Buddhism category: 3907 books
by Glenn Gustafson, OPB
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
The recitation of the name Amitabha Buddha is an ancient practice in Buddhism. This practice has been popularized in Jodo Shinshu Buddhism - the most popular form of devotional Buddhism currently being practiced.While Jodo - or Shin - Buddhism is focused on the recitation as a way of insuring...
by Bernhard Scheid, Mark Teeuwen
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection traces out the secret characteristics and practices in Japanese religion, as well as analyzing the decline of religious esotericism in Japan.
The essays in this impressive...
Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara
An Introduction with Selected Translations
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Discover the fascinating history of a long-hidden Buddhist culture at a historic crossroads.
In the years following Alexander the Great’s conquest of the East, a series of empires rose up along the Silk Road. In what is now northern Pakistan, the civilizations in the region called Gandhara...
Buddhism and Cultural Studies
A Profession of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book explores the reciprocity between Buddhist, Derridean, and Foucauldian understandings about ethics, subjectivity, and ontological contingency, to investigate the ethical and political potential of insight meditation practice. The book is narrated from the perspective of a postcolonial ‘Western...
Power, Wealth and Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism
The Gandavyuha-sutra
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
This book examines the concepts of power, wealth and women in the important Mahayana Buddhist scripture known as the Gandavyuha-sutra, and relates these to the text’s social context in ancient Indian during the Buddhist Middle Period (0–500 CE).
Employing contemporary textual theory, worldview...
by Emil Schlagintweit
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
THE religious systems of all ages--paganism in its rudest form perhaps excepted--have undergone changes and modifications which, if not materially affecting their principles, have at least exercised a certain influence upon their development. Buddhism may be considered a remarkable illustration of...
Hoofprint of the Ox
Principles of the Chan Buddhist Path as Taught by a Modern Chinese Master
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2002
Revered by Buddhists in the United States and China, Master Sheng-yen shares his wisdom and teachings in this first comprehensive English primer of Chan, the Chinese tradition of Buddhism that inspired Japanese Zen. Often misunderstood as a system of mind games, the Chan path leads to enlightenment...
In the Presence of Masters
Wisdom from 30 Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Thirty of the most creative, eloquent, and energetic Tibetan Buddhist teachers of Westerners in recent decades are featured in this collection of teachings that are certain to be highly treasured by all students of Buddhism. The contributors are masters who helped establish Buddhism in the West, founding...
The Golden Rules of Buddhism
and The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2019
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Orientalists and other impartial persons admit that no religion in the world contains a more sublime system of moral rules than Buddhism, but if we wish this to become known to Buddhist children, we adult Buddhists must take the task upon ourselves....
Environmental Ethics in Buddhism
A Virtues Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Environmental Ethics in Buddhism presents a logical and thorough examination of the metaphysical and ethical dimensions of early Buddhist literature. The author determines the meaning of nature in the early Buddhist context from general Buddhist teachings on dhamma, paticcasamuppada, samsara and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
The essays in this volume attempt to place the Chan and Zen tradition in their ritual and cultural contexts, looking at various aspects heretofore largely (and unduly) ignored. In particular, they show the extent to which these traditions, despite their claim to uniqueness, were indebted to larger...
Revival: Outlines of Buddhism: A historical sketch (1934)
A historical sketch
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
This book discusses what is now called "Buddhism". It started as an effort to strengthen a weak point in that "immanence" which had become the accepted religious teaching in the valley of the Ganges, by showing that the "God/in/man" was realizable, not by gnosis and ritual,...
Buddhism for Couples
A Calm Approach to Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Learn Buddhist principles that can help enrich your romantic life, your life in general, and the lives of those around you.
Surely a happy marriage for a normally adjusted couple is a simple matter of give-and-take—some patience, tolerance, and just trying to be cheerful as often as possible....
by Subhuti
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
"e;Spiritual friendship is the whole of the spiritual life"e; - The Buddha. In what way is spiritual friendship the whole of spiritual life? How does it support our spiritual growth? Why do so many discussions of Buddhism overlook it? In Buddhism and Friendship, Subhuti considers these...