Buddhism category: 3907 books
Dying: What Happens When We Die?
A Selection from Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In the ancient Indian epic, Mahabharata, the Lord of Death asks, "What is the most wondrous thing in the world?", and his son answers, "It is that all around us people can be dying and we don't believe it can happen to us." This refusal to face the inevitability of death is especially...
Nothing Holy about It
The Zen of Being Just Who You Are
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
According to legend, when the founder of Zen Buddhism was asked about the main principle of his holy teaching, he replied that there was "nothing holy about it!" Now, a millennium and a half later, Tim Burkett reveals how and why the wisdom of nonholiness is the key to a joyful heart. You...
by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Dzigar Kongtrul guides us through intelligent reasoning to identify our deluded perception of a truly existing self and shows us the key to awakening from this fundamental confusion. Rinpoche's brilliant commentary on the classical Indian Buddhist text, The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva is a testament...
Seeds for a Boundless Life
Zen Teachings from the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Zenkei Blanche Hartman is an American Zen legend. A teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, she was the first female abbot of an American Zen center. She is greatly revered, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has lived and taught for many years....
Spontaneous Creativity
Meditations for Manifesting Your Positive Qualities
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Mention creativity, and what comes to mind? For many of us, creativity is the province of someone with a singular gift toiling away in service to his or her art. From this perspective, creativity is a solitary endeavor —the struggle of the individual to express a distinctive vision to the world.
But...
Compassionate Knitting
Finding Basic Goodness in the Work of Our Hands
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Compassionate Knitting: Finding Basic Goodness in the Work of Our Hands is a knitting book unlike any other. The 20 original-design projects included in this book range from small accessory items and gifts to wearable garments-all of which include personal ritual in their creation or use. Each project...
by Michael Carrithers
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give about the life and teaching of the Buddha. He discusses the social and political background of India in the Buddha's time, and traces the development of his thought. He also assesses the...
The Science of Enlightenment
How Meditation Works
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
“Enlightenment”—is it a myth or is it real? In every spiritual tradition, inner explorers have discovered that the liberated state is in fact a natural experience, as real as the sensations you are having right now—and that through the investigation of your own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions...
Early Buddhist Meditation
The Four Jhanas as the Actualization of Insight
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book offers a new interpretation of the relationship between 'insight practice' (satipatthana) and the attainment of the four jhànas (i.e., right samàdhi), a key problem in the study of Buddhist meditation. The author challenges the traditional Buddhist understanding of the four jhànas as...
by Edward Byles Cowell, Friedrich Max Müller
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This is the 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 This book contains a wealth of essential Mahayana texts of the Buddhist religion.
by Kirti Tsenshap Rinpoche
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Kirti Tsenshap Rinpoche was a renowned teacher of Tibetan Buddhism with students worldwide. Revered as a teacher by even the Dalai Lama, he was known especially as a master of Buddhist tantra, the powerful esoteric methods for attaining enlightenment swiftly. The teachings in this book are a singular...
Ngondro Commentary
Instructions for the Concise Preliminary Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
“The Dudjom Tersar Ngondro—succinct, unelaborate, and grounded in guru yoga—provides a superb means of opening the door to the nature of mind. The Tibetan word ngondro means ‘to go before’ or ‘preliminary,’ and these preliminary practices fall into two basic categories. The first, that...
by Sir Edwin Arnold, GP Editors
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
The Light of Asia by Sir Edwin Arnold is a classic, weaves through its poetic verses the life and philosophy of Prince Siddhartha Gautama who attained enlightenment under the bodhi tree and became the Buddha. Receiving high acclaim since its publication in 1879, Edwin Arnold's work was adapted from...
Buddhist Yoga
A Comprehensive Course
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 1995
The word yoga has many meanings, including "meditation," "method," and "union." While the physical exercises of Hindu yoga are familiar to Westerners, the subtle metaphysics and refined methods of spiritual development that characterize Buddhist yoga are not yet well...