Tibetan Buddhism - Snow Lion and Shambhala Publications

12/19/2025

We are excited to share a new series of articles on Ngöndro, or the preliminary practices (and how they are not just "preliminary"). The articles include:
- Ngondro in the context of Tibetan Buddhism
- The Elements, or practices themselves
- Ngondro in the Longchen Nyingtik lineage
- Ngondro in the Dudjom Tersar lineage
- Other Nyingma Ngondro lineages
- Ngöndro in the Kagyu tradition
- Ngondro in the Sakya, Gelug, and Bon traditions
- Additional Resources

You can start here: https://www.shambhala.com/ngondro-introduction/

12/10/2025

One of the more incredible releases, Longchenpa's Cho Ying Dzod with Khangsar Tenpai Wangchuk's extraordinary commentary. This will be available in late January. II highly recommend watching Padmakara's Wulstan Fletcher discuss the text and his and Helena Blankleder's translation.
https://www.shambhala.com/videos/treasury-of-the-dharmadhatu/

12/02/2025

Celebrating today's release of the 50th Anniversary reissue of The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation by Chögyam Trungpa✨⁠
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In these collected lectures, Trungpa Rinpoche explores the true meaning of freedom, showing readers how preconceptions, attitudes, and even spiritual practices can become chains that bind them to repetitive patterns of frustration and despair. The teachings and guidance presented in this classic text reaffirm why his books are among the most accessible works of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy.⁠
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This edition features a stunning new cover and a beautifully written foreword by Pema Chödrön. On sale today!⁠
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12/01/2025

The always interesting Holly Gayley will be giving an online talk on the great woman master Khandro Tare Lhamo. December 9th at 4:30 Pacific. Thebook she wrote about her is unbelievablegood and should be read by all interested in the Nyingma tradition, female masters, and anyone who jut wants a good (and true) love story!

See more here:
https://www.shambhala.com/events/compassion-in-turbulent-times-lessons-from-a-tantric-heroine-khandro-tare-lhamo/

11/24/2025

We are very sad to share that Tulku Theglo passed away November 21st and just came out of Thukdam. While not so well-known in the west, Tulku Rinpoche was a pillar of the Dudjom Tersar and Longchen Nyinthik traditions, and very close to Dodrubchen Rinpoche, whose swift rebirth prayer he wrote: https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/tulku-theglo/

https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Tulku_Theglo_Rinpoche

Tulku Theglo Rinpoche is the son of Dzongter Kunzang Nyima, the Speech Emanation of Dudjom Lingpa and as a result of this connection and through his own training and practice, he is thoroughly saturated with the blessings of the lineage of Dudjom Lingpa, and those of his own father who revealed more...

11/18/2025

Happy Publication Day to The Flowing River of Dharma by Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo!

How do we break free from the habits and compulsions that bring us suffering? In the twelfth century, Sakya Drakpa Gyeltsen penned four short but significant lines, known as Parting from the Four Attachments, offering a concise guide to becoming a genuine dharma practitioner and charting a path to enlightenment.

In The Flowing River of Dharma, Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo offer a fresh, contemporary exploration of this foundational text, drawing on insights from Anyen Rinpoche’s teacher Khenchen Tsara Dharmakirti Rinpoche and a cave-dwelling hermit known as Lama Tsepel. Introducing the rime movement, which promotes cross-tradition learning to uncover core teachings, the authors use this approach to offer a comprehensive review of the text, referring to teachings from a variety of traditions, in particular The Four Dharmas of Gampopa, as well as texts wisdom from the Sakya, Kagyu, Nyingma, Kadam of old, and Gelug traditions of Tibet.

With clear language and a candid look at the challenges of dharma practice, the authors delve into the power of renunciation, understanding samsara’s true nature, and cultivating bodhicitta—the altruistic intent to relieve others’ suffering—as pathways to a meaningful life. Buddhists of all backgrounds will discover how these lojong (mind training) teachings can anchor us firmly on the path and ensure that we don’t stray from it until we reach complete liberation.

Click the link to order your copy.
https://www.shambhala.com/parting-from-the-four-attachments.html

11/17/2025

You do not want to miss The Buddhist Newsletter!

Today we feature new books, a new podcast, new videos, audiobooks, and two Reader Guides. We hope you like them!
http://shmb.la/Buddhist-news-nov25

11/12/2025

Bhutan: A Guide for Readers

Covering history, people, and great mastes like Guru Rinpoche, Zhabdrung, Pema Lingpa, Dilgo Khyentse, Thinley Norbu Rinpoche and more.

A guide to books on the Buddhism, history and people of the land of the Thunder Dragon, including many of the great masters.

11/11/2025

See our new Resource Guide to Larung Gar, likely the largest Buddhist center of practice and learning in the world, and the extraordinary teachers that founded it, lead it, and those who have spread its teachings the world over.

Larung Gar us the world’s largest Buddhist institute of study and practice. Founded by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche, it is the source of some of the greatest Buddhist teachers alive.

11/10/2025

11/06/2025

In The Flowing River of Dharma, Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo offer a fresh, contemporary exploration of Parting From the Four Attachments, a sacred teaching and foundational Vajrayana Buddhist text received by the great Sakya Lama Drakpa Gyeltsen in the twelfth century.

Using the rime approach, which promotes cross-tradition learning, and the lojong tradition, the authors aim to guide Buddhist practitioners of all backgrounds to lead a meaningful life by discovering the power of renunciation, understanding samsara’s true nature, and cultivating bodhicitta.

Presented in two parts, these lessons and teachings serve to explain each of the four lines and Dharmas in a candid and clearly worded language-based commentary. Modern and accessible, readers will be able to embrace wisdom and enlightenment imparted through generations of esteemed tradition.

Click the link to learn more.

https://www.shambhala.com/.../parting-from-the-four...

11/04/2025

Happy Publication Day to Tilopa’s Mahamudra Upadesha by Sangyes Nyenpa Rinpoche and translated by David Molk!

All lineages of Mahamudra meditation have their source in a verse teaching—a “song of realization”—sung by the Mahasiddha Tilopa to his disciple Naropa on the banks of the Ganges River more than a thousand years ago. Since that time, the meaning of Tilopa’s instructions has been passed directly from master to disciple in a continuous stream that exists unbroken to this day. This book offers the reader a rare glimpse into the Mahamudra oral transmission, given in a traditional Tibetan context by one of the lineage’s most learned and accomplished contemporary masters.

Mahamudra meditation, while highly advanced, is yet simple, practical, and accessible for anyone, because what is identified and meditated upon is the very nature of one’s own mind. In Sangyes Nyenpa Rinpoche’s words, “The distinction between deception and liberation lies in whether we understand the ever-present nature of our own mind or not. Knowing our own face is liberation; not knowing our own face is samsara. This is not something far distant from us.”

The instructions are ideal for Westerners because the root text is manageable and Rinpoche has provided an outline of his own composition that makes it easily understandable. He explains terminology with frequent comparisons between Dzogchen and Mahamudra, quotes prolifically from scripture, gives clear examples, and generally cajoles, admonishes, and encourages his listeners to be true to their own spiritual path.

Click the link to order your copy today.
https://www.shambhala.com/tilopa-s-mahamudra-upadesha.html