KIBI Library & Publications

***NEW: KIBI Library & Publications Website***

KIBI Library & Publications is pleased to announce the launch of its first-ever website. We warmly invite you to explore the new site and make the fullest use of its resources!

The website has been created to better serve all Dharma students by providing various tools for academic researchers and those focusing on meditation practice alike. Beyond a general introduction to the library and publications unit, a database, and publicatios catalogue, the website includes a variety of resources such as links to e-media, research websites, tools, and citation guides.
Additionally, under the "Resource" section, you will find a Sanskrit–Tibetan–English Glossary, which contains all entries included in the glossaries of KIBI Publications’ Karmapa SERIES, among other features.

This is just the beginning—please check back often for new resources and material!
https://kibilp.wixsite.com/kibi-lp

The season has begun: With KIBI’s Public Meditation Course well underway, the upcoming Kagyu Monlam just around the corner, Losar and the two KIBI courses (Foundational & Karmapa Public Course) in line, we are ready to welcome all of you back here!
Today, we were overjoyed to kick off these buzzing months ahead with the release of two new titles in the Karmapa SERIES: A short daily sadhana on White Tara (reprinted from Shangpa Rinpoche’s and Karma Kagyu Buddhist Centre Singapore’s first edition), and a collection of Dharma talks on the why and how of studying Buddhism (see picture descriptions for further details). This was a very special moment, as His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa Thaye Dorje blessed us with presiding over the short release ceremony.
In the name of the entire KIBI Publications & KIBI team, we wholeheartedly thank everyone who supported us in any form in the preparation of these two projects, foremost to Ven. Shangpa Rinpoche, Ms Katharina Stott, Prof. Lara Braitstein, Lopons Lodro Tharchin & Karma Zangpo, Ms Ava Belana Brandt, Lama Kunga Tsering, as well as all other generous contributors.
May the engagement with these two Dharma books swiftly engender the growth of the Three Wisdoms in all readers and practitioners, manifesting in the accomplishment of the state of the Noble Yizhin Khorlo.

KIBI Library says Thank You

Classified as an Anuttara Yoga Ta**ra (Highest Yoga Ta**ra), the Kalachakra Ta**ra plays a key role in all Tibetan Buddhist traditions. It is said that through practicing it, one can arrive at the level of Vajradhara, supreme Buddhahood, within one single lifetime of practice. Hence for all disciples fortunate enough to having gathered all the auspicious conditions, including the indispensable initiations and transmission, even intellectual study of the ta**ra may prove conducive to their understanding and practice.

Therefore, we are deeply grateful to Mr. Niclas Blomberg for his kind offering of the first two volumes of the Kalachakra Ta**ra with translation, annotations, and commentary by Niraj Kumar. May this be of immense benefit, and may all merits accumulated entirely dispel the darkness of ignorance in the minds of sentient beings.

Through the merit gained through this act of generosity, may the sponsor be endowed with auspiciousness and swiftly accomplish the unsurpassable goal!

Catalogue entries: https://catalogue.bibliotheque-dhagpo-kagyu.org/ #/notice/22724 and https://catalogue.bibliotheque-dhagpo-kagyu.org/ #/notice/22724

+++Book launch: Green Tara (Zabtik Drölma) Sadhana+++

It is our great pleasure to announce the release of our latest title in the Karmapa SERIES, which is the Zabtik Drölma Sadhana called "Heart of the Two Accumulations" (zab tig sgrol ma’i cho ga: dgongs gter sgrol ma’i zab tig las – maNDal cho ga tshogs gnyis snying po), as it is practiced on a daily basis in the Karma Kagyü monasteries and centres around the globe.

Beside the text in Tibetan, phonetics, and English translation, the booklet contains various pictures to support the visualization of the practitioner. Moreover, the 21 Homages along with the pictures and names (Sanskrit, Tibetan, Phonetics, English) of all 21 Taras, are included in a handy tear sheet.

We would like to express our deepest gratitude to everyone who has contributed to the publication of this precious practice text. Furthermore, a heartfelt Thank You to Ven. Chime Rinpoche for blessing the book lauch with his presence, as well as to the gathering of Sangha members from Ladakh and KIBI, KIBI staff and students for joining us in this joyful occasion.

