Buddhism category: 3907 books
Mud and Water
The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
The fourteenth-century Zen master Bassui was recognized as one of the most important Zen teachers of his time. Accessible and eloquent, these teachings cut to the heart of the great matter of Zen, pointing directly to the importance of seeing our own original nature and recognizing it as Buddhahood...
by Lama Dudjom Dorjee
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Heartfelt Advice offers readers an overview of basic Buddhist topics in small easily digestible bites that illuminate the main principles of Buddhist practice. Lama Dudjom Dorjee skillfully guides students through the vast array of considerations on the path, highlighting what is essential, as he...
The Sole Panacea
A Brief Commentary on the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche That Cures the Suff ering of the Sickness of Karma and Defilement
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The moment you invoke me, I, Padmasambhava,
Have no choice but to come to bless you.
Of all the heartfelt devotional prayers used as a support for Dharma practice, the Seven-Line Prayer is the most essential, often repeated many thousands of times by practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism. This...
Parting from the Four Attachments
A Commentary on Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen's Song of Experience on Mind Training and the View
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2003
The teaching on Parting from the Four Attachments is universally regarded as one of the jewels of Tibetan Buddhism. Rinpoche leads the reader through a detailed and lucid exploration of the nature of mind, pointing out inevitable pitfalls in spiritual practice and showing how they can be avoided.
by FPMT
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
From Warm Heart to Warm Heart: The Transmission of Dharma in the Modern World is an ebook collection of seventeen interviews with some of Tibetan Buddhism’s most popular teachers, practitioners, and scholars, including Lama Yeshe, Geshe Lhundub Sopa, Yangsi Rinpoche, Ven. Thubten Chodron, Robert...
by FPMT
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In our busy modern lives, we may not give much thought to death. We fear that thinking about death will take the joy out of living. But in reality, when we actively think about death and prepare for it, we find peace, fulfillment, and happiness in our current lives and our fear of death disappears....
by FPMT
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
English and Phonetics only.
Lama Chopa is a practice of guru devotion special to the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism where we invoke all the lamas of the graduated path lineage beginning with Shakyamuni Buddha himself, extending to our present direct teachers who have shown us the path.
"Practicing...
by FPMT
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2018
Making burning offerings to Dorje Khadro (Vajradaka) is considered to be "a golden Dharma" passed directly from Manjushri to Lama Tsongkhapa. It was one of Lama Tsongkhapa's heart practices and, as such, has a special connection with the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
The practice...
Travels in the Netherworld
Buddhist Popular Narratives of Death and the Afterlife in Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2008
In Travels in the Netherworld, Bryan J. Cuevas examines a fascinating but little-known genre of Tibetan narrative literature about the délok, ordinary men and women who claim to have died, traveled through hell, and then returned from the afterlife. These narratives enjoy audiences ranging from the...
Don't-Know Mind
The Spirit of Korean Zen
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2004
"Don't-know mind" is our enlightened mind before ideas, opinions, or concepts arise to create suffering. Practicing with don't-know mind has long been a central concern of Korean Zen. Here, an American Zen master in the Korean lineage brings the teaching to life by using stories about the...
Mount Everest
Its Spiritual Attainment
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
WITHIN the pages of this book are contained the outstanding addresses given by Dr. George S. Arundale during the 1932 sessions of Wheaton Institute, Summer School and Convention of The American Theosophical Society.
Discipleship, glorious and inspiring, is the golden motif which runs like a...
Waking Up to What You Do
A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2006
Life is rising up to meet us at every moment. The question is: Are we there to meet it or not? Diane Rizzetto presents a simple but supremely effective practice for meeting every moment of our lives with mindfulness, using the Zen precepts as tools to develop a keen awareness of the motivations behind...
Felicidad
Prácticas esenciales de mindfulness
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The fundamental teachings of Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh is that full awareness, or mindfulness, can teach us to live in the present and to develop inner peace. Accessible to both newcomers to Buddhism as well as those more experienced, this is the only book with a collection of all practices developed...
by T.W. RHYS DAVIDS, HERMANN OLDENBERG
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
VINAYA TEXTS - Part III
T.W. RHYS DAVIDS AND HERMANN OLDENBERG
PART III
THE KULLAVAGGA, IV-XII
Translated from the Pali by T.W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising fifty volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism,...