your own body, speech, and mind inseparable from three vajras of body, speech and mind of the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa. The text encapsulates the meaning in a few words and is easy to practice regularly. Originally, Tenga Rinpoche asked the Gyalwang Karmapa several times to write his own short guru yoga. The Karmapa said he would look into it, but did not write one. Later, Kyabje Rinpoche himself prayed with one pointed faith and devotion and wrote this short guru yoga. He showed it to the Karmapa and asked whether it would be permissible to use it for practice, and the Karmapa gave his blessings, saying it would be permissible to use this text for practice. Tenga Rinpoche also composed a melody for it, which is included in the EPUB file.
Karma Chakme’s Mountain Dharma: Volume 1
Karma Chakme’s Mountain Dharma is a complete text for those who want to practice Tibetan Buddhism, translated and published by KTD Publications in four volumes.
Volume One contains a namthar of Karma Chakme Rinpoche; and covers foundational teachings that include the four thoughts that turn the mind to the Dharma, the three vehicles, and the vows and precepts. It contains extensive and beautiful teachings on the Mahamudra preliminaries (ngondro), and how to apply these and other practices in order to benefit others.
