Thursday, March 15, 2018

READINGS ON TIBET AND TIBETAN BUDDHISM

Ippolito Desideri, Mission to Tibet: The Extraordinary Eigtheenth-Century Account of Father Ippolito Desideri, S. J., translated from the Italian by Michael J. Sweet, edited by Leonard Zwilling (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2010).

Gen Lamrimpa, Realizing Emptiness: Madhyamka Insight Meditation, 2nd ed., translated by B. Alan Wallace edited by Ellen Posman (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2002).

Jeffrey Hopkins, Emptiness Yoga: The Tibetan Middle Way, edited by Joe B. Wilson (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2012).

Jeffrey Hopkins, Meditation on Emptiness, assistant editor Elizabeth Napper (Sommerville, Ma: Wisdom Publications, 1996).

Donald S. Lopez, Jr., & Thupten Jinpa, Dispelling the Darkness: A Jesuit's Quest for the Soul of Tibet (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 2017) (From the book jacket: "Offering a fascinating glimpse into the historical encounter between Christianity and Buddhism, Dispelling the Darkness brings [Ippolito] Desideri's Tibetan writings to readers of English for the first time.").

Elizabeth Napper, Dependent-Arising: A Tibetan Buddhist Interpretation of Madhyamika Philosophy Emphasizing the Compatibility of Emptiness and Conventional Phenomena (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1989, 2003).