Reading List

General

Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala
Classics), Shambala: 2000

John Makransky, Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness,

Wisdom: 2007

L. Willa Miller, Everyday Dharma: Seven Weeks to Finding the Buddha in You, Quest
Books: 2009.

Traditional Overview
Herbert V. Guenther, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation (Clear Light Series),
Shambala: 2001

Patrul Rinpoche, Words of My Perfect Teacher, Revised Edition (Sacred Literature

Series), Shambhala: 1998

Lama Taranatha (Willa Baker, translator) Essence of Ambrosia: A Guide to Buddhist

Contemplation, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, Indraprastha
Press: 2006

Biographies
Tsultrim Allione, Women of Wisdom, Snow Lion Publications: 2000

Garma C. C. Chang, The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: The Life-Story and
Teaching of the Greatest Poet-Saint Ever to Appear in the History of Buddhism,
Shambhala: 1999

Keith Dowman, Sky Dancer: The Secret Life & Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel, Snow
Lion Publications: 1996

Jerome Edou, Machig Labdron & the Foundations of Chod, Snow Lion Publications:
1995

Lobsang P. Lhalungpa (Translator)The Life of Milarepa: A New Translation from the

Tibetan: Viking, 1992

Michele Martin, Music in the Sky: The Life, Art and Teaching of the Seventeenth
Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje: Snow Lion Publications, 2003.
Nicole Riggs, Like An Illusion: Lives of the Shangpa Kagyu Masters, Dharma Cloud
Press: 2000

Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun, Oxford
University Press, USA: 2004

Tai Situ Rinpoche, Tilopa: Some Glimpses of His Life, Dzalendara: 1989

Chogyam Trungpa, The Life of Marpa the Translator: Seeing Accomplishes All,
Shambhala: 1995

Buddhist Poetry
Jetsun Milarepa, Drinking the Mountain Stream: Songs of Tibet's Beloved Saint
Milarepa, Wisdom Publications: 1996

Ngondro
Tulku Chagdud, Ngondro Commentary: Instructions for the Concise Preliminary
Practices of the New Treasure of Dudjom, Padma Publishing: 1995

Sutras
Bhikkhu Bodhi (Editor), The Dalai Lama (Foreword), In the Buddha's Words: An
Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon (Teachings of the Buddha) AltaMira
Press: 2000

Bhikku Pesala, The Debate of King Milinda : an abridgement of The Milinda Panha
(Buddhist Tradition Series Vol.14), Blue Dove Press: 1998

Vimalakirti, The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture, Pennsylvania

State University Press: 1987

Bodhicitta
Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life, Tharpa Publications: 2003

Ngulchu Thogme, The 37 Practices of Bodhisattva: Commentary By Khenpo Tsultrim

Gyamtso Rinpoche, The Marpa Foundation: 2001

Introduction to Vajrayana
Jamgon Kongtrul, Creation and Completion: Essential Points of Tantric Meditation, root
text by translated by Sarah Harding, commentary by Thrangu Rinpoche, Wisdom
Publications: 2002

Reginald A. Ray, Secret of the Vajra World, Shambhala Publications: 2002

Reginald A. Ray, Indestructible Truth, Shambhala Publications: 2002