Tulku Thondup

The unconditional love that we all long for can be experienced in the practice of loving-kindness. Tulku Thondup introduces a new four-stage format for this practice, rooted in the traditional teachings of Tibetan Buddhism. 

"Tulku Thondup has truly given us a powerful new approach to loving-kindness meditation. Utilizing the peace and joy generated by devotion, we are guided through embodying love, experiencing the whole universe as love, and ultimately realizing loving-kindness free from concept. This book is a rare treasure."

—Sharon Salzberg

Also available in these languages in 2017: Czech and Slovak

Meditation Exercises to Enlighten the Mind and Heal the Body.

This book offers simple meditation techniques to awaken healing energies in the body and mind.

“It can be so empowering for us to understand, even on a conceptual level, that we are enlightened in our true nature.”

― Tulku Thondup

Also available in Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Spanish, and Vietnamese

A Guided Buddhist Meditation (Book and Audio-CD Set)

The best-selling author of The Healing Power of Mind presents Tibetan Buddhist instructions for transforming negative thoughts and feelings into loving-kindness toward all beings.

"Through meditation such as meditation on loving-kindness, we can not only loosen the tightness of grasping and cause greater peace and joy in ourselves, but we can also help ourselves to reach and realize the enlightened nature of our mind. "

- Tulku Thondup

This collection of fifteen articles and talks by Tulku Thondup constitutes a manual on how to transmute the situations encountered in daily life, whether external or internal, into spiritual disciplines and experiences.

Also available in French and Nepali

This book is an invitation to awaken the healing power of mind through inspiring images and sounds, mindful movements, positive perceptions, soothing feelings, trusting confidence, and the realization of openness.

Also available in Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese

Tulku Thondup Rinpoche presents biographies of thirty-five realized teachers who belong to the Longchen Nyingthig lineage of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, a cycle of mystical teachings revealed by the great scholar and adept Jigme Lingpa.

Also available in French and Polish

A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook by Tulku Thondup. Buddhist teachings on facing death with openness and insight. Included with this paperback edition is a special CD of guided instructions by the author.

Also available in Chinese, German, Korean, Nipali, Polish, Vietamese

In his masterful introduction to the body of this work, Tulku Thondup covers the three outer and inner tantras, the three divisions of Atiyoga, Dzogchen, and the other yanas and traditions. He includes excerpts from the exemplary lives of teachers (such as Longchen Rabjam) to illustrate the ways of training in Dzogchen.

Also available in French, German, and Polish

In all religions, sacred texts and objects have appeared miraculously. Among the most remarkable of these revelatory traditions is the terma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.  Here Tulku Thondup Rinpoche tells the story of the terma tradition initiated by Padmasambhava, the ninth-century saint who established Buddhism in Tibet.

This collection of translated writings addresses the issue of engaging in secular life with Buddhist intentions. Combining folktales and poetry, their teachings pieces impart the essence of spirituality in a pithy, direct fashion.

This book of rare photographs of paintings of Guru Rinpoche’s pure land, Zandok Palri, contains a major essay by Tulku Thondup.

A tulku is a fully enlightened one (buddha) or highly accomplished adept (siddha) who chooses to be reborn again and again for the benefit of all beings. This guide to the tulku tradition covers its long history, and provides short biographies of some of the great tulkus of the past and present.

This Tibetan language book is the source that The Heart of Unconditional Love was adapted from.