Books I am currently reading
I am presently focusing on Brothers Karamazov (Pevear's translation), Grains of Gold and Finding Rest in the Nature of Mind. Also I have been studying for quite some time The Beacon of Certainty.
I am also currently reading the following books:
Davis, Norbert
The Mouse in the Mountain
Lingpa, Traktung Dudjom
A Clear Mirror: The Visionary Autobiography of a Tibetan Master
Kafka, Franz
The Trial (annotated)
Koppl, Heidi I.
Establishing Appearances as Divine: Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity
Lingpa, Jigme
Deity Mantra and Wisdom: Development Stage Meditation in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra
McMahan, David L.
The making of Buddhist modernism
Nabokov, Vladimir & Appel, Alfred Jr.
The Annotated Lolita
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
Tarkovsky, Andrey & Hunter-Blair, Kitty
Sculpting in Time: Tarkovsky the Great Russian Filmaker Discusses His Art
Thondup, Tulku
Incarnation: The History and Mysticism of the Tulku Tradition of Tibet
Tolstoi, Leo
The Gospel in Brief (Condren's translation)
Toole, John Kennedy & Percy, Walker
A Confederacy of Dunces
Trungpa, Chogyam
Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness
At some point, I need to check these out:
Adeu, Rinpoche
Freedom in Bondage: The Life and Teachings of Adeu Rinpoche
Aldiss, Brian
Barefoot in the Head
Almeida, Iván & Parodi, Cristina
El Fragmento Infinito. Estudios Sobre “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” De J.L. Borges
Bloch, William Goldbloom
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
Cavell, Stanley
Cavell on Film
Cavell, Stanley
The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy
Dangerfield, Rodney
It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
Davis, Todd F.
Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade: Or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism
Delany, Samuel R.
Babel-17
Devi, Debra
The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu
Dongyal, Khenpo Tsewang
Light of Fearless Indestructible Wisdom: The Life and Legacy of H. H. Dudjom Rinpoche
Gardner, Charles
William Blake, the Man
Irwin, William
Arrested Development and Philosophy: They've Made a Huge Mistake
Ivanhoe, P. J. & Norden, Bryan William van
Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy
Janouch, Gustav
Conversations With Kafka
Lempert, Michael
Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery
Lhundrup Dargye
The Hidden Life of the Sixth Dalai Lama
Lingpa, Pema
The Life and Revelations of Pema Lingpa
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind
Zoglin, Richard
Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America
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A Review of “Gendun Chopel: Tibet's Modern Visionary”
Donald S. Lopez Jr. best book on the tibetan modernist figure.
A Review of the Madhyamaka Course by Alex Trisoglio
Recently, a student of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Alex Trisoglio, presented the internet general public with a course on the Madhyamakavatara by Chandrakirti. Here some words on the course, and a particular discussion I had with Mr. Trisoglio.