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Dhammapada (Shambhala Pocket Classics) 17 reviews
Thomas Byrom
Shambhala, 1993
Simply Fantastic, Fantastically Simple
Actual content aside, this version of the Dhammapada is sturdy and doesn't feel "cheap." The pages are nice and thick, the cover is beautiful without being loud or overly interesting, and the small size make it convenient to carry in whatever pocket you have to spare.
I've taken this all over the place; London, Vienna, San Francisco...it's been thrown around inside of my luggage, twisted, ...
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Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior 3 reviews
Chogyam Trungpa
Shambhala, 2007
Learn to Relax - Reduce Stress Too!
Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior This was a book recommended by my counselor. I was very skeptical since I am a Christian and this was definitely not a Biblical book. I WAS PLEASANTLY SURPRISED! Trungpa does not try to convert you to Buddha or anything like that. This book is a joy to read. Easy to put into practice. Best of all, the results are more than worth whatever you pay for it! I ...
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Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga8 reviews
Georg Feuerstein
Shambhala, 2000
Indispensable !!
The Shambala Encyclopedia of Yoga contains more than 2380 terms associated with Yoga, terms spanning millenia of Yoga history right from the Vedas till the modern age. No serious student of Yoga can afford not to have this book. One can savour the online version of this encyclopedia at Georg Feuerstein's website Traditional Yoga Studies (web address: http://www.yrec.info). Each term of this ...
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Zen Essence (Shambhala Dragon Editions)4 reviews
Thomas Cleary
Shambhala, 2000
A "MUST READ" for all seeking enlightenment or Zen teachings
This is the most important book I have ever read - especially the introduction! The intro did an excellent job of explaining how Zen can't be explained, how you can't find your essense on purpose, that you can make yourself free. Working from these few pages of the intro, I was able to finally free myself and practice Zen. The book itself is full of quotes from Zen masters over the centuries. ...
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The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight 55 reviews
James Redfield
Grand Central Publishing, 2001
Further Spiritual Insights
James Redfield continues to offer further spiritual insights after writing The Celestine Prophecy and The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy)which are two fabulous books on spiritual adventure and transformation.
This book is the Eleventh Insight and takes place in Tibet and we are offered a glimpse of a spiritual worldview that holds harmony between people and nature and ...
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Awakening Loving-Kindness (Shambhala Pocket Classics)8 reviews
Pema Chodron
Shambhala, 1996
Good Intro. into practical and personal meditation
I picked this up on whim from my local library and was far from disappointed. I've been getting into a lot of the pocket classics lately, and this one is top five for me.
Chodron has helped me enter a simple kind of meditation called 'tonglen.' Unlike many forms of meditation we hear about, this one is very practical and beneficial in many venues. There are many useful sections in this ...
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The Shambhala Guide to Taoism (Shambhala Guides) 16 reviews
Eva Wong
Shambhala, 1996
Excellent Book!
This is a fun and very enducational book! Well warth the money, and fun to read. It teaches a lot of the history and different sect of Taoism From the time of pre-man to present China.
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Shambhala Guide to Yoga6 reviews
Georg Feuerstein
Shambhala, 1996
Like the others said, great introduction to Yoga!
When looking for books on Yoga, I had no idea where to start and I didn't want to read some...American trying to cash in book. I saw this book and it seemed real. Wow, I'm glad this is the first book I read on Yoga. Georg Feurstein fully knows and understands the essence of Yoga. The book touches on everything from the history of Yoga to a Yogi's diet. I like how Feurstein always refers back to ...
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The Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen6 reviews
Shambhala
Shambhala, 1991
An Invaluable Guide to Buddhism
I bought this book several years ago and it has proven an invaluable reference. For anyone wanting to deeply study Buddhism and Buddhist sutras this book is very helpful. The entries are clear and accurate, with extensive cross-references. There are entries for each of the major sects of Buddhism as well as various doctrines and teachers. Like one reviewer above, I too was at first nonplussed ...
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Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior: Book and Card Set (Book & Card Set)31 reviews
Chogyam Trungpa, Carolyn Gimian
Shambhala, 2004
Most Valuable Book
This was the most inspritional book I have ever read. I give as a gift to everybody I haven't already givin it too. BUY this book and if you don't like i will buy it from you!
