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Fall 2010 / 2011 Catalog

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Wisdom Publications publishes translations of canonicalBuddhist scriptures, commentaries and teachings of past

and contemporary Buddhist masters, as well as original works bythe world’s leading Buddhist scholars and practitioners, along withcutting-edge works on the intersection of Buddhism,modern sci-ence, and social and cultural trends.

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After over a year of research and careful analysis,Wisdom has settled onits strategy for launching a full-scale digital publishing program.Start-ing with backlist bestsellers and this year’s new books,we are making

our titles available on all major reading devices and through all major eBookretailers.Now you will be able to enjoy your favorite classicWisdom titles andthe latest new releases on your Kindle, iPad, NOOK, or any other majoreBook reader.

Along with many of the new releases in this catalog, severalWisdomclassics are currently available, including the following titles:

The Middle-LengthDiscourses of the Buddha

Mindfulness inPlain English

Introduction to Tantra

Essence of the Heart Sutra

In the Buddha’sWords

How to Meditate

Saltwater Buddha

Hardcore Zen

Liberation in thePalm of Your Hand

Wisdom is very excited to announceour new eBook publishing program.

…and many more!

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“This is a major contribution andan immensely wise book.”—Larry Dossey,M.D.,author of HealingWords

“You don’t have to be sick to benefitfrom the advice in this book.

This is a book on how to live fully.”—Joy H. Selak, author ofYou Don’t LOOK Sick!

“A must-read—and a solid dose of hope.”—Lori Hartwell, author of

Chronically Happy

“An inspiring work.”—Joseph Goldstein, author of

A Heart Full of Peace

“Everyone should read this book—and Iplan to buy a copy for everyone I love.”—Lizabeth Roemer, Ph.D., co-author of

The MindfulWay through Anxiety

“Beautiful, heartfelt, and immensely courageous.Truly worth reading.”—Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness

“Very compelling—great teaching interwoven into theheartful human drama of family, illness, and day-to-day life.”

—Shaila Catherine, author of Focused and Fearless

“Steeped in the best learning of all: hard personal experience.”—Vidyamala Burch, author of LivingWell with Pain and Illness

“Readers need not be Buddhist or meditators to benefit fromToni’s wisdom.”—Cheri Register, author of Living with Chronic Illness

Toni Bernhard is a former law professor at the University of Califor-nia, Davis. She has been living with chronic illness since 2001. She livesin Davis with her husband,Tony, and their hound dog,Rusty.

How to Be SickA Buddhist-Inspired Guide for theChronically Ill and Their CaregiversToni BernhardForeword by Sylvia Boorstein9780861716265 | 216 pages | $15.95eBook ISBN 9780861719266

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Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith com-bine clear explanations of the Buddha’steachings on freedom and happiness

with their personal stories highlighting someof the challenges and insights of practice. TheBeginner’s Guide to Insight Meditation offersadvice about going on retreat and help inchoosing a teacher and a community to prac-tice with.This is an enormously practical bookthat covers every aspect of the teachings abeginner needs to get started.

“Highly recommended.”—Library Journal

“How wonderful to have such warmthand encouragement wrapped around suchhelpful, straightforward information!”

—Sylvia Boorstein, author ofDon’t Just Do Something, SitThere

“A thoughtful presentation and an open invitation to the reader to begin ameditation practice—a marvelous support to those new on the Path.”

—Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness

“A magnificent book that moves with graceful clarity.”—Steven Smith, guiding teacher and co-founder ofVipassana Hawai’i

Jean Smith is the author/editor of numerous successful books on Buddhism, including365 Zen, Now!The Art of BeingTruly Present, and Breath Sweeps Mind.A longtime associateof the Insight Meditation Society, she is the president of the board of directors of theMountain Hermitage inTaos, New Mexico, where she lives.

ArinnaWeisman began her study of insight meditation in 1979 and since 1989 has beenteaching throughout the U.S. and Europe.

