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Wisdom and THE TIBETAN YOGAS Reconciliation OF DREAM AND SLEEP Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche H.H. the Dalai Lama talks about his new book in New York teaches A Tibetan Bon lama, Tenzin "In the Spirit ofManjushri" Wangyal Rinpoche was born in Amritsar, India, after his parents fled the Chinese invasion of Tibet. He re- ceived training from both Buddhist by Victoria Huckenpalder dia to China before traveling to Tibet, and devotion, it would not be as firm and Bon masters, attaining the degree In a historic event co-sponsored by he considered the Chinese as senior as when grounded in an understand- of geshe, the highest academic degree Tibet House and the Dharma Drum Dharma brothers and sisters. ing of emptiness. Here he likened the of Tibet. Rinpoche has been in the Mountain Buddhist Association, H.H. In succeeding days, His Holiness highest form of bodhicitta to what he United States since 1991 and has the Dalai Lama offered a three-day gave extensive commentary on the termed "cowherder's mentality," in taught widely here and in Europe and teaching (May 1-3) before a predomi- Tibetan Wisdom tradition, drawing on which like a herder who follows be- Mexico. He is the director and nantly Chinese audience on the Tra- the Fifth Dalai Lama's Lam Rim text, hind a flock, only after leading others founder of The Ligmincha Institute in dition of Transcendent Wisdom, con- and on Tsong Khapa's Three Pri.nci,- to enlightenment does one wish it for Charlottesville, Virginia, which is cluding with a dialogue between him- pal Elements of the Path which de- oneself. "Don't confuse compassion dedicated to the_ preservation of the self and Ven. Master Sheng-yen, a re- scribes the practices of renunciation, with pity," he warned. "There should teachings, transmissions and culture nowned scholar, author, and teacher bodhicitta, and insight into empti- be no sense of superiority. Authentic of Bon. ers, Lopon Sangye Tenzin and Lopon of Chinese Zen Buddhism. ness. Elaborating on each category, compassion means viewing its object Rinpoche is the only Bon master From the moment that the Master H.H. stated that renunciation can only as supreme. There should be a sense Tenzin Namdak. I have been practic- living in the United States; he is also ing more closely for the past 10 years. led His Holiness out by the hand onto be developed once one has a convic- of connectedness which cannot exist the author of Wonders of the Natural the stage of the Roseland Ballroom, tion that mental afflictions can be re- in the normal state in which we dis- C: Why should someone practice Mind. Rinpoche spoke about his new dream yoga? Why is it. important? while the ordained Chinese sangha moved. Further, to realize that libera- criminate and fluctuate. Be universal book, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream, Rinpoche: Every practitioner is try- lormaily chanted an invitation accom- tion is possible we must recognize and unbiased." In words which are par- and Sleep with his student, Cindy ing to develop his or herself— to grow panied by delicate ringing bells and that the sense of self, which appears ticularly poignant given his own trials, Loew, on June 24, 1998. wafting incense, divine courtesy pre- so separate from body and mind as His Holiness went on to describe the more spiritually and finally to achieve vailed. Throughout the teachings, to be, in His Holiness's words "our correct posture to adopt toward en- Cindy: Why did you write this book? Buddhahood. One of the main diffi- Master Sheng-yen, tall, spare, and boss," is in fact illusory because even emies: "See enemies as critical to your Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche: Since I culties people face in the West is find- with robes elegantly draped around at the level of subtlest particles we well-being because without somebody was a little boy I have always been ing the time to practice. But no one him, gazed on the Dalai Lama with are in a continuous state of flux. "We provoking us we have no opportunity interested in dream and when I was ever says, I am too busy, I have ap- affectionate respect, took notes, and can't just ask ignorance to leave or to practice. For example, people who growing up I often heard my mother pointments, therefore I am not going in his concluding remarks called His pray that it goes away," he said. have had an easy childhood have little and my teachers talk about their to go to sleep tonight! Every human Holiness "my Dharma brother." The "Rather, we must cultivate an insight resilience. They are soft and unchal- dreams, the way they dreamed and being needs sleep. The time is free previous evening, His Holiness had into the selflessness of persons and lenged, whereas someone who has the way in which they related to their and it is a very good time to do prac- set the tone for the teachings when, phenomena. If there were no possi- met with challenge since childhood dreams. This fascinated me. When I tice. Also, we sleep one third of our at the Light of Truth Award, he re- bility of ending suffering, we might as develops a much stronger personality. came to the West, I realized that lifetime— that is twenty years for marked on the importance of the well indulge in drugs, wine, and ex- There is a big difference between the dream was also considered very im- someone who lives to be 60. It is very Dharma for the Chinese people, cessive sleep!" way the two types meet difficulties. I portant here, particularly dream important for a practitioner to under- stressing that it is for this reason in Commenting on the bodhicitta sec- respect the Kadampa masters who analysis. I knew that the Tibetan way stand what is going on during those part that it is unwise to isolate them. tion of the Fifth Dalai Lama's Lam value hardships. Tsong Khapa said in of looking at dream, understanding twenty years. Dream is important At Roseland he graciously said that Rim, His Holiness stressed that while a prayer: 'May I feel especially close dream, practicing dream was quite because it is one of the best ways to since Buddhism had spread from In- one could attain bodhicitta out of faith different and I thought it was impor- understand the deepest aspects of (Continued on page 4) tant that my Western friends—psy- ourselves. It is also one of the most chologists, therapists and my stu- important ways to heal. dents—learn these differences. So C: How is dream important in terms phy for her photographs of child la- that was really my reason for writing of healing? THE SPIRIT OF TIBET bor in Asia. Since then, she has lived this book. Rinpoche: Every dream is somehow PORTRAIT OF A CULTURE IN EXILE with exiled Tibetans in Nepal and In- C: Has this material been covered healing within itself as long as the dia for over a decade, recording their before? practitioner is not being distracted by culture and the challenges of exile. Rinpoche: There are a few books, but the appearance of the dream and its On the basis of this work, Alison I think this is probably the most de- images and the story of the dream. If returned to Berkeley University tailed book regarding Tibetan dream one is having a lucid dream, that is, a Photographs and text by where she created her own masters and sleep yoga. dream in which one is aware that one Alison Wright program in Visual Anthropology, and C: From whom did you learn dream is dreaming, one is naturally healing. helped instigate the opening of a vi- yoga and how long have you been C: Why? Foreword by H.H. the Dalai sual anthropology wing in the Phoebe practicing? Rinpoche: Because you are releas- Lama. 200 pages, 180 color Rinpoche: I learned from my teach- photos, 9.5" high x 10" wide (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 2) $34.95 Snow Lion Publications Snow Lion Publications PO Box 6483 BULK RATE Ithaca, NY 14851 U.S. POSTAGE PAID The stunning color photographs in people as they struggle to preserve PERMIT NO. 100 this book display the spirit of the their unique culture on foreign soil. Address Correction Requested RIPON, WI Tibetan people living in exile in the Alison Wright, a San Francisco North Indian hill town of Dharamsala. based freelance photojournalism spe- Home to the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan cializes in documenting the traditions settlement there has grown up and changes of endangered cultures around the newly established Tibetan and people in remote areas around government in exile and the many the world. Based in Nepal for four cultural institutions that have been years while documenting the plight of created since the Dalai Lama was children for UNICEF and various forced to leave Tibet. Alison Wright's other aid organizations, Alison be- outstanding portraits capture the in- came the 1993 recipient of the domitable resiliency of the Tibetan Dorothea Lange Award in photogra- TENZIN WANGYAL RINPOCHE TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK as a dream. You say to yourself, "This something positive that everyone can Continued from page 1 is a dream." In this way a new ten- incorporate into daily life. In the book dency is created in the mind, to look I go into more detail about particular C: What are some of the most impor- at experience as insubstantial, tran- meditations one can do right before tant aspects of dream yoga for some- sient, and ultimately related to the going to sleep. one just starting the practice? mind's projections. As phenomena C: What are the main dream practices Rinpoche: I think one of the most im- are seen to be fleeting and essence- to focus on during sleep? portant things to do is not to just start less, grasping decreases. This will Rinpoche: The four main practices the dream practice when you go to help you do this when you are actu- of the dream yoga include a practice sleep, but to begin the dream yoga ally dreaming and will lead to the rec- to do while falling asleep and similar when you are awake. Try to be aware ognition of the dream state and the practices to be done during three pe- of your mind; try to realize how some- development of lucidity. There is no riods of waking during the night. times you can be powerless when the stronger method of bringing consis- These are outlined in detail in the emotion comes. Realizing this, it is tent lucidity to dream than by abid- book. Sleep is broken into roughly important to try to develop some sta- ing continuously in lucid presence two-hour segments. During each bility while you are awake. And that during the day. This is the first prepa- working period a particular position stability can be supported by the ex- ration—to see all of life as a dream. is taken, a particular breathing is per- perience of joy, you know, seeing the The second foundational practice formed, and the mind focuses on a gifts of life, the positive experiences works to further decrease grasping particular image in a particular around oneself. Also, with all the ex- and aversion while we are awake. As chakra. periences of the daytime, our mind the first foundational practice is ap- There are four tasks we need to ac- and all our soul experiences get scat- plied in the moment of encountering complish in order to fully develop the tered around everywhere. Somehow phenomena and before a reaction oc- dream practice: bringing the mind we become pieces before we go to curs, the second practice is engaged into the central channel, cultivating sleep. If we go to sleep as the pieces, after a reaction has arisen. Ideally the clear vision and experience, develop- we are not going to have a good sleep practice should be applied as soon as ing power and strength so that we will experience. So we need to try to have any grasping or aversion arises in re- not become lost, and developing our some awareness. Try to bring all sponse to any object or situation. The wrathful aspect in order to overcome those pieces together. Become one. grasping mind may manifest its reac- fear. These tasks correspond to the tion as desire, anger, jealousy, pride, C: And how does one do that? four qualities of dreams—peaceful, envy, grief, despair, joy, anxiety, de- Rinpoche: Try to feel those experi- joyful, powerful, and wrathful—and pression, fear, boredom and so on. to the four sections of the practice. ences of the day and try to dissolve When a reaction arises, remind your- them and then come together in that C: What do we do if we are having a self that you, the object, and your re- lucid dream? very moment—try to feel this before action to the object are all a dream. Rinpoche: In lucid dreams we prac- you go to sleep. The third foundational practice in- tice transforming whatever is encoun- C: So you try to dissolve and become volves reviewing the day before go- tered. There is no boundary to expe- peaceful? ing to sleep and strengthening the in- Top: Senior lineage holders of the Tibetan Bon tradition (from left to right): rience that can't be broken in the Rinpoche: Yes, peaceful and then fo- tention to practice during the night. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Lopon TenzinNamdak Rinpoche, andLopon Tenpa dream; we can do whatever occurs to cus on the peaceful. And in order to As you prepare for sleep allow the Yungdrug Rinpoche. The Lopons have come to the United States from us to do. As we break habitual limita- memories of the day to arise. What- Kathmandu, Nepal, to teach at the Sante Fe retreat. tions of experience, the mind be- ever comes to mind recognize as a Bottom: Lopon Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, senior lineage holder of the Bon comes increasingly supple and flex- dream. Then make the strong deter- ...we sleep one third of school and head of the Bon monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, leaches from The ible. The teachings present us with mination that, just as you are recog- Six Lamps, a Bon Dzogchen text which focuses on the nature of mind. The new ideas, new possibilities and the our lifetime—that is nizing the dream-like nature of the teaching occurred at Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche's annual summer retreat in tools to realize those possibilities, and twenty years for some- day, you will also recognize the Sante Fe, Neiv Mexico this July. then it is up to us to manifest them in dreams of the night for what they are. one who lives to be 60. dreams and waking life. Make the strongest intention possible For instance, the teaching talks It is very important for a to know directly and vividly while about multiplying things in dream. dreaming that you are dreaming. The Finally, during the morning period practitioner to under- as much as possible before sleep, just Perhaps we are dreaming of three intention is like an arrow that aware- generate a strong intention to remain stand what is going on as we do before meditating, generates flowers. Because we are aware of ness can follow during the night, an consistent in the practice throughout more presence and positive qualities. being in a dream and the flexibility during those twenty arrow directed at lucidity in the the day. Don't forget to pray with your Rather than carrying negative emo- of dream, suddenly we can make a dream. Before you go to sleep pray full heart for success. Prayer is like a years. tions into the night, use whatever hundred flowers, a thousand flowers, that you may have a clear dream. magical power that we all have and skills you have to free yourself from unlimited flowers. But first we need The fourth foundational practice forget to use. them. If you know how to self- to recognize the potential. The Mother is to rejoice and'be thankful when you C: Do we need to do anything else to liberate the emotion do so. Try to con- Tantra lists eleven categories of ex- focus on the peaceful, one can pray. awake if you have been successful prepare for dream practice before we nect with the lama, yidam, and dakini, perience in which the mind is usually Use whatever spiritual tradition you and have had a lucid dream. You say, actually go to sleep? or generate compassion. Do what you bound by experience. All of these are practice. You can ask for help from "This is wonderful." If you are not suc- Rinpoche: Even for someone who can to rid yourself of the tension in to be challenged and transformed. the guardians, protectors and the an- cessful, you recognize this, but don't doesn't practice the dream or sleep your body and the negative attitudes They include: size, quantity, quality, gels. Whatever you believe in. get discouraged. Rather, you put yogas, it is good to prepare for sleep, of your mind. Even if you are unable C: So people who are not Buddhist stronger intention into your practice. to take it seriously. Purifying the mind to do the rest of the practice, this is can do this and put in their own dei- (Continued on page 3) ties? Rinpoche: Yes, definitely. No matter what belief a person comes from we are all sentient beings. Sentient being means the one who has a mind, and the one who has a mind always has difficulty controlling it when in samsara. So you should use whatever support works to help to bring the mind together and then one should practice. All people can try to work with their minds and try to develop the capacity to not always be driven by their emotion. Try to guide your emotion in daily life. This is impor- tant for developing the dream and sleep practices. C: So doing the dream yoga will help anyone improve their health, and to develop a sense of inner peace and calm and more clarity? Rinpoche: Yes. C: What specifically can we do dur- ing our waking hours to enhance our dream practice? Rinpoche: What you do while you are awake is very important. Dream prac- tice is not as much about what you do when you are sleeping and dream- ing as it is about how you use the mind when awake. If the day is spent spaced out and caught up in the elaboration of the conceptual mind, we are likely to be the same in dream. stagmo Gompa Pilgrimage to Traditional Ladakh Janice Whipple If we are more present in our life, we will also find that presence in dream. July 9 ~ 29,1999 There are four main foundational practices in dream yoga, which are led by Karma Lekshe Tsotno done while awake. 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2 SNOW UON SUMMER '98 NEWSLETTER TENZIN WANCYAL RINPOCHE takes practitioners make with regard TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK to dream and sleep yoga? Continued from page 2 Rinpoche: Too much expectations! People expect to have immediate re- speed, accomplishment, transforma- sults. You can make instant coffee, tion, emanation, journey, seeing or but not instant success with dream realizing, encounter and experiences. and sleep yoga. People want instant These are explained more fully in the dream and sleep yoga success. Also, book. anytime when you try to do the dream C: In the book you mention that in yoga before you go to sleep, you need order to become truly effective with to have joy about doing the dream the dream practice, it is best to get yoga practice. If you think of it as up two or three times during the night work, that is a very big mistake. and then start the practice again. This Sometimes people think, "Oh, I am THE is hard for Westerners, many of whom too exhausted." This is a mistake; we are already sleep-deprived. How im- need to view it as a joyful, relaxing portant is it to get up several times practice, like taking a warm shower TIBETAN YOGAS during the night? or lying in a comfortable bed and find- Rinpoche: It depends on how serious ing the right position before we go to the practitioner is. People who have sleep. We don't consider those things OF DREAM children, they often get up two or work. three times during the night. And C: Is there a difference in the dream people who need to go to the bath- and sleep practices described in your AND SLEEP room frequently get up more than book from other Buddhist dream and three times. So getting up for dream sleep yogas? practice is just anotherpoint of view. Rinpoche: The principles and essence It doesn't mean that you cannot do will be the same as dream and sleep the practice if you don't get up, but it practices from other Buddhist lin- is very helpful. The important point eages, but there might be slightly dif- is to bring greater awareness to the ferent methods which one should ex- dream and the rest of life, and this plore to determine which are the best anyone can do, whether or not they for oneself. are able to do the complete cycle of C: If we are having problems with our Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche the yoga. dream and/or sleep practices or we C: How do you know you are mak- just want more guidance, to whom ing progress with your dream prac- can we turn and where? tice? Ri.npoclie: People can contact our Rinpoche: You know because you are local practice groups where they will having more clear dreams, more com- find senior practitioners skilled in the plete dreams, you are remembering practices. We have Garuda Centers in them, you are having lucid dreams. