Most courses at Maitripa College will require readings provided as PDF via each courses’ Populi Classroom site, or from the texts listed below. Instructors have provided the following list of books that students will be required to obtain, either by purchase or borrow from a library. The course syllabus is the authoritative source of information, as readings may be changed, and not all courses are listed here. At least one copy of all required books is held in the Course Reserve shelves of the library, available for two-hour, on-site circulation. If additional copies are in our collection, they are available for circulation.

Spring 2026 Course Book List

 

ARP502: Action Research Project

  • coming soon

CS302: Finding Your Voice: Authenticity, Embodiment, and Compassion in Service

  • Makransky, John J. and Paul Condon. 2025. How Compassion Works: A Step-by-Step Guide for Cultivating Well-Being, Love, and Wisdom. Shambhala. JABL

CS304: Spiritual Care in Community Contexts

  • Cadge, Wendy and Shelly Rambo (eds.) 2022. Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction. University of North Carolina Press. JABL
  • Giles, Cheryl and Willa Miller. 2012. The Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work. Wisdom Publications. JABL
  • Makransky, John and Paul Condon. 2024. How Compassion Works: A Step-by-Step Guide to Cultivating Compassion, Love, and Wisdom. Simon & Schuster. JABL
  • Treleaven, David. 2018. Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness. W.W. Norton. JABL
  • Michon, Nathan Jishon and Daniel Clarkson Fisher (eds.) 2016. A Thousand Hands: A Guidebook to Caring for Your Buddhist Community. Sumeru Press. JABL
  • Treleaven, David. 2018. Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing. W.W. Norton. JABL

MDT302: Techniques of Buddhist Meditation: The Medium and Great Scope

  • Makransky, John J. and Paul Condon. 2025. How Compassion Works: A Step-by-Step Guide for Cultivating Well-Being, Love, and Wisdom. Shambhala. JABL
  • Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama XIV and Jefrey Hopkins, trans. 2007. How to See Yourself as You Really Are. Atria Books. JABL
  • Wallace, B. Alan. 2006. The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind. Wisdom Publications. JABL

MDT426: Meditation and Transformation — Lineage, Devotion, and Guru Yoga in the Gelug Tradition

  • PDFs provided in class

PHL302: Foundations and Ethics of Buddhist Thought: The Medium and Great Scope

  • Chödrön, Pema. 2005. No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to The Way of the Bodhisattva. Shambhala. JABL
  • Lhundup Sopa,Geshe and Beth Newman. 2007.  Steps on the Path to Enlightenment: A Commentary on Tsongkhapa’s Lamrim Chenmo. Vol. 3: The Way of the Bodhisattva. Wisdom Publications. JABL
  • Tashi Tsering. 2006. Buddhist Psychology. The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 3. Wisdom Publications. JABL
  • Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama XIV and Jefrey Hopkins, trans. 2007. How to See Yourself as You Really Are. Atria Books. JABL
  • Yangsi, Rinpoche. 2003. Practicing the Path: A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo. Wisdom Publications. JABL

PHL428: Self, Selflessness, and Liberation in Buddhist Auto/Biography

  • Covill, Linda, Ulrike Roesler, and Sarah Shaw (eds.) 2010. Lives Lived, Lives Imagined : Biography in the Buddhist Traditions. Wisdom Publications; in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. JABL
  • Gtsang-smyon He-ru-ka, and Andrew Quintman. 2010. The Life of Milarepa. Penguin Books. JABL (coming soon)

THL432:  The Lives of Holy Objects: Approaching Himalayan Buddhist Images as Art and Presence

  • Landaw, Jonthan and Andy Weber. 1993. Images of Enlightenment: Tibetan Art in Practice. Shambhala. JABL

TIB102: Introduction to Classical Tibetan Language II 

  • Wilson, Joe B. 1991. Translating Buddhism from Tibetan. Snow Lion. JABL