The Beginner’s Guideto Insight Meditation

Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith9780861716715 | 256 pages | $15.95

eBook ISBN 9780861719211

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BEGINNER’S

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INSIGHT

MEDITATION

ARINNA WEISMAN

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“The perfect starter kit for people curious about Buddhism.”—Publishers Weekly

“The perfect starter kit for people curious about Buddhism.”—Publishers Weekly


Anyen Rinpoche’s wise and reassuringvoice guides readers through theTibetan Buddhist teachings on death

and dying, while providing practical tools forend-of-life and estate planning. Dying withConfidence reads like a remarkable how-toguide, laying out in clear and straightforwardlanguage the preparations we must make andthe best practices to use while dying to furtherour goal of enlightenment.

Anyen Rinpochewas born inAmdo,Tibet.His lineage can be tracedback directly to the renowned Dzogchen master Patrul Rinpoche,author of TheWords of My Perfect Teacher. Anyen Rinpoche’s trainingincluded more than fourteen years of intensive study combined withsolitary retreat before he obtained the degree of khenpo (master teacher)and became the head scholar of his monastic university in Kham,Tibet.Rinpoche is known for his profound understanding of the scripturesas well as his easy-to-understand interpretation of them.He has taughtextensively inTibet and China and nowmentors students throughoutSoutheast Asia, Japan, and NorthAmerica.

“This may be the most important contemporary Dharma book now available.”—Deborah Schoeberlein, author of Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness

“A powerful guidebook and a source ofcomfort at life’s most crucial moment.”

—TulkuThondup Rinpoche,author of Boundless Healing

“We all have temporary and ultimate fears,those of this life and those of the future, butamong all of our fears, our greatest fear is thefear of death. Dying with Confidence gives us themethods to grasp the stronghold beyond death.

Thank you,Anyen Rinpoche,for this incredibly kind book.”

—Garchen Rinpoche

“Drawing from his vast knowledge of Buddhist teachings,Tibetan master AnyenRinpoche offers us a wise and luminous guide to the interplay between life anddeath, to the nature of consciousness, and to the transformation of fear into faith.”

—Tsoknyi Rinpoche, author of Carefree Dignity and Fearless Simplicity

“This is a wonderful book, a very practical guide grounded in the author’s personalexperience and deep reflections.The sample end-of-life documents that Anyen Rin-poche provides—the sample DharmaWill, for instance—are exceptionally valuable.”

—José Ignacio Cabezón, the XIV Dalai Lama Professorat the University of California, Santa Barbara

A TIBETAN BUDDHIST GUIDE

TO PREPARING

FOR DEATH

Anyen RinpocheT R AN S L A T E D B Y A L L I S O N G RA BO S K I

A F T E RWOR D B Y T U L K U T H O N D U P

Dying with ConfidenceA Tibetan Buddhist Guide toPreparing for DeathAnyen RinpocheAfterword by Tulku ThondupTranslated by Allison Graboski9780861716562 | 192 pages | $16.95eBook ISBN 9780861719242


“TheWorld Is Made of Stories is about the Mas-ter Story—how we are its telling, untelling,and retelling. David R. Loy delivers freedomstraight up in a delightful, variegated collec-tion of wisdom quotes and commentaries.This book is great fun.”—Barry Magid, author of Ending the Pursuit ofHappiness

“Drawing on a broad range of religious andsecular sources, David Loy’s compelling storyabout stories reveals through a series of clearand penetrating reflections the inescapablepresence of narrative in human life.”—Stephen Batchelor, author ofConfession of a Buddhist Atheist

“In this slender but powerful book Loy drawsthe reader’s attention to the power of words.He shows how stories have spoken us intoexistence, how each of us story the world intoexistence, and how these different storiesinform and transform themselves, each other,and us. I consider Loy one of the most impor-tant spiritual thinkers of our day.”—James Ishmael Ford, author of Zen MasterWHO?

“An inspired, sustained, poetic, and not-quite-linear contemplation of the nature ofmind. David R. Loy leads a merry, twisting chase.”—KateWheeler, editor of Nixon Under the BodhiTree

“Please handle carefully! Some readers may be profoundly unnerved by this book,others will find it deeply liberating; no one, I think, will go away unchanged.”—Kurt Spellmeyer, author of Buddha at the Apocalypse

David R.Loy’s previous books include the acclaimed The GreatAwak-ening: A Buddhist SocialTheory and The Dharma of Dragons and Daemons,a finalist for the 2006 Mythopoeic ScholarshipAward.He is qualified asa teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Zen.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF MONEY, SEX,WAR, KARMA

The WorldIs Made of Stories

David R. Loy9780861716159 | 128 pages | $15.95

eBook ISBN 9780861719259

For more from David Loy, see page 17.


