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BOOK LIST

PREPARATORY STUDIES

COLLECTED TOPICS

1. Debate in Tibetan Buddhism by Daniel E. Perdue – Snow Lion Publications
2. Knowing, Naming &  Negation by Anne Carolyn Klein – Snow Lion Publication 

AWARENESS & KNOWLEDGE

1. Mind in Tibetan Buddhism by Lati Rinpoche and Elizabeth Napper – Snow Lion Publications.
2. Buddhist Psychology by Geshe Tashi Tsering – Wisdom Publications

TENETS

1. Cutting through appearances by Jeffrey Hopkins – Snow Lion Publications.
2. Maps of the profound by Jeffrey Hopkins – Snow Lion Publications.
3. Buddhist Philosophy by Daniel Cozort and Craig Preston – Snow Lion Publications.
4. Appearance and Reality by Guy Newland – Snow Lion Publications.

ESSENTIAL REFERENCES

• Meditation on Emptiness by Jeffrey Hopkins - Snow Lion Publications.
• The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment / Lam Rim Chenmo by Lama Tsongkhapa, Vols. I, II, & III – Snow Lion Publications

ORNAMENT for CLEAR REALIZATIONS

Abhisamayalamkara by Maitreya

Download PDF of Ornament in Tibetan (mngon rtogs rgyan - input in Mac Pages by Marta Saro).

Download PDF of Introduction & Chapter 1 of Ornament with Gyaltseb Je's Outlines & chapter headings (English translation by Instituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy, 1998).

1.  Ornament for Clear Realization by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche – Zhyisil Chokyi Ghatsal Trust Publications. 
2. Bodhicitta by Ven. Lobsang Gyatso – Snow Lion Publications.
3. The Awakening Mind by Geshe Tashi Tsering – Wisdom Publications.
4. The Two Truths by Guy Newland – Snow Lion Publications.
5. Relative Truth, Ultimate Truth by Geshe Tashi Tsering – Wisdom Publications.
6. Knowledge and Liberation by Ann Carolyn Klein – Snow Lion Publications.