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Karma Chakme’s Mountain Dharma: Volume 1

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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.

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The Short Vajradhara Prayer

A Teaching on the Lineage and Sustaining One’s Nature

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From the Preface: “The Dorje Chang Tungma is probably the most well-known of the Kagyu prayers, traditionally recited before teaching sessions and often recited by practitioners as part of their daily practice. Nearly everyone knows this prayer by heart, but such familiarity can be dangerous. It is all too easy to recite the prayer mindlessly, like a parrot, without focusing on the words or reflecting on the meaning of what we are saying. By studying it, we should gain deeper understanding and be able to appreciate its profundity more fully.”

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Two Autobiographical Praises

རྗེ་མི་བསྐྱོད་ཞབས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་བསྟོད་པ།

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There are many accounts of the Eighth Karmapa Mikyö Dorje’s life and liberation, both written by himself and by others. Among them, this book contains two praises he wrote of himself, Autobiographical Verses of Karmapa Mikyö Dorje Called “Good Deeds” and The Praise “He Searched Thoroughly…”

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Aspirations to End Adversity

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This book is a compilation of prayers selected by the Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje specifically for the Aspirations to End Adversity program of online prayers held in January, 2021. These prayers are to remove adversity and obstacles for all beings and particularly for dharma practitioners.

This prayer book is the product of extensive research and consideration by the Gyalwang Karmapa, and we hope that it will inspire faith and enthusiasm among its readers.

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Siddhas of Ga

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A Bouquet of Utpalas: Brief accounts of the lives of siddhas of Ga whom my guru actually met or whose stories he heard from trustworthy sources, set forth here as medicine to restore faith.
Most of the holy beings whose lives are recounted here began as ordinary people like us, and were not recognized emanations of buddhas or bodhisattvas. This book clearly demonstrates that we can, through diligence, achieve the same result. Beautifully recorded by Lama Karma Drodhul, these are stories of siddhas that Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche actually knew. Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche once remarked that there is nothing like these accounts of Siddhas of Ga.

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Amrita of Eloquence

A Biography of Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche

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Amrita of Eloquence is beautifully written by Lama Karma Drodhul (Rinpoche’s nephew and disciple), and elegantly translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso, with a foreword by the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, and prefaces by the Ninth Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche and the Ninth Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. Originally composed by Lama Karma Drodhul at the request of the abbot of Thrangu Monastery, Lodroe Nyima Rinpoche, for Thrangu Monastery in East Tibet. Though it is composed in the traditional style of Tibetan spiritual biographies, it is nonetheless completely accessible to modern readers. The importance of such biographies cannot be overestimated: studying the life of one’s guru gives rise to spontaneous devotion and that leads to awakening.

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Prayers for a Time of Pandemic

Compiled and Introduced by the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje

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Beginning in the spring of 2020, the coronavirus pandemic spread throughout the entire world. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost, and severe lockdowns were instituted, prohibiting people from gathering or traveling. At that time, the Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje led a hundred thousand people all over the world in seven days of webcast prayers for the pandemic to subside. This book contains the selection of prayers specially compiled by the Gyalwang Karmapa for these webcasts, along with transcriptions of the talks he gave in Tibetan, English, and Chinese, counseling his students on how to think and act.

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Finding Genuine Practice

The Eight Verses of Training the Mind

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The Gyalwang Karmapa has taught Geshe Langri Thangpa’s Eight Verses of Training the Mind on several occasions. Though short, this text gets to the core of Mahayana practice, and each time he teaches it, he emphasizes different themes. In this particular teaching, he stressed how we need to bring our practice to bear on the difficulties that face us in our life and our dharma practice — an issue that all practitioners must face if their practice is to be effective.

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Jewels from the Treasury

ཆོས་མངོན་པ་མཛོད་དང་། དེའི་འགྲེལ་པ་གཞོན་ནུ་རྣམ་རོལ།

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This book contains a translation of one of the greatest presentations of abhidharma in any tradition: Vasubandhu’s Verses on the Treasury of Abhidharma, along with the 9th Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje’s clear and concise explanation of it, Youthful Play, translated by David Karma Choephel.

