Buddhism category: 3907 books
Buddha in Your Backpack
Everyday Buddhism for Teens
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2002
Love Hurts
Buddhist Advice for the Heartbroken
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Buddhism has a lot to say about suffering—and there are likely few times we suffer more intensely than when we break up with a romantic partner. It feels like you may never recover sometimes. But Lodro Rinzler has wonderfully good news for those suffering heartbreak: the 2,500-year-old teachings...
The Body Incantatory
Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Whether chanted as devotional prayers, intoned against the dangers of the wilds, or invoked to heal the sick and bring ease to the dead, incantations were pervasive features of Buddhist practice in late medieval China (600–1000 C.E.). Material incantations, in forms such as spell-inscribed amulets...
Zen Ritual
Studies of Zen Buddhist Theory in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2007
When books about Zen Buddhism began appearing in Western languages just over a half-century ago, there was no interest whatsoever in the role of ritual in Zen. Indeed, what attracted Western readers' interest was the Zen rejection of ritual. The famous 'Beat Zen' writers were delighted by the Zen...
Dharma Delight
A Visionary Post Pop Comic Guide to Buddhism and Zen
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
In Dharma Delight, abstract artist and Zen practitioner Rodney Greenblat uses lighthearted narrative and vivid pop art paintings to celebrate the joys of living life from the inside out.
Part graphic guide, part personal testimony, part art book, Dharma Delight illustrates how seeking the path...
Enlightenment to Go
Shantideva and the Power of Compassion to Transform Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Essential reading for those seeking life-changing psychological tools and transcendent wisdom, Enlightenment to Go provides a lively and accessible introduction to the 'best of' Shantideva. With warmth, humor, and stories of his own experiences, author David Michie shows how modern psychological science...
by Sharon Salzberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2001
In this anthology, leading Western teachers of Buddhism share their personal experiences on the path of insight meditation; their understanding of the basic teachings of the Buddha; the lessons they've learned in their training with their own teachers; and some good advice on following the Buddha...
Essential Reiki
A Complete Guide to an Ancient Healing Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Reiki is an ancient and profoundly simple system of laying on of hands healing derived from Tibetan Buddhism. In the West, Reiki has been kept highly secret for many years. ESSENTIAL REIKI presents full information on all three degrees of this healing system, most of it in print for the first...
Momma Zen
Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Combining humor, honesty, and plainspoken advice, Momma Zen distills the doubts and frustrations of parenting into vignettes of Zen wisdom.
Drawing on her experience as a first-time mother, and on her years of Zen meditation and study, Miller explores how the daily challenges of parenthood...
by Bhikkhu Analayo
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
For those who approach Buddhism as a system of mental development, this book is a reliable and accessible guide to understanding the significance of themes from the Pali discourses. Themes include grasping, right view, craving, passion, contemplation of feeling, happiness, and liberation. A rare combination...
by Dhivan Thomas Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This being, that becomes; from the arising of this, that arises. This succinct formula, recorded in texts and carved in inscriptions throughout the Buddhist world, is said to summarise the whole of the Dharma, the teaching of the Buddha. But how can such a simple summary be the conceptual formulation...
The Lotus Still Blooms
Sacred Buddhist Teachings for the Western Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
The Lotus Still Blooms is the ideal book for every reader who would like to understand Buddhist principles, but doesn’t know where to start. Eastern wisdom traditions are often baffling for Western minds – where to begin in uncovering the often complicated steps, precepts, concepts and ideas?...
Make Me One with Everything
Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
What did the Dalai Lama say to the pizza guy from Brooklyn? “Make me one with everything!” It’s a familiar joke, muses Lama Surya Das, but it holds a profound truth: that in addition to inner peace, meditation is a path for all-inclusive connection .With Make Me One with Everything, he invites...
Zen Training
Methods and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Zen Training is a comprehensive handbook for zazen, seated meditation practice, and an authoritative presentation of the Zen path. The book marked a turning point in Zen literature in its critical reevaluation of the enlightenment experience, which the author believes has often been emphasized at...