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Books on the Karma Kagyu Lineage

Life Stories of the Kagyu Masters of the Past

  • The Life of the Mahasiddha Tilopa by Mar-pa Chos-kyi-blo-gros

  • The Life and Teaching of Naropa by Herbert V. Guenther

  • Life of Marpa the Translator by The Nalanda Translation Committee and Chogyam Trungpa

  • Life of Milarepa by Gtsan-Smyon He-Ru-Ka, Lobsang P. Lhalungpa

  • Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa by Gtsan-Smyon He-Ru-Ka, W. Y. Evans-Wentz

  • Drinking the Mountain Stream--Songs of Tibet's Beloved Saint, Milarepa

  • The One Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa

  • Life Story of Gampopa: The Incomparable Dharma Lord of Tibet by Jampa MacKenzie Stewart

  • The History of the Sixteen Karmapas of Tibet by Karma Thinley

  • Karmapa-The Black Hat Lama of Tibet


    History of The Karma Kagyu Lineage

  • Great Kagyu Masters: The Golden Lineage Treasury by Victoria Huckenpahler

  • A Garrland of Gold by Jampa Thaye

  • The Blue Annals by George N. Roerich

    Rogues in Robes
  • Rogues in Robes : An Inside Chronicle of a Recent Chinese-Tibetan Intrigue in the Karma Kagyu Lineage of Diamond Way Buddhism by Tomek Lehnert is now available. "This long awaited 300 page work is an inside chronicle of the recent Chinese-Tibetan intrigue in the Kagyu lineage - the story of the politics involved in finding H.H. the 17th Karmapa, as told by Tomek Lehnert, who travels with Lama Ole 365 days a year. A must-read for everybody interested in the Kagyu politics around the Karmapa and a must-have for every center's library."





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