Bön and Zhang Zhung

Major titles are highlighted, others contain short essays or interesting discussions

Note: This list is neither up to date nor complete. It simply shows the works in my library that I have read and used in preparing these pages.

  1. Bellezza, John Vincent. Divine Dyads: Ancient Civilisation in Tibet (the 'Zhang Zhung' civilisation). Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA), 1997
  2. Bru-sGom rGyal-ba g.Yung-Drung. Stages of A-Krid Meditation: Dzogchen Practices of the Bön Tradition. [Trans. Per Kvaerne and Thupten K. Rikey] LTWA, 1996.
  3. Campbell, June. Traveller in Space: In Search of Female Identity in Tibetan Buddhism. New York: Braziller, 1996.
  4. Guard, Richard (ed.). The Twelve Deeds: A Brief Life Story of Tonpa Shenrab, the Founder of the Bon Tradition. Dharmsala: LTWA, 1995.
  5. Kværne, Per. The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 1995.
  6. Namdak, Lopon Tenzin. Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen's Heart Drops of the Dharmakaya: Dzogchen Practice of the Bön Tradition. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1993.
  7. Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Rene de. Oracles and Demons of Tibet. Kathmandu, Nepal: Tiwari, 1993.
  8. Norbu, Namkhai. Drung, Deu & Bön: Narrations, Symbolic Languages, and the Bon tradition in Ancient Tibet. Dharamsala: LTWA, 1995.
  9. Norbu, Namkhai. The Necklace of Gzi: A Cultural History of Tibet. Dharamsala, India: IOHH, 1981
  10. Orofino, Giacomella. Sacred Tibetan Teachings on Death and Dying. Dorset: Prism Press, 1990.
  11. Rossi, Donatella. The Philosophical View of the Great Perfection in the Tibetan Bon Religion. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 1999.
  12. Snellgrove, David L. (ed./trans.). The Nine Ways of Bön (1967). Boulder: Prajna Press, 1980.
  13. Snellgrove, David L. Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists and their Tibetan Successors. London: Serindia, 1987.
  14. Tucci, Giuseppe. The Religions of Tibet. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970. Reprint. 1980.
  15. Wangyal, Tenzin. Wonders of the Natural Mind: The Essence of Dzogchen in the Native Bon Tradition of Tibet. Barrytown, New York: Station Hill, 1993.
  16. Wangyal, Tenzin. Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 1998.