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, You can guide your dreams instead Mexico City and Warsaw, Poland. Our THE TIBETAN YOGAS of being dreamt! headquarters is located in Charlottes- C: What is sleep yoga? How does it ville. Also we have a website, which differ from dream yoga? includes information on upcoming OF DREAM AND SLEEP Rinpoche: Dream yoga is when you seminars and workshops. Also we have a six-tape audio program on the actually have dream images and by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche the West as the capacity to know that sleep yoga is before the images come dream practice. It was taped live at a 220 pp., 8 b&w' photos, #TIYODR one is dreaming during a dream, but or after the images dissolve. Do you six- week course I conducted at Rice $16.95 Snow Lion Publications in Tibetan dream yoga this is not an have any way of understanding your- University in Houston, Texas last end in itself. Rather it is the setting in self, your presence, your awareness year. This might prove helpful to "If we cannot carry our practice which one can then utilize more ad- when you are asleep, but not dream- those seeking more information. into sleep, if we lose ourselves every vanced practices. ing? These are all questions concern- C: Do you have any final thoughts night, what chance do we have to be Dream practices are followed by ing sleep yoga. you would like to share? Rinpociie: It is important to remem- aware when death comes? Look to sleep yoga, also known as the yoga C: Should you become proficient in your experience in dreams to know of clear light. This is considered a the dream yoga before you attempt ber that the dharma is really flexible and we need to remain flexible. Do how you will fare in death. Look to more advanced practice, closer in the sleep yoga? your experience of sleep to discover not allow yourself to become trapped method and result to the highest and Rinpociie: In the tradition it is said whether or not you are truly awake." most hidden of Tibetan practices. The that dream yoga is easier to do first by the practice. Experiment. This doesn't mean that you should throw With these words, Tenzin Wangyal practice and the goal is to stay aware and then sleep yoga. The reason is Rinpoche gives dharma students the during deep sleep, when the gross because dream yoga has images and out the tradition and make up your own. These practices are powerful means to measure their practice, and we feel more supported if we can hold with this book, he gives a path of and effective and they have been the onto something. When we have noth- practice to awaken from the sleep of vehicle for countless people to real- "A detailed guide to is the founder and director of The ing to hold onto, the average person ignorance and the long dreaminess of ize liberation. At death you reach the Ligmincha Institute, an organization feels supportless. samsaric life. using our night-lives dedicated to the study and practice C: How will people actually know borderline between samsara and nirvana—the intermediate state, the The yogas of dream and sleep are for awakening: thought- of the teachings of the Bon tradition. when they are doing sleep yoga? used in the Bon and Buddhist tradi- famous bardo. The single essence is provoking, inspiring, and He was born in Amritsar, India, after Rinpoche: It is the same as being your passport that allows you to en- tions of Tibet to attain liberation. his parents fled the Chinese invasion aware of the gap between two lucid."-Stephen LaBerge ter nirvana. Without the passport you Practices applied during dream and of Tibet, and received training from thoughts when you are meditating. sleep are effective methods for chang- cannot leave samsara. If one has both Buddhist and Bon teachers, at- You are aware there are no thoughts. never had the experience of clear ing the practitioner's relationship to taining the degree of geshe, the It is the same with sleep yoga, there light during sleep it is difficult to pass experience, a retraining of cognitive conceptual mind and the operation of highest academic degree of tradi- are no images, no dreams, but you are from samsara in the bardo. If one can patterns that results in increasingly the senses cease. tional Tibetan culture. He has been aware that this is happening. positive experiences of life and even- integrate with the clear light of sleep Tenzin Wangyal.Rinpoche, a lama in in the United States since 1991 and C: So people who are doing the sleep then one can integrate with the clear tually in lucid dreaming. Lucid dream- the Bon tradition of Tibet, presently has taught widely in Europe and ing has become quite well known in yoga successfully are going to know light of death. All the beings who resides in Charlottesville, Virginia. He America. ■ they, are doing it? achieved enlightenment and became Rinpoche: Yes, yes. If people have Buddhas crossed the border and en- some sense of awareness before they tered the clear light. We too, with dream they are doing it. Also one can great determination and joyful work, actually have awareness while one have the capacity to do the same. sleeps; they can have clear light ex- periences, but that is a very difficult For information on teachings and realization to have. I describe in the workshops of Tenzin Wangyal book how to recognize the clear light. Rinpoche, please contact: The C: Do we need any special initiations Ligmincha Institute at 804-977-6161; or transmissions for the dream and/ e-mail: [email protected]; fax: 804- MANDALA or sleep yoga to be fully effective'? 977-7020; website: www.comet.net/ Rinpociie: If people want to get some Ligmincha; or write to: The THE NEWSMAGAZINE OF THE FOUNDATION awareness and develop some skills, Ligmincha Institute at P.O. Box 1892, it is not necessary. 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Tranquillity Buddhist philosophy is concerned tice, a fact that was echoed in his trib- ( Yama tha) meditation aims at stilling foremost scholar-practitioners of Ti- with defining and overcoming the up with injustice. bet, presents a landscape of mental ute to Tsong Khapa for having valued the mind, while insight (vipa Yyan >) limitations and errors of perception. criticism because it showed him meditation produces clear vision, or development, revealing a living world To do this is essential to Buddhism's of mental therapy replete with re- where his weaknesses lay. Said His it, and a connection obviously exists insight into the nature of all phenom- purpose of establishing a method for Holiness: "This is called transform- between the two, but His Holiness ad- ena. With masterful scholarship and sources for describing, facing, and attaining liberation. Conceptual counteracting both superficial and ing adversity into favorable condi- mitted that it was philosophically dif- the ability to make subtle ideas easy thought, in this view, can lead to a lib- tions." ficult to say on what faculty karmic im- to understand and apply in practice, systemic disorders. With extraordi- erating understanding, a transforma- nary precision and detail, he de- On the final morning, His Holiness prints are stored. According to the Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche ex- tive religious experience. conferred the White Manjushri initia- Mind-Only School, the basis is the plains this unified system of medita- scribes how to undermine distracting The author discusses the workings afflictive states, doubts, and distor- tion, commenting, "I cannot guaran- alaya vijnana (all-base mind), but not tion for students both beginning and of both direct and conceptual cogni- tee you will receive total wisdom all schools agree. When asked it the advanced. He explains what to do tions that must be removed for the tion, drawing on a variety of Tibetan mind to become stable, calm, alert, from this, but I can guarantee you faults we see in another person actu- and what to avoid, and explains the and Indian texts. This book is indis- won't become any dumber!" He also ally exist or if they are merely our pro- stages of deepening meditation so the and able to penetrate the false appear- pensable for anyone desiring a deeper ance of phenomena. stressed the importance of self- jection, His Holiness replied, "In lo practitioner can gauge progress. understanding of the fundamental is- reliance stating that while depen- jong (mind training) we operate from These teachings are based on the Geshe Gedun Lodro was born in sues in Buddhist philosophy. It is also the capital of Tibet, Hla-sa, in 1924. dence on the blessings of external the premise that there is a distinction eighth chapter of the Treasury of highly relevant to issues current in beings is part of the Buddhist tradi- between enemies and friends, so while Knowledge by the great nineteenth- He entered Dre-bung Monastic Uni- modern Western philosophy. versity at Hla-sa at the age of nine as tion, sometimes Tibetans take this to we often project characteristics that century master Jamgbn Kongtrul. The Gelukba interpretation of the extreme. * don't exist in a person, our perceptions With Thrangu Rinpoche's commen- a novice monk. He took basic exami- Dignaga and Dharmakirti is greatly at nations in 1940, received full ordina- The program concluded with a dia- are not always projections alone. But tary, this complex, encyclopedic variance with virtually all other schol- logue between himself and Master what is important is how we respond. work is made accessible to Western tion in 1947, and gained the degree of arship concerning these seminal Bud- ge-shay in 1961 in exile in India as the Sheng-yen which stressed the common If someone is really wrong, we students of meditation. dhist logicians. The author clarifies ground rather than the differences be- shouldn't respond in a hateful manner, Thrangu Rinpoche has been a first among three scholars who were these differences, considering both awarded the number one ranking in tween the Chinese and Tibetan tradi- but at the same time patience should practitioner of meditation for over traditional Buddhist and modern not be confused with the idea that we the highest class. A prodigious scholar, tions, and which was laced with mu- forty years. Famed as a scholar, he scholarship, thus establishing what is tual generosity and good humor. should put up with injustice." was asked to establish the Kagyu mo- he was famed for his wide learning unique to the Gelukba presentation and ability in debate. In 1967, the With his ever-lively intellect, His His Holiness's Wisdom Teachings nastic college in Rumtek for His Ho- and, in this light, examining reasons were so dense in their implications that Dalai Lama sent him to teach at the Holiness interrupted the Chinese liness the Karmapa, head of the for the validity of this school's master with so many questions that any attempt to recount them is like cull- Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. University of Hamburg, where he interpretation. ■ learned to speak German fluently and the latter jokingly said, "You have ing mere drops from a vast ocean. Born in eastern Tibet in 1933, caused me to run overtime with all Thrangu Rinpoche was recognized as become a tenured member of the fac- (Continued on page 10) the reincarnation of the great Thrangu ulty. He served as Visiting Professor Tulku. He pursued a traditional mo- at the University of Virginia in 1979, nastic education and received a geshe when he gave the lectures that com- degree with honors from the Dalai prise this book. He passed away later Lama at age 35. Thrangu Rinpoche in the same year. -one key to the success of Whitney Stewart's became the personal teacher of many Jeffrey Hopkins is Professor of Re- important lamas. He has also engaged ligious Studies at the University of Vir- interesting biographies TOT Children lies in her in twenty years of teaching Western ginia, where he has taught Indo-Ti- students in seminars and retreats in betan Studies and Tibetan language personal interviews with their subjects." over a dozen countries. He is well- since 1973, and was Director of the Pegg Kohlepp, The Times-Picayune known for taking complex teachings University's Center for South Asian and making them understandable to Studies for twelve years. the practitioner. ■ This is a new completely revised edition of Walking Through Walls, m V^
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4 SNOW LION SUMMER '98 NEWSLETTER the years, he painted many works for ity safely houses a rare collection of Rinpoche who in turn advised him on 13,000 color slides and negatives of m——mmr m . m mm—r. the correct expressions, proportions Tibetan miniature paintings, thangkas and the details of iconography. Under and statues. The archives also contain Rinpoche's careful supervision, photographs and negatives of Dilgo Konchok painted the frescoes in Khyentse Rinpoche and other teach- Shechen Monastery, Nepal, that span ers, a collection of rare texts, and I Hb three long walls of the temple. both audio and visual records of Bud- The Tsering Art School provides dhist teachings. All these are stored an opportunity for this precious and in a climate controlled room. In the rare oral tradition to be passed on to archive office itself, rare works and others during Konchok's lifetime. The photographs are scanned and pre- full course is six years, with an ex- served on CDs. ception made for foreign students On December 6, 1997, under a who may study as day students on a clear blue Nepali sky, the inaugural TSERINQ short term basis. There are already ceremonies began for the newly con- three Western students enrolled in the structed building. A large audience of school. Buddhist teachers, guests, dignitar- The first year is devoted to learn- ies, and friends gathered to hear the ing the techniques of proportion and keynote address by Matthieu Ricard drawing and the use of paints and and speeches by Thomas Derksen, colors. During the next four years, the the Honorary Dutch Consul in Nepal ART students study the detailed iconogra- and Gerold Muller of the European phy of different figures and work on Commission. The guests toured the specific projects. In the sixth year, building to see a photography exhi- they learn to draw and paint bition of works by Matthieu Ricard mandalas and write sacred script. and other photographers—rare black The student body is drawn from and white photographs of Khyentse the young monks of Shechen Monas- Rinpoche, delightful photos of SCHOOL tery, and lay men and women from Rabjam Rinpoche as a young boy, bril- the local community and Western liant scenes of Tibet and sacred danc- countries. A maximum of twenty-five ers. Many of the large black and white students will be accepted in order to prints were created from tattered old enable individual training. The school photographs that had been preserved 1 he Shechen Institute for Traditional the opportunity to learn traditional poorly executed. The tradition of would like to train women artists who and reprinted in the new Shechen Tibetan Arts is a three-storied build- painting methods and proper propor- Tibetan thangka painting is degener- have not been given a chance to learn archive facility. ing located on the grounds of tions, and most of the new thangkas ating and in imminent danger. this skill in the past. There are cur- For further information about the Shechen Monastery in Baudha, flooding the market have incorrect The School's dean and painting rently three women students enrolled Tsering Art School and the Shechen Nepal. It is dedicated to the preser- iconography and are teacher is Konchok Lhadrepa, one of (two Westerners and one Nepali). The Institute of Traditional Tibetan Arts vation of Tibetan sacred arts and in- the best trained and most experi- School is not run on a commercial ba- please write to: cludes the Tsering Art School, enced thangka painters alive today. sis, but it will accept commissions an archive facility, work- He is among the last authentic hold- Shechen Monastery, from individuals and centers. In the shops for the manufac- ers of the Karma Gadri School of PO Box 136 future, courses on silk thangka weav- ture of incense, and stu- painting which prevailed in Eastern Katmandu, Nepal ing will be added to the curriculum. dios for carving wood Tibet. It is characterized by its use or email: Shechen has a weaver skilled in this masks and making cos- of spacious landscape, transparent [email protected] craft who has consented to teach this tumes for sacred dances. It hues, and a unique elegance rare traditional art form. Shechen's web page is: was built under the direc- combined with minute attention to To further preserve the tradition of www.fusebox.com/shechen ■ tion of Shechen Rabjam details. sacred arts, Shechen's archive facil- Rinpoche with the generous When Konchok was ten years old support of the Dutch Govern- he first met Dilgo Khyentse ment and a private donor. The Rinpoche, from whom he acquired goal of the Art School is to most of his vast knowledge. Over train a new generation of men and women from the Himalayan region and from Western coun- tries in the authentic tradition of Tibetan Buddhist painting. In Tibet, the only form of paint- ing was sacred art—thangkas (scrolls) and wall frescoes with Buddhist themes—most of which was housed in monasteries and temples. Tibetan thangkas are not merely works of art, but are means to convey information of iconography and lineage that is essential for a Bud- dhist practitioner. Accuracy as well as beauty of execution is of utmost importance. During the 1960s the an- cient traditional arts suffered irrepa- rable damage when over 6,000 mon- Left: Students at work asteries and the artwork they con- tained were destroyed in the Chinese Middle: The Tsering Art School building Cultural Revolution. Above: Konchok Lhadrepa, master In the last few years a number of thangka painter and dean of the Tsering artist studios have opened in the Art School Kathmandu Valley to produce (All photos by Vivian Kurtz) thangkas for tourists. Unfortunately, many of these artists have not had
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SNOW LION 7 THE SPIRIT OF TIBET seums and universities. This is a book of my friends. In forest overlooking the Kangra Valley, Tibetan refugees have managed more Continued from page 1 Specializing in Asia, Alison fre- 1988 I took my first trip to Nepal on he greeted me warmly. than mere survival. They have created quently gives slide presentations and what I thought would be a month-long "Ah, you again," he exclaimed, tak- a Tibet in exile that is in many ways Hearst Museum of Anthropology lectures across the country, as well assignment photographing children ing my hand and holding it as we more truly Tibetan than their occu- where she also teaches workshops. as leading annual photographic/cul- for UNICEF. I was so captivated by walked. He stopped to feed his pet pied homeland. Her successful show of fifty color tural tours to Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan the magic of Asia that I stayed for af* parakeets, and I apologized for tak- Buddhism is the backbone of the prints of the exiled Tibetan commu- for Geographic Expeditions. most four years, and have continued ing his time from what is now an in- Tibetan people's existence and their nities, funded by Kodak, is a fully pre- The following is excerpted from to return there nearly every year credibly busy schedule of meetings. piousness is incorportated into prac- pared exhibition that travels to mu- the author's introduction. since. "Please know that I have the best of tically every daily activity. And that While traveling on various assign- intentions," I assured him. He turned is something admirable because it's ments in India and Nepal, I found toward me suddenly, as if reading my what gives them a sense of place, a myself constantly drawn to the Ti- eyes. "Yes, I know. And good intent, sense of purpose. Everyone that betan settlements I encountered. Af- very important. Most important in all spends time with Tibetan people ter visiting Tibet a number of times that you do. Never forget." seems to feel this attraction towards and sadly realizing that more of the Creating intimate vignettes of Ti- them because when you see a whole culture exists outside of the country betan life in exile has become a life culture of people, that shares in that than in it, I felt compelled to docu- long passion. To me, Dharamsala is belief and how they move through the ment the Tibetan life in exile as it the people, and I am lucky to be able world with the utmost faith in that evolves and flourishes. While work- to return year after year to maintain system, they seem to just radiate. ing on this project over the past de- these friendships. There is a refresh- There is a growing nationalistic pride cade I have constantly marveled at ing openess in the Tibetan communi- among the new generation of Tibet- how the Tibetan people have opened ties and I often find myself less ans who struggle with Western influ- up their homes and their hearts to me, guarded there than in the West. The ences, yet still, in their own words, confiding their experiences, their "have Tibetan hearts." memories, their hopes and their fears Despite their sometimes meager as they began new lives for them- "...good intent, very living conditions, I was struck by the selves in strange lands. unfailing generosity of people who Following the 1959 uprising important. Most impor- have so little. Always graciously wel- against the Chinese in Tibet, more tant in all that you do. comed into their homes, I was offered than 130,000 Tibetans have followed Never forget." endless cups of butter tea as I showed their spiritual and political leader, the them photographs of my family and Dalai Lama, into exile and built 57 later sent them photos of theirs. Years refugee settlements throughout the later I would return to find these pic- neighboring countries of India, Nepal main thing I walk away with after all tures still reverently placed on the and Bhutan. Dharamsala, India, home these years is just how open my heart altar or tacked up on the wall. The to the Dalai Lama, his Tibetan gov- can become, and being able to com- images in this book are an apprecia- ernment, and more than 7,000 Tibetan municate purely from that place. That tion of their strength and dignity in refugees, is the center of these com- is what this book is about. their daily life. munities in exile. This thriving mecca Since the initial exodus from their Tibetan culture has much to offer still attracts more than 3,000 Tibetans country, Tibetans have fought to pre- the modern world. It is a final reposi- a year who risk their lives crossing serve their unique culture and iden- tory of the 2,500 year old Buddhist the daunting snow-covered mountain tity. Monks, lay people, parents and tradition which has virtually vanished passes from Tibet in the hopes of sim- children arrived in India and Nepal from its Indian homeland. The value ply receiving a blessing from His Ho- with precious few belongings, strug- of this philosophy is shown by the liness the Dalai Lama, whom the Ti- gling first to survive. Aided by their way the Tibetans have survived the betans believe to be a manifestation Buddhist faith, the Tibetan people ordeal of exile with humor and deter- of the Buddha of Compassion. All re- have managed to rebuild productive mination, and with their perspective ceive an audience with him upon lives for themselves, and today intact. Their inner strength and cour- arrival. Dharamsala arid the other refugee age when faced with the loss of ev- I have had the good fortune to pho- settlements are thriving communities erything they have ever known is in- tograph the Dalai Lama a number of with a strong sense of purpose: to spiring and forms the essence of this times over the years. The last time, preserve and maintain the ancient book. It is their spirit which keeps as we left his house together, a mod- Buddhist tradition which forms the them alive. ■ est but modern home nestled in the core of Tibetan culture. In this sense,
