Twenty-Eight Sets of Eleven Contemplative Beads of Divine Inquiry, bringing into play the recurrent use of the word Light. This book is for the seeker and the disciple alike. It is both a contemplative mode of self-inquiry and a mantra-like medium of thought for the meditative mind. Would that the Light of the Soul indirectly invoked within these brief indagative queries awaken in the reader the dispassion, discrimination and dhyanic discipline needed for a life of conscious work and enlightened service to the all of humanity. **This book is an Award-Winning Finalist at the National Best Books Awards for 2009, in the Spirituality/Inspirational category. The National Best Books 2009 Awards is sponsored by USA Book News, and tailors to a variety of mainstream and independent publishing houses**

In today's tumultuous age photography has become a pervasive pursuit. Everywhere you look everyone seems to have a camera and everyone seems to be taking passionate photos on favourite themes, selected subjects and preferred people, who personally spark their wide-eyed interest. As with anything in life, the importance is not in the accomplishment of what photography can do (for you), but rather in the love which you bring to the art of photography. The transformative photographer must approach his subject with a comprehensive, evolutionary, detached but warm love, coupled with humour and an ability to leave things unaltered and fundamentally free.

Consciously claim your natural heritage which is your life through these photographs and sensitise yourself to this wonderful world and beautiful planet. This title is an award-winning finalist in the General Photography category of the National Best Books 2008 Awards, sponsored by "USA Book News".

This award-winning book was streamlined to accommodate a child's perspective. The child is given highly imaginative techniques that allow him or her to experiment with a friendly companion called the Light. In an easy-to-follow recitative style with a pictorial format, the book helps all kids to unearth a veritable wealth of kindly benefits, and to uncover the spontaneous joys that naturally accompany such an imaginative approach to creative contemplation. A CD is included; appropriate for children five to twelve years of age.

This book is an essential guide on the often perilous path to self-transformation. B. Simhananda invites the reader to explore one's inherent potential, through an exceptional and groundbreaking study of Gampopa's famous twelfth-century Buddhist classical works. Let your mind be inspired and your soul stirred through this impeccably written masterpiece. Divided in two sections, one part presents the author's modern liberal rendition of Gampopa's Root Text, and the other, in complete alignment with Tibetan tradition, remains the author's own contemporary commentaries on the mentioned work, helping the reader to extend his comprehension of the various topics. Readers of Buddhist literature and philosophy will appreciate "Gampopa's Precious Garland" in a new mode of understanding and in today's contemporary style of written expression. Once again, B. Simhananda offers us, in a modernized way, an interpretation of his profound understanding of Gampopa's teachings.

This book renders golden homage to the esteemed 12th century Tibetan master and teacher Gampopa. B Simhananda. It offers the reader an in-depth contemporary rendition of Gampopa's original book, which has inspired within the last nine centuries thousands of Vajrayana, or Essence Mahamudra, practitioners. In his astute contemplative commentaries, the author has consistently kept true to the spirit of Gampopa's treasured work, which over the ages, has proven to be an essential study companion for all students on the arduous climb to the peak of illumination and ultimate clarity. All things being subject to cyclic recurrence, this remarkably modern rendition of the small Gampopa masterpiece is once more proving to be an indispensable tool on the progressive path to freedom. It is spiritually bound to touch the heart and clarify the mind of the present-day generation of erstwhile disciples, irrespective of the preferred dharma-vehicle chosen, or deity espoused.

A stunning photographic journey that unveils the changing face of Buddhism throughout the ages. Each photograph that composes this remarkable work of art, is accompanied by a profound thought, translated in three languages (English, French, Italian). Through his superb images and his renowned penmanship, Simhananda leads us on an unedited discovery of the universe of the Buddha.