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Anyen Rinpoche

    Khenpo Anyen Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan master of Dzogchen meditation and a seasoned scholar of the Nyingma and Gelugpa schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He is one of five "heart sons" of his root lama, from whom he received an uncommonly short and unbroken lineage of the Longchen Nyingthig cycle. Rinpoche founded the Orgyen Khamdroling Dharma Center in Denver, which serves as his principal seat in the West, and the Phowa Foundation, dedicated to helping Buddhist practitioners prepare for the moment of death.

    The Tibetan Yoga of Breath: Breathing Practices for Healing the Body and Cultivating Wisdom
    Living and Dying with Confidence
    Stop Biting the Tail You're Chasing
    The Union of Dzogchen and Bodhichitta
    The Guide to Enlightenment
    • 2021

      The Guide to Enlightenment

      • 168 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      In this intimate collection of personal stories and advice, Allison Choying Zangmo and Carolyn Kanjuro team up to reflect on their experiences as lifelong practitioners of Buddhism, their own relationships with their partners who are also their spiritual guides, and the transformative power of the student-teacher relationship. As both students and leaders in their Buddhist communities, Allison and Carolyn possess clear insights into how we can successfully interpret traditional Buddhist understandings of spiritual mentorship for today’s world.

      The Guide to Enlightenment
    • 2018

      Stop Biting the Tail You're Chasing

      • 145 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      How to be free from bondage to your emotions: a practical and powerful Buddhist teaching for training the mind to be content in any circumstance. Are emotions our friends or our enemies? Is it possible to free ourselves from emotional conflict? The Buddhist practice of lojong is a way of letting go of attachment to both “positive” and “negative” emotions and leads to profound insight and compassion, unbounded by our habitual reactions. This book provides a set of tools that you can apply in daily life to gradually relieve your own suffering and extend that relief to everyone you encounter.

      Stop Biting the Tail You're Chasing
    • 2016

      Living and Dying with Confidence

      • 199 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
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      A daily companion for embracing life, preparing for death, and awakening to reality.Anyen Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist master and teacher, and his longtime student and translator Allison Choying Zangmo present ancient and rich teachings on death in a contemporary, accessible manner. Learn how to release your attachments, embrace impermanence, cultivate virtue, and see the world as it really is—one day at a time.Their practical, disciplined timeline encourages step-by-step development of qualities such as lovingkindness, compassion, generosity, and patience. Each day offers a short teaching followed by a specific, concrete exercise to help you reflect on and fully integrate the message.Through vivid and evocative contemplative scenarios and action items, Living and Dying with Confidence brings practice off the cushion and into ordinary life.

      Living and Dying with Confidence
    • 2013

      Heal the body, quiet the mind, and find emotional balance with simple practices from Yantra Yoga Modern science and classic spiritual traditions agree: regulating the breath leads to radiance and wellness of body, mind, and spirit. With the simple teachings and cutting-edge research offered in The Tibetan Yoga of Breath, you can start thriving just by integrating breathwork into your daily practice. Basic Yantra Yoga techniques—also called wind energy training—are the key to achieving this kind of vitality, down to the cellular level. Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo skillfully examine the teachings of Yantra Yoga and Buddhism through the lens of Western medical science. Their wise and accessible instruction reveals practices that are nourishing and transformative, delivering dramatic results—no experience with yoga or Buddhist meditation necessary.

      The Tibetan Yoga of Breath: Breathing Practices for Healing the Body and Cultivating Wisdom
    • 2006

      An illuminating look at key aspects of Tibetan Buddhist practice--of interest to many practitioners--is presented in this practical and interesting book. Through demonstrating the interrelationship of the outer inner and secret teachings and a textual analysis of the words of four renowned Dzogchen yogis, it makes clear that the practice of Bodhichitta is a necessary aspect of every practice within Tibetan Buddhism.Unlike other books that present either the teachings of Bodhichitta or the teachings of Dzogchen as their own system of practice, this book presents them not as complementary practices but as a deconstructed inner and outer  practices which are fundamentally intertwined. Anyen Rinpoche works to create a new generation of holistic practitioners who value the depth found in the entire spectrum of teachings. While Anyen Rinpoche acknowledges the profundity of the Dzogchen teachings, he dispels the myth that they are an effortless path to liberation and rather shows that they are a progressive path that requires diligence, insight, and the compassionate mind of a Bodhisattva. He presents a style of contemplation that combines Dzogchen meditation on the ultimate view with the generation of Bodhichitta, such as has been taught by Nyingmapa yogis throughout the centuries. This book presents the union of Dzogchen and Bodhichitta not only through philosophy and scripture but also through concrete methods for practice.

      The Union of Dzogchen and Bodhichitta