Buddhism category: 3907 books
Liberation in One Lifetime
Biographies and Teachings of Milarepa
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Milarepa (1052-1135), a major figure in the history of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and known as one of Tibet's greatest lamas and poets, continues to inspire Buddhist practitioners worldwide to the present day. Liberation in One Lifetime explores the history and spirituality of the Kagyu...
The Buddhist Guide to New York
Where to Go, What to Do, and How to Make the Most of the Fantastic Resources in the Tri-State Area
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Buddhism in New York is as exciting and diverse as the city itself, but can be just as overwhelming for those new to the practice. What's a good temple or practice center to try for your first visit? What should you wear? What are the differences between the various schools? With The Buddhist Guide...
by Yaroslav Komarovski
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In this book, Yaroslav Komarovski argues that the Tibetan Buddhist interpretations of the realization of ultimate reality both contribute to and challenge contemporary interpretations of unmediated mystical experience. The model used by the majority of Tibetan Buddhist thinkers states that the realization...
Thus Have I Seen
Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
Although Buddhism is often depicted as a religion of meditators and philosophers, some of the earliest writings extant in India offer a very different portrait of the Buddhist practitioner. In Indian Buddhist narratives from the early centuries of the Common Era, most lay religious practice consists...
The Category of ‘Religion’ in Contemporary Japan
Shūkyō and Temple Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book critically examines the term ‘religion’ (shūkyō) as a social category within the sociological context of contemporary Japan. Whereas the nineteenth-century construction of shūkyō has been critically studied by many, the same critical approach has not been extended to the contemporary...
Green Buddhism
Practice and Compassionate Action in Uncertain Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
At a time of growing environmental crisis, a pioneer of Green Buddhist thought offers challenging and illuminating perspectives.
With species rapidly disappearing and global temperatures rising, there is more urgency than ever to act on the ecological crises we face. Hundreds of millions of...
A La Carte Buddhism
A Path to Lasting Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Michael Kuzilny is a high profile criminal defense lawyer. Twenty-five years ago, Michael learned what proved, literally, to be a life-saving skill. Michael learned to practice meditation; and traded his religion for a simple yet powerful Buddhist philosophy. Not as a religion, but as a lifestyle...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Short inspirational selections from the great masters of Tibetan Buddhism, past and present--now part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series.
Alternately sage and humorous, eloquent and pithy, these inspirational selections illustrate a central affirmation of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition:...
Silence and Noise
Growing Up Zen in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A fresh new voice in American Buddhism -- a twenty-nine-year-old raised among Buddhists in California -- offers wisdom for both longtime practitioners and a new generation of students in this fascinating memoir of his Zen upbringing.
Over half a century ago, when the first Zen Masters came to America,...
by Johannes Bronkhorst
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
The earliest records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death, and the body of teachings attributed to him continued to evolve in India for centuries afterward across a shifting cultural and political landscape. As one tradition within a diverse religious...
Asperger's Syndrome and Mindfulness
Taking Refuge in the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Understanding who you are can be a lonely and difficult process following the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome (AS). Asperger's Syndrome and Mindfulness illuminates this experience as an empowering path of discovery through the teachings of Buddhism.
Chris Mitchell draws parallels between the...
The Refutation of the Self in Indian Buddhism
Candrakīrti on the Selflessness of Persons
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Since the Buddha did not fully explain the theory of persons that underlies his teaching, in later centuries a number of different interpretations were developed. This book presents the interpretation by the celebrated Indian Buddhist philosopher, Candrakīrti (ca. 570–650 C.E.).
Candrakīrti’s...
The History of the Buddha's Relic Shrine
A Translation of the Sinhala Thūpava.msa
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Buddhist chronicles have long been had a central place in the study of Buddhism. Scholars, however, have relied almost exclusively on Pali works that were composed by elites for learned audiences, to the neglect of a large number of Buddhist histories written in local languages for popular consumption....
Buddhas and Ancestors
Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Two issues central to the transition from the Kory to the Chos n dynasty in fourteenth-century Korea were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism, which had been the state religion. In this revisionist history, Juhn Ahn challenges the long-accepted Confucian critique that Buddhism...