Padmakara Translation Group Books
Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend
By Nagarjuna With Commentary By Kyabje Kangyur Rinpoche Translated By The Padmakara Translation Group
An exposition of the entire Buddhist path in only 123 verses. A Buddhist classic.Nagarjuna's poetic presentation of the fundamental teachings of the Great Vehicle, or Mahayana, is remarkable for it...
Read MoreThe Adornment of the Middle Way
By Shantarakshita Jamgon Mipham
In the Madhyamakalankara, Shantarakshita synthesized the views of Madhyamaka and Yogachara, the two great streams of Mahayana Buddhism. This was the last great philosophical development of Buddhist...
Read MoreThe Nectar of Manjushri's Speech
By Kunzang Pelden Translated By The Padmakara Translation Group
The Way of the Bodhisattva comes to life in this “must-have, must-read, must-contemplate” modern commentary on Shantideva’s essential treatise (Jamyang Khyentse, author of What Ma...
Read MoreWhite Lotus
By Jamgon Mipham Translated By The Padmakara Translation Group
The commentary translated in these pages is unusual and rare. But if the commentary is a rarity, its subject matter—the seven-line invocation of Padmasambhava—is one of the best-know...
Read MoreA Garland of Views
By Padmasambhava, Jamgon Mipham Translated By The Padmakara Translation Group
A core text of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, presented in English for the first time, with commentary by Jamgön Mipham, one of the Nyingma tradition's most lucid and brilliant...
Read MoreThe Root Stanzas of the Middle Way
By Nagarjuna Translated By The Padmakara Translation Group
A new English translation of the founding text of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of Buddhism, with the Tibetan version of the text included.The Root Stanzas holds an honored place in...
Read MoreA Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom
By Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje
Teachings on the foundational practices of Tibetan Buddhism by a renowned and beloved master--now in paperback.     In this book, Dudjom Rinpoche explains a key text attrib...
Read MoreThe Wisdom Chapter
By Jamgon Mipham Translated By The Padmakara Translation Group
The first English translation of Mipham Rinpoche's commentary on the "wisdom" chapter of Shantideva's classic text, in which Mipham explains Madhyamaka philosophy from the perspective of the Dzogch...
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