A Thousand Kisses Deep: Love and Relationship on the Buddhist Path (eBook)
Out October 2026
“We gather up our hearts and go / A thousand kisses deep.” — Leonard Cohen
What does it mean to love deeply — without losing ourselves in the process?
A Thousand Kisses Deep is a practical and insightful guide to love, relationship, and emotional growth, blending Buddhist wisdom with the realities of modern partnership. It speaks directly to those navigating connection, conflict, desire, and change.
In Part One, Shantigarbha explores the foundations of love — loving-kindness, compassion, friendship, and the opening of the heart. In Part Two, these insights are brought into intimate relationships, where love becomes a living, evolving practice.
Through themes of self-love, communication, conflict, and loss, this book offers clear guidance for working with the challenges that arise when we come close to another person.
Drawing on Buddhist teachings, lived experience, and nonviolent communication, A Thousand Kisses Deep helps transform reactive patterns into deeper understanding, connection, and care.
Please consider becoming a Friend of Windhorse Publications and receive a copy of this book, and all our future books, as soon as they are published. By becoming a Friend you will also be giving much needed support to independent Dharma publishing!
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Out October 2026
“We gather up our hearts and go / A thousand kisses deep.” — Leonard Cohen
What does it mean to love deeply — without losing ourselves in the process?
A Thousand Kisses Deep is a practical and insightful guide to love, relationship, and emotional growth, blending Buddhist wisdom with the realities of modern partnership. It speaks directly to those navigating connection, conflict, desire, and change.
In Part One, Shantigarbha explores the foundations of love — loving-kindness, compassion, friendship, and the opening of the heart. In Part Two, these insights are brought into intimate relationships, where love becomes a living, evolving practice.
Through themes of self-love, communication, conflict, and loss, this book offers clear guidance for working with the challenges that arise when we come close to another person.
Drawing on Buddhist teachings, lived experience, and nonviolent communication, A Thousand Kisses Deep helps transform reactive patterns into deeper understanding, connection, and care.
Please consider becoming a Friend of Windhorse Publications and receive a copy of this book, and all our future books, as soon as they are published. By becoming a Friend you will also be giving much needed support to independent Dharma publishing!
Endorsements
'It is not enough to understand our interconnectedness: we need to embody that realization in the ways we love and show compassion when needed. A Thousand Kisses Deep provides a truly comprehensive and much-needed overview of the role of love in our spiritual lives.' – David Loy, author of Loving the World as Our Body: The Nondual Path in a Dangerous Time
'A Thousand Kisses Deep weaves Buddhist insight with poetry, story, and science, revealing love as a major pulse of awakening. This is a nourishing, reflective work for anyone – monastic or lay, single or partnered – who wishes to understand how love, in all its faces, can become a path of wisdom and awakening. A worthy read for Buddhists and anyone with an abiding interest in love and the threats to it.' – Christopher Titmuss, author of The Buddha of Love
'From the outset, Shantigarbha invites readers into a conscious relationship with the text, encouraging them to notice their response rather than simply accepting what they read without question. Drawing on lived experience, he weaves Buddhist wisdom, personal vulnerability, poetry, and contemporary psychology into a transformative vision of love, offering teachings that readers can test in their own experience. His reappraisal of "compassion fatigue" merits wide attention.' – Amitaśūrī Yule, NHS Healthcare Chaplain
