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How to Be Compassionate: A Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World

Product Description: Each one of us is responsible for all of humankind, and for the environment in which we live. . . . We must seek to lessen the suffering of others. Rather than working solely to acquire wealth, we need to do something meaningful, something seriously directed toward the welfare of humanity as a whole...read more

By Dalai Lama XIV and Jeffrey Hopkins (trans)

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9781451623901 | Atria Books, March 1, 2011, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Each one of us is responsible for all of humankind, and for the environment in which we live.

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By Jeffrey Hopkins (creator)

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9781451623925 | Atria Books, March 1, 2011, cover price $10.99

Como practicar / How to Practice: El Camino a Una Vida Con Sentido

By Dalai Lama XIV and Jeffrey Hopkins (editor)

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9781439109274 | Atria Books, May 26, 2009, cover price $14.00

Tantric Techniques

Product Description: Tantric deity yoga is the contemplative practice of visualizing oneself as a buddha, replete with compassion and wisdom, acting altruistically to benefit all sentient beings. This book offers a complete system of Tibetan Buddhist tantric meditation that details the process of transforming oneself through the step-by-step use of the imagination...read more

By Jeffrey Hopkins and Kevin Vose (editor)

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9781559393201 | Snow Lion Pubns, April 1, 2009, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Tantric deity yoga is the contemplative practice of visualizing oneself as a buddha, replete with compassion and wisdom, acting altruistically to benefit all sentient beings.

Becoming Enlightened

Product Description: The wisdom, support, guidance, and inspiration we need to become successful and fulfilled in our spiritual lives. In Becoming Enlightened, His Holiness the Dalai Lama powerfully explores the foundation of Buddhism, laying out an accessible and practical approach to age-old questions: How can we live free from suffering? How can we achieve lasting happiness and peace? Drawing from traditional Buddhist meditative practices as well as penetrating examples from today's troubled planet, he presents step-by-step exercises designed to expand our capacity for spiritual growth, along with clear milestones to mark our progress...read more

By Dalai Lama XIV and Jeffrey Hopkins (narrator)

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9780743579698 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, January 6, 2009), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: The wisdom, support, guidance, and inspiration we need to become successful and fulfilled in our spiritual lives.

The Meaning of Life: Buddist Perspectives on Cause and Effect

Amazon.com Review: The Dalai Lama never shies away from the big questions. The Meaning of Life is a collection of lectures given in London in 1984 on the Buddhist worldview, before he had won the Nobel Peace Prize or become a bestselling author in English...read more

By Dalai Lama XIV, Jeffrey Hopkins (introduced by) and Ken McLeod (narrator)

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9781427205643 | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, October 14, 2008), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

How to See Yourself As You Really Are

His Holiness provides step-by-step exercises to help readers shatter their false assumptions and ideas of the self and see the world as it actually exists, which is a prelude to right action.

By Jeffrey Hopkins (trans)

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9780786299171 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 2, 2008), cover price $29.95 | also contains How to See Yourself As You Really Are

9780743290456 | Atria Books, December 5, 2006, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: His Holiness provides step-by-step exercises to help readers shatter their false assumptions and ideas of the self and see the world as it actually exists, which is a prelude to right action.

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9780743563550 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, December 19, 2006), cover price $17.95

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9780743564649 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, December 5, 2006), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Provides step-by-step exercises to help listeners shatter their false assumptions and ideas of the self and see the world as it actually exists, which is a prelude to right action.

Tsong-Kha-Pa's Final Exposition of Wisdom

Product Description: If objects don't exist the way they appear, is mind itself an illusion, or is it merely empty of illusions? Is the reality of the mind already endowed with ultimate Buddha qualities, or is reality just the immaculate nature of the mind that allows for Buddha qualities to be developed? Tsong-kha-pa (1357-1419), the great Tibetan Buddhist master, had to address these and a host of other questions in order to formulate the nature of liberation in Buddhism...read more

By Jeffrey Hopkins

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9781559392976 | Snow Lion Pubns, May 15, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: If objects don't exist the way they appear, is mind itself an illusion, or is it merely empty of illusions?

A Truthful Heart: Buddhist Practices for Connecting With Others

Product Description: The Dalai Lama often says, Kindness is society. His former translator, Jeffrey Hopkins, writes that by learning to live from a more compassionate viewpoint, we can create a better life not only for ourselves but for everyone. In A Truthful Heart, Hopkins uses Buddhist meditations (including the Dalai Lama's favorite), visualizations, and entertaining recollections from his personal journey to guide us in developing an awareness of the capacity for love inside us and learning to project that love into the world around us...read more

By Jeffrey Hopkins

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9781559392907 | Snow Lion Pubns, February 12, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Dalai Lama often says, Kindness is society.

