Category: Books

  • NIRVANA, THE WATERFALL: Shunryu Suzuki

    I went to Yosemite National Park, and I saw some huge waterfalls.   The highest one there is 1,340 feet high, and from it the water comes down like a curtain thrown from the top of the mountain.  It does not see

  • Online Book Shop

      Online book shop has now reopened Bodhicharya Publications would like to wish everyone very best wishes for the Iron Ox Year we have entered. We hope you have been enjoying the wealth of online teachings and recordings offered by the Ringu Tulku Archive. In addition, we are happy to confirm our online shop is once again…

  • Review: The Dalai Lama’s Cat

    A cat’s-eye view of the bodhisattva (bodhicatva) path, this wise and witty novel follows the progress of a Himalayan kitten, snatched from the jaws of death in a New Delhi slum where, as the runt of the litter, she is about to be consigned to the rubbish-heap. She is rescued by two young attendants of…

  • A Journey With Buddha’s Daughters.

    Buddhism developed varying traditions as it took root in different cultures around the world. In some of those cultures, the role of women in Buddhism – as nuns and as lay practitioners – has been minimised or even subsumed entirely under that of monks. Even though the Buddha himself, when asked by his student Ananda,…

  • Let Girls Be Boys

      The current debate on transgender rights seems to have gone from, “let’s take transgender issues seriously” to “let boys be girls”.  Grace Dent in her article of the same name (Independent 14.11.17) gives some of the breezy reasons about why the Church of England, the government and the entertainment industry is obsessed with gender. …

  • The Main of Light

    Dónal Creedon, The Main of Light: Common Ground and Dividing Lines in the Teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti and Buddhism. 2017, Dónal Creedon, 143 p. Printed in Poland by Amazon Fulfilment, Poland Sp. z o.o, Wroclav This work is the fruit of Dónal Creedon’s many years of study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism, and of his…

  • NEW LAZY LAMA BOOK – LOVING KINDNESS

    by WANGDU on MARCH 3, 2017 in NEWS, PUBLICATIONS. In this seventh booklet in the Lazy Lama series, Ringu Tulku looks at how we all need love and asks us to consider the benefits of generating loving kindness for each other. Rinpoche shares with us an Indian saying; ‘ When the trees support each other…

  • THE POWER OF AN OPEN QUESTION

    The following is an excerpt from Elisabeth Mattis Namgyel’s book The Power of an Open Question    “With All Our Might” Chapter 12 Surely, if the human condition could be fixed, the Buddha would have fixed it long ago. I’m sure Mother Theresa or Mahatma Gandhi would have cracked the code. And certainly the Dalai…

  • KEN JONES

      [Alba Publishing, 2015, 236pp ISBN: 978-1-910185-15-5 5 ¾”x 8 ¼” paperback £10/US$15/€14] I met Ken Jones, and his wife Noragh, on a number of occasions over the last fifteen years or so, at Haiku Ireland and other haiku-related events in Dublin. He was an acquaintance whose talent and wisdom I admired greatly, and, like…

  • Bodhicharya Publications Update

    Bodhicharya Publications are very happy to let the wider Bodhicharya community know about our latest developments, following our AGM last month: We have sold around 4000 books in the last two years. These are sales of all Rinpoche’s books that we publish, which are currently: 6 Lazy Lama Series books; 7 Heart Wisdom Series books;…

  • Being Pure

    We are very happy to announce the publication of Ringu Tulku’s latest Heart Wisdom book: “Being Pure: The Practice of Vajrasattva.” This book contains his teachings on the practice of Vajrasattva, including first Taking Refuge; and explores in some depth what it means to ‘be pure,’ to ‘purify’ or to ‘realise Vajrasattva.’ These teachings were…

  • The Saffron Road: A Journey with Buddha’s Daughters

    Buddhism developed varying traditions as it took root in different cultures around the world. In some of those cultures, the role of women in Buddhism – as nuns and as lay practitioners – has been minimised or even subsumed entirely under that of monks. Even though the Buddha himself, when asked by his student Ananda,…

  • In Praise of Idleness

    Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a Welsh philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Illustrations by Bradley Trevor Greive in his new book, (In Praise of Idleness. sourced from The Guardian.)            …

  • Haiku Book Review and Author Interview

    Outside my window is a sweet pea plant.  Today, suddenly it seems, there are only seven flowers, the rest having turned into pods.  Maeve expresses this process of change in one of her Summer haiku: cloudy afternoon my sweet pea flowers becoming peas In these few lines there is a dynamism that paradoxically captures a…

  • A REVIEW OF TAMING THE TIGER BY AKONG TULKU RINPOCHE by GWEN ENSTAM

      Taming the Tiger by Akong Tulku Rinpoche   By taking these teachings to heart, we may re-educate ourselves to develop more compassion and understanding. Thus the value and usefulness of our lives will increase. (pp.84-5)   The first thing you see when you pick up a copy of Taming the Tiger is the cover.…

  • A REVIEW OF “NIGHT BOAT”

    Night Boat is the story of Ekaku Hakuin, one of the most influential monks in the history of Zen Buddhism. It recreates his life from early childhood in a small Japanese village through a lifetime of adventures, both physical and spiritual. And Spence spends as much time in the beautiful landscape of Japan – using…

  • FRAGMENTS

        I first met Elisabeth Fraser at a meeting in the Theosophical Society in great King Street in Edinburgh. What the meeting was about and who the speaker was I can’t recall clearly.  Perhaps what was said was uninteresting but more likely unintelligible.  But what I do remember clearly is that I was seated…