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Nurturing Compassion

Teachings from the First Visit to Europe

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In this series of teachings given during his first-ever visit to Europe, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, provided a stunning demonstration of what it means to live and teach with an open heart. The Karmapa shared his own life experiences and the feelings they awakened in him, reflecting on his own process of finding meaning in life. Even though he was addressing massive audiences in convention centres, the youthful Buddhist leader spoke as if conversing with close friends. The result is heart-based and comes direct with the freshness of experience.

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A Deep Blue Stream. A Sadhana of Medicine Buddha

དགོངས་གཏེར་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་ཀློང་གསལ་གྱི་ཟུར་རྒྱན་གནམ་ཆོས་ཉིད་ནས་ཟུར་དུ་བསྒྲིགས་པ་སྨན་བླའི་ཆོ་ག་བཻཌཱུརྱའི་ཆུ་རྒྱུན།

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A Sadhana of Medicine Buddha Compiled from the Luminous Expanse of Mind Treasures, Found within the Sky Dharma This practice of Medicine Buddha comes from the mind treasures of the terton Namchö Mingyur Dorje (1645–1667) and belongs to his Sky Dharma (namchö) treasury. It was Karma Chakmé (1616–1678) who compiled the present practice from these texts. It comes from these two master’s combined Dharma and is filled with their blessing. The text is concise while encompassing all that is needed to bring spiritual, emotional, and physical well-being. As other yidam deity practices, it can lead to full awakening.

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Chariot of the Fortunate

The Life of the First Yongey Mingyur Dorje

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This ebook includes a brief biography of Mingyur Dorje by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye, extracted from his The Hundred Tertöns (གཏེར་སྟོན་བརྒྱ་རྩའི་རྣམ་ཐར།), and the biography of Mingyur Dorje called Chariot of the Fortunate. The latter was begun by Dzigar Tukyi Dorje and completed by Surmang Tendzin Rinpoche. Its first ebook edition was enriched with an up-to-date biography of the current Seventh Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and information about his activities and centers worldwide.

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A Guru Yoga of the 16th Lord, Rigpe Dorje

རྗེ་བཅུ་དྲུག་པ་རིག་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེའི་བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྐུ་བཞིའི་མྱུ་གུ་སྐྱེད་བྱེད་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཆར་རྒྱུན།
With Recitation by the Seventeenth Karmapa

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The Continuous Rain of Nectar that Nurtures the Sprouting of the Four Kayas: A Guru Yoga of the Sixteenth Lord, Rigpe Dorje. As the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa wrote in the foreword to the commentary on the guru yoga by H.E. Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche, The Means to Attain the Four Kayas: “This guru yoga of the Sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, is special and of particular significance because it was composed by the Sixteenth Karmapa himself, and to this day it remains as the daily guru yoga practice for many of his students.”

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The Means to Attain the Four Kayas

སྐུ་བཞིའི་གོ་འཕང་འཐོབ་བྱེད། །

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The Means to Attain the Four Kayas is H.E. Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche’s commentary on A Guru Yoga of the 16th Lord, Rigpe Dorje (སྐུ་བཞིའི་མྱུ་གུ་སྐྱེད་བྱེད་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཆར་རྒྱུན།). As the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa wrote in his foreword: “Because Rinpoche received the transmission of this guru yoga and the practice instructions directly from the Sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa himself, his commentary is authoritative and of great value.”

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The Seventy-Two Exhortations

ཁ་རག་སྒོམ་ཆུང་གིས་མཛད་པའི་བློ་སྦྱོང་ཨང་ཡིག་བདུན་ཅུ་རྩ་གཉིས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། །

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Teachings on mind training are pith instructions on practicing bodhichitta and taming one’s own being. Mind Training: The Seventy-Two Exhortations is an experiential teaching by Kharak Gomchung on taking suffering as the path and recognizing and abandoning one’s own faults. It advises us on the stages of the path, refuge and bodhichitta, and how to engage in meditation and post-meditation. These are points that all individuals who want the calm of peace and happiness must know and certainly must put into practice.

