Buddhism category: 3907 books
The Science of Chinese Buddhism
Early Twentieth-Century Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Kexue, or science, captured the Chinese imagination in the early twentieth century, promising new knowledge about the world and a dynamic path to prosperity. Chinese Buddhists embraced scientific language and ideas to carve out a place for their religion within a rapidly modernizing society.
Examining...
Theravada Buddhism
A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Written by the leading authority on Theravada Buddhism, this up-dated edition takes into account recent research to include the controversies over the date of the Buddha and current social and political developments in Sri Lanka. Gombrich explores the legacy of the Buddha's predecessors and the social...
by Sangharakshita
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Imagine a world without beauty, myth, celebration or ritual. It seems that to feel fully and vibrantly alive, these experiences are essential to us. Devotional ritual speaks this language of the heart, but can be a confronting aspect of Buddhism for some people in the West. Skilfully steering us through...
by Pascale Engelmajer
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
In Buddhism: All That Matters, Dr Engelmajer gives us a glimpse of what being a Buddhist in today's world entails, and how this links back to the historical and doctrinal development of the many Buddhist traditions extant today.
The narrative follows the religious lives of four fictional characters,...
The Ecstasy of Enlightenment
Teaching of Natural Tantra
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
The Ecstasy of Enlightenment is an inside look at the spiritual world of Tantra--one of themost sophisticated, alluring, and controversial forms of Buddhism. Cleary unlocks the mysteries of the Carya-Giti, a collections of teachings by more than twenty famous Siddhas, or Tantric adepts, who lived during...
Buddhism for Dudes
A Jarhead's Field Guide to Mindfulness
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A tough former Marine leads Buddhist basic training for the average Joe.
In Buddhism for Dudes, Gerry “Strib” Stribling, former Marine and all-around good guy, answers questions on life and living with a healthy dose of Buddhist wisdom for the regular guy. Strib takes a good look at who...
The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized
Buddhism Naturalized
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Can there be a Buddhism without karma, nirvana, and reincarnation that is compatible with the rest of knowledge?
Engaging Buddhism
Why It Matters to Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
This is a book for scholars of Western philosophy who wish to engage with Buddhist philosophy, or who simply want to extend their philosophical horizons. It is also a book for scholars of Buddhist studies who want to see how Buddhist theory articulates with contemporary philosophy. Engaging Buddhism:...
Living Buddhism
Mind, Self, and Emotion in a Thai Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In Living Buddhism, Julia Cassaniti explores Buddhist ideas of impermanence, nonattachment, and intention as they are translated into everyday practice in contemporary Thailand. Although most lay people find these philosophical concepts difficult to grasp, Cassaniti shows that people do in fact make...
Buddhism and Postmodern Imaginings in Thailand
The Religiosity of Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book presents a rethink on the significance of Thai Buddhism in an increasingly complex and changing post-modern urban context, especially following the financial crisis of 1997. Defining the cultural nature of Thai ’urbanity’; the implications for local/global flows, interactions and emergent...
Buton's History of Buddhism in India and Its Spread to Tibet
A Treasury of Priceless Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
This fourteenth-century Tibetan classic serves as an excellent introduction to basic Buddhism as practiced throughout India and Tibet and describes the process of entering the Buddhist path through study and reflection.
It begins with setting forth the structure of Buddhist education and the...
by Michelle Dujardin, Willem Radder
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014
This eBook called 'The Zen drawing eBook' is the original electronic version of 'the Zen drawing Pack' by Michelle Dujardin, which was published as a hardcover book by Rockpoint publishers in October 2014.
Based on the works of Frederick Franck and Betty Edwards, artist Michelle Dujardin helps...
Engaging Dogen's Zen
The Philosophy of Practice as Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
How are the teachings of a thirteenth-century master relevant today? Twenty contemporary writers unpack Dogen's words and show how we can still find meaning in his teachings.
Zen Master Dogen, the thirteenth-century founder of Japanese Soto Zen Buddhism, is widely regarded as one of the world’s...
Right Thoughts at the Last Moment
Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book explores how the ideal of dying with right mindfulness was appropriated, disseminated, and transformed in premodern Japan, focusing on the late tenth through...