* The Essentials of Buddhist Meditation *

By Śramaṇa Zhiyi (Chih-i) - (538-597 ce)

Master Zhiyi is the famous Tiantai Mountain meditation master, exegete, and teachings-school founder. His "Essentials of Buddhist Meditation" or "Essentials for Practicing Calming-and-Insight and Dhyana Meditation" is a calming-and-insight (śamatha-vipaśyanā) meditation manual deeply rooted in the early Indian Buddhist meditation tradition. It offers perhaps the most reliable, comprehensive, and practically-useful Buddhist meditation instruction currently available in English.

Translation by Bhikshu Dharmamitra. Includes facing-page source text.

* The Six Dharma Gates to the Sublime *

By Śramaṇa Zhiyi (Chih-i) - (538-597 ce)

This classic, also by Master Zhiyi, serves as an ideal companion volume to The Essentials of Buddhist Meditation. "The Six Dharma Gates to the Sublime" explains the six practices crucial to success in traditional Indian Buddhist breath (ānāpāna) and calming-and-insight (śamatha-vipaśyanā) meditation. Correctly implemented, these six "gates" lead the practitioner to realize the third of the four truths (cessation), of which the "sublimity" referenced in the title is one of the four canonically-described practice aspects.

Translation by Bhikshu Dharmamitra. Includes facing-page source text.

* Nāgārjuna's Guide to the Bodhisattva Path *

By Ārya Nāgārjuna (ca 2nd c.)

Nāgārjuna's Bodhisaṃbhāra Śāstra with Abridged Bhikshu Vasitva Commentary.

"Nāgārjuna's Guide to the Bodhisattva Path" is Nāgārjuna's Bodhisaṃbhāra Śāstra ("Treatise on the Provisions for Path to Enlightenment"). It describes the essential prerequisites for the complete enlightenment of a buddha. It is accompanied here by an abridged version of its only commentary, originally written by the early Indian Bhikshu Vaśitva.

Translation, abridgement, and notes by Bhikshu Dharmamitra. Includes facing-page source text.

* The Bodhisaṃbhāra Treatise Commentary *

By the early Indian monk, Bhikshu Vaśitva (ca 300-500 ce)

"The Bodhisaṃbhāra Treatise Commentary" is a very detailed commentary on the meaning of each stanza comprising Ārya Nāgārjuna's Treatise on the Provisions for the Path to Enlightenment. It is the only extant traditional commentary on this important work by Nāgārjuna.

Translation and clarifying notes by Bhikshu Dharmamitra. Includes facing-page source text.

* Nāgārjuna on the Six Perfections *

By Ārya Nāgārjuna

"Nāgārjuna on the Six Perfections" is is a translation of chapters 17-30 of Ārya Nāgārjuna's Exegesis on the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra, a free-standing section exclusively devoted to analyzing and explaining the bodhisattva's six perfections. Nāgārjuna sets forth stories, analogies, and analyses as he discourses on the six primary practices forming the core of the Bodhisattva Path.

Translation by Bhikshu Dharmamitra. Includes facing-page source text.

* A Strand of Dharma Jewels *

By Ārya Nāgārjuna

"A Strand of Dharma Jewels" is Tripitaka Master Paramartha's earliest (ca 550 ce) complete edition of Nāgārjuna's Ratnāvalī, a 500-stanza treatise on the Bodhisattva Path presented in the form of a spiritual advisor's letter to an Indian King. In it, Nāgārjuna presents both abstruse teachings and practical advice to lay and monastic practitioners.

Translation by Bhikshu Dharmamitra. Includes facing-page source text.

* Letter from a Friend *
"Letter from a Friend" consists of the Three Earliest Editions of Nāgārjuna's Suhṛllekha, Nāgārjuna's spiritual counsel to an Indian monarch.

By Ārya Nāgārjuna

As translated by Tripitaka Master Guṇavarman      (ca 425)
As translated by Tripitaka Master Saṃghavarman   (ca 450)
As translated by Tripitaka Master Yijing               (ca 675)

English translations with notes by Bhikshu Dharmamitra. Includes facing-page source text.

* Marvelous Stories from the Perfection of Wisdom *

As told by Ārya Nāgārjuna

"Marvelous Stories from the Perfection of Wisdom" consists of 130 stories and short Dharma anecdotes selected from Nāgārjuna's immense commentary on the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra. Each story is "framed" by the inclusion of Nāgārjuna's introductory  and summarizing Dharma discussions.

Translation by Bhikshu Dharmamitra. Includes facing-page source text.

* On Generating the Resolve to Become a Buddha *
"On Generating the Resolve to Become a Buddha," three works on bodhicitta:

By Ārya Nāgārjuna, Patriarch Sheng'an Shixian, and the Tang-Dynasty literatus, Peixiu.

--On Generating the Resolve to Become a Buddha. By Ārya Nāgārjuna. (Ch. 6 of The Ten Grounds Vibhāṣā)

--Exhortation to Resolve on Buddhahood. By Dhyana Master Sheng'an Shixian. (1686-1734)

--Exhortation to Resolve on Buddhahood. By the Tang Dynasty literatus, Peixiu.  (797-870)

Translations by Bhikshu Dharmamitra. Includes facing-page source text. 

* Vasubandhu's Treatise on the Bodhisattva Vow *

By Vasubandhu Bodhisattva (ca 300)

"Vasubandhu's Treatise on the Bodhisattva Vow" is Vasubandhu's treatise on the The Sutra on Generating the Resolve to Become a Buddha in which Vasubandhu discourses on the causality behind the origination of the bodhisattva vow (bodhicitta) and on the six perfections through which it reaches fruition.

Translation by Bhikshu Dharmamitra. Includes facing-page source text. 

* The Bodhisattva's Practice of Moral Virtue *  New !!!   (07/01/2024)
"The Bodhisattva's Practice of Moral Virtue" consists of the Bodhisattva's Moral Code, It's Recitation Ceremony, and Nāgārjuna's Synopsis of the Nature and Practice of the Bodhisattva's Perfection of Moral Virtue.

--The Brahma's Net Sutra Bodhisattva Precepts

--The Semimonthly Bodhisattva Precepts Recitation Ceremony

--Nāgārjuna on the Perfection of Moral Virtue

Translations by Bhikshu Dharmamitra. Includes facing-page source text.