Buddhism category: 3907 books
Love Letters from Golok
A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Love Letters from Golok chronicles the courtship between two Buddhist tantric masters, Tāre Lhamo (1938–2002) and Namtrul Rinpoche (1944–2011), and their passion for reinvigorating Buddhism in eastern Tibet during the post-Mao era. In fifty-six letters exchanged from 1978 to 1980, Tāre Lhamo...
Purification in Tibetan Buddhism
The Practice of the Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
This is an indispensable guide for all practioners.
In Purification in Tibetan Buddhism, Geshe Jampa Gyatso explains The Bodhisattva’s Confession of Downfalls, a daily practice for purifying negativities. This essential practice helps us to clear negative thoughts and actions from our body,...
Being Human in a Buddhist World
An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Critically exploring medical thought in a cultural milieu with no discernible influence from the European Enlightenment, Being Human in a Buddhist World reveals an otherwise unnoticed intersection of early modern sensibilities and religious values in traditional Tibetan medicine. It further studies...
by Kulananda
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The Refuge Tree is a symbol of the highest ideals of Buddhism, a traditional image in the Tibetan tradition that takes different forms in different schools. On the refuge tree are formal teachers from Buddhism's history. The Refuge Tree of the Triratna Buddhist Order founded by Sangharakshita includes...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Over the course of the nineteenth century, most of the Theravada world of Southeast Asia came under the colonial domination of European powers. While this has long been seen as a central event in the development of modern forms of Theravada Buddhism, most discussions have focused on specific Buddhist...
When Buddhists Attack
The Curious Relationship Between Zen and the Martial Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Uncover the historical truth about Buddhist warrior monks with this informative and enlightening book.
Film, television and popular fiction have long exploited the image of the serene Buddhist monk who is master of the deadly craft of hand-to-hand combat. While these media overly romanticize...
by Damien Keown
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2005
The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed a growing interest in Buddhism, and it continues to capture the imagination of many in the West who see it as either an alternative or a supplement to their own religious beliefs. Numerous introductory books have appeared in recent years to cater...
Seeing through Zen
Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2004
The tradition of Chan Buddhism—more popularly known as Zen—has been romanticized throughout its history. In this book, John R. McRae shows how modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, make possible a more skeptical, accurate, and—ultimately—productive assessment...
by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...
by Sangharakshita
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Tantric Buddhism is concerned with the direct experience of who we are and what we can become. Its sole aim is to help us realize our potential for profound wisdom and unbounded compassion by transforming the energy locked in by old habits, fears and narrow views. For the Tantra this experience is...
by Robert M. Price
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Medieval Churchmen heard the legend of Prince Siddhartha (the "Bodhisattva," or "Buddha-to-be") renouncing his wealth and seeking salvation as a monk, but they mistook it for the history of some Christian monk named "Iodasaph" (a corruption of "Bodhisattva"). Iodasaph...
Iron Flute
100 Zen Koans
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
This book of koans contains some of the most important Zen sayings of all time along with insightful commentary.
Koans are the intellectually unsolvable problem-riddles at the core of the Rinzai tradition of Zen Buddhism, perhaps the most well-known one being "what is the sound of one...
by Woody Hochswender, Greg Martin, Ted Morino
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
While the notion that happiness can found within oneself” has recently become popular, Buddhism has taught for thousands of years that every person is a Buddha, or enlightened being, and has the potential for true and lasting happiness. Through real-life examples, the authors explain how adopting...
Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle
Dzogchen as the Culmination of the Mahayana
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The first English translation of a classic treatise on how the Tibetan practice of Dzogchen, or Great Perfection, is in fact the culmination of the path of Mahayana Buddhism.
Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo wrote this treatise in the eleventh century during the renaissance of Buddhism in Tibet that...