Buddhism category: 3907 books
by Frank Berliner
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Frank Berliner came of age in the turbulent and exciting era of 1960s America, and met the authentic spiritual master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche just as the Western cultural door opened to receive the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism. In Falling in Love with a Buddha, Frank recalls the world of Rinpoche’s...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Great Liberation Through Hearing In The Bardo
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2000
In this classic scripture of Tibetan Buddhism—traditionally read aloud to the dying to help them attain liberation—death and rebirth are seen as a process that provides an opportunity to recognize the true nature of mind. This translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead emphasizes the practical...
Awakening of the Heart
Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Awakening of the Heart is a comprehensive, single volume collection of the Buddha’s key sutras, translated with contemporary commentary by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. It is an essential complement to Happiness, the bestselling collection of meditation and mindful practices released in 2009. Awakening...
The Truth of This Life
Zen Teachings on Loving the World as It Is
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Accessible and elegant teachings from a well-loved and revered woman Zen teacher.
“The truth and joy of this life is that we cannot change things as they are.” The import of those words can be found beautifully expressed in the work of the woman who spoke them, Katherine Thanas (1927–2012)—in...
Untangling Self
A Buddhist Investigation of Who We Really Are
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Untangling Self invites us to see nonself, interdependence, and mindfulness as rational, real-world solutions to the human condition of suffering.
In psychologically rich essays that equally probe traditional Buddhist thought and contemporary issues, Andrew Olendzki helps us to reconcile ancient...
The Mirror of Zen
The Classic Guide to Buddhist Practice by Zen Master So Sahn
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
The sacred radiance of our original nature never darkens.
It has shined forth since beginningless time.
Do you wish to enter the gate that leads to this?
Simply do not give rise to conceptual thinking.
Zen Master So Sahn (1520–1604) is a towering figure in the history of Korean Zen. In this...
Facebuddha
Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
We are who happens to us, and what we make of the happening. Who do we become when we relate online?
Facebuddha: Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks is a rich modern memoir of relationship online and off, an exploration of psychological research about social media, and an engaging introduction...
Be Still and Know
Reflections from Living Buddha, Living Christ
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
In his acclaimed national bestseller, Living Buddha, Living Christ, renowned thinker and scholar Thich Nhat Hanh explored the deep connections between Christianity and Buddhism. Be Still and Know uses selections from his groundbreaking work to create a handbook of meditations and reflections that...
Wild Ivy
The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
A fiery and intensely dynamic Zen teacher and artist, Hakuin (1685–1768) is credited with almost single-handedly revitalizing Japanese Zen after three hundred years of decline. As a teacher, he placed special emphasis on koan practice, inventing many new koans himself, including the famous "What...
Living by Vow
A Practical Introduction to Eight Essential Zen Chants and Texts
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This immensely useful book explores Zen's rich tradition of chanted liturgy and the powerful ways that such chants support meditation, expressing and helping us truly uphold our heartfelt vows to live a life of freedom and compassion. Exploring eight of Zen's most essential and universal liturgical...
The Dhammapada
Verses on the Way
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Trembling and quivering is the mind,
Difficult to guard and hard to restrain.
The person of wisdom sets it straight,
As a fletcher does an arrow.
The Dhammapada introduced the actual utterances of the Buddha nearly twenty-five hundred years ago, when the master teacher emerged from his long...
My Year of Dirt and Water
Journal of a Zen Monk's Wife in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
MUCH MORE THAN "ZEN." There is a lot here that will appeal to Buddhists, but this is a book from a unique perspective: that of the partner of the Zen monk. How does it feel to be left behind and also to be out of context in Japan? First and foremost, this is a book about seeking, and the...
Radical Dharma
Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective awakening....
Master of the Three Ways
Reflections of a Chinese Sage on Living a Satisfying Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
At once profound, spiritual, and witty, Master of the Three Ways is a remarkable work about human nature, the essence of life, and how to live simply and with awareness. In three hundred and fifty-seven verses, the author, Hung Ying-ming—a seventeenth-century Chinese sage—explores good and evil,...