Public Translations

Bodhisattva Vow & Practice. This new booklet includes the liturgy for the actual vow ceremony, the Morning Liturgy for Mahayana Students, the Friendliness Sutta, lojong slogans, and Forty-Six Ways in Which a Bodhisattva Fails.

  • Bodhisattva Vow & Practice, 20 pp., US/CDN $13.00


The Daily Chant Book
consists of all the morning, evening, and meal chants used at our centers. Our current edition includes a number of new chants that have been written for us since 1990. In addition to the basic chant book, there are several sets of additional chants that can be added to this: five precepts, vajrayana chants, and the Shambhala Chant Book.

  • Daily Chant Book: all basic chants, 60 pp. with cover (1998 ed.), US $30 / CDN $35
    • basic chants without cover, US/CDN $24
    • cover only US/CDN $15
    • new chants added (1990-94), 14 pp., US/CDN $5
    • new chants added (1996), 6 pp., US/CDN $3
    • Ritual for Taking the Five Precepts, US/CDN $1.00
    • Shambhala Lineage Supplication (2005), US/CDN $1.75

       


Gesar of Ling Windhorse Banner was designed and composed by Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche as a special invocation of Gesar. The Vidyadhara chose this as a unique shrine object, which he kept on the wall above the Shambhala shrine at The Kalapa Court. It can be personalized for the owner by inserting one's name, in supplication of increasing one's windhorse. A translation of Mipham Rinpoche's composition is included.

  • Gesar Windhorse Banner, approx. 28" x 42" plus 4 pennants, US/CDN $220


Intensifying Devotion in One's Heart: The Supplication "Crying to the
Gurus from Afar,"
by Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thaye. A very well-known supplication, originally published in Journey Without Goal by Chögyam Trungpa.

  • Intensifying Devotion in One's Heart: The Supplication "Crying to the
    Gurus from Afar"
    , 16 pp., US/CDN $9

Lojong Slogan Cards & Poster. This third edition of our translation of the Kadam lineage slogans, entitled The Seven Points of Training the Mind, was revised in 1993 for the publication of the Vidyadhara's commentary on them, Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness.

The lojong cards are an attractive package of 4" x 6" cards printed in two colors. They are the same size as the book and are labelled with their point and slogan number, for the convenience of study.

The lojong poster is also printed in two colors, completed revised and recalligraphed by Barbara Bash, suitable for framing and display. It includes highlights from the presentation of these teachings made by the Vidyadhara at the 1979 Vajradhatu Seminary.

  • Lojong slogan cards, 61 cards, US $16.95 / CDN $22
  • Lojong poster, 14" x 30", US $16.95 / CDN $22


A Course on View: The Two Truths in the Three Yanas and The Mahayana Philosophical Traditions
was presented at RMDC in 1991 by Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso during his first mahamudra intensive. This draft translation has been used in the Ngedön School curriculum.

  • A Course on View, 236 pp., US/CDN $35


The Life of Marpa the Translator
- available from Shambhala Publications

The Life of Tilopa is a traditional biography by the great Drukpa Kagyü master Pema Karpo. This was originally prepared for use in the Ngedön School. Our third edition (2008) includes a detailed introduction, "The Song of Tilopa," the famed "Mahamudra Upadesha," and a lengthy glossary of important terms.

  • The Life of Tilopa, 66 pp. (3rd ed., 2008), US/CDN $15


Monastic Liturgies developed for use at Gampo Abbey are available for the ordained sangha. (Available from NTC only.)

  • The Rites of Poshadha (Sojong), 39 pp. US/CDN $15
  • The Abbreviated Rites of Poshadha (Sojong), 26 pp., US/CDN $11
  • Summer Retreat (Yarne) Liturgies, 46 pp., US /CDN $17