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Memoirs of Dakini

Author : Valerie Fries Wade
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781491021019
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Dakini written by Valerie Fries Wade and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Dakini: True Confessions of a Former Flower Child is a collection of memories telling of my life in the streets, from the small town of Woodstock, New York, through the Lower East side of New York City, all the way to Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue. Follow my true story as one of the last Flower Children. Read about my struggles with the drug culture, loneliness, rape, suicide attempts, kidnapping, beatings and the pain which drove me further away from the love I sought.I first left home at the young age of 13. I bounced back and forth from the streets until the age of 15, when my parents relinquished control and set me free. With only a knapsack on my back and $100 in my pocket, I left home for good on that October night of 1969. My adventures over the next 4 ½ years are detailed in this book.

Dakini Power

Author : Michaela Haas
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1559394072
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Dakini Power written by Michaela Haas and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pema Chödrön, Joan Halifax, and ten other female Tibetan Buddhist teachers share inspiring personal stories, revealing how we can embody Buddhist wisdom and overcome everyday challenges What drives a young London librarian to board a ship to India, meditate in a remote cave by herself for twelve years, and then build a flourishing nunnery in the Himalayas? How does a surfer girl from Malibu become the head of the main international organization for Buddhist women? Why does the daughter of a music executive in Santa Monica dream so vividly of peacocks one night that she chases these images to Nepal, where she finds the love of her life in an unconventional young Tibetan master? The women featured in Dakini Power—contemporary teachers of Tibetan Buddhism, both Asians and Westerners, who teach in the West—have been universally recognized as accomplished practitioners and brilliant teachers whose life stories demonstrate their immense determination and bravery. Meeting them in this book, readers will be inspired to let go of old fears, explore new paths, and lead the lives they envision. Featured here are: Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche (This Precious Life) Dagmola Sakya (Princess in the Land of Snows) Jetsun Tenzin Palmo/Diane Perry (Into the Heart of Life) Pema Chödrön/Deirdre Blomfield-Brown (When Things Fall Apart; Start Where You Are) Khandro Tsering Chödron (late aunt of Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying) Thubten Chodron/Cherry Greene (Buddhism for Beginners; Taming the Mind) Karma Lekshe Tsomo/Patricia Zenn (Buddhism Through American Women ’s Eyes) Chagdud Khadro/Jane Dedman (P ’howa Commentary; Life in Relation to Death) Sangye Khandro/Nanci Gay Gustafson (Meditation, Transformation, and Dream Yoga) Roshi Joan Halifax (Being with Dying) Lama Tsultrim Allione/Joan Rousmanière Ewing (Women of Wisdom; Feeding Your Demons) Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel (The Power of an Open Question)

A Dakini's Dream

Author : Ruby Rossano
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497563575
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book A Dakini's Dream written by Ruby Rossano and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dakini's Dream is a remarkable account of the transformational power of the spiritual journey across one human life. Book I: Dreams of Childhood is an extraordinary memoir of the profound suffering and transcendence that took place within an Italian American family living in an idyllic suburb of Connecticut. The events that occurred set the stage for the healing journey that is the substance of Book II: Healing the Contemplative Way and Book III: Waking Up from the Dream. Dreams of Childhood is a vibrant stream of cinematic scenes capturing Ruby's heart-warming relationships with her family and friends, the profound normalcy of her daytime life - in contrast with the horrifying events that took place at night, both in her home and community. Truly exceptional - Dreams of Childhood is a redemptive and illuminating story of the dark side of human nature and the healing power of humor and unconditional love.

Song to the Dakini

Author : Connee Pike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781482061116
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Song to the Dakini written by Connee Pike and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of prayers offer songs of gratitude to the mandala of dakinis. Connee Pike, M.S. is the founding director for The Mandorla Project, a 501 (c) organization dedicated to supporting the work of spiritual midwives to the dying. www.themandorlaproject.org. She has studied with teachers from the Lakota, Christian, Hindu, and Tibetan Buddhist traditions for more than twenty years.

A Coven of Dakinis

Author : Rashani Rea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book A Coven of Dakinis written by Rashani Rea and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rashani has created more than 55 stunning collages with words by thirteen amazing women who have deeply touched her life.

Cave in the Snow

Author : Vicki Mackenzie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1582340455
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Cave in the Snow written by Vicki Mackenzie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How an Englishwoman has become a Buddhist legend and a champion for the rights of women to attain spiritual enlightenment.