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8 SNOW LION SUMMER '98 NEWSLETTER BUDDHIST PEACE FELLOWSHIP His Holiness the Dalai Lama to give Lojong Teachings November 8 in Washington D.C. Buddhist Peace Fellowship is celebrating 20 years of service, leadership, and activism His Holiness the Dalai Lama will give a one-day teaching on "Eight Verses for Training for progressive social change. the Mind" and confer the "Generation of EIGHT VERSES FOR TRAINING THE MIND Bodhichitta Mind" in Washington, D.C. on Sun- by Geshe Lang-ri Tang-pa day, November 8th. This teaching is based on You're invited to join in the celebration the profound insights and wisdom of one of With the determination to accomplish Tibet's greatest spiritual classics. The verses by becoming a BPF member and sub- The highest welfare of all sentient beings, composed by Geshe Lang-ri Tang-pa (1054- Who surpass even a wish-granting jewel, 1123) inspired many great masters of Tibet to scribing to Turning Wheel. I will learn to hold them supremely dear. go in search of a living holder of the mind train- ing tradition (Lojong), including Geshe Whenever I associate with others I will learn Chekawa (1101-1175), who composed the To think of myself as the lowest amongst all $35 a year. Please send your contributions to: "Seven Point Mind Training." And respectfully hold others to be supreme P.O. Box 4650, Berkeley, CA 94704-0650 His Holiness has described the verses as a From the very depths of my heart. great source of personal inspiration. He received Tel: (510) 655-6169 • Fax: (510) 655-1369 In all actions I will learn to search into my mind [email protected] • http://wwzu.bpf.org the unbroken transmission and explanation of And as soon as a disturbing emotion arises these verses when he was a small boy in Lhasa Endangering myself and others and has recited them every day since then as part I will firmly face and avert it. of his personal practice.The text pertains to the systematic training of the mind towards devel- I will learn to cherish ill-natured beings opment of a compassionate heart and a sound And those oppressed by strong misdeeds and sufferings ethical way of life. As if I had found a precious KUN-ZANG This teaching will cover a wide spectrum of Treasure difficult to find. themes including guidance on how to cultivate LA-MAY and maintain a spiritual perspective on life, and When others out of jealousy treat me badly coping with emotions. The teaching demon- With abuse, slander, and so on, ZHAL-LUNG strates how to transform even the most adverse I will learn to take all loss circumstances into positive opportunities and, And offer the victory to them. Translated & edited by most importantly, how to maintain a life of in- When the one whom I had benefited with great hope Sonant T. Kazi ner tranquility. Unreasonably hurts me very badly, The "Generation of Bodhichitta Mind" trans- I will learn to view that person mission strengthens the value of the Lojong As an excellent spiritual guide. teachings by establishing a motivation to be- The Oral Instruction of Kun-zang La-ma on the come enlightened in order to benefit In short, I will learn to offer to everyone without exception Preliminary Practices of Dzog-ch'en Long-ch'en others. This is the gateway to the Mahayana All help and happiness directly and indirectly Nying-tig by Jig-me Gyal-way Nyu-gu, as practices that underlie Tibetan Buddhism. And respectfully take upon myself transcribed by Dza Pal-trul Rin-po-ch'e Understanding Lojong in itself is not enough to All harm and suffering of my mothers. bring about profound personal transformation 1 will learn to keep all these practices and growth. Developing bodhichitta is essen- "It is a universal truth that it is extremely enjoyable to Undefiled by the stains of the eight worldly concerns tial for this purpose. For this reason, His Holi- live in this phenomenal world. Nobody wants to part with And by understanding all phenomena as like illusions ness will combine Generation of Bodhichitta Be released from the bondage of attachment. worldly pleasure. It is also a universal truth that everything Mind and Lojong in this one-day teaching. that conditionally exists, sooner or later, must face ultimate The teaching is sponsored by the Conser- destruction. . . . vancy for Tibetan Art and Culture, a non-profit [Taken from Kindness, Clarity and Insight, by the Dalai Those of us who are aware of this, in time, search for a organization established last year under the Lama. This book also has his commentary. See the "Lojong" solution to transcend death. Some of us come across the patronage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to section of the spring newsletter for more on this topic] Buddhist teaching called Dzog-ch'en, whose superlative protect and promote Tibetan culture. ■ virtues excite us so much that we totally forget the proper approach to it. Just as a towering building must have an equally sound foundation, success in ultimate realization through Dzog-ch 'en teaching depends entirely on a thorough understanding of the law of karma at the relative level. At the request of students, and friends, The Venerable Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche KUN-ZANG LA-MAY ZHAL-LUNG explains how to attain has kindly agreed to turn the Wheel oj Dharma for the benefit of all beings. the proper balance between the relative and absolute aspects Rinpoche studied and practiced under venerable teachers from the four of the practice in very simple language." major Tibetan Buddhist lineages, and Rinpoche considers H.H. Chatral - S. T. Kazi Rinpoche, the greatest living Dzogchen master, as his kind root teacher. Rinpoche's subtle command of English and understanding of Western PART 1: 256 pp, 8 color plates, cloth, $35. culture allows him to engage students in lively and incisive discussion PART 2 & 3: 352 pp, 4 color plates, line drawings, cloth, $50. and to transmit the teachings in a manner which is fresh, authentic and of the most benefit to each individual participant. AVAILABLE FROM: Rinpoche is the founder of Rangrig Yeshe Center in the Berkshires, Diamond-Lotus Publishing, Inc. Add $4 S/H for first Shyalpa Retreat in Kathmandu, Nepal and the Tibetan Refugee P.O. Box 43242 book; $2 each additional. Children's Fund, a project which finds sponsors for Tibetan refugee Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 NJ residents, please children living in India and Nepal. So far, close to 300 children have (201)509-1868 add 6% sales tax. been sent to school through this sponsorship program. 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10 SNOW LION SUMMER'98 NEWSLETTER 6 "Developing I1 I Awake Balanced Sensitivity" 1 Training Tour 1 While You Alex Berzin has made ancient Buddhist meditation techniques accessible through formulating exercises for the modern mind and lifestyle. They are l based on recognizing and enhancing the five types of deep awareness that naturally endow our mind. He will lead six workshops this fall that will feature Sleep! these exercises, which weave together facets of diverse traditional practices. l Jack Komfield says of Berzin's recently published book on the subject, "Alex has given us a precise, thoughtful, and sophisticated book on the central ques- 1 1 tion of human sensitivity. As one of Buddhism's most knowledgeable western "Look to your experience of I teachers, he creatively combines analytical Buddhist psychology, trainings of sleep to discover whether the mind, intuitive heart practices and dozens of practical techniques to nur- I ture a life of sensitivity." 1 or not you are truly awake. I ! I TOUR SCHEDULE ! Look to your experience in 1 1 Raleigh. North Carolina 1 dreams to know how you I Sept. 25-26 Kadampa Center ! will fare in death," writes I 919-859-3433, [email protected] I San Francisco Bay Area 1 Tenzin Wangyal I Oct. 10-12 Spirit Rock (Marin County) I Saturday, Sunday, Monday evening Rinpoche. I Woodacre, California I For more information call (415) 488-0164 I Oct. 13-15 Tse Chen Ling (the City) The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep is the first book to ! Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday evenings 1 provide detailed instructions for Tibetan Bon dream yoga, I San Francisco I For more information call (415) 339-8002 1 including foundational practices done during the day. One need I Vancouver. British Columbia I Oct. 16-18 Zuru Ling Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center not be Buddhist to benefit from these advanced practices, the Friday evening, Saturday, Sunday 1 result of which is greater happiness and freedom in both our For more information call the Program Coordinator at (604) 669-2029 1 I Seattle. Washington 1 waking and dreaming states. I October 23-25 Dharma Friendship Foundation (DDF) 1 I Friday evening, Saturday, Sunday 1 I For more information call the Program Coordinator at (206) 517-2936 I A Tibetan Bon lama, Tenzin Wangyal I Boston. Massachusetts I October 30-November 1 Kurukulla Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies 1 Rinpoche was born in Amristar, India, after Friday evening, Saturday, Sunday 1 1 For more information call (617) 624-0177 his parents fled Tibet. He received training i New York, New York 1 from both Buddhist and Bon masters, attaining I November 6-8 Tibet Center Friday evening, Saturday, Sunday the Geshe degree, the highest academic i1 1I For more information fax (212) 674-0650 ■ 1 degree of Tibet. Rinpoche has been in the 1 United States since 1991 and has taught widely here as well as I 1 1 in Europe and Mexico. He is the founder of The Ligmincha 1 DEVELOPING ! Institute in Charlottesville, VA, which is dedicated to the 1I 1 preservation of the Bon tradition. BALANCED s SENSITIVITY The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep I 1 I Practical Buddhist Exercises Quality paperback. 220 pp. $16.95. for Daily Life To order call Snow Lion @ 1-800-950-0313 or e-mail: [email protected]. by Alexander Berzin. 275 pp. #DEBASE $14.95
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18 SNOW LION SUMMER '98 NEWSLETTER His Holiness the Dalai Lama GIFT OF DAILYAILY rP RAYERS will Give the Kalachakra The Gift of Daily Prayers invites you to request Tara and Medicine Buddha prayers for your family, friends and yourself. Initiation at the Tibetan The Tara prayers help clear away obstacles affecting relationships, economic hardship, fear, and physical and mental health. The Medicine Buddha Prayers are done for the sick and Cultural Center in dying to eliminate illness and to help gain a higher rebirth. Both prayers can be said as a blessing to guide one toward liberation. Bloomington, Indiana
The daily prayers are done by the monks at H.E. Jamgon In August of 1999, His Holiness will Although empowerments for other Alexander Berzin with an introduc- Kongtrul Rinpoche's monasteries in India and Nepal. confer the Kalachakra Initiation for tantras are intended for only a small tion by His Holiness the Dalai Lama the fourth time in the USA. This em- number of disciples at a time, there (see Kalachakra section of this news- powerment is one of the most highly is a historical tradition of conferring letter). Also contact the Tibetan Cul- revered of all Buddhist rituals be- the Kalachakra Initiation to large tural Center, PO Box 2581, cause it is dedicated to the creation crowds of people. Buddha first gave Bloomington, IN 47402 to get of world peace and harmony. The it to the king of Shambhala. on their mail list for further an- entire initiation takes eight days to For further information, read Tak- nouncements and to help them begin perform and festivities following the ing the. Kalachakra Initiation by planning for the 1999 event. ■ empowerment are planned.
"TLDi I dbpJ / Would Like To Request Daily Prayers For: Sf WIN A GUIDED TOUR Name: ? Address: TO TIBET AND NEPAL IN MAY 1999 A card will be sent acknowledging your gift. For more than one Tour leader: Glenn H. Mullin recipient, send us a list of names and addresses together with your prayer selection for each. Snow Lion Publications is offering its fourth trip to Asia to a lucky customer. We have arranged with ] Tara Prayers or [ ] Medicine Buddha Prayers Mystical Journeys to award one of our customers the opportunity to travel with Glenn Mullin on an 18-day 3 months - $25 []9months-$75 adventure to Nepal and Tibet. Glenn lived in the Himalayas from 1972-1982 where he studied Tibetan 6 months - $50 [] 12 months-$100 Buddhism, language, literature, and yoga with many of the greatest teachers from Tibet. He is the author Make tax deductible donations to the address below: of over a dozen books and has taught throughout the world. He has led several world tours of the monks Rigpe Dorje Foundation' , , from Drepung Loseling Monastery. 328 North Sycamore Avenue . Los Angeles, CA 90036 Please check the full page ad for Mystical Journeys Here's how you can win: Every time that you to see what is and is not included in the trip. Also, order from us, we will enter your name in our draw- Mystical Journeys is completely responsible for ev- ing. Just let us know when you order by mail, phone, ery aspect of the trip so please contact them for any or fax that you would like to be considered for the information that you need or to find out about their trip. We will have our drawing on December 31,1998. other great trips. HIMALAYAN ANTIQUES 310 High Street Ipswich, MA 01938 978 356-4282 VAJRAYANA $&* FOUNDATION We are back from another trip to the region with items for the prac- Flight of the Garuda Dzogchen Retreat °° Nhamkha Drimed Rinpoche °° Sept. 4-11 titioner as well as the collector. Some of the highlights of this year's Some of the most inspiring expressions of realization and the Dzogchen (Great Perfection) view are found in the collection include: vajra songs of Shabkar, a wandering yogin and lama. The Flight of the Garuda is probably one of his best known * a very broad selection of Tibetan collections of songs on Trekcho ( cutting through) practices of the Dzogchen tradition. Nhamkha Drimed Rin- painted furniture, including shrine poche, terton (treasure revealer) and divination master, will be giving these rare teachings. Rinpoche will also be cabinets, thorgums, and pegums. giving personal interviews and divinations. One may attend any or all of this retreat. » a large assortment of Tibetan sil- Throma Chod Healing Retreat °° Orgyen Thinley Rinpoche °o Sept. 26 - 30 ver pieces including butter lamps, censers, teapots, chang pots, several Orgy en Thinley Rinpoche will be using a text compiled by Kyabje Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche from Dudjom large gau, and holders for scrolls, Lingpa 's Throma Nagmo sadhana and the Feasts of Chod. The Throma cycle of practice directs the mind to the phur-bu, and incense. highest state of realization. The Feasts of Chod performed as a healing ceremony, can pacify negative forces that 9 an assortment of tankas, old and lead to illness, suffering from chronic physical ailments, mental depression and other emotional obstacles. new. Tibetan Astrology Workshop °° Tulku Thubten Rinpoche °° Oct. 16 - 19 « several large (5-6 pound) sing- This four day intensive workshop will cover the general aspects of Tibetan astrology emphasizing the principles of ing bowls as well as musical instru- the elemental system (Jungtsi). Instruction will be given in astrological calculations and chart construction. The 30 ments and drums traditional charts, the wedding chart, the health chart and the annual chart construction and interpretation will be « a large collection of old Tibetan covered. brass and copper kitchenware in- The Art of Living a Spiritual Life Workshop °° Lama Yeshe Wangmo °° Nov. 7-8 cluding momo steamers, kettles, Many saints and spiritual masters of the past have written their life stories as a way of teaching others how to and large cooking pots. achieve identical attainments. By examining the autobiography of Yeshe Tsogyal, a woman spiritual master of 9th © several traditional old Tibetan century Tibet, Lama Yeshe Wangmo and Anna Cox have formulated a model of spiritual growth that will help us carpets. examine the fear and drama of our psychological lives. Our main principle is always to live life AS wisdom rather Since we carry unique and old than an obstacle course. items, a catalog would be All events are held at Pema Osel Ling Retreat Center. obsoleteeven before it was pub- 2013 Eureka Canyon Rd. lished. We will be happy to answer RESIDENT STUDY PROGRAM Corralitos, CA. 95076 telephone inquiries. We try to keep The Vajrayana Foundation has a resident study program. In exchange for part-time (408) 761-6266 our website posted with the latest work and a nominal fee we offer room, board, access to teachings and retreats as well as Fax: (408) 761-6284 additions and deletions. 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SNOW LION 19 MAGIC AND MYSTERY IN NEPAL Continued from page 21 claim their trees, delight in the tinkle Mani Rimdu gone awry of yak bells for their music, not as an for beers or to their tents to try to excuse to rest. I marveled how those by Tiah Foster, M.D. When I arrived in Kathmandu I was wore on, it became a piece of cake to sleep, the Sherpas took over the mon- lumbering, heavily loaded animals When a man called me at work and met by the folks from Snow Lion. Our trot across the swaying bridge with- astery courtyard. Under the full confidently maneuver rocky assents asked, "Do the words Mani Rimdu group ranged from the early 30s to the out hanging on). moon, they sang folk songs, danced and descents. I admired Sherpa por- mean anything to you?" my immedi- 70s. But everyone was miles more fit I went to bed feeling really down, and drank chang (their beer). They ters shod in cheap Chinese-made ate answer was, "Do you mean I than me. Steve Brothers would be our as I didn't think I was going to make celebrated until nearly dawn when sneakers or flip-flops carrying aston- won?" guide from Snow Lion. He spoke it. I had dreamed of Namche and they put their children on their shoul- ishing loads. I met a three-generation I was thrilled and thought it a Nepali and Hindi and was from the Tengboche. As a doctor, I thought I ders and followed dark paths around Tibetan family from the other side of dream come true. I had just won an U.S. I immediately liked him. had a medical kit outfitted for every- the mountains to their villages. The Everest. They would walk two weeks all expenses-paid trip to Nepal (paid The flight up was easy. At Lukla we thing, but I had not packed a needle harvest was being gathered—autum- to visit a revered lama who had fled for by the Snow Lion trekking com- met our Sidhar, Potachie, a native and syringe, xylocaine and cortisone nal celebrations are even older than Tibet and lives in Nepal and then trek pany out of Salt Lake City, Utah and Sherpa who has been leading treks so I could inject my wildly inflamed Buddhism. The next day, as we re- back home. Long pilgrimages are a sponsored by Snow Publications of for over 25 years. He and his Sherpas hip bursa. I finally decided to go back turned to Namche, bits of the Sherpa Tibetan custom that confers merit. Ithaca, NY.). We would trek for a were all thoroughly professional, to Lukla in the morning and stay there songs rang through the mountains as For me, the reward and joy of the trek week in the Himalayas and go up to kind and helpful. We had a quick until the others returned. the celebration continued in their is that, while lack of oxygen may ac- Tengboche to see the annual Mani lunch in a hotel, our first taste of cab- The first day I just slept. The room hearts and ours. count for occasional euphoria, my Rimdu Festival. bage, carrots, onions, potatoes and had no heat, light, water or a bath- Early in the morning we left feet trod the ancient, unyielding, sole- Then reality set in. I realized I was eggs done in what would later seem room, but it was clean. On the follow- Tengboche. Gerda had a small, but punishing mountain rocks. no longer the thin runner I used to like an infinite number of ways. It ing day, I began to look around and scary, fall and Steve found two doc- In the helicopter, I watched the be—some negative karma had caught tasted great. Then we headed out. ask questions. Very few words of En- tors who diagnosed a possible stroke. mountains recede and remembered a up with me and I had had two cervi- Everyone passed me like I was glish were spoken and I quickly got Two sturdy young Sherpas took turns new motherhood moment: during la- cal neck injuries. No matter how you standing still. Within less than a mile, on to functional Nepali. The children carrying her piggyback to Namche to bor I moaned "never again" but the looked at it, I was FAT. I knew I was in trouble. The steps up were especially helpful and patient be flown to Kathmandu. There but for first time my little daughter smiled at So I called Ron Barness at Snow and down were like double height and with me. the love of God.... me, I thought it would be wonderful Lion and told him that I'd hiked out of in some areas were triple height. Then One of the children said she would I wanted to memorize the return, to have another baby. And I did. Will the Grand Canyon from Phantom it began to rain. And rain. Potachie take me to the monastery, high on a every precious