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SNOW LION PUBLICATIONS PO BOX 6483, ITHACA, NY 14851, (607)-273-8506 VOLUME 4, NUMBER 1 H.H. TRIZIN VISITS AMERICA In the Dehra Dun valley nestled between the Himalaya and Shiva- lik mountain ranges below the small Indian town of Rajpur, one finds a modest house surrounded by fruit trees. Here is the home of His Holi- ness , the crown- of the Sakya Order, His Consort, Damo Kushola, and their two sons, Ratna and Jnana Vajra. A far cry from the 80-room Dolma Palace of Sakya in , it nonetheless serves as His Holiness' main resi- dence and office as He guides the Sakya Order in both spiritual and temporal matters through the un- certain years of exile. A small way further down the treelined avenue of the Fajpur Road, one will often see red-robed monks waiting for a bus or busy with activities at the Sakya Center, the first estab- lished in India. In the foothills over- looking Rajpur, one will find the advanced teacher-training facility, the Sakya College, which has won H.H. THE TO renown among all four Tibetan tra- ditions as a citadel of learning and excellence. A two-hour bus trip GIVE TEACHINGS from nearby Dehra Dun will bring one to the Sakya settlement of AND EMPOWERMENT OF Puruwalla, where refugee lay people form and make handicrafts, preserv- H.H. Sakya Trizin IN USA ing their unique Tibetan cultural life. At the invitation of Sogyal Rin- of the great King of Tibet Trisong- a member of the Khon family has has given the collection of "All the poche and Fellowship, His detsen, the chief disciple of Pad- In 1959, when His Holiness fled held the throne of Sakya, provid- Practices" in , and is in the Holiness the Dalai Lama will give masambhava, and was thus Tibet at the age of 14 with His fa- ing the main thread of continuity process of transmitting the collec- teachings on Dzogchen and grant the empowered to reveal the profound mily and a few close retainers, who within the Order; from His birth tion of "All the " at the Empowerment of Padmasambhava Pure Vision teachings of the could have imagined that the Sakya in 1945 His Holiness Ngawang newly-refounded monastery and his Eight Manifestations in Santa "Gyachen Nyer Nga", as prophe- Order would be reborn in India and Kunga was groomed for the posi- in Manduwalla, near Dehra Dun. Cruz on October 8 and 9. This will sied by Padmasambhava himself. within 30 years have more than tion of Sakya Trizin, or "Throne His Holiness' efforts to preserve be a unique and historic occasion, His "Collected Works" ate divided 2000 monks living in 28 monaster- Holder." Receiving from His father, the heritage of the Sakya as His Holiness has never given such into Outer, Inner and Extremely ies, with seven colleges of higher Ngawang Kunga Rinchen, the long Order for future generations has teachings in the United Sates before. Secret teachings, the last including studies, six retreat centers and sever- life empowerment of Amitayus also born fruit in another way; in Padmasambhava introduced Budd- the Extremely Secret Visionary al lay settlements? His Holiness almost as soon as He was born, His 1974 His Holiness married, and He hism into Tibet, and is regarded as Teachings, which comprise twenty- Sakya Trizin working in close as- Holiness began His training under and His wife now have two sons a "second Buddha". The human em- five texts and their compiled means sociation with other Sakya masters His father's tutelage. Unfortunately to carry on the special Khon line- bodiment of Dzogchen, he is the en- of accomplishment (sadhana), the who escaped the Chinese invasion, Kunga Rinchen passed away when age. His Holiness' elder son, Rat- lightened principle whose powerful "Gyachen Nyer Nga". These are such as H.H. Dagchen , His Holiness was five years old, na Vajra—like His father an upasaka energy is invoked as a source of pro- classified as a cycle belonging to the H.E. Chogye Rinpoche, and H.E. having transmitted primarily the layman—was vajramaster at the Vaj- tection amidst the confusion and tur- Ancient Tradition of , and Ludhing Rinpoche, and many other teachings of Vajrakila to His son. rakila Ritual last year and led the moil of this age. For today's world, in particular the category known as teachers, monks, and lay people His Holiness' aunt, Dagmo Kusho- lama dances this year after Losar the practice and of Pad- Zabmo Daknang, "Profound Pure succeeded in renewing the Sakya la Tinley Wangmo, a great yogini, at the Sakya Center in Rajpur. His masambhava are treasured as being Visions". This empowerment of the Order outside of Tibet and even assumed the direction of His Holiness' second son, Jnana Vaj- particularly effective in creating peace Eight Manifestations of Guru Rin- establishing the Sakyapa training. ra, is adorned with monk's robes world-wide. and harmony. poche from the "Gyachen Nyer His Holiness' training in medi- and is being prepared to continue This Empowerment of Pad- Nga", known as Tukdrup Yang Ny- His Holiness is a descendant of tation began at the age of five when the renunciate of Sakya masambhava and his Eight ing, is the Sadhana of the Guru the holy Khon family lineage and He performed the retreat of Pandita. Manifestations is one of the vision- (Ladrup). is recognized as an emanation of Amitayus, in the next year accom- His Holiness Sakya Trizin will ary revelations of the "Great Fifth" For registration and further details, in the form plishing a month long retreat of Vaj- be coming to America in April Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang please contact: RIGPA, PO Box of an Upasaka layman, being a rapani. 1989, visiting the following cities. Gyatso (1627-82), who was the in- 7866, Berkeley, CA 94707. Tel (415) direct descendant of Sachen Kunga In 1959, His Holiness sat upon April 17-30, New York (212) carnation of the enlightened activity 644 3922.B Nyingpo, the founder of the Sakya the spiritual throne of Sakya Pan- 459-4122; May 1-31, Cambridge Order. For more than 900 years, dita in the courtyard of the tantric (617) 492-5370; June 1-12, monastery at Sakya and was en- Washington, DC. (301) 589-3111; throned as the 41st Sakya Trizin. June 17-18, Minneapolis (612) Catalog Contents Shortly after His enthronement His 738-2738; June 22-29, Los Angeles Holiness left for the Sikkimese bord- (213) 876-9245; June 30-July 12, Dharma Items 17 Books by the Dalai Lama 24 Health, History, & Politics ... 29 er, and eventually exile in India. Berkeley (415) 527-7363; July Snow Lion Tibet Cards 19 25 Language 30 His Holiness continued to study 13-18, Los Angeles; July 19-26, and practice amidst His responsi- Seattle (206) 789-2573; July Cards, Prints, Poster 20 Adventure, Travel, Maps 26 Women's Studies 30 bilities of rebuilding the Sakya Ord- 27—August 16, Vancouver (604) Video Dharma 21 Art & Philosophy 27 30 er. Since 1967, His Holiness has 271-2651 and Victoria (604) bestowed the heart of the Sakya 358-4828; and August 17-27, Audio Tapes 22 Biography 28 Religion & Philosophy 31 teachings, the Lam Dre, four times Honolulu and The Big Island, in India and twice abroad. He also Hawaii, (808) 966-8843. ■

SNOW LION SPRING 89 NEWSLETTER AND CATALOG NEWS & PROFILES SUMMER TIBETAN CONFERENCE IN DECEMBER 5-8, 1988 AT THE UNIV. OF VA By Tsenten Samdup This summer for the second vides a probing yet structured at- consecutive year, the nine-week mosphere in which to explore Sarnath, a small Indian town, 11 about ordaining Westerners into the Dalai Lama, appealing him to course, Literary and Spoken Tibe- Tibetan Buddhist topics in ontol- kilometers outside Varnasi, in ear- the order, as many de-robe continue as the Tibetan leader and tan, will be offered at the Univer- ogy, epistemology, and path ly December witnessed the largest after a year or so. reconfirming their confidence in sity of Virginia Summer Session. structure. ever gathering of Tibetan reincar- A long life prayer was his leadership. Shamar Rinpoche, This course will provide an inten- The course also includes read- nated . Over 350 reincarnat- made to His Holiness, lead by one of the present highest lamas sive introduction to the Tibetan ing Dzong-ka-ba's "Three Prin- ed lamas, abbots and ex-abbots of Sakya Dagtri Rinpoche the head of the Karma said, "There Language in its literary and col- cipal Aspects of the Path." This the four school of Tibetan Budd- of the Sakya School of Tibetan is not a single Tibetan more capa- loquial forms. It is the equivalent short poem in sixteen verses is a hism and the indigenous faith- on the third morning. ble than the present Dalai Lama of a regular introductory year of fundamental text introducing Religion— assembled to take That morning, after serious dis- to lead the Tibetans both political- Tibetan at the University of Stages of the Path teachings. A part in the Fourth Tulku cussions, the hall was suddenly ly and religiously at this point in Virginia. short commentary is also studied. Conference. filled with deep chanting prayers, Tibetan history." This popular course will be On the colloquial side, the class , according to Tibetans, lead by the chant master from He said that the announcement taught by William Magee, a Tibe- will have the benefit of learning are highly realized lamas bound by Drepung Loseling from South In- of reincarnation of tan Instructor in the Department the central Lhasan dialect with their bodhisattva vows not to rest dia. During the long life offering, would not take place for another of Religious Studies at the Univer- Jampel Thando. Besides in the state of liberation, but to all the lamas wore their hats, year, as the coming year is a bad sity of Virginia, with assistance meeting with him for colloquial reappear in the world to work for which differed according to their year (black year according to Tibe- from Geshe Jampel Thando, form- conversation, there is extensive use the welfare of all sentient beings. school and the traditions of their tan astrological calculations). erly of Dre-bung Monastery of of drill and tapes. The Dalai Lama, the manifesta- respective lamas. Most of them The Dalai Lama in his conclud- , Tibet. Those interested in the course tion of Buddha of Compassion, represented the School. ing address said the Tibetans' Students will follow a course of should write for 1989 Summer Ses- the highest of all Tibetan lamas, Suggestions called for more in- civilization was very ancient, as old study, modeled after the teaching sion application forms and cata- in his inaugural speech, empha- teraction amongst the four schools as 6-8000 years. This he said, was methods of Tibet's famous univer- log from: sized the importance of the con- of and dharma confirmed by an archeologist sities. Students learn basic gram- ference. He assured the lamas that centers in the West. One sugges- friend of his, who examined the Director of the Summer Session mar and develop hearing and his reincarnation would definitely tion was that there should be a set ruins of a relic found in Chamdo, 209 Garrett Hall speaking proficiency through train- not be born in the hands of the procedure for selection of reincar- the third largest town in Tibet. University of Virginia ing in the tradition arts of syllogistic Chinese and the reincarnation would nate lamas. The shortage of dialec- The Dalai Lama reiterated that Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 debate. More than mere memori- continue to work towards the wel- tical debating teachers was also the Tibetans must look for an al- (809) 924-3371 zation and drill, the debate pro- fare of the Tibetans. raised. The CIHTS with its exist- ternative leadership, as he was get- All the high lamas belonging to ing facilities promised to allow any ting old. He said that everyone various traditions of the Tibetan monastery or dharma center access knows that he cannot live forever. angs), the Tibetans living in the di- religion spoke. A few speakers to its library, with its collection He appealed to each of the lamas LETTER aspora are coming very close to mar- raised their concerns about that includes rare Tibetan Budd- and said that as responsible Tibe- keting their most precious dharma. Western buddhist students and hist manuscripts from throughout tans, each one must work towards Dear Editor, I have met many monks in their said that some of the dharma the world. the freedom of Tibet. I am writing to commend the ex- twenties who have been instruct- centers in the West looked like hip- The reincarnated lamas and ab- cellent article in your Vol. 3, No. ed to go abroad but who prefer to pie centers. Another cautioned bots submitted a memorandum to 2 Newsletter by Alexander Berzin, remain in India or Nepal to con- entitled "Suggestions Concerning tinue their higher studies. To the Dharma Centers". Berzin discusses degree that the Western dharma a rarely acknowledged phenom- practitioners encourage this, we are enon: the degree to which the dhar- collaborating in the destruction of TIBETAN FAITHFUL SEEK ma centers in the West are depleting what we most respect. the stock of qualified teachers that It is a two-way problem, and both IN INDIA the Tibetans themselves need in Western and Tibetan Buddhists order to reproduce their culture. need to begin communicating with As the Tibetan community in deep-rooted nature of their beliefs. in exile at Dharamsala, has estab- Since too many practitioners in the each other about it. Although my India enters its 30th year of exile, If the initial problems of lack of lished a sponsorship scheme in an West are unaware of the problem, warning may be harsher than Alex Buddhist monks and nuns con- resources can be overcome, there attempt to ease the crisis. The your giving it a public airing will Berzin's, please accept my grati- tinue to pour over the border from is much hope for the future. A scheme arranges for direct help encourage a thoughtful con- tude to him for opening up the Tibet. The rate of exodus is on the large and educated body of monks sponsorship of each monk or nun sideration of the double bind we question. increase, in response to the persis- and nuns cannot fail to exert a at the modest cost of $6 per month by individual benefactors. Con- are in— the milk may be sweet, but Sincerely, tent denial of any serious form of beneficial and far-reaching effect we are in danger of losing the cow! religious and philosophical educa- on every aspect of Tibetan culture. tributions can be sent via the The root of the problem lies not Kenneth Liberman tion in their homeland. From The new arrivals follow the usual Tibet Fund in New York only in the ethnocentrism of the University of Oregon Tibet, the exit route takes them 15-year monastic syllabus. (212-213-5010). West, however; it rests also in the Department of Sociology through Nepal, and on to India The Tibetan religious commu- As the flood of Buddhist refu- economic hardships of the Tibe- where they are received by the in- nities in India are currently under- gees from Tibet continues to grow, tan community in exile. As any creasingly busy administration of going severe financial strain as a positive results of the strength and reader of your pages is aware, the NAMO the Tibetan Government in Exile, result of the new influxes. The determination of these monks and education institutions in India, here in Dharamsala. The number swelling of numbers within nuns, aided by keen administra- Nepal and elsewhere that bear the BUDDHA of monks and nuns having under- monastic walls has stretched bas- tors and sponsors are beginning to burden of passing along Tibetan gone this flight for refuge is now ic human resources, such as food, manifest. Tibetans here in Buddhism to the next generation SUMMER approaching 2000, some 200 of medicine and space to a point Dharamsala expect that in another suffer from an inability to adequate- which arrived during the last 2 where the situation is now urgent. ten years time there will be a new ly feed their students, etc. Having SEMINAR months alone. The Council for Religious and generation of scholars to preserve just spent a summer at the Insti- Worcester College, On arrival in Dharamsala, each Cultural Affairs of ±e Dalai and pass on the rich and precious tute of Buddhist Dialectics in refugee gives details of his or her Lama, part of the administration culture of Tibet. Dharamsala, I am very aware of the Oxford, England personal history and records of damage that an inadequate diet can these are carefully maintained. inflict upon the health of young Once again, THRANGU Places are then offered at a reli- Tibetan scholars. The result of this HOUSE has pleasure in present- gious institution within the tradi- is that monastery after monastery ing the Namo Buddha Summer tion of the individual monk or Buddhist America is attempting to turn its Western Seminar. This will be held from nun, in which he or she can be CENTERS, RETREATS, PRACTICES connections into needed financial Tuesday, August 29 to Tuesday, relocated. Although alternatives Edited by Don Morreale assistance. The tragedy is that many September 12, 1989 for two weeks are sometimes available, most of monks who are on the verge of at Worcester College. the refugees opt for the larger Foreword by receiving the most advanced train- In response to many requests, this monasteries of Drepung, Ganden ing are shipped off, at their masters' year the seminar will be conduct- or Sera, now established in direction, to various dharma centers ed as a semi-retreat. There will be southern India, where they can 1 he first comprehensive in the West, in the hope of raising a one-day silent retreat at the end then be sent in groups. The jour- directory of over 500 Buddhist much needed currency to keep the of the first week, with a Ngyum ney taken as a whole, from the de- training of younger monks con- Nye fasting weekend before the cision to leave Tibet (sometimes centers, their meditation prac- tinuing. seminar ends for those who wish taken with little or no information tices, and styles of retreat. While this may be a feasible to participate. about what to expect) until even- Articles by leading teachers short-run practice, the long-term This seminar offers a unique op- tual resettlement in India, is ardu- describe the basic principles result of this will be the decima- portunity for dharma practitioners ous and traumatic, and is often tion of highly skilled lamas. While at all levels to receive teachings, undertaken with sparse belongings of the disciplines, and first- they may learn some skills in or- study, discuss and practice medi- and no financial resources. person narrative accounts ganization and instructional tation and dharma in beautiful sur- The growing number of reli- describe individual retreat methods at the introductory lev- roundings in the center of Oxford. gious devotees reaching India, els, they are being deprived of the The Subject: "What is conscious- although distressing, and clearly experiences. opportunity to develop their ness, what is wisdom?" by Rang- illustrative of the adverse condi- 400 pages, paper, $12.95 philosophical skills to their highest jung Dorje, The Third Karmapa. tions prevailing inside Tibet, can capacity. This is nothing other than Miss Cornelia Hwang Namo be seen as an encouraging sign in cultural decline. Where some tradi- Buddha Seminar, Thrangu House some respects. It demonstrates the tional cultures manage to survive 76 Bullingdon Road, Oxford 0X4 tenacity with which surviving by selling artistic products (like 1QL United Kingdom Telephone: Tibetans still hold to their tradi- batik) or handicrafts (like boomer- (0865) 241555 tional Buddhist values and the

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and relaxing effortlessly into your this point, we can begin to glimpse A GLIMPSE OF DZOGCHEN nature, into Rigpa. You just allow our perfect-ness. All the Buddhas all confusion to dissolve into the are embodied within us, by absolute, and you assume the sky- complete—that is why it is called like nature of mind. There is a Dzogpachenpo! They are already Dzogchen is both the final very strong sense of loosening up, there, so there is no need to go out and ultimate teaching, of releasing the heart and mind in looking from them elsewhere. and the heart of the deep ease and relaxation, as you That would be, just like Patrul teachings of all the Buddhas. enter into that state of Rigpa, in Rinpoche said, to leave your Though generally associated with a very spacious, carefree way, elephant at home and go out the Nyingma or ancient school of without trying to do anything. In searching for its footprints in the Tibetan Buddhism founded by brief, if you are not in any way forest. Padmasambhava, Dzogchen has contriving or manipulating, but been practiced throughout the just leave your mind in its natural Extracts from teachings by Sogyal centuries by masters of all the state, content to be natural, that is Rinpoche © Rigpa Fellowship different schools as their inner- Rigpa. When you are contriving or 1989. most practice. Its origins reach manipulating, that is not Rigpa. back to before human history, and This one simple difference points it is limited to neither Buddhism, to the heart of Dzogpachenpo. nor to Tibet, nor indeed even to Many people find that by far the RESIDENTIAL this world of ours, as it is record- most important feature of Dzog- ZEN TRAINING ed that it has existed in thirteen chen is its , its attitude, and different solar systems. its feeling, qualities which bring Dzogchen is an abbreviation of Ven. Sogyal Rinpoche tremendous relief in the ease and the Tibetan word "Dzogpachen- freedom they bring, and the abso- po". "Dzogpa" means "com- tence, samsara and . This ing it in action in daily life. So, as lute humor they shine onto our plete", or "the end", "chenpo" awareness or Rigpa, has two Dudjom Rinpoche points out: relative reality. The profoundness means great. It is widely translat- aspects: Shunyata or emptiness as "Meditation consists of being at- of the Dzogchen teaching lies in its ed as ' 'Great Perfection'', but this the absolute, and appearances or tentive to such a state of Rigpa— tremendous clarity and vividness, may imply a perfection that we perception as the relative." Within free from all mental constructions, its power to resonate the Truth, as strive to attain, a journey towards the vast expanse of Dzogpachen- whilst remaining fully relaxed, a living, vital experience. In fact the goal of Great Perfection, and po, everything there is in Samsara without any distraction or grasp- for someone who has the natural Led by Zen teacher Sensei Daido this is not the meaning of Dzog- and Nirvana is perfectly complete. ing, because it is said that "medi- disposition or karmic inclination, Loon, ZMM offers a comprehensive chen. Dzogchen is explained as Although its Essence is empty, tation is not striving, but naturally just to hear about Dzogchen can program of training incorporating Ground, Path and Fruition, and pure from the beginning (known becoming assimilated into it." Out inspire the View. For Dzogpachen- seven areas of practice: from the point of view of the in Dzogchen as "kadak"), its Na- of the realization of the nature of po itself is not just a teaching, but (Zen meditation), liturgy, Ground of Dzogpachenpo, it is the ture is rich in noble qualities, one's mind radiates a deep com- a state, the absolute state. The personal study with Sensei Loori, already self-perfected state of our pregnant with all possibilities, a passion for those who have not teaching is a means, and a very work practice, art, body and primordial nature, which needs no vast, rich, creative field, which is realized, and thus in Dzogchen, powerful one, which links the ab- academic practice perfecting, for it has always been spontaneously perfect (called meditation is described as the solute with the conditioned and Also included: introductory weekend perfect from the very beginning, "lhundrup"). "radiance, or union, of wisdom relative. retreat, monthly week-long intensives, special retreats like the sky. It is uncreated, yet Very simply, the Essence of and compassion". Yet the wonder of Dzogchen is spontaneously accomplished. mind is empty, spacious and pure Abiding by the continual flow of that it does not stain the absolute Contact: ZEN MOUNTAIN Traditionally Dzogchen can be from the beginning, like the open, Rigpa becomes a reality and be- with concepts, but still speaks of MONASTERY traced to two original blue sky, its Nature is luminous gins to penetrate the practitioner's it in conventional terms, bringing (72 Box 197SL Mt. Tremper, terms. The first is Mahasandhi, clarity, unobstructed and spon- everyday life and Action. Once the the Truth here into this world, and NY 12457 914)688-2228 which means the gathering of all taneously present, like the sun practice is truly integrated, it gives into our lives, even before we be- or the quintessence, signifying that with all its warmth and light, and birth to a deep stability and con- come completely enlightened. The Dzogchen is the very essence, the its energy or manifestation is Com- fidence, because whatever arises, spirit of Dzogchen starts to pene- cream and the heart juice of all passion, unimpeded and all- thoughts or emotions, will no trate and permeate the fabric of teachings. Hence many of the pervasive, like the rays of the sun longer delude one; they are liber- our everyday experience. Even teachings are known as "Nyin- that shine on us all impartially. ated from their very basis. One can though we may be imperfect at gik" or "Heart Essence". Introduction to the View, and look into them with composure The second term is "Atiyoga", resting in the state of Rigpa, is the and equanimity, confident that which means "primordial yoga"; heart of Dzogchen practice. In "the Dharmakaya's efflorescence Ati indicates the topmost, summit other approaches the realization of of whatever arises is neither good or zenith. It has the sense of scal- the nature of mind is arrived at nor bad". As Dudjom Rinpoche ing a mountain, reaching the peak through deduction and reasoning. says: "Action is being truly obser- EASTWEST FOUNDATION and having a view over everything. In Dzogchen the actual direct ex- vant of one's own thoughts, good P.O. Box 5766 For Atiyoga or Dzogchen stands at perience of the state of the or bad, looking inwardly into the Fullerton, CA 92635 the apex of the characteristic wisdom-mind of the Buddhas is true nature of whatever thoughts (714) 526-0756 Nyingmapa presentation of the transmitted through the blessing may arise, neither tracing the past Buddhist path as Nine Yanas or of a master who holds the Mind nor inviting the future, neither al- EASTWEST vehicles, with the three inner Tan- Direct transmission to students lowing any clinging to experiences FOUNDATION tras special to the Nyingma tradi- who, as a result of past aspirations of joy, nor being overcome by sad tion: Mahayoga, Anuyoga and and purified karma, have arrived situations." Atiyoga. The zenith of all Yanas, at a point where they have both the This leads to the Fruition of Atiyoga represents the culmination openness of heart and devotion Dzogpachenpo, which is complete AN EXTRAORDINARY of an individual's spiritual evolu- which make them receptive to the enlightenment or liberation: realiz- tion, the point where all spiritual true meaning of the teaching. ing the Wisdom which is within, SPIRITUAL EVENT disciplines and paths have been When that powerful moment, and on a manifest level attaining traversed. The term "Maha Ati" the "meeting of mind-hearts", the Buddha body. Many Dzog- FOR 1989 for Dzogchen has also been used takes place the student has a direct chen practitioners have attained in recent time by masters like and undeniable experience, or the "rainbow body"; transmuting A rare opportunity to experience the presence Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.... glimpse, of the nature of mind. In their physical bodies into their The uniqueness of Dzogchen is that instant, the master introduces light nature at the time of death. of His Holiness, the , during the way in which it brings precise and the student recognizes. As the Yet, "until one attains the fully the week of October 2nd to 8th, 1989, in experience of the awakened state, great Dzogchen master Patrul Rin- awakened enlightened state", ad- the direct experience of the absolute. poche observed: "The Nature of vises Dudjom Rinpoche, "one Newport Beach, California. For in Dzogchen the main princi- Mind, the face of Rigpa, is in- should always value the relative ple is to go beyond mind, to tran- troduced upon the very dissolution aspect of phenomena and be scend the ordinary, thinking mind of conceptual mind". The true mindful of the non-duality of ap- Participate in a week-long program exploring altogether and to reach the nature realization of the nature of mind pearances and their empty na- meditative/contemplative practice, compas- of primordial or pristine pure aware- is only possible when transmitted ture .... Though different forms ness called Rigpa, where we just from the heart of the master to the are perceived, they are in essence sion, Buddhist psychology, East-West and rest. As Shantideva points out in the heart of the student, and this is ex- empty; yet in emptiness one per- interfaith dialogue, healing people and Earth, Bodhisattvacaryavatara: "The Ab- emplified by the great figures of ceives forms. Though different solute is beyond mind; that which the Dzogchen lineage in the ac- sounds are heard, they are empty; sacred music, sacred poetry. is within the realm of mind is called counts of how at that moment yet in the emptiness one perceives the Relative." their minds became the same as sounds. Also different thoughts Presenters include: Dalai Lama, Joseph Gold- It is this that the master in- the wisdom mind of their master, arise; they are empty, yet in the troduces to the student, and recog- for example when Garab Dorje emptiness one perceives stein, , Jack Kornfield, Taizan nizing it is the Dzogchen View. In transmitted his last testament, thoughts." Maezumi Roshi, Lati Rinbochay, Robert Bly, Dzogchen, The Path is described known as "Hitting the Essence in The practice of Dzogchen, in terms of View, Meditation and Three Words" to Manjushrimitra, though quite simple, is extremely Daniel Goleman, Jack Engler, Robert Thur- Action, which encompass the or when Shri Singha revealed the profound; the more and more you man, Lobsang Rapgay, Christian, Jewish, practical training, and specifical- nature of mind to Pad- practice, the deeper and more vast ly the practice of Trekcho and the masambhava. it becomes. In the inspiration of Hindu, Muslim contemplatives and more. subsequent practices of Togal. In This is why in Dzogchen the the teaching and with the confi- the words of Dudjom Rinpoche: emphasis is on introduction. dence of the View in you heart, For information, call or write: "View is the comprehension of the Dzogchen begins with introduc- you relax into your nature and rest naked awareness, within which tion, because in Dzogchen there is there. For in Dzogchen medita- THE EASTWEST FOUNDATION everything is contained: sensory no meditation to do separate from tion, the main point is to be as perception and phenomenal exis- abiding by that View, and integrat- natural as possible, by releasing

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DEER PARK: SPECIAL QUEEN OF GREAT BLISS EVENTS FOR 1989 Dechen Gyaimo (literally, the Within the Longchen Nying headed by a small number of older His Holiness the Dalai Lama's is a distinguished scholar and is Queen of Great Bliss) represents, Thig lineage individual monaster- nuns who, prior to the Cultural Visit: His Holiness has been invit- renowned as a patient, compas- within the Longchen Nying Thig ies developed slight variations Revolution, were students of the ed by the University of Wisconsin sionate teacher quite skillful in his tradition of the Nyingmapa Line- regarding melodic material, hand yogi and scholar, Tso Patrul Rim- to make a public address on a topic instruction of both Tibetan and age of Buddhism, the gestures (), and the inclu- poche. During the Cultural Revo- of His choosing. While in Madi- western students. Kensur Rin- deified form of the great female sion of auxiliary prayers. The form lution these women externally took son, His Holiness will dedicate the poche will be giving weekly teach- practitioner, . Born of the Dechen Gyaimo Puja found on low profile life-styles, some Deer Park and offer an ings at Deer Park and will be a princess, Yeshe Tsogyal was mar- on this recording is in the tradi- marrying and having children, but Avalokiteshvara initiation, which offering other special programs ried to the king of Tibet before be- tion of Tso Patrul Rimpoche, an secretly retained their passion for will be an exceptional opportuni- and teachings. For further infor- coming the consort and primary early twentieth-century lama Dharma. With the recent return ty since His Holiness is regarded mation about Deer Park and Deer disciple of Padmasambhava, the residing in Eastern Tibet. of more liberalized attitudes as an emanation of Avalokiteshvara Park Programs, please write to Indian yogi credited with estab- The Chod Ritual is a purifica- toward ethnic culture and religious Himself. Skip Kindy at Deer Park, 4548 lishing Tantric Buddhism in tion practice performed by many practice in the People's Republic, Kalachakra Drub Cho: Geshe Schneider Drive, Oregon, WI Tibet. Not only did Yeshe Ysogy- of the Vajrayana lineages. the older anis were able to renew Sopa has requested that the Nam- 53575 or call Elvin Jones at (608) al excel in yogic practices, but she Designed to undercut attachment their vows. In addition a number gyal monks offer the Kalachakra 835-5572. became holder of Padmasambha- to the physical body, the ritual in- of younger women have become Drub Cho at Deer Park this sum- va's lineage as well as author of his volves the visualization of the attached to their group; currently mer. The Namgyal monks have ac- biography. wrathful goddess, Tro-ma, who there are approximately forty anis cepted and will come to Deer Park In her human form Yeshe decapitates the practitioner, then in all, ranging in age from early for several days probably in July, Tsogyal is depicted as being white offers a nectar made from the body teens to their late eighties. The ol- around the time of the Kalachakra SHAMBALA in color and in union with Pad- to friends and enemies. Usually dest and most revered of the elder initiation in Los Angeles. masabhava. In her deified form, as performed at night, often in deso- generation passed away in 1986, The Namgyal monks are mem- TOURS Dechen Gyaimo, she is visualized late places such as cemeteries, demonstrating signs of full reali- bers of His Holiness the Dalai La- red in color, standing alone, and Chod is not necessarily linked to zation at her death. ma's own monastic college and IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF devoid of clothing save jewelry the Dechen Gyaimo Puja. Attired in traditional fushia and consequently are well versed in the BUDDHA SAKYAMUNI made of flowers, pearls, and bone. However on the particular date of maroon robes, the anis reside Kalachakra rituals and practice. A Six-Night/Seven-Day Pil- As such she represents the bliss- recording, this version of the together in small adobe houses They will be in the USA to assist grimage to the Four Great Sites: ful (female) quality of the enlight- Longchen Nying Thig Chod Ritu- resembling those of the Southwest His Holiness in the Kalachakra in- , Bodhgaya, Sarnath, and ened mind that arises in al was performed as a finale to the Indians. Their homes are also used itiation in Los Angeles as they did in Deer Parkin 1981. conjunction with the empty (male) puja. as places of worship and retreat. WHERE BUDDHAS AND "Drub Cho" is an offering and aspect of enlightenment. Dating back to the establish- Falling outside the usual means of DWELT worship ceremony in which the Enlightened beings are said to ment of Tantric Buddhism, when support, as they are neither mem- Eight-Day/Nine-Night Pilgrimage entire of the deity is emanate in three forms (kayas) in Yeshe Tsogyal become holder of bers of nuclear families nor to the Most Sacred Places of the government employees, these generated and established through order to benefit beings of various Padmasambhava's lineage of Kathmandu Valley levels of consciousness. The most teachings, women practitioners women live a very minimal exis- the visualization. Each day, exten- subtle form is the pure, empty have been regarded as spiritual tence, relying on what family sive offerings are made and the en- Travels and Tours state of enlightenment, the Dhar- and intellectual equals of their members have to offer, and are tire sanhana of the deity is recited. (Pvt. Ltd.) makaya. From that state an en- male counterparts. As yogic con- often reduced to taking odd jobs Traditionally, when an initiation Durbar Marg lightened being may emanate in sorts women have been considered in the community. It is not un- has been offered into one of the PO Box 4794 the Sambogakaya form, embody- essential members of their reli- usual to see a small group of anis major tantric deities, the great Kathmandu, NEPAL ing the radiant, energetic quality gious communities. walking down a street loaded with monasteries of Tibet continue to Tel: 225-166 that naturally arises out of empti- However, the overlay of tradi- piles of hay the size of two bales sponsor regular drub cho ceremo- TWX: 2494 NP ness. In order to appear in a tan- tional socio-economic values dic- on their backs. In addition to nies for that deity. Tantric colleges gible form that most beings of tated that the majority of Tibetan regular Nyingma practices, the give many different drub cho on ordinary consciousness can readi- women take on the role of servile anis, in part as a way of cutting different deities every year. ly perceive, emanations often ap- homemakers. Prior to the Chinese food costs, frequently perform the The ability to perform properly KDK pear in the substantial state of the Revolution, most Tibetan women strenuous Nyung Nye practices, the Kalachakra drub cho takes Nirmanakaya form. were neither provided with an op- which limit food intake to one years of study and practice. Be- Both Yeshe Tsogyal and Dechen portunity for literacy nor sufficient meal every two days. Yet even with cause of this, the majority of APPEAL Gyaimo are said to be Nir- time for serious practice. Even to- these hardships the anis of Sang- Buddhists, both western and Tibe- manakaya emanations of Kun- day, despite some efforts towards chen Mingye Ling are jubilant in tan, are not sufficiently prepared When his Eminence Kalu Rin- tuzangmo, the primordial female feminization, especially in the area their devotion, a devotion moving- to participate fully in the rites. Wi- poche came to San Francisco in Buddha (Dharmakaya). In the of education, many Tibetans retain ly expressed in this recording thin the Tibetan tradition, 1974, he founded KDK and practice found on a recording, by their age-old customs. Women are made of their practices. Available however, helping to promote a promised that he would transmit the anis of Sangchen Mingye commonly observed herding yaks, on cassette from Snow Lion. drub cho was regarded as a high- all the highest secret doctrines of Ling, a of , preparing fields, lugging huge, ly meritorious action. the Kagyu lineage, and sent a founder of the Longchen Nying wooden buckets strapped to their In keeping with this tradition, qualified Lama to teach as his Thig school, the Sambogakaya lev- backs, and preparing meals over Deer Park will welcome the sup- representative. As he foresaw, el of the deity appears as Dorje fires fueled by patties fashioned by port of anyone who wishes to share some students through a long Phagmo, a red, semi-wrathful fe- hand from yak dung and straw. in the sponsorship of this special preparation and practice were fi- male with a sow's heads emerging Older children are left to their own Kalachakra drub cho. This will nally ready to receive these doc- from the back of her neck, visual- devices and young infants tucked help cover contributions towards trines in the three-year retreat, ized as the wisdom deity existing into the folds of loose-fitting robes the offerings, provisions for the entering on August 3, 1986. Now in Dechen Gyalmo's heart. All so that any snatches of spare time Namgyal monks, etc. In addition, the remaining 14 months include these emanations are regarded as may be spent circumambulating those who have already received the most advanced part, the prac- both the mother (or generative holy places. the Kalachakra initiation may wish tice of the Six Yogas of . state) as well as consort (or co- Should a Tibetan woman have to attend all or any part of the drub All contributions are 100% tax emergent state) of all Buddhas. a desire to focus more seriously on cho ceremony. deductible and a receipt will be Additionally, in this practice, the Buddhist practice, her most cul- Other events for 1989. Kensur mailed to you. Checks may be one hundred peaceful and wrath- turally acceptable venue is to take Rinpoche (Lobsang Tenzin), the made payable to KDK Three-Year ful deities said to appear to one in the vows of nunhood. recent abbot of the Lower City Retreat Fund and sent to the the state after death are The anis of Sangchen Mingye Tantric College in Mysore, India, managers, Pema and Yeshe, at visualized at specific points within Ling are a group of women who will be coming to reside at Deer 4905 Nectar Way, Eugene, OR Dechen Gyalmo's body. have made this choice. They are Park in the immediate future. He 97405.

