Recommended Buddhist Books & Readings

Recommended Readings for Trungpa Rinpoche’s Transmission of Buddhist Teachings

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Books –Introductory

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

The Myth of Freedom, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Meditation in Action, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Training the Mind, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

The Path is the Goal, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

The Heart of the Buddha, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Glimpses of Mahayana, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Born in Tibet, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

First thought, Best thought, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Timely Rain: Selected Poetry of Chögyam Trungpa, Edited by David Rome

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Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Books – Advanced

• Great Eastern Sun: the Wisdom of Shambhala, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

• Smile at Fear, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

• Dharma Art, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

• Visual Dharma: the Buddhist Art of Tibet, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

• The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Chögyam Trungpa and Francesca Freemantle

• Journey without Goal, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

• Crazy Wisdom, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

• Illusion’s Game, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

• Orderly Chaos, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

• The Lion’s Roar, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

• Transcending Madness, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

• The Dawn of Tantra, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

• Mudra, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Pema Chödrön

• How to Meditate, Pema Chödrön

• The Wisdom of no Escape, Pema Chödrön

• When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chödrön

• Start Where You Are, Pema Chödrön

• The Places that Scare You, Pema Chödrön

Other Relevant Buddhist Writings

• Mind at Ease by Traleg Kyabgon (study chapters of this book in our ongoing Tuesday course via Zoom. Learn more

• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Suzuki Roshi

• Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso

• Indestructible Truth, Reggie Ray

• Secret of the Vajra World: The Tantric Buddhism of Tibet, Reginald Rey

• Luminous Emptiness, Francesca Fremantle

• Mind beyond Death, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

• The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, Gampopa, Translated by Khenpo Konchok

• The Heart Essence of the Enlightened Ones, Dilgo Khyentse, Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group

• Buddha in the Palm of your Hand, Osel Tenzin

• Making Friends with Death, Judith Lief

• As It Is, Volume 1 by Tulku Urgyen, Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche

• Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind by Tsoknyi Rinpoche

• Crooked Cucumber, David Chadwick

• The Awakened One: A Life of the Buddha, Sherab Chodzin Kohn

• How To Practice Shamatha Meditation: The Cultivation Of Meditative Quiescence Gen Lamrimpa, B. Alan Wallace

• Words of My Perfect Teacher by Patrul Rinpoche, and its wonderful commentary

• A Guide to The Words of My Perfect Teacher by Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang

• Blazing Splendor by Tulku Urgyen

• Rainbow Painting by Tulku Urgyen

• Freedom in Bondage by Adeu Rinpoche

• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche

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The Life of Marpa the Translator, Tsang Nyon Heruka, Translated by the Nalanda Translation Committee

The Life and Teaching of Naropa, Rinchen Namgyal, Translated by Herbert V. Guenther

The Life of Milarepa, Tsang Nyon Heruka, Translated by Lobsang Lhalungpa

The Rain of Wisdom: The Essence of the Ocean of True Meaning, the Vajra Songs of the Kagyu Gurus, Translated by the Nalanda Translation Committee

The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, Translated by Garma C. C. Chang