minute, whether gasp- I return to the Himalayas? I hope so. Ranch but now I was 55 and pear- and another Sherpa came back to hill. She bobbed and jumped along ing for breath, struggling uphill, or shaped. He said he thought I could do check up on me and insisted that I the trail and was nimble as the pro- sipping hot Tang at lunch. ▲ June Calender is a professional it. . change into something warm and dry verbial mountain goat. I trundled I had found my walking rhythm writer living in New York City. Over a The Rehabilitation Center where I right there. There are no changing along with my Lekhi walking stick, and now used my trekking poles like dozen of her plays have been pro- work set a program for me, especially rooms on the trail. So off went the wet another definite MUST. The monas- "four-wheel drive for my feet" (as the duced in New York and other cities to strengthen my legs. A friend who stuff and on went the dry, plus a down tery housed a large statue of ad copy had promised). I paced my- throughout the United States. Cur- is a world-class climber and also a parka. I was fortunate they insisted, Padmasambhava and a smaller one of self between the hares and the tor- rently working on a "based on fact" physician advised me to "climb lots as without the warm dry layer, I could Tara. The area seemed self-sufficient toises, alone so I could contemplate novel, she has also published poetry of stairs." What no one told me was have been in real trouble with hypo- with a garden off to one side. Shoes the grey-blue-lavender of receding in literary journals and nonfiction in to climb the steps two and three at a thermia as the sun went down. Even- on the doorstep were Nike, of course. rows of mountains, listen to crows national and regional publications. ■ time. Remember that. This is the tually I came within sight of the camp- Two young boys showed us around. single most important piece of advice site. All I had to do was cross a nar- Over several days I had a sense of I can give you if you ever want to take row swinging foot-bridge. That first life in the mountains as winter was this trip. trip across took ages (but as the week coming on. Women were in the fields their picture, they would become back. They were tired and dragging. pulling all their plots of carrots to dreadfully serious. The children I Two were .iiissing, the couple in their store in root cellars for the winter. knew were hard working, cheerful 70s. She had had what looked like a Children were harvesting pine and smiled a lot. What to do? Give stroke and had been air-evacuated to needles for the animals in the barns. them the camera of course. The pic- Kathmandu. After three days, she fi- Most of the time, everyone was in bed tures are terrific. I had the prints en- nally was told that it was fluid on her by 8 P.M and up at sunrise. larged and sent them back to them brain and was expected to totally I would spend part of my day do- and their parents. clear. By the time we had our final ing daily Buddhist practice and sitting The children were back and forth dinner in Kathmandu, they were able in the sun. If people stopped and they to the lodge across the trail. It turned to join us. spoke a language I understood, we out that two sisters had married two I may not have had the karma to visited. I used my French, Spanish, brothers, the one across the way had do the whole trek, but I had the good and Japanese regularly. no children and this was her second karma to be able to be there as far as By day five, the children became marriage. She clearly enjoyed her Pakding and make some new friends. less wary. I brought down a bottle of nieces and nephew. Apparently, if you And it has led to significant contin- nail polish. I cannot recommend this aren't happy in a Sherpa marriage, it ued weight loss and a day-to-day too highly as a way to break the ice. I is pretty easy to put an end to it and gratefulness for running water, in- became the local manicurist. I had a go on with someone else—and no door toilets, central heat, box spring ball and so did they. hard feelings. mattresses and grocery stores with Then when I asked if I could take Then suddenly the group v/as huge variety. ■
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20 SNOW LION SUMMER '98 NEWSLETTER Magic and Mystery in Nepal by June Calender ing! The villages were small and full At dinner in the mess tent, I as- rested every ten minutes, then every sand color light but my washcloth "We've signed up another woman of lodges, with vegetable gardens sessed the group. My roommate was five minutes, then every twenty steps, was frozen stiff. I roused myself on who's never slept in a tent either," said where brightly plumed chickens a few years younger than I, and in a then every ten steps. The two Sherpas an elbow and noticed a sparkle on the Youden, the cheerful Nepali woman scratched for bugs. Then we came to sense, pooping out. "The California shepherding us offered to carry our floor beside my sleeping mat. What, at Snow Lion Expeditions. That a foot bridge suspended above a tor- contingent" was four yoga devotees, day packs. My first brave "no thanks" a contact lens? I learned later that the tipped the balance of my internal de- rent roaring over a boulder-strewn all were 40-something. Two couples soon turned into a grateful "Oh, efficient Sherpas used a number sys- bate about signing up for the trek. bed 20 feet below. My first real test: completed the group, a 50-ish athletic thanks so much." tem to match tents and luggage. Mountain climbing is for more daring, would I have a fit of vertigo and freeze woman, lean and hard, with her That afternoon was the longest Though taken down, carried up the much younger men and women, but midspan? I stepped out cautiously equally fit significant other and and hardest time of my life, bar mountain, and set up again, this was I'd developed a serious longing to be and held tight to the guide wires. At Gerda, a hardy retiree who hiked with none—harder than shoveling a drive- the same tent. among the Himalayas. I flew over the other end I was grinning like a her very fit husband. Steve, our guide, way after a three-foot blizzard, worse Bed tea is a luxurious trekking them on two round trips from teenage getting off a rollercoaster. was younger than any of us. than walking a colicy baby all night, ritual, soon followed by steaming Kathmandu to Lhasa and felt the urge WOW!! WHAT FUN! In the morning my roommate ever worse than a tortured weekend "washing water." When I pulled my to jump out of the airplane and walk The Sherpas had set up our camp moved to a lodge where, until we re- before a root canal. Geologists say the toothpaste out of the cosmetic bag, the flanks of the giants. in a field beside the river. I crawled turned, she would get to know local Himalayas are still growing, that one VOILA! The other contact lens was My birthdays edge toward the big inside a tent for the first time. Jeez people and explore the environs. We stretched taller at every zig and zag stuck to the tube. My sea level brain 6-0 and a small voice urged, "Do the Louise! The entire space was smaller hiked beside the river until lunch. The in the trail. I didn't want to admit that admonished, "Don't be superstitious, things you want now...while you still than a king-sized bed. Two duffles and pre-trek outline has said this would I was too over the hill to climb up this it's all coincidence." But my mountain can." I was inspired by Alexandra two mats on which to unroll sleeping be the hardest day—but hey! It was a one. I thought of the women in my brain said, "You are blessed, or at the David-Neel, who in 1924, at age 55, bags left about an inch between my lark so far. family dead of heart disease. I thought very least, in synch with the world." on foot, disguised as a poor pilgrim tent-mate's side and mine. She was After lunch we crossed another of the children's story about the little When I crawled out of the tent I saw, with only a young lama companion still on the trail. Could I squelch my bridge and began a 2000 foot climb. engine that said, "I think I can, I think as I had not the night before, a small became the first European woman to claustrophobia as easily as vertigo? We entered Sagarmartha National I can...." chorten 50 feet away. The Buddha enter then forbidden Lhasa. I bought Dusk was falling. No light, I'd bet- Park. In Nepali, "Sagarmatha" is Namche Bazaar sits in bowl sur- eyes were in fading paint but they some trekking poles and hiking boots, ter get my contact lenses off. Oh-oh! Everest, while "park" is apolitical sta- rounded by snow peaks which were were looking at me. I said the Tibetan added push ups to my yoga routine, The right one popped out and disap- tus and does not imply tended trails, magical in a golden sunset light be- mantra, "Om mani padme hum." walked farther and faster than usual peared. I searched my lap, my clothes, comfort stations or picnic tables. At neath a celestial blue sky. If I had had Alexandra David-Neel wrote of magic and began taking the stairs to my sev- the open cosmetic case. No luck. over 9500 feet the oxygen was about any breath left, it would have been and mystery in Tibet on the north side enth floor apartment. Okay, take the left one off, put on 35% less that sea level. Breathing was breath-taking. At dinner even the ath- of the Himalayas, and I had found In November I saw the Himalayas glasses, get a flash light. Damn! The difficult. The trail zigzagged, up and letic hares wore the look of stunned them here on the south side in Nepal. again from the air but at very close left lens disappeared too. Rotten luck. up and up and up. exhaustion I could feel on my face. The frosted grass at my feet range as a helicopter headed for the My tent mate arrived exhausted but Gerda, Valerie, Diane and I drifted The plain hearty meal was incredibly sparkled, the encircling mountains postage stamp-sized field at Lukla, a helped me search. No good. They more and more to the rear. We hoped delicious, but no one lingered after were new-snow white against a sky town that can only be reached by air were gone. GONE! I had my glasses for yak bells. Sherpas driving loaded tea in the warm lodge. as clean as the first creation. Walk- or by foot. but my new Raybans were not pre- yaks deserved the right of way. Trek- After ten hours of dead-to-the- ing to breakfast I noted no stiffness, A dozen Sherpas joined our small scription. Would the brilliant moun- kers step aside and rest as they pass. world sleep I heard the cook, a tent no aches or pains from yesterday's group. The first afternoon's hiking tain light contribute to early macular Steve had advised, "Take your time. or two away, calling "Bed tea!" The exertions. Laughter rippled'from the was mostly downhill—my kind of hik- degeneration? Rest as much as you need to." We opaque tent was filled with a warm Californian's tents. This is the best of all possible worlds! While the hares took a day hike to a higher town, four tired tortoises explored Namchee and its museum of Sherpa culture on a hill above our campsite. Steve said the rest of the trek would be easier. After the day of rest, we were ready to go on to our major goal, Thengboche monastery where we would see the Mani Rimdu festi- val. It wasn't easy, in fact, when the trail plunged toward a river valley, I hated every easy downhill step be- cause it meant I'd have to regain the distance, plus more. But I knew I would do it. Among the city of tents in the field in front of the monastery, only ours had been sited so that, on opening the flap, the grand south face of Everest was directly ahead. Who needs to climb those dangerous ridges? This was the ideal place to contemplate the power of plate-tectonics, the mag- nitude of these mountains, valleys, glaciers and small self among them for such a brief moment in time. I was exactly where I had wanted to be when I had looked down from the air- plane. For the two-day festival Sherpas from all over the area crowded into *i ,.. the monastery courtyard with the Top left: Prayer flags across Everest and Ana Dablon behind tourists. We watched magnificently Thengboche Monastery. Bottom left: Costumed lamas at, the Manx costumed lamas dancing, blowing Rimdu Festival at Thengboche Monastery. Right: The author on jeweled oboes and twelve-foot long trail from Thengboche to Namchee. Title photo: Lama cymbalist horns and clashing cymbals. At night, at, Thengboche Monastery during the second day of the Mani when the tourists went to the lodges Rimdu Festival. (Continued on page 20)
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CALM ABIDING Knowledge LABRANG: A Tibetan Buddhist SPECIAL INSIGHT and Liberation Monastery at the Crossroads of LABRANG Four Civilizations A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery by Paul Kocot Nietupski, photos from the at the Crossroads of Four Civilizations Griebenow Archives, 1921-1949, 160 pp. 9x8" high, 20 color and 100 b&w photos, illustra- ■ i tions, #LA $24.95 Labrang stands out from the growing number of picture books on Tibet. Focusing on Labrang Monastery and its territories, this volume contains photographs taken over a twenty-five year period Paul prior to the Chinese invasion that capture and pre- Kocoi serve the life of this Tibetan monastery at its devel- Nierupstit opmental peak. It includes narratives of people and Photos Irotn the Griebenow Archives,, 1921-1949 events important in Labrang's early twentieth-cen- tury history and thus helps the reader enter into the life of one of the largest and most important CALM ABIDING AND KNOWLEDGE & centers of Tibetan culture. SPECIAL INSIGHT LIBERATION This book is about the peoples and cultures that mingled at Labrang, but it is also about Blanche Achieving Spiritual by Anne Klein. 283 pp. #KNLIC Transformation Through and Marion Griebenow, two young Christian mis- $19.95, A Namgyal Institute sionaries, who against the advice of their families Meditation Textbook traveled to remote Tibet to spread the Christian by Geshe Gedun Lodro and message. They left the United States separately for Jeffrey Hopkins. 334 pp., glossary, what was then a region hostile to foreigners. They bibliography, index, #CAABSP "Anne Klein presents vividly were married in Tibet and raised a family of four $19.95, A Namgyal Institute and intimately many concepts children. Their personal stories give a fascinating Textbook essential to a deeper under- first-hand account of Labrang as it was. This manual presents an intimate standing of Buddhist philoso- and detailed picture of the intricacies phy and for realizing empti- of meditation so vividly that the ness-the process of naming, reader is drawn into a Tibetan world- positive and negative phe- MOONBEAMS OF view of spiritual transformation. nomena, direct perception, MAHAMUDRA: Geshe Gedun Lodro, one of the fore- and more. I highly recom- The Direct Meditation THE PRACTICE most scholar-practitioners of Tibet, mend this bookr-Prof. Jeffrey on Mind MOONBEAMS OF OF TRANQUILLITY presents the landscape of mental de- Hopkins by Venerable Khenchen Thrangu, MAHAMUDRA AND INSIGHT velopment revealing a living world of Rinpoche, translated by Ken mental therapy replete with re- McLeod. 120 pp. #MOMA $12.95 sources for describing facing, and Buddhist philosophy is concerned August counteracting both superficial and with defining and overcoming the limitations and errors of perception. systemic disorders. He details how to Moonbeams of Mahamudra pre- undermine distracting afflictive To do this is essential to Buddhism's purpose of establishing a method for sents a direct meditation on the mind states, doubts, and distortions that that has led thousands of practitioners must be removed for the mind to be- attaining liberation. Conceptual thought, in this view, can lead to a lib- to complete enlightenment in one life- come stable, calm, and alertly clear time. It begins with a detailed expla- such that it can penetrate the false ap- erating understanding, a transforma- : ! : : :: : : : ' tive religious experience. nation of shamatha and vipashyana pearance of phenomena. The dangers meditation and then shows how these of not recognizing states contrary to The author discusses the workings of both direct and conceptual cogni- basic meditations differ in the the full development are great, and mahamudra practice. Shamatha medi- the possibilities of implementing the tion, drawing on a variety of Tibetan and Indian texts. This book is indis- tation trains the mind to rest upon a wrong antidote or of over-extending single point whether the object is the breath or the mind itself. Vipashyana pensable for anyone desiring a deeper THE PRACTICE OF an appropriate one until it becomes meditation in mahamudra is the realization of the true nature of reality which understanding of the fundamental is- counter-productive are many. Subtle is emptiness of the individual and all phenomena. Thrangu Rinpoche explains TRANQUILLITY & INSIGHT: distinctions between types of factors sues in Buddhist philosophy. It is also A Guide to Tibetan Buddhist highly relevant to issues current in the nature of emptiness in detail and describes how the meditator can arrive at that can interfere with meditation are this realization by "looking directly at mind." When this is done with repeated modern Western philosophy. Meditation needed; there is seldom a simple way effort, the meditator sees through the mistaken appearances of mind and by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. to coax the mind back to its natural The Gelukba interpretation of sees how mind really is luminous clarity. This is the essence of mahamudra 170 pp., b&w photo, 3 line state. The very measures taken to Dignaga and Dharmakirti is greatly at meditation. drawings, 3 tables, #PRTRIN purify it can exacerbate old problems variance with virtually all other schol- and introduce new ones. Through arship concerning these seminal Bud- $14.95 such detail Geshe Gedun Lodro dhist logicians. The author clarifies This is a practical manual to the makes vividly clear a Tibetan ap- these differences, considering both two types of meditation that form the proach to meditative therapy. This is traditional Buddhist and modern core of Buddhist spiritual practice. a completely revised new edition of scholarship, thus establishing what is After only a few pages of reading, Walking Through Walls. unique to the Gelukba presentation anyone would know enough to prop- and, in this light, examining reasons erly begin meditating. Tranquillity for the validity of this school's (samatha) meditation aims at stilling interpretation. the mind, while insight (vipasyana) meditation produces clear vision, or insight into the nature of all phenom- ena. With masterful scholarship and THE JEWEL ORNAMENT OF LIBERATION the ability to make subtle ideas easy The Wish-fulfilling Gem of the Noble Teachings to understand and apply in practice, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche ex- by Gampopa, translated by plains this unified system of medita- Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen tion for students both beginning and SPIRIT OF TIBET: Portrait of a Culture in Exile advanced. He explains what to do, Rinpoche, fore, by the Dalai The photographs and text by Alison Wright, foreword by H.H. the what to avoid and the stages of deep- Lama, ed. by Delia Emmerich. Jewel Dalai Lama, 200 pages, 180 color photos, 9.5" high x 10" wide, ening meditation so the practitioner 520 pp., glossary, study guide, #SPTI $34.95 can gauge progress. These teachings bibliography, notes, 6 x 9" Ornament This visually stunning color photographic book displays the spirit are based on the eighth chapter of the #JEORLI $19.95 of of the Tibetan people living in exile amidst the north Indian hills of Treasury of knowledge by the great Liberation Dharamsala. Home to the Dalai Lama, the political and religious leader nineteenth-century master Jamgon of the Tibetan people and the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner, it is Kongtrul. With Thrangu Rinpoche's here, surrounded by the icy Dhauladhar mountain range, that the Ti- commentary, this complex, encyclo- betan government was re-established and many cultural institutions pedic work is made accessible to have been recreated since the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Alison Wright's Western students of meditation. extraordinary photographs capture the indomitable resiliency of the Tibetan people as they struggle to preserve their unique culture on • • » • • •••*• foreign soil. Spirit of Tibet is an in-depth portrait of Tibetan people. It shows skilled Tibetan artists creating their thangka paintings, statues and wood carvings, Tibetan doctors with their herbal remedies and pulse diagnosis, the opera singers and dancers of the Tibetan Institute of The Jewel Ornament of Liberation is a master work of Tibetan Bud- Performing Arts, the young people at the Tibetan Children's Village, dhism. For more than eight centuries, this text has provided a complete and the daily lives, rituals and training of the monks of many different foundation for Buddhist study and practice—beginning with how to en- monasteries. Spirit of Tibet also reveals the mystery and magic of ter the path, and continuing through to the achievement of Buddha- Tibetan society—the eminent Nechung oracle, the Nyingma rainmaker, hood. It includes teachings on Buddha-nature, finding the spiritual mas- a Buddhist nun who divines the future, solitary monks who spend their ter, impermanence, karma, the cultivation of bodhicitta, the develop- lives meditating in isolated forest dwellings, and a number of young ment of the six perfections, the ten bodhisattva bhumis, Buddhahood, Tibetan children who have been recognized as reincarnated lamas. Most of all, the profound inner strength, courage, humor and determi- and the activities of the Buddha. "Anyone who knows the Jewel Ornament well can say that they nation of the Tibetan people can be experienced in these extraordi- really understand Buddhism."—Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen nary photographs. This is one of the very best photography books on Tibetan culture.
