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Book List

Tibetan Buddhism

Chodron, Pema, The Wisdom of No Escape*

Chogyam, Ngakpa, Rainbow of Liberated Energy*

Dorje, Garab, The Golden Letters*

Khenpo, Nyoshul, Natural Great Perfection*

Gampopa, trans. Guenther Jewel Ornament of Liberation*

Gampopa, trans. Khenpo Gyaltsen Jewel Ornament of Liberation*

Kangyur Rinpoche Treasury of Precious Qualities*

Kongtrül, Jamgön (translated by K. McLeod), The Great Path of Awakening*

Mingyur, Yongey The Joy of Living*

McLeod, Ken, Wake Up To Your Life

Namgyal, Dakpo Tashi, Clarifying the Natural State: A Principal Guidance Manual for Mahamudra*

Patrul Rinpoche, The Words of My Perfect Teacher*

Rangdrol, Tsele Natsok, The Lamp of Mahamudra*

Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying*

Other Buddhism

Batchelor, S., Buddhism without Beliefs*

Batchelor, S., Verses from the Center*

Dogen and Uchiyama, How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment* (previously published as Refining Your Life)

Gunaratana, H., Mindfulness in Plain English*

McLeod, Ken, An Arrow to the Heart (commentary on the Heart Sutra)

Nhat Hanh, Thich, Being Peace*

Red Pine, The Heart Sutra*

Red Pine, The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom*

Rosenberg, L., Breath by Breath*

Salzberg, Sharon, Loving-Kindness*

Suzuki Roshi, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind*

Other

Arrien, A., The Four-fold Way*

Deikman, A., Them and Us: Cult Thinking and the Terrorist Threat (previously published as The Wrong Way Home)

Lao-Tzu, The Tao Te Ching*

Levine, Steven, Who Dies?*

Lippe, Toinette, Nothing Left Over*

Moore, R. and Gillette, D., King, Warrior, Magician, Lover*

Ruiz, Don Miguel, The Four Agreements*

Shah, Idries, Tales of the Dervishes*

Yang, Jwing-Ming, Eight Simple Qigong Exercises for Health: The Eight Pieces of Brocade*

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