In A Heart as Wide as the World, one of America’s most popular and beloved Buddhist teachers offers encouragement and inspiration for anyone on the spiritual path. In short sections that include many stories and anecdotes drawn from her years as a student and teacher of Buddhist meditation, Sharon Salzberg reveals how our own happiness is found in …

The Hundred Verses of Advice audiobook sample by Shambhala PublicationsShambhala Publications

The first portrait of spiritual luminary Thomas Keating’s remarkable evolution, in the last decades of his life, into a fully realized modern-day Christian mystic.In the first four decades of his life as a Trappist monk, Thomas Keating created a comprehensive, unified psychospiritual pathway leading from healing to holiness and from contemporary ps…

Our modern, Western societal understanding of what happens to a woman when she becomes a mother largely remains uncharted territory. Mothershift offers a supportive, affirming road map to take women through the cascade of identity change and transformation that is motherhood.    Jessie Harrold introduces her “map for your becoming,” a research-base…

For readers of mythology, an original and introspective journey through the life of the Buddha accompanied by 26 beautiful color illustrations and 8 meditations.From longtime Zen teacher and poet John Tarrant comes an original retelling of the foundational myth of Buddhism—the life of the Buddha. Told and retold for centuries, this story holds a sp…

Senior Diamond Approach teacher Dominic Liber in conversation and practice with Shambhala Publications staff.Shambhala Publications

You are about to listen in to a conversation between Leigh Brasington and the entire staff of Shambhala Publications. Leigh is the author of Right Concerntation: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas and is the editor of the newly released The Path of Peace: A Buddhist Guide to Cultivating Loving-Kindness based on talks of his teacher, the Ven Aya Khemma…

In 2016, the Tsadra Foundation sponsored a series of talks on the Treasury of Precious Instructions focusing on Kongtrul and the specifics of the Eight Chariots. Translator and teacher Sarah Harding who has been immersed in this work for decades and has completed several volumes of this work leads it. Also included are Elizabeth Callahan and Achary…

In 2016, the Tsadra Foundation sponsored a series of talks on the Treasury of Precious Instructions focusing on Kongtrul and the specifics of the Eight Chariots. Translator and teacher Sarah Harding who has been immersed in this work for decades and has completed several volumes of this work leads it. Also included are Elizabeth Callahan and Achary…

In 2016, the Tsadra Foundation sponsored a series of talks on the Treasury of Precious Instructions focusing on Kongtrul and the specifics of the Eight Chariots. Translator and teacher Sarah Harding who has been immersed in this work for decades and has completed several volumes of this work leads it. Also included are Elizabeth Callahan and Achary…

In 2016, the Tsadra Foundation sponsored a series of talks on the Treasury of Precious Instructions focusing on Kongtrul and the specifics of the Eight Chariots. Translator and teacher Sarah Harding who has been immersed in this work for decades and has completed several volumes of this work leads it. Also included are Elizabeth Callahan and Achary…

In 2016, the Tsadra Foundation sponsored a series of talks on the Treasury of Precious Instructions focusing on Kongtrul and the specifics of the Eight Chariots. Translator and teacher Sarah Harding who has been immersed in this work for decades and has completed several volumes of this work leads it. Also included are Elizabeth Callahan and Achary…

Francesca Fremantle, who co-translated the Tibetan Book of the Dead with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche wrote Luminous Wisdom, one of the favorite books here at Shambhala Publications and the tens of thousands who read it. Here is a talk where she presents the Tibetan Book of the Dead.Shambhala Publications

The following talk is from Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo’s Course: Living the Dharma: How to Practice Buddhism and Make It Count. We have made this final talk available here as a podcast as we think this is one of the most important, powerful, and clear presentations on the importance of Sangha, or spiritual community, we have ever hear…

This episode is in a series on Jamgon Kongtrul's Treasury of Precious Instructions. In this session, translator Sarah Harding focuses on two connected lineages: the Zhije tradition of Padampa Sangye and Machik Lapdrön’s Chöd. This is an area of Sarah’s expertise, having translated Machik’s Complete Explanation and the volumes on Chöd and Zhije. Her…

In this session, teacher, author, and editor Judy Lief joins Wulstan in a discussion looking at the text and its application in the modern age where issues of gender, ethics, and other topics are the focus.Shambhala Publications

The focus here are the chapters "Diligence" (or Heroic Perseverance), "Meditative Concentration," and the "Wisdom" chapter where he presents emptiness as understood in the Madhyamaka tradition.Shambhala Publications

The talk focuses on the translation of the text itself and how a master translator approaches such a daunting and challenging masterpiece. With a rich background of language expertise, deep knowledge of both Buddhist traditions and Western religion, and, most importantly, extensive involvement in Buddhist practice, Wulstan weaves his own experience…

This episode is the second of five in a series on the 8th centry classic work of Buddhism, Shantideva's Bodhicharyavatara, or the Way of the Bodhisattva. This episode covers more of the text's history as well as the first three chapters.Shambhala Publications

This episode is the first of five in a series on the 8th century classic work of Buddhism, Shantideva's Bodhicharyavatara, or the Way of the Bodhisattva. This episode is an overview of the text, its importance, and its historyShambhala Publications