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TALES OF THE TURQUOISE: A Pilgrimage in Dolpo by CorneiUe Jest THE 190 pp., line drawings, 2 maps #TATU $12.95 July TEACHER STUDENT In this journal narrative of a pilgrimage in Dolpo, an isolated Himalayan valley in northwest RELATIONSHIP Nepal inhabited by people of Tibetan stock, Corneille Jest weaves together his own gentle observations of daily life and the lively tales told by his traveling companion. In the early spring of 1960, Dr. Jest undertook a three-week circumambulation of the valley in the company of Tibetans, visiting temples, shrines and sacred mountains. His companion Karma, an elderly nomad from Western Tibet and a gifted story- teller, punctuated the journey with traditional >^>AT**A'*,rAr< r tales and his own reflections. L fjftjkt-*iiV*St 'RON GARRY"' t£ T~V u^ Tales of the Turquoise is charmingly writ- ten, colorful and engaging—it transports the reader to the timeless world of the Tibetan spirit in ways not readily accessible to outsiders. "' & THE TEACHER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIP by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodu Thaye, translation and commentary by Ron Garry, foreword by Lama THE result, there will be greater happiness and freedom in both waking Tharchin Rinpoche, introduction TIBETAN YOGAS and dreaming and we will be closer to attaining liberation now or by Gyatrul Rinpoche. 263 pp. OF DREAM after death. #TESTRE $14.95 July AND SLEEP "The most illuminating book on this topic to appear to In the Tantric Buddhism of Tibet, it is date."—J. Marvin Spiegelman, Ph.D. an abiding principle that the root of all by Tenzin Wangyal good qualities is devotion to a fully quali- Rinpoche "The explication of the dream and sleep practices becomes a window on the entire teachings of Tibetan tantra and dzogchen. fied "spiritual friend" (a teacher or guru). 220 pp., 8 b&w photos Using clear concepts, illuminating images and metaphors, and ef- Nonetheless, in the few decades that Ti- #TTYODR $16.95 fective practices, Rinpoche transmits a comprehensive, profound betan Buddhism has begun to blossom view of the teachings that lead to realization of our true nature."— in the West, numerous problems have Of DREW* Martin Lowenthal, author arisen between students and their teach- "If we cannot carry our AND SLEEP ers that seem to call into question what practice into sleep," Tenzin should be a relationship of mutual devo- Wangyal Rinpoche writes, "if tion, honesty, and respect. we lose ourselves every night, The formidable challenge of finding what chance do we have to be the right teacher, and for teachers to find aware when death comes? Look the right students, has actually been of 1 to your experience in dreams to Klt,jt< "'""S.'" ' major concern to Buddhism for many know how you will fare in death. centuries, and the topic was never more Look to your experience of sleep thoroughly explored, and the answers to discover whether or not you are more clearly delineated, than they were truly awake." by the unsurpassed Tibetan teacher, The yogas of dream and sleep are used in the Bon and Buddhist tradi- Jamgon Kongtrul, in a chapter of his tions of Tibet to attain liberation. Practices applied during dream and monumental Buddhist encyclopedia, sleep are effective for awakening from the sleep of ignorance and the Tlie Treasury of Knowledge. long dreaminess of samsaric life. Tenzin Wangyal first teaches the prac- Translated by Dr. Ron Garry, this es- tice of calm abiding to stabilize the mind. By bringing stable awareness sential text lays out in clear terms the to all our experiences we can choose to respond to life positively, as best credentials and qualities that every stu- benefits other beings and our own spiritual journey. dent should look for in their teacher, The book includes detailed instructions for the dream yoga beginning why a teacher is necessary, and how the with foundational practices done during the day. These are simple but relationship between guru and disciple sophisticated methods of changing the practitioner's relationship to ex- - is to develop once it is established. With chapters such as How to Seek the Spiri- perience, a retraining of cognitive patterns that results in increasingly / positive experiences of life and eventually in lucid dreaming. Lucid dream- tual Friend, Why is a Teacher Neces- ing has become quite well known in the West as the capacity to know sary, Categories and Qualifications of that one is dreaming during the dream, but in Tibetan dream yoga this is the Master, and How the Student Should not an end in itself. Rather it is the setting in which one can then utilize Choose a Teacher, the translation of this during dream more advanced practices. *% authoritative work puts into the hands Dream practices are followed by sleep yoga, also known as the yoga of every student all they need to know of clear light. It is considered a more advanced practice, closer in method to undertake the most fundamental and and result to the highest and most hidden of Tibetan practices. The prac- important step on the path: finding a tice and the goal is to stay aware during deep sleep, when the gross con- qualified spiritual teacher. ceptual mind and the operation of the senses cease. Most Westerners do Dr. Garry's introductory commentary not even entertain this as a possibility, yet it is well known in Tibetan unpacks Kongtrul's text and elaborates Buddhist and Bon spiritual traditions. many essential points, drawing espe- cially on Gampopa's Jewel Ornament of These instructions will allow us to remain in full awareness in dream "A detailed guide to using our night-lives Liberation and Buton's Jewelry of and sleep, able to respond to dream phenomena in skillful and positive for awakening: thought-provoking, ways and able to accomplish various practices in the dream state. As a Scripture. This important volume is in- inspiring, and lucid."-Stephen LaBerge troduced by two of the most respected lamas teaching in America today, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and Gyatrul Rinpoche.
TIBETAN THANGKA PAINTING: Methods & Materials ,eote efc by David & Janice Jackson with art & appendix by Robert Beer i\\Ae t \s etv* e *W> 216 pp., 73 photos, 500 line drawings, 81/4x11 3/4", #TITHPA $40 $& o<* "^ *w a*M a* Tibetan Thangka Painting is the only detailed description of the techniques and principles of r::a\*°< the sacred art of Tibetan scroll painting. It is the distillation of the authors' research carried out over a period often years, during which they made five journeys to Nepal and India and learned =g?^ from some twenty traditional painters.
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BECOMING A CHILD OF AM A SURYA I) AS. THE BUDDHAS: A Simple BUDDHA'S ART Clarification of the Root OF HEALING verses of seven point mind training Tibetan Paintings by Gomo Tulku. 112 pp. Rediscovered #BECHBU $12.95 Essays by John Avedon, Contains a fresh translation of Tamdin Bradley, Fernand Seven Point Mind Training with com- Meyer, N.D. Bolsokhoevu, and mentary by Gomo Tulku. He explains KM Gerasimova, foreword by how mind training can bring peace of H.H. the Dalai Lama. 208 pp., AWAKENING mind in any circumstance. 10 x 12", 140 illus., 120 in color, THE BUDDHA #BUARHE $65 cloth
* WITHIN * Provides a rich introduction to the world of Tibetan medicine, one of Tibet's valuable contributions to the modern world. Illustrated with intri- cate and vivid scroll paintings based on The Atlas of Tibetan Medicine, a DIE GOTTER DES seventeenth-century masterpiece that is the foundation of Tibetan medical AWAKENING THE BUDDHA HIMALAYA: Buddhistische education. The paintings are now in the collection of the History Museum WITHIN: Tibetan Wisdom for Kunst Tibets of Buryatia. Essays elucidate the conceptual and theoretical foundations of the Western World Tibetan medicine. Each of the forty paintings is reproduced as a full-page by Gerd-Wolfgang Essen & by Lama Surya Das. 414 pp. plate and described in detail with commentary on its visual content and Tsering Tashi Thingo, pref. by #AWBUWI $26.00 cloth, now in Buddhism in the Dalai Lama, photos by Hans paper for $15 Contemporary Meyer-Veden. 299 pp., 206 color An accessible interpretation of Tibet photos, 9 x 12", text in German, basic Buddhist teachings and an un- #DIGO $50 cloth assuming introduction to Dzogchen. Lama Surya Das begins with the claim The Gerd-Wolfgang Essen Tibetica that "We are all Buddhas." He outlines Collection in Hamburg, Germany con- the path to "awakening the Buddha tains some of the finest Tibetan an- within" by presenting the teachings tiques preserved anywhere. There are embodied in the Noble Eightfold Path BUDDHISM IN many pieces dating from the 10th cen- and its Three Enlightenment Train- CONTEMPORARY TIBET: tury—exquisite and beautifully pre- ings (ethics, wisdom, and medita- Religious Revival and served. The majority of the book con- tains thangkas and statues that illus- tion). Peppered with anecdotes and Cultural Identity stories from the author's own experi- trate aspects of: Buddha, Dharma and by Melvyn Goldstein & Matthew Sangha as well as Lama, Yidam and ence, this book can serve as a manual Kapstein. 208 pp., 34 b&w photos, for applying some basic Buddhist Dakini. These are followed by man- #BUCOTI $15.95 principles to everyday life, not to dalas, a section on Mahakala and mention an enjoyable and informa- After the Cultural Revolution, the Dharmapalas, directional guardians. tive read. PRC gradually permitted the renewal Then comes a section of priceless of religious activity in Tibet. This is ritual objects, masks, musical instru- the story of the Buddhist renewal in ments, amulet boxes, and carpets. THE BLISS OF INNER FIRE: that region after twenty years of deci- This book allows the reader to see Heart Practice of the Six mation and repression by the Chi- classical Tibetan art of the highest THE ESSENCE OF THE GOOD HEART Yogas of Naropa nese. Five leading specialists in Ti- quality. MAHAYANA LOJONG A Buddhist Perspective on betan anthropology and religion con- by Lama Thubten Yeshe. 224 pp. : -::::; :-:-; :: PRACTICE the Teachings of Jesus #BLINFI $16.95 ducted case studies in Tibet. They ih report on the revival of the Buddhist • Divine SUadman by Sermey Khensur Lobsang by the Dalai Lama. 224 pp., 2 Based on Lama Je Tsongkhapa's heritage in monastic communities Tharchin. 113 pp. #ESMALO photos, 4 illus., #GOHE $14.95 Having the. Three Convictions, this $6.95 paper book is a commentary on the Six Yo- and among laypersons at pilgrimages The aim of mind training is to de- At an historic interfaith encounter, gas of Naropa. Lama Yeshe focuses and festivals and how the religion is being restructured through a com- velop and strengthen Bodhichitta, the His Holiness commented on passages mainly on the practice of inner fire, plex process of social, political and aspiration to achieve ultimate enlight- from the four Gospels, providing a or tummo, the first of the six yogas economic adaptation. enment in order to help all sentient unique reading of these familiar and the foundation stone of the path beings. Geshe Langri Tangpa Dorje sources of faith—the Sermon on the to Buddhist enlightenment. Through Seng-ge (1054-1123), an early teacher Mount, the Beatitudes, the parable of commentary, guided meditation, and in the Kadampa tradition established the mustard seed, the Resurrection, practical advice, Lama Yeshe brings byAtisha's Tibetan followers, devised etc. Throughout his commentary, the the reader a tantalizing taste of the the eight-part method of teaching Dalai Lama opens windows of under- blissful technology of tantra as well mind training. Khensur Rinpoche standing and transformation for seek- as its direct application to everyday Lobsang Tharchin has explained ers of any faith. living. these eight verses in this commentary.
jasasasasasasasa! THE DIVINE MADMAN: The Sublime Life and Songs of Drukpa Kunley trans, by Keith Dowman. 161 pp., 7 illus. #DIMA $12.95 jLi\i_/I./\.. This is the secret biography of one BUDDHIST MASTERS OF of Tibet's foremost saints who is & ENCHANTMENT: The Lives greatly loved by Tibetans for his out- rageous behavior and ribald humor jnow Lion is pleased to be and Legends of the TIBET able to offer you this selection which were intended to awaken com- Mahasiddhas mon people and yogis alike from reli- ABuJiihtstl'trsivcthvw Wholeness of titles on Tibetan Buddhism by Keith Dowman, illus. by gious dogmatism and egoic self-pos- and culture. We hope that this Robert Beer. 208 pp., 6 + x 9", 30 session. He was recognized as an in- MARK EPSTEIN, M.D. publication, our web site, plus color plates, 26 line drawings, carnation of the great Mahasiddha, the services our staff provide #BUMAEN $24.95 Saraha. you-answering questions, These beautifully illustrated sto- GOING TO PIECES filling your orders promptly ries of the extraordinary men and WITHOUT FALLING APART: women who attained enlightenment anc with care, and publishing A Buddhist Perspective on and magical powers by both disre- new books-are of value to Wholeness INDIA & TIBET you. We are able to offer these garding conventions and penetrating to the core of life reveal a way by Mark Epstein, M.D. 200 pp. by Sir Francis Younghusband. services and our newsletter through human suffering into a spon- #GOPIFA $23 cloth 409 pp. #INTI $14.95 because people purchase the taneous and free state of oneness Western psychology has promised Francis Younghusband provides a items they want from Snow with the divine. fulfillment through building and detailed and very revealing account Lion. strengthening the ego—a strong, in- of British-Indian relations with Tibet We would also like to let dividuated self, constructed and re- from the time of Warren Hastings in the 1770s to 1910, with special empha- you know that items are re- inforced over a lifetime. Based on the sis on the British Mission to Lhasa in turnable within ten days of re- premise that the Western notion of self is flawed, Mark Epstein shows 1904. He gives information on Tibetan ceiving them-so if you order CAREFREE DIGNITY that happiness comes from letting go domestic and international relations, something and it is not what by Tsoknyi Rinpoche. #CADI $18 and from balancing our need to do enabling the reader to gain a deeper you wanted, you can return it "Carefree means being wide open from within, not constricted. Carefree is with our inherent capacity to be. He understanding of British Imperial re- for a refund. We appreciate having compassion, being really simple, from the inside. Dignity is not conceit explores key psychological and spiri- lations with Tibet which was based your continued support of this but rather what shines forth from this carefree confidence."—the author tual experiences such as emptiness, primarily on trade. It also shows that China's present claim to Tibet is project. Using the Dzogchen perspective as its framework, the book unfolds a vivid connection, passion and relief in a play between the author and his audience through guided meditations and personal and engaging manner. based on sentiments that pre-date the delightful examples. Tsoknyi Rinpoche is the son of the late Tulku Urgyen 1950s by hundreds of years. Rinpoche.
