Buddhism category: 3907 books
Anarchy in the Pure Land
Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Anarchy in the Pure Land investigates the twentieth-century reinvention of the cult of Maitreya, the future Buddha, conceived by the reformer Taixu and promoted by the Chinese Buddhist reform movement. The cult presents an apparent anomaly: It shows precisely the kind of concern for ritual, supernatural...
A Call to Compassion
Bringing Buddhist Practices of the Heart into the Soul of Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2005
Aura Glaser wrote this book to remedy a deficiency she discovered while engaged in psychological research–a nearly complete omission of the importance and cultivation of compassion. Other books exploring Buddhism and psychology have focused on what the Theravada school of Buddhism–which teaches...
by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The Buddha and His Dhamma, a treatise on Buddha's life and Buddhism, was the last work of Indian statesman and scholar B. R. Ambedkar. It was first published in 1957 after Ambedkar's death on 6 December 1956. According to Christopher Queen, the text is the scripture for those who follow Navayana Buddhism.[2]
It...
Cosmology and Buddhist Thought
A Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Cosmology and Buddhist Thought is the result of a conversation with astrophysicist and television celebrity, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, that took place in New York at the end of May, 2011. While cosmologists look at the outer space with massive instruments and difficult calculations using mathematics,...
Tibet's Great Yog=i Milarepa
A Biography from the Tibetan being the Jetsün-Kabbum or Biographical History of Jetsün-Milarepa, According to the Late L=ama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2000
This life story of Milarepa--the important Tibetan religious leader who lived over 800 years ago--is part of a remarkable four-volume series on Tibetan Buddhism produced by the late W.Y. Evans-Wentz, all four of which are being published by Oxford in new editions. While there are many parochial differences...
by Helena Roerich
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
The Great Gotama gave to the world a complete Teaching of the perfect construction of life. Each attempt to make a god of the great revolutionist, leads to absurdity.Previous to Gotama there was, of course, a whole succession of those who bore the common welfare, but their teachings crumbled to dust...
A Profound Mind
Cultivating Wisdom in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
For the first time for general readers, the Dalai Lama presents a comprehensive overview of the most important teaching of Buddhism.
Perhaps the main difference between Buddhism and other religions is its understanding of our core identity. The existence of the soul or self, which is central...
Buddhism
A Concise Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
A concise and up-to-date guide to the history, teachings, and practice of Buddhism by two luminaries in the field of world religions.
The Path to Awakening
How Buddhism's Seven Points of Mind Training Can Lead You to a Life of Enlightenment and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
A guide to the transformative practice that has been a part of Tibetan Buddhism for centuries.
Mind Training is a comprehensive practice that is suitable for all types of students. It contains the entire path and does not depend on a person’s background. Mind Training nurses and cultivates...
Oriental Philosophy I
God has no religion.
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Eastern philosophy includes the various philosophies of Asia, including Chinese philosophy, Iranian philosophy, Japanese philosophy, Indian philosophy and Korean philosophy. The term can also sometimes include Babylonian philosophy and Islamic philosophy, though these may also be considered Western...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Buddhism is a religion indigenous to the Indian subcontinent that encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, who is commonly known as the Buddha, meaning "the awakened one". He is recognized by Buddhists as an awakened...
From Stone to Flesh
A Short History of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
We have come to admire Buddhism for being profound but accessible, as much a lifestyle as a religion. The credit for creating Buddhism goes to the Buddha, a figure widely respected across the Western world for his philosophical insight, his teachings of nonviolence, and his practice of meditation....
by Lily Homer
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Buddhism Brings The True Happiness in Life
The message of the Buddha is traditionally known as the Four Noble Truths. The last of these four truths sets out eight steps to happiness, which are: skillful understanding, skillful thinking, skillful speech, skillful action, skillful livelihood,...
The Other Shore
A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This new translation of the Buddha's most important, most studied teaching offers a radical new interpretation.
In September, 2014 Thich Nhat Hanh completed a profound and beautiful new English translation of the Prajñaparamita Heart Sutra, one of the most important and well-known sutras in Buddhism.
The...