SNOW LION SPRING 89 NEWSLETTER AND CATALOG NEWS & PROFILES DALAI LAMA MILESTONE IN TRANSMISSION TO LEAD EASTWEST OF BUDDHISM TO THE WEST Buddha Mind by Tulku Thon- them accessible and provided a disciples by the learned masters. PROGRAM IN LA dup Rinpoche is a milestone in the means of practicing them through The Dzogchen teachings are here transmission of Tibetan Buddhism His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Roshi, found- his systematic vision of Dzogpa presented as they are in Tibetan: to the west. It is the first systemat- Tibet will be the Honorary Chair er and head of the Zen Center Los Chenpo. Buddha Mind conveys his the author does not impose him- ic effort to expound the Dzongpa vision through an anthology of and a key presenter at Harmonia Angeles, and Vipassana masters self as a judge to determine wheth- Chenpo (Dzogchen) philosophical texts by Longchen Rabjam preced- Mundi (Worlds in Harmony), a Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salz- er or not the Dzogchen masters standpoint and meditative prac- ed by an introduction by Tulku were right or wrong, as many week-long program involving berg will be the lead Buddhist tice. It presents the whole range of Thondup Rinpoche. The book sit- scholars do today. Buddha Mind many leading Buddhist religious meditation/contemplation teachers vision of Kunkhyen Longchen uates Dzogpa Chenpo within the conveys the meaning of Dzogchen figures, psychologists, writers and for ' Awakening the Compassion- Rabjam (1409-1463), the most Buddhist doctrinal divisions and to western readers in traditional artists scheduled for Oct. 2-8, ate Heart." Panel discussions and respected enlightened adept and explains how it is unique in being terms, and in order to communi- 1989 in Orange County, Ca., by Lati Rinbochay and the Tibetan scholar in the history of the the summit and essence of all the cate its true flavor, the book re- the East West Foundation. monks of the Shardzay Monastery Nyingma school, from his teach- Buddhist teachings. counts how Dzogchen medi- Harmonia Mundi contains seven in India, who will open and close ings on the origin of delusion in Buddha Mind shows how Dzog- tators do the practice and what are components, some of which over- each day with a chanting medita- beings to the attainment of the pa Chenpo embodies the most es- lap. They include: tion, are also part of the program. the results they achieve. These are Buddha essence. sential aspects of the not confined to enlightenment of "Transformations of Conscious- "The Healing Mind," (Oct. 4-7); Dzogchen meditation practice is teachings: it brings about the in- the mind, for at death a perfectly ness" (Oct. 2-4); a dialogue be- a program exploring the synthesis the way to realize the Buddha es- trinsic awareness of the mind attained Dzogchen yogi dissolves tween His Holiness and leading of Eastern and Western psycholog- sence or Buddha Mind present wi- ("Rig-pa"), the Buddha essence his or her mortal body into the Western religious scholars and psy- ical systems. Edward Podvoll, thin one's own mind. It is as if a which is expounded in Cittamatra "rainbow body," or in some cases chologists, many of whom are M.D., Naropa Institute; Jack poverty-stricken person were to scriptures. This intrinsic aware- transforms it into a "light body" practitioners of Buddhism. Kornfield, Ph.D., writer and discover a hidden treasure in his ness is free from all conceptual in the presence of many witness- Together, they will explore such Vipassana meditation teacher; own home. It is to realize all elaborations, and this coincides es. It is not only here, in the ac- topics as the nature of the mind, Robert Nozick, chairman of the phenomenal appearances and ac- with the Prasangika analysis of counts of "Jalu pas" or yogis who death and dying, integration of Department of Philosophy, Har- tivities as the manifesting power of emptiness, the absolute truth. The have transformed their bodies into negative personality traits and the vard University; Andrew Bard the Buddha Mind. If you are intrinsic awareness of Dzogpa light that the authentic atmosphere role of meditation in Shmookler, Ph.D., author of properly centered in yourself, in Chenpo is the primordial wisdom of the tradition is evoked. Read- pyschotherapy. "Out of Weakness Healing the your innermost peaceful, realized in the anuttaratantra train- ing Buddha Mind, one is constantly Among those who will dialogue Wounds That Drive Us to War"; balanced, infinite, enlightened and ing as the result of employing the struck by the very flavor of the with the Dalai Lama are Daniel and Riane Eisler, Ph.D., author, self-realized Buddha Mind, then channels, energy, and essence of Dzogchen view and practice, and Goleman, Ph.D., behavioral "The Chalice and the Blade", are you can deal with phenomena on one's Vajra body. Thus the author one has the sense of coming into sciences editor, the New York among participants. Two lectures your own terms, the terms of shows how the teachings of Budd- direct contact with a transmission Times; Jack Engler, Ph.D., Har- by the Dalai Lama are also includ- spontaneously present Buddha hism can become the support of of Buddhist wisdom which in Tibet vard Medical School; Robert ed in this program. wisdoms and Buddha manifesta- or steps to Dzogpa Chenpo. has clothed itself in necessary secre- Thurman, Ph.D., Department of Festivals of Sacred Music and tions, instead of being soaked in Written in a spirit of sincere de- cy for a thousand years. At vari- Religion, Columbia University; Sacred Poetry, a Closing Ceremo- concepts, emotions, and feelings, votion, Buddha Mind relies entire- ous moments in the intellectual Lobsang Rapgay, Ph.D., former ny (Oct. 7) and an inaugural Con- on others' terms, and as the slave ly on original scriptures and tradi- history of the west, a new planet religious secretary to His Holiness, cert for World Harmony (Oct. 8) of external objects. tional writings. In Tibet the swims into our ken. And with the and Daniel P. Brown, Ph.D., Har- have also been scheduled. Sufi The Tantras are difficult and ob- innermost esoteric philosophy and presentation of Dzogchen in Budd- vard Medical School. Master Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, scure, and can easily be misinter- meditation training was only ha Mind, this could be another such Father Thomas Keating, Srimata preted. Longchen Rabjam made whispered into the ears of heart- "Awakening the Compassionate moment. Gayatri Devi and Rabbi Jonathan Heart," (Oct. 4-7); a Contempla- Buddha Mind is a spring title from Snow Lion Publications. tive Congress at which noted Omer-Man are other confirmed Buddhist, Christian, Muslim and presenters during Harmonia Jewish teachers will give instruc- Mundi. tion in the practice of medita- For registration and other infor- tion/contemplation as taught in mation, contact EastWest Founda- their tradition. Two lectures by tion, P.O. Box 5766, Fullerton, CA His Holiness on compassion are 92635, 714-526-0756. included in this program.

FOUNDATIONS ARE LAID FOR TIBETAN BUDDHIST INSTITUTE

Excitement rose amongst the dary school level. Traditional arts Tibetan exiled community in and crafts too, are on the decline. Dharamsala last month as build- Despite the continued efforts of a ing work began for the long- number of surviving thanka anticipated Tibetan Institute for painters and woodcarvers, quali- Religion and Culture. ty has inevitably suffered during Here, in full view of the snow the political upheaval. Less com- peaks of the Dauladhar mountain mon crafts, such as sculpture and range, the architects, Kazuhiro and applique, which once boasted thou- Maria Nakahara, have created plans sands of practitioners, have almost for a peaceful and harmonious aca- disappeared. The new Institute will demic sanctuary, imaginatively aim to secure the survival of these reflecting its Buddhist inspiration disciplines with a view to reviving in the layout which is based on the interest in the refugee communi- Tibetan Institute for Religion and Culture thousand armed Avalokiteshvera. ty and eventually amongst the youth Open shaded areas will abound, in Tibet, where the study of Tibe- nity with informed and academi- COUNCIL FOR RELIGIOUS along with pools, treed, flowers and tan culture beyond the primary level cally trained administrators and AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS plenty of space. The site is ideally is almost non-existent. educators. Subjects to be offered OF HIS HOLINESS situated close to His Holiness the Plans for the newly emerging In- include , liter- THE DALAI LAMA Dalai Lama's residence, and the stitute are in three phases. The main ary composition and history, as well Gangchen Kyishong Dharamsala, project is seen as a much needed component of the first phase is the as Tibetan language, Sanskrit, En- District Kangra H.P. addition to the Tibetan further edu- Center for Arts, which will concen- glish and Fine Arts. Research fa- INDIA 176215 cation system. trate on the preservation of the cilities and courses for foreign Donations in the USA can also The need for opportunities in Tibetan artistic tradition. Here, a students are also envisaged. The be sent through the Tibet Fund, Higher Learning, which will en- thorough training in Thanka paint- third phase involves the building New York, which is a tax-exempt sure the Tibetan culture inheritance, ing, sculpture, woodwork and other of a central temple and the com- corporation: is increasing evident. For centuries artistic skills will be offered in the pletion of the accommodation a unique tradition of scholarship context of the traditional buildings for staff. When fully oper- THE TIBET FUND flourished in Tibet. Now, after master/apprentice relationship. ation, the Institute will hold 76 full 107 East 31st Street 4th Floor nearly thirty years of exile, only a Phase Two of the project will con- time residential students; 40 aca- New York, NY 10016 few masters of poetry and compo- sist of the Institute for Tibetan demics and 36 apprentices. 212-213-5010 sition survive to pass on the tradi- Learning, which aims to perpetuate If you would like to contribute tion. Tibetan literature, for example literary and scholarly tradition and to the scheme please make dona- is not studied beyond the secon- provide the future Tibetan commu- tions payable to:

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NEWS & PROFILES WHITE LOTUS: THE CULTURAL ARTS EXPEDITION PROJECT by Carole Elchert It was late in the evening be- months, or would a loss of toler- 1,000 resident Gelugpa (Yellow fore Losar, the Tibetan New ance literally dismember the expe- Hat) monks from their nightly Year. By the time passing dig- dition? Waiting was in the cards, bouts of ritual debate. In less than itally on my watch, it was Febru- and worrying about things ahead five minutes, 600 seated monks ary 17, 1988. Since Tibetans just wasn't going to make the shuf- were waiting for my diffident follow a shorter, lunar year, then- fle turn up anything different. finger to orchestrate an on-the-spot calendar designated the current The next morning was an auspi- recording of a special occasion one, 2115, the Earth Dragon Year. cious sign for the 1988 Cultural chant, the "Short Steps to Their lunar calendar with its bold Arts Expedition. We were guests Liberation''. colors and retiring print in the bot- of the Tibetan government at a Everywhere in the south settle- tom corner forecast of 1988: "Ex- New Year's puja service conduct- ments, expedition members were tensive disturbances to nature.. .a ed by His Holiness on the rooftop received like dignitaries by the ab- degenerative era, various diseases of Theckchen Choeling, the main bots of monasteries and offered the like cancer and AIDS will be temple in Dharamsala. Only a few obligatory tea. In fact, one tea cup prevalent... the recitation of Vaj- quests—mostly the journalist seemed to spill over into another rapani will be a powerful healing variety—and the administrative monastery and another session meditation." arm of the exiled government were with a rinpoche or abbot. In the It was the same year five artists permitted to sit with rows of Kagyudpa Monastery, the Vener- from three continents met in Del- monks chanting prayers to Pal able K.C. Ayang spoke with us in hi, India, to embark on a six- Lhamo, the patron deity of the the hypnotic tones of a voice long month Cultural Arts Expedition to Tibetan Nation. conditioned by prayer and puja Tibet and the Himalayas. Not only were we guests at all services. His specialty is the Pho- Sipping from the silo tumbler the New Year's festivities—the wa teaching which prepares a per- that Tibetans offer as a glass of dances at a sunrise SANGSOL or son for right action at death, chang, their traditional barley incense puja, the blessing given by reminding us that there is an art drink, I was spending the last the Dalai Lama in his residence to to living and to leaving, to the per- night of 2114 with my journal in- the nearly 10,000 people who formance and the stage exit. side the Information Office of the stood long hours in queues, the At the Sakya Monastery, a pair Tibetan government in exile. Fire- fire pujas, the early morning Gin- of traditional felt boots, the color- works cracked outside, and sek ceremony, the ritualized ful stripes in sharp contrast to a streamers of light made the refu- bonfires—but we were also the dull grey floorboard, caught our gee capital—Dharamsala, a form- house guests of four families who photographic attention. Some of Gyantse Kumbum drawing by Phil Sugden er hill station—visible on the hills were the first generation of Tibe- what we considered photo-worthy of Himachal Pradesh. Inside, I tans to graduate from the school at was suspect to the good-humored masks of carved wood at Pang- the Tibetan's rejection of their doubted my conviction to finish Mussoorie. Tibetan bystanders who laughed boche, we sat with Geshe Ogyen questionable autonomous status the chang before morning, when We were also invited to photo- wildly the moment Phil began to Dorjee. He had studied extensive- under Beijing's complete control. four more days of celebrations graph the Dalai Lama's private art take shots of those boots, as ordi- ly in three Buddhist schools—the On May 17th, members witnessed hosted by the drink would take its collection in the Archives, invited nary to the Tibetans as drying Nyingmapa, the Sakyapa, and a small protest by thirteen nuns toll on reluctant tea-toters. What to photograph and record both a dung cakes on a southerly wall. Katumpu, the older Gelugpa who, after circling the holy Bark- made temperance improbable was full dress rehearsal at the Institute On the way back to Bangalore, school—before he fled Tibet hor three times, were arrested by the chang itself, brewed nearly five of Performing Arts as well as serv- our Khampa driver faced traffic twenty-nine years earlier and Chinese police who had fired a vol- months by Pasanng's mother, and ices at such monasteries as and swerved from oncoming struggled to survive as a field ley of warning gun shots into the then selected from five or six Nechung without a second's pri- traffic with undaunted confidence laborer for many years in Nepal. plaza crowds. Several days before, batches for its sweet though hard- or notice, and invited into already —playing a kind of open road Having a passion for debate, he a note that turned out to be an ap- ly innocent potency. Beyond a pre- overcrowded homes. In Migmar chicken that is not only necessary challenged us about photograph- peal for human rights from the cise stage of sweetness, I was told, and Wangmo's two rooms, three on Indian roadways, but allows ing Tibetan portraits when every people of was stuffed inside was a bitter or sour chang that acts generations lived and practiced people the exhilaration of living human face was individual, when Phil's pocket as he sketched at one as a deathwish whiskey. one of the central themes of Ma- just one second before the final there simply wasn't a prototypic of Tibet's most sacred sites. That evening, it was easy for me hayana Buddhism—compassion impact with death. Tibetan face. Phil slapped his After the waiting in airports, the to setde into a waiting-room mood. under duress. After several weeks in Dharam- hands ritual fashion and conced- waiting to gain entry into Tibet, After nearly a year of planning and Then five days later, Aulde (the sala, Phil and I flew into the winter ed the point; the Geshe was the waiting in queued-up India, hundreds of letters to organize the flutist from Paris) and John (an world of Ladakh, a landscape bar- delighted with his easy victory over we'd completed the 1988 Cultural project in the US and abroad, I Australian painter) stood in tradi- ren of tourists and scant of heat the camera crew. Arts Expedition by July 14th, was wondering about the chances tional gown and chuba alongside beyond a small woodstove's output An April 15th opening was held 1988. for our expedition's success. The Phil and I for a group photo with that is limited by the unavailabili- at the American Culture Center in Once home, we renewed our political situation inside Tibet was the Dalai Lama himself. Our ty of fuel on this high altitude Kathmandu. The exhibition funding efforts, and waiting was volatile at best, and every news day fifteen minute interview turned desert. Temperatures at night represented each of the expedition again the accompaniment to all told a different story about our into an hour. The video's name, dropped well below minus ten member's work in Nepal: Phil our actions. Another year of wait- chances of securing a visa from the "Padma Karpo," or White Lotus, degrees Fahrenheit and resisted Sugden's sepia ink drawings, John ing and studio work in order to Chinese government sitting on the was accepted humbly by the god two layers of comforters, a down Westmore's pastels and water- complete the video by the spring Tibet Autonomous Region which king of a people who were, as the sleeping bag, and thermal under- colors, Roger Sugden's black and 1990. Work yet with approximate- had become an inflamed anthill af- title symbolizes, rising above wear to keep us warm. The days white photography, Aulde ly sixteen Tibetan scholars con- ter the October demonstrations. historical circumstance and adver- were cloudless and 25 ASA bright, LeLarge's flute compositions, and tributing to the video's companion Anyway, we'd heard that the most sity by the flowering of Mahayana ideal conditions for winter photog- my prose pieces. The speaker that book to be published by Snow difficult place to obtain a visa was Buddhist beliefs in their lives. The raphy of the highest inhabited evening, the Chancellor of the Art Lion. And arrangements with the in Kathmandu because the graciousness of the Tibetans' lead- region on earth. Academy, called for more artistic three sponsors of a touring pro- Chinese blamed some of their re- er, of a god king who insisted on We lived in the S.O.S. Children's conquests of his country, more gram for the 1991 "Year of Tibet" cent troubles on the younger, in- wearing the expedition's patch on Village, one of approximately ten cultural arts expeditions like our activities: Findlay College, the dependent travelers who his gown, was the gesture that was Tibetan settlements dispersed over own. Office of Tibet, and Tibet House. congregated in Nepal to gain en- repeated over and over again by ev- the Indus River Valley near Leh. It was the fourth month of the Like the Tibetans themselves, try into the still "forbidden king- ery Tibetan—official or not, titled The highlight was the annual ora- expedition, and after three weeks we'd become inured to waiting. dom" with its aura of Shangrila. and untitled—who helped us ac- cle and festival at Matho of waiting in Kathmandu, Tibet's What we'd learned from the Tibe- But all the members of the ex- complish our artistic mission over Monastery. To avoid the displeas- borders were once again opened to tans, though, was that waiting is pedition were keyed into this ten- the next five months. ure of two sword-bearing monks, tourists. The Chinese were react- the greater and more instructive sion of waiting. Would we be It was as though we carried a their bodies energized by power- ing to the Monlam demonstrations part of work. In the time it takes permitted one of the privileged au- badge with the face of His Holi- ful tantric deities which enter them and wanted some time to apply a for a project to complete its course, diences with His Holiness, the ness on our requests, on our itiner- during a two-day trance, we pho- veneer over the widespread discon- or a people to regain their Dalai Lama? Would we be able to ary, on our needs, and the tographed from inside a stall that tent of Tibetans. Finally, four ex- sovereignty and their homeland, amass enough photographic im- Tibetans in India, Ladakh, and once was a toilet. Monks assured pedition members stood watching or a baby yak to grow into a har- ages and field recordings to Nepal bowed low and performed us that although the lhas were a monstrously long CAC 707 land ness is either a lifetime of duty per- produce a thirty minute video for whatever miracle of diplomacy or sometimes enraged by cameras on a perilously short Kathmandu formed without pleasure or a PBS TV? Would we produce our maneuvering against a petulant and other invading technologies, runway, and only they and one single second of delight.■ own work—drawings, writing, bureaucracy was required. they would not defile themselves Nepalese businessman boarded music—during a pinballing sched- My recording urge soon became by attacking us there. The day be- the plane for Lhasa. Trickling ule that took us from the Kanata- an addiction, and carpet weavers fore, a Sony recorder was spotted tourism was a problem caused by BOOKS ka State and the southern refugee everywhere sang traditional songs by one of the frenzied oracles. a flood tide of greed: A plane that communities, to Dharamsala, to to oblige it. Six-year old Tenzin When a 300 year old sword slash- should have been packed twice ON THE the blistering cold of Ladakh in Gakyi, whose name means happi- es across a recorder's casing and weekly was nearly empty because winter, and back to Delhi's heat, ness, sang a popular tune calling only puts record function out of the Chinese courting big-dollar on to Nepal and the monasteries for Tibet's independence, one we commission, there's no sense, we tour groups who were reluctant to ORIENT and nunneries of the Solu Khum- heard only hummed in the back decided, in annoying its bearer. enter the troubled land, denied ac- Over 300 out of print titles on bu, into Tibet itself, back to the ets of Lhasa three months Then back to Delhi and, with cess to budget travelers—insincere Tibet are available. For a catalog Delhi furnace, and then on a final And the three abbots of Sera, photographer Roger Sugden, the capitalists by Chinese standards— write to: excursion into Ladakh for the He- rgest extant Mahayana expedition moved on to Kathman- who were itching to cross the Gregory C. Gamradt mis festival? And would we all be ionastery and a sister to du and the Solu Khumbu region border. PO Box 22694 able to endure the campquarters ie Lhasa, summoned of Nepal. One day, after Roger In Tibet, two incidents, among Minneapolis, MN 55422 of each other's company for six >el some of the photographed the ancient dance the usual minor ones, attested to

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with the British, Chinese, Nepa- Assembly passed resolutions (1353 lese, and Bhutanese diplomatic (XIV), 1723 (xvi), and 2079 (XX)) missions in Lhasa, but also condemning Chinese human through government delegations rights abuses in Tibet and calling When Was Tibet traveling abroad. When India be- on that country to respect the fun- came independent, the British damental freedoms of the Tibetan mission in Lhasa was replaced by people, including their right to an Indian one. During World War self-determination. ■ II Tibet remained neutral, despite Michael Van Praag is the author combined pressure from the Unit- of "The Status of Tibet" available ed States, Great Britain, and Chi- through Snow Lion. Not Tibet? na to allow passage of raw materials through Tibet. Tibet never maintained exten- sive international relations, but GADEN A Historical Perspective those countries with whom it did maintain relations treated Tibet as they would any sovereign state. Its RELIEF international status was in fact no By Michael C. Van Walt Praag different from, say, that of Nepal. Thus, when Nepal applied for PROJECTS membership in the United Na- tions in 1949, it cited its treaty and Gaden Relief Projects, the for- diplomatic relations with Tibet to eign aid branch of the Gaden The Tibetan Government - Mongol Empire was a world em- Despite this loss of influence, the demonstrate its full international Choling Mahayana Buddhist in-Exile, headed by His pire and, whatever the relationship imperial government in Peking personality. Meditation Center in Toronto, was Holiness the Dalai Lama, between its rulers and the Tibe- continued to claim some authori- The Invasion of Tibet: The created last summer in response to Tibet's exiled head of state and tans , the Mongols never integrat- ty over Tibet, particulary with turning point in Tibet's history repeated requests for aid from spiritual leader, has consistently ed the administration of Tibet and respect to its international rela- came in 1949, when the People's Tibetan refugees communities in held that Tibet has been under China or appended Tibet to Chi- tions, an authority which the Brit- Liberation Army of the PRC first Tibet and India. Through the ef- illegal Chinese occupation since na in any manner. ish imperial government termed crossed into Tibet. After defeating forts of Zasep Tulku Rinpoche, China invaded the independent Tibet broke political ties with "suzerianty" in its dealings with the small Tibetan army and oc- spiritual director of Gaden Chol- state in 1949/50. The People's the Yuan emperor in 1350, before Peking and St. Petersburg, Russia. cupying half the country, the ing, and the dedication of his stu- Republic of China (PRC) insists China regained its independence Chinese imperial armies tried to Chinese government imposed the dents, a formal organization is now that its relation with Tibet is pure- from the Mongols. Not until the reassert actual influence in 1910 by so-called "17-Point Agreement for in place to help address this need. ly an internal affair, because Tibet 18th Century did Tibet again invading the country and occupy- the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet" Gaden Relief Projects, a registered is and has been for centuries an in- come under a degree of foreign in- ing Lhasa. Following the 1911 on the Tibetan government in May charity, has launched five efforts teergral part of China. The ques- fluence. revolution in China and the over- 1951. Because it was signed under aimed at preserving Tibetan reli- tion of Tibet's status is essentially throw of the Manchu Empire, the duress, the agreement lacked va- gious and cultural traditions. a legal question, albeit one of im- Relations with Manchu, troops surrendered to the Tibetan lidity under international law. The These projects are designed to pro- mediate political relevance. Gorkha and British Neighbors army and were repatriated under presence of 40,000 troops in Tibet, vide assistance in as efficient a The PRC makes no claim to Tibet developed no ties with the a Sino-Tibetan peace accord. The the threat of an immediate occu- manner as possible. They are: sovereign rights over Tibet as a Chinese Ming Dynasty (1386- Dalai Lama reasserted Tibet's full pation of Lhasa, and the prospect Tuberculosis Project: Tuberculo- result of its military subjugation 1644). On the other hand, the independence internally, by issu- of the total obliteration of the sis is still a serious problem for and occupation of Tibet following Dalai Lama, who established his ing a proclamation, and external- Tibetan state left Tibetans little Tibetan refugee communities in its armed invasion in 1949/50. In- sovereign rule over Tibet with the ly in comunications to foreign choice. India, and its lengthy treatment deed, the PRC could hardly make help of a Mongol patron in 1642, rulers and in a treaty with As open resistance to the requires a steady supply of expen- that claim, since it categorically re- did develop close religious ties Mongolia. Chinese occupation escalated, par- sive drugs. Gaden Relief Projects jects as illegal claims to sovereig- with the Manchu emperors, who Tibet in the 20th Century: ticulary in Eastern Tibet, the is able to secure free drugs through nity put foward by other states conquered China and established Tibet's status following the expul- Chinese regression, which includ- the Canadian Medicine Aid based on conquest, occupation, or the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). sion of Manchu troops is not sub- ed the destruction of religious Programme, but must raise funds the imposition of unequal treaties. The Dalai Lama agreed to become ject to serious dispute. Whatever buildings and the imprisonment of to cover air freight costs. For ev- Instead, the PRC bases its claim the spiritual guide of the Manchu ties existed between the Dalai La- monks and other community lead- ery dollar donated, ten dollars to Tibet solely on the theory that emperor, and accepted patronage mas and the Manchu emperors of ers increased dramatically. By worth of life-sustaining drugs can Tibet became an intergral part of and protection in exchange. This the Qing Dynasty were extin- 1959, popular uprisings culminat- be sent to India. China 700 years ago. "priest-patron" relationship guished with the fall of that em- ed in massive demonstrations in Early History: Although the (known in Tibetan as Choe-Yoen), pire and dynasty. From 1911 to Lhasa. By the time China crushed Zuru Monastery Reconstruction: history of the Tibetan state start- which the Dalai Lama also main- 1950, Tibet successfully avoided the uprising, 87,000 Tibetans were Zuru Monastery was built by the ed in 127 B.C., with the establish- tained with some Mongol princes undue foreign influence and be- dead in the Lhasa region alone, Second Zasep Rinpoche in the ment of the Yarlung Dynasty, the and Tibetan nobles, was the only haved in every respect as a fully in- and the Dalai Lama had fled to 14th century, serving as a spiritu- country as we know it was first formal tie that existed between the dependent state. India. al center for the people of Gegyal unified in the 7th Century A.D., Tibetans and Manchus during the Tibet maintained diplomatic re- In 1963 the Dalai Lama promul- region in Kham until its destruc- under King and Qing Dynasty. It did not, in itself, lations with Nepal, Bhutan, Bri- gated a constitution for a tion by the Chinese armies in his successors. Tibet was one of affect Tibet's independence. tain, and later with independent democratic Tibet. It has been suc- 1958. The Zuru lamas now have the mightiest powers of Asia for On the political level, some India. Relations with China re- cessfully implemented, to the ex- permission to rebuild, but without the three centuries that followed, powerful Manchu emperors mained strained. The Chinese tent possible, by the aid from outside sources recon- as a pillar inscription at the foot succeded in exerting a degree of waged a border war with Tibet Government-in-exile. struction would be nearly impos- of the in Lhasa and influence over Tibet. Thus, be- while formally urging Tibet to Conclusion: In the course of sible since the local people are Chinese Tang histories of the peri- tween 1720 and 1792, Emperors "join" the Chinese Republic, Tibet's 2,000-year history, the extremely poor. Funds collected od confirm. A formal peace treaty Kangxi, Yong Zhen, and Qianlong claiming all along to the world that country came under a degree of for construction and furnishings concluded between China and sent imperial troops to Tibet four Tibet was one of China's five foreign influence only for short are being taken directly to Zuru by Tibet in 821/823 demarcated the times to protect the Dalai Lama races. periods of time in the 13th and the Zasep Rinpoche. borders between the two countries and the Tibetan people from for- In an effort to reduce Sino- 18th centuries. Few independent Tibetan Sponsorship Programme: and ensured that, "Tibetans shall eign invasions by Mongols and Tibetan tensions, the British con- countries today can claim as im- See story "Tibetan Faithful Seek be happy in Tibet and Chinese Gorkhas or from internal unrest. vened a tripartite conference in pressive a record. As the ambas- Refuge in India." Through shall be happy in China." These expeditions provided the Simla in 1913 where the represen- sador of Ireland at the UN Sakyadhita's Tibetan Nuns Mongol Influence: As Genghis Emperor with the means for estab- tatives of the three states met on remarked during the General As- Project, sponsorships for Tibetan Khan's Mongol Empire expanded lishing influence in Tibet. He sent equal terms. As the British sembly debates on the question of nuns are now available. towards Europe in the West and representatives to the Tibetan cap- delegate reminded his Chinese Tibet, "[for thousands of years, or China in the East in the 13th Cen- ital, Lhasa, some of whom suc- counterpart, Tibet entered into the for a couple of thousands years at Science Books for the Institute of tury, Tibetan leaders of the power- cessfully exercised their influence, conference as "independent na- any rate, [Tibet) was as free and Buddhist Dialectics: The IBD, ful Sakya school of Tibetan in his name, over the Tibetan tion recognizing no allegiance to as fully in control of its own affairs established in Dharamsala, India, Buddhism concluded an agree- Government, particularly with China." The conference was un- as any nation in this Assembly, at the behest of the Dalai Lama, ment with the Mongol rulers in respect to the conduct of foreign successful in that it did not resolve and a thousand times more free to teaches traditional Tibetan monas- order to avoid the conquest of relations. At the height of Manchu the differences between Tibet and look after its own affairs than tic as well as modern academic Tibet. The Tibetan Lamas power, which lasted a few decades, China. It was, nevertheless, sig- many of the nations here." subjects. promised political loyalty and re- the situation was not unlike that nificant in that Anglo-Tibetan Numerous other countries made Recognizing the need to be con- ligious blessings and teachings in which can exist between a super- friendship was reaffirmed with the statements in the course of the UN versant in a modern, increasingly exchange for patronage and protec- power and a satellite or protec- conclusion of bilateral trade and debates that reflected similar technological world, the IBD tion. The religious relationship be- torate, and therefore one which, border agreements. In a Joint recognition of Tibet's independent wants to establish a science library came so important that when, though politically significant, does Declaration, Great Britain and status. Thus, for example, the for its monks. New and used high decades later, Kublai Khan con- not extinguish the independent ex- Tibet bound themselves not to delegate from the Philippines school and college level science quered China and established the istence of the weaker state. Tibet recognize Chinese suzerainty or declared, "It is clear that on the and medical texts are sought in ad- Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), he in- was never incorporated into the other special rights in Tibet unless eve of the invasion in 1950, Tibet dition to funds to send them to In- vited the Sakya Lama to become Manchu Empire, much less Chi- China signed the draft Simla Con- was not under the rule of any for- dia. If you are travelling to India, the Imperial Perceptor and na, and it continued to conduct its vention which would have guaran- eign country.'' The delegate from you could help by taking a parcel supreme pontiff of his empire. relations with neighboring states teed Tibet's greater borders, it Thailand reminded the assembly of books with you and mailing The relationship that developed largely on its own. territorial integrity and full auton- that the majority of states "refute them to the Institute when you and continue to exist into the 20th Manchu influence did not last omy. China never signed the Con- the contention that Tibet is part arrive. Century between the Mongols and very long. It was entirely ineffec- vention, however, leaving the of China." The United States Please write to: Gaden Relief Tibetans was a reflection of the tive by the time the British brie- terms of the Joint Declaration in joined most other UN members in Projects, 637 Christie Street, close racial, cultural, and especial- fly invaded Lhasa and concluded full force. condemning Chinese aggression Toronto, Ontario M6G 3E6, Cana- ly religious affinity between the a bilateral treaty with Tibet, the Tibet conducted its internation- and invasion of Tibet. In 1959, da 416-651-3869. Any assistance two Central Asian peoples. The Lhasa Convention, in 1904. al relations primarily by dealing 1960, and 1961, the UN General will be gratefully received.