Nagarjuna's Precious Garland: Buddhist Advice for Living and Liberation

Product Description: In this foundational text of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, Nagarjuna offers intimate counsel on how to conduct one's life so as to improve one's condition and to gain release from all types of suffering, culminating in Buddhahood.

By Jeffrey Hopkins

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9781559392747 | Snow Lion Pubns, March 1, 2007, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In this foundational text of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, Nagarjuna offers intimate counsel on how to conduct one's life so as to improve one's condition and to gain release from all types of suffering, culminating in Buddhahood.

The Essence of Other-Emptiness

Product Description: This concise but revealing book gives a glimpse inside the relatively unexplored thought world of the Jonangpa School of Tibetan Buddhism. This seminal text from that tradition situates the doctrine of other-emptiness within the tenet systems of the four traditional schools of Tibetan Buddhism...read more

By Jeffrey Hopkins (trans), Lodro Namgyel and Taranatha

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9781559392730 | Snow Lion Pubns, February 9, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This concise but revealing book gives a glimpse inside the relatively unexplored thought world of the Jonangpa School of Tibetan Buddhism.

Mountain Doctrine: Tibet's Fundamental Treatise on Other-emptiness And the Buddha Matrix

A first translation of a seminal fourteenth-century Tibetan text on the nature of reality and the Buddha-nature identifies and defines two types of emptiness--self-emptiness and other-emptiness--and demonstrates how other-emptiness is an actual ultimate truth that was favored by early spiritual leaders.

By Jeffrey Hopkins, Ses-rab-rgyal-mtshan, Dol-bo-ba Shay-rap-gyel-tsen and Kevin Vose

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9781559392389 | Snow Lion Pubns, July 30, 2006, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: A first translation of a seminal fourteenth-century Tibetan text on the nature of reality and the Buddha-nature identifies and defines two types of emptiness--self-emptiness and other-emptiness--and demonstrates how other-emptiness is an actual ultimate truth that was favored by early spiritual leaders.

Fundamental Mind: The Nyingma View of the Great Completeness

Product Description: Precise and detailed presentation of the nature of mind from the Dzogchen point of view.

By Jeffrey Hopkins (trans) and Mi-pam-gya-tso

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9781559392501 | Snow Lion Pubns, June 15, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Precise and detailed presentation of the nature of mind from the Dzogchen point of view.

Kindness, Clarity, & Insight

A series of lectures on the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism includes discussions of meditation, karma, compassion, gods, enlightenment, and death.

By Dalai Lama XIV, Jeffrey Hopkins and Elizabeth Napper

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9781559392518 | Rev upd edition (Snow Lion Pubns, April 30, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A series of lectures on the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism includes discussions of meditation, karma, compassion, gods, enlightenment, and death.

Absorption in No External World: 170 Issues in Mind-Only Buddhism

Product Description: This book offers a fascinating exploration of how provocative issues about reality are refined and debated by Tibetan scholar-practitioners.

By Jeffrey Hopkins and Kevin Vose (editor)

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9781559392419 | Snow Lion Pubns, January 30, 2006, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This book offers a fascinating exploration of how provocative issues about reality are refined and debated by Tibetan scholar-practitioners.

Tantric Ethics: An Explanation of the Precepts for Buddhist Vajrayana Practice

Product Description: Tantra constitutes the fabric of a Tibetan Buddhist's daily practice, but no practice of tantra can be successful without adherence to the tantric precepts, or vows. Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Dalai Lama's tradition, is perhaps the greatest philosopher ever produced by Tibet's Buddhist culture, and remains a figure of immense significance...read more

By Jeffrey Hopkins (foreword by), Gareth Sparham, Tson-Kha-Pa Blo-Bzan-Grags-Pa and Tsongkhapa

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9780861712908 | Wisdom Pubns, November 9, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Tantra constitutes the fabric of a Tibetan Buddhist's daily practice, but no practice of tantra can be successful without adherence to the tantric precepts, or vows.

Yoga Tantra: Paths to Magical Feats

Product Description: Rarely in the Dalai Lama's lifetime has he given teachings if such a nature in this topic, about which so little is understood. This is one of the most important works and a monument of Tibetan Buddhist literature, and the basis for the Dalai Lama's teaching...read more

By Dalai Lama XIV and Jeffrey Hopkins (editor)

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9781559392372 | Snow Lion Pubns, October 30, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Rarely in the Dalai Lama's lifetime has he given teachings if such a nature in this topic, about which so little is understood.

