Inkwell Press

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Translation, commentary, poetry, fiction, and memoir — the full range of Buddhist literary expression.

The Lamp of Clear Light
Translation

The Lamp of Clear Light: Mahamudra Teachings from the Kagyü Tradition

Tr. Dr. Eleanor Whitmore

A landmark translation of the complete Mahamudra transmission texts of the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje, rendered into English with extensive scholarly notes and oral commentary from Rumtek Monastery.

Himalayan Letters
Memoir

Himalayan Letters: A Season at Kopan Monastery

Margaret Finlay-Ross

A Scottish schoolteacher arrives at Kopan Monastery outside Kathmandu expecting a quiet retreat and finds herself drawn into a year that will reshape everything she thought she knew about mind and world.

Songs of Milarepa
Translation

Songs of Milarepa: A Verse Translation

Tr. James Forsythe-Webb

The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa rendered in fresh contemporary verse, preserving the lyric power and doctrinal precision of Tibet's most beloved poet-saint. With an introduction on the doha tradition.

The River and the Raft
Fiction

The River and the Raft: Stories of the Tibetan Diaspora

Karma Yangchen Lhamo

Nine interconnected stories following Tibetan refugees from Lhasa to London, Dharamsala to Toronto — a tapestry of survival, memory, and the impossible weight of a culture carried in exile.

Dependent Origination
Commentary

Dependent Origination: A Commentary on Candrakirti's Madhyamakavatara

Dr. Rupert H. Sanderson

A rigorous philosophical commentary drawing on the Gelug tradition's living oral commentary lineage. Sanderson navigates the most contested passages in Candrakirti's masterwork with unusual clarity and care.

Night Flowers
Poetry

Night Flowers: Poems from a Chan Hermitage

Tr. Dr. Fiona Acheson

Selected poems from three Tang and Song dynasty Chan masters — Hanshan, Shide, and the lesser-known Puyuan — translated with an emphasis on their spare, paradoxical beauty rather than doctrinal interpretation.

The Hidden Life of Pema Lingpa
Translation

The Hidden Life of Pema Lingpa: A Sacred Biography

Tr. Samten Gyatso with Nicholas Brown

The first complete English translation of the terma biography of Bhutan's most revered treasure-revealer, Pema Lingpa (1450–1521), drawing on four manuscript traditions from the Royal Library of Bhutan.

Between Two Silences
Memoir

Between Two Silences: A Memoir of Zen Practice

Catherine Drummond

Twenty years of sesshin practice distilled into a frank, unsentimental, and deeply moving account of what it means to sit with oneself — through marriage, illness, the death of a child, and the strange continuity of the breath.

The Treasury of Precious Qualities
Commentary

The Treasury of Precious Qualities: Selected Chapters

Jigme Lingpa; Tr. Dr. Alastair MacPherson

A new translation of four pivotal chapters from Jigme Lingpa's Nyingma masterwork on the path to liberation, accompanied by excerpts from Kangyur Rinpoche's oral commentary and Dr. MacPherson's extensive notes.

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