Books & Publications

As part of our mission to promote and preserve Tibetan culture, Tibet House publishes books, dvds, videotapes, cds, and audio tapes drawn from our programs, conferences, and exhibitions, as well as selected other projects that promote Tibetan studies and culture. A representative list of past and present titles is available on both sides of this sheet.

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  • Bina Gupta
  • Brian Kistler
  • Catherine Steinmann
  • Christian K. Wedemeyer
  • Dalai Lama
  • Danny Conant
  • David B. Gray
  • David Kittay
  • David Pingree
  • Edward Henning
  • Emery R. Boose
  • Gary A. Tubb
  • Jacqueline Dunnington
  • Joel Feldman
  • Joseph Loizzo
  • Lelung Tulku Rinpohe XI
  • Lozang Jamspal
  • Maitreyanatha/ Aryasanga
  • Marilyn M. Rhie
  • N.S. Ramanuja
  • Paul Hackett
  • Pema Lodoe
  • Raimondo Bultrini
  • Robert Thurman
  • Saraha
  • Stephen H. Philips
  • Susan Landesman
  • The Dolgyal Shugden Research Society
  • Tsong Khapa Losang Drakpa
  • Vesna Wallace
  • Yael Bentor
All
  • All
  • Bina Gupta
  • Brian Kistler
  • Catherine Steinmann
  • Christian K. Wedemeyer
  • Dalai Lama
  • Danny Conant
  • David B. Gray
  • David Kittay
  • David Pingree
  • Edward Henning
  • Emery R. Boose
  • Gary A. Tubb
  • Jacqueline Dunnington
  • Joel Feldman
  • Joseph Loizzo
  • Lelung Tulku Rinpohe XI
  • Lozang Jamspal
  • Maitreyanatha/ Aryasanga
  • Marilyn M. Rhie
  • N.S. Ramanuja
  • Paul Hackett
  • Pema Lodoe
  • Raimondo Bultrini
  • Robert Thurman
  • Saraha
  • Stephen H. Philips
  • Susan Landesman
  • The Dolgyal Shugden Research Society
  • Tsong Khapa Losang Drakpa
  • Vesna Wallace
  • Yael Bentor

Dreams and Truths from the Ocean of Mind: Memoirs of Pema Lodoe, the Sixth Sogan Tulku of Tibet

A Tibetan lama tells his life story, from childhood with nomadic parents to his entrance into a monastic community, participation in Buddhist retreats, recognition as ...
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Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra

Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra: Chapters XI–XII (The Creation Stage)

Tsong Khapa’s Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra (Sngags rim chen mo)―considered by the present Dalai Lama to be one of Tsong Khapa’s two ...
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The Kālacakra Tantra: The Chapter on Sadhana, Together with the Vimalaprabha Commentary

The Kālacakra Tantra: The Chapter on Sadhana, Together with the Vimalaprabha Commentary

This is the first complete English translation of the fourth chapter of the esoteric Buddhist Kalacakra Tantra text and its eleventh-century commentary, the Stainless Light ...
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Scholastic Sanskrit: A Manual for Students

Scholastic Sanskrit: A Manual for Students

This volume gives a complete introduction to the techniques and procedures of Sanskrit commentaries, including detailed information on the overall structure of running commentaries, the ...
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The Kalacakratantra: The Chapter on the Individual together with the Vimalaprabha

The Kalacakratantra: The Chapter on the Individual together with the Vimalaprabha

This is the first complete English translation of the second chapter of the esoteric Buddhist Kalacakratantra text, and its eleventh-century commentary, the Stainless Light (Vimalaprabha) ...
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The Cakrasamvara Tantra (The Discourse of Sri Heruka): Editions of the Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts

The Cakrasamvara Tantra (The Discourse of Sri Heruka): Editions of the Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts

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Maitreya's Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes (Madhyantavibhaga) Along with Vasubandhu's Commentary (Madhyantavibhaga-bhasya)

Maitreya’s Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes (Madhyantavibhaga) Along with Vasubandhu’s Commentary (Madhyantavibhaga-bhasya)

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The Essence of the Ocean of Attainments: Explanation of the Creation Stage of the Glorious Secret Union, King of All Tantras

The Essence of the Ocean of Attainments: Explanation of the Creation Stage of the Glorious Secret Union, King of All Tantras (By the First Panchen Lama)

The Essence of the Ocean of Attainments (dngos grub kyi rgya mtsho’i snying po) is a commentary on the creation stage of the Secret Union ...
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Illumination of the Hidden Meaning

Illumination of the Hidden Meaning (sbas don kun gsal): (Chapters 25–51): Yogic Vows, Conduct, and Ritual Praxis