SNOW LION SPRING 89 NEWSLETTER AND CATALOG NEWS & PROFILES TIBET JAMYANG PLUS SINGE: NEPAL THANKA Chengdu(Chim) and Hong Kong PAINTING • May 5-25, 1989 AROUND • Oct. 20-Nov. 9, 1989 $4444 from California-$4689 from THE WORLD New York Jamyang Singe is a master thanka (departure from other locations painter who offers his students the available) unique opportunity to study this Take a priceless journey to the meditative form of sacred art either mystic land on the "Roof of the in America or abroad in Tibet, World." Have an inside look at ex- Bhutan or India. KARME-CHOLING otic lamaseries and temples, the ex- Singe was born in Tibet to a fa- CALENDAR iled Dalai Lama's 1,000 room mily with a long lineage of master Potala Palace, majestic sacred craftsmen. However, in 1959 his fa- JANUARY mountains, fascinating culture and mily was forced to flee to India 9-Feb. 7 Dathun $550 friendly people, and much more. where at the age of six he was placed 20-22 Shambhala Training Getting the Buddha Mind Fly first to the exotic city of Kath- in a monastery to be raised as a Level III $175 mandu and spend three days in An introduction to the profound principles and concepts of monk. As a teenager he received FEBRUARY Ch'an (Zen) in the context of the Ch'an intensive meditation Nepal. Then drive over the intensive training in Buddhist doc- retreat. Himalayas, through spectacular trine, meditation and art. After 10-19 Fire Puja: Amending mountain passes, and past the awe- many years of committed work he the Mantra $300 The Poetry of Enlightenment — inspiring north side of Mt. Everest, was recognized as a master than- 17-20 Porstrators Intensive and then onto the plateau of Tibet. ka painter. $30/day Poems by ancient Ch 'an Masters Visit out of the way monasteries and Singe has been living in the San 24-26 Shambhala Training Translation of Ch'an poetry which describe in detail the towns, where foreigners are still a Francisco bay area where he has Level I$155 method of practice and the experience of Ch'an. curiosity. established the Kharma Gardri MARCH See the "real" Tibet on a four Tibetan Art Institute which offers 1-28 Dathun $550 Faith in Mind day drive through the countryside. weekly classes in thanka painting 3-12 Drive in modern vans or buses on Aguide to Ch'an practice based on the poem "Faith in Mind". throughout the bay area. Intensive $30/day this road from Nepal to Lhasa, cap- In July he will be offering a one 10-12 Introductory ital of Tibet. Overnight on the way week intensive at Omega Institute Weekend $100 Ox Herding at Morgan's Bay in hotels in Zhangmu, New Tin- in Reinbeck, New York. 31-April 2 Shambhala Training Based on the Ten Ox Herding Pictures, Master Sheng-yen gri, Shigatse and Gyantse. You also In the intensive he will teach the Graduate Level C gave a series of lectures to help practitioners with obstacles visit the out of the way monaster- ancient techniques used in Than- 31-April 9 Four Karmas Fire Puja $350 and situations that arise in their practice. ies of Sakya and Shalu en route. ka paining. Students will learn how Spend eight days in the holy city to use the tiksay, an esoteric graph APRIL Available from bookstores and of Lhasa. In addition to tours of that has been used for centuries to the Potala, Temple, Nor- preserve the harmonious propor- 14-16 Shambhala Training Ch'an Meditation Center/Dharma Drum Publications bulingka, Sera and Drepung tion of the sacred images in the Level IV $190 21-30 Fire Puja: Amending 90-56 Corona Avenue, Elmhurst, New York 11373 monasteries, a newly re-activated thankas. He will demonstrate the the Mantra $300 Buddhist nunnery, and much more, techniques and formulas for grind- the tour includes an in-depth visit ing the precious gems and miner- MAY to the Traditional Tibetan Medi- als into the jeweltoned paint used 13-21 Abhiseka of PEACE MEDITATIONS cine Hospital. There are also op- in thanka painting and will teach Vajrayogini (Karme- tional tours to his students to draw the holy im- Choling will be closed All those concerned with the in- suffering Tibetans. Friends of and to Tsedang to see ages of the Buddhist deities. The to the public during humane treatment of Tibetans by Tibet worldwide are asked to set Monastery and the Yarlung Valley. Tibetans believe that studying than- this period.) the Chinese are urged to organize aside the first Sunday morning of Power Places Tours, 28802 Alta ka painting reveals one's own 26-28 Shambhala Training group or individual meditations to each month and Buddha's birth- Laguna Blvd., Laguna Beach, CA "Buddha nature" and brings peace Graduate Level E activate forces of compassion and day (May 15) for these special 92651, Phone: (714) 497-5138 and spiritual realization to the ar- clarity in the Chinese aggressors meditations. tist. Instruction is completly in- JUNE and to pray for the relief of the dividualized and no previous 1-28 Dathun $550 experience with art or Buddhism 16-18 Introductory NEW is necessary. Weekend $100 In 1989 and 1990 Singe, together 16-Aug . 31 Summer Practice SNOW LION NEWSLETTER MONASTIC with his associate David Less, will Intensive $30/day be offering tours to India, Nepal, 23-25 Shambhala Training GROWING OUT OF SIGHT Bhutan, and Tibet. Not only do Level I$155 COLLEGE these trips offer an opportunity to JULY The strong positive reponse we over 40. We don't mind letting this Khen Rimpoche has aquired a study the technique of Thanka growth process continue, but we plot of land near the entrance to Painting but they also offer an eso- 2-9 Family Camp $175 receive from our readers with each per parent, $75 per issue of The Snow Lion Newslet- have reached the point where we the Deer Park at Sarnath, where teric, historical, religious and tech- child ter and Catalog encourages us to need your assistance to cover the He hopes to build a college. Funds nical understanding of the elaborate 2-9 Shambhala Sun continue to gather and publish all larger printing and mailing costs. are needed to turn this into the celestial murals found in the Camp the information that we think will If you feel moved to contribute to planned monastic College, Library monasteries and temples. 15-29 Warriors Assembly and Archives. A sum of $20,000 Singe's teaching style is patient, interest you. As you know, this is the publication and dissemination AUGUST a free newsletter, we have not of information on Tibetan culture, must be raised to finance the light and humorous. During the wanted to charge for it. When the we would greatly appreciate it if building of the College. course of his trips there is the op- 3-31 Dathun $550 first issue appeared over three you would add a contribution to Send funds payable to The Pad- portunity to visit Tibetan homes, 11-13 Introductory years ago, it was only twelve pages the order form. masambhava Society, Box 6036, partake in their religious ceremo- Weekend $100 long. By this issue it has grown to West Palm Beach, FL 33405, nies, learn recipes, sightsee, shop, 15-20 Kanjuro Shibata, USA, specifying the donation is trek, and ask a million questions. Sensei; Kyudo Intensive and Mrs. for the THE SARNATH For more information call Anna Marcia Shibata; PROJECT. or David Lees, 331 Hugo Street, Ikebana Workshop San Francisco, CA 94122 18-20 Shambhala Training (415) 564-7394. ■ Level II $165 For information: KHEN RINPOCHE (802) 633-2384 Karme Choling The Venerable Khen Rimpoche the long-time Professor in Charge Barnet, Vermont 05821 is one of the most qualified scho- of the Department of Nyingmapa lars and teachers of the Tibetan Studies at Benares University and Buddhist Tradition. He entered is the author of several learned Gochen Monastery at the age of works and Tibetan language six, where he underwent an inten- books. As a scholar of renown he sive training in all facets of Tibe- has recieved many honors from tan Education, both secular and His Holiness The Dudjom Rim- religious. In 1953 he graduated to poche and other leaders of the Riwoche Monastery in Eastern Tibetan people. Khenpo Palden Tibet, where he trained to become Sherab, the Khen Rimpoche, is a Khenpo, or Professor, of Tibe- considered a Master of Dzog- tan scholastic and philosophic Chen, the most highly developed studies. He fled to India in 1960. and advanced tradition of spritu- The Khenpo is fully versed in al practice pertaining to Tibetan many areas of study. He has been Buddhism. Khen Rinpoche

SNOW LION SPRING 89 NEWSLETTER AND CATALOG NEWS & PROFILES TIBET: THE UNDYING NATION CULTURAL By Tinley Nyandak SURVIVAL

On December 10, 1988, at TIBET fields.' " Her article was aptly en- a quarter of its nuclear arsenal. Fur- impeded by the several dozen police 11:20 am, the Chinese titled, "Tibet: Death of A Nation." thermore, war games have become who accompanied them to moni- police indiscriminately shot Her film, "Tibet: A Case To An- so common in this region that a tor their activities. PROJECT at some 300 Tibetans as they swer," graphically depicts how the Chinese newspaper reported on Last December addressing the marched towards the holiest tem- Tibetans have been exploited and Sept. 16,1988 the chemical warfare three-day conference of reincarnated ple in Tibet, the Jokhang. The Cultural Survival is pleased to turrned into an underclass in their tests taking place on the Roof of lamas in Saranath, Varanasi, the Tibetans, led by monks and nuns, announce the Tibet Project found- own country— a country being torn the World, the source of all major Dalai Lama said that the Chinese were commemorating the 40th an- ed for the purpose of providing as- apart by mass murder, systematic Asiatic rivers. were mistaken if they thought that niversary of the United Nations sistance for the preservation of torture, starvation, homelessness, Yet the Tibetans stand firmly the campaign for Tibetan indepen- Universal Declaration of Human Tibetan culture. The Project is cUscrimination, environmental rape, against the Chinese, determined to dence would end after his death. Rights when they were rushed at based on the premises that Tibe- forced abortion and sterilization, win their struggle for survival and After all, the campaign is a "mass and fired upon with machine guns tan nationalism is increasing and an all-consuming Chinese he- independence. On Dec. 30, 1988 movement" aimed at preserving and automatic weapons without despite Chinese suppression and gemony which denies Tibetans their several hundred Tibetan Univer- Tibetan identity, culture, religion, warning shots, foreign eyewitnesses that conflict between Chinese and land, language, religion, arts, and sity students demonstrated in Lhasa and history at any cost. said. The result: 18 Tibetans were Tibetans will continue until a po- basic human dignity. The Tibetans' calling for a "peaceful solution to The Boston Globe, in its editorial killed; at least 50 more were mor- litical solution is reached. entire cultural heritage and way of the Tibetan problem.'' This demon- entitled "Decolonizing Tibet" on tally wounded, including women The Project will have two main life is on the verge of extinction. stration was preceded by one on Dec. 15, 1988, said it all: "For- and children; and many more were foci: 1) Support for Tibetan scho- Tibet, situated in the heart of Dec. 18, by 60 Tibetan students eign friends of China have an ob- imprisoned, according to sources lars and research on Tibetan his- Asia, roughly one-fourth of the total who marched through the center ligation to explain to the in Tibet. tory and politics in India, in Tibet area of the United States, is being of Peking to protest the shooting modernizers in Beijing that "The first policeman just took and in the United States; 2) Com- stripped and destroyed by Chinese of demonstrators in Lhasa on De- colonialism is incompatible with out his pistol and fired straight at munication, both in the form of military and economic interests. cember 10. The students were modernization." ■ the leading monk. One bullet went translations and publications of China keeps half a million troops strongly urged by police officials writings on Tibetan history, collec- right through the monk's chest and stationed in Tibet, as well as about to stop their march, but were not also killed a Tibetan women who tion of information on conditions was standing behind him," an in Tibet, past and present, and in- American tourist told United Press itiation of contact and dialogue International. SMC:#sC:d:i/«4«:« with Chinese students and officials. In the brutal attack, a Dutch tourist, Miss Christa Meindersma, Support will be provided for was also wounded. Meindersma publications either by Cultural said, "They (Chinese police) didn't Survival or other publishers, or for try to arrest anybody; they didn't research expenses for academic try to disperse anyone; they just work intended for publication. fired indiscriminately into the The Project will also finance trans- lations from Tibetan of materials crowd; they were so well organized and moved so fast that it had to be relevant to the subject. completely prepared in advance." In particular, the Project will at- Prof. Ron Schwartz of Canada tempt to finance the translation of added, "We saw the Chinese come a body of refugee accounts out in formation and open fire on gathered by the Tibetan Resistance the monks and nuns from about in 1959-1960. These accounts were two meters. Christa and I ran away gathered from the political and with the crowd and the police cultural leaders of Tibet, many chased us down the alleys. They from the areas of Kham and Amdo where the revolt against the were using machine pistols, like the ---■- ; Israeli Uzi, and I could hear bursts Chinese began; they describe of fire. Both of us saw people fall- events in these areas as the Chinese ing, but it was all too frantic to be gained control and initiated their sure what was happening. Bullets "democratic reforms" during the were flying all over the place." period from 1950 to 1959. Tibet has been fighting for sur- Other political and historical vival since the Chinese occupation writings both from Tibet and by in 1950. We fear that a new wave SNOW LION m~* Tibetans in India will be translat- of arrests is currently taking place ed and published as resources per- as China enforces the "Merciless f mit. Recent liberalization in China Repression Policy" aimed at Tibe- DHARMA CALENDAR %4 has made possible a flourishing of long suppressed Tibetan scholar- tans, proclaimed in July 1988 by Your contributions to the Snow March 22 and continuing in April be leading retreats. Qiao Shi, standing member of the Lion Dharma Calendar are wel- ship. Many historical studies have and May. Contact: FPMT/Boston, East Coast: May 25-29, contact: been published by the Minorities Politburo and head of China's secu- come! We list special events only: PO Box 262, Chestnut Hill, MA Khyentse Foundation, 230 West rity apparatus. lectures, initiations, retreats that you Institutes presses in Lhasa, Sining, 02167, 617-661-1721. 79th Street, NY, NY 10024, Chengdu and Beijing on many The United Nations, which would like to advertise to a wider KARMA TRTYANA DHAR- 212-595-6543. adopted the Universal Declaration audience. 22,000 copies of this previously forbidden subjects. MACHAKRA 352 Meads Moun- West Coast: June 23-July 3, con- These are also important recent of Human Rights 40 years ago in newsletter will be circulated to peo- tain Road, Woodstock, NY 12498 tact: Rigpa, PO box 7866, Berkeley, Paris, has completely ignored the ple all over the world who are in- studies of the history of Chinese 914-679-5906. April 14-6: Intro, to CA 94707, 415-644-3922. policies in Tibet since 1950, pub- heinous violation of the articles of terested in Tibet. For the fall and the Four Foundations April 17-23: SUNRAY MEDITATION SO- lished by the TAR Academy of the Universal Declaration of Hu- winter we need submissions by Au- Four foudations Retreat April 28-30: CIETY PO Box 308, Bristol, VT man Rights by China. The decla- gust 10 and for spring and summer Sciences, which are necessary The Tiger at Work: KKI Budd- 05443. Contact: Rika Henderson sources for the modern period. ration outlines the rights and by February 10. hism and Psychotherapy Group 508-428-2619. fundamental freedoms that should TRAVEL WITH CHAGDUD The Project will attempt to in- May 12-4: The Dharma in Women July 8-9: Tibetan Vajrayana teach- crease understanding by creating be the heritage of all people. RINPOCHE A group of students NAMO BUDDHA SUMMER ings with Khenpo Konchog contacts and initiating dialogue be- China's ongoing violations have of Chagdud Rinpoche are planning SEMINAR Au- Gyaltshen Rinpoche: "In Search of been documented by Asia Watch to travel to Kham in Eastern Tibet tween Chinese and Tibetans and gust 29-Sept. 12: Oxford, England. the Stainless Ambrosia". between Chinese and interested and Amnesty International. The from May 15, 1989 to June 15, Topic: "What is consciousness? July 15-30: "Native American abuse and torture of Tibetans is so 1989. This area of Tibet has been foreign scholars. In particular the What is wisdom?" Based on writ- Studies in Vermont" Cherokee Project will attempt to initiate con- prolific and blatant that foreign closed to Westerners and obtaining ing of Third Karmapa. Healing with Dhyani Ywahoo. tacts with Chinese students in the tourists are often witness to the permission for the trip from the For information: Clark Johnson, Aug. 11-13: Tibetan Vajrayana US for the purpose both of abuses and cries for help. The US Chinese was very auspicious. The 1390 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, CO, teachings with Khenpo Tsewang research on Chinese attitudes on Congress and many parliamentar- group is planning to travel to 80304, 303-449-6608 Dongyal Rinpoche: "Displays of Tibet and for creating awareness ians have rightly condemned Chi- Chagdud Gonpa at Nyarong where RIN- the Wisdom Yeshe Tsogyal". na's atrocities in Tibet. The United Chagdud Rinpoche will be spend- among the Chinese students about POCHE Box 221, RFD 1 Conway, Aug. 24-27: Teachings with His the aspiration of the Tibetans. Nations, which is supposed to em- ing the month of May, to visit sites MA 01341. 413-369-4264. Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon body the hope, peace, and securi- in the area of Nyarong, and to travel The Cultural Survival Tibet July 3-14: Conway, MA. July Chetsang Rinpoche, head of the Project will be supported by your ty of all people around the world, to Dege. It will be possible for a few 17-23: New Mexico 505-982-3846 lineage. contributions. Please address con- has completely ignored the crime other people to join the group. If July 26-Aug. 5: SF, CA. Aug. 8-12: TUPTEN GYATSO LING PO tributions to: of genocide being committed by one you are interested, phone or write LA, CA. Aug. 15-23: Hawaii Box 6141, Chicago, IL 60606-0141 of its honorable members, i.e., the Peter Moulton, 2900 Capital Drive, PROVIDENCE ZEN CENTER (this is the correct address) Cultural Survival Tibet Project People's Republic of China. Eugene, OR 97403, 503-344-0796. 528 Pound Road, Cumberland, RI ZEN 11 Divinity Avenue In the November 6 edition of DRIKUNG KYABGON 02864 401-658-1464 1214 Packard Road Ann Arbor, MI Cambridge, MA 02138 Sunday Telegraph, Vanya Kewley, CHETSANG RINPOCHE US May 6 & 7: "Conscious Living, 48104 313-761-6520. a British journalist, reported on Tour Fall 1989 For information, Conscious Dying" Workshop with May 20-1: Buddha's Birthday what she saw during the five and contact: Tibetan Meditation Center, Seung Sahn and Celebration. June 15-Aug. 15: Sum- a half weeks she traveled undercover 5603 16th St. NW, Washington, . mer Retreat. July 31-Aug. 4: Budd- to film a documentary recording the DC. 20011. 202-829-0005 SOGYAL RINPOCHE will be hist Camp for Children "systematic destruction of a nation FPMT/BOSTON Geshe Lopsang teaching in a number of cities in the perpetrated by the Chinese over the Jampa will give teachings beginning US in May and June. He will also past 38 years in Tibetan 'killing I

SNOW LION SPRING 89 NEWSLETTER AND CATALOG 10 NEWS & PROFILES Life In A Tibetan Monastery In Exile by Hilary Shearman

The tour of eight Drepung appear as if in a dream. Prayer jungle-type terrain. The monks Loseling monks, "Sacred flags flutter in the soft breeze and had to clear the land and prepare Music, Sacred Dance" is the narrow road is crowded with it for cultivation. Many wild just completing its seventh suc- monks walking, or riding bicycles, animals lived here, and those years cessful month of performances in their maroon and saffron robes were exceptionally hard. They are North America and will continue changing the colorscape dramat- still bothered by wild pigs, and for another month and a half on ically. one of the jobs the monks dislike this continent before heading for Though unannounced, I was the most is to stay up all night, Europe. The lamas' performances immediately welcomed, my lug- guarding the maize from these vo- have created a tremendous surge gage taken from the taxi and I was racious creatures. The monks still of interest in the Dharma and in led upstairs to the main office of have to do their other work as well Tibet. the administrator, Dakpa Topgy- so it becomes very exhausting. Three years ago Glenn Mullin al. We became a good working Evening comes and after their and I were able to successfully co- team right away and decided we daily dinner of rice and dal and ordinate a small tour of the Gyume should photograph as many young Tibetan tea, there are more pray- Tantric College in Canada, in monks as possible for the next few ers or chanting and recitation of cooperation with Snow Lion Pub- days. We started quite early the scriptures. Everywhere the sound lications. As a result of this we next morning and having decided of shrill little voices can be heard, were asked by Doboom Rinpoche on the coolest place to set up, (the reciting text by memory, which is of Tibet House, New Delhi, if we temperature would be reaching a fundamental practice for all would consider doing something 40-42 degrees C. by mid after- monks. By mid-evening when the ■t& else, on a larger scale. Both Glenn noon), we started the process. The heat subsides, the debate court- and I were excited at the prospect children would line/crowd up and yard starts to fill up, and the sub- and decided that the rich tradition give their name, age etc. to Dak- jects which have been studied that of sacred dance was something as pa and one other monk, one writ- day, are tested and tried in heated yet unknown to western audiences. ing in English, the other in debate. The sounds of whoops and With that in mind we made a Tibetan, and then I would take the shreiks and hard hand claps ac- quick tour of some of the great photograph. Naturally, a photo to company this mass of voices, monasteries of Tibet, now settled any child is fascinating, but Tibe- challenging each others' under- in Karnataka, South India. Our tans, in particular, love to have standing of the intricacies of THE DALAI LAMA timing was perfect, as being Lo- their photos taken. It is a cross be- Buddhism. This continues until sar, Tibetan New Year, many of tween a thrill and a threat, some- past midnight, and every night I TO GIVE KALACHAKRA the monasteries have elaborate how exciting, and when the would fall asleep to this mass of dance rituals to send off the old camera actually spits out the pho- sound outside my room. INITIATION IN year and herald in the new with tograph, that seals the experience. The life in the monastery is auspicious fanfare. We were able It was one of the most joyful times hard, and there is serious depriva- to witness an amazing variety of of my life, seeing all these quite tion in terms of diet, medicine, fa- LOS ANGELES JULY 10-18 dance styles and costuming, all ac- solemn little faces breaking into a cilities and general hygiene. companied by the deep blasts of look of sheer incredulity as it took Disease is very hard to contain, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is adorned in full ritual costume and the long horns and shimmering of place. The Tibetan smile is with a variety of skin problems, revered as the very embodiment of accompanied by ritual musical in- cymbals, common to all the renowned the world over, and to intestinal infestations and, more compassion and is recognized as struments. The initiation will be- rituals. have the privilege of capturing seriously, 5% of the monks suffer one of the greatest living Buddhist gin the next day. In the final outcome, none of four hundred of them over the from tuberculosis, for which they teachers. Though capable of the July 10-13 Lam Rim Teachings those monasteries which we had next two days was like being given have to receive constant medical most sublime thought, His Holi- July 14 Ritual Dancing visited were chosen, but consider- a magical elixir. attention. Many monks do not ness considers himself "a simple July 15-18 Kalachakra Initiation ing all the possibilities, the multi- During the course of our activi- have proper rooms: they inhabit Buddhist monk" whose "true faceted styles of Drepung Losel- ties the daily life of the monastery old cow stalls or makeshift huts religion is kindness." Registration ing seemed the most appropriate, was progressing all around us. leaning up against other buildings In manifesting the qualities of Event preparation costs include and perhaps due to Doboom Rin- There are nine hundred and fifty for support. Walls are bamboo co- Buddhist practice, such as wis- the travel of 25 monks and assis- poche's devotion to his own monks in Drepung Loseling, two- vered with plastic; beds, rough dom, sincerity, humility, strength, tants from India, printing and monastic tradition, this group was thirds of whom are under the age wooden platforms. This has come and compassion, His Holiness postage, and rental of the facility selected. of twenty. Every morning they rise about due to the enormous quan- teaches and inspires by his very where the initiation and teachings One of the most beneficial side before dawn, and assemble outside tity of monks and young boys who presence. He will confer the will be held. To defray costs, the effects of the tour has been the the main prayer hall, sipping their keep arriving from Tibet. The ex- Kalachakra Initiation in Los An- registration fee is $150 per person. large number of people who have first cup of Tibetan tea for the day. isting facilities were constructed by geles in July 1989. Certain prepa- Additional donations are very wel- agreed to foster-sponsor a young At the sound of the gong signall- grants from the government to rations preceding the initiation come. They will accept a deposit monk from Drepung Loseling ing sunrise, they all move swiftly provide for two hundred and thirty will involve only His Holiness and of $75 with the remaining to be monastery. We set in process a into the temple ar. I the daily pray- monks. Now there are nine the ritual assistants. On four after- paid by May 1, but we ask those scheme whereby anyone wishing ers begin. Halfway through the hundred and fifty. As Dakpa said, noons during these preparation who can to send the full amount to write to a young monk and share sound of small, pounding feet can there is a Tibetan proverb which days, however, His Holiness will with the registration form. in the responsibility of his daily be heard, as the very young monks says, 'Now I must stand on my give teachings based on Lama Early registration is recom- welfare could send a donation who have been assigned tea duty own two feet, even though my bel- Tsong Khapa's Lam Rim Du don. mended because the initiation will directly to the monastery, in the for the day run back and forth be- ly is heavy and swollen.' As an ad- Lam Rim teachings are tradition- take place indoors, and, though amount of $15 or $20 per month, tween the main kitchen and the ministrator, he is keenly aware of ally given prior to a tantric initia- the hall will accommadate several depending on the age of the monk. temple, wildly swinging large the shortcomings of the existing tion such as the Kalachakra to thousand people, seating is limit- This needed the details and pho- teapots. At this time each monk is facilities. develop the prerequisite qualities ed. Therefore, it is possible that to of every child involved in order also served with a large, flat fried The monks who are performing of renunciation, and the not everyone will be able to attend. to be implemented, and it was sug- Tibetan bread, which is breakfast. "Sacred Music, Sacred Dance" understanding of the true nature Please write or call to Thubten gested that I should make a quick During the rest of the morning are also keenly aware of the plight of reality. On the day following the Dhargye Ling for further informa- trip to South India and help with the young monks attend school and conditions of their fellow teachings, the ritual assistants will tion: 2658 La Cienega Ave., Los the process. I purchased a Polaroid where they are taught mathemat- monks in South India. Their perform the offering dance Angeles, CA 90034,213-839-8057. camera and a vast quantity of film ics, English, Tibetan and science amazing tenacity in maintaining a at a special charity rate, and made subjects, the older monks study gruelling pace on the road, travel- hasty arrangements to travel. the five main divisions of Bud- ling for hours in a small van with My arrival at the monastery was dhism, according to age and in a large quantities of equipment, University of 'Virginia unannounced. Telephone calls systematic style. Lunch follows at constantly being on demand, yet 1989 Summer Session from Delhi had been ineffective 11:30, which is more Tibetan tea, never failing to have a smile or a Literary and Spoken and on my arrival at the tiny air- and another flat round bread. The word of encouragement for anyone port of Belgaum I hired a taxi to hot hours of the afternoon at this who wishes to talk to them, can drive me to Mundgod, three hours time of the year are for rest and only be fueled by the desire to help away. We bounced along at a state- personal chores, followed by more their monastery survive, so that TIBETAN ly pace of fifty k's in that wonder- studies. Later on, when the rains those who are able to leave their June 12 to August 11, 1989 ful legacy of British India, the come in June, the routine is much strife-torn homeland will be able Offered through the Department of Religious Studies (KEL 500, 501) for 8 credits Ambassador, and honked and different, with all the monks be- to find a real refuge in the Three Instructors: William Magee and Geshe Jampel Tando swerved to avoid the alarming ing required to work in the fields, Jewels, to have the freedom to number of trucks, ox-carts, trac- tending the crops of maize and study and practice the Dharma for LEARN BUDDHIST CONCEPTS THROUGH DEBATING IN TIBETAN! tors and haywagons one encoun- rice. This is for six hours a day, the benefit of all sentient beings. An introduction to the Tibetan language in both its literary and colloquial forms. ters on rural Indian highways. until Sept. The rice crop is most- Anyone who would like to help Students learn basic grammar and develop hearing and speaking proficiency through Finally the taxi turned onto a ly all consumed by the monastery, the monastery in some way, either training in a formal debate technique widely used in the Tibetan educational system. There is extensive use of drill and tapes as well as training in translation techniques. fairly deserted road and after few but the maize is their only cash by foster/sponsoring a young This course will cover the equivalent of one full year of instruction in Tibetan. kilometres we could see the tradi- crop which is sold as animal fod- monk or contributing to the Build- tional carved and painted Tibetan der. The money is one of the main ing or Medical Fund, can get in- The anticipated tuition for the nine-week session is $664 for Virginians and $1,760 for non-Virginians. Students must apply directly to the Summer Session for admission. archway through which one pass- supports for the institution, and a formation by contacting: Hilary For application forms and catalog, write: Summer Session, 209 Garretl Hall, University es into Tibet. This transition is failed crop (which has happened Shearman or Glenn Mullin, of Virginia, Chariottesville, VA 22903 [Tel. (804) 924-3371]. For further information remarkable; the landscape is the in recent years due to drought), Canada-Tibet Friendship Society, about the Intensive Tibetan Language course, write: Center for South Asian Studies, 125 Minor Hall, U. of Virginia, Chariottesville, VA 22903 [Tel (804) 924-8815]. same, but now four storey Tibetan can be disastrous. When the Tibe- P.O. Box 6588, Station A, Toron- temples, with golden deer and tans were given this land by the In- to, Ontario M5W 1X4, Canada. adorning the roofs, dian government it was wild,

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REVIEWS The COLLECTED WORKS of mere skeleton of events, we are left second half of the book contains OF the Fifth Dalai Lama is comprised with something that reads almost a selection of Jigten Sumgon's Vajra SECRET VISIONS OF THE of twenty-eight bundles of texts, like a list or diary of daily appoint- songs and a brief exposition of the FIFl'H DALAI LAMA by Samten and contains more than a thousand ments. However, it may be argued Fivefold Profound Path of Ma- INTEREST Darmay, Serindia Publications, titles. These twenty-eight are divid- that for him to attempt to take the hamudra, the main philosophy and London, 246pp., oversize, $190 ed into three categories—Outer, In- marerial further would have opened practice of the Kagyu tradition. RIGPA INTERNATIONAL cloth ner, and Secret—with twelve a whole other dimension to the Like most Tibetan biographies, CENTRE Sogyal Rinpoche has For centuries Tibet has served bundles in the first of these work, and would have expanded this one is replete with miracles and plans to build a dharma center in the planet as a nation dedicated to categories, eight in the second and the volume prohibitively. mysterious happenings which ac- London to serve as a base for his spiritual art, literature and prac- eight more in the third. As His Secret Visions of the Fifth Dalai company the events surrounding international activities. It.will be tice. In an era when Europe was Holiness the Dalai Lama points out Lama is an elegant and enticing edi- the subject's life. During one dis- multi-functional, attractive and will busy sending its armies around the in his Foreword to the volume under tion. Undoubtedly it is a valuable course Jigten Sumgon actually contribute significantly to the fa- world to pillage, rape and colonize, review, traditionally only the first contribution to our understanding stopped the sun from sinking so cilities available for dharma prac- Tibet was engaged in studying, two categories of works were ever of the complex character of the that he could finish his teachings. tice in London. For further cataloging and eulogizing the stages printed in Tibet. Generally the texts Fifth Dalai lama, and to the many His visions and his ability to com- information, write to Rigpa, PO of enlightenment and the varieties in the Secret category were only facets of his personality. It could municate with other realms are Box 7866, Berkeley, CA 94707. of mystical experience. Its GNP was available to high initiates, and were stand as a landmark work merely astonishing. His songs are terse, not measured in materialistic terms not allowed to be mass-produced on the strength of its artwork, just profound and reverberate with typi- SAKYA MONASTERY alone, but in the number of yogis or openly marketed; anyone want- as it could for the Tibetan texts that cal themes such as CHRONICLES 1986-1988 H.H. and sages that blossomed forth from ing a text in this category would it contains, it is the type of publi- non-duality and non-effort, subjects Jigdal Dagchen Sakya and the within its precincts. have to request special permission cation that does not need to be read very open to misinterpretation by Sakya Monastry have published an Thus when in 1642 the saintly to have a hand-copy made. to be admired and appreciated; the uninitiated. Likewise, the sec- interesting tabloid that contains Fifth Dalai Lama rose to become Secret Visions of the Fifth Dalai merely holding it and letting one's tion on Mahamudra philosophy and many articles of interest. both spiritual and secular chieftain Lama by Samten Karmay is a study eyes flow over its pages suffices to practice is brief and to the point, We recommend mat you write for of the Tibetan nation, echoes of a of one of these eight Secret bestow upon the beholder the sense going straight to the nature of reality a copy to: Sayka Monastery, 108 destiny fulfilled rang throughout Volumes. The Tibetan text of the of being in the presence of beau- and of the mind. All this is in keep- N.W 83rd St., Seattle, WA 98117, the mountains and valleys of Cen- volume contains sixteen individu- ty, greatness, the mystical and the ing with the Kagyu emphasis on 206-789-2573. tral Asia. al tides, the first of these being the very sublime. practice and intense meditation. A The Fifth Dalai Lama Fifth Dalai Lama's catlaog of the —Glenn H. Mullin three-year uninterrupted medita- THE LAMA PROJECT Initiat- (1617-1682) stands as perhaps the numerous visions that he ex- tional retreat is standard practice ed by H.H. the Dalai Lama in singularly most striking figure in perienced during his life. A STUDY OF SVATANTRIKA for a Kagyupa (a devotion which 1986, The Meridian Trust co- Tibetan history. He was one of those The edition by Serindia Publi- by Donald S. Lopez, Snow Lion the translator has successfully per- ordinate this project, carried out rare men who seem bigger than life cations is remarkable in that it is Publications, Ithaca, NY, 483pp., formed). in India by the Tibetans themselves, itself, a superman who accom- based upon an original and price- $19.95. The translator states that he has to video document the teachings plished in one short lifetime the less manuscript prepared during the In this book, Lopez presents a brought this book out for the many of the ageing lamas of all traditions deeds of a thousand ordinary heros. lifetime of the Great Fifth Dalai translation and study which brings Westerners interested in Buddhism, including Bon. The purpose of the From the literary viewpoint he was Lama himself, with hundreds of to light the seventeenth-eighteenth- 'to kindle the flame of their under- project is to preserve this unique collossal, writing as much as all exquisite color illustrations executed century Tibetan Buddhist scholar, standing'. Followers of the Kagyu tradition for future generations. other Dalai Lamas put together. As under the Fifth's direct supervi- Jang-gya's views on the Svatantrika- tradition will obviously revere this Video equipment, tapes and train- a builder he left us with numer- sion. The Serindia edition, as well school of Indian Ma- book and others whose dispositions ing for those responsible for the ous marvels that can compare with as carrying high-quality reproduc- hayana Buddhism. The work trans- incline them towards the kind of project are provided by The Merid- the world's greatest architectural tions of all the illustrations, con- lated by Lopez is, in effect, one approach Mahamudra offers will ian Trust. Donations are urgently achievements, the Potala of Lha- tains a reducted photographic chapter from the larger work by likewise be inspired. Presumably needed to up-grade the video equip- sa being perhaps the most well- reprint of the entire Tibetan Jang-gya expounding the views of the translator chose these texts in ment being used to record this pre- known of these. His poetry is con- manuscript. Thus as well as being the various Indian Buddhist and order to give his readers a taste of cious spiritual heritage. Contact: sidered by Asian intellectuals to be an excellent work on classical seven- non-Buddhist schools. Jang-gya's the practice and practitioners of the The Meridian Trust, 330 Harrow among the most inspired verse ever teenth century Tibetan art, it is a interpretations are based primari- Drikung Kagyu lineage. They are Road, London W9 2HP, Great composed in the Tibetan language; valuable addition to the library of ly on those of the great Gelugpa certainly fascinating enough to in- Britain. and his reputation as a philosopher, any Tibetan scholar. founder, Tsongkhapa as found in spire the interested reader to search historian, artist, doctor and teacher Samten Karmay's contribution his own compositions and as inter- out more information on this no- DHARMA REVUE-There is far exceeds that of anyone else of is his brief Summary of the con- preted by later tradition. In pre- ble tradition.—Gavin Kilty, Budd- an excellent French dharma maga- the period. Moreover, he was not tents of the Tibetan texts, and an paring this work, Lopez has hist Studies Review. zine available now called "Dhar- some mere artist, intellectual or Introduction that provides the read- consulted with a number of con- ma Revue". For information, write mystic; his work as a statesman laid er with a general picture of Tibe- temporary scholars who provided HEALTH THROUGH to Institut Karma-Ling, St-Hugon, the very foundations for the emer- tan history and the Fifth Dalai oral commentary on Jang-gya's BALANCE by Dr. Donden, Snow Arvillard, 73110 La Rochette, gence of Classical Tibet, the Tibet Lama's life. composition. Lopez's excellent in- Lion Publications, $10.95 France. that rapidly came to serve as the Although his Summary deals troduction and commentary set Health Through Balance offers cultural grandparent to all Central with all sixteen Tibetan texts, the Jang-gya's work within its larger a fresh and insightful perspective SAKYADHITA International Asia. bulk of his commentary focusses Indian and Tibetan context and on American eating habits as seen Association of Buddhist Women Yet he did not accomplish all this on the first of these, Secret Visions place Lopez' own study within the from the viewpoint of a Tibetan Sakyadhita is the new organiza- without giving rise to some con- itself. The remaining fifteen texts- tradition of Western Buddhology. physician. The information on tion for Buddhist women formed troversy. In the fulfillment of his ritual and liturgical works mainly This work has been produced with traditional food preparation and early in 1987. For information or dreams and ideals, much of the old of an exorcistic nature—are give- care and integity and makes an im- storage is immensely valuable. His to receive the newsletters write to and stagnant had to be swept aside nonly a paragraph or two each. portant contribution to our food categorization is based on the Bhiksuni Dr. Karuna Dharma, In- in order to make way for the new; A disappointing feature of the knowledge of Svatantrika. Tibetan four-element system. Dr. ternational Meditation Center, 928 and although he was a man of great Summary is that Mr. Karmay satis- —Reginald Ray Donden presents an expanded view South New Hampshire, Los An- compassion, he was never one to fies himself with merely listing the for Religious Studies Review of disease as precipitated primari- geles, CA 90006. A book is about hesitate on the borders of apathetic various 'beings' (gurus, buddhas, ly from our own behavior. Health to appear from Snow Lion that in- sentimentalism. His gentleness in bodhisattvas, tantric deities, etc.) PRAYER FLAGS-THE LIFE Through Balance is a theoretical and cludes much on the conference on no way rendered him indecisive or whom the Fifth saw in his visions, AND SPIRITUAL TEACH- inspirational book that offers a Buddhist Nuns and other related impotent, and in sculpting his im- and does not deal with any of the INGS OF JIGTEN SUMGON by grand overview and some practi- issues. See description of: age of a new Tibet he did not fear prophetic (and highly poetic) con- Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen, Snow cal information. SAKYADHITA: DAUGHTERS to strike with the political artist's versations that ensued, nor with the Lion Publications, Ithaca, NY, —Journal of Traditional OF THE BUDDHA. chisel wherever and whenever it meaning or significance of the vi- 95pp., $6.95 Acupuncture, Sp. 88. seemed appropriate. sions. By cutting the material to a Jigten Sumgon was the founder of the Drikung Kagyu, a subschool of the Kagyu tradition, one of the four great lineages of Tibetan Budd- WHAT DO hism, and which originated in Tibet with Marpa the translator, whose TIBETANS teachers included the great Indi- an pandit Naropa. Marpa's most SAKYA EAT? illustrious disciple was Jetsun , a legend in Tibet. He in TRIZIN That is the subject of a book turn taught who had also we're working on now:' 'The imbibed the tradition from New York, Complete Tibetan Cookbook,'' the Indian pandit Atisa. From Jetsun Sakya Center to be published by Snow Lion. Gampopa came the four elder line- We have been busy collecting ages of the Kagyu and from one April 19, 20—teachings on the recipes from Tibetans and of these—the Phagdru Kagyu, Vajra-Bhairava practice (open only friends of Tibet from around founded by Phagmo Drupa—came to initiates of 9-Deity Vajra-Bhairava the world, and, we need More! the eight younger lineages (such as given by H.E. Chogye Trichen in If you have some favorite the Karma Kagyu, etc.). Of these November) recipes to share, send them, eight one was the Drikung Kagyu April 21, 22—two talks at Colum- along with anecdotes such as, and the subject of this book. bia University "Ethics and Wis- how you acquired them, on The initiator and translator of this dom and "Sakya Social Dharma" what occasions are they served, book is the Abbot Konchog Gyalt- April 24-6— Empower- etc. Send recipes to: sen, a scholar and meditator in the ment and instruction according to Drikung tradition. As well as trans- Vajramala Tradition Cookbook, lating the life of Jigten Sumgon, April 27, 28—Vajrakila Empower- c/o Snow Lion Publications, he has included the biographies of ment and Instruction PO Box 6483, Ithaca, Gampopa and Phagmo drupa— NY, 14851. Jigten Sumgon's main teacher. The

