Buddhism category: 3907 books
Grains of Gold
Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903–51) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native land after twelve years in India and Sri Lanka. But...
Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree
The Buddha's Teaching on Voidness
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Clear and simple teachings on voidness and living an ethical life.
In Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree, Buddhadasa Bhikkhu presents in simple language the philosophy of voidness, or sunnata, that lies at the heart of the Buddhism. By carefully tying voidness to ethical discipline, Buddhadasa provides...
Beyond Happiness
The Zen Way to True Contentment
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Many books have been published in recent years on happiness. Ezra Bayda, a remarkably down-to-earth Zen teacher, believes that the happiness "boom" has been largely a bust for readers. Why? Because it's precisely the pursuit of happiness that keeps us trapped in cycles of dissatisfaction...
Being Zen
Bringing Meditation to Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
We can use whatever life presents, Ezra Bayda teaches, to strengthen our spiritual practice—including the turmoil of daily life. What we need is the willingness to just be with our experiences—whether they are painful or pleasing—opening ourselves to the reality of our lives without trying to...
Bring Me the Rhinoceros
And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Bring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private encounters between teacher and student. This book deftly retells more than a dozen traditional...
Two Zen Classics
The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Records
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used traditionally in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, Mumonkan (The Gateless Gate ) and Hekiganroku (The Blue Cliff Record), both compiled during the...
by Sangharakshita
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Kindness is one of the most basic qualities we can possess, and one of the most powerful. In Buddhism is it called a metta - an opening of the heart to all we meet. Any friendly feeling contains the kernel of metta. It is a seed that is waiting to be developed, right here amidst the conditions of...
by Padmasambhava Guru Rinpoche, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Orgyen Topgyal Rinpoche
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
The Vajrayana system of Tibetan Buddhism has many techniques, few difficulties and is meant for people of higher capabilities. Because each of us possesses the enlightened essence, when many people participate in a great accomplishment practice, then many enlightened essences are gathered together in...
Beyond Thinking
A Guide to Zen Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Spiritual practice is not some kind of striving to produce enlightenment, but an expression of the enlightenment already inherent in all things: Such is the Zen teaching of Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) whose profound writings have been studied and revered for more than seven hundred years, influencing...
Wisdom Energy
Basic Buddhist Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
Wisdom Energy is a simple and compelling introduction to Buddhism by two Tibetan lamas renowned for their insight and skill in teaching Westerners. Containing an entire meditation course, it goes to the heart of basic Buddhist practice and discusses the meaning and purpose of meditation, the causes...
Shattering the Great Doubt
The Chan Practice of Huatou
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Huatou is a skillful method for breaking through the prison of mental habits into the spacious mind of enlightenment. The huatou is a confounding question much like a Zen koan. Typical ones are "What is wu [nothingness]?" or "What was my original face before birth-and-death?" But...
by Tai Situ
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2002
The Mahamudra Prayer by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje is a short yet thorough and profound text which presents all the essential points of Mahamudra teaching in terms of view, practice, and fruition. It is a classic that, especially in the tradition of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism,...
Narrating Karma and Rebirth
Buddhist and Jain Multi-Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Buddhism and Jainism share the concepts of karma, rebirth, and the desirability of escaping from rebirth. The literature of both traditions contains many stories about past, and sometimes future, lives which reveal much about these foundational doctrines. Naomi Appleton carefully explores how multi-life...
Perfect Conduct
Ascertaining the Three Vows
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
All religions teach codes of ethical behavior. So too does Buddhism. This books is a translation of an indispensable exposition of the three sets of vows that are central to Tibetan Buddhist codes of discipline--the pratimoksa vows of individual liberation; the vows of the bodhisattva, who selflessly...