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LIGHT OF WISDOM, Vol. 2 by Padmasambhava & Jamgon i. "I Complete Lamdre Kongtrul. #LIWI2 $20 Spiritual Advice C o a s c i 0 115 Teachings Now Contains Padmasambhava's terma text Tlie Gradual Path of the Wisdom Available A p p r o; ch for Buddhists Essence with Tlie Light of Wisdom commentary by Jamgon Kongtrui. and Cyhrtsiians Explains the nature of empowerment, tantric commitments, and clarifica- I Dying tion of the development stage of de- ity yoga. .1 n d SPIRITUAL ADVICE FOR BUDDHISTS AND NOTES ON THE THEORY LION'S GAZE Dili h CHRISTIANS ^3^ £B^ AND PRACTICE OF by Ven. Khenpo Palden Sherab by H.H. the Dalai Lama, ed. by SAMATHA MEDITATION Rinpoche and the Ven. Kfienpo Donald Mitchel. 96 pp. #SPADBU LAMDRE: Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, by Lama Choedak Yutiiok $9.95 Dawn of Enlightenment trans, by Sarah Harding, ed. by 50 pp. 7 x 10", #NOTHPR $10.95 The Dalai Lama shares his under- by Lama Choedak Yuthok. Joan Kaye. 210 pp. #LIGA $20 Calm abiding or samatha medita- standing of the practice of prayer and 217 pp., 3 illus. #LADAEN $18 This is commentary on Patrul tion suits people of all walks of life. PERFECT ENDINGS: meditation in spiritual life, the stages We all want calmness and stability, This book prepares students for Rinpoche's Tlie Special Teaching of A Conscious Approach to of spiritual development, the role of qualities which will serve as our best the teacher and the community, the Lamdre teachings—prized by stu- the Wise and Glorious Sovereign and Dying and Death Vidyadhara Garab Dorje's Tlie Three friends throughout life. This is a goals of personal and societal trans- dents and masters of all Tibetan tra- Words that Strike the Crucial Point. manual developed by Lama Choedak by Robert Sachs. 164 pp. #PEEN formation. These teachings occurred ditions. Topics: life of Virupa, over- for teaching meditation. It includes $12.95 at Gethsemani Abbey, Kentucky, at a view of the Lamdre teachings, the vi- prayers, posture, motivational medi- The author is a member of Sogyal meeting of Christian and Buddhist sion of experience, pure vision, tations, obstacles and antidotes to Rinpoche's Spiritual Dying Network monks and nuns who came together causal tantra, the Hevajra initiation, calm abiding, stages of achievement. and a Social Worker and hospice to discuss their spiritual life. nature of mind, role of teacher and counselor. Written as a series of sto- disciple, path, practices and result. ries that allow us to be privy to the inner workings of the dying process, Now in paper! THE BEAUTIFUL OPENING THE LOTUS: each case illustrates a particular as- TIBETAN NATION: A History ORNAMENT OF THE pect of the transformative process A Woman's Guide to of Tibetan Nationalism and THREE VISIONS Opening that led each person to his or her own Buddhism by Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrub, interior landscape. Sachs presents Sino-Tibetan Relations by Sandy Boucher. foreword by H.H. Sakya Trizin. different solutions to the task of let- by Warren W. Smith, Jr. 733 pp. 194 pp. #OPLO$ 12 iiii" ting go of life and provides valuable #TINA $29.95 234 pp. #BEORTH $12.95 W? ■■ "Here is a trustworthy travel- guidance for care givers. He also ex- "A monumental one-volume politi- Virupa, one of the 84 Mahasiddhas, was known for his miraculous pow- ing companion for the countless plains how he uses the Tibetan prac- cal history of Tibet, which is particu- Western women who desire, and tus tice of phowa, or conscious dying, to larly comprehensive and up-to-date ers and unseemly conduct. He sang aid this process. on Tibet's modern period. Dr. Smith's of himself, "Ugly one, ugly one, that's deserve, to venture on the < ;„:,!,-will,, :l i: Dharma Path."—Joanna Macy, au- skillful reading of Chinese propa- what people mock me as. But what I have is what they all wish for." The thor of World as Lover, World as Self ganda material, uncovering the pro- cess of Chinese Communist takeover happiness and peace of uncondi- Through personal anecdotes, of Tibet and the nature of its rule, is a tioned freedom is what he had lively explanations, and discussions, triumph of discerning research."— achieved, and he displayed it in his Sandy Boucher presents a female Jamyang Norbu, Director of Amnye unconventional attitude and behavior perspective on fundamental Bud- Machen Institute in the world. dhist teachings such as compassion, This detailed history offers the The liberating meditations and detachment, and enlightenment. fli methods Virupa employed were re- Sand} Be ucJier most comprehensive account avail- Includes a directory of women able of Tibetan nationalism, Sino-Ti- vealed by him in a teaching known teachers. betan relations, and the issue of Ti- as the Vajra Verses. These were later betan self-determination. Warren expanded into a systematic teaching Smith explores Tibet's ethnic and na- known as the Lam Dre, the first part tional origins, the birth of the Tibetan of which is a meditation manual state, the Buddhist state and its rela- known as Tlie Beautiful Ornament Three books on the environment of Tibet tions with China, Tibet's quest for in- of the Three Visions. These visions dependence, and the Chinese take- represent stages of mental clarity starting with the vision of suffering TIBET: Enduring Spirit, over of Tibet after 1950. Focusing es- pecially on post-1950 Tibet under and ending with the pure vision of Exploited Land Chinese Communist rule, Smith ana- peace and enlightened activities. Wildlife THE SECRET LIVES OF by Robert Apte & Andres lyzes Marxist-Leninist and Chinese Edwards. 192 pp., 48 color of the ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL: Communist Party nationalities theory THE THREE LEVELS OF photos, 8.5 x 8.5", #TIENSP $29.95 Tibetan Steppe A Biography of the Explorer and policy, their application in Tibet, SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION Shows how the environment of of Tibet and Its Forbidden and the consequent rise of Tibetan by Deshung Rinpoche, trans, by Tibet impacts the culture and pre- Practices nationalism. Concluding that the es- Jared Rhoton. 553 pp., 10 photos. sence of the Tibetan issue is self-de- sents a compelling picture of Tibet's by Barbara and Michael Foster. #THLESP $24.95 termination, Smith bolsters his argu- ongoing ecological struggle which 329 pp., 26 b&w photos, 2 maps, resulted from the Chinese occupa- ment with a comprehensive analysis Deshung Rinpoche explains the #SELIAL $32.50 cloth tion. Photos and descriptions of of modern Tibetan and Chinese po- Lam-dre, or "Path with Its Result" Tibet's unspoiled wilderness are in- *IP*~"~ * This is the definitive biography of litical histories. system of meditation, special to the terwoven with the country's nomadic Alexandra David-Neel. She was the Sakya lineage for over a thousand and farming traditions and the wis- ^tE3S3&&Qi*^* first European to explore Tibet at a years. This is a commentary on the dom gathered over the centuries. The time when foreigners were banned; three levels of perception of beings overall picture makes it clear that George B.SchMr few have led a life of adventure equal on the path—ordinary beings, beings what happens in Tibet has direct bear- to hers or made so much of it. In Ti- who meditate, and the pure vision of enlightened beings. Contains an ex- ing on the environmental balance of bet and Sikkim, she lived among her- T H F mits and shamans, bandits and pil- cellent biography of Deshung the world. WILDLIFE OF THE grims. She had a torrid love affair with Rinpoche. TIBETAN STEPPE the handsome Maharajah of Sikkim TIBETAN by George B. Schaller. 374 pp., 55 and studied with a genuine master in THE TRIPLE TANTRA b&w photos, 26 maps, 65 tables, a cave high in the Himalayas. David- ORACLE by Panchen Ngawang Choedak, 36 other illus. #WITIST $55 cloth. Neel knew first-hand the Tibet of trans, by Lama Choedak T. magic and mystery closed to other ■ The author is the Director of Sci- Yuthok. 460 pp. #TRTA $25 travelers from the West, the secret ence for International Programs for The Triple Tantra contains the the Wildlife Conservation Society in mystical practices of Tibetan Bud- ANCIENT WISDOM most esoteric oral teachings of New York. He is the author of The dhism including out-of-body travel, FOB EVERYDAY GUIDANCE Mahasiddha Virupa according to the Year of the Gorilla, The Serengeli telepathy, vampiric Shamanism, and Hevajra Tantra. This text is the back- Lion, The Last Panda, and most re- tantric sex. This is a vividly detailed chronicle of her quest to conquer her bone of the Lamdre teachings and cently, Tibet's Hidden Wilderness. refers to the ground, path, and result Since 1985, with his Tibetan and Chi- personal demons and of the outer journey that made her one of the most ROC.fS MCM'^ftFX J. VltlMJlN [KHtCL of this practice. Lamdre is different nese co-workers, he has surveyed the from other Vajrayana teachings flora and fauna the vast and remote celebrated figures of her day. in its comprehensive, graduated Tibetan steppe. This is the first de- THE TIBETAN ORACLE: methodology. tailed look at its natural history. Ancient Wisdom for "There have been a great number Everyday Guidance of masters who have authored impor- by Roger Housden & Stephen tant exegeses on the Lamdre teach- Hodge. 112 pp., book, three bar ings. One of the outstanding mas- ters of Lamdre instructions is TREES & SHRUBS OF NEPAL AND THE HIMALAYAS dice and a pouch, #TIOR $27.50 Panchen Ngawang Choedak, August by Adrian & Jimmie Storrs. 367 pp., 650 b&w and color photos, whose succinct and concise #TRSHNE $25 This oracle provides useful, manual on Lamdre enjoyed the The Nepal Himalaya is home to many thousands of plant varieties. straightforward advice. It tells the widest currency at all important This comprehensive guide to the trees and shrubs of this region will be of questioner when and if it is time to seats of Lamdre transmissions."— interest to anyone that enjoys knowing about plant life. Many species are take action—in all areas of life—and H.H. Sakya Trizin described, classified, positioned in the vertical stratification of plants and is especially useful for quick decision- their uses discussed. making.
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THE REFUGE PRAYER TIBETAN FLAG MUG Back in stock #TIFLMU$12 8 1/2 x 11", #ILREPR $14 MANI HANGING This is a color fine art reproduc- The Tibetan National Flag on a white mug. Printed in four colors 18" high x 44" wide #MAHA $40 tion printed on acid free cover stock, with the word "Tibet" in English and Tibetan. This mug is made in the of the Refuge Prayer. It has the Bud- USA. Om Mani Padme Hum is embroidered and mounted in brocade. The dha at the top with two of his dis- A sliding drawer slides out and holds incense. You fill the burner central color is orange and the brocade is yellow and blue. Very striking. ciples and various Buddhist symbols with sand or rice, lay the burning incense stick down on top of it and around the border. the smoke flows out through a slot on the top of the box. NEWHICH-QUALITY SILVER ITEMS FROM NEPAL
Video ANCIENT SECRET OF THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH #ANSEV $19.95 This is the video that can show you how to achieve the benefits of the fa- mous Five Tibetan exercises. Fitness experts show step-by-step how easy and fun it is for anyone of any age to ANCIENT SECRET OF THE become healthier, younger-looking, Round Double Dorjee Gau more energetic and alive in just min- FOUNTAIN 1 1/8" dia., 3/4" deep, silver, Kalachakra Mantra on reverse, utes a day. GOLDEN GREEN TARA OF YOUTH #RODODO $28 STATUE BELL & DORJE Small Round Double Dorjee #GOGRTA$10 #BEDO $36 Gau Golden Green Tara miniture The supreme symbols of the Vajra- 5/8" dia., silver, #SMRODO $10 statue, finely crafted in metal with de- yana path are the bell and dorje (dia- tailed surface, 11/2" high. Perfect for mond scepter) used by tantric prac- travel. titioners. They are held in the left and PENDANTS right hand respectively and convey Order now! the mystical union of wisdom and compassion. The dorje is approx. 4.5" New miniature statues! 1999 TIBETAN ART long, has five prongs, four at each end CALENDAR curved around the central prong, We were very happy to finally find symbolizing the five Buddha families. #TIARCA $28.95 a source for high quality ceramic min- Lotus petals decorate the central iatures of the Buddha and Green Tara. Now in its 25th year, the Tibetan caps. The handle of the bell is similar You will be impressed with the detail- Art Calendar contains 13 poster-size, to the dorje. The bell is approx. 6" ing of these statuettes. They are made full-color reproductions of some of high and composed of an alloy of sev- to look like antiqued ivory and like the best thangka paintings from mu- eral metals and is decorated with Ti- fine ivory, should be protected from seums and private collections around betan syllables, lotus petals and direct heat and sunlight which will the world. Measures 16.5 x 23.5" and dorjes. The bell produces a clear, bril- eventually yellow them. They are very contains a description of each liant tone that symbolizes the open hard and not easily broken. thangka. The calendar will be avail- dimension of reality. Double Dorje Pendant able in September, but you can re- 1 1/4", silver, #DODOPE $16 serve one now and we will ship it out as soon as we receive them. They sell BELLS & DORJES out almost every year. Supreme Grade #DABEDO $225 Fine-detail two-metal bell and dorje sets. There are a few still avail- 4 able at this price.
The Wisdom of THt WISDOM Of !K( IE Tibetan Lamas ^— TIBETAN LAMAS by Timothy Freke. 61 pp., 27 color images with color through- SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA out, 4 3/4 x 6", #DWITILA $6.95 STATUE Tibetan Buddhism is far more Curved Knife Pendant 1" high, 4" high Buddha Statue, #BUST4 $30 than veneration of a buddha who 7/8" wide, silver, #CUKNPE $8 2" high Buddha Statue, #BUST2 $15 lived 2500 years ago. It has been in- spired and shaped by a succession of living buddhas. Their wisdom, contained in this remarkable little book, nurtures the potential within all of us to experience enlighten- ment. Good quotes and lovely illustrations.
DHARMAPALA OFFERING SETS (Serkyem) They are used in protector deity practice and measure 5" high and 5" in diameter. White Metal Serkyem, #SEWH GREEN TARA STATUE $28 Dorje Pendant 4" high Green Tara Statue, Brass Serkyem, #BRSE $26 1 1/4" long, silver, #DOPE ! #GRTA4 $30 2" high Green Tara Statue, #GRTA2 $15
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MASKS from Bhutan! We have received a number of wooden masks that are hand-carved and brightly painted by skilled Bhutanese artisans. These Tibetan-style masks depict sacred animals. We only have one of each so please call for availability. There are two basic sizes, the larger ones are 6" wide, 6" high and 8" from back to front. The smaller ones are 4 +" wide, 5" high and 6" from back to front. The larger ones sell for $250 and the smaller for $ 150. Here's INCENSE BURNER the selection: #INBUWO$70 Large: Dragon, Horse This is a painted wood incense burner that measures 14" long x 4.25" wide and high. It has a carved front with snow lions and the Small: Deer, Horse, Boar, three jewels. Snake, Monkey, Rat, Bull
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ROSEWOOD INCENSE BURNERS These horizontal burners are made of lovely rosewood. They have a wire mesh in the bottom so' the incense will not easily go out. There are three sizes: Small (7") #ROINS $8 Dharma Wheel Counter Clip Medium (11") #ROINM $10 11/8" high, 7/8" wide, silver, Large(14")#ROINL$12 Wheel of Dharma Counters #DHWHCO $8 #WHDHCO were $40, now $28! Silver Counters Attaches to your mala at any point Silver Dharmachakras strung on #LASICO were $42, now $30! to serve as a marker or counter. Very red cord with multicolored tassels. Beautiful silver counters on thick beautiful. red cord with tassels with bell & dorje. £.*NF ZAFU MEDITATION CUSHION #ZAMECU $25 riLziLriLriL We now have meditation cushion covers with liners. They are available in eight colors: black, burgundy, red, purple, navy, rust, Other items brown, and royal blue. Please tell us your first and second color available upon Win a Trip to choice. You can fill the liner with a variety of items: buck- request. Tibet & Nepal wheat hulls, beans, kapok or Tour leader: SNOW LION T-SHIRT whatever—it will even take a beach ball for an inflatable Contact us for a Glenn Mullin #SLSX (extra-large) $15 travelling cushion! (Whole- Beautiful embroidered t-shirt with sale prices are available to complete catalog. See pages 16 and 19 or, yellow, red, and green snow lion retailers for quantity orders) for more information. and letters.
