Buddhism category: 3907 books
by Robert Chalmers
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 Jtakas refer to a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births (jti) of the Buddha....
The Dawn and the Day
Or, The Buddha and the Christ, Part I
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Religious poetry is a genre that has been around for thousands of years, but in the multi-part epic The Dawn and the Day, lawyer and writer Henry T. Niles adopted a novel approach, attempting to forge a theological and philosophical bridge between two seemingly incompatible belief systems, Christianity...
Experience
Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
By what narrow path is the ineffable silence of Zen cleft by the scratch of a pen? The distilled insights of forty years, Norman Fischer’s Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion is a collection of essays by Zen master Fischer about experimental writing as a spiritual practice.
Raised...
You Have to Say Something
Manifesting Zen Insight
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2000
Dainin Katagiri (1928–1990) was a central figure in the transmission of Zen in America. His first book, Returning to Silence, emphasized the need to return to our original, enlightened state of being, and became one of the classics of Zen in America. In You Have to Say Something, selections from...
Opening the Heart of the Cosmos
Insights on the Lotus Sutra
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh uses the Lotus Sutra, one of Mahayana Buddhism’s most revered texts, to illustrate the Buddha nature inherent in everyone. With great passion and clarity, he demonstrates how each human being has the capacity to transform their own individual suffering, develop compassion,...
Inside the Grass Hut
Living Shitou's Classic Zen Poem
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Enter the mind and practice of Zen: apply the insights of one of Zen's classic poems to your life--here and now.
Destined to become a trusted, dog-eared companion.
Shitou Xiqian’s “Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage” is a remarkably accessible work of profound depth; in thirty-two lines...
Appreciate Your Life
The Essence of Zen Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2002
Here is the first major collection of the teachings of Taizan Maezumi Roshi (1931-1995), one of the first Japanese Zen masters to bring Zen to the West and founding abbot of the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Zen Mountain Center in Idyllwild, California. These short, inspiring readings illuminate Zen...
by Masaharu Anesaki
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Masaharu Anesaki's History of Japanese Religion continues to be a much-cited pillar of Japanese studies and is now available in digital format.
The original draft of the present book was an outcome of the author's lectures at Harvard University during the years 1913-15, when he had the honor...
Awake in the World
Teachings from Yoga and Buddhism for Living an Engaged Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
How can we live a balanced life in unbalanced times? How can the practices of meditation and yoga support our relationships, our work lives, and the greater good? Author, teacher, and psychotherapist Michael Stone presents the essential insights of mindfulness and yoga, emphasizing the teachings of...
The Dhammapada
The Essential Teachings of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Discover the ancient wisdom that has made Buddhism the most popular non-Biblical religion in Europe and North America.
The Healing Power of Mind
Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 1998
The true nature of our minds is enlightened and peaceful, as the depth of the ocean is calm and clear. But when we mentally grasp and emotionally cling to our wants and worries with all our energy, we lose our own enlightened freedom and healing power, only to gain stress and exhaustion, suffering...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This treasury of essential Buddhist writings draws from the most popular Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese sources. Among the selections are some of the earliest recorded sayings of the Buddha on the practice of freedom, passages from later Indian scriptures on the perfection of wisdom, verses...
Sesshu's Long Scroll
A Zen Landscape Journey
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Sesshu's Long Sroll is the masterwork of the 15th-century Japanese artist, Susshu-considered by many Japanese to be their greatest.
Famed not only as a painter but also as a Zen priest and a great traveler, Sesshu found inspiration for his wonderful landscapes both in China and Japan. This...
by Dainin Katagiri
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
For twenty-five hundred years Buddhism has taught that everyone is Buddha—already enlightened, lacking nothing. But still there is the question of how we can experience that truth in our lives. In this book, Dainin Katagiri points to the manifestation of enlightenment right here, right now, in our...