Stories are ancient and wondrous toolswith the mysterious power to transformlives.And the stories and parables of the

Lotus Sutra—one of the world’s great religiousscriptures and most influential texts—areamong the most fascinating and dramatic.In this fun,engaging,and plain-English book,

Gene Reeves—the translator ofWisdom’s crit-ically acclaimed and bestselling edition of theLotus Sutra—presents the most memorable andremarkable of the Lotus Sutra’s many storiesand parables, along with a distillation of hisdecades of reflection on them in an accessible,inspiring, and naturally illuminating way.The Stories of the Lotus Sutra is the perfect

companion to Reeves’breathtaking translationof this scriptural masterpiece as well as a thor-oughly enjoyable stand-alone volume for thosewho want to bring the inspiring teachings ofthe bodhisattva path into their daily lives.

The Stories ofthe Lotus SutraGene ReevesForeword by Rafe Martin9780861716463 | 384 pages | $18.95eBook ISBN 9780861719235

“A lovely book, especially for someone like me who loves stories.Profoundly transformative.”—Lin Jensen, author of Deep Down Things

“A fine companion to Reeves’ accessible English translation of the LotusSutra. [These] stories have the power to enlighten.”—Tricycle

“A well-written, effective, and deceptively simpleintroduction to one of the most popular and

important Mahayana sutras.”—Mark Unno, author of

Buddhism and Psychotherapy across Culturesand Shingon Refractions

“Gene Reeves frees the Lotus Sutra from itsown history—a liberation for the sutra and

for ourselves!”—Franz Metcalf, author ofWhatWould Buddha Do?

“I’m deeply grateful for this offeringand think you will be too.”

—Rafe Martin, award-winning storyteller andauthor of The Banyan Dear:

A Parable of Courage and Compassion

Gene Reeves has been researching and lecturing on the Lotus Sutra throughout theworld for over a quarter-century. He lives inTokyo.

The Lotus SutraA ContemporaryTranslationof a Buddhist ClassicGene Reeves9780861715718 | 504 pages | $19.95eBook ISBN 9780861719877


the Kagyü school of tibetan Buddhismbegan in the eleventh century with stu-dents of the famous yogi milarepa.

mahāmudrā, the “great Seal,” is the Kagyüschool’s central teaching, which aims at directrecognition of the ultimate nature of one’s mind.formulated as a systematic practice by gampopa(1079–1153), the mahāmudrā teachings tracetheir source to the indian sages Saraha andmaitripa. mahāmudrā texts in this volumeinclude a lucid work by the celebrated mastertselé natsok rangdröl and works by the twelfth-century master Shang rinpoche, the great thirdKarmapa rangjung dorjé, the eighth SituChökyi Jungné, and drukpa Pema Karpo.

the volume also contains an inspirationalwork by gampopa, the drigung Kagyü roottext The Single Viewpoint of Jigten Sumgoncompiled by Sherap Jungné, the SixthShamarpa’s guide to the six dharmas ofnaropa, and finally a detailed overview oftantric practice by dakpo tashi namgyal,author of Moonlight of Mahāmudrā. theeleven texts in this volume were selected forinclusion in the Library of Tibetan Classics bythe preeminent scholar of the Kagyü school,Khenchen thrangu rinpoche.

