Books/E-books/Downloads

Here are the published books and e-books written by Adele Tomlin, as well as freely downloadable pdf files of translations of unrestricted sadhanas, commentaries, texts, praises, or transcripts of teachings and so on. For the restricted ones, that require an empowerment or transmission, please send details of which text you are seeking via email.

Hard Copy

Tāranātha’s Commentary on the Heart Sutra: A Word-for Word Analysis and Critical Edition (with foreword by Prof. Matthew Kapstein) (LTWA, 1st Edition, 2018. 2nd Edition, 2023). For more on this book here.

Chariot that Transports to the Four Kāyas by Bamda Geleg Gyatso (with foreword by Dr. Cyrus Stearns) (LTWA, 1st Edition, 2019)

E-Books (free download)

1) Meat is Murder: Compiled Teachings by the 17th Karmapa on Vegetarianism and Eating Animals in Buddhism (Adele Tomlin, 2022)

2) The Karmapas and Karma Kagyu in Lijiang and Yunnan (Adele Tomlin, 2024)

3) Innate Kālacakra: Instructions and Practice (Adele Tomlin)

4) Tales from the Yoni Stone: poetry (Adele Tomlin)

5) Making Her-Story Visible: Female Lineages in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism (Adele Tomlin, 2024)

5) Kālacakra Lineages, Practice and Philosophy: Contemporary Research and Translations (2025)

6)Seven Pointing Outs by Yangonpa and Instructions by 8th Karmapa (17th Karmapa 2024 teachings)

7) Pointing Out the Three Kāyas by 3rd Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, Introductory verses, and commentary by HE 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche (2025)

8) Five-deity Green Tār̥ā practice 1st Karmapa by 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley (Part I and II (2025)

9) Liberation-Story of Atisha, compiled teachings by 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley (2023 and 2025)

10) Four-fold Mandala Offering to Noble Tārā in Karma Kagyu Tradition by 17th Karmapa (Part I and II, 2025)

Translations: Downloadable pdf files

General Aspirations/Songs/Supplications/Praises

• “Radiance of a Thousand Blazing Ruby-Red Suns”: Praise to Red Tārā by 17th Karmapa(February 2025)
• “Sweep the snow off your own head” 1st Karmapa’s oral advice transmitted by 17th Karmapa (Feb 2025)
• Songs of 8th Karmapa to other Great Masters
• Crown Prince of the Land of Snows Praise to 17th Karmapa by Drupon Dechen Rinpoche (2017)

• “SEEING THE FACE OF GURU PADMA” Songs of Determination and Devotion by Yeshe Tsogyel: New translation (with Tibetan and phonetics) of songs by Yeshe Tsogyel

• Alathala Song by 16th Karmapa Prediction and Praise to Tai Situpa

• Short Confession Prayer by Karma Lingpa

• Supplication to the Garland of Karmapas by Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro

• Praises to Mandāravā by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

• Concise Supplication to Nāropa’s Vajrayogini Lineage By Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo ནཱ་རོ་མཁའ་སོད་མའི་བརྒྱུད་འདེབས་བསྡུས་བ་བཞུགས ་སོ༎

• Aspiration for the Prospering of Ultimate Meaning Teachings by Fifteenth Karmapa, Khakhyab Dorje

• Garland of Playful Display: Praises to Vajravārāhı by 1st Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕག་མྡོའི་བསྡོད་པ་རྡོལ་བའི་ཕྗེང་བ་ཞྗེས་བྱ ་བ༎

• Je Milarepa’s Song on the Ten Pāramitās

• Je Milarepa’s Songs to animals and the Hunter: The Khyira Kagyu Lineage

• Je Milarepa’s Song on Animal Suffering and Meat-Eating

• BLISS QUEEN, YESHE TSOGYEL AND VAJRAYOGINĪ: Their connection, supplications and ‘Self-Liberation from Clinging’: Supplication by Terton-Yogini, Tare Lhamo

• A YOGI’S INTENTIONS FULFILLED. By Jetsun Milarepa

• PRAISE TO ACHI CHOKYI DROLMA BY JE JIGTEN SUMGON ཨ་ཕྱི་ཆོས་ཀྱིས་སོལ་མའྱི་བསོད་པ། འཇྱིག་རྟེན་གསུ མ་མགོན

• GREAT CLOUDS OF BLESSINGS: SUPPLICATION THAT MAGNETISES ALL APPEARANCE-EXISTENCE By Ju Mipham Rinpoche

• Swift Rebirth Supplication for Khenchen Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa

Commentaries

The Eight Swirling Spears in Space Gotsangpa Dorje

Condensed Essence of Empty-of-Other by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

Gushing Flood of Melodious, Laughing Praise: Explanation of the Root Mantra of the Lion of Speech, Mañjuśrī by jamyang khyentse wangpo

Praise to Vajrayoginī by lord Atisha རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣ ལ་འབྡོར་མའི་བསྡོད་པ།

Noble Tārā

Noble Tara: Texts in the Jonang Tradition

White Tara daily sadhana with commentary

Kālacakra

Gyalwang Karmapa

Lion-Faced Dakini

Vajrasattva

Collected Works

Transcripts/Research