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The Way to Shambhala: A Search for the Mythical Kingdom Beyond the Himalayas4 reviews
Edwin Bernbaum
Shambhala, 2001
Great Road-Trip Reading
The Way to Shambhala is a lovely read and an excellent traveling companion, because the whole book is about different kinds of journeys (some physical, some personal) and destinations. There's certainly enough detail to capture the imagination, but not so much that the prose loses momentum. It's a pleasure to read an intelligent inquiry like this. If you find me at an airport or highway rest ...
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Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living (Shambhala Library)28 reviews
Pema Chodron
Shambhala, 2004
Beautiful book
I truly enjoyed this book as it awakened a sense of compassion for myself and others, with insight and humor Pema Chodron guided me to a state of joy, and well being. I also discovered the 59 traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims and was able to relate them to every day life. This book reminded me of one of my favorite authors, Ariel and Shya Kane and their book Being Here: Modern Day Tales of ...
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Shambhala Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine2 reviews
Daniel Reid
Shambhala, 1996
Excellent overview of concepts of ChMed
As a third year student/intern of Chinese Med., I have found it difficult to convey to my patients the basic concepts and approaches used in ChMed., often due to our 'western' habits of analysis. This book is a bridge of understanding, and I plan to offer it to all of my patients.
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The Way of Chuang Tzu (Shambhala Library)18 reviews
Thomas Merton
Shambhala, 2004
Like a fine wine ...
Like a fine wine, this collection is best consumed slowly. As it is clearly stated in the foreward, this is not a faithful reproduction of Chuang Tzu but a collection of personal and spiritual interpretations of his work. Readers that expected otherwise might consider reading the description of the book before purchasing it. It would seem embarassing to write a negative review of a product ...
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Essence of Buddhism (Shambhala Dragon Editions)3 reviews
Traleg Kyabgon
Shambhala, 2001
If you can buy only one book on Buddhism...
This is one of the finest and more interesting books I have read on Buddhism in two decades. The author has brought the very authentic tenets of Buddhism together in a wonderful marriage with views of contemporary society. His perceptions and insights into western life are excellent and oftentimes very funny. Traleg Kyabgon explains profound terms such as "emptiness" along with others, in ...
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The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century (Shambhala Library)5 reviews
Thomas Merton
Shambhala, 2004
Inspirational
As adorable as it is, it's hard to report on it. Merton here captures nearly 150 snippets of life in the desert, stories from the early church hermits. It is entirely narrative, ranging from sentence-long to page-long vignettes about the lives of those who sought to know on the Lord. At first I though I would list the numbers of all the stories that I found significant or inspirational, but ...
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Warrior-King of Shambhala: Remembering Chogyam Trungpa3 reviews
Jeremy Hayward
Wisdom Publications, 2007
Absolutely Brilliant
Most of us wonder what it would be like to live in an enlightened society. Perhaps we even yearn for that. Jeremy Hayward has written a completely absorbing narrative of his encounter with a warrior-king and the creation of an enlightened society. Perhaps if one of Arthur's knights had written such a narrative it would read like this. Highly recommended for an authentic and heartfelt ...
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The Shambhala Guide to Sufism5 reviews
Carl W. Phd Ernst
Shambhala, 1997
Virtuoso scholarship that renders a public service.
THE SHAMBHALA GUIDE to SUFISM is a virtuoso performance in academic scholarship. The complex difficulties of the subject can be readily appreciated form the fact that the first 30 pages are devoted to an effort to define the meaning of the words sufi and sufism. It is a global misfortune that in our commonly received historical accounts political and religious forces have been conflated, ...
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Shambhala Warrior Training1 review
Cynthia Kneen
Sounds True, 2007
Complete, beautiful, yet practical.
The more common warriors in the current age are those who are vigillant in the fight against fear and all the other negatives that flow from it (anger, jealousy, etc. are all caused by fear.) There are of course still warriors in the realm of matter: fireman, police, soldiers, but for most western people, they can opt out of those challanges. No one can opt out of the challanges of life, and ...
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WAYS OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTICS (Shambhala Pocket Classics)1 review
Thomas Merton
Shambhala, 1994
A book for pilgrims
It is appropriate that this little book begins with the topic of pilgrimage, for it is the sort of book that one would take on a pilgrimage. You can easily tuck it into your breast pocket, or pack, when you take off for the wilderness. In this way you would not be far different from the Irish monks that it describes- men who heard the call and went forth into strange countries in Peregrinatio. ...
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