Wisdom Publications: 444 books
How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness
A Mindful Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Comfort, understanding, and advice for those who are suffering--and those who care for them.
Chronic illness creates many challenges, from career crises and relationship issues to struggles with self-blame, personal identity, and isolation. Beloved author Toni Bernhard addresses these challenges...
The Good Heart
A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
In this landmark book of interfaith dialogue, the Dalai Lama provides an extraordinary Buddhist perspective on the teachings of Jesus, commenting on well-known passages from the four Christian Gospels including the Sermon on the Mount, the parable of the mustard seed, the Resurrection, and others....
The Essence of Tsongkhapa's Teachings
The Dalai Lama on the Three Principal Aspects of the Path
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Learn from the Dalai Lama the three steps to awakening: 1) renunciation, 2) the awakening mind, and 3) emptiness.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s commentary on Tsongkhapa’s Three Principal Aspects of the Path helps us integrate the full Buddhist path into our own practice. His Holiness offers...
Mindful Therapy
A Guide for Therapists and Helping Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Welcome and much-needed addition to the literature for psychotherapists, therapists-in-training, and occupational therapists and other types of teachers. Mindful Therapy offers to them ways to bring the teachings of Buddhism into a psychotherapeutic practice - and a thorough explanation of the benefits...
by John D. Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Throughout the history of Buddhism, few philosophers have attained the stature of Dharmakirti, the "Lord of Reason" who has influenced virtually every systematic Buddhist thinker since his time.
Dharmakirti's renowned works, written in India during the philosophically rich seventh century,...
Loving-Kindness in Plain English
The Practice of Metta
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The bestselling author of Mindfulness in Plain English invites us to explore the joyful benefits of living with loving-kindness.
With his signature clarity and warmth, Bhante Gunaratana shares with us how we can cultivate loving-kindness to live a life of joyful harmony with others. Through...
Natural Liberation
Padmasambhava's Teachings on the Six Bardos
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
A perfect companion to the well-known Tibetan Book of the Dead.
In life and in death, in meditation and in sleep, every transitional stage of consciousness, or bardo, provides an opportunity to overcome limitations, frustrations, and fears. The profound teachings in this book provide the under-...
The Meditator's Atlas
A Roadmap to the Inner World
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Meditation can seem a mystery. Where do you begin? Where will you end up? What might you find along the way?
You'll find the answers in The Meditator's Atlas, a comprehensive and trustworthy "roadmap of the inner world" for anyone who meditates. Respected teacher Matthew Flickstein is your...
Saltwater Buddha
A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Fed up with teenage life in the suburbs, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries, from the warm Pacific to the icy New York shore. Equal...
Buddha at the Apocalypse
Awakening from a Culture of Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
Timely and audacious, Buddha at the Apocalypse challenges us to look directly at the devastating assumptions underlying the very mechanisms of the modern world - and offers a clarion call to awaken from a pervasive culture of destruction into a natural, sustainable, and sane peace. Kurt Spellmeyer...
How to Wake Up
A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Intimately and without jargon, How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow describes the path to peace amid all of life's ups and downs. Using step by step instructions, the author illustrates how to be fully present in the moment without clinging to joy or resisting sorrow....
Awakening the Kind Heart
How to Meditate on Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Everyone appreciates kindness. A smile, a few friendly words, a show of concern when we're troubled or feeling unwell, an offer of help - gestures of kindness like these brighten our day and ease whatever sadness we may feel in our hearts. Feeling that "someone cares" fulfills a very deep need that...
Feng Shui: Seeing Is Believing
Essential Geomancy for Beginners and Skeptics
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
In this pithy and practical handbook, Ven. Jampa Ludrup lays out the fundamentals of feng shui without any of the opaque mysticism that sometimes clouds the practice. "The aim of this book," he writes, "is to help you have more happiness in your life." Through his easy-to-understand instructions,...
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
"The key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion." --His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Giving and receiving affection is the key to happiness, and compassion is the key that opens our hearts to affection. Illuminating themes touched upon in The Good Heart and The Art of...