Buddhism category: 3907 books
Buddhist Revivalist Movements
Comparing Zen Buddhism and the Thai Forest Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
This text provides a comparative investigation of the affinities and differences of two of the most dynamic currents in World Buddhism: Zen Buddhism and the Thai Forest Movement. Defying differences in denomination, culture, and historical epochs, these schools revived an unfettered quest for enlightenment...
Mind in the Balance
Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
By establishing a dialogue in which the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity speak to the theories of modern philosophy and science, B. Alan Wallace reveals the theoretical similarities underlying these disparate disciplines and their unified approach to making sense of the objective...
by Alexander Yamashita
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Embrace The Zen Lifestyle
Achieve Today Your Happiness with Zen Buddhism
In this book, you will learn the concepts of Zen lifestyle and how these can help you to achieve happiness and success in life. You will also learn how you can apply the concepts not only in your personal life but...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book explores the resonances between Deleuze’s philosophy and a range of philosophical concepts in Buddhism. Focusing on this rarely examined relationship, this book gathers perspectives from scholars around the globe to explore the continuities and discontinuities between Deleuze’s and Buddhist...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Many forms of Buddhism, divergent in philosophy and style, emerged as Buddhism filtered out of India into other parts of Asia. Nonetheless, all of them embodied an ethical core that is remarkably consistent. Articulated by the historical Buddha in his first sermon, this moral core is founded on the...
In the Hope of Nibbana
The Ethics of Theravada Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The words “in the hope of nibbana” are often found printed on invitations to anniversaries or festival meals, sent by the Burmese to their friends. Early in the morning, monks are fed, followed by other invited friends who arrive for a good social meal together. All of this is done, as the invitation...
Where Buddhism Meets Neuroscience
Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Spiritual and Scientific Views of Our Minds
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
This book, designed as a conversation between the Dalai Lama and Western neuroscientists, takes readers on a journey through opposing fields of thought--showing that they may not be so opposing after all.
Is the mind an ephemeral side effect of the brain’s physical processes? Are there forms...
by TJ Seitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2011
3 short writings associated with the subject of Buddhism
Buddhism beyond Gender
Liberation from Attachment to Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A bold and provocative work from the late preeminent feminist scholar, which challenges men and women alike to free themselves from attachment to gender.
At the heart of Buddhism is the notion of egolessness—“forgetting the self”—as the path to awakening. In fact, attachment to views...
The Rain of Wisdom
The Essence of the Ocean of True Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
The art of composing spontaneous songs that express spiritual understanding has existed in Tibet for centuries. Over a hundred of these profound songs are found in this collection of the works of the great teachers of the Kagyü lineage, known as the Practice Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
Many...
by Bhikkhu Analayo
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Join a rigorous scholar and Buddhist monk on a brisk tour of rebirth from ancient doctrine to contemporary debates.
German Buddhist monk and university professor Bhikkhu Analayo had not given much attention to the topic of rebirth before some friends asked him to explore the treatment of the...
Developments in Australian Buddhism
Facets of the Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This book examines the adaptation of Buddhism to the Australian sociocultural context. To gain insight into this process of cross-cultural adaptation, issues arising in the development of Diamond Sangha Zen Buddhist groups (one of the largest Zen lineages in the West) in Australia are contextualised...
Leaving Buddha
A Tibetan Monk's Encounter with the Living God
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Where Does the Search for Truth Lead?
When Tenzin Lahkpa is fifteen years old, his parents give him over to a local temple in Tibet as an offering. Unable to change his fate, he wholeheartedly embraces his life as a monk and begins a quest for full enlightenment through the teachings of Buddhism.
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Absorption in No External World
170 Issues in Mind-Only Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Dzong-ka-ba's The Essence of Eloquence is still considered so important to Tibetan Buddhists that the Dalai Lama keeps a copy with him wherever he goes. This book examines many fascinating points raised in six centuries of Tibetan and Mongolian commentary concerning the first two sections of this...