Dakini's Warm Breath

Author : Judith Simmer-Brown
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 157062920X
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Dakini's Warm Breath written by Judith Simmer-Brown and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2002-12-10 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh interpretation of the dakini—a Tibetan Buddhist symbol of the feminine—that will appeal to practitioners interested in goddess worship, female spirituality, and Tantric Buddhism The primary emblem of the feminine in Tibetan Buddhism is the dakini, or “sky-dancer,” a semi-wrathful spirit-woman who manifests in visions, dreams, and meditation experiences. Western scholars and interpreters of the dakini, influenced by Jungian psychology and feminist goddess theology, have shaped a contemporary critique of Tibetan Buddhism in which the dakini is seen as a psychological “shadow,” a feminine savior, or an objectified product of patriarchal fantasy. According to Judith Simmer-Brown—who writes from the point of view of an experienced practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism—such interpretations are inadequate. In the spiritual journey of the meditator, Simmer-Brown demonstrates, the dakini symbolizes levels of personal realization: the sacredness of the body, both female and male; the profound meeting point of body and mind in meditation; the visionary realm of ritual practice; and the empty, spacious qualities of mind itself. When the meditator encounters the dakini, living spiritual experience is activated in a nonconceptual manner by her direct gaze, her radiant body, and her compassionate revelation of reality. Grounded in the author's personal encounter with the dakini, this unique study will appeal to both male and female spiritual seekers interested in goddess worship, women's spirituality, and the tantric tradition.

Blazing Splendor

Author : Rinpoche Urgyen (Tulku)
Publisher : Rangjung Yeshe Publications
ISBN 13 : 9627341568
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Blazing Splendor written by Rinpoche Urgyen (Tulku) and published by Rangjung Yeshe Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With unsurpassed honesty and humility, the highly influential meditation master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche offers a glimpse into the remarkable reality of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as an in depth portrait of the lost culture of old Tibet. This grand narrative stretches across generations, providing an inspiring glimpse into a realm of remarkable human achievement quite different from our familiar, mundane world. Intimate in tone, these personal memoirs recount the influences and experiences that shaped one of the great spiritual teachers of our time. Blazing Splendor is of both spiritual and historical importance.

Guide to Dakini Land

Author : Kelsang Gyatso
Publisher : Tharpa Publications US
ISBN 13 : 0948006390
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Guide to Dakini Land written by Kelsang Gyatso and published by Tharpa Publications US. This book was released on 1996 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. originally published: Tharpa Publications, 1991.

Love and Liberation

Author : Sarah H. Jacoby
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231147686
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Love and Liberation written by Sarah H. Jacoby and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life. Sera Khandro Dew Dorj (1892Ð1940) was extraordinary not only for achieving religious mastery as a Tibetan Buddhist visionary and guru to many lamas, monastics, and laity in the Golok region of eastern Tibet, but also for her candor. This book listens to Sera KhandroÕs conversations with deities, dakinis, bodhisattvas, lamas, and fellow religious community members and investigates the concerns and sentiments relevant to the author and to those for whom she wrote. Sarah H. JacobyÕs analysis focuses on the status of the female body in Sera KhandroÕs texts, the virtue of celibacy versus the expediency of sexuality for religious purposes, and the difference between profane lust and sacred love between male and female Tantric partners. Her findings add new dimensions to our understanding of Tibetan Buddhist consort practice, complicating standard scriptural presentations of a male subject and a female aide. Sera Khandro depicts herself and her guru and consort, Drim zer, as inseparable embodiments of insight and method that together form the Vajrayana Buddhist vision of complete buddhahood. By advancing this complementary sacred partnership, Sera Khandro carved a place for herself as a female virtuoso in the male-dominated sphere of early twentieth-century Tibetan religion.

Sky Dancer

Author : Stag-śam Nus-ldan-rdo-rje
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780710095763
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Sky Dancer written by Stag-śam Nus-ldan-rdo-rje and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1984 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of Yeshe Tsogyel, the consort of a distinguished Tibetan guru, and portrays her path to enlightenment

The Life and Visions of Yeshé Tsogyal

Author : Drime Kunga
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834840928
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Visions of Yeshé Tsogyal written by Drime Kunga and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning biography reveals the heroic life of Yeshé Tsogyal—the mother of Buddhism in Tibet and a powerful female role model for spiritual accomplishment and perfection This secret life story of Yeshé Tsogyal presents a valuable and unique perspective that is quite a departure from any other account of this remarkable woman. Described as a "secret life story," its many layers include an outer account—detailing her birth, family, and societal constraints—an inner account that begins as she meets and escapes captivity with Guru Rinpoché, and a secret account as she enters twelve years of retreat at Chimpu only to miraculously journey to Oddiyana. The role of women and womanhood is notable throughout her life story. Her desire for independence is at odds with her desirability as a woman, leading to numerous tragic incidents early in life. Finally meeting Guru Rinpoché, she decries her status as a woman. This sort of gendered humility, a recurring theme, is juxtaposed with her assertion that despite being a woman, and low-born (skye ba dman), she has a high regard for herself anyway. It is a magical woman who guides her to Oddiyana, and her travels there are filled with primarily female companions. In the end, she remains Guru Rinpoché's primary disciple and doctrinal custodian. Her experiences, while perhaps intense and fantastical, include the same elements of challenge, learning, and progress that all practitioners must experience. During her adventures in Oddiyana, Yeshé Tsogyal receives the same core teachings on faith, impermanence, and fortitude that are essential for anyone following this spiritual path. This accomplished translation is enriched by the refreshing insights of six contemporary scholars and teachers of Tibetan Buddhism, making this invaluable guide to the life of Yeshé Tsogyal a treasure for practitioners, scholars, and anyone intent on the possibility of awakening.