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The Daily Practice of White Tara

ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཏཱའི་སི་ཏུ་བསྟན་པའི་ཉིན་བྱེད་ཀྱིས་མཛད་པའི་སྒྲོལ་དཀར་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་བཞུགས།

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The Daily Practice of White Tara was composed by the 8th Tai Situ, Chökyi Jungné (1700-1774). Famous under the name Situ Penchen, he was a great Buddhist master, scholar, and polymath, gifted as a brilliant painter, writer, publisher, grammarian, and medical innovator. Within the Karma Kamtsang tradition, this beautiful daily practice of White Tara is the most beloved.

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The Hundred Tertöns: A Garland of Beryl

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The Hundred Tertons is Jamgon Kongtrul’s history of the visionary men and women who have, again and again, renewed the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition of Padmasambhava. Kongtrul’s book includes biographies of Padmasambhava, his twenty-five disciples, Longchenpa, Jikme Lingpa, Chokgyur Lingpa, and many others. Considered a seminal work of Tibetan Buddhist history, The Hundred Tertons for the first time available in English translation was printed by KTD Publications in 2012 and now is available in electronic edition.

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A Garland of Jewels: The Eight Great Bodhisattvas

བྱང་སེམས་ཉེ་སྲས་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་རྟོགས་བརྗོད་ནོར་བུའི་ཕྲེང་བ།

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A Garland of Jewels: The Eight Great Bodhisattvas is a collection of stories about the eight great bodhisattvas. These stories are all taken from sutras and tantras taught by the Buddha, such as the Avatamsaka and the Lotus Sutras. They were collected and edited by the great Buddhist teacher Mipham Namgyal (1846-1912).

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Shower of Blessings with Commentary

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Based on a seminar he gave at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, Lama Yeshe Gyamtso’s commentary explains the meaning and practice of Shower of Blessings: A Guruyoga Based on the Seven-Line Prayer, composed by Jamgön Mipham (1846-1912) and connected with Guru Rinpoche, Guru Padmasambhava, also called Padmakara. Published in print by KTD Publications in 2015 the book features the root text and explanations. The whole practice text of the guruyoga with tsok offering in pecha format is also published as a separate ebook in the link shown above.

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Shower of Blessings

ཚིག་བདུན་གསོལ་འདེབས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་བྱིན་རླབས་ཆར་འབེབས།

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Shower of Blessings is a guruyoga practice and tsok offering connected with Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava, Padmakara). The practice was composed by Khenchen Mipham (1846-1912), a great master of the Nyingma tradition who also had great influence on the Karma Kagyu tradition. The Shower of Blessings is a simple liturgy, which can be easily performed even by students who have little experience with Tibetan liturgy practices. It is recommended for those students who wish to observe the 10th day of the Tibetan lunar calendar.

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Compassion NOW!

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Compassion NOW! exhorts us to translate compassionate feeling into positive action in the world. From a teaching given in India in 2010, the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa asserts that having compassion for oneself is a necessary starting point. From there we can expand compassion to include those beings with whom we have a close connection, and from there expand it even further to develop immeasurable compassion for all sentient beings. We accomplish this through the mahayana practice of mind training, which the Karmapa discusses here with great clarity and insight. An overview of the vajrayana method of meditation on Chenrezik, the bodhisattva of compassion, is also included.

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Karma Chakme’s Mountain Dharma: Volume 1

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The Short Vajradhara Prayer

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Karmapa: 900 Years

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Two Autobiographical Praises

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Aspirations to End Adversity

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Siddhas of Ga

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Amrita of Eloquence

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Prayers for a Time of Pandemic

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Bardo: Interval of Possibility

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Finding Genuine Practice

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Jewels from the Treasury

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Nurturing Compassion

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A Deep Blue Stream. A Sadhana of Medicine Buddha

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Chariot of the Fortunate

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A Guru Yoga of the 16th Lord, Rigpe Dorje

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The Means to Attain the Four Kayas

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The Seventy-Two Exhortations

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The Daily Practice of White Tara

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The Hundred Tertöns: A Garland of Beryl

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A Garland of Jewels: The Eight Great Bodhisattvas

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Verses for Celebrating Birthdays

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Shower of Blessings with Commentary

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Shower of Blessings

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Compassion NOW!