Home

Classes

Private Instruction

Resources

natural awareness

relaxed presence, unfabricated, flowing, just as it is,
at ease, unrestrained, abundant, suffuse 

Bays, Jan Chozen
Founder of Great Vow Zen Monastery.
Jizo Bodhisattva: Modern Healing & Traditional Buddhist Practice

Bennet, Holly Morris
Sangha of Two: Eastern Thought, Western Process, Modern Seekers
Combines principles of Buddhism and co-active coaching.

Blumenthal, James
Associate Professor of Buddhist Philosophy at Oregon State University
The Ornament of the Middle Way: A Study of the Madhyamaka Thought of Santaraksita

Carlson, Kyogen
Abbot and godo of Dharma Rain Zen Center in Portland Oregon.
Zen in the American Grain: Discovering The Teachings At Home

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
Nyingma teacher based for many years in Oregon, and founder of Chagdud Gonpa.
Change of Heart: The Bodhisattva Peace Training of Chagdud Tulku
Lord of the Dance: Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama by Tulku Chagdud
Gates to Buddhist Practice: Essential Teachings of a Tibetan Maste

Cox, Collett
Scholar at the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project at the University of Washington.
Disputed Dharmas, Early Buddhist Theories on Existence

Davenport, John T.
Ordinary Wisdom: Sakya Pandita's Treasury of Good Advice.

Deshung Rinpoche
One of the first Tibetan teachers to live in the US, arriving in Seattle in 1960; his niece is Sakya Monastery's H.E. Dagmo Kusho.
The Three Levels of Spiritual Perception: An Oral Commentary on the Three Visions of Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrub

Dewar, Tyler
Translator at Nalandabodhi.
Trainings in Compassion: Manuals on the Meditation of Avalokiteshvara

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Head of Nalandabodhi.
Penetrating Wisdom
Wild Awakening: The Heart of Mahamudra and Dzogchen
Entering The Path: Outer and Inner Refuge
Profound View, Fearless Path: The Life Of The Buddha (audio)
Turning Towards Liberation
Mind Beyond Death

Jackson, David P.
A Saint in Seattle: The Life of the Tibetan Mystic Dezhung Rinpoche
Biography of Dezhung Rinpoche, one of the first Tibetan lamas to live in the United States, with many anecdotes about Buddhism in the Northwest.

Johnson, Charles
Novelist, literary critic, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, essayist and lecturer at the University of Washington.
Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing

Lenz, Timothy
Scholar at University of Washington Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project.
A New Version of the Gandhari Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous-Birth Stories

Magden, Ronald E.
Mukashi Mukashi (Long, Long Ago…): A History of the Seattle Buddhist Church
Buddhism Comes to Seattle, In: More Voices, New Stories: King County, Washington's First 150 Years, edited by Mary C. Wright

McLeod, Grace
Beginning in the 1940s, Grace McLeod and Yuki Miyake of the Seattle Betsuin Temple's Research and Publication Department produced many articles and books, including translations of Rennyo Shonin's letters, as well as curricula for the temple's Dharma School.

O'Connor, Mike
Where the World Does Not Follow: Buddhist China in Picture and Poem
When I Find You Again, It Will Be in Mountains

Perera, Chandra
Sri Lankan-born author and world traveler, now living in Seattle.
Buddha in the Forest

Red Pine, aka Bill Porter
The Diamond Sutra
The Heart Sutra
The Platform Sutra
Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
The Clouds Should Know Me by Now: Buddhist Poet Monks of China
Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma
Taoteching

Salomon, Richard
Scholar at the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project at the University of Washington.
Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara: The British Library Kharosthi Fragments.

Schoening, Jeffrey
Founding director of the Virupa Ecumenical Institute at Sakya Monastery.
The Salistamba Sutra and Its Indian Commentaries
The Religious Structures at Sa-skya (in Reflections on Tibetan Culture, edited by L. Epstein and R. Sherburne

Smith, Rodney
Founding teacher of the Seattle Insight Meditation Society, former head of Seattle hospice.
Lessons from the Dying

Stearns, Cyrus
The Life and Teachings of the Tibetan Saint Thang-stong rgyal-po
The Buddha from Dolpo
Hermit of Go Cliffs: Timeless Instructions from a Tibetan Mystic
Luminous Lives: The Story of the Early Masters of the Lam 'Bras Tradition in Tibet
Taking the Result as the Path: Core Teachings of the Sakya Lamdre Tradition
King of the Empty Plain: The Tibetan Iron-Bridge Builder Tangtong Gyalpo

Suh, Sharon A.
Assistant professor of theology and religious studies at Seattle University.
Being Buddhist in a Christian World: Gender and Community in a Korean American Temple

Thubten Chodron
Open Heart, Clear Mind
Buddhism for Beginners
Working with Anger
Taming the Monkey Mind
Blossoms of the Dharma: Living as a Buddhist Nun
Guided Meditations on the Lamrim, the Gradual Path to Enlightenment (audio)

Unno, Mark
14th generation Shin priest and associate professor at the University of Oregon.
Shingon Refractions: Myoe and the Mantra of Light
Buddhism and Psychotherapy Across Cultures: Essays on Theories and Practices

Whitney, Kobai Scott
Whitney is a Buddhist chaplain working in Washington State prisons and founding member of Paramita House.
Sitting Inside: Buddhist Practice in American Prisons

Wilhelm, Steve
Journalist and board member of Northwest Dharma Association.
Edited Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up by Alan Wallace

Yangsi Rinpoche
Founder of Maitripa Institute in Oregon.
Practicing the Path: A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo

please e-mail additional titles
of Buddhist books by authors
who live in the Pacific Northwest