📚 Tibetan Buddhism

The diamond vehicle on the plateau: the lineage books, the practice manuals, and the exile literature.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject tibetan buddhism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Mūlamadhyamakakārikā	Nāgārjuna	1970	7
	Kun bzaṅ bla maʾi źal luṅ	O-rgyan-ʼjigs-med-chos-kyi-dbaṅ-po Dpal-sprul	1989	6
	Dzogchen	His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama	2000	6
	Journey into consciousness	Charles Breaux	1989	5
	Avec les lamas tibétains	Paul Arnold	1970	3
	Raṅ bźin rdzogs pa chen poʾi raṅ źal mṅon du byed paʾi gdams pa zab gsaṅ sñin po	Bdud-ʼjoms-gliṅ-pa Gter-ston	1994	3
	The three levels of spiritual perception	Kun-dgaʼ-bstan-paʼi-ñi-ma Sde-gźun Luṅ-rig Sprul-sku	1995	3
	The voice that remembers	Adhe Tapontsang	1999	3
	Songs of spiritual experience	Thupten Jinpa	2000	3
	The Lhasa atlas	Amund Sinding-Larsen	2001	3
	Buddhism	Clive Erricker	2001	3
	The Svatantrika-Prasangika distinction	Georges B. J. Dreyfus	2002	3
	Conseils du Dalaï-lama et de ses maîtres pour être heureux	His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama	2010	3
	Kindly bent to ease us	Kloṅ-chen-pa Dri-med-ʼod-zer	1975	2
	Buddhism in the Tibetan tradition	Kelsang Gyatso	1988	2
	A handful of flowers	Rin-chen-rnam-rgyal Sgra-tshad-pa	1996	2
	The stages of A-khrid meditation	Bru-sgom Rgyal-ba-gʼyung-drung	1996	2
	The Book of Tibetan Elders	Sandy Johnson	1997	2
	Female Buddhas	Glenn H. Mullin	2002	2
	Spectrum of ecstasy	Chögyam Ngakpa	2003	2
	The treatise on the elucidation of the knowable	Charles Willemen	2004	2
	A marvelous garland of rare gems	ʼJam-dbyaṅs-rdo-rje Smyo-śul Mkhan-po.	2005	2
	The hundred verses of advice	Dilgo Khyentse	2005	2
	Opening to our primordial nature	Palden Sherab Khenchen	2006	2
	Calm and Clear	ʾJam-mgou ʾJu Mi-pham-rgya-mtsho	1973	1
	Mgon po Ma niṅ nag poʼi chos skor	Rdo-rje-gliṅ-pa Gter-ston.	1974	1
	Buddhism in the Tibetan Tradition	Kelsang Gyatso	1988	1
	The Teacher: Eleven Aspects of the Guru Rinpoche (The Salamander Series : No 1)	Pomegranate Publishers	1993	1
	Life and Teachings of Tsong Khapa	Robert A.F. Thurman	1993	1
	The Tibetan Book of the Dead	Stephen Hodge	2000	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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