Shambhala Publications

Shambhala Publications is an independent publishing company based in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1969, it specializes in “books that present creative and conscious ways of transforming the individual, the society, and the planet.” Tsadra Foundation has sponsored the translation of a number of books with Padmakara Translation Group published by Shambhala in the list here.

Sponsorship of Translation

• Treasury of Precious Qualities, Book 1, Jigme Lingpa, commentary by Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kangyur Rinpoche (trans. Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher)
• Counsels from My Heart, Dudjom Rinpoche (Padmakara Translation Group: Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher)
• Introduction to the Middle Way, Chandrakirti, commentary by Jamgön Mipham (Padmakara Translation Group: Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher)
• The Adornment of the Middle Way, Shantarakshita, commentary by Jamgön Mipham (Padmakara Translation Group: Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher)
• Food of Bodhisattvas: Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat, Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol (Padmakara Translation Group: Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher)
• The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most, Padampa Sangye, commentary by Dilgo Khyentse (Padmakara Translation Group: John Canti) (partial sponsorship)
• The Way of the Bodhisattva, Shantideva (rev. ed.) (Padmakara Translation Group: Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher)
• The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva, Gyalse Thogme, commentary by Dilgo Khyentse (Padmakara Translation Group: John Canti)
• Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech: A Detailed Commentary on Shantideva’s “Way of the Bodhisattva,” Kunzang Pelden (Padmakara Translation Group: Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher)
• White Lotus: An Explanation of the Seven-line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava, Jamgön Mipham (Padmakara Translation Group: Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletche)
• A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom: Complete Instructions on the Preliminary Practices, Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje (Padmakara Translation Group: Stephen Gethin)
• Treasury of Precious Qualities, Book 2, Vajrayana and the Great Perfection, Jigme Lingpa, commentary by Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kangyur Rinpoche (Padmakara Translation Group: Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher
• A Garland of Views: A Guide to View, Meditation, and Result in the Nine Vehicles, by Padmasambhava, Jamgon Mipham, (Padmakara Translation Group: Stephen Gethin)
• The Root Stanzas of the Middle Way, by Nagarjuna (Padmakara Translation Group: Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher)
• The Wisdom Chapter, by Jamgön Mipham (Padmakara Translation Group: Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher)
• The Trilogy of Rest, Volumes 1, 2, and 3, by Longchenpa (Padmakara Translation Group: Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher)
• A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle: An Explanation of the Ornament of the Mahāyāna Sūtras (Padmakara Translation Group: Stephen Gethin), 2018.
• Finding Rest in the Nature of Illusion, The Trilogy of Rest, Volume 3, by Longchenpa (Padmakara Translation Group: Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher), 2019.
• The Emanated Scriptures of Manjushri, Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol (Sean Price), 2020.
• A Chariot to Freedom: Guidance from the Great Masters on the Vajrayana Preliminary Practices by Shechen Gyaltsap (Padmakara Translation Group: Stephen Gethin), 2022.
• The Precious Treasury of the Fundamental Nature by Longchenpa, with commentary by Khangsar Tenpa’i Wangchuk (Padmakara Translation Group: Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher), 2022.

Forthcoming

• Precious Treasury of the Dharmadhātu (chos dbyings rin po che’i mdzod of Longchenpa) with Khenpo Khangsar Tenpai Wangchuk commentary (Padmakara Translation Group: Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher)
• The Light of Wisdom, the commentary on sems nyid rang grol gyi rgyud in Volume 4 of Khenpo Khangsar Tenpai Wangchuk’s Collected Works (Padmakara Translation Group: Stephen Gethin)