Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
by Chogyam Trungpa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Here is a unique contribution to the field of poetry: a new collection of works by America's foremost Buddhist meditation master, Chögyam Trungpa. These poems and songs—most of which were written since his arrival in the United States in 1970—combine a background in classical Tibetan poetry with...
The 12-Step Buddhist
Enhance Recovery from Any Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
The face of addiction and alcoholism is a face that many have seen before -- it may be a celebrity, a colleague, or even a family member. And though the 12-step program by itself can often bring initial success, many addicts find themselves relapsing back into old ways and old patterns, or replacing...
The Sanity We Are Born With
A Buddhist Approach to Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
More and more mental health professionals are discovering the rich tradition of Buddhist psychology and integrating its insights into their work with clients. Buddhist tradition teaches that all of us are born with what Chögyam Trungpa terms "basic sanity," or inherent goodness, health,...
by Paramananda
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
To take up meditation is to introduce a powerful force for change into our lives. If we change our mind the world changes too. Whatever our religious belief, meditation can be the beginning of life's greatest adventure. Using the simple traditional practices introduced in Change Your Mind you can...
White Lotus
An Explanation of the Seven-line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
The commentary translated in these pages is unusual and rare. But if the commentary is a rarity, its subject matter—the seven-line invocation of Padmasambhava—is one of the best-known prayers in the Tibetan Buddhist world.
The overall significance of the Seven-Line Prayer is perhaps best...
Feeling Wisdom
Working with Emotions Using Buddhist Teachings and Western Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
The realm of emotion is one of those areas where Buddhism and Western psychology are often thought to be at odds: Are emotions to be valued, examined, worked with as signs leading us to deeper self-knowledge? Or are they something to be ignored and avoided as soon as we recognize them? Rob Preece...
by Emma Slade
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
‘The man with the gun pushed me down onto the carpet. I tried to cower to make my body curl smaller, instinctively covering my head.
‘Oh God, please don’t kill me.’ My words clung to my teeth and now my whole body was so cold. All I had left were these words.
‘Please. Please...
Zen Masters Of China
The First Step East
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Zen Masters of China presents more than 300 traditional Zen stories and koans, far more than any other collection. Retelling them in their proper place in Zen's historical journey through Chinese Buddhist culture, it also tells a larger story: how, in taking the first step east from India to China,...
Prisoners of Shangri-La
Tibetan Buddhism and the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
To the Western imagination, Tibet evokes exoticism, mysticism, and wonder: a fabled land removed from the grinding onslaught of modernity, spiritually endowed with all that the West has lost. Originally published in 1998, Prisoners of Shangri-La provided the first cultural history of the strange encounter...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book explores the dilemmas that Buddhism faces in relation to the continuing ethnic conflict and violence in modern Sri Lanka. Prominent scholars in the fields of anthropology, history, Buddhist studies and Pali examine multiple dimensions of the problem. Buddhist...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
How do we define compassion? Is it an emotional state, a motivation, a dispositional trait, or a cultivated attitude? How does it compare to altruism and empathy? Chapters in this Handbook present critical scientific evidence about compassion in numerous conceptions. All of these approaches to thinking...
The Dharma of Dragons and Daemons
Buddhist Themes in Modern Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
In order to live, we need air, water, food, shelter…and stories. This book is about Buddhist stories: not about stories to be found in Buddhism, but about the “Buddhism” to be found in some of the classics of contemporary fantasy including the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, Hayao Miyazaki, Michael...
The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace
Selections From the Works of Daisaku Ikeda
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Gleaned from more than fifty years of SGI President Ikeda's works, The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace provides a window into the SGI president's thought and philosophy. His works are a boundless source of inspiration. They embody a universal message of hope and courage for a world increasingly beset with sorrow and suffering.
Self and Society
Essays on Pali Literature and Social Theory 1988–2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This selection of essays, originally published between 1988 and 2010, demonstrates that in the study of Buddhism a concern with detailed accuracy in philological and textual specifics can be combined with an attempt to deal with wider (and difficult) philosophical and sociological issues. The first...