Ornament Of StainleSS light

An Exposition of the Kālacakra TantraKhedrup norsang gyatsotranslated by gavin Kilty736 pages | 9780861714520 | $59.95

mind training

The Great Collectiontranslated by geshe thupten Jinpa720 pages | 9780861714407 | $49.95

taKing the reSult aS the Path

Core Teachings of theSakya Lamdré Traditiontranslated by Cyrus Stearnsforeword by his holiness Sakya trizin784 pages | 9780861714438 | $59.95

BOOK Of Kadam

The Core Textstranslated by geshe thupten Jinpa752 pages | 9780861714414 | $59.95

the CryStal mirrOr Of

PhilOSOPhiCal SyStemS

A Tibetan Study of Asian Religious Thoughtthuken losang Chökyi nyimatranslated by geshé lhundub Sopa et al.edited by roger r. Jackson696 pages | 9780861714643 | $59.95

mirrOr Of Beryl

A Historical Introduction to Tibetan Medicinedesi Sangyé gyatso | translated by gavin Kilty9780861714674 | 696 pages | hardcover | $59.95

Maha-mudra- andRelated Instructions

Core Teachings of the Kagyü SchoolsTranslated by Peter Alan Roberts

9780861714445 | 832 pagesHardcover | $59.95

eBook 9780861719297

the library of tibetan class ics

Now available, from the Library ofTibetan Classics

Peter Alan Roberts obtained a B.A. in Sanskrit and Pali and a D.Phil. inTibetanStudies from Oxford University. For more than twenty years he has been working asan interpreter forTibetan lamas and as a translator ofTibetan texts.He lives in Hol-lywood, California.

Also available from the Library ofTibetan Classics

Omniscience andthe Rhetoric of Reason

⁄›ntarak˝ita and KamalaŸ ıla onRationality, Argumentation,

and Religious AuthoritySara L. McClintock

9780861716616 | 440 pages | $36.95eBook ISBN 9780861719310

“Of unique importance to anyoneinvestigating Madhyamaka ideas.”

—Leonard van der Kuijp,Harvard University

“Sara McClintock breaks new ground in the much-discussed relationship between rationality and religion.”

—Ernst Steinkellner, University ofVienna

NEW FROM THE STUDIES IN INDIAN AND TIBETAN BUDDHISM SERIES


The Buddhist Philosophy ofthe MiddleEssays on Indian and Tibetan MadhyamakaDavid Seyfort Ruegg9780861715909 | 472 pages | $39.95eBook ISBN 9780861719365

a complete list of the Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism volumes.Among Tibetan TextsHistory and Literature of the Himalayan Plateaue. gene Smith

Approaching the Great PerfectionSimultaneous and Gradual Methods of Dzogchen Practicein the Longchen NyingtigSam van Schaik

Buddhism Between Tibet and Chinaedited by matthew t. Kapstein

Buddhist Teaching in IndaJohannes Bronkhorst

A Direct Path to the Buddha WithinGö Lotsāwa’s Mahāmudrā Interpretationof the RatnagotravibhāgaKlaus-dieter mathes

Foundations of Dharmakīrti’s PhilosophyJohn d. dunne

Freedom from ExtremesGorampa’s “Distinguishing the Views”and the Polemics of EmptinessJosé ignacio Cabezón andgeshe lobsang dargyay

Luminous LivesThe Story of the Early Mastersof the Lam ’bras Tradition in TibetCyrus Stearns

Mipham’s Beacon of CertaintyIlluminating the View of Dzogchen,the Great PerfectionJohn Whitney Pettit

Reason’s TracesIdentity and Interpretation in Indian andTibetan Buddhist Thoughtmatthew t. Kapstein

Resurrecting CandrakīrtiDisputes in the Tibetan Creation of PrāsaṅgikaKevin a. Vose

Scripture, Logic, LanguageEssays on Dharmakīrti and His Tibetan Successorstom J.f. tillemans

The Svātantrika-Prāsaṅgika DistinctionWhat Difference Does a Difference Make?edited by georges dreyfus and Sara mcClintock

VajrayoginīHer Visualizations, Rituals, and Formselizabeth english

Is omniscience a characteristic of the Buddha?


