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Journey of the Mind
Preparing for the Bardo in Life, Dreams, Meditation, while Dying, and Rebirth
This book is a lucid, comprehensive, and practical explanation of the four kinds of bardo. It contains extensive appendices and color pictures. Thrangu Rinpoche teaches us that while we are alive, we can prepare for this experience of dying and why this will be very beneficial to us.
A Guide to Shamatha and Vipashyana Meditation
This short book gives a clear and concise overview of how to do basic sitting meditation. Thrangu Rinpoche spent over 40 years teaching meditation and other Buddhist topics to both Western and Asian students. In this book Rinpoche explains meditation in a simple, non-technical language based on a tradition that is over 1,000-year-old that has produced many enlightened individuals.
The History of Buddhism in India
In 1991 Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche accompanied a group of western Buddhist students to each of the four major pilgrimage sites from the life of the Buddha (Bodhgaya, Sarnath, Kushinagar, and Lumbini). This book contains the teachings Rinpoche gave to the group at each pilgrimage site. So here the reader not only sees history and pictures of these major Buddhist sites but also Rinpoche’s teaching of the significance of each.
A Spiritual Biography of Marpa the Translator
Marpa was a Tibetan who risked his life three times to go to India and learn and practice the profound Buddhist teachings from the great yogi Naropa. This book tells the story of how he received these teachings and brought them back to Tibet, where he achieved enlightenment. Soon afterwards, the Muslim invasion of India began, and many of these teachings were destroyed and lost in the Noble Land.
Milarepa Tames Rechungpa
In Tibetan there are a several complete spiritual biographies on the life of Rechungpa, and except for this book by Thrangu Rinpoche there are no others in English. Tibetan spiritual biographies of Buddhist masters usually present them in a very positive light. But Rechungpa’s biography differs because it presents his serious flaws, the fact that he defied his root guru’s commands three times, and that he went and received teachings on sorcery, and that at times he had a wife and lived in luxury.
Milarepa’s Wisdom
Three Teachings from The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
Milarepa was Tibet’s most famous saint who renounced dark magic and with Buddhist practice was able to become realized in one lifetime. Practicing in the high Himalayan mountains, wearing only a cotton robe, he taught the Dharma through beautiful, imagery-filled spiritual songs making them very accessible to the reader.