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1988 A15 Time Is Running Out for Tibet

KATMANDU, Nepal-On Sept. 27 a the region; internal affairs would be allo- ever compromise can be reached. But the their exiled leader. The precise conditions small group of Buddhist monks shouting cated to a democratically elected Tibetan Strasbourg proposal met with fierce objec- under which he should return is a question Tibetan-independence slogans marched government. Although Beijing officially re- tions from Tibetan exiles. According to the few have considered: Until recently most around Lhasa's Jokhang Temple. This pro- jected the Strasbourg proposal as a "dis- Press Trust of India, the Dalai Lama said Tibetans considered his return synony- test marked the anniversary of the first in guised form of independence," it has of- in New Delhi Tuesday that the demand for mous with the departure of the Chinese. a series of anti-Chinese demonstrations fered to meet the Dalai Lama virtually independence had not been dropped. "Our The current repression in Lhasa empha- held in the Tibetan capital this past year. anywhere to discuss any issue except Ti- struggle for indpendence shall continue sizes how cautiously the Dalai Lama must A larger demonstration was expected on betan independence. The Dalai Lama has come what may," he said. "The Tibetan deal with China; at the same time it under- Oct. 1, Chinese National Day, but the night suggested a meeting in Geneva in January, people need have no fear nor lose heart lines the necessity of doing so. Speaking in before nine truckloads of armed Chinese- which the Chinese are now considering. that their interests will be sold out behind England in April, the Dalai Lama admitted soldiers were driven around Lhasa's cen- China's new willingness to talk with the their back by the negotiating team." the obvious: "China as a government will man it generally claims is "splitting the Many Tibetans worry that if they return never give up Tibet." The region's strate- motherland and sabotaging the national with less than independence, the Chinese gic position as a Himalayan buffer zone, Asia unity" stems from its sensitivity to inter- can simply close the country and nobody its tremendous natural resources, and the national pressure, the single weapon Ti- will know what is happening. Tibetans nuclear-missile bases it shelters make Ti- By Kerry Moran betans have. At least six anti-Chinese dem- have every right to their suspicions of bet too valuable to relinquish. In quantita- onstrations have occurred in Lhasa since compromise with China. Thousands of Ti- tive terms alone, Tibetan territory com- the well-publicized uprising in October 1987 betans were arrested following the March prises a quarter of the land mass of China. tral road in a show of force that effectively splashed Tibet on front pages around the demonstrations: in a follow-up report is- And here is the matter of precedent: Were squelched any opposition. world, and reports of incidents in Eastern sued in July, Asia Watch listed the names China to withdraw from Tibet, or even to Although National Day passed without Tibet this spring make it appear that Ti- of 256 detainees still held. March 5 was make concessions, the unruly Moslem mi- an outbreak of violence, recent visitors re- betan frustration is spreading. A compro- Lhasa's bloodiest day since the uprising of nority in neighboring Xinjiang province port that resentment of Chinese rule has mise offers the possibility of silencing the 1959: Between eight and 16 monks were would agitate for its own independence. Ti- not abated. Hundreds of suspected demon- Dalai Lama, one of China's most influen- killed, along with two Tibetan laymen and bet is the most troublesome example of strators have been rounded up in night ar- tial critics, by absorbing him into the a Chinese policeman. Confusion over the China's need to control its 55 minorities— rests, plainclothes police guard monaster- mainstream. number of casualties remains because the who together constitute 6% of the nation's ies, and armed troops parade on the Tibetans are for their part driven by the official government report only admits population but live on 60% of its land. streets of Lhasa, while foreign journalists, knowledge that time is running out. An five-and for weeks insisted the only death The Dalai Lama and the Tibetan gov- politicians and human-rights observers are generation has grown up in exile or under was the policeman's. ernment-in-exile must weave skillfully denied permission to enter the region. At Chinese rule since the 1959 popular upris- Foreigners visiting Lhasa are fre- among the Chinese world, their own and the same time, however, China is taking a ing in Lhasa that sent the Dalai Lama and quently asked, "Tell America to please that of the nearly six million Tibetans in more conciliatory tack with Tibet's exiled 100,000 followers fleeing to India. Quietly help Tibet," reflecting a widespread Ti- China. Having survived 30 years of shifting leader, the Dalai Lama, whom it is trying but steadily, Tibetan identity is being betan hope that the U.S. will intervene. Chinese policies, from the destruction of to persuade to dismantle his government- eroded by a Chinese civilian invasion. The concept has no place in the world of the Cultural Revolution to the tourism-in- in-exile in Dharmsala, India, and return to Since 1983 the government has lured Chi- Realpolitik where the U.S. does not ques- spired liberalizations of the early 1980s and China. In April it dropped its insistence nese settlers from interior provinces with tion China's right to rule Tibet. But in back to the current repressive crackdown, that he stay in Beijing, announcing he offers of higher wages, bonuses and bene- Lhasa, where Tibetan crowds armed with Tibetans have little trust. "Once you are would be free to live anywhere in China. fits. The extent of the resettlement drive is stones and slingshots are pitted against bitten by a snake, you feel fear even when In a June speech before the European complicated by the definition of "Tibet": Chinese troops with rifles and tear gas, re- you see a piece of rope," the Dalai Lama Parliament in Strasbourg, the Dalai Lama More than half of the original territory has ality is blurred by hopes. once commented on dealing with China. He gave the first indication his government-in- been quietly partitioned off into neighbor- Religion, still the focal point of Tibetan himself may need the power of a snake exile might settle for something less than ing provinces since the Chinese takeover. life, remains the focus of aspirations for in- charmer to gain something for Tibet at the complete independence. He proposed Tibet Although China's right to rule Tibet is dependence. The desire for nationalism is negotiating table. become a self-governing political entity questionable on historical grounds, it is in- embodied in the person of the 54-year-old ruled "in association with the People's Re- ternationally accepted as a fait accompli. Dalai Lama. Although requesting a "Dalai Ms. Moran is author of the forthcoming public of China." Under this plan, China Given Tibet's lack of bargaining power, Lama photo" has become a game for chil- book, "Kailas: On Pilgrimage to the Sa- would control Tibet's foreign policy and re- many observers-particularly non-Ti- dren in tourist areas, in remoter parts cred Mountain of Tibet" (Thames and tain a limited number of military bases in betans-suggest it had best settle for what- adults' eyes fill with tears at a picture of Hudson, London).

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989 A17 China Fires on Tibetan Hopes

LHASA, Tibet-On the morning of Dec. tary on the spot. Government sources told by contrast, China ignores the aspirations ists in Tibet. us that in a meeting of the Political Consul- of these Tibetans, then sooner or later it Since October 1987. Tibet's monasteries 10,1988, International Human Rights Day, and nunneries have seen frequent visits by a procession of frightened but determined tative Committee of the Tibetan Autono- will have to deal with the fruits of accumu- ideological indoctrination squads, omi- monks and nuns marched out into the mar- mous Region on Dec. 12, it was announced: lating resentment. "What had happened on Dec. 10 had hap- Already this can be seen in the nature nously named the "Affairs Unit." These ket square in front of the Jokhang temple units consist of cadres from government here. A few seconds later some of them pened before and might happen again. In of Tibetan demands, which are becoming every case it will be dealt with in the same much more focused. No longer do Tibetans offices, public security and the Communist were dead, and one of us was shot. We Party. They hold political meetings in found ourselves in the middle of a panick- way, the demonstrators will be shot. This speak vaguely of independence and the re- is the policy from the Central Committee turn of the Dalai Lama; now they try to which monks and nuns are forced to voice ing crowd being fired on by a unit of the their views on Tibetan politics. Potential Chinese People's Armed Police. Wounded in Beijing." This raises the question identify Chinese policy promises on lan- whether China has decided that damage to guage, education and religion that have leaders and troublemakers are thus identi- Tibetans tried to escape to the safety of al- fied for future arrest and interrogation. At leys and courtyards surrounding the tem- its international image is no longer a not been implemented. Students at Lhasa prime concern with respect to Tibet. University, for example', are agitating for Rato Monastery, about 18^ miles west of The first demonstrations in the fall of the creation of a real Tibetan university - Lhasa, a visit by the Affairs Unit in early Asia 1987 were a spontaneous expression of frus- with a Tibetan faculty and curriculum, October provoked a village uprising. The tration with Chinese rule. Shese frustra- taught in their own language-rather than villagers came to the support of monks who resisted indoctrination, saying. "Why By Christa Meindersma tions were fueled by the failure of the Chi- a Chinese university with one Tibetan de- can't you leave our monks in peace to pur- and Ron Schwartz nese government to meet expectations fol- partment. In letters and posters students lowing the open-door policy announced by have threatened to demonstrate if prom- sue their studies? Why do you force them to speak about politics?" Many monks we pie. The military operation was carried out Deng Xiaoping and Hu Yaobang for the ises are not kept, and they have refused to 1980s. Tibetans felt that they had to do attend meetings not conducted in their na- have talked to in Ganden, Sera and Dre- with unbelievable precision; the soldiers pung monasteries complain that the pres- took their positions and opened fire without something to support the Dalai Lama in tive tongue. his search for a solution to the Tibet prob- As any long-staying visitor in Tibet soon ence of political workers and police in their any warning or provocation. monasteries makes it impossible for them Nothing like this had happened before lem. But that demand for independence learns, virtually every Lhasa family has a was an emotional outcry for a better situa- relative who has been killed, injured or im- to be monks. during the disturbances that have taken Many Tibetans tell us that the situation tion, without any clear idea about the prac- prisoned since the demonstrations began. place in Tibet or, so far as we know, in today is no better than during the Cultural China. Was it a mistake then that there tical implications. Since these first pro- People have been arrested for participat- tests, Tibetans have found themselves sub- ing in demonstrations, putting up posters Revolution, the only difference being that was no effort to keep foreigners out of the now there doesn't seem to be any ideologi- square, in contrast with earlier protests? It jected to political-indoctrination sessions, and speaking out in meetings. Most of arrest, torture and interrogation. This has those detained have never been charged or cal justification for Chinese rule. At the had to be obvious to those giving the final same time that China is wrestling with order from the nearby security headquar- led them to start thinking more pointedly put on trial, and they are frequently beaten about the meaning of independence, as and tortured. Those who simply threw questions of reform at home, the policy of ters that foreigners were present. stones during the disturbances have been control and repression that we witnessed in In the three weeks prior to this demon- well as of political terms such as freedom, released. The ones we know of who are Tibet-including the shooting of unarmed stration, moreover, the military presence democracy, human rights and socialism. demonstrators and innocent bystanders- This growing political consciousness is still in prison have been singled out be- had been beefed up and police patrols in- represents a new development in the secu- creased in the Tibetan neighborhoods of especially evident among the group of cause of their strong political opinions. For example, of the 14 monks from Ganden rity apparatus. And the formulation and Lhasa (much of the capital is occupied by young Tibetan professionals in government Monastery who have been in prison since execution of this policy point toward the Chinese immigrants!. Before last Oct. 1, in positions who have been educated in demonstrations on March 5, 13 had not highest levels in the Central Committee in anticipation of trouble during Chinese Na- China. They come back to Tibet only to discover that their aspirations are blocked thrown stones and several had not even Beijing. tional Day, Tibetans had been told in participated in the demonstration. But all neighborhood committee meetings that by discrimination and they are forced to had spoken out in political meetings held Miss Meindersma, who was shot by the demonstrators would be gunned down in take positions far beneath their educa- at the monastery in previous months, Chinese during the Dec. 10 disturbances, ts the streets. On Dec. 9, the same message tional qualifications. In all government of- showing their knowledge of Tibetan history a medical translator from Amsterdam who was conveyed to Tibetans by political lead- fices, Chinese have the ultimate say. But this also creates a dilemma for the or urging that the forthcoming Great lived in Tibet for H months. Mr. Schwartz, ers in neighborhood meetings. Prayer Festival be boycotted because the a professor of sociology at the University We therefore do not believe that the Chinese. If they put these Tibetan profes- sionals in positions of leadership, Beijing Chinese would misuse the event as propa- of Newfoundland, lived in Tibet for eight shooting can be blamed on individual deci- ganda to prove that religious freedom ex- months. sions by people in the government or mil- runs the risk of losing control of Tibet. If,

SNOW LION SPRING 89 NEWSLETTER AND CATALOG 13 NEWS Thursday, March 9, 1989 Congress of tije ©nitefr States SSasfjington, *3£ 20515 Tibetans SCR cX7/.cLCZ3 Earr.ev Frack December 22, 1983 Member or Congress MemDer ot congress cite Chinese Premier Li Peng Sties Council L/^w Beijing, China eSBer ot/Congress emoef or Congress atrocities Your Excellency: y~ CHENGDU, China (AP). — As members of Congress actively involved in hirsan rights matters and Chinese troops killed scores of Ti- interested in U.S.-Chinese relations, we are deeply concerned over recent betans by firing at random on events in Tibet. F^ank McClcsksv MemDer or Congress crowds during three days of unrest, According to press reports and eyewitness accounts, at least two persons were Tibetans told foreign travelers to- killed and many others were seriously wounded during a peaceful demonstration day, urging them to "tell the world- held to corznenorate the -tOth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal . . .help us please." Declaration of Human Rights. Eyewitness reports indicate that Chinese police S 1 ^AC^, \ lh+\jL^ anned with pistols and rifles opened fire without warning as unarmed China, meanwhile, claimed Ti- demonstrators reached the Jckhang Temple in Lhasa. We strongly deplore the Ssffie^oc^Congress betan separatists living abroad had use of violence in response to the peaceful expression of views by Tibetans. smuggled weapons into the dis- puted southern region and insti- While we reaain hopeful that Chinese leaders and exiled Tibetan officials will meet in the future in order to facilitate a peaceful resolution of problems gated the riots. facing the Tibetan people, we are seriously concerned that such repressive Clt?i Atkins Chinese authorities expelled actions will jeapordize the future of this dialogue. MemDer of Congress about 40 foreigners from the Tibet- an capital of Lhasa today as troops We respectfully request a governmental scount of the circumstances surrounding the December 10th incident, including a description ot your enforced martial law and isolated government'5 plans for punishing those found responsible for ordering and the embattled city. carrying out the shootings. We also ask. your government to allow foreign Tourists ordered out of Lhasa journalists and human rights monitors into Tibet to conduct independent said Tibetans feared there would be observations of the current situation. reprisals once all foreigners were We lock forward to receiving a response to our request and send best regards. n expelled. "People begged us repeatedly c'"fa r b a r 2^ o x e £' Chris Smith over the last few days — 'tell the VMesioer or Lor.gress Member or Congress Sincerely, world, help us please,'" said an American from New Orleans. QpJU/n J&Ji- "They grab your hand and say, tfLka^Jc ^-hn Miller 'help us,' and they cry," said a Dante Fascell Williao Brocrct ieir-^ MeTioer ot Congress emoer ot Congress West German woman. Member of Congress Member of Congress China on Tuesday declared mar- UJL tial law in the city of 70,000 follow- X ing three days of rioting in which 12 HslSL. people were killed and more than l r r?. :: -A~-::-L 100 injured by official count. Ti- betans say far more died.

NATION and WORLD THE WASHINGTON POST Chinese government tells the U.S. to keep out of its Tibetan affairs when the police fired. A Chinese BEIJING (AP) — China today ■ Tibetans cite atrocities, 13A government spokesman later ac- answered U.S. criticism of its use Account of Tibet Protest cused her of mingling with the dem- of force to quell dissent in Tibet, engineered by a handful of separat- onstrators. saying it has the right to maintain ists in an attempt to split China. Meindersma said she observed order within its boundaries and will This is what the Chinese govern- the demonstration but did not min- not tolerate foreign meddling. ment and people can never toler- Disputed by Witnesses gle with the demonstrators. She "Tibet is an inalienable part of ate." China," Foreign Ministry spokes U.S. State Department spokes- also said that the demonstrators did man Li Zhaoxing said. "Tibetan not throw stones or bottles at police man Charles L. Redman on Police Are Said to Shoot Monks Unprovoked affairs are China's internal affairs Wednesday criticized the Chinese and the police fired no warning which brook no interference by a government's use of force against shots. foreign government, organization demonstrators. The Chinese invaded and an- "They didn't try to arrest any- or individual." By Daniel Southerland nexed Tibet in the early 1950s. The Li characterized the violence in ■ U.S. bishops and Pope discuss Washington Post Foreign Service body," Meindersma said in an inter- wayward U.S. flock, 13A police clashed with monks and nuns view by telephone from Hong Kong, Tibet as "a serious riot deliberately BEIJING, Dec. 20—When Chin- protesting Chinese rule in October where she went for medical treat- ese police opened fire during a re- 1987 and again last March. ment. "They didn't try to disperse 5300 Bonn 1 cent human rights day demonstra- Western analysts say the small, Qundisnaus anyone.... They just fired indis- Tsl. (02291 T69206/167918 tion in Tibet, they were shooting peaceful demonstration on Dec. 10, criminately into the crowd." w T*IM: 386529 01* W*n< OIMW Rulnummtr »tmin« a%n unarmed Buddhist monks who nei- reportedly'involving 35 to 40 un- "We saw about 10 policemen Petra K. Kelly gawdfttcntM ntuianKniud. Kommt „n Antcmuf lutttnc*. ;m« ther threatened nor provoked them, armed monks and nuns, could have shooting at us," she said. "They Hi, lfll (3uftaMnau»w*rmngj tnr\,l*ri according to several foreign wit- been contained by police without were so well organized and moved Gert Bastian nesses to the event and western resort to shooting. Chinese police in so fast that it had to be completely Ganarala tjr FnMan uno ' February/March 1989 diplomats who have attempted to Tibet are equipped with full riot prepared in advance." Appeal in supcort of the International Hearing on Tibet and reconstruct what happened. gear, including tear gas. Another witness, Ron Schwartz, Human Rights to be held in Bonn on 20 and 'DM'. 19S9 On nearly every count, these The first official New China 41, a sociology professor from the 2'. sources dispute the official Chinese News Agency version of what hap- University of Newfoundland in St. reports of what occurred when at pened said the demonstrators grew John's, Canada, said, "None of us The situation of Tibet continues to give cause for great concern in the 40th least two monks and possibly sev- "unruly" before police took mea- could have imagined what we year of its occupation, in violation of international law, by troops of the eral other people were killed Dec. sures to stop them. saw—that they would simply shoot People's Republic of China. A region of peace and non-violence has become an 10 in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. NCNA later said the demonstra- these people down." enormous military camp with appro*. 300.000 Chinese soldiers, Chinese nuclear The police rushed to the scene of tors provoked the police by throw- "It's absolutely baffling," said a weapons and Chinese military airbases. The deliberate attempt to impose a ing stones and bottles at them. It the small pro-independence dem- western diplomat who has studied foreign culture by settling Chinese immigrants in Tibet reduces the Tibetans said the police fired warning shots. the incident. "It's opposite the con- onstration and, without hesitation, to a minority without rights in their own country. Grave human rights opened fire, the witnesses said, in- Diplomats and witnesses dispute ciliatory line they've taken toward this version, and say that the police negotiations." violations are an everyday occurence. Political prisoners are tortured dicating they were not acting on the fired directly at the demonstrators, In September, China offered to and systematically intimidated. Most of the famous monasteries, which were spur of the moment but were car- without being provoked and without negotiate any place, any time with once centres of Tibetan culture and spiritual life, have been roobed and rying out a planned attack. firing warning shots. the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan destroyed. The wasteful exploitation of ecological resources has brought Such a methodical action, ana- A western diplomat said, "The Buddhist leader. Representatives of hunger and poverty upon the Tibetan population. The unbroken non-violent lysts say, would likely be ordered weight of the evidence is that they the Dalai Lama proposed a meeting only by high-level police or govern- resistance of the Tibetans is ignored by the international c:mmunity. The opened fire before the crowd took in Geneva, but the Chinese have not Tibetans have so far been denied international solidarity. ment officials. any hostile action toward them." followed up on the proposal. The foreign witnesses said the In its second report on the inci- Schwartz, now in Hong Kong, Those who sign this Appeal support the international, non-partisan Hearing police had clearly been anticipating dent, NCNA said that the demon- said the monks who led the Dec. 10 on Tibet which is to be held in Bonn on 20 and 21 April 1989 and is intended a demonstration for days and had strators "refused to listen to per- demonstration showed both fear been tightening security in Lhasa. to confront the public with the facts of the appalling oppression in Tibet suasion and kept throwing stones and determination as they launched in order to mobilize greater international solidarity with the suffering Neighborhood committees had and liquor bottles at the police on their small procession, with one .warned people against demonstrat- duty," so the police were forced to monk carrying a Tibetan nationalist Tibetans. ing on international human rights fire "warning shots." It said that in flag showing a lion on a snowy List of signatures: day. the "ensuing chaos, one monk died mountain background. The police firing has left diplo- and 13 people were injured." 'They were clearly forcing them- Please detach t\ers and return to: Petra K. Kelly, MP mats and other observers puzzied Christina Meindersma, 26, a selves to do something," said Mein- Member of the German Bundestag as to what the authorities hoped to Dutch woman who was working in dersma. "They weren't behaving Bundeshaus accomplish, since it could harden Tibet as a translator for a Swiss like an angry mob. They acted like 0-5300 Bonn 1 Tibetan attitudes toward Chinese Red Cross team and in Tibetan hos- people who were marching to their I shall sign the Appeal in support of the international Hearing on Tibet rule over Tibet. pitals, was wounded in the shoulder death." and Human Rights in Bonn on 20 and 21 April 1989.

(Name) (Address and Tel.No.) (Signature) SNOW LION SPRING 89 NEWSLETTER AND CATALOG 14 NEWS Tibetans' Houses Raided by Dalai Lama Sees a Culture Endangered ficial count, 12 people had been killed Chinese Troops and more than 100 wounded in violence since Sunday, when Tibetans marched By BARBARA CROSSETTE was a little over 700,000 and the Chi- treasures — those that survived the CHENGDU, China, March 8 (AP) — in Lhasa demanding an end to nearly Special to The New York Times nese population was 2.5 million," he Cultural Revolution. He said that with Security forces dragged Tibetans from four decades of Communist rule and NEW DELHI, March 21 — Fearful of said of his native village of Taksar. tourists visiting Tibet in greater num- their houses today as thousands of Chi- the return of their spiritual leader, the both hard-liners in the Chinese leader- The Dalai Lama said Tibetans arc- bers in recent years, there have been nese troops took up posts around Lhasa Dalai Lama. But foreigners quoted Ti- ship and young Tibetans eager to chal- also concerned about the disappear- reports of valuable objects being sold ance of their religious and artistic for dollars. today after three days of anti-Chinese betans as saying the actual death toll lenge Beijing with violence, the Dalai riots, travelers said. was much higher. Lama appealed today to China, his own There were no reports of further followers and the West to help save Ti- Beginning at midnight, trucks with betan culture from annihilation. demonstrations or gunfire today. By of- loudspeakers drove through the city of "The world community has a respon- 70,000 announcing thje martial law im- sibility to preserve one of its ancient A32 THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1989 posed Tuesday and ordering Tibetans cultures," the Dalai Lama said in an in- ———mmmmI ■»! i mmmmmmm——■—— to stay inside their houses, said the for- terview during a brief stay in New Delhi. He is planning to take that mes- eign travelers, who spoke in telephone ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER. Publisher interviews from Lhasa to Chengdu, the sage to Europe next month and to the ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER JR., Deputy Publisher United States this summer. • capital of neighboring Sichuan prov- Recent violence in Tibet surrounding MAX FRANKEL, Executiue Editor ince and one of the few points of entry the 30th anniversary of an uprising to the remote Himalayan region. against the Chinese in March 1959 and ARTHUR GELB. Managing Editor WARREN HOGE, Assistant Managing Editor The Chinese troops reportedly set up China's subsequent imposition of mar- checkpoints 15 miles outside Lhasa and tial law on the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, JOHN M. LEE. Assistant Managing Editor concerns the Dalai Lama for several ALLAN M. SIEGAL, Assistant Managing Editor at nearly every block in the city. Sol- reasons, he said. Chinese actions are • diers stopped all but official vehicles spurring more radical responses from JACK" ROSENTHAL, Editorial Page Editor and arrested Tibetans in the streets. Tibetans, and Tibetans in turn are in Founded in 1851 LESLIE H. GELB. Deputy Editorial Page Editor An Australian traveler described Ti- 9 danger of inviting large-scale military ADOLPH S. OCHS. Publisher 1896 1935 betans screaming with fear as Chinese LANCE R. PRIM1S, President intervention. ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER. Publisher 1935-1961 troops pulled them from their houses. J. A. RIGGS JR . Exec. V.P., Manufacturing Buddhist Tibet now faces many ORVIL E. DRYFOOS, Publisher 1961-1963 "The truck kept coming back," the threats, he said, from a loss of lan- HOWARD BISHOW,Sr.V.P, Operations tourist said. "They would pick up a cou- guage, art and traditional dress to a de- RUSSELL T. LEWIS, Sr.V.P, Production struction of the country's environment ERICH C. LINKER JR.. Sr.V.P, Advertising ple people, drive off with a half-dozen from what many Tibetans believe are JOHN M. O'BRIEN, Sr.V.P, Finance & Human Resources militia holding them down, then come Chinese nuclear installations or waste ELISE J. ROSS. Sr.VP, Systems back." dumps in or near Tibet. He offered no Mobs led by Tibetan youths report- proof for the environmental charge. edly ransacked Chinese shops in three 'This Culture Is Worth Saving' days of rioting through Tuesday, and a 'You look at our Tibetan refugees, as European traveler said not one Chi- well as people inside Tibet," the Dalai nese-owned shop in the old quarter of Lama said, in English, "and despite the city escaped damage. their hardships, on their face Ihcre is The 150 foreigners estimated to be in peace, there is joy. That is something Lhasa have been ordered to leave the quite precious. This culture is worth saving." China's Failure in Tibet city by noon Thursday, but they were The Dalai Lama, who left Tibet after forbidden to leave their hotels today to the suppression of the 1959 revolt, lives Since 1950, China has shown Tibet the rawest nese brutality in Tibet, but believes that any buy tickets. in exile in the Himalayan hill town of face of imperialism — destruction of thousands of stronger action would be viewed as provocative by Tourists said they were given a Dharamsala, in the Indian state of monasteries, suppression of the Tibetan language the Chinese and hence counterproductive. choice of going to Nepal by bus, going Himachal. He acknowledged that he to other cities in Tibet or flying to does not know how many people died or and culture and widespread settlement by Chinese The United States can hardly advocate the inde- were detained in Tibet this month, but Chengdu. colonists. This has resulted in the death of perhaps a pendence of Tibet. That would cruelly encourage Ti- One traveler said soldiers stopped he said that early reports he received betan ambitions of political autonomy, which China put the deaths in the hundreds. One Ti- million Tibetans. her and five others from catching & betan trader reaching India said he Though repression has eased somewhat in re- would fiercely repress. And America's interest in a chartered bus for Nepal. Officials lateir had heard of 10,000 or more arrests. cent years, Tibetans are still not reconciled to their closer relationship with China is overriding. But told her they had arranged another bu£ The Dalai Lama, who has been seek- harsh Chinese overlords. Beijing's reversion to protests about Chinese behavior in Tibet don't have to the border but wanted $4,185, three ing talks with the Chinese since last times the previous price, she said. year, said today that each time the Chi- brutality in the last year and half has prompted in- to be confined to mild displeasure. The Dalai Lama, The police detained two British re- nese authorities take military action in creasingly violent protests. China this week was breaking with more radical colleagues, has recently porters overnight. Jasper Becker of the Lhasa, the use of firepower is quicker forced to declare martial law in Lhasa, the capital, sought to open negotiations with China, without Guardian, a London daily, said he and a and more fierce. But he added that young Tibetans, who he said "have a compelling demonstration that its policy of ab- seeking independence. reporter for Reuters were released to- completely lost their hope and trust to- sorbing Tibet has not succeeded. Tibet was on the agenda for Mr. Bush's recent day after being questioned, with au- ward the Chinese," must understand Tibetans are a distinct people, with their own visit to Beijing, but after his protest, if any, China thorities most concerned about photo- where armed provocation on their part graphs. could lead. religion and culture, and have been largely inde- felt it could suppress the uprisings with impunity. One Swiss who refused to turn over "Nonviolence is not a question of pendent of China through much of their history. But The least the State Department can do is acknowl- his film Sunday said the police beat holiness," he said. "It is a question of they suffered the world's indifference when they edge that the Dalai Lama has political standing in him and pointed a gun at his head. He reality." There are about 6 million Ti- were invaded in 1950. The United States, like other his country and support his request for cultural and said tne police still had his camera and betans and a billion Chinese, the ma- passport and would not return them jority of whom are ethnic Han. countries, accepts Tibet as an integral part of religious autonomy. China's interest, too, lies in China. It recognizes the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled recognizing that its ugly adventure in Tibet will until he gives up the film and pays a Worried About More Violence fine. "So far, I can argue with these peo- leader, as a religious figure without political author- prove an increasing international embarrassment Three Swedes and an American who ple," he said of the militants among the ity. The State Department routinely deplores Chi- unless it reaches accord with the Dalai Lama. also took pictures were given back refugee population here. But he added their cameras and passports after they that he did not know how much longer his nonviolent struggle for a "middle paid fines. way" — neither independence nor total absorption — would be respected by a Nation/World new generation of Tibetans. "If the Chinese Government really wants to eliminate the entire Tibetan population, then there is nothing I can Chinese Police Attack Tibetans, Killing Four say," the Dalai Lama said. A statement from the Chinese Em- Beijing, China (AP) — Police opened The Americans and other tourists were yesterday. bassy here, which distributes material fire on Tibetan protesters who marched contacted by telephone in the Tibetan The U.S. State Department yesterday in defense of its Tibetan policies, reiter- ated Beijing's earlier response that through Lhasa and burned Chinese capital from Beijing. As they spoke, deplored the use of weapons on pro-in- talks be held on its terms, without for- businesses yesterday in a second straight automatic weapons fire and exploding tear dependence protesters in Tibet and called eign advisers. The Dalai Lama has a gas canisters crackled in the background. Dutch-born legal adviser on his staff. day of violence. Four Tibetans were repor- for a restoration of order. He said there is evidence that the ted killed. Bonfires burned in the streets, they said. Police in Lhasa fired from rooftops near Chinese are moving more ethnic Han Security forces moved into the city's News Reports the city's main square late yesterday af- people into Tibetan towns and villages. Tibetan section and pulled people from The official Xinhua News Agency repor- ternoon, killing at least two Tibetans, an "This is my main worry now," he said. "If the present situation remains, their homes, taking some away in jeeps, ted one Tibetan was killed and eight American tourist quoted Tibetans as then within a short period, within 10 American tourists said. Chinese troops others, including two policeman, injured in saying. years, there is every evidence that Ti- also beat Tibetans, said the travelers, who the violence yesterday. betans will be a minority in our own Several hours later, security forces fired Xinhua had said 10 Tibetans and one land." spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of on a group of 40 independence activists as "There's a real danger of complete Chinese police officer were killed in anti- police reprisal. they threw rocks at a building near the assimilation in a massive Chinese Chinese demonstrations Sunday. Western population," he said. "One boy's face was completely bloodied," travelers quoted Tibetans as saying that Jokhang Temple, another tourist said. He "In my own birthplace area, accord- said a man from New Orleans. "He was no quoted Tibetans as saying at least two ing to a Chinese local newspaper in the older than 10. Blood was coming from his many more had died on Sunday and that early 1980's, the Tibetan population ears, his eyes." at least four Tibetans had been slain Continued on Page 13

Chinese has created a system very Chinese racism similar to apartheid. Cities have Chinese and Tibetan sectors. Tibetans Police in China Clash are treated as second-class citizens, get is widespread low-paid, menial jobs if they are able Recent revelations of racism in to get work at all, and are excluded With Tibetan Crowd China are not news to the Tibetan from decision-making and power at Continued from Page 9 people. Allegations from African stu- any level. protesters were killed in that incident. Beneath the allegations of human dents and officials that (he Chinese Yesterday morning, thousands of Tibetans flooded the old city, treatment of blacks is comparable to rights abuses lies a sorry fact; Chinese society appears incapable of recognis- breaking into the small Chinese -and Moslem-run stores that fill the behaviour in South Africa also the area, pulling out their contents and burning them in bonfires comes as no surprise. The Tibetan ing the fundamental equality of peoples from different cultural and ethnic along the main thoroughfare in the city. experience since the 1950s exemplifies The protests began Sunday when 13 Buddhist monks and nuns the racist nature of Chinese society. In backgrounds. The international com- the time since China invaded Tibet in munity, including Australia, which started marching near the Jokhang, shouting "Independence for 1950, Tibetans have become a margin- calls so passionately for an end to racial Tibet." Police opened fire. A crowd of Tibetans then began ran- alised, dispossessed people in their discrimination in South Africa, must sacking Chinese buildings. own land. now see that apartheid also exists in ,The bloodshed occurred days before the 30th anniversary of a Tibetan culture and society, China and Chinese-occupied Tibet. failed Tibetan uprising against the Chinese on March 10. It regarded by the Chinese as inferior, Let's see if Australia will lead the marks the fourth violent outburst in 18 months against Chinese has been systematically destroyed. international campaign for sanctions rule. Scores have died in the earlier protests. Colonisation of the land by the aeainst China.