How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships

By Dalai Lama XIV and Jeffrey Hopkins (editor)

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9781416510031 | Atria Books, June 14, 2005, cover price $10.99

How To Expand Love: Widening The Circle Of Loving Relationships

A seven-step guidebook for developing love for others and transforming relationships draws on Tibetan techniques to encourage positive attitudes, engage in kindness-based interactions with others, and become dedicated to a love-based way of life.

By Dalai Lama XIV and Jeffrey Hopkins (trans)

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9780786290642 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 8, 2006), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A seven-step guidebook for developing love for others and transforming relationships draws on Tibetan techniques to encourage positive attitudes, engage in kindness-based interactions with others, and become dedicated to a love-based way of life.

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9780743544405 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, June 14, 2005), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A seven-step guidebook for developing love for others and transforming relationships draws on Tibetan techniques to encourage positive attitudes, engage in kindness-based interactions with others, and become dedicated to a love-based way of life.

Mind of Clear Light: Advice on Living Well and Dying Consciously

The esteemed Tibetan spiritual leader offers counsel on the nature and inevitability of death, drawing on a seventeenth-century poem by a prominent Buddhist scholar to share insight into living mindfully, overcoming procrastination, and clinging to misperceptions. Reprint.

By Dalai Lama XIV and Jeffrey Hopkins (trans)

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9780743244695 | Reprint edition (Atria Books, September 14, 2004), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Explains how to confront death--along with the inscrutable currents of life--with a deep-seated preparedness built on virtue, focus, and inner strength.

Advice on Dying and Living a Better Life

Product Description: Also translated by Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph.D.A New York Times Bestselling Author "Everyone dies, but no one is dead," goes the Tibetan saying. It is with these words that Advice on Dying takes flight. Using a seventeenth-century poem written by a prominent scholar-practitioner, His Holiness the Dalai Lama draws from a wide range of traditions and beliefs to explore the stages we all go through when we die, showing us how to prepare for that time and, in doing so, enrich our time on earth...read more

By Dalai Lama XIV and Jeffrey Hopkins (trans)

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9780786268108, titled "Advice On Dying: And Living A Better Life" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 13, 2004), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Also translated by Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph.

9780743463027, titled "Advice on Dying: And Living a Better Life" | Atria Books, November 19, 2002, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Explains how to confront death--along with the inscrutable currents of life--with a deep-seated preparedness built on virtue, focus, and inner strength.

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9780743540919, titled "Advice on Dying: And Living a Better Life" | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, July 1, 2004), cover price $15.95

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9780743527392, titled "Advice on Dying: And Living a Better Life" | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster Sound Ideas, November 1, 2002), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Shows listeners how to confront death--along with the inscrutable currents of life--with a deep-seated preparedness built on virtue, focus, and inner strength.

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9780743527385 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster Sound Ideas, November 1, 2002), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Shows listeners how to confront death--along with the inscrutable currents of life--with a deep-seated preparedness built on virtue, focus, and inner strength.

Maps of the Profound: Jam-Yang-Shay-Ba's Great Exposition of Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Views on the Nature of Reality

Product Description: In the Tibetan cultural region, schools of non-buddhist and buddhist Indian philosophy were systematized and compared in texts called presentation of tenets in order to get a handle on the plethora of philosophical systems inhereited from India. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jeffrey Hopkins and JAM-DBYANS-BZAD-PA NAG-DBAN-BRTSON-GRUS

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9781559392075 | Snow Lion Pubns, November 1, 2003, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: In the Tibetan cultural region, schools of non-buddhist and buddhist Indian philosophy were systematized and compared in texts called presentation of tenets in order to get a handle on the plethora of philosophical systems inhereited from India.

Emptiness in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism

By Jeffrey Hopkins

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9780520239081 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $29.95

The Buddhism of Tibet: The Dalai Lama

Product Description: Unlike most books by the Dalai Lama, this book consists of two texts that he himself wrote and two that he chose--all aimed at helping Western readers become better grounded in Buddhism.

By Jeffrey Hopkins (trans)

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9781559391856 | Snow Lion Pubns, October 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Unlike most books by the Dalai Lama, this book consists of two texts that he himself wrote and two that he chose--all aimed at helping Western readers become better grounded in Buddhism.

Reflections on Reality: The Three Natures and Non-Natures in the Mind-Only School: Dynamic Reponsesto Dzong-Ka-Ba's the Esesence of Eloquence

Product Description: This is the second volume in Jeffrey Hopkins's valuable series on the Mind-Only School of Buddhism. Dzong-ka-ba (1357-1419) is generally regarded as one of the greatest Tibetan philosophers, and his "Mind-Only" discourse on emptiness is considered a landmark in Buddhist philosophy...read more

By Jeffrey Hopkins

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9780520211209 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This is the second volume in Jeffrey Hopkins's valuable series on the Mind-Only School of Buddhism.

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