This is the second volume of the annotated translation of Tsong Khapa’s Illumination of the Hidden Meaning (sbas don kun gsal), a magnificent commentary on ...
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A Catalogue of the Comparative Tengyur

A Catalogue of the Comparative Tengyur (bstan ’gyur dpe bsdur ma)

This is the second volume of a two volume set providing detailed cataloging information for the recently published Comparative (dpe bsdur ma) recension of the ...
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The Vajra Rosary Tantra

The Vajra Rosary Tantra: An Explanatory Tantra of the Esoteric Community Tantra

The first English translation of the Vajra Rosary Tantra, with extensive annotations from Alamkakalasha’s Commentary, with a detailed introduction by the author. The Vajra Rosary ...
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Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra

Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra: Chapters XI–XII (The Creation Stage) (Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences)

Tsong Khapa’s Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra (Sngags rim chen mo)―considered by the present Dalai Lama to be one of Tsong Khapa’s two ...
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The Tara Tantra

The Tara Tantra: Tara’s Fundamental Ritual Text (Tara-mula-kalpa)

A groundbreaking English translation of a key tantric text in the history of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. This volume contains an English translation of the “root text” ...
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Tsong Khapa's Illumination of the Hidden Meaning: Mandala, Mantra, and the Cult of the Yoginis

Tsong Khapa’s Illumination of the Hidden Meaning: Mandala, Mantra, and the Cult of the Yoginis- A Study and Annotated Translation of Chapters 1-24 of the sbas don kun sel

This is the first in a two-volume annotated translation of Tsong Khapa’s Illumination of the Hidden Meaning (sbas don kun sel). A magnificent and massive ...
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The Adamantine Songs (Vajragīti)

The Adamantine Songs (Vajragīti): Study, Translation, and Tibetan Critical Edition

Presented here in English for the first time is a set of three of Saraha’s “Adamantine Songs” (Skt. vajragiti; Tib. rdo rje’i glu), poetic works ...
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A Catalogue of the Comparative Kangyur

A Catalogue of the Comparative Kangyur (bka’ ‘gyur dpe bsdur ma)

This is the first volume of a two volume set providing detailed cataloging information for the recently published Comparative (dpe bsdur ma) recension of the ...
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Ratnakirti's Proof of Momentariness by Positive Correlation (Ksanabhangasiddhi Anvayatmika)

Ratnakirti’s Proof of Momentariness by Positive Correlation (Ksanabhangasiddhi Anvayatmika)

The Ksanabhangasiddhi is a masterpiece of skillful reasoning by the eleventh-century Indian Buddhist philosopher Ratnakirti. This renowned scholar taught at the great Buddhist University of ...
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Consciousness, Knowledge, and Ignorance

Consciousness, Knowledge, and Ignorance: Prakasatman’s Ellucidation of Five Parts

The first English translation of the “First Section” (Prathama Varnakam)―the “Section on Inquiry” (Jijñasadhikaranam)―of the Pañacapadikavivaranam, a Sanskrit commentary offering a systematic exposition of Advaita ...
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The Range of the Bodhisattva

The Range of the Bodhisattva: The Teachings of the Nirgrantha Satyaka

This is a study and the first complete English translation of the Mahayana Sutra, the Bodhi-sattva-gocara, which presents one of the only Buddhist teachings extant ...
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The Extremely Brilliant Lamp (Shin tu gsal ba'I sgorn me)

Brilliant Illumination of the Lamp of the Five Stages: Practical Instructions in the King of Tantras, The Glorious Esoteric Community

The Extremely Brilliant Lamp (Shin tu gsal ba’I sgorn me) is Tsong Khapa’s most important commentary on the perfection stage practices of the Esoteric Community, ...
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Kalacakra and the Tibetan Calendar

Kalacakra and the Tibetan Calendar

Kalacakra and the Tibetan Calender describes the contents of current Tibetan almanacs, from basic mathmatics to symbolic and historical information. Essential for understanding the Kalacakra ...
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A Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts at Columbia University

A Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts at Columbia University

This is the only complete catalogue of the nearly four hundred Sanskrit manuscripts contained in the Rare Book Library at Columbia University. The collection is ...
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The Cakrasamvara Tantra

The Cakrasamvara Tantra (The Discourse of Sri Heruka)

This is the first complete, critical English translation of the Cakrasamvara Tantra, also known as the Sriherukabhidhana and Laghusamvara. This is the first complete, critical ...
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Aryadeva’s Lamp that Integrates the Practice

Aryadeva’s Lamp that Integrates the Practices (Caryamelapakapradipa): The Gradual Path of Vajrayana Buddhism according to the Esoteric Community Noble Tradition

The Lamp that Integrates the Practices is a systematic and comprehensive exposition of the most advanced yogas of the Esoteric Community (Guhyasamaja) Tantra as espoused ...
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