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Parting from the Four Attachments
ཞེན་པ་བཞི་བྲལ།
Parting from the Four Attachments presents the quintessential mind training teaching of the Sakya tradition. In December 2014, during the 32nd Kagyu Monlam in Bodhgaya, the 4th Jamgön Kongtrul Rinpoche taught this based on the well-known commentary composed by Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen. It was the very first public teaching gave by Jamgön Kontrul Rinpoche and was published in a book in 2015.
The Blazing Jewel
དཔལ་ཀརྨ་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་བརྟེན་པའི་ཐུན་བཞིའི་བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་བཤད་པ་ནོར་བུ་འབར་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།
The Blazing Jewel combines detailed instructions for The Four-Session Guru Yoga practice along with a word-by-word commentary on the prayer. It is, therefore, a unique and deeply beneficial contribution to the literature on this quintessential practice of the Karma Kagyu. All practitioners of this text are sure to benefit from the clear and insightful explanations contained within.
སྣང་མཛད་ཉི་མའི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར། • The Illuminating Orb of the Sun • 光明日輪
༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་འཇམ་མགོན་ཀོང་སྤྲུལ་ན་རིམ་གྱི་མཛད་པ་དང་རྗེས་དྲན་པར་རིས།
Photographs Recalling the Incarnations of Jamgön Kongtrul
歷代蔣貢康楚紀念攝影集
The Long Soliloquy
བདག་ཉིད་ཆེན་པོ་སྐྱེས་མཆོག་པུ་ཏོ་བའི་ཆིག་ལབ་རིང་མོ།
Geshe Potowa’s “Long Soliloquy” is a truly unique text on mind-training. Down-to-earth and based on first-hand experience, it presents an honest and insightful commentary on life and Dharma practice at that time, which is as relevant and valid for Buddhist practitioners in the 21st century as it was then.
The Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment
བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་སྒྲོན་གྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་སྣང་བ་རབ་གསལ།
Atisha Dimpamkara’s “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” is a foundational text of the Kadampa school and a classic of Tibetan Buddhism revered by all the lineages. It presents a brief overview of the entire Buddhist path of both sutra and tantra practice. Here it is presented in a new translation along with a commentary by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye that explains its main points clearly, concisely, and completely.
བདེ་ཆེན་གྱི་གར་མཁན། • Dancer of Great Bliss • 大樂舞者
མཁན་པོ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་མཛད་རྣམ་སྙིང་བསྡུས།
Essential Life Story of Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
竹清嘉措仁波切
གཞུང་ལུགས་ཀྱི་རོལ་མཚོ། • Ocean of Philosophy • 經教大海
མཁན་ཆེན་ཁྲ་འགུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛད་རྣམ་སྙིང་བསྡུས།
Essential Life Story of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
創古仁波切
མཐོང་རྒྱུན་གྱི་བང་མཛོད། • Transmission by Seeing • 見傳寶藏
རྡོར་སློབ་བསྟན་དགའ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛད་རྣམ་སྙིང་བསྡུས།
Essential Life Story of Dorlop Tenga Rinpoche
天噶仁波切
Brief Recitations for the Four Preliminary Practices
སྔོན་འགྲོ་བཞི་སྦྱོར་གྱི་ངག་འདོན་མདོར་བསྡུས་བཞུགས་སོ།
The ebook of Brief Recitations for the Four Preliminary Practices contains the shorter practice text—in Tibetan with English phonetics and translation—of the special preliminary practices for mahamudra meditation (ngöndro) compiled by the Seventeenth Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje in 2006. Also available instructions for this ngondro practices: Ngondro for Our Current Day
The Kagyu Monlam Book
Though the Kagyu Monlam belongs fully to the contemporary world, its roots lie in 15th-century Tibet, where the 7th Karmapa, Chödrak Gyatso, established the tradition of great prayer gatherings. They were based on a text that he compiled, called the Twenty-Branch Monlam. With his nonsectarian vision, the present 17th Karmapa has expanded The Kagyu Monlam Book to include prayers from all Tibetan traditions, and in particular, all Kagyu schools as well as many daily practices, such as supplications to Guru Rinpoche, the 21 Praises of Tara, and prayers for rebirth in the pure realm of Amitabha.
The Four-Session Guru Yoga
ཐུན་བཞིའི་བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར།
The Four-Session Guru Yoga by the Eighth Karmapa Mikyö Dorje is a short yet powerful practice for developing the realization of devotion mahamudra. As it is one of the principal practices of the Karma Kagyu school, many monastic and lay practitioners recite this text daily. This new translation has been prepared under the guidance of the Seventeenth Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje for the occasion of the 34th Kagyu Monlam.
The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva
“The Thirty-seven Practices of a Bodhisattva: a Summary of the Heart Essence of a Bodhisattva’s Conduct”—this full title indicates two points: first that the text condenses all the Mahayana sutras, which teach the conduct of a Bodhisattva; and second, that it summarizes the heart essence of a Bodhisattva’s conduct, of which there are thirty-seven main practices. In Tibetan, the word for “practice” literally translates as “to bring into experience.” So, 37 practices can actually be brought into experience.”—Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
