Donald Lopez: 23 books
by Donald Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
While Buddhism has no central text such as the Bible or the Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the teachings of Buddha. This rich anthology brings together works from a broad historical and geographical range, and from languages such as Pali,...
by Changkya Rölpai Dorjé, Donald Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2019
The most lucid and penetrating survey of classical Indian philosophy in the Tibetan language.
Beautiful Adornment of Mount Meru by Changkya Rölpai Dorjé (1717–86) is a work of doxography, presenting the distinctive philosophical tenets of the Indian Buddhist and non-Buddhist schools in...
Prisoners of Shangri-La
Tibetan Buddhism and the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
To the Western imagination, Tibet evokes exoticism, mysticism, and wonder: a fabled land removed from the grinding onslaught of modernity, spiritually endowed with all that the West has lost. Originally published in 1998, Prisoners of Shangri-La provided the first cultural history of the strange encounter...
"The Tibetan Book of the Dead"
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous Buddhist text in the West, having sold more than a million copies since it was first published in English in 1927. Carl Jung wrote a commentary on it, Timothy Leary redesigned it as a guidebook for an acid trip, and the Beatles quoted Leary's version...
Hyecho's Journey
The World of Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
In the year 721, a young Buddhist monk named Hyecho set out from the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula, on what would become one of the most extraordinary journeys in history. Sailing first to China, Hyecho continued to what is today Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan,...
Fighter Pilot's Heaven
Flight Testing the Early Jets
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Fighter Pilot's Heaven presents the dramatic inside story of the American military's transition into the jet age, as told by a flyer whose life depended on its success. With colorful anecdotes about fellow pilots as well as precise technical information, Donald S. Lopez describes how it was to be...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead : Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to L=ama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2000
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that according to legend Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones lakes and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and age were somehow unprepared for their teachings....
The Lotus Sūtra
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
The Lotus Sutra is arguably the most famous of all Buddhist scriptures. Composed in India in the first centuries of the Common Era, it is renowned for its inspiring message that all beings are destined for supreme enlightenment. Here, Donald Lopez provides an engaging and accessible biography of this...
From Stone to Flesh
A Short History of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
We have come to admire Buddhism for being profound but accessible, as much a lifestyle as a religion. The credit for creating Buddhism goes to the Buddha, a figure widely respected across the Western world for his philosophical insight, his teachings of nonviolence, and his practice of meditation....
by Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
This book tells the story of the Scientific Buddha, "born" in Europe in the 1800s but commonly confused with the Buddha born in India 2,500 years ago. The Scientific Buddha was sent into battle against Christian missionaries, who were proclaiming across Asia that Buddhism was a form of superstition....
Gendun Chopel
Tibet's Modern Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
The most comprehensive work available on the life and writings of Tibet's most famous modern cultural hero.
Visionary, artist, poet, iconoclast, philosopher, adventurer, master of the arts of love, tantric yogin, Buddhist saint. These are some of the terms that describe Tibet’s modern culture...
Elaborations on Emptiness
Uses of the Heart Sūtra
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
The Heart Sutra is perhaps the most famous Buddhist text, traditionally regarded as a potent expression of emptiness and of the Buddha's perfect wisdom. This brief, seemingly simple work was the subject of more commentaries in Asia than any other sutra. In Elaborations on Emptiness, Donald Lopez explores...
Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines : Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path, According to the Late L=ama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2000
Books audiotapes and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years in fact. In the early part of the 20th century it was the pioneering efforts of keen scholars...
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation : Or the Method of Realizing Nirvana through Knowing the Mind
Or the Method of Realizing Nirv=ana through Knowing the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2000
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation which was unknown to the Western world until its first publication in 1954 speaks to the quintessence of the Supreme Path or Mahayana and fully reveals the yogic method of attaining Enlightenment. Such attainment can happen as shown here by means of knowing...
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