“InDeep DownThings, Jensen’s writing takes onthe quality of his subject: our living earth.Here,as in an old-growth forest, where individualtrees fall to create gaps in the canopy, Jensen’smusings allow light to penetrate and supportthe understory. The understory in this smallbook is the environment—dirt, rain,wind, androot—and how we humans are bonded to it.Jensen considers this relationship from a per-spective informed by the insights of deep ecol-ogy and his Buddhist background. A naturalstoryteller, he is at his best when he’s sharingbits of his own experience to demonstrate thedynamic between person and place, inner mindand outer space.He tells us of the Belgian drafthorse named Bill who gave him his firstglimpse of ‘the world of wide identification,’and he recounts the memory of losing his fam-ily’s farm to developers in Southern Califor-nia’s Orange County. Spirit, he seems tosuggest, is what takes place when the human-earth dynamic is realized.”—Tricycle

“I am glad for my country and my world that Lin Jensen’s beautiful book will be apart of it.”—Joanna Macy, author ofWorld as Lover,World as Self

“Our BuddhistThoreau gets deep down into the roots of our disconnection fromthe earth and from each other—and how we can be healed.”—David R.Loy, authorof TheWorld Is Made of Stories and Money, Sex,War, Karma

“Lin Jensen is an American original. He brings the insights of Buddhism, ecology,and memoir together—giving us a way to take it all to heart and make it native.”—JohnTarrant, author of Bring Me the Rhinoceros and Other Zen KoansThatWill SaveYour Life

Lin Jensen’s first book, Uncovering the Wisdom of the Heartmind,received the Best Nonfiction/Spiritual Book award from Today’sLibrarian. He has taught writing in various colleges and universi-ties for over twenty years, and he continues to teach Buddhistethics and practices at Chico State University. He is the foundingteacher and senior teacher emeritus of the Chico Zen Sangha, inChico, California, where he lives with his wife.

For more from Lin Jensen, see page 16.

Deep Down ThingsThe Earth in Celebration and Dismay

Lin Jensen9780861716111 | 176 pages | $15.95

eBook ISBN 9780861719228

“Lin Jensen is the clearest voice in Buddhism.Highly and urgently recommended.”

—Karen Maezen Miller, author of Hand Wash Cold and Momma Zen


“Of all the Roman Catholic missionaries toAsia, the Italian Jesuit Ippolito Desideri(1684–1733) was perhaps the most remark-able. Despite his fervent hope of convertingTibet to the Christian faith, he was in impor-tant ways the firstWestern scholar ofTibetanBuddhism, translating Buddhist texts into Ital-ian and writing scholarly tomes in Tibetan,complete with quotations from Nagarjuna.Mission toTibet offers the first complete Eng-lish translation of Desideri’s captivatingaccount of his sojourn in Tibet.”—DonaldLopez, University of Michigan

“As this accomplished translation demon-strates, Desideri was more than merely adetermined and subtle opponent of a religionnot his own; he was also a perceptive scholarofTibetan doctrine, an amazing linguist, and afascinating travel writer. Sweet has capturedhis essence in this commanding work. Every-one with an interest in Tibet,Tibetan Bud-dhism, world history, and world religion willenjoy this wonder-filled account of Desideri’spioneering adventure, intimately detailed from

Rome to Lhasa and back.”—Jeffrey Hopkins, author of Meditation on Emptiness

“Mission to Tibet is the most important work to appear in the field of Desideristudies since Luciano Petech’s critical edition of the Jesuit’s writings over fiftyyears ago.ThatMission toTibet provides a rip-roaring adventure, political intrigue,and a window onto a long-lostTibet only adds to the pleasure of reading this newtranslation.”—Trent Pomplun, department of theology,Loyola University,Mary-land, and author of Jesuit on the Roof of theWorld

“Sweet’s and Zwilling’s thorough historical work and beautiful translation make thisbook an instant classic and essential resource for anyone interested in the historyof intercultural learning, comparative theology, and missiology.”—John Makran-sky, associate professor of Buddhism and comparative theology, Boston College

Mission to TibetThe Extraordinary Eighteenth-CenturyAccount of Father Ippolito Desideri, S.J.Translated by Michael J. SweetEdited by Leonard Zwilling9780861716760 | 832 pages | $34.95eBook ISBN 9780861719303

Michael Sweet began studying Buddhism with GesheWangyal in 1967 and in 1977received a Ph.D. in Buddhist studies from the University ofWisconsin–Madison in 1977,where he was later a clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry. He hasbeen researching and writing on Desideri for the last ten years.

Leonard Zwilling received a Ph.D. in Buddhist studies in 1976 at UW–Madisonand for many years taught Asian religions, Sanskrit, andTibetan. He received an M.L.Sin 1985 from UW–Madison,where he is senior scientist emeritus in the department ofEnglish.


