Buddhism category: 3907 books
by Nan Huai-Chin
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
The development of Zen in China is really the story of the flourishing of Chinese philosophy, arts and literature beginning as far back as the Han Dynasty and earlier. Master Nan Huai-Chin offers an engaging chronicle of both in this groundbreaking work.
The Story of Chinese Zen begins with...
by Traktung Dudjom Lingpa
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
A Clear Mirror is the autobiographical account of a saint, a genius, a virtuoso who has granted readers what is most rare in personal accounts: full access to his incredible inner life. Dudjom Lingpa was a 19th century Tibetan visionary and Great Perfection master whose legacy of meditation teachings...
Luminous Emptiness
A Guide to the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2003
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a best-seller for three decades, is one of the most widely read texts of Tibetan Buddhism. Over the years, it has been studied and cherished by Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. Luminous Emptiness is a detailed guide to this classic work, elucidating its mysterious...
Heart of the Great Perfection
Dudjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The revelations of Düdjom Lingpa, a highly influential mystic of 19th century Tibet, translated by B. Alan Wallace, widely respected for his lucid and readable translations of Tibetan Buddhism.
Düdjom Lingpa (1835–1904) was one of the foremost tantric masters of his time. This new series...
The Life and Visions of Yeshé Tsogyal
The Autobiography of the Great Wisdom Queen
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A new biography of Yeshé Tsogyal, the mother of Buddhism in Tibet, who is considered an enlightened being by millions throughout the Himalayan region as well as the West and remains a powerful female role model of spiritual accomplishment and perfection.
The many layers of the heroic life...
The Story of Tibet
Conversations with the Dalai Lama
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A memorable and vivid history lesson about a remote mysterious place that, in terms of its sheer survival, has implications for our own lives.” —The Times-Picayune
Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in...
Secret Lives of the Dalai Lama
The Untold Story of the Holy Men Who Shaped Tibet, from Pre-history to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
The Complete Story of the Dalai Lamas
His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama is known to the world for his efforts to preserve Tibetan culture and for his inspiring spiritual teachings. Often unnoticed, however, is the long, colorful history from which this most beloved of holy men has...
Religious Bodies Politic
Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Religious Bodies Politic examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with a large Buddhist population. Looking at religious transformation among...
Alexandra David-Neel
Portait of an Adventurer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1989
This unique biography explores the inner journey of a woman whose outer life was a thrilling story of passion and adventure. Alexandra David-Neel (1868–1969), born in Paris to a socially prominent family, once boasted, "I learned to run before I could walk!" In the course of a lifetime...
Living with the Devil
A Meditation on Good and Evil
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Stephen Batchelor's seminal work on humanity's struggle between good and evil
In the national bestseller Living with the Devil, Batchelor traces the trajectory from the words of the Buddha and Christ, through the writings of Shantideva, Milton, and Pascal, to the poetry of Baudelaire, the fiction...
by George A. Cobbold
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
It may well be questioned whether, in the course of a like period of
time, any country has ever undergone greater transitions, or made
more rapid strides along the path of civilization than has Japan
during the last quarter of a century. A group of numerous islands,
situated on the high-road and thoroughfare...
The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen
With Hui-neng's Commentary on the Diamond Sutra
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 1998
Hui-neng (638–713) is perhaps the most beloved and respected figure in Zen Buddhism. An illiterate woodcutter who attained enlightenment in a flash, he became the Sixth Patriarch of Chinese Zen, and is regarded as the founder of the "Sudden Enlightenment" school. He is the supreme exemplar...
by Robert Donaldson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
In 1222, Nichiren Daishonin was born in Japan. At age twelve, Nichiren Daishonin entered a Buddhist temple and, at sixteen, was ordained a priest. Nichiren Daishonin assiduously studied the teachings of Shakyamuni, T’ien T’ai and Dengyo.Nichiren Daishonin realized that the Lotus sutra was...
by D. T. Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
This reissued introduction presents the nature, technique and practice of Zen. A Japanese Zen master, Dr Suzuki taught regularly in the USA and Europe..................................................