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Om Mani Padme Hum CD 18.00 Inner Art of Meditation 19.95 -"Boycott Chinese Goods" 1.50 Dalai Lama Queen of Great Bliss 10.00 In the Spirit of Free Inquiry 35.00 Awakening Compassion (6) 59.95 -"Commit Random Acts of Commentary on the 37 Practices Quiet Mind 9.95 Kalachakra, Wheel of Time 29.95 Awakening to Wisdom 9.95 Kindness" 1.50 of the Bodhisattva (8) 39.95 Quiet Mind CD 15.98 Ladakh: In Harmony with the Buddha Dharma in the West (4) 30.00 -"Free Tibet" Bumper Sticker 1.50 Compassion: The Heart of Rhythm of Peace 10.00 Spirit 29.95 1993 Buddhism & -"I (Heart) Tibet" 1.50 Enlightenment 10.00 Rhythm of Peace CD 16.95 Life, Death, Dreams and Psychotherapy (6) 35.00 -Liberation upon Seeing 3.00 Four Noble Truths (4) 35.00 Sacred Healing Chants of Tibet 9.95 Meditation 39.95 Death & Dying (4) 28.00 -Liberation upon Seeing (Clear Harvard Seminars (12) 84.00 Sacred Healing Chants of Tibet Mahamudra 33.00 Dharma in Daily Life (4) 40.00 Acetate Decal) 3.00 The Nobel Peace Prize Address 7.00 CD 16.95 Mandala: The Sacred Circle Dharma Wisdom 9.95 -"Tibet Forever" 1.50 Precious Garland (12) 79.95 Sacred Music, Sacred Dance of Vajrabhairava 29.95 Dzogchen (3) 30.00 Teachings on Patience (8) 100.00 for Planetary Healing CD 18.00 Meditation 24.95 Butter Lamp (white metal) 16.00 Feeding the Demons 10.00 Vajrasattva 7.00 Sacred Music, Sacred Dance Butter Lamp (white metal) 19.00 Four Yogas of Mahamudra (2) 20.00 Message of the Tibetans Khenpo Konchog Gvaltshen for Planetary Healing 12.00 Butter Lamp (copper) 19.00 Great Women Practitioners (2) 18.00 -Buddhism 29.95 Sacred Tibetan Chants from the Canopy 120.00 Complete Ngnodro Teachings (9) 90.00 Inseparability of Samsara & -Tantrism 29.95 Great Prayer Festival CD 18.00 Chakpus (pair) 160.00 Green Tara (3) 30.00 Nirvana (3) 30.00 Mustang 24.95 Sacred Tibetan Chants from the Heart Sutra & Bodhicitta (7) 65.00 Insight Meditation (12 + book) 198.00 Nadia Stepanova, Buryatian Chephur Great Prayer Festival 12.00 Illusory Body Teachings (5) 50.00 Introduction to Dzogchen 12.00 Shaman 29.95 -small 45.00 Seeing Nothing but the Sky 15.00 Medicine Buddha Teachings (2) 22.00 Life of Tibetan and Christian Nicholas Roerich: Messenger of -large 150.00 Singing Bowl Meditation #1 10.00 Tonglen (4) 40.00 Nuns 10.00 Beauty 24.95 -large canopy chephur 95.00 Songs of the Jataka Tales 12.00 Understanding Death (4) 40.00 Mahamudra (Tenga R.—3) 30.00 Overcoming Differences. 29.95 Chod Drum 170.00 Songs of the Jataka Tales CD 20.00 Soeval Rinpoche Mahamudra (Thrangu R.—14) 90.00 Reincarnation of Khensur Cotton Change Pouch 3.00 Songs of Liberation 10.00 Living and Dying Today (4) 26.00 Nature of Mind (3) 30.00 Rinpoche 29.95 Damaru (wood) 20.00 Songs of Milarepa 10.00 Living Well, Dying Well 10.95 Psychology Seminar (7) 49.00 Sand Painting: Sacred Art 34.95 Damaru Banners 20.00 Sounds of Peace 10.00 Right View: Living Your Dying 9.95 Shambhala Warrior Training (6) 59.95 Secular Meditation 19.98 Damaru Set Sounds of Peace CD 16.95 Taming the Mind 9.95 Union of Bliss and Emptiness XVII Karmapa Return to -small 45.00 Tibet CD 19.95 Tibetan Wisdom for Living & Dying (6) 30.00 Tsurphu 39.95 -large 55.00 (3) Tibet: An Odyssey in Sound 12.00 59.95 When Buddha Meets the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Pt. 1 29.95 Tibet is Calling CD 18.00 Deity Mantra Banners 22.00 ea. Turning Suffering Into Enlightenment Psychotherapist (4) 34.00 Tibetan Book of the Dead, Pt. 2 29.95 Tibet, Tibet CD 19.00 -Buddha 9.95 When Things Fall Apart (2) 18.95 Tantra of Gyuto 29.95 Tibetan Buddhism: Tantras of -Kalachakra* Untangling our Emotions 9.95 Jack Kornfield Tibetan Medicine 29.95 -Manjushri Gyuto CD 18.00 Tibet: A Moment in Time 29.95 Pema Chodron Inner Art of Meditation 49.95 -Padmasambhava Tibetan Buddhist Chants of Tibet's Holy Mountain 29.95 Meditations of the Heart 10.95 -Tara Be Grateful to Everyone (1) 10.00 Namgyal 10.00 Timeless Wisdom 29.95 Roots of Buddhist Dingsha Bells 20.00 Facing the Monster (1) 10.00 Tibetan Horn 12.00 We Will Meet Again... 29.95 Generosity is Letting Go of Holding on Psychology (6) 60.00 Tibetan Horn CD 16.00 Door Curtains to Yourself (1) 10.00 Tibetan Prayer CD 18.00 OTHER DHARMA ITEMS BOOKS ON TAPE -Standard 95.00 The Love that Cannot Die (6) 49.00 Tibetan Sacred Temple Music 10.00 Altar Cloth 75.00 Journey in Ladakh (2) 17.95 -Eternal Knot Meditation Is Not about Getting It Tibet Is Near 10.00 -large fancy 45.00 Open Heart, Clear Mind (3) 21.00 -Four Eternal Knot 75.00 Right (1) 10.00 Trance Tara CD . 17.00 -large dragon 60.00 Shambhala: The Sacred Path... -8 Auspicious Symbols 125.00 Noble Heart (6) 59.95 Turtle Island Flute 10.00 16.95 Banners and Hangings Door Mantra 2.50 The Paradox of the Cessation of (2) Twenty-One Praises of Tara 12.00 -Auspicious Symbols 16.00 Door Mantra (metal) 10.00 Suffering (1) 10.00 Three Pillars of Zen 16.95 -accompanying booklet 3.00 Tibetan Book of Living & -Lg. Auspicious Symbols 40.00 Earrings Three Kinds of Laziness (1) 10.00 Dying (4) 27.95 Two Mantras 6.00 -Buddha Kadhen Banner 85.00 36.00 Working with Pain: How to Develop -Endless Knots Voice of Tibet CD 16.00 -Green Tara Hanging 95.00 26.00 Inner Strength (5) 45.00 15.95 -Mandala Woodlands Flute 10.00 -Hung 50.00 -Purbhas 24.00 Ani Tenzin Palmo MUSIC & CHANTS Yarlung 12.00 -Kalachakra 45.00 -Snow Lions 12.00 Am Tenzin Palmo's Spiritual Big Om of Tibet CD 18.00 -Kalachakra Brocade Banner 25.00 Buddhist Chant 1 20.00 VIDEOS Fancy Eternal Knot Earrings Journey (2) 28.00 Ancient Secret of the Fountain of -Mani Hanging $40 -Matted Silver w/turquoise bead 20.00 Buddhism in Daily Life (1) 14.00 Buddhist Chant 2 20.00 Youth 19.95 -Mani Mantra Banner 16.00 -Gold w/red camelian bead 20.00 Integrating Dharma in Everyday Chenrezik 12.00 -Large Buddha Mani Banner 40.00 Arising from the Flames 29.95 "Free Tibet" Button (red on white) 1.00 Life (2) 28.00 Chenrezik CD 18.00 -Extra Wide Mani Banner 60.00 Cho CD 18.00 Art of Dying 29.95 Eternal Knot Bowl 30.00 Mindfulness (2) 28.00 Chants Encounter 29.95 -Padmasambhava Hanging 95.00 Motivation and Practice: Deepening Chod (Norbu) CD 16.00 Eternal Knot Vase 35.00 Practice (3) 28.00 Dadon CD 18.00
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Eternal Knot Key Chain 20.00 Incense Burner 70.00 Stone 27.00 Aventurine (jade family) 6mm. 50.00 -Rose Quartz 60.00 Gaus 18.00 Rosewood Incense Burners Malas Aventurine Hand Mala 6mm. 28.00 -Rose Q'-artz Hand Mala 28.00 Round Double Dorjee Gau 28.00 -small 8.00 -Bodhiseed 40.00 ■Black Onyx 80.00 -Tiger Eye 100.00 Small Round Double Dorjee Gau 10.00 -medium 10.00 -White Bone Mala 20.00 Black Onyx Hand Mala 28.00 -Turquoise Mala 80.00 Incense -large 12.00 -Regular Bone Mala 20.00 Cobalt Blue Glass Mala 30.00 Mala Counters -Pure Sandalwood Incense-8" 5.00 Kapala -Linden Nut Disc 36.00 ■Cobalt Blue Glass Pocket Mala 15.00 -gold 22.00 -Extra-Grade Tibetan Incense 10.00 -medium brass skull cup 20.00 -Lotus Seed 24.00 -Crystal Mala 80.00 -pewter counters 26.00 -Traditional Tibetan Incense- -fancy gold and silver plated 40.00 -Lotus Seed (with stones) 30.00 •Crystal Hand Mala 28.00 -red Sandlewood counters 10.00 highest grade 8.00 Katas -Lotus Seed-pocket size 15.00 -Hematite 6mm. 50.00 -regular Sandlewood counters 10.00 -Traditional Tibetan Incense- -Plain 4.00 -Sandlewood, red & regular 14.00 -Lapis Lazuli 250.00 -silver w/bell & dorje 30.00 medium grade 6.00 -Brocated, 6' 12.00 -Wood 16.00 -Lapis Lazuli Hand Mala 90.00 -white metal 14.00 -Traditional Tibetan Incense- -Fancy Brocaded Offering -Yak Bone 70.00 -Malachite 6mm. 120.00 -wheel of dharma counters 28.00 ritual grade 5.00 Scarf, 81 25.00 Semi-Precious Stone Malas -Malachite Hand Mala 70.00 -Dharma Wheel Counter ("lip 8.00 -Mother of Pearl 50.00 -Tara Healing Incense 5.00 Khatsa! 18.95 -Amber Hand Mala 44.00 Mandala Plates 20.00 -Mother of Pearl Hand Mala 24.00 -Tara Healing Incense Gift Pack Mala Bag 8.00 -Amber 130.00 -larae 80 00 -Agar31 Herbal Incense 7.95 -Amethyst 250.00 -Rhodonite 120.00 -small 70. 100. & 150.00 Liberation upon Seeing Terma -Red Crystal Mala 30.00 -Nirvana Brand Herbal Incense 6.00 -Amethyst. Hand Mala 90.00 Maps -Eastern Regions of Tibet 13.50
These are among the very best Snow Lion offers authentic thangkas painted for religious practice by Ti- statues that we have seen and we betans. They are excellent in quality and are properly mounted" and brocaded highly recommend them to you. They for hanging. Please be aware that cheaper imitations on the market have not Size Codes: are gilted bronze with gold-painted been properly painted (iconographically and ritualistically). Our stock is al- M (image 14x20, overall 25x36) faces unless otherwise stated. Con- ways changing, what is listed below is our current stock as of January, 1998. approx. tact us for photos of the images that We can always commission a special image for you—call us for information as L (image 17x22, overall 30x46) you want. to price and availability. Contact us for photos, which can be sent through the approx. We have a number of fine stat- postal system or as an attachment to email. XL (image 24x36, overall 34x60) ues that have newly arrived from approx. India. Call/fax/e-mail/write for pho- tos. Nearly any photo can be sent over the Internet as an email attachment. Our Second-Ever Sale on Thangkas Special Codes: You always have 100% right of ap- Ends October 1st proval upon receipt of items! B = special brocade, also longer We are over-stocked and have forgotten what color the walls are! by6"-12". Take $ 100 off the price of any thangkas priced below $500. XB = extra special brocade, also AMITYUS longer by 6"-12" 8"#SPS3 $295 K = has bottom rod with metal BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI WHITE TARA 12" #11A $425 knobs 3"#SSB-01 $60 AMITABHA MILAREPA #DW6 $450 DHARAMARAJA #TT1 $395 8"#SPS3 $135 AMITAYUS NAMGYALMA #CT558 $495 DORJE PHURBA #N15 $1100 L,XB 14"'#FH2 $975 BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI #DW7 w/multiple figures $850 PADMASAMBHAVA (GURU GREEN TARA #SP3 $420 RINPOCHE) 8"#T3 $295 #T-10 $440 M #T-20 $495 M JAMBHALA (DZAMBHALA) #35 $495 MB #CT555 $495 6" #FH7 on Snow Lion $320 #59 $495 M SAMANTABHADRA 8" #SPS6 on Dragon $295 CHANG CHUB DORJE #T-5 $440 M KARMAPA #CCD $395 M 8" #58 16th Karmapa $325 VAJRADHARA CHENREZIG #T-9 $395 M MACHIG LABDRON #CT865 w/standing Manj. & #93 $495M 8" #1702-8 $250 Vajrapani $520 8" #1703-8 painted hair and jewels #CT552 $450 VAJRAKILAYA $275 #CT606 $450 #CT840 $495 MAHAKALA MAHAKALA DUDJOM LINEAGE #T-23 $495 M dark background 14" #FH1 w/six arms $1200 14" #FH1 w/six arms $1200 #79 $350M #T-24 $495 M 9" #FH3 Mahakala $750 #S-1 $495 MXB 4 1/2" #FH4 w/two amis $295 DZAMBHALA #SP6 $495 MEDICINE BUDDHA 4" #FH5 Bernochen Mahakala $295 #CT411 $420 VAJRASATTVA #502 $435M EKAJATI MIPHAM (one of the great #T-17 $440 M with consort #CT719 $420 Nyingma teachers, 1848-1912, in the #T-26 $495 M with consort lineage of Longchen Rapjampa) GESAR OF LING #CT874 $435 with consort 8" #72 $295 bronze #T-2 $495 M VAJRAYOGINI STUPA OF ENLIGHTENMENT GREEN TARA #SP2 $495 9" #100 $360 #T-4 $495 M #DW2 w/black background $950 VAJRAKILAYA #T-11 $395 M #DW4 $495 14"#SPS1 $925 #T-18 $495 M #NK10 $850 M, XB #30 $495 M five additional figures #T-14 $495 M VAJRAPANI #76 $495 M B 8" #FH6 $295 #T-22 $495 M #14 $320 M #501 $395M WHITE TARA HERUKA CHAKRASAMVARA WHITE TARA 12"#11A $425 #DW5 $595 #CT562 $520 YAMANTAKA ^JT ^ * MAHAKALA HEVAJRA #DW1 w/gold background $1050 10"#SPS2 $295 9" #FH3 Mahakala $750 #CT36 $450 #DW10 $495 KALACHAKRA #SP1 $520 #T-19 $440 M #T-7 $495 M DEITY PRAYER FLAGS #KS1 $950L,XB #10 $495 MB DZAMBHALA #KS5 $950 L, XB #T-12 $395 M #CT411 $420 Each of the following sets of de- CHENREZIG PRAYER FLAG #KS10 $950 L, XB #44 $495MB ity prayer flags has five flags, one SET#CHPRFL$12 #KS15 $950 L, XB YAMANTAKA in each of the Tibetan colors and KALACHAKRA PRAYER FLAG #KS20 $950 L, XB #SP4 solitary hero $395 they are strung on a cord. Each flag measures approx. 13 x 16" and has SET#KAPRFL$12 KARMAPA the mantras of the deity printed on MAHAKALA PRAYER FLAG #53 $325 M 16th Karmapa it. The five flag set measures 16 SET#MAPRFL$12 LION-FACED DAKINI high x 22 wide MANJUSHRI PRAYER FLAG #CT506 $495 SET#MNPRFL$12 MAHAKALA MILAREPA PRAYER FLAG #TT2 Bernochen $420 SET#MIPRFL$12 #DW3 White Mahakala $595 PADMASAMBHAVA PRAYER MAITREYA FLAG SET #PAPRFL $12 #M10$1100L,XB TARA PRAYER FLAGS MANJUSRI #SETAPR $12 #T-6 $495 M #DW8 w/red background $950 VAJRAYOGINI PRAYER #SP5 $495 FLAGS #VAPRFL $12 MEDICINE BUDDHA CHENREZIG #T-25 $395 M #CT606 $450 #502 $435M AMITAYUS #CT318 $450 #CT558 $495
30 SNOW LION SUMMER '98 CATALOG OMPLETE DHARMA ITEMS LIST