Wholesome FearTransforming Your Anxiety about

Impermanence and DeathLama Zopa Rinpoche

and Kathleen McDonald9780861716302 | 160 pages | $14.95

eBook ISBN 9780861719440

“If the topic of death has ever made yousquirm, this book is for you. If you have everlost a loved one and then been dismayed whenyour closest friends avoided talking about it,this book is for you, too. Indeed, if you’re thesort of person who will die someday, this is agood book to read.”—Shambhala Sun

“Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s profound aphorismsare mind blowing and heart opening.His abil-ity to essentialize enlightenment in the mostdirect and simple language is astonishing.”—John Makransky, author of Awakeningthrough Love

“Through clear explanations, straightforward practices,and basic goodheartedness, this book explains how tonavigate the path to love, even under very trying cir-cumstances. Truly, there is nothing more needed at thistime—our very future may depend upon it.”—Susan Piver, author of TheWisdom of a Broken Heart

How to Be HappyLama Zopa Rinpoche9780861711963144 pages | $9.95eBook ISBN 9780861719280

How to MeditateA Practical Guide

Kathleen McDonald9780861713417 | 224 pages | $14.95

eBook ISBN 9780861719846

“Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned practitioner, this book has jewels ofwisdom and practical experience to inspire you. Kathleen McDonald comesfrom a long and trustworthy lineage of teachings. In How to Meditate, she sharesthe best of what she has received.”—Richard Gere

Awakening the Kind HeartHow to Meditate on CompassionKathleen McDonald9780861716951 | 168 pages | $15.95eBook ISBN 9780861719358


Unlimiting MindThe Radically ExperientialPsychology of BuddhismAndrew Olendzki9780861716203 | 200 pages | $15.95eBook ISBN 9780861719389

“Mu Soeng’s scientifically inspired commen-tary opens up the meaning of the Heart Sutrafrom the side of informed spiritual inquiryand direct meditative experience.The Heart ofthe Universe carries an edge of incisive, practi-cal wisdom.”—Ajahn Amaro, abbot ofAbhayagiri Monastery

“Mu Soeng’s The Heart of the Universe is abrief, thought-provoking commentary on theHeart Sutra. For Soeng, quantum physics—the scientific insight that the basic particles ofmatter are actually in constant flux—informshow the sutra is understood in the modernWest. Of course, any discussion of the HeartSutra is going to center on the concept ofemptiness—the Mahayana theory that all phe-nomena are without fixed and independentidentity. Soeng presents his fascinating discus-sion of emptiness early in the book, leavinglittle to say when discussing the famous line‘form is emptiness, emptiness is form’ in hisline-by-line commentary.”—Buddhadharma

“A wonderful collection.These thoughtfuland insightful reflections on the Buddha’steachings will appeal to scholars and

practitioners alike.”—Stephen Batchelor,author of Confession of a Buddhist Athiest

“An excellent and very accessible introduc-tion to Buddhist psychology.Olendzki’s pres-entation of the Abhidhamma is particularlyhelpful and informative.”—David R. Loy,author of Money, Sex,War, Karma and

TheWorld Is Made of Stories

“I cannot recommendthis book strongly enough.”

—John Peacock,Oxford Mindfulness Centre

The Heart of the UniverseExploring the Heart Sutra

Mu Soeng9780861715749 | 128 pages | $15.95

eBook ISBN 9780861719433


How Much Is Enough?Buddhism, Consumerism, and the

Human EnvironmentEdited by Richard K. Payne

9780861716852 | 248 pages | $16.95eBook ISBN 9780861719402

“In this time of global environmentaland economic crisis, Buddhism andecology—Buddhist economics—havebecome topics of major interest.Thisoutstanding collection of essays makesan important contribution to our nor-mative and historical understanding ofboth areas.”—Donald K. Swearer, edi-tor of Ecology and the Environment

“This collection of thoughtful essayssheds a great deal of light on our col-lective social, political, economic, andenvironmental responsibilities to ourplanet and its inhabitants. Buddhismand ecology go hand in hand: the con-tributors are all Buddhist scholars, prac-titioners, and activists, determined toraise our consciousness.Very readable.”—Mandala

