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Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior - Shantideva

Introductory Note on the Translation

Translation

1. The Benefits of Bodhichitta chaptereBook
2. Openly Admitting Previous Negative Acts chaptereBook
3. Gaining Hold of a Bodhichitta Aim chaptereBook
4. Taking Care (about Bodhichitta) chaptereBook
5. Safeguarding with Alertness chaptereBook
6. Showing Patience chaptereBook
7. Joyful Perseverance chaptereBook
8. Far-Reaching Mental Stability chaptereBook
9. Far-Reaching Discriminating Awareness chaptereBook
10. Dedication chaptereBook

Developing Balanced Sensitivity: Practical Buddhist Exercises for Daily Life (Revised Second Edition)

Preface

Part I: Dealing Constructively with Sensitivity Issues

1 Identifying Sensitivity Imbalances chaptereBook
2 Quieting the Mind and Generating Care chaptereBook
3 Imagining Ideal Sensitivity chaptereBook
4 Affirming and Accessing Our Natural Abilities chaptereBook
5 Refraining from Destructive Behavior chapter eBook
6 Combining Warmth with Understanding chaptereBook

Part II: Uncovering the Talents of Our Mind and Heart

7 Shifting Focus from Mind and from Ourselves to Mental Activity chaptereBook
8 Appreciating the Clear Light Nature of Mental Activity chaptereBook
9 Accessing the Natural Talents of Our Mind and Heart chaptereBook
10 Applying the Five Types of Deep Awareness chapter eBook

Part III: Dispelling Confusion about Appearances

11 Validating the Appearances We Perceive chaptereBook
12 Deconstructing Deceptive Appearances chaptereBook
13 Four Exercises for Deconstructing Deceptive Appearances chaptereBook

Part IV: Responding with Balanced Sensitivity

14 Adjusting Our Innate Mental Factors chapter eBook
15 Unblocking Our Feelings chaptereBook
16 Making Sensitive Decisions chaptereBook

Part V: Advanced Training

17 Grasping at Mind's Natural Functions for Security chaptereBook
18 Relaxing Triplistic Appearances of Mind's Natural Functions chaptereBook
19 Dispelling Discomfort at the Eight Transitory Things in Life chapter eBook
20 Dissolving Disturbing Emotions into Underlying Deep Awareness chapter eBook
Bibliography

The Sensitivity Handbook: Training Materials for Developing Balanced Sensitivity

Preface
General Structure for Each Training Session

Part I: Dealing Constructively with Sensitivity Issues

Exercise 1: Identifying Sensitivity Imbalances chaptereBook
Exercise 2a: Quieting the Mind chaptereBook
Exercise 2b: Generating Care chaptereBook
Exercise 3: Imagining Ideal Sensitivity chaptereBook
Exercise 4: Affirming and Accessing Our Natural Abilities chapter eBook
Exercise 5: Resolving to Refrain from Destructive Behavior chapter eBook
Exercise 6: Combining Warmth with Understanding chapter eBook

Part II: Uncovering the Talents of Our Mind and Heart

Exercise 7: Shifting Our Focus from Mind and from Ourselves to Mental Activity chapter eBook
Exercise 8: Appreciating the Clear Light Nature of Mental Activity chapter eBook
Exercise 9: Accessing the Natural Talents of Our Mind and Heart chaptereBook
Exercise 10: Applying the Five Types of Deep Awareness chapter eBook

Part III: Dispelling Confusion about Appearances

Exercise 11: Validating the Appearances We Perceive chapter eBook
Exercise 12: Visualizing Life's Changes chapter eBook
Exercise 13: Dissecting Experiences into Parts and Causes chapter eBook
Exercise 14: Seeing Experiences as Waves on the Ocean chapter eBook
Exercise 15: Combining Compassion with Deconstruction chapter eBook

Part IV: Responding with Balanced Sensitivity

Exercise 16: Adjusting Our Innate Mental Factors chapterseBook
Exercise 17: Accepting Suffering and Giving Happiness chapter eBook
Exercise 18: Making Sensitive Decisions chapter eBook

Part V: Advanced Training

Exercise 19: Identifying the Syndromes of Grasping at Mind's Natural Functions for Security chaptereBook
Exercise 20: Relaxing Triplistic Appearances of Mind's Natural Functions chapter eBook
Exercise 21: Dispelling Discomfort at Eight Transitory Things in Life chapter eBook
Exercise 22: Dissolving Disturbing Emotions into Underlying Deep Awareness chapter eBook

Making Sense of Tantra

Part I: Basic Questions and Doubts about Tantra

1 The Meaning of Tantra chaptereBook
2 The Authenticity of the Tantras chaptereBook
3 The Use of Ritual in Tantra Practice chaptereBook
4 Buddha-Figures chaptereBook
5 Tantric Imagery chaptereBook

Part II: Why Tantra Is More Efficient Than Sutra

6 Gelug Presentation of Tantra in General chapter eBook
7 Non-Gelug Variations Concerning General Tantra chapter eBook
8 Gelug Presentation of Anuttarayoga in General chaptereBook
9 Non-Gelug Variations Concerning General Anuttarayoga chapter eBook
10 Kalachakra chapter eBook

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire

Introduction: Historiographical Bias

Part I: The Umayyad Caliphate (661 - 750 CE)

1 The Spread of Buddhism in Central Asia and Adjacent Regions before the Advent of the Arabs chaptereBook
2 Sogdia and Bactria on the Eve of the Umayyad Period chaptereBook
3 The First Encounter of the Muslims and Buddhist Asia chaptereBook
4 The First Muslim Incursion into the Indian Subcontinent chaptereBook
5 Tibet on the Eve of the Arrival of the First Muslim Teacher chaptereBook
6 Further Umayyad Expansion in West Turkistan chaptereBook

Part II: The Early Abbasid Period (750 - Mid-Ninth Century CE)

7 The Rise of the Abbasids and Decline of Tang China chaptereBook
8 The Religious Conversions of the Eastern Turks chaptereBook
9 The Religious Conversions of the Uighurs chaptereBook
10 Islamic Sectarian Disputes and the Declaration of Jihads chaptereBook
11 Tibetan Politico-Religious Maneuverings at the End of the Eighth Century chaptereBook
12 The Establishment of Buddhist Kingdoms by the Uighurs chaptereBook

Part III: The Spread of Islam among and by the Turkic Peoples (840 - 1206 CE)

13 The Establishment of New Empires in Central Asia chaptereBook
14 The Founding of the First Two Turkic Islamic States chaptereBook
15 The Qarakhanid Campaign against Khotan chaptereBook
16 Analysis of the Siege of Khotan chaptereBook
17 Tangut, Tibet, and Northern Song China in the Eleventh Century chaptereBook
18 The Ghaznavids and Seljuqs chaptereBook
19 Twelfth-Century Developments in Central Asia chaptereBook
20 The Ghurid Campaigns on the Indian Subcontinent chaptereBook
Bibliography

A Survey of Tibetan History

1 The Empire of the Early Kings of Tibet
2 The Struggle for Religious Survival after the Fall of the Tibetan Empire
3 Tibetan Lamas and Mongol Patrons
4 The Pagmodru, Rinpung, and Tsangpa Hegemonies

The Berzin Archives

The Buddhist Archives of Dr. Alexander Berzin

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