-Map and Index of Lhasa City 20.00 -Manjushri Prayer Flags 12.00 DC 11 Vajrayogini (Dorje Phagmo Naro BDC5 1000-Armed Avalokiteshvara DDC3 Machig Labdron -Map of Tibet 12.95 -Manjushri Banner 16.00 Khachoma) BDC6 Standing Avalokiteshvara -Mongolia Travel Map 7.95 -Milarepa Prayer Flags 12.00 DC 12 Vajrayogini (Dorje Phagmo) BDC7 Green Tara DALAI LAMA IMAGES -Nepal 8.95 -Milarepa Banner 16.00 DC13 Vajrakilaya (Black Thangka BDC8 White Tara #DALAPR H.H. the XIV Dalai -On This Spot (map) 6.95 -Padmasambhava Prayer Flags 12.00 Dorje Phurba) BDC9 Face of White Tara Lama, Tenzin Gyatso $15 Fine Art -Tibet 9.95 -Padmasambhava Banner 16.00 DC14 Yamantaka Vajrabhairava (Dorje BDC10 Vajrasattva Print -Tibet, Nepal Bhutan 11.95 -Tara Prayer Flags 12.00 Jigje) BDC11 Padmasambhava #LADALA H.H. the XIV Dalai -Meditation Bell & Cushion 45.00 -Tara Banner 16.00 DC 15 Machig Labdron BDC12 VajraVarahi Lama, Tenzin Gyatso $10 Color Melong -Vajrayogini Prayer Flags 12.00 BDC13 Simhamukha Poster -small 14.00 -Vajrayogini Banner 16.00 CLOSEOUT SALE! BDC14 6-Arm Mahakala Four card images of His -Windhorse Banner 16.00 -large 18.00 BDC15 Rahula Holiness! -Windhorse Prayer Flags 14.00 SNOW LION TD3ET CARDS BDC16 Vajrakila Offering Bowls (set of 7): Measure 4 x 6" and are $1 ea. Radiant Heart Prayer Flags $.75 ea., NOW$.25ea.! -copper 38.00 ROBERT BEER POSTCARDS $1 ea. H.H. The Dalai Lama (in his garden) -Eight Manifestations of Guru -silvery (3 1/4) 33.00 IMAGES OF TIBETAN CULTURE #BEMEBU Medicine Buddha H.H. The Dalai Lama (at a teaching) Rinpoche 16.00 -silvery (2 1/4") 33.00 CUCA1 Statue #BENGCA Nagarjuna #DL3 H.H. The Dalai Lama -Green Tara 8.00 Peace Mandala Screen Saver 40.00 CUCA6 Monastery Courtyard #BENACANaropa (portrait) -Gyaltsan Semo 8.00 CUCA7 Landscape Sunset #BESHCA Shantideva #DL4 H.H. The Dalai Lama Pecha Covers -Kalachakra Monogram 5.00 -standard 15.00 CUCA9 Long-life Offering #BETICATilopa (informal address) -Prayer to the Twenty-one Taras 8.00 CUCA11 Tibetan Pilgrim #BEFAVA Face of Vajrasattva and -fancy (sm.) 17.00 -Sampa Lhundrup 8.00 -fancy (lg-) 20.00 CUCA12 Masked Dancer consort #DALAPP The Dalai Lama pocket -Shakyamuni Buddha 8.00 CUCA13 Tibetan Man & Child puja, 2 1/4x3 1/2" $2.50 Pecha Holders -Small Windhorse 5.00 CUCA14 Tibetan Monk in Prayer ROBERT BEER NOTECARDS #REHHCA H.H. the Dalai Lama, $1 -regular size 30.00 -Turquoise Dragon 8.00 CUCA16 Potala Palace $1.25 ea. with envelope. -large size 35.00 -Wheel of Life 5.00 CUCA17 Young Tibetan Monk #BEGADO Garab Dorje PHOTOS OF H.H. the XVIIth Silver Pendants Ring-Om Mani Padme Hum CUCA18 Potala from Back Side #BEMANO Marpa KARMAPA $15 ea. -Buddha 15.00 (silver) 17.00 CUCA19 White Masked Dancer #BEMINO Milarepa #HHKA14 Wearing Circular Hat -Chenrezig 15.00 Prayer Wheel 40.00 CUCA21 Red-Masked Dancer #BEPANO Padmasambhava #HHKA17 Wearing Black Hat -Curved Knife Pendant 8.00 #BESHBU Sakyamuni Buddha #HHKA21 With Tai Situ Purbas CUCA23 Tibetan Horseman -Dorje Pendant 8.00 #BESAGR Samantabhadra #HHKA49 Wearing Red Hat -5" 12.00 CUCA24 Elderly Man with Prayer -Double Dorje Pendant 16.00 #BESHGR Shantideva #HHKA59 Wearing Gampopa Hat -9" 30.00 Wheel -Endless Knot 24.00 CUCA25 Bashful Khampa Girl #BETSKH Tsongkhapa #HHKA60 With Younger Brother -Mandala 26.00 Serkyem (white metal) 28.00 CUCA26 Tibetan Thangka Painter #BEVANO Vajradhara Buddha Eyes Bookmark #BUEYBO -Om Mani Padme Hung 9.95 Serkyem (brass) 26.00 #BEYETS YesheTsogyal CUCA27 Tibetan Mask $1.50 -Padmasambhava 15.00 Stupa CUCA29 Tibetan Ngakpa REHO CARDS $lea. Buddha Eyes Notecard #BUEYNO $2 -Tara 15.00 -gold 45.00 CUCA30 Woman with Dog #REHHCA H.H. the Dalai Lama Prayer Flags & Deity Banners -silver 40.00 CUCA31 High Lamas at Kalachakra H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche $2 #REGECA Gelugpa Assembly Tree -Auspicious Wish Flags 20.00 -brass 55.00 CUCA32 Woman with Prayer Wheels H.H. Penor Rinpoche $1.50 #REWHCA Wheel of Life -Chenrezig Prayer Flags 12.00 -bronze 360.00 CUCA34 Jokhang Temple #RELOCA Lotus Pool-Bodh Gaya Dzogchen Lineage Notecards $15.95 -Chenrezig 6' Banner 16.00 -ceramic 165.00 CUCA35 Jokhang Rooftop #KEROCA Rock Paintings-Lhasa Yidams of Merigar Gompa $20 -Kalachakra Prayer Flags 12.00 Tashi Taring Banner 75.00 CUCA36 Jo Rinpoche Statue #REPACA Padmasambhava-in -Kalachakra Banner 16.00 Tibetan Backpack 35.00 CUCA37 Young Monk on Roof Guru Rinpoche #GURI $1.50 Jokhang -Mahakala Prayer Flags 12.00 Tibetan Bag 8.50 CUCA39 Potala Rooftop Medicine Buddha #WIMEBU $1 #REMACA Maitreya-in Potala -Mahakala Banner 16.00 Tibetan Camera Case 27.00 CUCA40 Tashilunpo Monastery Twenty-one Taras card #WETWTA $1 #REPOCA Potala Palace Tibetan Cymbals 100.00 CUCA41 Rebuilding of Ganden The Tibetan Paintings of Nicolas Tibetan Fanny Pouch & CUCA42 Monks of Nechung MANTRA CARDS Roerich $9.95 for 12 postcards. Shoulder Bags - 35.00 CUCA43 Dharmachakra painted by Andy Weber, $1 ea. SAND MANDALA CARDS Tibetan Flag Mug 12.00 CUCA44 Mandala Offering #BEAVMA Avalokitesvara A Monk from Namgyal Monastery Tibetan Flag Pin 3.00 CUCA46 ChortenofGyantse #WEAMMAAmitayus Creating a Kalachakra Sand Tibetan Fonts for the Mac 70.00 CUCA47 Sakya Monastery #BEGRTA Green Tara Mandala $1 Tibetan for Windows 60.00 CUCA48 Milarepa's Cave #BEMAMA Manjushri Monks from Namgyal Monastery Tibetan Freedom Bands 4.00 CUCA49 Drepung Monastery Regarding #BEMBMA Medicine Buddha Creating a Vajrabhairava Sand Tibetan Meditation Carpet 250.00 CUCA50 Kumbum Monastery #BESHMA Sakyamuni Mandala $1 Tibetan National Flag 35.00 CUCA51 Sera Monastery Kalachakra Sand Mandala postcard $1 Tibetan National Flag (small) 6.00 CUCA53 Maitreya Statue CARDS FROM ANDY WEBER Thangkas Wheel of Compassion Sand Mandala Tibetan Picture Frame 15.00 CUCA54 Woman with Headdress $lea. notecard $2 Tibetan Sand Mandala Jigsaw CUCA55 Lamayuru Monastery WDC1 Long Life Thangka Wheel of Time Sand Mandala notecard Puzzle 15.00 CUCA56 Woman Chanting WDC2 Four Friends Over the years Snow Lion has been $2 Tibetan Stamps 5.00 CUCA59 Horseman WDC3 Eyes of the Stupa assisting Buddhist practitioners in Wheel of Time Fire Offering Sand Tibetan Wallet 8.00 CUCA61 Nomadic Tent WDC4 Eight Auspicious Symbols obtaining thangkas and statues for Mandala notecard, 5 x 7" $2 Tibetan Windchimes 50.00 CUCA62 Ceremonial Tent WDC5 Om Mani Padme Hung their personal practice and inspira- Wheel of Time Mind Mandala notecard Tibetan Wool Belt 9.00 CUCA63 Monks Debating WDC6 Hri $2 tion. Tibetan Wool Scarf 20.00 CUCA64 Potala Stairs WDC7 Om Ah Hung Unfortunately, in the modern WDC8 Double Dorje Tildens CUCA65 View from Jokhang Roof POSTERS WDC9 Prajnaparamita world, thangka painting is threatened -Tibetan-Style Tilden 25.00 CUCA69 Golden Buddha H.H. the XIY Dalai Lama, Tenzin WDC10 Samajavajra by an influx of fake and quite often -Fancy Brocade Tilden 25.00 Gyatso (Fine Art Print) WDC11 Heruka Chakrasamvara badly finished paintings. In many -Large Tibetan-Style Tilden 40.00 CLOSEOUT SALE! Kalachakra Initiation, popular tourist areas such as WDC12 Mahakala Bodhgaya, India 15.00 Tsa-Tsas IMAGES OF LOST TIBET Kathmandu and Delhi, these pieces WDC13 Mandala of Avalokitesvara H.H. the XIV Dalai Lama, Tenzin -Chenrezig 12.00 $.75 ea., NOW $.25 ea. WDC 14 Mandala of the Five Elements are offered to the unsuspecting buyer Gyatso (Color Poster) 10.00 -Chenrezig (gold) 12.00 IMTI1 Tibetan from Chamdo WDC 15 Samatha Meditation as being authentic thangkas. The dei- -Chenrezig (for hanging, with IMTI2 Monks Sounding Trumpets WDC 16 Inner Offering The Dalai Lama $4.50 ties and their colors, proportions and cord) 12.00 IMTI3 Tibetan Nomad Tent WDC 17 Eight Precious Offerings Dalai Lama: Visualize World symbols have been assembled and -Green Tara 1" (gold) 9.00 IMTI4 Norbu Linga & 13th Dalai Peace 12.95 incorporated with little or no regard -Green Tara w/ pendant ring 1" 10.00 Lama TRANSFORMATIVE ART Dalai Lama in Zanskar 12.95 to traditional religious guidelines. His -Guru Rinpoche (gold) 12.00 IMTI5 Officials During Losar NOTECARD SET Four-Arm Chenrezig 40.00 -Shakyamuni Buddha (with Holiness the Dalai Lama has fre- IMTI7 Potala During Losar $24 box of 12 Jowo Shakyamuni Buddha 9.00 teaching mudra) 16.00 Kalachakra Deity (large) 9.00 quently pointed out when speaking of IMTI8 Tantric Meditator GARUDA POSTCARDS -Vajrakilaya 3 1/2" high (gold on IMTI9 Tibetan Men & Horses Kalachakra Sand Mandala 18.00 these cheap, inaccurate and mass- $1 ea. black) 16.00 IMTI11 Wife of Tibetan Governor Lhasa Mandala 5.00 produced thangkas (created in GAC1 Gelugpa Guru Tree -Vajrapani (gold 12.00 Medicine Buddha 5.00 FACES OF TIBET GAC2 Amitabha in Dewachen thangka factories by young Nepali Golden Green Tara Miniture Metal Medicine Buddha 6.00 $.75 ea., NOW $.25 ea. GAC5 Buddha with Discip. boys), that they do not benefit Tibet- Statue 10.00 Nyung Na Lineage Lamas 5.00 FATI51 Nomad Yogi GAC6 Tsong-ka-pa on Lion ans, Tibetan art and culture or sincere Shakyamuni Buddha Statue (4") $30 Potala Palace 9.00 FATI52 Yogi of Milarepa Tradition GAC7 Avalokitesvara Western Buddhist practitioners. They Shakyamuni Buddha Statue (2") $15 The Refuge Prayer 14.00 FATI53 Woman with Prayer Beads GAC8 Vajrayogini have no religious value because of the Green Tara Statue (4") $30 Tibetan Massage & Acupressure FATI54 Young Tibetan Girl GAC9 Machig Labdron Green Tara Statue (2") $15 Chart 6.95 lack of religious intent of the artist FATT55 Yeshi Dorje, Weather GAC11 35Buddhas Vajradhara 15.00 who painted them. Most of these T-shirts (large & x-tra large) Controller GAC12 Padmasambhava Wheel of Compassion Sand paintings are merely a haphazard -Double Dorje 15.00 GAC13 White Tara Mandala 18.00 mosaic of improperly painted Bud- -Eternal Knot (white or black) 15.00 GYUTO HIGHEST YOGA TANTRA GAC14 Cakrasamvara Wheel of Compassion dhist symbols and deities. -Khatsa: The Shirt! 15.00 DEITY CARDS $1.25 ea. GAClllJambhala (Expained) Sand Mandala 18.00 Obtaining quality thangkas is not -Namgyal 18.00 GY1 Chakrasamvara GAC113Vairocana GY2 Chakrasamvara Mandala Wheel of Life 15.00 easy. You have to know the artists, -Om Mani Padme Hum 15.00 GAC114Simhavaktra GY3 Sambhogakaya Buddha and to this end, Snow Lion buyers -Snow Lion 15.00 GAC115 White Mahakala DEITY POSTERS FROM ROBERT -Tibetan Flag 15.00 GY4 Guhyasamaja have made numerous trips to Asia to GAC116 Vajrapani BEER $7.50 ea. GY5 Guhyasamaja Mandala GAC118 Peaceful Bardo Deities cultivate relationships with various Wheel of Time Mind Mandala BDP1 Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara GY6 Six-Armed Mahakala GAC119 Wrathful Bardo Deities button $3 BDP2 1000-Armed Avalokiteshvara traditional artists. Over the past two GY7 Yamantaka (Vajrabhairava) GAC124 Yamantaka Wheel of Time Mind Mandala BDP3 Green Tara years, Snow Lion has located genu- GY8 Yamantaka Mandala GAC126 Ushnishavinnaya magnet $3 BDP4 White Tara ine traditional artists whose work is GY9 Kalarupa GAC127 White Tara Mandala of superior quality and made it a Window Trim ROBERT BEER SILK SCREEN TUSHITA POSTCARDS GAC128 Depiction of Universe policy not to deal in cheap, factory- -39" Silk Window Trim 45.00 PRINTS $lea GAC130 Vajrasattva w/Consort Yellow Hat 20.00 Green Tara 8.00 produced, tourist thangkas (which TU30 Dalai Lama, Ling Rinpoche, GAC132 1st Karmapa Thangkas-assorted $Call Green Tara (large) 14.00 can look authentic or even old to the Trvjang Rinpoche GAC136Mar\jushri Rupas-assorted $Call 8.00 untrained eye). We deal only in TU39 Dalai Lama: reading the news GAC139 Vajrayogini Guhyasamaja GAC142 Green Tara & 21 Taras Kalachakra 14.00 thangkas painted by good thangka SNOW LION DEITY CARDS TU40 Dalai Lama: blessing the land GAC148 Mandala with Simhanada- Milarepa 5.00 painters who genuinely care about $lea. TU41 Dalai Lama & H.H. XVI Karmapa Avalokitesvara Nargarjuna 8.00 the quality of their work. DC1 Shakyamuni Buddha TU42 Tanks in Lhasa GAC149 Sitatapatra Padmasambhava 8.00 DC2 Avalokiteshvar (Chenrezig) TU43 Dalai Lama on Yak Our thangkas roughly fall into two GAC150Amitayus Shakyamuni Buddha 8.00 DC3 Manjushri (Jampal-yang) TU64 H.H. Sakya Trizin categories. We carry superior quality GAC151 Domtonpa Six-Armed Mahakala 8.00 DC4 Green Tara (Drol-jang) well-painted thangkas, properly DEITY CARDS FROM ROBERT Vajrakila 8.00 mounted in nice brocades, which are DC5 White Tara (Drol-kar) Paintings of Dhawa Dhondup Vajrapani 8.00 DC6 Vajrasattva (Dorje-sempa) BEER generally priced from $3954500. We Ngochetsang White Tara 8.00 DC7 Medicine Buddha (Sangye Men-la) $1 ea. also carry exquisitely painted mu- BDC1 White Syllable AH 6x8 1/2", $3 ea. Yeshe Tsogyal 5.00 DC8 Samantabhadra (Kuntuzangpo) DDC1 Buddha Shakyamuni seum quality thangkas mounted in BDC2 Shakyamuni Buddha DC9 Padmasambhava (Guru DDC2 Green Tara with Manjushri, 1999 TIBETAN ART CALENDAR 28.95 silk brocades that generally run $850- Rinpoche) BDC3 Manjushri BDC4 Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara Chenrezig, Vajrapani $1500. DC 10 Vajrakilya (Dorje Phurba)
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