Buddha at theApocalypseAwakening from aCulture of DestructionKurt SpellmeyerForeword by Robert A.F.Thurman9780861715824 | 192 pages | $16.95eBook ISBN 9780861719372

“Buddha at the Apocalypse is easygoing,well written, and solidly reasoned—andlively in the way it interweaves Biblicalanalysis, Zen literature, andWestern phi-losophy and sociology with popular cul-ture and deep wisdom. I am delighted togreet this important and meaningfulwork.”—from the foreword by RobertA.F.Thurman, author of Why the DalaiLama Matters

“Spellmeyer’s book is full of light andfire; his sudden insights go off like romancandles. He goes beyond the usual ser-mons and takes a risk—he gives us intu-itions and connections between thedeep strange heart of Zen koans and theriches ofWestern culture.This is a freshway to think and live in the world.”—John Tarrant, author of Bring Me theRhinoceros

“A sweet and sensitive story of courage,sacrifice, and kindness.”—Dan Millman, author ofTheWay of the PeacefulWarrior

“The narrative of a deer king who lays his lifeon the line not only for his own people but forall creatures, this story is a tale for all ages and allbelief systems, with many subtleties layeredbeneath its surface.The Banyan Deer is a wel-

come addition to any collection.”—Elephant Journal

“The Banyan Deer shows that the lives of allliving beings are equally important.”

—His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa,OgyenTrinley Dorje

The Banyan DeerA Parable of Courage

and CompassionRafe Martin

Illustrated by Richard Wehrman9780861716258 | 48 pages

Hardcover | $15.00eBook ISBN 9780861719396

- A PARABLE OF COURAGE & COMPASSION -

by Rafe MartinILLUSTRATED BY R ICHARD WEHRMAN

The Banyan Deer

First Invite Love in40 Time-Tested Tools for

Creating a More Compassionate LifeTana Pesso with Penor Rinpoche

Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama9780861712854 | 256 pages | $15.95

eBook ISBN 9780861719419

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40 TIME-TESTED TOOLS FOR CREATINGA MORE COMPASSIONATE LIFE

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“The short exercises presented here will benefitanyone who puts them into practice.”

—Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, holder of theShambhala Buddhist lineage and author of

Turning the Mind into an Ally

“A marvelous, practical book, unlike anythingelse out there—the ultimate how-to manualfor nurturing kindness and compassion.The authors’ enthusiasm for compassion

is contagious!”—Deborah Schoeberlein, author of

MindfulTeaching andTeaching Mindfulness


“Natural Perfection is a translation of a key work bylongchenpa, the most important exponent ofdzogchen. dowman offers the reader the essence ofdzogchen stripped of any cultural trappings. dowman’sradical dzogchen is—like alan Watts’s Zen—distin-guished by its transcendence of the other aspects ofBuddhist practice.”—Buddhadharma

Natural PerfectionLongchenpa’s Radical DzogchenKeith DowmanForeword by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu9780861716401 | 336 pages | $17.95

NaturalPerfection

Foreword by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

Longchenpa’s Radical Dzogchen

Translation and Commentary by

Keith Dowman


“A wonderful and useful book.”—Ram Dass

“I heartily recommend this book to studentsof this path and to anyone interested in

Buddhist songs and spiritual enlightenment.”—Lama Surya Das, author ofAwakening the BuddhaWithin

Natural LiberationPadmasambhava’s Teachings on the Six BardosGyatrul RinpocheTranslated by B. Alan Wallace9780861711314 | 360 pages | $18.95

“this rare teaching of guru Padmasambhava, thefounder of Buddhism in tibet, is finally here for englishreaders, as the heart of this book. this teaching illumi-nates the most profound questions about who we areand provides a roadmap for the journey through life,death, and rebirth in great depth and simplicity.”—tulku thondup, author of Boundless Healing

The Flight of the GarudaThe Dzogchen Tradition

of Tibetan BuddhismKeith Dowman

9780861713677 | 240 pages | $16.95

Commentary by Gyatrul RinpocheTranslated by B. Alan Wallace

Natural LiberationPadmasambhava’s Teachings on the Six Bardos


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