Buddhism category: 3907 books
Awake Mind, Open Heart
The Power of Courage and Dignity in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Twenty-five years ago renowned Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche introduced teachings of the Shambhala warrior tradition-teachings that show how we could live as enlightened citizens and help create an advanced society based on fearlessness and non-aggression. Now Awake Mind,...
by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 11, 2012
¿Así que crees ser budista? Veamos, reflexiona. El maestro de budismo tibetano Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, uno de los Lamas más creativos e innovadores de hoy en día, arroja el guante al mundo budista, desafiando los conceptos erróneos, estereotipos y fantasías más comunes. Con ingenio e ironía...
Zen and the White Whale
A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In Moby-Dick’s wide philosophical musings and central narrative arch, Herman finds a philosophy very closely aligned specifically with the original teachings of Zen Buddhism. In exploring the likelihood of this hitherto undiscovered influence, Herman looks at works Melville is either known to have...
Nothing To It
Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
In Nothing To It, Brother Phap Hai brings his characteristic warmth and humor to explore the many different gates to transformation offered by Buddhism. A gate is a teaching, practice, or way of looking at things. Each gate is an invitation to consider a new frame of reference through which we can...
Svatantrika-Prasangika Distinction
What Difference Does a Difference Make?
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Madhyamaka, or "Middle Way," philosophy came to Tibet from India and became the basis of all of Tibetan Buddhism. The Tibetans, however, differentiated two streams of Madhyamaka philosophy--Svatantrika and Prasangika. In this collection, leading scholars in the field address the distinction on various...
Records of the Transmission of the Lamp
Volume 6 (Books 22-26) Heirs of Tiantai Deshao, Congzhan, Yunmen et al.
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
This compilation of Buddhist biographies, teaching and transmission stories of Indian and Chinese Chan (Japanese 'Zen') masters from antiquity up to about the year 1008 CE is the first mature fruit of an already thousand year-long spiritual marriage between two great world cultures with quite different...
Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia
The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A monumental work in the history of religion, the history of the book, the study of politics, and bibliographical research, this volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the fourth century to the digital era. Approaching the subject from a historical perspective, it ties the religious,...
by Mary Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Forget all you know about mantras! The most information-packed book on mantras - The Mantra For Beginners is THE blueprint, and the only book you'll ever need, to know more!
Enjoy this amazing book - packed with latest info and updated for 2019 - this publication goes straight to the point,...
Bodhichitta
Practice for a Meaningful Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
An accessible, inspiring book on one of the most important topics in Tibetan Buddhism, written by one of its renowned masters, who has an international following of thousands.
Bodhichitta is a Sanskrit word meaning “the mind of enlightenment” or “the awakening mind”—the mind that...
by Arthur Lillie
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Arthur Lillie served in the British Army in India in the 1850s, when he was first exposed to Eastern religions. He wrote numerous books on Buddhism and Hinduism, and also was interested in apocryphyl books of the New Testament. Although Lillie's books on religion were not well-received by religion scholars...
by Soubhadra Bhikshou, Ernest Leroux
Language: French
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Extrait : 2. Qu’est-ce qu’un bouddhiste ? C’est un homme qui vénère le Bouddha comme la Lumière du monde, comme le maître et le guide suprême de tous les êtres vivants ; qui regarde comme vraie la doctrine qu’il a enseignée ; en suit les préceptes...
Selfless Insight: Zen and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness
Zen and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Attention, self-consciousness, insight, wisdom, emotional maturity: how Zen teachings can illuminate the way our brains function and vice-versa.
PLATINUM SUTRA
ALL THINGS ARE PERCEPTIONS OF MIND
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
The teaching that all things and non things, external worlds and internal are nothing more than perceptions of one’s own mind as understood by Bodhisattva Mikial Kenneth Millard. This is a teaching the liberates those who understand it from all of the illusions & fabrications of the material world forever and allow the practitioners to fearlessly be wisdom & goodness.
by Dr. Sarah Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Is it possible to capture the spirit of Buddhist meditation, which depends so much upon silence and unspoken wisdom? Can this spirit be found after two millennia? This wise and reassuring book reminds us that the Buddhist meditative tradition, geared to such concerns from its inception, has always been...