Buddhism category: 3907 books
Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark
The Korean Buddhist Master Chinul’s Excerpts on Zen Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark examines the issue of whether enlightenment in Zen Buddhism is sudden or gradual—that is, something intrinsic to the mind that is achieved in a sudden flash of insight or something extrinsic to it that must be developed through a sequential series of practices. This...
by Hugh Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The cognitive science of religion has shown that abstract religious concepts within many established religious traditions often fail to correspond to the beliefs of the vast majority of those religions' adherents. And yet, while the cognitive approach to religion has explained why these "theologically...
Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic
A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
A radical approach to studying the mind.
Renowned Buddhist philosopher B. Alan Wallace reasserts the power of shamatha and vipashyana, traditional Buddhist meditations, to clarify the mind's role in the natural world. Raising profound questions about human nature, free will, and experience...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The Buddhist World joins a series of books on the world’s great religions and cultures, offering a lively and up-to-date survey of Buddhist studies for students and scholars alike. It explores regional varieties of Buddhism and core topics including buddha-nature, ritual, and pilgrimage. In addition...
by Sangharakshita
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
One of the most far-reaching of Sangharakshita's contributions to modern Buddhism was giving shape to the Buddhist conversion movement begun by the great Indian statesman and reformer, Dr B.R. Ambedkar. The first part tells the story of how Ambedkar overcame the suffering and struggle of his early...
by Vessantara
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Queens and old crones, Buddhas and goddesses, mothers and wild women. Female deities in Buddhism take many forms to inspire, beguile, rouse and protect us. Enter the magical realm of gently compassionate Kuan Yin from China, meet the elusive golden goddess from India representing Perfect Wisdom, and...
The Navel of the Demoness
Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in Highland Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007
This groundbreaking study focuses on a village called Te in a "Tibetanized" region of northern Nepal. While Te's people are nominally Buddhist, and engage the services of resident Tibetan Tantric priests for a range of rituals, they are also exponents of a local religion that involves blood sacrifices...
by Sam van Schaik
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
An engaging introduction to Zen Buddhism, featuring a new English translation of one of the earliest Zen texts
Leading Buddhist scholar Sam van Schaik explores the history and essence of Zen, based on a new translation of one of the earliest surviving collections of teachings by Zen masters....
by John Tosan McKinnon
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Places where the Buddha lived and taught two and a half thousand years ago are now sites of pilgrimage. Homeland of the Buddha is a book for those who have an interest in Buddhism and who aspire to visit these places. Each chapter narrates the history of that site, its significance within Buddhism, how...
Rimé
Buddhism Without Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The 19th century Rimé (non-sectarian) movement played a major role in shaping modern Tibetan Buddhism. This book provides an overview of the movement, the major figures within it, its background context, and why it has exerted such an enduring influence. The central figures in the Rimé movement...
by Yejitsu Okusa
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
The doctrine of Amida represents the practical phase of Buddhism, and in the True Sect of Pure Land we see the deep meaning of salvation by faith most thoroughly revealed; and it is in this that the essence of Buddhism as religion, apart from its philosophical and ethical aspects, consists.
Thus,...
The Gathering of Intentions
A History of a Tibetan Tantra
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The Gathering of Intentions reads a single Tibetan Buddhist ritual system through the movements of Tibetan history, revealing the social and material dimensions of an ostensibly timeless tradition. By subjecting tantric practice to historical analysis, the book offers new insight into the origins...
by Rodger Ricketts
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The Buddha's Teachings: Seeing without Illusion incorporates the writings of contemporary Buddhist scholars, psychologists, cognitive scientists and physicists to provide a fascinating and authoritative framework for the interpretation of the Buddha's teachings. In this revised and expanded edition,...
The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana)
Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This study presents details about the life and philosophy of the founder of Buddhism, Prince Gautama of India or the Buddha, in the form of a poem as told from an imaginary Buddhist character. When originally published in 1926, little was known of Buddhism in Europe and Arnold aimed to inform the...