Suggested Reading

• Ethics for the new millennium, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• The way to freedom, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Wisdom Energy, Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche
• Virtue and reality, Lama Zopa Rinpoche
• Open Heart, Clear Mind, Thubten Chodren
• Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche

Further readings:

• Cultivating a Daily Meditation, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• The Art of Happiness, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• The joy of living and dying, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• The power of compassion, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Becoming your own therapist, Lama Yeshe
• The essence of Tibetan Buddhism, Lama Thubten Yeshe
• Awakening the Mind, Geshe Namgyal Wangchen
• Luminous mind, Kalu Rinpoche
• Being Nobody, Going Nowhere - Ayya Khema
• Wisdom of No Escape, Pema Chodron
• Seeking the heart of wisdom, Joseph Goldstein
• A Path with Heart, Jack Kornfield
• Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, John Powers
• Meditation in action, Chogyam Trungpa
• Reincarnation: The Boy Lama, Vicki Mackenzie
• Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up, Alan Wallace

Meditation:

• How to Meditate, Kathleen McDonald
• Zen mind, beginners’ mind, Shunryu Suzuki
• Being in peace, Thich Nhat Hahn
• Present moment, wonderful moment, Thich Nhat Hahn
• Mindfulness in Plain English, Venerable Gunaratana
• The experience of Insight, Joseph Goldstein
• The heart of the Buddha, Chogyam Trungpa

Life of the Buddha:

• Old Path, White Clouds, Thich Nhat Hanh

• The World of Tibetan Buddhism, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Kindness, Clarity and Insight, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Healing Anger, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Snow Lion
• The Four Noble Truths, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• The Four Noble Truths, Geshe Lobsang Gyatso
• The Door to Satisfaction, Lama Zopa Rinpoche
• Ultimate healing, Lama Zopa Rinpoche
• Introduction to Tantra, Lama Yeshe
• The Tantric Distinction, Jeffrey Hopkins
• Cutting through Spiritual Materialism, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
• Death, intermediate state and rebirth in Tibetan Buddhism, Lati Rinpoche

Graduated path to Enlightenment:

• The path to Enlightenment, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Path to bliss, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Preparing for tantra, Lama Tsong Khapa
• Principal teachings of Buddhism, Lama Tsong Khapa
• Essential Nectar, Geshe Rabten
• The Tibetan tradition of Mental Development, Geshe Dhargey

Mind training:

• Transforming the mind, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Transforming Problems, Lama Zopa Rinpoche
• Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Shantideva
• The thirty-seven practices of a Bodhisatva: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Mind training like the rays of the sun, Nam-kha Pel
• The great path of awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul

Graduated path to Enlightenment:

• Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, Pabongkha Rinpoche
• Path to Enlightenment, Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden
• Essence of the Path to Enlightenment, Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden
• The Door of Liberation, Geshe Wangyal
• The Dalai Lama at Harvard, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Words of my perfect teacher, Patrul Rinpoche

Nature of mind:

• Mind and its functions, Geshe Rabten
• The fundamental potential for enlightenment, Geshe Acharya, Thubten Loden
• Mind in Tibetan Buddhism, Lati Rinpoche

Emptiness:

• Echoes of Voidness, Geshe Rabten>
• Emptiness Yoga, Jeffrey Hopkins
• Meditation on Emptiness, Jeffrey Hopkins
• The Harmony of Dependent Arising and Emptiness, Geshe Lobsang Gyatso
• Realizing Emptiness, Gen Lamrimpa
• Dependent arising and emptiness, Elizabeth Naper
• Mirror of wisdom, Geshe Tsultrim Gyaltsen

Buddhism/Science dialogue:

• Healing Emotions: Daniel Goleman
• Gentle bridges, Jeremy Hayward
• Consciousness at the crossroads, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Sleeping Dreaming and Dying, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Choosing Reality – A Buddhist view of physics and the mind, Alan Wallace
• The Dalai Lama at Harvard, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Mind Science, Goleman Daniel

Buddhism/Psychotherapy dialogue:

• The psychology of Awakening, Guy Claxton

Buddhist/Christian dialogue:

• The Good Heart, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Living Buddha, living Christ, Thich Nhat Hahn
• Silent mind, holy mind, Lama Thubten Yeshe
• Interfaith Insights, Thubten Chodron