REQUIRED

  • HH the Dalai Lama, Freedom in Exile, Harper Perennial, ISBN 9780060987015

  • Stanley Wolpert, India, University of California Press, ISBN 9780520260320

  • John Powers, Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, 2nd edition, Snow Lion, ISBN 9781559390262

  • Paul Williams, Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations, 2nd edition,
        Routledge, ISBN 9780415356534

  • Tsering Shakya, The Dragon in the Land of Snows, Penguin, ISBN 9780140196153

  • Melvyn Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon, University of California Press,
         ISBN 9780520219519

  • Donald Lopez, Elaborations of Emptiness, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691001883

  • Nagarjuna and Padmakara Translation Group, Letter to a Friend, Snow Lion,
         ISBN 9781559392273

  • Jeffrey Hopkins, The Kalachakra Tantra Rite of Initiation. Wisdom, ISBN 9780861711512

  • Jay L. Garfield, Geshe Ngawang Samten, Ocean of Reasoning, Oxford University Press,
         ISBN 9780195147339

    RECOMMENDED

  • Georges Dreyfus, The Sound of Two Hands Clapping, University of California Press,
          ISBN 9780520232600

  • Guy Newland, Introduction to Emptiness, Snow Lion, ISBN 9781559393324

  • Diana Eck, Benares: City of Light, Columbia University, ISBN 9780231114479