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FINANCIAL TIMES Thursday March 9 1989 OVERSEAS NEWS China determined to keep its iron grip on Tibet Colina MacDougall reports on Tibetan fears after foreign witnesses have been forced to leave Lhasa

TOMORROW Tibetans they could face regular beat- ners alarmed by these develop- the cost of their lives. Aware of will mark the anniver- ings and a slender diet of bar- ments, protest in Tibet is get- this and dreading the blood- sary of the uprising "in ley and water. Amnesty Inter- ting short shrift. shed, the Dalai Lama last June Lhasa against Chinese occupa- national records this as With the death of the Pan- proposed a settlement which tion in 1959 which ended with standard Chinese practice fol- chen Lama in January, the would give Tibet internal the young Dalai Lama fleeing lowing previous demonstra- Chinese have lost their chief autonomy under a Chinese over the mountains with thou- tions. intermediary in dealing with umbrella of defence and for- sands of his followers to India. A witch-hunt has already Tibet. While the Panchen was eign relations. Many thousands more were begun among Tibetans who always seen as a "Chinese In response, the Chinese ini- killed by Chinese troops and work in the Chinese-run chopstick", he nevertheless tially offered talks without Buddhist monuments administration, of whom there commanded respect, especially pre-conditions, but, as is their destroyed in what'was just a are many, at least in junior since his sufferings in the Cul- usual negotiating ploy, began foretaste of horrors to come in posts. "Every party member tural Revolution. Without him, to set terms when it started to China's devastating Cultural and cadre must. . . stand the - Peking now has no figure even look as if the Dalai might Revolution of the 1960s and severe test in the current half-way trusted in Lhasa, and accept. Thus discussions 1970s. struggle against splittism," still less does it have his pri- are still not really in But the anniversary is said the Tibet Daily on Mon- vate channels of communica- prospect. unlikely to be marked by more day. "We advise people who ton to the exiled Dalai. Though it is a fabrication to demonstrations. Though Tibet- have been fooled by the split- The Chinese are in no dan- say, as they do, that Tibet has ans say they are not afraid to tists to wake up to their mis- ger of serious opposition from always been part of China, in die, following three days of takes. . . . We will severely Tibetans, who are unarmed periods of strength Peking has rioting earlier this week, the punish those who stubbornly and peaceful by nature. They maintained a presence in narrow streets of the capital insist on independence for have no leader except the Dalai Lhasa, and certainly now are now thickly patrolled by Tibet." Lama, who preaches non-vio- wants the land and raw materi- Chinese troops and police. Clearly, the Chinese have to lence, and the days of CIA als Tibet can provide. Under the martial law pro- Demonstrators carrying the Tibetan flag and pictures of restore order after three days backing (late 1960s early 1970s) On the Tibetan side, many claimed yesterday by Peking's the Dalai Lama march in Lhasa on Monday. of demonstrations which led to are long gone. find the Dalai Lama's offer sur- ruling State Council, foreigners much bloodshed (12 deaths by The Chinese have also rendering the idea of full inde- may not enter cordoned off The latest trouble began on on Monday, and the police held the Chinese count, 60 by the evolved an extremely success- pendence a bitter disappoint- areas and all (150-odd) were Sunday when police opened off until evening when Tibet- Tibetan, and 30-40 by doctors ful network of control. Every ment. Young Tibetans in Lhasa told to leave by tomorrow. fire, killing at least 11, on a ans say many people were at Lhasa's hospitals, and more monastery, village or band of aiid the exiled community The death roll in all the group of monks shouting pro- picked up from their homes by than 100 injured). Chinese were nomads is penetrated by believe that despite Buddhist recent protests has been independence slogans and police. Trouble began again on beaten up or had their busi- informers locals over whom non violence they should unnecessarily high. "A lot of unfurling banners outside the Tuesday, but armed police nesses sacked. the authorities have a hold fight. people were killed (in the riot- Jokhang, Lhasa's splendid dispersed the crowds with Peking's leadership is cur- - arid indoctrination meetings But the practicalities of Chi ing this week) who shouldn't gold-roof shrine. A full-scale an unknown number of casual- rently facing serious chal- are frequent and regular. nose might and lack of support have got killed," said an Amer- riot followed as Tibetans ran- ties. lenges from the runaway econ- Those meetings deal almost from near neighbours Nepal ican visitor yesterday on the sacked Chinese property. With foreigners expelled omy, disobedient provinces entirely with anti-indepen- and India mean that diplomacy phone from Lhasa. China's official news agency, from the city, Tibetans fear and a.rapidly growing swell of dence propaganda, say foreign and pressure from the interna- "One girl was killed in her Xinhua, claimed the Tibetans that those the Chinese con- dissidence among intellectuals. visitors. tional community - if it can own home making tea. The were armed, but foreign eye- sider troublemakers will either With Zhao Ziyang, the reform- While materially life is bet- be prevailed on to say boo to police were inept, bungling and witnesses deny that. be executed or dumped in ist party general secretary, ter than 10 years ago, Tibetans the Chinese may be a more brutal." Demonstrations continued Tibet's unpleasant jails, where already under fire from hardli- still seek independence even at realistic alternative. 5 killed in fresh Lhasa riots BEIJING: Police opened death toll at closer to 30, fire on Tibetan pro- but that could not be con- independence protesters firmed. TIBET'S AGONY INSIDE lor the second straight day The righting was the yesterday, killing at least fourth violent clash be- four, foreign travellers tween Tibetans and ■ 10 December 1988: One dead, three in- ■ Beijing blamed for said from Lhasa. Chinese in 18 months, and jured. deaths Page 6 ► The sound of automatic erupted on the first anni- ■ March 5, 1988: Five dead, 440 injured. ■ Editorial weapons fire and explod- versary of one of the pre- ing tear gas canisters could vious clashes ■ October 1,1988: Six dead, many injured. Page 10 ► lie heard clearly over the A traveller from New ■ March 6-7, 1989: IS dead, many injured. ■ Cries for freedom telephone late in the night. Orleans said police (Official figures) Page 11 ► The official media did stationed on rooftops In not confirm the reports of Lhasa's main square fired down on crowds of from his cycle and chased The American, coughing travellers said. Skirmishes new deaths and efforts to down the street at from tear gas, said he saw along the street lasted until The Hongkong reach government officials Tibetans at about 5 pm yesterday. knifepoint "The streets about 10 police beating after nightfall on Sunday. Standard in Lhasa were unsuccess- three Tibetans nearby. ful . He said he arrived on arc thick with people. Xinhua said the pro- the scene shortly after the There's lots of whooping The foreign witnesses testers fired at police, but The deaths brought a and shouting and throwing none of more than one plea to world leaders from shooting and was told by said Buddhist monks and TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1989 Tibetans that at least two stones There's no control nuns did not play a dozen travellers inter- 'libel's exiled leader, the whatever," said an Aust- viewed reported seeing Dalai Lama, for pressure people were killed. prominent role in ralian. He said the pro- Monday's inarches and Tibetans with guns on on Beijing to stop human Other travellers con- testers set up barricades Sunday and Monday^ HONGKONG rights abuses in Tibet. firmed hearing gunshots burning, which were led The travellers said the1 with tables and garbage mainly by youths. The appeal was sent in and seeing police on the cans. Tibetans burned a small telegrams lo the United roof. However, Xinhua said 13 clinic and numerous Another American said Police guarded the monks and nuns began Chinese-owned shops, Slates, the Soviet Union, Chinese section of town, Sunday's spate of violence making bonfires in the Western and Eastern he saw police open fire streets of televisions, several hours later on which is separated from by parading illegally European countries, the Tibetan section by a through the Barkhor. wav- radios, funuture and other Japan, India and the about 40 Tibetans who goods from the stores. were marching toward the broad road But they did ing banners and shouting, United Nations Secretary "Independence for Tibet." Xinhua said the pro- General, a spokesman for main square, the Barkhor not move in force into the testers also attacked the Dalai Lama's bureau in He said he did not see Tibetan area, scene of the They were joined by sev- government buildings, a marchers fall, hut that burning and marching, un eral hundred people who primary school, an ambu- LUiT Dharatnsala, India, said. til about 7 pin, the travel- stoned a nearby police Ii was the worst re- Tibetans told him at least lance team, traffic control two wore killed. Earlier lers said station. posts and more than 20 ported outbreak of viol- Then hundreds of police A Swedish traveller who police vehicles ence in the Tibetan capital the same day, police showed restraint as thou- moved into the sector on gave his name as Pontus In Dharamsala. the since a tailed March H)59 foot and in jeeps, firing said he ran to the roof of a Dalai Lama's spokesman uprising against Chinese sands of Tibetans marched said the spiritual lender through the streets chant- occasionally, the witnesses temple on the Barkhor and rule which ended with the said. Some paused in front saw six police taking pic- had called on the world's Dalai Lama fleeing into ing in o independence leaders to help "stop the slogans and throwing of the hotel where the trav- tures of the crowd, then continued violations of hu- exile with many of his ellers watched and banged dropping their cameras followers alter some 10.IXK) goods from Chinese-owned man rights and find an stores un to bonfires. on the windows and and opening fire. early solution to the were killed. Travellers said police The Tibetans stoned any pointed their guns, several deteriorating situation in 'I' he Xinhua News Americans added. also threw beer bottles Tiber. Agency said 10 Tibetans Chinese who tried to down on the crowd from bicycle through the area About 40 protesters A statement issued by and one policeman were shouting "free Tibet" and nearby roofs, while the the bureau said (he Dalai killed iii clashes on Sunday and dragged some from crowd threw stones back Lama's government-in- their cycles, which they throwing stones marched and thai -10 police' and down an alley toward the Later on Sunday, hun exile was "deeply shocked more than 60 Tibetans then burned, foreign and grieved" al Sunday s witnesses said Barkhor soon afterward, dreds of Tibetans marched were wounded and were met by police behind the banned pro- incident. An American traveller One American said he Communist Tibetan flag, "We strongly condemn saw a policeman dragged gunfire, said the American the use of brutal methods said Tibetans put Sunday's witness. but were met with police by the Chinese to slop the tear gas and bullets, the Tibetan people from ex- pressing their true feel ini'.s." the statement said

SNOW LION SPRING 89 NEWSLETTER AND CATALOG 16 NEWS 1983. Asked to comment on the Chinese troops took con- South China Morning Post, Nov.2, allegations of torture. State trol of Tibet in the early Nationalities' Affairs Com- 1950s. Beijing says it has mission spokesman Zhang ruled the region for centuries Xuejin said: "I know nothing and will never give it inde- Worst riots about this." pendence. Chinese officials have According to the report, Prisoners in previously denied reports of interrogators have demand- in Tibet torture in Tibetan prisons ed confessions from prison- but press reports indicate tor- ers and asked for informa- ture is used elsewhere. Last tion about other separatists for 20 years Tibet beaten month, the official China and alleged involvement by By a Special Correspondent Youth News reported that the "Dalai clique" in India. police in Henan province Prisoners have been giv- In Lhasa used electric batons on the en electric shocks to their IN the glow of burning bonfires, Chinese and tortured gepitals of a jailed man who tongues, the soles of their troops were patrolling Lhasa's Tibetan later died. feet, their chests and genitals. quarter on Monday night after two days of MONKS and nuns arrested the police who had surround- Earlier this year the Tibet Nuns had electric batons in- horrifying violence which has left dozens after anti-Chinese demon- ed the monastery. Four more Paily included torture in a serted in their vaginas, it dead. Groups of Tibetan youths hurling strations in the Himalayan monks and about 12 villagers list of practices it urged said. Some had burning ciga- stones and chanting pro-independence slo- region of Tibet have been were arrested. gans challenged soldiers armed with sub- police to avoid. rettes pushed in their faces. stripped, beaten and tortured At least 42 Buddhist In the latest account of "Rope torture" - where machine guns who finally entered the with electric prods in prison, warren of streets after a day of destruction. monks and three nuns are separatist disturbances in Ti- prisoners with their hands I saw bloody atrocities committed by both according to reliable Western among about 100 Tibetans bet, the sources also said that tied behind their backs were sides in the worst violence in the Tibetan sources in Lhasa. still in prison, according to monks from Rato monastery hauled towards the ceiling on capital since the cultural revolution more The sources said in an ex- the report by the sources, near Lhasa clashed with ropes attached to their arms than 20 years ago. tensive human rights report who regularly provide such three truckloads of riot police - was also used. Others said The New China News Agency put the that prison officials routinely information to human rights on October 3. Mr Zhang had they were simply strung from death toll at 11 on Sunday, but conservative beat and tortured inmates pressure groups abroad. no information on the inci- a beam with their arms above Tibetans said about 40 people had been during interrogation. Hundreds more have killed. At least four others died on Monday dent. their heads. "It is common for the been released from four pris- The trouble began several Only a few Western re- and the total number of injured was prisoner to be stripped naked estimated by Tibetans at around 200. ons near the regional capital, days earlier when the monks porters have been allowed I saw Chinese police savagely beating and and to be sitting on the floor many of them in July, the stoned two cars belonging to into Tibet under close official kicking Tibetans in the street, and Tibetans during these questioning and sources said. officials who came to their supervision since the last se- stoning innocent Chinese'. In one incident, beating sessions," it said. Arrests began in Septem- monastery to question them rious round of anti-Chinese two Muslim Chinese wheeling bicycles The report, based on in- ber last year when Tibetan about rumours of a planned riots in March. home were stoned by a furious mob. Piles of terviews with about 30 re- monks and lay people took to demonstration. The Dalai Lama, who fled burning bicycles were witness to the num- leased prisoners, was drawn the streets to protest against The officials returned lat- Tibet in 1959 during an abor- ber of Han Chinese who had been attacked. up by Western human rights China's rule over Tibet and er under armed escort and ar- In a fury of revenge, Tibetans gutted tive uprising, has proposed activists who speak Tibetan to demand the return of their rested Tsering Dhondup, one talks on Tibet's future with Chinese shops and restaurants, and burnt and are frequent visitors to the ransacked belongings in huge street spiritual leader, the Dalai of 75 monks at Rato. Fight- China in Switzerland next fires. Any building or any object that was the area. They asked not to Lama, who lives in exile in ing broke out and the police year. China was still consid- not Tibetan was smashed by a mob of a be named. India. fired several shots. Nobody ering the offer, Mr Zhang thousand young Tilbetans who marched was killed. said. through the streets with a Tibetan flag to Villagers later attacked Reuter the applause of bystanders. One Chinese woman and her daughter stood screaming in terror as Tibetans ransacked her shop. Anyone attempting to steal stereos, clothing, or even machinery MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1988 THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR was made to burn their spoils. Yards away from an hotel in which I took refuge, two Tibetans were shot dead by soldiers, and I INTERNATIONAL saw another corpse carried through the streets by the chanting crowd. The Tibetans' blind anger was in response A detachment of armed police and sol- to the shooting mayhem on Sunday when a diers attempted to carry out house-to-house small demonstration by a handful of teen- searches, but appeared to be either age monks and nuns escalated into full- Peking takes more violent tack disorganised or incompetent, and eventual- scale rioting. A group of about 40, chanting ly retreated, leaving the area under the slogans, was initially bombarded with beer control of the Tibetan mob once again. bottles from a police station near the in dealing with Tibetan rebels It seemed as if the violence was destined Johkang Temple, Tibet's holiest shrine. to continue despite an appeal to world Leaflets printed. jn. English and Tibetan leaders by the Dalai Lama, the spiritual were handed out, declaring: 'Tibet is an By Jam«» L. Tyson major clash between police king primary control over leader of Tibet, to persuade the Chinese to independent country," "Chinese invaders Staff writer of Tibet's foreign affairs and find a peaceful solution to protests in his and supporters of inde- quit Tibet", and "Long live the Dalai The Christian Science Monitor defense. Peking has re- homeland. "I am deeply saddened by the Lama". pendence during the last latest bloodshed in Tibet. I have always The police eventually began firing shots Pvking 14 months. Dozens of Ti- jected the settlement as an tried to find a peaceful solution to the tragic and teargas grenades in an attempt to clear By firing on monks pro- betans have been killed in attempt to "split the situation in my country," the Dalai Lama the square in front of the temple, but a motherland." said in a statement. crowd of more than 800 returned several testing China's rule of Ti- the unrest, according to hours later, throwing stones and carrying a bet, police revealed how Asia Watch. Peking asserts it has ex- Continued on page 8 Peking has toughened its "The shooting seems to ercised sovereignty over campaign to crush the Ti- be a marked departure Tibet since the 13th cen- betan independence move- from how police have re- tury, but Tibetans dispute ment, Western diplomats sponded before," a West- the claim, noting how Ti- said Sunday. ern diplomat said. "In the bet developed a distinct Worst riots in Tibet for twenty The shooting Saturday past, they've reportedly language and religion dur- of unarmed Buddhist fired in panic or as a last ing centuries of self-gov- resort. But in this case, ernment. Continued from page 1 monks marching beneath years the outlawed Tibetan flag they reportedly shot with- Asia Watch and another small Tibetan flag. Witnesses saw showed for the first time out provocation." rights organization, Am- children and grandmothers collect- how police will carry out Peking has not aban- nesty International, have ing stones for the crowd of stone- repeatedly denounced Chi- throwers. A Tibetan family in tears Peking's latest orders for doned its "carrot-and- Rioting spread throughout the showed me the bloodstains on the harsh reprisals against stick" pobcy toward Tibet: na for abusing the human Tibetan quarter. I saw a huge kitchen floor where an 18-year-old rebels, the diplomats said. While showing stiff intol- rights of Tibetans. bloodstain on a building where a girl was shot dead while she was Tibetans "continue to Chinese taking photographs of the making tea. They said another About 50 police shot erance toward the inde- rioters was struck on the head by a woman returning from work was without warning at 30 pendence movement, it suffer cUscrimination, ar- stone, and cut his throat on a shot in the forehead as she looked bitrary arrest and impris- broken glass window. Fire engines monks demonstrating out- still tries to appease Tibet- out of a window. In another home I ans with social-welfare onment, and even tor- attempting to put out fires were was shown the corpse of a 35-year- side the holiest shrine of stoned and the police resorted to Tibetan Buddhism in cen- programs and lenience to- ture," said an Asia Watch widespread shooting. Witnesses report released in Feb- said none of the Tibetans were old man shot through the jaw. His tral Lhasa, killing at least ward activists who recant, mother said two of their children according to diplomats. ruary. armed, contrary to a report by the had died at the hands of the two of the monks, eyewit- New China News Agency. -. nesses said. Several monks However, the barrage "The people of Tibet are Western tourists said they saw authorities after taking part in still not free to practice several Tibetans shot dead, includ- earlier pro-independence demon- and laymen were Saturday may signal that ing children. Some of the street strations. Tibetans showed me bul- wounded, including a Peking "in the future will their religion as they battles took place in front of the let holes in doors, walls and even choose, nor to express through a vacuum flask. Dutch tourist, they said. not allow activists to take Yak Hotel where many foreigners to the streets without the their opinions on political were staying. At the end of the A Tibetan doctor said that 60 The crackdown ap- day, a score of trucks carrying Tibetans were being treated in one peared to enforce the or- expectation of facing a gun issues," wrote Jack Green- hospital, but I saw plenty of others barrel," the diplomat said. berg, chairman of Asia troops armed with clubs, pistols, who had sought treatment at ders of Qiao Shi, a member rifles, and sub-machine guns, en- home. Many Tibetans were too of the Communist Party's The shooting highlights Watch, in the report. tered the area in force, shooting frightened to go to hospital or were standing committee and a deadlock over proposed In a follow-up report in wildly at the rooftops and some- refused treatment. head of China's security talks between-Peking and July, the group estimated times into Tibetan homes. The failure of police to contain the initial demonstration is strik- apparatus, the diplomats the exiled Tibetan govern- that more than 50 people Western witnesses said on Sun- ing. The police had warned for- said. During a visit to Tibet ment. Peking has so far may have died during a day that frightened troops sprayed eigners two days in advance that snubbed the proposal set March 5 melee involving bursts of automatic gunfire at there might be trouble on Monday, in July, Mr. Qiao told random. The tourists also saw a the anniversary of rioting last Lhasa officials to use forth by the Dalai Lama, as many as 10,000 Tibet- dozen soldiers catch a Tibetan, year. In the past month, there "merciless repression in Tibet's spiritual leader. ans. China "has demon- smash a bar across his knees and have been three protests, and The Dalai Lama has strated a continued unwill- then beat and kick him on the tension was rising at the approach handling anti-Chinese ac- ground. A number of foreigners of this Friday's 30th anniversary tivists," Tibetan sources called on China to agree to ingness to acknowledge had their films and cameras confis- of the 1959 rebellion. told Asia Watch, a human an arrangement by which the human rights problem cated, and a Swiss man, who had in Tibet, let alone address joined the marchers, was detained. rights organization. Tibetans govern them- The rally was the third selves, while granting Pe- it," the organization said.

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MEDITATION GONG #SAG $110 This is a large meditation gong 5 inches in diameter. It has an ex- quisite brocade cushion and lac- quered striker. It produces a . beautiful rich sound that slowly fades—meditation practice will be enhanced by its use. Please allow $3 for shipping and handling. OFFERING BOWLS (set of 7) Copper (medium-size) #BOWLC $38 White Metal (medium-size) #BOWLW $30 PINS, $5.00 Double Dorje (5 colors) #PIND Stupa (white) #PINS NEW Eternal Knot #PINEK Wheel of Dharma #PINW TIBETAN SHIRTS PURBAS We have a number of thangkas of Snow Lion now has 50-50 cotton Tantric daggers make of iron. 10" tee shirts and sweat shirts for men PURBALG $30 5" PURBASM different images. Please call us for information as to availability. Prices and women. Choose one of three $12 range from $140 to $650 and the designs—Double Dorje, Tibetan RUPAS stock changes rapidly. Flag, or a lotus with Om Mani High quality statues of the Bud- fTHANGKAS Padme Hum on the petals and a dha and various deities are availa- Vajrasattva, 14" x 22", $475 Hri in the center. They come in ble on request. We have numerous Medicine Buddha, 14" x 21", $475 white, yellow, red, and blue. They rupas and our stock is always Green Tara, 20" x 26", $475 are high-quality shirts and are sized changing. Materials range from Mahakala, (large, exquisitely paint- small, medium, large and extra- brass to copper with gold and paint- ed) 18" x 29", $1200 large, and run one size small. Please ed faces. Prices vary from $70 to Bernochen (two-armed Mahaka- indicate a second color choice. The $400. #RUPA la of the Karma Kagyu lineage), Flag design is a 5-color and so more 14"x 20", $475 costly. Please give full description Vajrasattva, 10" x 13", $175 (color, size, design) on your order Vajrapani, 9" x 12" $195 form. TIBET BAGS #BAGS $12 Teeshirts: Cloth shoulder bags with TIBET Double Dorje #PHSHIRT $12 on them. They are subtlely colored, Tibetan Flag #PHSHIRTF $14 measure 12 x 13" and can hold a Om Mani Padme Hum Lotus lot. #PHSHIRT $12 S wc 31shirts * TRANSFER DECALS (Scratch Double Dorje #PHSHIRT2 $24 on) Ideal for stationary or cards. Tibetan Flag #PHSHIRTF2 $28 There are approximately 14 of each Om Mani Padme Hum Lotus of 4 full-color symbols: #PHSHIRT2 $24 Knot of Infinity, Wheel of the OTHER DHARMA ITEMS Good Law, Flower, Umbrella #TDECAL $7.50 AVAILABLE ON REQUEST Call or write to us for information about: Butter lamps, damaru covers, door top cloth, curved ritual knives, wrathful masks, peca book covers, lockets.

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SNOW LION SPRING 89 NEWSLETTER AND CATALOG 19 SPECIAL ITEMS SNOW LION TIBET CARDS IMAGES FROM TIBET Tibet's borders have recently opened and peo- ple from all over the world now have the op- portunity to see some of the wonders of this remarkable land and culture. These 35 brilli- ant full-color postcards capture some of the best and most beautiful images of monaster- 1' ~"*~J ies, statues, pilgrims, landscapes and monks as they exist today in Tibet. Cards measure 4 1/4" x 6" and are only 50 cents each. ' fl| SLSTC5 SLSTC34# Jokhang Temple IMAGES OF SLSTC35* Jokhang Rooftop SLSTC36# Jo Rinpoche Statue TIBETAN CULTURE SLSTC54 SLSTC37# Young Monk on Roof In these 32 full-color postcard images of Tibe- SLSTC38# Potala Palace tan culture all facets of Tibetan life are SLSTC39# Potala Rooftop represented: painters, rug weavers, singers, masked dancers, lamas and monasteries, re- SLSTC40# Tashilunpo Monastery ligious ceremonies, nomads, yogis, the SLSTC41# Rebuilding of Ganden SLSTC42# Monks of Nechung Kalachakra Initiation in , pilgrims, children, statues, landscapes and more! These SLSTC43# Dharmachakra beautiful photos are of Tibetans in exile and SLSTC44# Mandala Offering a few of Tibet itself. SLSTC46# Chorten of Gyantse SLSTC47# Sakya Monastery Cards measure 4 1/4' x 6" and are only 50 SLSTC48# Milarepa's Cave cents each. SLSTC49# SLSTC1# Statue SLSTC50# Kumbum Monastery SLSTC2# Monastery Interior SLSTC51# SLSTC3# Thikse Monastery SLSTC52# Tibetan Women SLSTC4# Tibetan Rug Weaver SLSTC53# Statue SLSTC5# Mountain Sunset SLSTC54# Woman with Headdress SLSTC6# Monastery Courtyard SLSTC55# SLSTC7# Landscape Sunset SLSTC56# Woman Chanting SLSTC8# Smiling Lady SLSTC57# Monk in Meditation SLSTC9# Long-life Offering SLSTC58# Pilgrim Prostrating SLSTC10 Dalai Lama at Kalachakra SLSTC59# Horseman SLSTC11 Tibetan Pilgrim SLSTC60# Yak SLSTC12 Masked Dancer SLSTC61# Nomadic Tent SLSTC13 Tibetan Man & Child SLSTC62# Ceremonial Tent SLSTC14 Tibetan Monk in Prayer SLSTC63# Monks Debating SLSTC15 Tibetan Ladies Singing SLSTC64# Potala Stairs SLSTC16 Potala Palace SLSTC65# View from Jokhang Roof SLSTC17 Young Tibetan Monk SLSTC66# Young Monks Studying SLSTC18 Potala from Back Side SLSTC67# Carved Buddha SLSTC19 White Masked Dancer SLSTC68# Chorten Detail SLSTC20 Tibetan Lamas SLSTC69# Golden Buddha SLSTC21 Red-Masked Dancer SLSTC22 Dalai Lama & Dingo Khyentse R. SLSTC23 Tibetan Horseman SLSTC24 Elderly Man with SLSTC25 Bashful Khampa Girl SLSTC26 Tibetan Painter SLSTC27 Tibetan Mask SLSTC28 Swayambhu Dorje SLSTC29 Tibetan Ngakpa SLSTC30 Woman with Dog SLSTC31 High Lamas at Kalachakra SLSTC32 Woman with Prayer Wheels SLSTC57 SLSTC59 SLSTC27 IMAGES OF LOST TIBET & FACES OF TIBET ^v"\jW HELP SUPPORT THE TIBE- Tibet, as it was prior to the Chinese invasion, 3£jt^,0m TAN REFUGEES: To express is no more. Most of the religious culture as P* * flA , our gratitude to the many Tibetans it appeared prior to the 1950's was destroyed who made these cards possible, leaving only hints of what was once one of the r" Snow Lion will donate a percen- most spiritual societies on Earth. Tibet is now tage of the price of every Tibet opening to tourists but what visitors will not Card that you purchase to the find is the thousands of beautiful monaster- * 4 Tibet Fund to help support the ies which flourished on the mountain sides, l^ft' Tibetan refugees. filled with several hundred thousand monks and nuns—a rugged and happy culture of a / people who lived their lives in a free and reli- gious atmosphere. < Sixteen very high-quality black and white SLSCll SLSC51 postcard images—5 revealing the Tibetan character and 11 of the best pictures from the --*#*». Newark Museum's collection of rare photo- r graphs of old Tibet are available in this series .* =;? 'V of cards. Bjy^§B Cards measure 4 1/4" x 6" and are only 50 cents each. ii.^^4|

