Chod Practice Manual and Commentary
Author: Koṅ-sprul Blo-gros-mthaʼ-yas
Publisher: Snow Lion
Published: 2007-04-23
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essential guide for practitioners of Chod, a system for working with fear.
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Machik's Complete Explanation
Author: Sarah Harding
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2013-05-14
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0834829088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fear, anger, and negativity are states that each of us have to contend with. Machik's Complete Explanation, the most famous book of the teachings of Machik Lapdrön, the great female saint and yogini of eleventh- to twelfth-century Tibet, addresses these issues in a practical, direct way. Machik developed a system, the Mahamudra Chöd, that takes the Buddha's teachings as a basis and applies them to the immediate experiences of negative mind states and malignant forces. Her unique feminine approach is to invoke and nurture the very "demons" that we fear and hate, transforming those reactive emotions into love. It is the tantric version of developing compassion and fearlessness, a radical method of cutting through ego-fixation. This expanded edition includes Machik Lapdrön's earliest known teaching, the original source text for the tradition, The Great Bundle of Precepts on Severance (Chöd). This pithy set of instructions reveals that the teachings of the perfection of wisdom are the true inspiration for Chöd. It is beautifully clarified in a short commentary by Rangjung Dorje, the Third Karmapa.
The Chöd Practice
Author: Tsering Wangdu Rinpoche
Publisher:
Published: 2018-07-25
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780998338965
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chöd Practice InsIntructions and CoInmmentaries by Tsering Wangdu Rinpoche with Swami Chetanananda. Text translations of Longchen Nyingtik, The Resonance Laughter of the Dakini Chod Practice and The Powa Practice. Translated by Lama Sherab. Includes lineage prayers and English Lyrics.
Machig Labdron and the Foundations of Chod
Author: Jerome Edou
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2017-11-21
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0834841010
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Machig Labdron is popularly considered to be both a dakini and a deity, an emanation of Yum Chenmo, or Prajnaparamita, the embodiment of the wisdom of the buddhas. Historically, this Tibetan woman, a contemporary of Milarepa, was an adept and outstanding teacher, a mother, and a founder of a unique transmission lineage known as the Chöd of Mahamudra. This translation of the most famous biography of Machig Labdron, founder of the unique Mahamudra Chöd tradition, is presented together with a comprehensive overview of Chöd's historical and doctrinal origins in Indian Buddhism and its subsequent transmission to Tibet. Chöd refers to cutting through the grasping at a self and its attendant emotional afflictions. Most famous for its teaching on transforming the aggregates into an offering of food for demons as a compassionate act of self-sacrifice, Chöd aims to free the mind from all fear and to arouse realization of its true nature, primordially clear bliss and emptiness.
Chod in the Ganden Tradition
Author: Kyabje Zong Rinpoche
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2006-11-08
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1559392614
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Chöd in the Ganden Tradition, we encounter not only the life and teachings of one of the greatest Tibetan masters in modern times, but also instructions in one of the most interesting Tibetan techniques for working with basic fears, applicable to Chöd practitioners from all lineages. The instructions are offered with the engaging directness, wit, and stories for which Rinpoche was legendary. He tells miraculous accounts of the Ganden Oral Lineage masters and then gives detailed explanations of the actual practice, including such topics as the degree of fear necessary for Chöd practice, and how to remember dream and death morning, noon, and night. Also provided are the Chöd sadhanas for chanting in English.
Chod Practice in the Bon Tradition
Author: Alejandro Chaoul
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2009-08-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1559392924
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The dramatic practice of chöd, in which the yogin visualizes giving his or her own sacrificed body to the gods and demons as a way to cut the attachment to self and ordinary reality, offers an intense and direct confrontation with the central issues of the spiritual path. The chöd practices of the Bön tradition, a tradition that claims pre-Buddhist origins in the mysterious western lands of Zhang-zhung Tazig and Olmolungrig, are still almost entirely unknown.
Hundred Thousand Rays of the Sun
Author: Tsering Wangdu
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2008-10-17
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0557004098
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lama Wangdu Rinpoche is a contemporary practitioner of the Buddhist Chöd tradition. This autobiography is a delightful portrait of a great meditation master during his personal trials in feudal Tibet and his life in exile. The essence of the book is the authors spirit of ever-giving generosity and wisdom as a Buddhist teacher and healer. A true inspiration in today's world. This autobiography is supplemented by teachings on the transference of consciousness and Kusuli Chöd practice.
Women of Wisdom
Author: Tsultrim Allione
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2000-09-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1559391413
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A “fascinating and inspiring” celebration of women’s spirituality and the female mystics of Tibetan Buddhism—now featuring an updated and expanded author autobiography (San Francisco Chronicle) Women of Wisdom explores and celebrates the spiritual potential of all women, as exemplified by the lives of six Tibetan female mystics. These stories of great women who have achieved full illumination—overcoming cultural prejudices and a host of other problems which male practitioners do not encounter—offer a wealth of inspiration to everyone on the spiritual path. In this revised and expanded edition, Tsultrim Allione’s extensive autobiographical preface and introduction speak directly to the difficulties and triumphs of women in the West who pursue a spiritual life, as she shares her own stories and experiences. Women of Wisdom offers valuable insights to all those interested in women’s spirituality, regardless of background or tradition.
Jamgon Kongtrul's Retreat Manual
Author: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1559390298
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Kagyu and Nyingma traditions of Himalayan tantric Buddhism require a long period of intensive training in meditation—a three-year, three-month retreat—before a practitioner is considered to be a qualified teacher. Jamgon Kongtrul's Retreat Manual was written in the mid-nineteenth century for those who wish to embark on this rigorous training. It guides them in preparing for retreat, provides full details of the program of meditation, and offers advice for their re-entry into the world. Jamgon Kongtrul's Retreat Manual also introduces us to one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century Tibet: Jamgon Kongtrul the Great (1813–99). The three-year retreat center he describes in this book was his creation, and its program consisted of those practices Kongtrul treasured enough to pass on to future generations through the spiritual leaders he trained.
Feeding Your Demons
Author: Tsultrim Allione
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Published: 2009-02-11
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1781809011
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Struggling with depression, anxiety, illness, an eating disorder, a difficult relationship, fear, self-hatred, addiction or anger? Renowned Buddhist leader Tsultrim Allione explains that the harder we fight our demons, the stronger they become. Offering Eastern answers to Western needs, Tsultrim seamlessly weaves traditions from Tibet and the Western world to offer a new and unique answer to the problems that plague us: that rather than attempt to purge them, we need to reverse our approach and nurture our demons. This powerful five-step practice forms a strategy for transforming negative emotions, relationships, fears, illness and self-defeating patterns. This will help you cope with the inner enemies that undermine our best intentions.