May this sadhana bring about immeasurable benefit to limitless beings!

***Release of New Books***

It is our great pleasure to announce the release of two new titles by KIBI Publications: A Rain of Compassion: A Commentary on the 5th Shamarpa’s A Concise Lojong Manual by Ven. Lama Jampa Thaye, with reference to the 14th Kunzik Shamar Rinpoche’s Oral Exposition (see picture description), and KIBI Sunday Lesson, a manual for learning to read Tibetan (in Tibetan). Both books were officially released during KIBI’s Karmapa Public Course 2025 and is now available for order.
May they bring limitless joy & benefit!

***Spanish translation of Living Through Life's Turbulences available*** Con mucho gusto anunciamos que ahora la traduccion castellana esta disponible!
https://marpaediciones.mitiendanube.com/productos/vivir-a-traves-de-las-turbulencias-de-la-vida/

***KIBI to host a new NON-academic Study Program in February***

We are very happy to share that KIBI's study program is being revived. Designed as a three-year program, the first sequence will take place from Feb. 6th-27th, 2025. Here you will get the opportunity to acquire a thorough foundation of Buddhist knowledge in a comparatively short amount of time. We are looking forward to welcome you all back!

The Karmapa International Buddhist Institute, New Delhi, is pleased to announce the commencement date for our New Study Course 2025.

Stay tuned for further details, and we look forward to welcoming aspiring students to this enriching journey of knowledge and spiritual growth.

Losar Tashi Deleg

In this year to come, may we kindly care for one another.
May it be filled with peace, auspiciousness & increasing wisdom!

Warmest wishes for this Wood-Dragon Year,
KIBI Library & Publications

Some Updates from KIBI Library & Publications

December has been a busy month! It began with a particular joyful occasion: Ven. Gendun Rinchen Rinpoche gave us the honour of blessing KIBI Library with his visit*. Exploring our premises with great interest, it is our sincere hope & wish that his visit will lead to a strengthening of the bond between all our libraries, east & west, in order to fulfill our aim of preserving the precious teachings.

As mentioned previously, we then set off for Bodhgaya, were KIBI Publications was present with a stall at Kagyu Monlam office.

This was followed by KIBI’s Public Meditation Course, during which the library served as a place for deepening of one’s studies and the teachings our kind teachers imparted to us. Other participants simply came to enjoy a relaxing dharma read between the sessions, thus filling their leisure time fully in line with the spirit of the course.

Moreover, it is our particular joy that, finally, Soponla’s memoirs of his life “In the service of Two Karmapas”* are now available at KIBI Library! We were extremely lucky to get ahold of the very last two copies available at KIBI shop!

With such a blessed conclusion of the year, we wish you a heartfelt Happy New Year 2024, filled with growth & harmony.

We are looking forward to welcoming you (back) here, or else assist you in your dharma studies through digital means!

A warm Tashi deleg to you all!

*1 Here the link to the full report of Ven. Gendun Rinchen Rinpoche’s visit to KIBI: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0SU8chS7JPHBpesyN69BNmZDwYhBgJF4SnNXM1RoL5eW26BBSz1ZBKDNRePwFYsw6l&id=61554315955212
*2 and to the bibliographical record of Soponla’s memoirs: https://catalogue.bibliotheque-dhagpo-kagyu.org/ #/notice/16604

Greetings from Bodhgaya!

Come visit us & get your copy of our books at Kagyu Monlam Office 😇

A huge Thank You to all who have made this possible last minute 🙏

Release: Mahayana Sojong Sadhana – fully revised & corrected

We are thrilled to inform you that, well in time for KIBI’s Public Meditation Course in December, the Mahayana Sojong Sadhana is now available in a somewhat “final” version! This 7th edition has not only been fully revised and corrected, but also endowed with a fresh layout and design, and is meant to be used unaltered during all upcoming PMCs.
The sadhana in this present form has been compiled according to the instructions of Maniwa Sherab Gyaltsen Rinpoche, and may therefore serve as a standardized practice text for anyone who wishes to practice sojong according to the Karma Kagyu tradition. For more details, follow the link: https://catalogue.bibliotheque-dhagpo-kagyu.org/ #/notice/19891