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SNOW LION SPRING 89 NEWSLETTER AND CATALOG 21 VIDEO DHARMA These films are available in VHS THE FUTURE OF RELIGION, Explores the individual experiences format. 1 hr., $50 of six people who had been clini- THE BODmSATTVA MOTIVA- THE 37 PRACTICES OF A cally certified as dead. Each un- TION: THE PERFECTION OF BODHISATTVA, Kalachakra, derwent a most extraordinary CONCENTRATION, by the Dalai Rikon, July 1985, 5 hrs., $124 visionary experience which was to Lama. 80 minutes. #WIFBM transform their life and remove all THE SONG OF ULTIMATE fear of death. The film is interposed $49.95 REALITY, 1 hr. 30 min., $62 His Holiness teaches on the six per- with professional comment from doctors and theologians. It docu- fections, including the methods for H.H. SAKYA TRIZIN developing a mind of equanimity ments the 'near death experience' and meditative stabilization lead- THE TRIPLE VISION, 6 hrs., and its powerful effect on people's ing to the perfection of concentra- $138 lives. tion; and the perfection of wisdom Other Films Available: realizing selflessness. VEN. KYABJE AVALOKITESHVARA: The DEITY YOGA, by the Dalai THE BASIS OF THE SPIRITU- AL PATH, 2 hrs. 30 min., $80 Dalai Lama in Europe 1982, 40 Lama. 30 minutes. #WIFDY min., $50 $29.95 THE PRINCIPLES OF THE SPIRITUAL PATH, 4 hrs., $110 HHDL VISITS EUROPE, 1986, MEDITATION IN BUD- 40 min., $50 DHISM, by the Dalai Lama. 1.5 hours. #WIFEOM $59.95 PROFESSOR NAMKHAI NORBU TWO TIBETAN NUNNERIES, This talk on meditation was given DHARMA: The Meaning of Ex- 30 min., $40 at Harvard University and trans- OCEAN OF WISDOM Video MERIDIAN TRUST FILMS istence, 2 hr. 45 min., $85 THREE GREAT MONASTER- lated by Jeffrey Hopkins. It covers Presentation of the Life and Teach- We are pleased to offer the com- DZOGCHEN IN DAILY BE- IES, 1 hr., $50 meditative stabilization and wis- ings of H.H. The Fourteenth Dalai plete line of VHS Meridian Trust HAVIOR, 1 hr. 30 min., $62 After 30 years of hard work and dom, cultivating calm abiding and Lama. 35 minutes. #POOW $49.95 Films. In addition to the excellent reconstruction the three 'pillars' of THE THREE TESTAMENTS Ocean of Wisdom offers an intimate talks captured on these films, many the Gelug study and worship are special insight, meditation instruc- OF GARAB DORJE, 1 hr. 15 tion (including posture), and over- profile of His Holiness as a monk of these valuable teachings contain functioning as important centers for min., $55 coming obstacles. and as a spiritual leader, as a states- some of the last records of great the refugees. We follow them during man for our troubled times and as SEM-DZIN: 21 Ways of Focuss- THE FOUNDATIONS OF lamas. For shipping, handling and the New Year festivities, The Great a crusader for world peace. In rare ing the Mind, 2 hr., $70 BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY, by insurance, please include $15 for Prayer Festival, and during the daily footage, the Dalai Lama is seen dur- the first program and $5 for each THE DZOGCHEN RITE, 1 hr., routine. the Dalai Lama. 1 hour. #WIFFBP ing his private religious practices, $49.95 additional program. The videos will $50 KALACHAKRA 1974,1 hr., $50 his daily routine and his infrequent be sent from London so please al- In this talk on Buddhist philoso- BIRTH OF A BUDDHA, 18 recreation: personal moments that low 4 weeks for delivery. The orders phy, His Holiness discusses the two VEN. LAMA min., $44 contrast with his public role as the will be filled as quickly as possi- truths; ; the nature of EXTRACTING THE ES- world's foremost Buddhist leader. ble. For a complete descriptive cata- TIBET: The Cultural Evolution, mind; emptiness; the path as un- SENCE, 2 hr. 45 min., $85 1 hr., $50 ion of wisdom and compassion; REQUIEM FOR A FAITH, 28 log please contact Snow Lion. minutes. #HFRF $89 THE THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE DALAI LAMA OF TIBET. practices of tantra. HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI THE PATH, 1 hr. 45 min., $65 This award-winning film tells the LAMA 25 Years in Exile, 52 min., $50 LORD OF THE DANCE/DE- story of Tibetan Buddhism, alive TANTRA: The Experience of STROYER OF ILLUSION, dir. today in a remote Indian refugee NEW Transformation, 1 hr., $50 THE BUDDHIST FILM & by Richard Kohn, 113 minutes. camp. Dr. Houston Smith's poet- A BUDDHIST MONK: The #FRLD $59 VIDEO ARCHIVE ic narration guides us through a Dalai Lama of Tibet, 11 Days in VEN. These VHS videos are produced The Lord of the Dance is Garwang world of ancient rituals, continu- England, 40 min., $36 Tojay Chenpo, a form of Chenrezi THE NATURE OF MIND 2 hrs. by Meridian Trust and we can ob- ous meditation, deep compassion In April, 1988, His Holiness gave 30 min., $80 tain them for you from this US- and the Mani Rimdu is the major and a profound faith in the divin- teachings in London, addressed the religious festival of the Everest re- based archive. Please allow $5 for ity of man. global conference on Human Sur- VEN. SUMEDHO the first video program and $2.50 gion. Each autumn, Trulshig Rin- vival in Oxford and met extensively THE SOUND OF WISDOM, for each additional to cover ship- poche, the eleventh in a line of with the media. A Buddhist Monk THE FAMILY, 1 hr., $50 directed by Robyn Brentano, 1 hour. ping costs. Tulkus and the spiritual leader of is a personal profile of His Holi- #HFSW $89 PRACTICE IN LAY LIFE, 1 hr., the Everest region, goes from his ness and presents him in his vari- The Sound of Wisdom is a one-hour $50) HIS HOLINESS home in Thubten Choling to ous roles as teacher, exiled leader documentary about the One World TOWARDS THE FUTURE, 1 THE DALAI LAMA Chiwong Monastery to preside over and international spokesman for Music festival of sacred chant held hr., $50 the festival. Lord of the Dance is peace. HHDL VISITS CHRISTIAN the first film made in the Tibetan at the Cathedral of St. John the Di- THE BUDDHIST IDEA OF A AND BUDDHIST COMMUNI- language. It communicates directly vine in New York City. In a historic NEW PERFECT SOCIETY, 1 hr., $50 TIES, 1 hr., $50 to Tibetan-speaking practitioners two-day program of concerts and GREEN TARA INITIATION, 2 PEACE THROUGH HUMAN without any additional narration. symposia, the festival brought to- hrs. 45 min., $60 DR. LOBSANG RABGAY UNDERSTANDING, 1 hr., $50 gether the Tibetan Buddhist monks The English narration was kept to His Holiness performed the com- INTRODUCTION TO BUDD- of Gyuto Tantric College and West- THE GIFT OF PEACE: A Mes- a minimum. mon initiation of the Green Tara HIST PSYCHOTHERPY, 4 hrs., em composers—David Hykes, Pau- sage for All Faiths, 1 hr., $50 During three weeks of ancient which grants the four empower- $110 and secret ceremonies, the monks line Oliveros and Terry Riley. ments in the form of a blessing. CONTRIBUTION OF THE IN- of Thubten Choling and Chiwong TANTRA OF GYUTO: SA- This was preceded by a lucid ex- VEN. DR. TENZIN CHOEDAK DIVIDUAL TO WORLD become Lord of the Dance, and CRED RITUALS OF TIBET, 52 planation of the initiation. PEACE, 1 hr 15 min., $55 THE PRINCIPLES OF TIBE- with the compassion and the power minutes. #MFTG $69.95 NEW TAN MEDICINE, 5 hrs, $124 PEACE OF MIND: Peace in Ac- of gods, undertake heroic tasks. Presents secret Tibetan Buddhist tion, 1 hr., $50 AN OVERVIEW OF TIBETAN CANCER AND AIDS: The View They challenge the most danger- ceremonies by monks of the Gyu- BUDDHISM WITH A COM- WORLD PEACE, 1 hr., $50 ous supernatural forces of the uni- of Tibetan Medicine, 2 hrs., $64 to Tantric College. MENTARY ON BODHICHA- verse, bend them to their will, and THE ESSENCE OF BUD- TIBETAN MEDICINE: A RYAVATARA, 11 hrs., $180 then dramatize that conquest in CULTURAL/DOCUMENTARY DHIST PHILOSOPHY, 65 mins., BUDDHIST APPROACH TO This is an excellent overview of dance. They dissolve the universe $52 HEALING, 29 minutes. #MFTM Tibetan Buddhism with the main NEW into clear and infinite light, and THE ESSENCE OF MA- $59.95 emphasis on the four tantras, Dzog- THE WHEEL OF TIME: pour that energy into magic pills Filmed at the Tibetan Medical Cen- chen, and the chapters on patience Kalachakra Initiation, Switz. 1985, HAYANA BUDDHISM, 1 hr., that they will distribute to the thou- ter in Dharamsala, India. Ama and meditation from the Bod- 45 min., $38 (see section on $50 sand villagers who come to Mani- Lopsang Dolma, Tibet's first wom- hicharyavatara. His Holiness went Kalachakra) DZOGCHEN, 4 hrs., $110 Rimdu seeking empowerment. an doctor, shows the making of into great detail on many tantric In Lord of the Dance/Destroyer of NEW medicines and how acupuncture topics. There was a question and H.H. SAKYA TRIZIN Illusion, we meet the men who un- and moxibustion are used. answer session each day. BUDDHISM IN FOCUS: The dertake these tasks. We see the Life and Teachings of the Bud- THE TEACHING OF BUDD- world through their eyes—a world THE LION'S ROAR, 50 minutes, NEW dha, Part 1, 30 min., $64 HA IN EVERYDAY LIFE, 1 hr. 30 min., $62 where the mountains are filled with #WWLR $49.95 UND/ERSAL RESPONSIBILI- Specifically produced to introduce gods, and a human being's potential This video documents the life, TY IN A NUCLEAR AGE, 30 children between 10 and 15 years THE NATURE OF MIND, 1 hr. is only limited by his imagination teachings, and death of the 16th min., $30 to the life and teachings of the Bud- 30 min., $62 and his will. Gyalwang Karmapa, head of the His Holiness delivered an impas- dha. The program introduces the Kagyu order. Featuring extensive sioned speech in April, 1988 on the life and teachings of the Buddha VEN. TSENZHAB SERKONG MAHAMUDRA: AN IN- interviews with central figures of TRODUCTION TO THE NA- necessity of developing universal with a dramatised explanation of RINPOCHE the Karma Kagyu lineage the film responsibility— "the universal the and the No- TURE OF THE MIND, by Kalu also conveys the cultural context of A KIND HEART, 1 hr., $50 Rinpoche. approx. 1 1/3 hour. religion"—in order for humanity ble Eight-fold Path. Discusses the four thoughts that Tibet and the basic beliefs of Vaj- to survive in the nuclear age. #WIFM $49.95 rayana Buddhism. NEW turn the mind to dharma, renun- Mahamudra is a teaching on Sunya- NEW BUDDHISM IN FOCUS: The ciation, and the development of YANTRA TIBETAN YOGA: dedicated being—bodhicitta. ta (voidness) which leads to the HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI Buddhist Way of Life, Part 2, 30 realization of the Dharmakaya or System of Namkhai Norbu, Dir. by Michael Katz. #NNYY $35 LAMA: An Interview by Jonathan min., $64 primordial mind. Kalu Rinpoche Drawing upon life and practice in VEN. GESHE NAMGYAL Five senior Yantra Yoga practition- Landaw, 30 min., $30 WANGCHEN describes the nature of mind and In a remarkably frank interview, Buddhist communities in Britain teaches a Mahamudra meditation. ers demonstrate the movements of this ancient system. Yantra Yoga His Holiness speaks about his role and India, this program covers pil- SPIRITUAL LIFE IN A MATE- THE NATURE OF THE SELF, has been practiced as part of the and responsibility as a Dalai Lama grimage and worship at Bodhgaya, RIAL WORLD, 1 hr., $50 by the Dalai Lama. 57 minutes. Tibetan Buddhist tradition for over and gives advice on how to conduct India, a traditional Buddhist #WIFNS $49.95 1000 years. Similar to Hatha yoga oneself in the world. celebration, Zen Buddhist stories, DR. LOBSANG RABGAY His Holiness presents the view of various forms of meditation prac- TIBETAN MEDICINE: AN IN- in that it includes basic asanas Other Films Available: the Madhyamika Prasangika School (postures), breathing exercises and tice, the monastic training in the TRODUCTORY LECTURE, 2 with an analysis of the nature of movements, Yantra Yoga differs in PEACE: A Goal of All Religions, Tibetan Buddhist communities in hr., $70 the self. its initial emphasis on more con- 1 hr., $50 India and interviews with respected NEPAL, LAND OF THE tinuous movements. More equal- THE EXPERIENCE OF TRAN- Buddhist teachers from both the CULTURAL/DOCUMENTARY Theravadin and Mahayana tra- GODS, 62 minutes. #MFNLG ly balanced energy and breath, SITION, 1 hr., $50 REMEMBER TIBET, 1 hr., $50 $69.95 relaxation, and inner development ditions. INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBIL- DEBATE IN THE TIBETAN Nepal's unique mixture of Bud- are the benefits of its practice. ITY TOWARDS WORLD NEW TRADITION, 1 hr., $50 dhism and Hinduism is the focus PEACE, 90 min., $62 VISIONS OF HOPE: The Near of this film. Death Experience, 40 min., $50

SNOW LION SPRING 89 NEWSLETTER AND CATALOG 22 SPECIAL ITEMS SYMBOLISM OF THE COS- BEING ALONE & APPRECIA- MIC REFUGE TREE AND ISNOW LION AUDIO TAPESHH TION (1) #DSTPCFBA $9 The THE ARCHETYPAL GURU (1) inner solitude where we no longer #ALTPS106 $9 Lectures by prominent Tibetan lamas and several of the foremost Western scholar/practitioners are now availa- cling to things for support and Revealing the Three Esoteric ble from Snow Lion. A wide variety of subjects are available; many contain information not in print. The reinforcement. Celebrating the Refuges of Tantric Buddhism, this following selection is only the beginning. We plan to offer many more in the future from all four lineages. uniqueness of all things and act- lecture goes on to describe the The number of tapes in each series is indicated in parentheses. ing from a heart that truly touches practices of and and can be touched. H H H.H. DRIKUNG DHARMA SEED guru-yoga. THE DALAI LAMA KYABGON TAPE LIBRARY LECTURES BY VEN. SYMBOLISM OF THE CRE- Here are some excellent tapes on DEATH WITHOUT FEAR (1) MATION GROUND AND COMPASSION (1) #SLTPHHC meditation practice by Joseph #SLTPCRDWF $7 THE CELESTIAL MAIDENS $7 This is one of the most moving Goldstein and Jack Kornfield, HOW BUDDHISM CAME TO talks on this topic by His Holiness. NATURE OF MIND (1) TIBET (1) #ALTPS55 $7 (1) #ALTPS107 $7 both well-known for their medita- Are we ready to face our own THE FOUR OF #SLTPCRNM $7 Describes the introduction of tion workshops and books. death, and the total transformation GAMPOPA (1) #TBTPFDG $7 Buddhism into Tibet in the LOBSANG Joseph Goldstein seventh century, and the extraor- it symbolizes? Sangharakshita here HARVARD SEMINARS (12) OPENING, BALANCING & dinary events which culminated in describes the practice of the Ten #SLTPHHHS $84 Trans, by LHALUNGPA INVESTIGATING (1) its firm establishment by the Stages of the Decomposition of the Jeffrey Hopkins—AIBS Program Lobsang Lhalungpa is one of the #DSTPJGOB $7 Opening what is eleventh century. Corpse, the Mandala of the Eight For five days in 1981, the Dalai finest authors and translators of closed in us, balancing what is Cremation Grounds, and the Lama presented a synthesis of the Tibetan Buddhism. These talks THE SCHOOLS OF TIBETAN reactive, investigating what is who dance there. entire Buddhist path. Topics in- were given at the Tibetan Medita- BUDDHISM (2) #ALTPS56 $9 hidden. SYMBOLISM OF OFFER- clude: refuge, logic, death, karma, tion Center in Wash. D.C. 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THE BODHGAYA INTER- as a basis for meditations on mind- Topics include: compassion, of Life is one of the most highly VIEWS 1981-85, His Holiness the ing on the stages of the path). fulness of the guru, altruism, dei- training the mind, deities in Tibetan recommended texts for Mahayana Dalai Lama, Ed. by Jose Ignacio Continuing this living tradition ty yoga and emptiness. Buddhism, the mind of clear light, practice. The ninth chapter of that Cabezon. 104pp., photos, to the present day, Tenzin Gyatso, NEW religious values and human socie- book, the chapter on Transcendent #SLBKBI $8.95 the present Dalai Lama, provides THE DALAI LAMA AT HAR- ty, Om Mani Padme Hum, Tibe- Wisdom, is known among Buddhist an extensive commentary to Essence These sparkling interviews with His tan views on dying, karma, altruism VARD: Lectures on the Buddhist scholars as a challenging and pro- of Refined Gold drawn from his own Holiness the Dalai Lama are sure and the six perfections, the two Path to Peace, H.H. the Dalai found exposition of the Madhyami- penetrating experience. His dis- to interest Buddhists and non- truths, meditation, self and self- Lama, trans. &ed. by Jeffrey Hop- ka View of Buddhist philosophy. course comprises the main body of Buddhists alike. His Holiness covers lessness, the path to enlightenment kins. 255pp. #SLBKDLHP $12.95 It is difficult to understand with- this text and alternates between per- a spectrum of religious and secu- and emptiness. A concluding dis- paper, #SLBKDLHC $22.95 cloth out a commentary. sonal reflections, direct spiritual ad- lar concerns in a most candid and course explains the basic meeting In 1981, His Holiness the Dalai In 1979, His Holiness the Dalai vice and scriptural quotations. He very stimulating manner. Psychol- points of thought between the old Lama gave a series of lectures at Lama delivered an oral teaching on elucidates in practical terms what ogy, tantra, politics, emptiness, and new schools in Tibet to show this text before an assembly of over Christianity, reincarnation, liber- Harvard University which fulfilled the student must do to attain en- their common aim, despite their use a thousand Tibetans and Western- lightenment. ation, vipasyana, mantra, gurus, magnificently his intention of of different techniques, to mani- ers. B. Alan Wallace has translat- Also included in this volume are protector deities, and particle phys- providing an in-depth introduction fest the innate mind of clear light. ed, edited and added explanatory the Lam-rim Preliminary Rite, a ics are some of the topics to Buddhist theory and practice. A LONG LOOK HOMEWARD: notes to this extraordinarily clear beautiful guide to the Avalokitesh- discussed—much of this informa- The combination of awesome in- and valuable commentary which il- vara tantric methods entitled The tion is unavailable elsewhere. These tellect, power of exposition, and An Interview with the Dalai Lama of Tibet, by Glenn H. Mullin. 29 luminates the different points and Tantric Yogas of the Bodhisattva interviews were held at the close practical, compassionate implemen- pages, #SLBKLLH $2 shows how the Centrist View differs of Compassion, and a traditional of annual teachings and initiations tation that characterize the Dalai from other Buddhist and non- biography of the Third Dalai Lama. in Bodhgaya, India, the place most Lama's personality highlights these In this interview, His Holiness Buddhist views. ".. .highly recommendable as a sacred to Buddhists. lectures. He covers a spectrum of openly expresses his views on many issues important to anyone con- timely political issues, on himself NEW practical guide to Tibetan BUDDHISM OF TIBET, by His Buddhism"—Soami Sariputra, The cerned about individual and world as a spiritual and secular leader, on THE UNION OF BLISS AND Holiness the Dalai Lama Trans. & peace and answers questions that the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, and Theosophist Ed. by Jeffrey Hopkins. 219 pp. EMPTINESS, H.H. the Dalai those interested in Buddhism have on the likelihood of himself travel- Lama. 160pp. #SLBKUBE $10.95 #SLBKBT $12.95 long hoped to see addressed: ing to Tibet. Other Titles: The Buddhism of Tibet consists of The origins of the instructions on The relationship between science BRIDGING THE four texts that the Dalai Lama spe- NEW this Lama Choepa (guru yoga) prac- and religion, the nature and lev- AND TANTRAS, by the First cially wrote or chose for Western TO THE LION THRONE, by tice are traced back to the explana- els of consciousness, the meaning Dalai Lama & Glenn H. Mullin. readers: Whitney Stewart. 55pp. tory tantra called Vajramala, in of being a person in a system of 288pp. #SLBKSW1 $12.95 (See The Buddhism of Tibet by the #SLBKTLT $10.95 October which the visualization of the body selflessness, dualism and non- This is an exciting and engaging mandala deities on the guru's body Religion Section) Dalai Lama. In this excellent es- dualism, the difference between low say, the Dalai Lama explains the biography of the Dalai Lama for is explained according to Gu- DEITY YOGA in Action and Per- self-worth and selflessness, tech- children. The day the Dalai Lama hyasamaja. Since the integral prac- formance Tantras, H.H. the Dalai principle topics and central prac- niques for curing depression, the tices of Buddhism. was born, a rainbow touched his tice of Yamantaka, Guhyasamaja Lama, Tsong-ka-pa and Jeffrey Hop- types of rainbow bodies, the differ- house, two crows rested on his roof and Heruka has great merit and ad-' kins (also Trans. & Ed.). 274pp. The Key to the by the ence between afflictive and non- Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama leads top and kept guard and his father vantages, Lama Choepa explains #SLBKDY $14.95 (see Dalai Lama afflictive attachment, the position jumped from his sick bed and how to do it on the basis of this section). the student to the discovery of the of , the con- true meaning of emptiness. With declared himself cured by his son's guru yoga practice. The actual prac- Deity Yoga describes the profound flict between evolution and the Bud- birth. This biography follows the tice is explained on the basis of Gu- process of meditation in Action and acute precision, he presents many dhist theory of devolution, the usage insights into the nature of emp- life of the young, spirited boy who hyasamaja, the preliminaries such Performance Tantras. It is a invalu- of sex in the tantric path, how to became a monk at age three, moved as the self-generation are explained able book for anyone who is prac- tiness. conduct daily practice without be- The Precious Garland by Nagar- to the Potala Palace in Lhasa and on the basis of Yamantaka, and per- ticing or interested in Buddhist coming attached to it, and balancing became the spiritual and political forming offerings and so forth is tantra. It is comprised of three juna. Originally written for a king, altruistic activity and internal de- this text is famous for its descrip- leader of his people by age fifteen. explained according to Heruka. parts: velopment. Very highly recom- To her careful research into the early This guru yoga is widespread within Heart of Mantra by the Dalai tion of the Bodhisattva path of com- mended. passion and for its clear, concise years of the Dalai Lama, Whitney the Gelug system and most followers Lama is a lucid exposition of the analysis of the Buddha's teaching KINDNESS, CLARITY, AND Stewart adds many touching sto- know it by heart. This volume pres- meditative rites of deity yoga—the on emptiness. It describes how to INSIGHT, by H.H the Fourteenth ries from the Dalai Lama himself, ent useful tantric material unavail- distinctiy tantric process in which find happiness by cultivating vir- Dalai Lama Trans. &Ed. by Jeffrey as well as spirited illustrations to able elsewhere, in a clear an concise yogis visualize themselves in the tues of body, speech and mind and Hopkins, Co-Ed. by Elizabeth Nap- produce a book that will leave a last- manner. form of a Buddha's divine body as how to amass the stores of merit per 239pp. #SLBKKCI $10.95 ing impression on young readers. ESSENCE OF REFINED a manifestation of compassionate wisdom. and wisdom required for enlight- This best-selling book contains a TRANSCENDENT WISDOM: GOLD, by the Third Dalai Lama enment. collection of talks given by the Dalai A Commentary on the Ninth & Glenn H. 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BRIDGING THE SUTRAS KALACHAKRA TANTRA, India and the edges are a little wrin- NEW AND TANTRAS, by the First Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey. 180pp. kled. Because we think you'll en- VIDEO FROM MERIDIAN traded an attendance of over 5,000 Dalai Lama & Glenn H. Mullin. #LTKT $12.00 joy it, we are selling it at a reduced TRUST Westerners and Tibetans to the 288pp. #SLBKSW1 $12.95 (see This book provides a sound expla- price. At the bottom of the poster small Swiss village of Rikon. This books by the Dalai Lama) nation of the practice of are the mantras associated with the THE WHEEL OF TIME: programme documents the event Kalachakra Tantra: initiation into Kalachakra. It contains tantric in- deity, written in Tibetan. Kalachakra Initiation, Switz. 1985, using interviews with various par- and practice of the most sophisti- formation pertinent to practition- 45 min., $38 (for ordering info, see GARUDA POSTERS $7 ea. video section) ticipants and excerpts from some cated Highest Yoga Tantra. A sum- ers of any highest yoga tantra. Very fine quality posters. mary of the structure and Topics include: the initiations, vows In the summer of 1985, H.H. the of the teachings given over the course of the 10-day event. It also methodology of the six completion and pledges, cultivating the gener- GAP02 Kalachakra Deity Dalai Lama gave a series of in- stage yogas, representing the highest ation and completion stages, energy GAP03 Kalachakra Mandala troductory teachings and the em- includes some exclusive footage of the rituals involved in the prepa- and most powerful teachings of the centers, winds, drops, taking the IMAGES OF TIBETAN powerment into the highest yoga Buddha brought to Tibet, is trans- three bodies as the path, and day CULTURE tantra practice of Kalachakra. This ration of the mandala and the complex and profound practice at- dances of the tantric monks. lated here by permission of His and night yogas. These full-color Tibet Cards meas- Holiness, the present Dalai Lama. TIBETAN PILGRIMAGE, by ure 4 1/4" x 6" and are only 50 CHO-YANG, by the Council for Re- Peter Gold. 175pp., color photos, cents each. They capture some of ligious and Cultural Affairs of H.H. #SLBKTPI $14.95 (see Travel) the most moving images of the 1985 the Dalai Lama #CTC-Y $12.95 Peter Gold joins two hundred thou- Kalachakra in Bodhgaya, India. This is a great publication—full of sand other pilgrims at Bodh Gaya, SLSTC9 Long-life Offering information and many photos on India—place of Sakyamuni Budd- SLSTClODalai Lama at the rich heritage of Tibet. Essays ha's enlightenment—for the Kalachakra include: KALACHAKRA and the Kalachakra Tantric Initiation un- SLSTC14Tibetan Monk in 1985 initiation in Switzerland; life der the direction of the Dalai Lama. Prayer and training of monks in exile; an Amid a festival of deities, sights, SLSTC20Tibetan Lamas oral teaching by H.H. the Dalai sounds and offerings, we accom- SLSTC22Dalai Lama & Dingo Lama on training the mind; Bud- pany Peter into the heart of the Khyentse R. dhist nuns; folk-opera of Tibet; Kalachakra mandala and into the SLSTC31High Lamas at Bonpo religion; history of the calm center of Buddhism. Evoca- Kalachakra Taglung Kagyu tradition. tive, amusing, and informative. GARUDA POSTCARDS $.75 ea. HIGHEST YOGA TANTRA, by WHEEL OF TIME, by Geshe Traditional thangka images. Daniel Cozort 192pp. #SLBKHYT Sopa, Jackson & Newman. #DPWT GAC3 Kalachakra Deity $10.95 (See Religion Section) $10.95 KALACHAKRA EMBLEM For anyone interested in practicing Contains five sections: Buddhist NOTECARDS $12 for 10 cards Kalachakra, this book is a really background, history of the plus envelopes. These are full-color great general presentation of tan- Kalachakra tantra, Kalachakra in- cards of the Kalachakra mantra. itiation, generation and completion tra and in addition has a special sec- Contemplation of this aids in form- tion comparing the completion stage practices of this tantra. A must ing a karmic connection with the stages of the Guhyasamaja and for persons interested in teachings, and the presence of this Kalachakra systems. Kalachakra. image is said to dispel negative KALACHAKRA: RITE OF IN- KALACHAKRA DEITY POST- influences. #HCNC2 ITIATION, by Dalai Lama and ER 11 x 17 1 2" #TBPOKD$2.00 KALACHAKRA EMBLEM Hopkins. 511pp. #WIBKKRI This poster is of the great thang- PRINT 8 X 10" full-color $19.95 May ka that also appears on the cover #HCPR1 $7 For the first time, a tantric initia- of "Kalachakra. Tantra: Rite of tion ritual is presented in detail in Initiation". It comes to us from English.

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V.V>3-^ ^t*':L-ry-o :1:*:* LIMITED SUPPLY, The Tibet Guide ON SALE FOR 30* OFF! Stephen Batcheioi TREKKING IN THE HIMALAYAS, by Tomoya Iozawa. 208pp., many color and b&w pho- tos and other illustrations, #HTnH $24.95 Covering the entire range of 3500 kilometers, this is the most com- plete guidebook on trekking in the Himalayas. ALT \ LIMITED SUPPLY, OF THE ON SALE FOR 30* OFF! - EARTH TREKKING IN NEPAL, by Tom Nakano. Many color and b&w pho- Peter Gold tos and other illustrations, #HITIN $24.95 One of the very best guidebooks ALTAR OF THE EARTH, by Pe- pict a awe-inspiring landscape and and the heart of a lover."—Lama KATHMANDU AND THE to Nepal—and also a lavish photo ter Gold. 222pp., 22 color photos reveal the vitality and determina- KINGDOM OF NEPAL-A book of the Himalayas. ISLBKAE $14.95 tion of the pilgrims. Moran de- TRAVEL SURVIVAL KIT, by THE WAY OF THE WHITE Altar of the Earth is an excellent in- scribes their path in which every TO LHASA AND BEYOND, by Raj. 144pp. #LPKKN $7.95 CLOUDS: A BUDDHIST PIL- troduction to the experience of to- step has its own legend and every Giuseppe Tucci, Foreword by His day's Tibet—its people, places and Holiness the Dalai Lama 193pp. 24 MIPAM: A Tibetan Love Story, GRIM IN TIBET, by Lama feature of the landscape its own di- Anagarika Govinda. 305pp. matters of the spirit. vinity. photos #SLBKTLB $14.95 by Lama Yongden. 360pp., #SGM Engagingly written essays and Prof. Giuseppe Tucci was both a $9.95 #SHWWC $14.95 stunning color photographs capture SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET, by renowned orientalist and an adven- An account by Lama Govinda of Harrer. #SMSYT $8.95 THE POWER PLACES OF the beauty and magnificence of turer. He has received many awards his mystical pilgrimage through This exciting and enjoyable clas- CENTRAL TIBET: A PIL- Tibet. Central Tibet's most important sa- and honors for his scholarship, and sic work of travel and brilliant ob- GRIM'S GUIDE, Keith Dowman. cred and natural places—those his publications on history, art, ar- WIND BETWEEN THE servation is now reissued with 15 320pp., maps & photos #RKPP things which travelers will very like- chaeology and ethnology have been $15.95 WORLDS, by Robert Ford. 338pp. ly see but not fully understand from photographs. During WWII, Hein- translated into many languages. #SGWBW $12.95 rich Harrer, a youthful Austrian ad- lb Lhasa and Beyond is a fascinat- TIBET, by Elisabeth Booz. 208pp. reading ordinary guidebooks. #PATIB $9.95 Robert Ford, a former British Army venturer, escaped from an ing account of Tibet as it was pri- radio operator, was employed by the Altar of the Earth is a panoram- Tibet provides essential practical in- internment camp into Tibet to be- or to the upheavals following the Tibetan government to head their ic view of places that attract travelers formation about Lhasa—the prin- come a confidant to the young Dalai Chinese take-over in 1959. Prof. wireless station in Chamdo, East- to this ancient land: cipal city of business and Lama. Tucci takes the reader along the ern Tibet. When the Chinese forces Yarlung Valley: the Tibetans' devotion—and places far beyond. mythic origins, ancient kings, THE TIBET GUIDE, by Stephen roads he followed in 1949 and rev- invaded Eastern Tibet in 1950, Ford eals the people, religion, an, cus- Contains many beautiful color pho- shrines and monasteries including Batchelor. 500pp. #WIBKTG tographs! was captured. He spent five years Yumbu Lhakhang and Samye, and $26.95 toms and landscape of a country in a communist re-education cen- local village life. The Tibet Guide contains a histo- that very few Westerners ever had TIBET-A TRAVEL SURVIVAL ter. Upon his release in 1955, he Lhasa and Environs: the great ry of Tibet, a simple description the opportunity to see—Tibet was KIT, by Buckley and Strauss. returned to England where he wrote Jokhang temple, people and pil- of Tibetan Buddhism, details of a free country and its high civili- #LPTSK $7.95 his unique and intriguing story. grims, famous monasteries, the travel to Tibet, detailed explana- zation was intact. Contains many color photos and Reads like a well-written adventure Dalai Lamas and their dwellings: tions of the sites of interest in Lhasa, Intimate in style, this travelogue useful descriptions of the region. novel. the Potala and Norbu Lingka. central Tibet and en route from vividly captures for the reader Prof. Tibet's Heartland: Yamdrok Lhasa to Nepal, Mt. Kailas and Tucci's experiences in Tibet. Not Tso—the Turquoise Lake, Gyang- western Tibet, an iconographical only is this book entertaining, it MAPSI tse's monastery, Kumbum Chor- guide, and many maps photo- is also enriched by his vast knowl- ten and fortress—the tumultuous graphs. Winner of the Thomas edge of Tibetan art and culture. Re- history of this region and life in its Cook award. plete with photos and illustrations, this book is both a literary and a valley, Shigatse, Tashilungpo—seat TIBETAN PILGRIMAGE, by of the , and Sakya visual splendor. Peter Gold. 175pp., color photos, "Tucci's description of the time- Monastery—ancient seat of the #SLBKTPI $14.95 Sakya Order of Tibetan Buddhism. less civilization of the Tibetan peo- Travel not only stirs the blood, It ple is as perceptive and relevant Highlands of Southern Tibet: no- also gives birth to the spirit. madic life and the psychospiritual today as it was when he wrote the Peter Gold takes us on a won- book thirty years ago. It is hoped significance of the greatest moun- drous pilgrimage to the Tibetan tains on Earth. that this book will contribute to- communities of India and Nepal wards a better understanding of the BUDDHIST AMERICA: and offers us an intimate view of Tibetan people and their values."— Centers, Retreats, Practices, Don their art, spiritual practices, sacred His Holiness, the Dalai Lama Morreale, ed.. 360pp. 48 photos, places, arts, and way of life. #JMBA $12.95 Through his engaging and creative NEW Over 500 centers in N. America are style and superb color photos, Peter TREKKING IN NEPAL, WEST described in this "must have" brings us face-to-face with the heart TIBET AND BHUTAN, by Hugh directory of Buddhist centers. Con- of Tibetan life—its rugged practi- Swift. 420pp., 14 maps, photos, tains all pertinent details down to cality and spiritual mysteries. #SCNTB, $14.95 diet and the experiences of par- We share the author's experiences This Sierra Club Adventure Travel ticipants. An introduction by Jack in Dharamsala, India, headquar- Guide is essential for the novice or Kornfield is Mowed by many other ters of His Holiness the Dalai Lama veteran visitor. It provides a history essays and then pages and pages and the Tibetan government-in- of Himalayan trekking and covers describing Theravadin, Mahayana, exile. Peter discovers the world's natural history, scenic attractions, Vajrayana and other Buddhist most unusual museum at the Tibe- and cultural sites, peoples, and NEW OTHER MAPS centers. tan Library and the curative pow- events. There is lots of info on Kathmandu City: 1:10,000 NEPAL HIKING MAPS CYCLING TO XIAN and Oth- er of Tibetan medicine. The preparing for travel and other prac- #MLKC $5.95 er Excursions: Travels by Bicy- president of the Tibetan Women's tical guidance. It covers Tibet's Helambu, Langtang: 1:100,000 # India (North): 1:1.5 mil #MLIN 'Wide Open West' (including Mt. cle Through China & Tibet, Organization speaks frankly on the MLHL $9.95 $6.95 Michael Buckley. 256pp., 74 col- position of women in Tibetan so- Kailas, the headwaters of the In- Kathmandu Valley: 1:50,000 # Nepal: 1:.5 mil & 1:1.5 mil # or photos. #CHCTX $11.95 ciety. An oracle goes into trance as dus river, and the lost cities of MLKV $9.95 MLN $6.95 A simple jaunt to Shanghai sent the voice of a goddess speaks Tsaparang and Toling). Khumbu Himal: 1:50,000 # South-Central Tibet: 1:1 mil # Michael Buckley off on a lengthy through her body. Peter relates his Other Titles: MLKH $9.95 MLT $7.95 detour: a 4000-mile journey over- dramatic encounter with the INDIA-A TRAVEL SURVIVAL land to Kathmandu—half of it by preserved body of . KIT, by Crowther, Raj and Wheel- bicycle. This travel story takes you To cap the Tibetan Pilgrimage, er. 792pp. #LPITSK $17.95 through the bustling rural areas of Peter Gold joins two hundred thou- The best and most popular guide China and the bleak desert of cen- sand other pilgrims at Bodh Gaya, to India, winner of the Thomas tral Tibet. If you're partial to dirt, India—place of Sakyamuni Budd- Cook Guidebook of the Year award. bumps, dust, awful food, crazed ha's enlightenment—for the Want to find a houseboat in Kash- KAILAS Kalachakra Tantric Initiation un- THE SACRED MOUNTAIN dogs, high passes and high adven- mir or a palace in Rajasthan—or OF TIBET ture, this book supplies them all! der the direction of the Dalai Lama. your way around Dharamsala? The Amid a festival of deities, sights, facts are all in this definitive guide. NEW sounds and offerings, Peter leads THE SACRED MOUNTAIN OF us into the heart of the Kalachakra INTERNATIONAL BUD- TIBET: On Pilgrimage to Mount mandala and into the calm center DHIST DIRECTORY. 150pp. #WIBKIBD $8.95 Kailas, by Russell Johnson & Ker- of Buddhism. ry Moran. 128pp., 116 color plates, "You have captured the spirit of A JOURNEY IN LADAKH, by 8 3/4 x 10 1/2", #ITSMT, $24.95 Tibetan Buddhism by your capacity Harvey. 236pp. IHMJIL $7.95 Cloth, June of sharing the life and the convic- An exceptional and very well- Spectacular photography and viv- tions of the people who preserved written book, one whose magic is id narrative provide a journey their culture even in exile, and thus compounded by a singular blend- through the stunning Himalayan saved it for the rest of humanity. ing of the wondrous and the com- scenery to the majesty of Kailas, "Your descriptions and your ex- monplace, the sacred and the Asia's most sacred mountain. This periences. . .are deeply moving and hilarious. sublime, snow-clad pyramid of rock will teach even the uninitiated the KASHMIR, LADAKH AND has been visited by pilgrims for beauty and spiritual achievements ZANSKAR-A TRAVEL SUR- more than a thousand years. John- of Tibetan Buddhism. You have VIVAL KIT, by the Schettlers. son's magnificent photographs de- seen this through the eyes of a poet 203pp. #LPKLZ $7.95