Realizing the Profound View

Author : Thubten Cnodron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614298610
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Realizing the Profound View written by Thubten Cnodron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth volume in the Dalai Lama’s definitive and bestselling Library of Wisdom and Compassion series, and the second of three focusing on emptiness. In Realizing the Profound View the Dalai Lama presents the analysis and meditations necessary to realize the ultimate nature of reality. With attention to Nagarjuna’s five-point analysis, Candrakirti’s seven-point examination, and Pali sutras, the Dalai Lama leads us to investigate who or what is the person. Are we our body? Our mind? If we are not inherently either of them, how do we exist, and what carries the karma from one life to the next? As we explore these and other fascinating questions, he skillfully guides us along the path, avoiding the chasms of absolutism and nihilism, and introduces us to dependent arising. We find that although all persons and phenomena lack an inherent essence, they do exist dependently. This nominally imputed mere I carries the karmic seeds. We discover that all phenomena exist by being merely designated by term and concept—they appear as like illusions, unfindable under ultimate analysis but functioning on the conventional level. Furthermore, we come to understand that emptiness dawns as the meaning of dependent arising, and dependent arising dawns as the meaning of emptiness. The ability to posit subtle dependent arisings in the face of realizing emptiness and to establish ultimate and conventional truths as non-contradictory brings us to the culmination of the correct view. The second of three volumes on the nature of reality in the Library of Wisdom and Compassion series, Realizing the Profound View challenges the ways we view the self and the world, bringing us that much closer to liberation.

Nine-Headed Dragon River

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1570623678
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Nine-Headed Dragon River written by Peter Matthiessen and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1998-04-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway—guests of his wife, a new student of Zen. Thirteen years later, Matthiessen was ordained a Buddhist monk. Written in the same format as his best-selling The Snow Leopard, Nine-Headed Dragon River reveals Matthiessen's most daring adventure of all: the quest for his spiritual roots.

Machig Labdron and the Foundations of Chod

Author : Jerome Edou
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834841010
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Machig Labdron and the Foundations of Chod written by Jerome Edou and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machig Labdron is popularly considered to be both a dakini and a deity, an emanation of Yum Chenmo, or Prajnaparamita, the embodiment of the wisdom of the buddhas. Historically, this Tibetan woman, a contemporary of Milarepa, was an adept and outstanding teacher, a mother, and a founder of a unique transmission lineage known as the Chöd of Mahamudra. This translation of the most famous biography of Machig Labdron, founder of the unique Mahamudra Chöd tradition, is presented together with a comprehensive overview of Chöd's historical and doctrinal origins in Indian Buddhism and its subsequent transmission to Tibet. Chöd refers to cutting through the grasping at a self and its attendant emotional afflictions. Most famous for its teaching on transforming the aggregates into an offering of food for demons as a compassionate act of self-sacrifice, Chöd aims to free the mind from all fear and to arouse realization of its true nature, primordially clear bliss and emptiness.

Tantra Goddess

Author : Caroline Muir
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1939681022
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Tantra Goddess written by Caroline Muir and published by Monkfish Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tantra Goddess is Caroline Muir’s memoir of her personal journey from innocent Kansas girl to skilled sexual and spiritual healer and leader. She shares the experiences that shaped her and lessons learned over a lifetime of searching for, and most often finding, love. While pioneering the now burgeoning Tantra movement in the United States and abroad, she experiences the highs and lows of the polyamorous, Tantric lifestyle, finds peace at last in a sexually monogamous relationship, and a new found sense of herself.

Dakini Teachings

Author : Padmasambhava
Publisher : Rangjung Yeshe Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789627341369
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Dakini Teachings written by Padmasambhava and published by Rangjung Yeshe Publications. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words of advice collected here are part of the ancient tradition of religious texts known as terma that were hidden in secret places during the first spread of Buddhism in Tibet in the ninth century.