Books

The Magical Adventures of the Sixth Dalai Lama:
His Life and Loves

September 4, 2025

Step into the extraordinary life of “Ocean Song,” Tsangyang Gyatso, the Sixth Dalai Lama (1683–1706) — a reincarnate spiritual leader unlike any other, prophetic for our times. Both a wonderworking […]

Wisdom Is Bliss: Four Friendly Fun Facts That Can Change Your Life

July 14, 2021

This book is your invitation to travel that same road. Deeply felt and bracingly direct, it doesn’t teach about the teaching-it is the teaching. Get ready to get real, and have fun along the way, as you chart a path to reliable, lasting happiness.

Published by Hay House US, Available in Hard Cover & Kindle E-Book

Man of Peace:
The Illustrated Life Story of the Dalai Lama of Tibet

March 10, 2017

Why the “life story” of the Dalai Lama? It is a story of one man taking on an empire, calling for truth, peace, and justice for his Tibetan people. Here, […]

Love Your Enemies

February 2, 2015

Life has a way of thwarting our plans, leaving even the most sainted of us frustrated and fearful at times. But losing our cool causes more problems than it solves. […]

Brilliantly Illuminating Lamp of the Five Stages

February 2, 2015

The Brilliant Illumination of the Lamp of the Five Stages (Rim lnga rab tu gsal ba’i sgron me) is Tsong Khapa’s most important commentary on the perfection stage practices of […]

Why the Dalai Lama Matters

February 2, 2015

The suppression of Tibet’s cultural heritage has the potential to set a precedent for all oppressed peoples of the world. Perched on the top of the world. changes in Tibet’s […]

Anger

February 2, 2015

Heated words, cool malice, deadly feuds, the furious rush of adrenaline-anger is clearly the most destructive of the seven deadly sins. It can ruin families, wreck one’s health, destroy peace […]

The Jewel Tree of Tibet

February 2, 2015

Few teachers in the West possess both the spiritual training and the scholarship to lead us along the path to enlightenment. Robert Thurman is one such teacher. Now, in his […]

Infinite Life

February 2, 2015

Infinite Life demonstrates that our every action has infinite consequences for ourselves and others, here and now and after we are gone. He introduces the Seven Paths to reconstructing body […]

The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature

February 2, 2015

The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra) was transmitted from the bodhisattva Maitreyanātha to Āryā Āsaṅga, the fourth-century Indian Buddhist scholar-adept. The most foundational of the set of the famous Five […]

Inner Revolution

February 2, 2015

The New York Times calls him “America’s number one Buddhist.” He is the co-founder of Tibet House New York, was the first American Tibetan Buddhist monk, and has shared a […]

Essential Tibetan Buddhism

February 2, 2015

A vibrant, accessible introduction to the heart of Tibetan Buddhism through its own rich literature from “the most visible and charismatic exponent of Tibetan Buddhism” (Roger Kamenetz, New York Times Magazine). […]

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

February 2, 2015

The so-called “Tibetan Book of the Dead” has been renowned for centuries as a classic of Buddhist wisdom and religious thought. More recently, it has become highly influential in the Western […]

The Central Philosophy of Tibet

February 2, 2015

This is the first full study, translation, and critical annotation of the Essence of True Eloquence by Jey Tsong Khapa (1357-1419), universally acknowledged as the greatest Tibetan philosopher. Robert Thurman’s […]

The Life and Teachings of Tsong Khapa

February 2, 2015

Je Tsong Khapa (1357-1419) is revered as one of the most significant Tibetan Buddhist teachers, whose eclectic and analytic studies and meditations in all the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism […]

The Holy Teaching of Vimalakīrti

February 2, 2015

This book presents the major teachings of Mahāyāna Buddhism in a precise, dramatic, and even humorous form. For two millennia this Sūtra, called the “jewel of theMahāyāna Sūtras,” has enjoyed […]