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TIBETAN Methods & Materials THANGKA TAINTING

found mysticism, magical powers and often disturbing theophanic visions. The manuscript is thus also a pre- NEW cise manual of ritual practice and LHASA: TIBET'S FORBIDEN ritual paraphernalia as well as a CITY, byC.&F. Brignoli. 107 pp. unique artistic masterpiece. oversize, 79 color illus, TARA'S COLOURING BOOK, #SLBKLTFC $29.95 cloth by Weber and WeUings. #WIBKTCB The colorful imagery of Central $5.95 Tibet's largest monasteries and tem- Contains 12 exquisite line drawings ples is preserved in this coffee-table of famous figures from Tibet with book of photos. Documented well is Tibetan life in and about Lhasa explanations of their meaning and with special emphasis on the Potala, suggestions as to their color. Fun Barkhor area, Jokhang temple, for adults and children. Norbulingka, Drepung, and Sera TIBET, by Pietro F. Mele; intro. by Monasteries. Michael C. van Walt van Praag 9 1/2 x 9 1/2" ISLBKT $25 NEW Pietro Francesco Mele is regarded painting using modern techniques THE HIDDEN HIMALAYAS, by MOUNTAINS OF THE MID- as one of the world's most outstand- BUDDHIST ART OF THE and commercially available materi- Tom Kelly & Carroll Dunham. DLE KINGDOM, by Galen ing photographers. He was the offi- TIBETAN PLATEAU, ed. by Liu als by the highly respected thang- 200pp., color photo book, #ABHH Rowell. 192pp. color photos, cial photographer of an Italian Lizhong. 358pp., 13" x 10 1/2", ka painter, Robert Beer. He has also $45 #SIMMK $19.95 expedition through India to Tibet 665 color photos, #CBBA, $100 added many line drawings of the This is one of the finest photo books An extraordinary photo-exploration led by Professor Giuseppe Tucci, cloth primary deities to show the ge- on Himalayan culture we have ever of the scenery and peoples of Tibet one of the greatest authorities on Published by China Books, this col- ometrical proportions. seen! Not only are the pictures great and Western China. Rowell recre- Tibetan history, literature and re- lection captures some of the most Tibetan Thangka Painting is the but the book is well-designed and ates the journeys of past explorers ligion. This opportunity gave Mele beautiful art to be found at the Bud- first detailed description of the tech- interesting to read. Tom Kelly and in the mountainous areas of a unique opportunity to partake in dhist Monasteries in Tibet. Divided niques and principles of the sacred Carroll Dunham take you to remote vanished Turkestan and Tibet—a Tibetan life. This book presents a into sections covering architecture, art of Tibetan scroll painting. Not Humla, one of the most unusual photographic portrait illuminated series of photos that exemplify Tibe- sculpture, painting, relics and only does this book document an places in the world. Beautiful, bit- by stunning color photos and ex- tan culture. Each page frames a facet monastic activities. The text is writ- ancient and in some ways endan- ter, joyous, and holy, it is an an- tensive descriptions of his ex- of the Tibetan people and Tibetan ten from the Chinese viewpoint of gered tradition, but it can also serve cient territory bordering Tibet, periences in these regions. landscape. Tibet. as a useful guide for artists. This hidden in the Himalayas. Here is MYSTIC ART OF ANCIENT In his introduction, Michael van A PORTRAIT OF LOST TIBET, book presents, step-by-step, the an intimate, moving adventure in TIBET, Blanche c. Olschak & Geshe Walt updates the reader on the ma- by Rosemary Jones Tung, Photographs techniques by which a thangka is one of the last truly exotic places Thupten Wangyal. 224pp., 142 color jor events in Tibet that have oc- by Ilya Tolstoy & Brooke Dolan. made, from the preparation of the on earth. plates, 372 b&w, #SHMAT $32.50 curred since Mele traveled there. 224pp. #SLBKPLT $15.95 canvas to the final application of HIDDEN TIBET: The Land and This profusely-illustrated, classic Cataclysmic changes have drasti- Here is a photographic evocation the sacred syllables behind each Its People, by Roger Hicks. 160 pp., presentation of Tibetan art reveals cally altered the face of Tibet, mak- of Tibetan culture just before its completed figure. photos #ELHT $16.95 May a new sphere of ancient art and con- ing this book's record historically massive destruction during the Chi- Included is a description of the This collection of stunning photo- veys its spiritual meaning. The 142 valuable as well as artistically nese occupation. In these 131 rare pigments, how they are mixed and graphs provides a fascinating insight color and 372 b&w illustrations in- beautiful. how applied. The theories under- and handsome photographs, A Por- into the life, culture and religion clude painted scrolls, gilded TIBETAN BUDDHIST ART, lying the painting method are elabo- trait of Lost Tibet gives an unfor- of Tibet—pre- and post-communist. bronzes, sculptures in wood and Hiroki Fujita. 203pp. 8 1/2x11 rated, and different chapters gettable glimpse into this exotic By combining rare pictures from stone, and Tibetan icons of the 3/4", 104 large color photos, introduce the reader to the basic land, as recorded by Brooke Do- the Dalai Lama's own collection saints and gurus of Tibetan #POTBA $80 principles of composition, color and lan and Ilya Tolstoy (grandson of and other sources with his own ex- Buddhism. This massive work contains many figural proportions. the writer), as they traveled through citing and dramatic photographs, outstanding photos of art and life A wealth of line drawings and NEW the country in 1942 on a diplomatic Roger Hicks captures the mood and and landscape. After a foreword by photographs illustrates the steps and THE RELIGION OF ART, by mission for the Allies. Their ten- spirit of the Forbidden Kingdom H.H. the Dalai Lama, there are the many line drawings of symbols Sangharakshita. 170pp., #SBRA, month trek produced thousands of and its remarkable people. chapters on Tibet, the Himalaya and motifs will greatly aid the artist. $11.50 photographs that represent the best and the monasteries, followed by Robert Beer discusses in great de- NEW True religion and true art should pictorial study of original Tibetan thangkas representing the life of the tail how to use modern techniques IMAGES OF ENLIGHTEN- both aim to expand our conscious- civilization. Buddha, eight great scholars, four and materials. This is an outstand- MENT, by Jonathan Landaw. ness, to give access to states of Tibet is shown here at a time great founders of schools, the Kings ing section and makes this book 160pp., 24 full-color plates, 6 line heightened awareness. when nomads roamed the vast cen- of Shambala, Panchen Lamas, Ling tral plateau, when religious festivals really useful for Western artists. drawings, #THIE, $15.95 Aug SECRET VISIONS OF THE This is a clear introduction to the Rinpoche, the Dalai Lamas. These punctuated the year, and when yaks FIFTH DALAI LAMA: The are each extensively described. and ponies provided the only trans- Other Titles: inner world of Tibetan Buddhist Gold Manuscript in the Found- portation. In these pages all levels sacred art. Some of the most im- er Collection, by Samten Gyaltsen TIBETAN COLLECTION: DOLPO: Hidden Land of the portant images are represented here SCULPTURE AND PAINT- of Tibetan society come to life, from Himalayas, by Diane Summers & Karmay. Measures 10 x 14 1/2", lavishly-dressed nobility to (painted by Andy Weber) and the 260pp. (104pp. color illus.) #SPSV ING, by Valrae Reynolds, Amy Eric Valli. 108pp. #APD $39.95 text explains how each figure plays Heller, Janet Gyatso. 208pp. #NM-3 sheepskin-clad nomads, from Dolpo is one of the last enclaves $190 monks performing ritual dances to its part in the tradition of spiritu- This beautifully painted tantric $20 of traditional Tibetan culture, a land al self-transformation to which it Contains photos of sculpture, in- peasants plowing with yaks. where valleys lie at elevations as high manuscript recounts the visionary Accompanying the photographs belongs. experiences of the Great Fifth Dalai cluding metal, wood, ivory, lacquer, as the tallest peaks of Europe and stone and clay; thangkas, includ- is a text by Rosemary Tung which mountains soar beyond the reach MANDALA COLORING PAD, Lama, Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso describes Tibetan society in its time Janet Izard, 23 measur- (1617-1682). A new discovery, it ing painted, appliqued and embroi- of humans. Dolpo is the setting of dered examples; wall paintings; and of splendor—a fascinating look at Peter Matthiessen's mystic quest in ing 11 x 11", #DDMCP1 $5.95 was hitherto totally concealed from a people once totally removed from This is a fun book for anyone who Tibetans and others alike. Recently iconography, including body po- The Snow Leopard. sitions, gestures, and symbols as- the modern world. This book will The authors spent a year among likes to color mandala patterns. It acquired for the Fournier Collec- make a great gift! also makes a good gift to children tion, it is only now that this extraor- sociated with deities. Janet Gyatso the Dolpo villagers and captured has written an excellent chapter on TIBETAN THANGKA PAINT- in stunning color photographs a or quester friends. AND, if you dinary document comes to light and really like "Mandala Coloring Pad", is available for study. "Image as Presence: The Place of ING: Methods & Materials, by Buddhist people whose lives are in- Art in Tibetan Religious Thinking''. David P. & Janice A. Jackson with fused with a profound spiritual har- you are sure to like volume The Fifth Dalai Lama was a skill- appendix by Robert Beer. 216pp. mony. In the accompanying essay, 2-MORE MANDALA, ful politician and outstanding states- 8-1/4" x 11-3/4" #SLBKTTP Diane Summersevokes the lively, DDMCP2, for another $5.95 which man. With the publication of the $24.95 occasionally rihgld, and yet always we also have stocked now. The Gold Manuscript, another aspect This is a new up-dated edition with spiritual nature of the people. pages are detachable so that you can of the life of this great ruler is now valuable guidelines for thangka decorate your house. unveiled: an inner world of pro-

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which has been authoritative for the PORTRAIT OF A DALAI whole of Tantric Buddhism. LAMA: The Life and Times of LIFE AND TEACHING OF the Great Thirteenth, Sir Charles TSONG KHAPA, by Thurman. Bell. 450pp. IWIBKPDL $22.95 258pp. #LTLTT $11.95 The author was the British Politi- cal Representative to Tibet during NEW the crucial early years of this cen- THE LIFE & TEACHINGS OF tury. Fluent in Tibetan, he became CHOKGYUR LINGPA, Orgyen closely associated with the Thir- Tobegal Rinpoche. 70pp. #LTCL teenth Dalai Lama and the turbu- $7.95 lent affairs of that time. This is an A biography of the great terton of immensely readable personal ac- the 19th century as well as descrip- count of the life of this great Tibetan tions of his revealed treasures, fol- leader and the events that helped lowing incarnations and family shape modern Tibet. lineage. One-third of the Rinchen PRINCE SIDDHARTHA, by Terzog as practiced in the Karma Landaw & Brooke. Color drawings Kagyu and Nyingma lineages was #WIBKPS $15.95 revealed by him. A delightful children's book on the THE LIFE OF MARPA THE life of . TRANSLATOR, Trans- THE SUPERHUMAN LIFE OF lation Committee. 320pp. #SHLMT NEW Alexandra David-Neel, one of the ATISHA AND THE BUDD- GESAR OF LING, Trans, by Alex- $12.95 great women of modern times. HISM OF TIBET, by Doboom andra David-Neel & Lama Yong- ADVENTURES OF A TIBE- This lively and engrossing biogra- Tulku & Glenn H Mullin. #TIABT den, Foreword by Chogyam Trungpa TAN FIGHTING MONK, com- NEW phy paints a vivid picture of an $4.95 Rinpoche. 271pp. #SHSLG $14.95 piled by Hugh Richardson. 135 pp., eleventh-century scholar and teach- MASTERS OF ENCHANT- The legendary adventures of a #POAFM $8.95 THE CHARIOT FOR TRAVEL- er who was one of the most re- MENT, by Keith Bowman, 30 il- great, fearless warrior-king are re- This engaging story tells the life of LING THE PATH TO FREE- nowned masters in Tibetan lustrations by Robert Beer. #TTME, counted in this Tibetan national Tashi Khedrup prior to 1959: born DOM: THE LIFE STORY OF Buddhist history. $24.95 oversize cloth epic. 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HISTORY & POLITICSI A Long Look Homeward Aa Interview with the Dalai Lama oi Tibet The Status of Tibet ] N E X I i.j E History, Rights, and Prospects F R OM T , i E in International Law- L A N I) F TIBBrtOBAY s Nj q Michael C. van Walt van Praag

1 JOHN F 4VED01N ing the unresolved Sino-Tibetan NEW Richardson writes from firsthand conflict and its importance among SOCIAL FACE OF BUDD- knowledge of Tibet and its people. NEW and well-written record of the de- the broader issues of Asian politics. HISM: Action and Analysis, by He opens with a brief but thorough FOR CHILDREN struction of an ancient civilization, TIBET TODAY: Current Condi- Ken Jones. 328pp. #WIBKSPA description of Tibet's geography, A , BOOK and of the reconstruction abroad tions and Prospects, John Avedon. $18.95 forthcoming economy, language, government, peo- 1 & BOOK 2, published by the Tibe- of Tibetan culture. 32pp. #WIBKTT $3.95 Spiritual practice is too often seen ple, and culture. He traces the evo- tan Children's Village: A LONG LOOK HOMEWARD: John Avedon assesses the legacy of as separate, even contrary, to social lution of rule from the early religious BOOK1: THE LAND OF An Interview with the Dalai Lama nearly forty years of Chinese rule and political action. In this book, kings to the Dalai Lamas and in- SNOWS, by Christopher Gibb. of Tibet, by Glenn H. Mullin. 29 in Tibet, and looks at the future Ken Jones, a Zen Buddhist and ac- terprets the events the led to the Chi- 93pp., many illustrations and pho- pages, #SLBKLLH $2 prospects of survival for Tibet as tivist, shows convincingly that in feet nese Communist invasion in 1959. tos, #POLOS, $6.95 In this interview, His Holiness a nation with its own unique cul- a combination of both is vital. TIBETAN COLLECTION: GE- This history of Tibet, written for openly expresses his views on many tural identity. He speaks both to those who are OGRAPHY, HISTORY, RELIG- children up to 15 years old, is a con- timely political issues, on himself already committed to social acti- ION, ARCHITECTURE AND cise, colorful and lively introduc- as a spiritual and secular leader, on Other Titles: vism but are turning away from SOCIETY, by Valrae Reynolds & tion to the history and daily life of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, and A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF 1500 conventional solutions out of dis- Amy Heller. #NM-1 $12.50. the Tibetan people. on the likelihood of himself travel- YEARS OF TIBETAN HISTO- illusionment and to those who are The Newark Museum's Tibetan BOOK2: INDEPENDENCE TO ing to Tibet. RY, Louis Magrath King. 51pp. working spiritually within them- collection is one of the finest in the EXILE, by Christopher Gibb. 94pp., THE STATUS OF TIBET His- #POBA $3.00. selves and feel compelled to act in world. This book covers many many illustrations and photos, tory, Rights, and Prospects in In- the world as well. This book is full topics and is illustrated with 52 pho- #POIE, $6.95 A CULTURAL HISTORY OF of ideas, quotes, examples and al- tographs of traditional life ternational Law, by Michael C. van TIBET, by David Snellgrove & Well-illustrated presentation of the Walt van Praag. 450pp. cloth, ternative approaches—above all, it (pre-1959) drawn from the exten- Tibetan political history and the Hugh Richardson. 291pp. #SHCHT is a book to inspire action. sive archives of the Museum. #WVST $35 $12.95 events leading up to and beyond This study reviews the history of TIBET: A POLITICAL HISTO- WARRIORS OF TIBET: The the Chinese invasion. This is a comprehensive survey of the Tibetan state from its unifica- a rapidly vanishing civilization, in RY, by Tsepon W. D Shakabpa. Story of Aten and the Khampas' IN EXILE FROM THE LAND tion in the seventh century to its which the authors trace the evolu- 369pp. #POTPH $15.00 Fight for the Freedom of their OF SNOWS, by Avedon. 386pp. present disputed incorporation into tion of Tibetan culture from its Essential reading for anyone in- Country, by Jamyang Norbu. #RHELS $9.95 the People's Republic of China. A sixth-century pre-Buddhist origins terested in Asian affairs. 160pp. #WIBKWT $12.95 This is the first full account of the definitive record of the legal sta- onward. Contains many photos. TIBET AND ITS HISTORY, by This is a poignant story of a Tibe- Dalai Lama and Tibet since the tus of Tibet, the book provides a Hugh Richardson. 344pp. #SHTH tan Khampa warrior, Aten, and his Chinese conquest. It is a stunning much-needed basis for understand $10.95 people of Nyarong.

SNOW LION SPRING 89 NEWSLETTER AND CATALOG 30 LANGUAGE/WOMEN'S STUDIES/ZEN LANGUAGEI STUDIESBB IZENI . such topics as meditation, martial FEMININE GROUND arts, illness and healing, art prac- tssays on Women and Tibet TURNING .-■ i tice, work and study with the Edited by lanice Willis teacher. ' thcWHEEL NEW RETURNING TO SILENCE: Zen Practice in Dairy Life, by Dai- if^--'- nin Katagiri. 208 pp., #SHRS, $12.95 WkfaJM^* Based on the author's talks to his American students, Returning to Si- ' "l lence contains the basic teachings 8Hr of the Buddha, with special em- phasis on the meaning of faith and Am&leetn Wmum Omtwg on meditation. Throughout these ja^p*wa^ft: TheNW Bu&fc&m pages, Katagiri roshi energetical- Sm$? Boucher ; ly brings to life the message that "Buddha is your daily life." NEW NEW with Tibetans in the West will find cusses the meaning of Buddhist or- Collection of essays on Zen prac- THE SWORD OF NO-SWORD: ENGLISH-TIBETAN DIC- this book invaluable. dination, the value of celibacy, the tice and its relation to personal, so- Life of the Master Warrior Tes- TIONARY OF MODERN TIBE- Tibetan Phrasebook begins by in- role of women in the Dharma, and cial and political questions integral shu, by John Stevens. 184pp., 60 TAN, byMebyn Goldstein. 486pp., troducing you to both a phonetic the particular importance of ordi- to the lives of contemporary women illus., #SHSNS, $14.95 #UCETD $52.50 cloth system and a simple yet complete nation for women. and men. A master of swordsmanship, cal- The first scholarly dictionary of its grammar. In addition to contain- Female Buddhist renunciates SKY DANCER: THE SECRET ligraphy, and Zen, Yamaoka Tess- kind by the world's leading lex- ing phrases and dialogues, each from East and West talk about their LIFE AND SONGS OF THE hu embodied the samurai ideal of icographer of modern Tibetan. It chapter is preceded by useful in- lives—their joys, their problems, LADY YESHE TSOGYEL, by the peaceful warrior during the tur- is essential for everyone who wants formation, vocabulary, and some and their future as Buddhist nuns Dowman. 350pp. #RKPSD $17.95 bulent era that marked the birth to write or speak modern Tibetan. pointers about Tibetan customs and in the modern world. This is a book The spiritual practices and evolu- of modern Japan. With its 16,000 main entries and etiquette. The appendices include aimed at linking and encouraging tion of the famous woman saint NEW 29,000 subentries, ranging from the these helpful sections: Numbers, women on the spiritual path Yeshe Tsogyel. Dates, Days and Time, Dates of through the ideas and experience THE THREE PILLARS OF technical and scholarly to the idi- WOMEN & BUDDHISM, ZEN, by Roshi . omatic and colloquial, this is the Festivals, Religious and Monastic of Buddhist women practitioners Vocabulary and a General from various countries and tradi- Spring Wind-Buddhist Cultural 400pp., illustrations, #DDTPZ, best dictionary available for mod- Forum. 400pp. #SWWB $17 $10.95 ern Tibetan. Vocabulary. tions. It investigates how women Though the clear and simple can avoid personal exploitation and An interesting collection of articles ' 'An excellent book—one of the best form of romanization ensures that maximize their potentialities for primarily concerning women's is- yet written and certainly one to be- you will be understood, the tapes enlightenment—how to effective- sues in the context of Buddhism. come both basic and indispensa- complement the book so that you ly help institute full bhiksuni or- The writers relate their personal ex- ble to anyone interested in Zen can actually hear and practice how dination worldwide and contribute periences and informed views on Buddhism... So simple, so basic, the words and phrases are spoken to redressing the gender imbalance many topics ranging from feminist so right.. .a necessary, a needed by a native. Unlike the sometimes as a major step toward planetary ideas about compassion, Buddhist book. 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Bardo Teachings Buddha Mind An Antlwtogj ai Longchen Kamjam* of DeaiSj and Rebirth Writing* two Diogpa thenpo

