Buddhism category: 3907 books
by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
A One Hour Short & Sweet Zen Retreat encourages you to enjoy quiet, gather your wits about you, delight in nature, nourish yourself, focus your attention, love the world you inhabit, clarify your spiritual intentions, and deepen your connection with the whole of you. It is a simple practice that requires...
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....
Oriental Philosophy Course
The Universal Law III
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2013
The idea of a Personal God has obtained in almost every religion, except a very few. With the exception of the Buddhist and the Jain, perhaps all the religions of the world have the idea of a Personal God, and with it comes the idea of devotion and worship. The Buddhists and the Jains, although they...
Oriental Philosophy Course
The Universal Law I
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2013
Before the Birth... who are you?
After the Death... Where are you?
All Creation passing trough this round will be free. No one can be lost.
A Child comes into the world crawling and without teeth, and the old mans get out without teeth and crawling. Desire nothing, give...
by Amy Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Read the life story and spiritual teachings of Dipa Ma, a major figure in contemporary Buddhism. She was the teacher of such well-respected western Buddhists as Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Alice Walker and Sylvia Boorstein, among others. An accomplished yogi, she was an inspired...
Dragon Thunder
My Life with Chogyam Trungpa
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
"It was not always easy to be the guru’s wife," writes Diana Mukpo. "But I must say, it was rarely boring." At the age of sixteen, Diana Mukpo left school and broke with her upper-class English family to marry Chögyam Trungpa, a young Tibetan lama who would go on to become a...
Living This Life Fully
Stories and Teachings of Munindra
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Anagarika Munindra (1915–2003) was a Bengali Buddhist master and scholar who was teacher to an entire generation of practitioners—including some of the most prominent Insight Meditation teachers in America. His students include Daniel Goleman (author of Emotional Intelligence), Sharon Salzberg...
Great Doubt
Practicing Zen in the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening.
“In this brief but remarkably thorough book, Boshan puts into words what it means to truly doubt. Not just to be skeptical—but to push all the way to the very foundations. Anyone interested in Zen can learn a whole lot from this little book.”
—from...
by Alexandra David-Neel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
King Gesar, renowned throughout Tibet and Central Asia, represents the ideal warrior—the principle of all-victorious confidence. As the central force of sanity, he conquers all his enemies, the evil forces of the four directions, who turn people's minds away from the true teachings of Buddhism....
by Edward Byles Cowell, H. T. Francis
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids The Jatakas refer to a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births (jati) of the...
by Edward Byles Cowell, H. T. Francis
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids The Jatakas refer to a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births (jati) of the...
by Thomas William Rhys Davids
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids According to tradition, Menander embraced the Buddhist faith, as described in the Milinda Panha, a classical Pali...
Living as a River
Finding Fearlessness in the Face of Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
To face reality is to embrace change; to resist change is to suffer. This is the liberating insight that unfolds with Living as a River. A masterful investigation of the nature of self, this eloquent blend of current science and time-honored spiritual insight is meant to free us from the fear of impermanence...
The Ceasing of Notions
An Early Zen Text from the Dunhuang Caves with Selected Comments
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Among the writings from the Dunhuang Caves, discovered in the mid-twentieth Century, are the Zen equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls--ancient texts unknown for centuries. The Ceasing of Notions is one such text. It takes a unique form: a dialogue between two imaginary figures, a master and his disciple,...