Meditation Book Recommendations
WBC Course Source Meditation Books
The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma Book Series by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
The Path of Individual Liberation (volume 1)
The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion (volume 2)
The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness (volume 3)
Recommended Readings for Trungpa Rinpoche’s Transmission of Buddhist Teachings
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche – Introductory
1. Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
2. The Myth of Freedom, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
3. Meditation in Action, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
4. Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
5. Training the Mind, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
6. The Path is the Goal, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
7. The Heart of the Buddha, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
8. Glimpses of Mahayana, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
9. Born in Tibet, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
10. First thought, Best thought, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
11. Timely Rain: Selected Poetry of Chögyam Trungpa, Edited by David Rome
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche – Advanced
12. Great Eastern Sun: the Wisdom of Shambhala, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
13. Smile at Fear, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
14. Dharma Art, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
15. Visual Dharma: the Buddhist Art of Tibet, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
16. The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Chögyam Trungpa and Francesca Freemantle
17. Journey without Goal, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
18. Crazy Wisdom, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
19. Illusion’s Game, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
20. Orderly Chaos, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
21. The Lion’s Roar, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
22. Transcending Madness, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
23. The Dawn of Tantra, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
24. Mudra, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Pema Chödrön
25. How to Meditate, Pema Chödrön
26. The Wisdom of no Escape, Pema Chödrön
27. When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chödrön
28. Start Where You Are, Pema Chödrön
29. The Places that Scare You, Pema Chödrön
Other Relevant Writings
30. Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Suzuki Roshi
31. Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso
32. Indestructible Truth, Reggie Ray
33. Secret of the Vajra World: The Tantric Buddhism of Tibet, Reginald Rey
34. Luminous Emptiness, Francesca Fremantle
35. Mind beyond Death, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
36. The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, Gampopa, Translated by Khenpo Konchok
37. The Heart Essence of the Enlightened Ones, Dilgo Khyentse, Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group
38. Buddha in the Palm of your Hand, Osel Tenzin
39. Making Friends with Death, Judith Lief
40. Arousing Bodhicitta, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
41.Being Human, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
42. Crooked Cucumber, David Chadwick
43. The Awakened One: A Life of the Buddha, Sherab Chodzin Kohn
44. How To Practice Shamatha Meditation: The Cultivation Of Meditative Quiescence Gen Lamrimpa, B. Alan Wallace
45. Words of My Perfect Teacher by Patrul Rinpoche, and its wonderful commentary
46. A Guide to The Words of My Perfect Teacher by Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang
47. Blazing Splendor by Tulku Urgyen
48. Rainbow Painting by Tulku Urgyen
49. Freedom in Bondage by Adeu Rinpoche
50. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche.
Lineage
51. The Life of Marpa the Translator, Tsang Nyon Heruka, Translated by the Nalanda Translation Committee
52. The Life and Teaching of Naropa, Rinchen Namgyal, Translated by Herbert V. Guenther
53. The Life of Milarepa, Tsang Nyon Heruka, Translated by Lobsang Lhalungpa
54. The Rain of Wisdom: The Essence of the Ocean of True Meaning, the Vajra Songs of the Kagyu Gurus, Translated by the Nalanda Translation Committee
55. The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, Translated by Garma C. C. Chang