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Emphasizes the im- Jeffrey Hopkins, Co-ed. by Anne MIND by Geshe Ngawang Dhar- of Longchen Rabjam's Writings describes it? In examining this ques- portance of being peace in order Klein. 263pp. #SLBKCTB $10.95 gyey. 441pp. #LTWSA $14.95 on Dzogpa Chenpo, Tulku Thon- tion, Alan Wallace discusses two to make peace. opposing views: the 'realist' view, Compassion in Tibetan Buddhism NEW dup Rinpoche, Ed. by Harold Tal- presents methods for generating BEYOND THERAPY: The Im- bott, 482pp., #SLBKBM $18.95 which argues that scientific theories THE ART OF HAPPINESS: pact of Eastern Religions on Psy- represent objective reality, and the compassion according to oral and Teachings of Buddhist Psychol- Buddha Mind is an anthology of written traditions of Tibetan Bud- chological Theory, ed. Guy Clax- writings on Dzogpa Chenpo (Dzog- 'instrumentalist' view, which states ogy, by MirkoFryba. 368pp., illus., ton. 352pp. #WIBKBT/ $18.95 that our human concepts cannot dhism. Its chapters unfold the stages chen) by Longchen Rabjam of the bodhisattva's development #SHAH, $15.95 The impact of Buddhism on psy- presume to describe what exists in- (1308-1363), the most celebrated and provide practical instruction Based on the earliest works of Bud- chological thought was the topic of dependently of them. Finding both writer and adept of the Nyingmapa for aspirants to Buddhahood. dhist psychology and philosophy a recent British Psychological So- inadequate, the author goes on to School of Tibetan Buddhism. Part One: Meditations of a Tan- (), this book offers ad- ciety conference. How Buddhist explore a middle way between the Dzogpa Chenpo is the innermost tric Abbot—by Kensur Lekden. vice and 30 practical techniques for ideas about self, identity and per- two and shows the relevance for esoteric philosophy and meditation Intimate in style, these meditations nurturing one's innate capacity for sonality go beyond or can be in- modern physics of Buddhist con- training, which, until recent de- take one through the steps of cul- happiness. True happiness, the au- terpreted in terms of current psy- templative methods of investigat- cades, was only whispered into the tivating heartfelt love and compas- thor states, cannot be manufactured chological concepts is presented. ing reality. ears of heart-disciples by the learned sion. These "meditations" were or conjured up but arises spontane- Also considered is the research on masters. Dzogpa Chenpo employs CHOYANG, by the Council for Re- given in America in 1970. ously when one is freed from ex- meditation, the value of contem- ligious and Cultural Affairs of H.H. ternal conditioning. a meditative technique which ef- Part Two: Way of Compassion porary therapeutic techniques and fortlessly uncovers the emotional the Dalai Lama #CTC-Y $12.95 (see —by Tsong-ka-pa discusses the im- ARYASURA'S ASPIRATION the question of spiritual develop- and intellectual layers of the mind Kalachakra section). portance of compassion at all levels AND A MEDITATION ON ment and personal development. and instantly awakens the essen- THE CHRIST AND THE BOD- of the path, detailing its types, and COMPASSION, by H.H. the Dalai THE BODHGAYA INTER- tial nature of the mind, which is HISATTVA, by Donald S. Lopez, describing the deeds motivated by Lama, trans. Brian Beresford. 148 pp. VIEWS 1981-85, His Holiness the Buddha Mind or Buddhahood Jr. & S. C. Rockefeller, Editors. it. #LTAA $6.95 Dalai Lama, Ed. by Jose Ignacio itself. 274pp. #SUCB $14.95 The combination of Kensur Lek- A bodhisattva's aspirational prayer Cabezon. 104pp., photos, Buddha Mind has two parts. The The contemporary significance of den's meditations and Tsong-ka- in seventy stanzas by Aryasura is #SLBKBI $8.95 (see Dalai Lama first half of the book is an introduc- the Christ and the Bodhisattva is pa's detailed explanation affords a supplemented by a rare commen- section). tion which summarizes Buddhist explored in essays by theologians unique blend of the oral and written tary. Contains also a sadhana on the and Buddhist scholars. Langdon traditions of Tibetan Buddhism on inseparability of the spiritual master BRIDGING THE SUTRAS teachings ranging from the com- AND TANTRAS, by the First mon exoteric view up to the unique Gilkey, Brother David Steindl-Rast, the principal motivation for enlight- and Avalokiteshvara; and a dis- and Ann Belford Ulanov examine enment, compassion. course by the Dalai Lama on the Dalai Lama & Glenn H. Mullin. view, meditation and result of 288pp. #SLBKSW1 $12.95 Dzogpa Chenpo. Every point is ex- the significance of the Christ from A COMPENDIUM OF WAYS activation of compassion and bod- the Catholic contemplative tradi- hicitta. (includes Tibetan text). In these sixteen works by the First tensively illustrated with quotations OF KNOWING, A-kya Yong-dzin Dalai Lama, ranging from mind from the scriptures and early tion, depth psychology, and liberal Yangchen Gawai Lodro. 67pp. AWAKENING THE MIND OF training to Highest Yoga Tantra, the writings. Protestantism. 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One of the best books on the com- Supreme Compassion is a support- WAY OF DEATH AND RE- stage yogas, representing the highest BUDDHA NATURE: The Seed pletion stage yogas. ing text recommended for students BIRTH, by Ven. Lama Lodo. and most powerful teachings of the of Happiness, Ven. Thrangu A COMMENTARY ON GURU wishing to perfect the practice of 73 pp. #SLBKBTE $5.95 Buddha brought to Tibet, is trans- Rinpoche. 180pp. #ESBN $13.95 YOGA & OFFERING OF THE Chenrezi. Little is known in the West about lated here with permission of His Buddha Nature expounds in a sim- MANDALA, by Geshe Lobsang THE CREATIVE VISION: The the experiences that occur during Holiness, the present Dalai Lama. ple way the profound points of the Tharchin. 80pp., #SLBKCGY Developing Phase of Tibetan Tan- and after death. In the tradition of Arya Tara: probably the most Uttara Tantra which forms a vital $6.95 tra, Herbert Guenther. 192pp. Tibetan Buddhism, some of the widely practiced devotions among link to vajrayana practice. Guru yoga is one of the most ac- #LOCV $25 great lamas, through direct ex- both Tibetan and Western Budd- cessible and profound practices for Life, according to The Creative Vi- perience, have delved into the hists. Included with the Twenty- BUDDHISM IN THE TIBE- spiritual development. By his words sion, evolves by recreating and re- processes of dying and rebirth and one Verses in Praise of Arya Tara—a TAN TRADITION: A GUIDE, and living example, the teacher envisioning the experienced world. have unravelled many of the mys- basis for numerous Tara practices- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. 132pp. serves as the representative of the teries for us. In Bardo Teachings, #RKBT $12.95 Tibetans developed a complex ar- are the complete texts for three Buddha's doctrines. The guru, as ray of symbols to express their in- Lama Lodo presents much of this popular sadhanas of Green and BUDDHISM OF TIBET, by His a spiritual friend, helps students sight into life. material, and through a series of White Tara practice. Holiness the Dalai Lama, Trans. & to discover their own Buddha- questions and answers clears up Lo-jong: the heart of all Ma- Ed. by Jeffrey Hopkins. 219pp. nature; by their practice of guru THE CRYSTAL AND THE many misconceptions that students hayana teachings. A detailed com- #SLBKBT $12.95 (see Dalai Lama yoga meditation the enlightened WAY OF LIGHT: Sutra, Tantra have about the death process. mentary on the seven aspects of section) qualities of the Buddha become and Dzogchen, by Namkhai Norbu, "Bardo Teachings is remarkable Atisha's method of training the Compiled and Ed. by John Shane. 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It is as true a Forces of Evil to Dust, a traditional (1599-1655) offers three levels of structions for their practice. 542pp. #UCCT $14.95 guide to tantric Buddhism's view biography of the First Dalai Lama interpretation: social, Buddhist, and No matter what path one follows, The practices and philosophic basis of life and death as can be found as well as biographical sketches on meditational. the only way that one can actually of tantra and in particular the Tara in print."—San Francisco Chronicle all fourteen Dalai Lamas are in- THE BUDDHIST TANTRAS: achieve Buddhahood is through ac- Tantra are featured: initiation and BEING NOBODY, GOING NO- cluded. ,-tp LIGHT ON INDO-TIBETAN cumulating enlightening power, and ritual service; offerings, praises and WHERE, Ayya . 192pp., "There is {ip other book on the ESOTERICISM, by Alex Wayman. mandala offering is a most effec- prayer. 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in monastic ceremony, folklore, by integrating "intrinsic awareness" pletely denies any concrete, solid to all the major sacred texts of Bud- pa. In the east, the principal mon- literature, magic, art, medicine and with the current of life itself. Origi- status to the world around us and dhism. The author summarizes the astery of these six is the glorious divination. nal Tibetan text and full commen- yet still maintains a valid presen- essential teachings of each text and and powerful Palyul. This book NEW tary on the methods of practice, tation of that world based on prin- places it in both a doctrinal and presents a comprehensive explana- suitable for new and experienced ciples of ethics. historical context. A valuable refer- tion of the extraordinary Palyul tra- CUTTING THROUGH AP- practitioners. PEARANCES: Practice and The- THE DHARMA that Benefits All ence book. dition. Within this tradition, the ory of Tibetan Buddhism, by Geshe DAILY RECITATIONS OF Beings Impartially Like the Light THE EXCELLENT PATH OF Non-dual Great Seal Mahamudra- Sopa & Jeffrey Hopkins. 376pp., PRELIMINARIES, by Library of of the Sun and Moon, by Kalu ENLIGHTENMENT, H.H. Great Perfection Ati Yoga and the Tibetan Works and Archives. Rinpoche. 222pp. #SUD $10.95 #SLBKCTA $15.95 Rinpoche. 120pp. Kama and Terma lineages are joined #LTDRP $2.50 A major collection of teachings by Here is an authentic presentation #ESEPE $9.95 together as one great river of of the fundamental aspects of the Contained here are the Tibetan, the Venerable Kalu Rinpoche. Co- practice. phonetic and translated versions of vered are: Mahamudra, women, Teachings on the tantric prelimi- practice and theory of Tibetan Bud- nary practices of the Nyingma THE GARLAND OF MA- dhism, set down in a beautiful text requisite practices such as the seven- , vows, mandala, bardo, the limbed puja, the mandala offering, four dharmas of Gampopa, the four School of Buddhism including HAMUDRA PRACTICES, Trans, especially useful to those interested liturgy, calligraphy and line draw- by Khenpo Rinpochay Konchog in the study and practice of this tra- praise to Manjushri and others. noble truths, etc. ings by one of the greatest living Gyaltsen, Co-trans. &Ed. by Kathar- dition. The first part of the book, NEW DOOR OF LIBERATION, by Geshe Wangyal. #LODOL $7.95 masters. Based on a text by Jamyang ine Rogers, Intro, by H.H. the a meditation manual written by the THE DALAI LAMA AT HAR- Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rin- Fourth Pan-chen Lama Contains texts that the Venerable Khyentse Wangpo, the former in- VARD: Lectures on the Buddhist pochay. 140pp. #SLBKGMP$9.95 (1781-1852), covers much of the Geshe Wangyal used to train his carnation of His Holiness, these Path to Peace, H.H. the Dalai Gampopa, a disciple of Milarepa daily practice of Tibetan monks and students. teachings cover ngondro for all Lama, trans. [ ed. by Jeffrey Hop- who lived in the 11th century, yogis. It details how to prepare for DRINKING THE MOUNTAIN Nyingma lineages. kins. 255pp. #SLBKDLHP $12.95 brought together the Mahamudra and how to conduct a meditation paper, #SLBKDLHC $22.95 cloth STREAM, by Lama Kunga Rin- EXPERIENCE OF INSIGHT: A teachings of the Buddha into one session that contains within it the (see Dalai Lama section). poche & Cutillo. #LODMS $12 SIMPLE AND DIRECT GUIDE five-fold path, to which his main important essentials of the entire DEATH AND DYING: The Eighteen previously unpublished TO BUDDHIST MEDITA- scope of the Buddhist path. It is stories and songs of Milarepa. disciple, Pakmo Druba gave the Tibetan Tradition, by Glenn H. TION, by Goldstein. 169pp. #SHEI name "The Profound Five-Fold a highly practical text with noth- Mullin #ARDD $12.95 DZOG CHEN AND ZEN, by $10.95 ing said that does not fit directly Namkhai Norbu. #ZZDCZ $5.00 Path of Mahamudra". This authoritative book covers A classic of clear, practical instruc- Jigten Sumgon, the successor of into an actual meditation. It gives topics such as meditation techniques Presents the principle of Dzog Chen tion on meditation and themes that Pakmo Druba, founded the instruction on the preparations for to prepare for death, inspirational teaching, which, like that of Zen, support its proper practice. Drikung Kagyu order and taught a session of pracice and then how accounts of the deaths of saints and is self-perfectedness, the already- to develop an intention to leave cy- yogis, and methods to facilitate the being-perfect of every individual. FABLES OF WISDOM, Malik. Mahamudra extensively. The fif- clic existence, how to cultivate love, 153pp., #INFW $11.95 cloth teenth successor of Jigten Sumgon, transition to new modes of con- DZOGCHEN: INNERMOST compassion, and an altruistic in- Kunga Rinchen, composed a man- sciousness at death. ESSENCE, by Tulku Thondup. Each and every tale of "Fables of tention to highest enlightenment, Wisdom" has some basic moral ual of practical instructions for the DEATH, INTERMEDIATE #LTDIE $6.95, out of stock, will how to meditate on selflessness, and teaching for the reader. These sto- practice of Mahamudra in medi- STATE AND REBIRTH, by Lati be reprinted, backorder. what to do at the end of the session. tation. Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen Rinbochay & Jeffrey Hopkins 86pp. ries, drawn from different The second part presents a solid ECHOES OF VOIDNESS, by has provided an introduction to the #SLBKD $6.95 Geshe Rabten. #WIBKEOV $8.95 scriptures—Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh introduction to the theory behind and Muslim—not only entertain but text which explains many essential the practice. Written by Gon-chok- Anyone interested in the stages and EMPTINESS YOGA, by Jeffrey process of death and dying will find also spiritually uplift the reader. points of the five-fold path of Ma- jik-may-wang-bo in the eighteenth Hopkins. 510pp. #SLBKEYP hamudra practice. century, it covers the entire spec- this book indispensable. The $19.95; cloth #SLBKEYC $35 THE FINE ARTS OF CON- trum of the Indian schools of te- Highest Yogas Tantras are based on This is an absorbing and highly CENTRATION, RELAXATION THE GEM ORNAMENT of nets as they were viewed in Tibet. simulating the processes of death, readable presentation of the highest AND MEDITATION: Practical Manifold Oral Instructions Which ''/■The topics include the two truths, intermediate states and rebirth, so development in Buddhist insight. Tools and Guidelines for Daily Benefits Each and Everyone Ap- consciousness, the hindrances to en- it is important for the practitioner Professor Jeffrey Hopkins Life, by Joel Levey. 350pp. propriately, by His Eminence Kalu to know how humans die—the lightenment, the paths to freedom, —considered by many to be the #WIBKFAC $14.95 Rinpoche. 206pp., photos, and the fruits of practice. stages of death and the physiolog- foremost contemporary Western #SLBKGO $12.95 ical reasons behind them. This text This is a very practical book, writ- In this second edition, the book authority on Tibetan Buddhism- ten in workbook style. 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Stephen Batch- tradition. TO THE SAVIOURESS, Trans. the newly developing awareness of per 239pp. #SLBKKCI $10.95 (see lor. 199pp. #LTGBW $11.95 HIGHEST YOGA TANTRA, by & Ed. by Martin Willson. 480 pp. Tibetan Buddhism in America. Dalai Lama section). This book is very often recom- Daniel Cozort. 192pp. #SLBKHYT #WIBKIPT $26.95 Geshe Wangyal's early students have in turn become leading Bud- KING UDRAYANA AND THE mended to students of Mahayana. $10.95 Included are a history of the ori- WHEEL OF LIFE, by Sermey It is a practical guide for aspirants Highest Yoga Tantra is supreme gin of the Tantra of Tara, canoni- dhist scholars and practitioners. During the 28 years that the late Geshe Lobsang Tharchin. 248 pp. and followers of the bodhisattva among yogas. This presentation of cal texts, sadhanas for practice, and #MSKU $9.50 path. 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Khenpo A Handbook of Tibetan Medita- Spring NEW • physical isolation • verbal isola- Gyaltsen, the abbot for the Drikung tion Techniques, by Ngakpa Several years in the Tibetan monas- tion • mental isolation • illusory in North America, has produced Chogyam. 288pp. #ELJV $13.95 tic curriculum are devoted to study THE HEART OF UNDER- body • clear light • union this handbook especially for West- Ngakpa Chogyam offers here a of the Sautrantika tenet system, for STANDING: Commentaries on Part Four compares the Kala- ern students. previously unpublished collection it is here that the basis for Mad- the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, chakra and Guhyasamaja stages of n Search of the Stainless Ambro- of practical Tibetan meditation tech- hyamika epistemology is found. by Thick Nhat Hanh. 72pp., completion. sia provides the practitioner with niques. The systemization of Sautrantika #PAHU, $6.00 Remarkable for its definitive clar- the basic tools needed to overcome assertions has held the interest of This is a charming and straight- NEW ity, this exposition of the stages of afflictive attitudes and self-centered many generations of Tibetan scho- foward commentary on the Heart JOYFUL PATH OF GOOD highest yoga tantra is the first of feeling. Included also are tantric lars, down to the modern period. Sutra which explains the nature of FORTUNE: The Stages of the its kind in the English language and texts on Bardo, Phowa (transference Three major types of scholastic emptiness and dependent arising. Path to Enlightenment, by Geshe a must for anyone interested in these of consciousness), Guru Yoga, literature have developed in this re- This translation and commentary Kelsang Gyatso. 448pp. #THBKJP highest tantras. Medicine Buddha and the Chod gard: presentations of the tenet sys- are the fruit of the author's more $18.95 July HISTORY OF THE SAKYA practice of severing the ego. tem as a whole; syllogistic debate than 40 years of monastic practice. Joyful Path of Good Fortune is one texts on problematic topics in the TRADITION, by Trichen. 64pp. INTRODUCTION TO THE "We cannot just be by ourselves of the clearest and most extensive system; and expository treatment alone; we have to inter-be with every #GNHST $8.00 BUDDHIST TANTRIC SYS- commentaries on the stages of the A powerful and evocative account TEMS, by Wayman. 382pp., of a single important issue. other thing." path to enlightenment to be made Translations of outstanding texts of the history of the Sakyapa line- #WEIBTS $8.95 HEART OF WISDOM, by Geshe available in English. Included are age of Tibetan Buddhism. in each of these categories are found Kelsang Gyatso. 150pp. INTRODUCTION TO TAN- detailed explanations of how to pre- Presented are the lives of the tra- here in the English language for the #THBKHOW $15.95 TRA: A Vision of Totality, by pare the mind for meditation, and dition's forefathers in India, mag- first time, annotated by the trans- Because of its condensed form and Lama Yeshe. 152pp. #WIBKIT a guide for the practitioner through nificent yogins such as Virupa and lator and supplemented with inter- the profundity of its subject, the $12.95 (out of stock—please each successive meditation, showing Krishnacharya; the five great spersed commentary from leading Heart Sutra is difficult to under- backorder) its purpose and demonstrating how masters of the early years in Tibet; modern Tibetan yogi/scholars. This stand correcdy without a clear com- Lama Yeshe successfully shows how each one brings about a new stage and other masters who have is a challenging book that presents mentary. "Heart of Wisdom" pro- we are stuck in the misery of our of mental development. In this way adorned the tradition. the nitty-gritty issues of Sautran- vides both explicit and implicit guilty ego's view of itself and of the Geshe Kelsang offers a thorough tika philosophy. meanings of the sutra, and relates HOW TO MEDITATE, by Mac- world, and that Buddhist tantric and practical approach to the en- Donald. 216pp. #WIBKHTM methods are powerful and effective tire Buddhist path to enlighten- KNOWLEDGE & LIBERA- them to the five Mahayana paths TION, by Anne Klein. 283pp. to enlightenment. $10.95 Sept. reprint ways of cutting through this view ment, enabling the reader to fully Contains a wealth of practical ad- and transforming ourselves into appreciate the essential meaning of #SLBKKLP $15.95, #SLBKKLC THE HEART SUTRA EX- vice on a variety of authentic and satisfied and happy human beings. Buddha's teachings and apply them $27.50 cloth PLAINED, by Donald S. Lopez, in his or her own daily life. From its inception, Buddhist phi- Jr.. 227pp. #SUHSE $10.95 proven techniques: from simple THE JEWEL IN THE LOTUS: breathing and mindfulness exercises losophy has been concerned with The Heart Sutra Explained offers A Guide to the Buddhist Tradi- JUNG'S PSYCHOLOGY AND defining and overcoming the limi- to deity visualizations—a whole TIBETAN BUDDHISM: West- new insights on emptiness and tions of Tibet, Stephen Batchelor, tations and errors of ordinary per- spectrum of useful exercises in this ern and Eastern Paths to the form, on the mantra "gate gate Ed. & Intro.. 288pp. #WIBKJIL ception. This was essential to Budd- one book! Heart, by Radmila Moacanin. paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha", $18.95 hism's central purpose of 192pp. #WIBKJP $12.95 summer and on the synthesis of Mad- I WONDER WHY, Thubten Cho- This is a down-to-earth introduc- establishing a path and method for The approaches of Jung and the hyamika, Yogacara, and tantric dron. 80pp. #TCIWW $2 tion with selections of teachings attaining liberation. Conceptual teachings of Tibetan Buddhism thought that characterized the fi- An American Buddhist nun living from the four major traditions that thought, in this view, is capable of have often been compared. Here, nal period of Buddhism in India. in Singapore has produced this little have flourished in Tibet. Included leading to a liberating understand- Radmila Moacanin, a student of It also includes two nineteenth- gem of a book which skilfully an- are teachings of the present Dalai ing, a transformative religious ex- Lama, Longchen Rabjampa, Ngor- Buddhism and a Jungian therapist, century Tibetan commentaries. swers basic but intelligent questions perience. chen Kunga Zangpo, Je Tzong explores the similarities and differ- on Buddhism. Her answers are The author discusses the work- HIDDEN TEACHINGS OF Khapa and songs and stories of Jet- ences with simplicity and straight- thoughtful, and we recommend this ings of both direct and conceptual TIBET: An Explanation of the sun Milarepa. forwardness. She examines arche- book to anyone who is new to the cognition, drawing on a variety of Terma Tradition of the Nyingma types, collective unconscious, the subject or who instructs others. THE JEWEL ORNAMENT OF newly translated Tibetan and In- School of Buddhism, by Tulku Self, Jung's famous mandala ex- LIBERATION, by Gampopa, trans. dian texts. This book is indispen- Thondup. 240pp. #WIBKHTT ILLUMINATIONS: An In- periences and the teachings of the &ed. by Guenther. 353pp. #SHJOL sible for anyone desiring a deeper $18.95 troduction to the Practices of Ma- Middle Way and Tantra. Dharma Treasures, Terma, have hayana Buddhism, by Sakya Pan- $14.95 understanding of the fundamental been concealed and later discovered dim. 192pp. #LOI $14.00 A comprehensive and authoritative KALACHAKRA: RITE OF IN- issues in Buddhist philosophy. It at appropriate times by realized This translation of 's exposition of the stages on the Bud- ITIATION, by Dalai Lama and is also highly relevant to current is- masters. This tradition of passing basic manual for Buddhist practice dhist path. Hopkins. 511pp. #WIBKKRI sues in modern Western philosophy. on teachings of the great ninth cen- presents a coriiplete guide to the THE JEWELLED STAIRCASE, $19.95 (see Kalachakra section). "Anne Klein's book presents tury saint, Guru Padmasambhava, path. The master scholar of the by Geshe Wangyal. 176pp. KALACHAKRA TANTRA, vividly and intimately many con- is elaborated here by Tulku Sakya school lays out the reasons #SLBKJS $10.95 Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey. 180 pp. cepts essential to a deeper under-

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standing of Buddhist philosophy the differentiation between stages mentary to Shantideva's classic THE MIRROR OF MINDFUL- THE OPENING OF THE LO- and in particular for realizing of tranquillity and insight medita- work, A GUIDE TO THE BOD- NESS: The Cyle of the Four TUS: Developing Clarity and emptiness—the process of naming, tion; meditation on two kinds of HISATTVA'S WAY OF LIFE. It , Tsele Natsok Rangdrol. Kindness, by Lama Sherab Gyaltsen positive and negative phenomena, selflessness; preparation for ma- provides a clear verse-by-verse ex- 140pp. #SHMMI $9.95 Amipa. 128pp. #WIBKOL $12.95 direct perception, and more. I hamudra meditation; the various position of the full root text in ac- This concise handbook of teach- OPENING THE EYE OF NEW highly recommend this book!"— methods of mahamudra; how one cordance with the oral tradition ings on the cycle of life, death, af- AWARENESS, by the Dalai Lama. Prof. Jeffrey Hopkins, author. achieves realization; and the four transmitted to the author. terlife, and rebirth is aimed at help- #WIBKOEA $10.95 yogas of mahamudra. NEW MEDITATION ON EMPTI- ing the practitioner achieve PATH OF COMPASSION, ed. NEW liberation from the cycle of rebirths LAMP OF MAHAMUDRA, by NESS, by Jeffrey Hopkins, 1017 FredEppsteiner. 240pp., #PAPC $14 for the welfare of others. Tsele Natsok Rangdrol. 140 pp., MAHAYANA BUDDHISM: The pages. #WIBKME $35.00 cloth Essays by the Dalai Lama, Joanna Doctrinal Foundations, by Paul #SHLMA, $9.95 MEDITATIONS ON THE NEW Macy, Robert Aitken, Thich Nhat Williams. 272pp., #MEMB, $17.95 Hanh, , Charlene This simple and insightful guide LOWER TANTRAS, by Glenn MOUNTAIN RECORD OF This book is divided into two parts. Spretnak, Chagdud Tulku, Robert takes the reader through the stages Mullin. #LTMLT $7.95 The section on wisdom explores ZEN TALKS, by John Daido Thurman and many others on the of Mahamudra practice: from the A collection of texts and sadhanas different Mahayana accounts of the Loori. 144pp., #SHMRZT, $10.95 engagement of Buddhism and by previous Dalai Lamas includ- cultivation of clarity and one- way things really are, the ultimate (see Zen section) Buddhists in the social, political and pointedness of mind to a mode of nature of all things and man's place ing the preliminary teachings for MYTH OF FREEDOM AND economic affairs of society. experiencing beyond duality. within it. The part on compassion tantric initiation and texts for the THE WAY OF MEDITATION, "Food for thought for helpers NEW explores the path to perfect Budd- practice of a dozen major deities by Ven. Chogyam Trungpa. 176pp. and social activists. A handbook such as Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri, LIBERATION IN THE PALM hahood and the manifold ways in #SHMF $12.95 of advice for developing our com- which those who tread this path, Tara, Maitreya, Sarasvati, passion."— Yoga Journal OF YOUR HAND: A Concise NAGARJUNA'S SEVENTY and the many Buddhas of the Ma- Sitatapatra, Vajra Vidarana, Vaj- Discourse on the Stages of the PATH OF THE BODHISATTVA hayana, act for the benefit of suffer- rasattva. STANZAS: A BUDDHIST PSY- Path to Enlightenment, by CHOLOGY OF EMPTINESS, WARRIOR, by The Thirteenth ing sentient beings. This volume MEDITATIVE STATES IN Dalai Lama & Glenn H. Mullin, Pabongka Rinpoche. 1000pp. ap- provides an account of the princi- by David Ross Komito, Trans, and prox., #WIBKLPH, $80 forth- TIBETAN BUDDHISM, by Commentary by Geshe Sonam Rin- 387pp. #SLBKPBW $14.95 ples of Mahayana Buddhism as Throughout his life the Thirteenth coming Jeffrey Hopkins el al. 181pp. chen, Tenzin Dorjee, and David Ross found in both its Indo-Tibetan and Dalai Lama (1876-1933) stressed Based on a 24-day teaching in Tibet #WIBKMS $10.95 Komito. 240pp., #SLBKNSS East Asian forms. Discusses the four concentrations the importance of combining in 1921, given to a group of some $14.95 MAHAYANA PURIFICATION, spirituality with an aggressive ap- 700 people. Pabongka Rinpoche, with form and four formless con- trans. & ed. by Brian Beresford. For almost two thousand years proach to worldly affairs. He is a lama famous for his direct, no- centrations. 124pp. #LTMP $6.95 Nagarjuna's teachings have oc- known to the Tibetans as simply nonsense but nonetheless compas- MIND IN TIBETAN BUD- A commentary to the main prac- cupied a central position in Ma- the "Great" Thirteenth for he DHISM, by Lati Rmbockay, Trans., sionate approach, gave a clear and tices of mental purification in Tibe- hayana Buddhism. An essential part provided successful political as well Ed. & Intro, by Elizabeth Napper elaborate explanation of the path tan Buddhism. of the study and practice in the as spiritual leadership in difficult to enlightenment based on the out- #SLBKMTB $10.95 great Indian Buddhist monastic MAINTAINING THE BOD- and turbulent times—he perfecdy line of Je Tzong Khapa. Through- Buddhist practitioners in the great universities, these teachings were exemplified the Mahayana ideal of HISATTVA VOW AND THE out, he tells marvellous stories to Tibetan monasteries of Lhasa, seek- the bodhisattva warrior. BODHICITTA PRECEPTS. later incorporated into the Tibetan bring his teachings alive. ing to purify their minds and de- "Path of the Bodhisattva War- #KDKMB $5.00 monastic program which modeled The teaching was originally edited velop the correct understanding their curricula on that of their In- rior" brings into English for the and published in Tibetan by Trijang NEW necessary for final enlightenment, dian predecessors. first time many of the most impor- Rinpoche, the late junior tutor to THE MARATHON MONKS OF began their formal inquiry into This volume contains a transla- tant writings of this remarkable the Dalai Lama, and is used widely MOUNT HIEI, by John Stevens. mind and consciousness by study- tion of a fundamental work of statesman and spiritual leader. In- by lamas. 158pp., illus., oversize, #SHMMO, ing The Presentation of Awareness Nagarjuna, along with a new com- cluded are his "Heart of the En- $12.95 and Knowledge. lightenment Teachings", "Sermons LOGIC AND DEBATE TRADI- mentary by Geshe Sonam Rinchen This book is about amazing ath- This important text identifies the which, while based on traditional at the Great Prayer Festival", TION OF INDIA, TIBET AND "Guide to the Buddhist Tantras" letic monks, the magic mountain different types of minds and cons- sources, was created expressly for MONGOLIA, by Sermey Geshe as well as his writings on the on which they train, and the phi- ciousnesses, their divisions and defi- the contemporary English reader. Lobsang Tharchm. #MSLDT $11.50 losophy of Tendai Buddhism, which Hayagriva Tantra and various nitions. It presents the vocabulary In addition, David Komito sum- MAGIC DANCE: THE DIS- inspires them in their quest for the meditational practices. Glenn Mul- connected with the mind and is a marizes those basic Buddhist doc- PLAY OF THE SELF-NATURE supreme. The reader will learn lin unfolds the dynamic life of this means of training the student in trines on perception and the crea- OF THE FIVE WISDOM about the monks' death-defying Dalai Lama in a fascinating, highly the process of reasoning—an en- tion of concepts which have DAKINIS, by . fasts, their vegetarian training diet, readable and comprehensive biog- deavor integrally linked with all traditionally served as the backdrop 167pp., #JEMD $12.00 their handmade straw running raphy which he researched using steps of ge-shay training. for Nagarjuna's teachings about Explains how all personal and shoes, and feats of endurance such 18 primary sources, Tibetan and Lati Rinbochay provides rich and how people consistendy misperceive general phenomena, including all as their ceremonial leap into a water- Western. Glenn has produced the extensive commentary and eluci- and misunderstand the nature of spiritual traditions, depend on the fall. Illustrated with superb pho- most impressive biography avail- dates the penetrating instructional the reality in which they live and outer, inner and secret manifesta- tographs. able on the life of the Thirteenth. methods Tibetans use in their quest the means through which they ex- One of the most important tions of the five wisdom dakinis. MASTERS OF MAHAMUDRA: for higher knowledge. Songs and Histories of the Eighty- perience it. themes in "Sermons at the Great MAHAMUDRA: ELIMINAT- In her introduction, Elizabeth Four Buddhist Siddhas, by Keith This book will be of interest to Prayer Festival" is his detailed ING THE DARKNESS OF IG- Napper explains the context of this practitioners and scholars of Bud- teachings on the six preliminary Dowman. 454pp. #SUMM $14.95 work within the Indian and Tibe- NORANCE, by the 9th Karmapa, These eighty-four masters who led dhism as well as psychologists who practices to be performed at the be- tan traditions and outlines the prin- trans. Alex Berzin. 194pp. unconventional lives include some seek a deeper understanding of ginning of each meditation cipal divisions of consciousness and #LTMAH $9.95 of the greatest Buddhist teachers: Buddhist psychology and episte- sitting—he gives precise details on Covers the preliminary practices Tilopa, Naropa, and Marpa among mind. mology. how to begin and conduct an ef- and the actual Mahamudra medi- ".. .a valuable work written in fective meditation practice. them. Keith Dowman translated NIRVANA IN TIBETAN tations of mental quiescence and concise form.. .clearly trans- their songs of realization and the BUDDHISM, E. Obermiller. PRAJNAPARAMITA IN TIBE- penetrative insight. Beru Khyentse lated. . .oral commentary on the legends about them and gives a 76pp. #CINTB $5 TAN BUDDHISM, E. Obermiller. Rinpoche's commentary illumines textbook is extensive and sparkling. commentary on each of the Great This book is based on two com- #CIPTB $15 the text. Adepts. A valuable contribution."—Prof. Based on the Abhisamayalamkara mentaries to the Janice Willis, Religious Studies of Maitreya, this book summarizes MAHAMUDRA: The Quintes- MATRIX OF MYSTERY: of Maitreya Asanga, one by Tson- Review the Prajnaparamita-sutras. sence of Mind and Meditation, SCIENTIFIC AND HUMANIS- kha-pa and the other by Jam-yan- by Takpo Tashi Namgyal, Trans, by TIC ASPECTS OF DZOGS- MIRACULOUS JOURNEY, by shad-pa. It analyses the concept of PRAYER FLAGS: The Spiritual Lobsang P. Lhalungpa. 550pp. CHEN THOUGHT, by Herbert Milarepa, trans, by Lama Kunga Nirvana according to the Tibetan Life and Songs of Jigten Sumgon, Rinpoche & Brian Cutillo. 232 pp. #SHMAH $25 V. Guenther. 317pp. #SHMM tradition. by Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen 96 pp. This text is still the primary source $22.50 cloth. #LOMJ $12.95 #SLBKPF $6.95 OPENING THE ^HARMA, by used by living Tibetan meditation MEANINGFUL TO BEHOLD, A rare collection of previously un- The great Jigten Sumgon, fountain- Jamyang Khyentse vhokyi Lodro. masters in instructing their disci- by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. translated narratives and songs by head of the Drikung Kagyu school, 58pp. #DIOD $6.95 ples in this practice. The levels of #THBKMTB $19.95 the famous Tibetan poet-yogi was widely lauded as a bodhisattva meditation covered are as follows: The first complete English com- Milarepa. and an extraordinary master. Hun-

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THE LAMP OP MAHAMUDRA T^te Nateek Kangrfrul dreds of thousands of students Presents an integrated approach to THE SK YOGAS OF NAROPA This valuable study presents for the The stupa is a symbolic form used gathered to hear his teachings. the three yanas. Features the four & TEACHINGS ON MA- first time in English a clear and ex- throughout South, Southeast, and These teachings, in their written foundations, development of the HAMUDRA, by Garma C.C. tensive picture of the Svatantrika East Asia. This scholarly study ex- form, are appealing for their depth aspirational and operational bod- Chang, 128pp. #SLBKSYN $9.95 Madhyamika system through an plores the symbolism and princi- and simplicity of expression. hicitta, and tantric topics. Presented here are the Six Yogas analysis of issues and positions cen: ples of the stupa in a thought- Prayer Flags contains many in- RAINBOW OF LIBERATED of Naropa—among the most highly- tral to Indian philosophy during the provoking manner and will be of structions for spiritual practice. ENERGY: Working with Emo- regarded practices of the highest final development of Buddhist great value in understanding the thought in India. Several central cultural context of Buddhism. The Noteworthy is a succinct and clear tions through the Colour and Ele- yoga tantra class. By engaging in issues are considered: the division book is replete with diagrams, discussion of the tantric path of Ma- ment Symbolism of Tibetan Tan- these six yogas, after the necessary of Madhyamika into Svatantrika and photos and illustrations. hamudra. Also included are: texts tra, by Ngakpa Chogyam. 185pp., preparation, the yogi's body, speech and mind are transformed into those Prasangika, the meaning of emp- on transforming conflicting emo- #ELRLE $9.95 TANTRA IN TIBET, H.H. the of a Buddha and all the mundane tiness, the root cause of suffering, tions, and sickness and death into Ngakpa Chogyam presents a unique Dalai Lama, Tsong-hcHpa and Jeffrey and supermundane powers of an the division of objects of knowl- the path of enlightenment; powerful view of the color and element sym- Hopkins (also Trans. &Ed.). 252pp. enlightened one are attained. The edge into the two truths, and the vajra songs; biographies of Gam- bolism of Tibetan Tantra. The au- #SLBKTT $12.95 (see Dalai Lama main practices of the six yogas are types of reasoning employed to popa, Phagmo Drupa, Jigten Sum- thor explores the nature and pat- section). as follows: refute the existence of a self. In- gon and the dharma protector Ach'i tern of our emotions and how they THE TANTRIC DISTINC- • Mystic Heat Yoga • Illusory Body cluded are overviews of Mad- Chokyi Drolma. relate to the five elemental energies TION, by Jeffrey Hopkins. 184pp. Yoga • Dream Yoga • Clear Light hyamika in general and Svatantrika The great Jomgon Kongtrul in of Tantra. #WIBKTD $8.95 Yoga • Bardo Yoga • Conscious- in particular. describing the influence of Jigten A clear and rational exposition of REBIRTH AND THE WEST- ness Transference Yoga Studies of the Svatantrika school Sumgon wrote: topics from sutra and tantra. We ' 'The mountains are filled with ERN BUDDHIST, by Martin Will- Mahamudra is a direct path to have been limited in the past by the fact that most of the important recommend this book as one of the practitioners And the son. 96pp. #WIBKRWB $6.95 insight into the luminous nature of Sanskrit texts were lost. These texts better overviews of Mahayana plains are filled with Drikungpa In this essay Martin Willson the mind—a total naturalness of were fortunately preserved in Tibe- Buddhism. patrons." presents one hundred references- mind comprised of relaxed devotional, scriptural, observa- equilibrium. "Teachings on Ma- tan translations. The Svatantrika THE TANTRIC MYSTICISM PRAYERS FOR GENERATING tional, logical and scientific—for hamudra" is composed of the fol- school is approached on three levels: OF TIBET, John Blofeld. 257pp., GURU DEVOTION, by Shamar and against rebirth. lowing three illuminating texts: first, from the writings of its illustrated, #SHTMT $13.95 Rinpoche, Ken Trashi Ozer & Kalu founders and their followers in In- What makes tantra special is that THE RELIGIONS OF TIBET, • Tilopa—The Song of Mahamudra Rinpoche. IKDPGD $3.00 dia; second, from expositions by it offers a wealth of practical tech- Giuseppe Tucci. 352pp., #UCRT • The Third Karmapa, Rangjang THE PRELIMINARY PRAC- notable lamas such as Jam-yang- niques for utilizing all of life's cir- $11.95 Dor je—The Vow of Mahamudra • TICES, Geshe Rabten. 70pp. shay-ba and Jang-gya; and third cumstances in pursuit of the highest "No one is better qualified than Ven. Lama Kong Ka—Essentials #LTPP $4.95 of Mahamudra Practice from contemporary oral commen- wisdom. Among the topics Blofeld Tucci to write a general yet com- taries by Tibetan scholars in exile. covers are tantric morality and con- PRIMORDIAL EXPERIENCE: prehensive work on such a com- THE SMALL GOLDEN KEY, An Introduction to Dzog-chen THE SUN MY HEART, Thich duct, meditation and visualization, plex subject. His explorations in by Thinley Norbu. 111pp., #JESGK the symbolic meaning of gods and Meditation, by Manjusrimitra, Nhat Hanh. 139pp. IPASMH Tibet, extensive personal ex- $12.00 demons, the significance of rituals Trans, by Namkhai Norbu & periences, direct observations of This book covers many interesting $9.50 Uses Buddhist psychology, episte- and shrines, and the relationship Kennard Lipman. 140pp. #SHPE ritual, and unmatched textual topics: empowerment, three kayas, mology, and contemporary physics with the guru. $14.95 knowledge are graciously combined Sambhogakaya Deities, Mani, as well as many anecdotes to accom- This thought-provoking volume in this valuable and highly reada- Ngondro meditation, stages of dis- TANTRIC PRACTICE IN pany the reader on this compassion- discusses the relation of Dzog-chen ble volume."—Barbara Aziz, Jour- solving, refuge, three yanas, two NYING-MA, by Khetsun Sangpo, ate journey from mindfulness to to other systems of Indian thought, nal of Asian Studies. truths, emptiness, history of the Rinbochay, Trans. &Ed. by Jeffrey Buddhist and Hindu, through an Nyingmapa Lineage. insight. Hopkins, Co-edited by Anne Klein. NEW 239pp. #SLBKTP $12.50 examination of the key concept of NEW A SURVEY OF BUDDHISM: Its bodhicitta or enlightened mind. RETURNING TO SILENCE: Doctrines and Methods Through Rinbochay's commentary on the Zen Practice in Daily Life, by Dai- SONG OF THE PROFOUND Instructions on the Preliminaries NEW the Ages, Maha Sthavira San- nin Katagiri. 208pp., #SHRS, VIEW, by Geshe Rabten, trans, by gharakshita. 496pp. ITHBKSOB to the Great Perfection Teaching THE PRINCE WHO BECAME $12.95 (see Zen section) Stephen Batchelor. 90 pp., $18.95 contains the classical Nying-ma A CUCKOO: A Tale of Libera- #WIBKSPV, $12.95 SEEKING THE HEART OF ' 'It would be difficult to find a sin- presentation of the Tantric practices tion, by Geshe Wangyal. 200pp., Twelve short verses and commen- WISDOM: The Path of Insight gle book in which the history and which lead to the realization of #MEPBC, $10.95 tary by Geshe Rabten describing Meditation, Goldstein & Komfield. development of Buddhist thought Buddhahood. For almost a hundred and fifty the process of his intensive retreat 176pp., #SHSHW $10.95 has been described as vividly and Part One: External Preparatory years, "The Prince Who Became in Dharamsala, India in the late Focuses on the deepening of insight clearly as in this Survey.. .for all Practices—setting the proper moti- a Cuckoo" has been among the 1960's. Written as a direct result vation, meditation on imperma- meditation practice, the hindrances those who wish to know the heart, most popular books in Tibet. The of his own deep meditation ex- nence and the faults of cyclic ex- that the practitioner encounters, the essence of Buddhism as an in- perience. The SONG has been istence, suffering, karma, and great scholar has skillful means of overcoming them, tegrated whole, there can be no bet- described as one of his most essen- reliance on a spiritual guide. described the tale as ' 'one of the and ways to integrate into every- ter guide than this book."—Lama tial literary works. Part Two: Internal Preparatory most charming that has ever come day life the wisdom that arises in Anagarika Govinda. out of the inexhaustible fund of Practices—refuge in the triple gem, meditation. NEW NEW Indian legends." generating the mind of enlighten- SPEAKING OF SILENCE: The story deals with the life of NEW THE SUTRA ON THE FULL ment, Vajrasattva purification medi- Christians and Buddhists on the AWARENESS OF BREATH- Prince Dharmananda of Varanasi, SELF - LIBERATION tation, offering mandala, Chod Contemplative Way, ed. Susan ING, by Thich Nhat Hanh. 72 pp., an incarnate Bodhisattva, who, THROUGH SEEING EVERY- practice of cutting attachment, and Walker. 327pp., #PPSS, $12.95 #PASAB, $6.00 along with his friend Laganana, guru yoga. THING IN ITS NAKEDNESS, Since 1981 Christians and Budd- This is one of the main meditation learned the practice of mind- Trans. &Ed. by John M. Reynolds, Part Three: The Great hists have been meeting informally texts of early Buddhism. 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Rey- sublime teaching which explains prayer and contemplation, attitudes your breathing becomes more Vajrayana expression of Mahayana nolds' commentary is based on the how to practice with the six sylla- toward God and emptiness, and peaceful and each "cell" of your philosophy and practice.. .the vir- teachings of Namkhai Norbu bles which are the essence of all syll- practical topics such as silence, vir- mind also becomes more peaceful. tue of this work is its technical com- Rinpoche. ables: OM MA NI PAD ME tue, compassion, sin, suffering, the The three are one. This is the key pleteness. . .avoids the pitfalls of HUM. Tibetan text included. SHAMBALA: SACRED PATH self and the ego. to meditation. Breathing brings the being a mere text translation. There THE QUINTESSENCE OF OF THE WARRIOR, by Ven. A STUDY OF SVATANTRIKA, sweet joy of meditation to you." is much here for repeated read- THE ANIMATE AND INANI- Chogyam Trungpa. 209pp. #SHSH by Donald S. 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SNOW LION SPRING 89 NEWSLETTER AND CATALOG 40 SNOW LION SNOW LION PUBLICATIONS: OUR PURPOSE THIS SNOW LION NEWSLETTER Snow Lion Publications has been established to help protect and further Tibet's great religious and philosophic This Snow Lion Newsletter and Catalog is AVAILABLE FOR FREE to anyone traditions. While this rich cultural heritage is threatened within Tibet itself, its importance and uniqueness is being upon request. Our CUSTOMERS automatically receive it. Though we pub- recognized by a growing number of enthusiastic people in the West. lish it at no direct cost to our customers, it is YOUR SUPPORT that con- Our goals are to provide handsome, relevant and informative books for the general reader, as well as authoritative, tinues to make it possible. 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