Buddhism category: 3907 books
Riding the Ox Home
Stages on the Path of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
"Maps and guideposts are helpful when we undertake a journey. The ten Ox-Herding Pictures, the accompanying ancient poems, and a modern commentary by John Daido Loori, sketch the spiritual path encountered in Zen training, a path of exhaustive study of the self and the realization of the ultimate...
Embracing Mind
The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
What is Mind? For this ancient question we are still seeking answers. B. Alan Wallace and Brian Hodel propose a science of the mind based on the contemplative wisdom of Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christianity, and Islam.
The authors begin by exploring the history of science, showing how science...
by Je Tsongkhapa, Lobsang Gyatso, Geshe Graham Woodhouse
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), the author of The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment and the teacher of the First Dalai Lama, is renowned as one of the greatest scholar-saints that Tibet has ever produced. He composed his poetic Praise for Dependent Relativity the very morning that...
The Buddha's Golden Path
The Classic Introduction to Zen Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In 1929, when author Dwight Goddard wrote The Buddha’s Golden Path, he was breaking ground. No American before him had lived the life of a Zen Buddhist monk, and then set out to share what he had learned with his countrymen. The Buddha’s Golden Path is a true classic. It has touched countless...
The Story of Religion
The rich history of the world's major faiths
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This book traces the history of the world's great religions from their foundation to the present day. Their development is shown in interesting visuals - such as maps and photographs - as well as informative yet concise text. Also included are short biographies of major figures, statistics, calendars...
Indian Asceticism
Power, Violence, and Play
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. A by-product of the ascetic path, power is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water or through dense objects, read minds, discern the former lives of others, see into the future, harm others,...
Glimpses of the Profound
Four Short Works
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
At the beginning of his North American teaching career, Chögyam Trungpa conducted five pivotal seminars on various dharmic topics. The teachings from these seminars—originally published as four separate volumes and including Q&A—are now available in this single volume:
• "Glimpses...
The Heart Attack Sutra
A New Commentary on the Heart Sutra
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The radical message of the Heart Sūtra, one of Buddhism's most famous texts, is a sweeping attack on everything we hold most dear: our troubles, the world as we know it, even the teachings of the Buddha himself. Several of the Buddha's followers are said to have suffered heart attacks and died when...
Being-Time
A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A tour-de-force guide to Zen Master Dogen’s most subtle and sophisticated philosophical premises: that being and time are inseparable.
“Impermanence is time itself, being itself—yet time and being are not at all as we imagine them to be. To really understand and fully embrace this point...
Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path
A Life of Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
In his Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path, Takamaro Shigaraki examines Shin Buddhism anew as a practical path of spiritual growth and self-transformation, challenging assessments of the tradition as a passive religion of mere faith. Shigaraki presents the core themes of the Shin Buddhist path in fresh,...
by Kido Inoue
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
The purpose of a reclusive monk such as myself audaciously presenting a volume like this is to transmit the True Dharma and the Great Compassion of Buddha. In doing this, I wish to highlight the fact that the Heart Sutra is an outstanding guidebook for the path to liberation and for the practice of...
The Original Buddhist Psychology
What the Abhidharma Tells Us About How We Think, Feel, and Experience Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The Abhidharma, one of the three major text collections of the original Buddhist canon, frames the psychological system of Buddhism, explaining the workings of reality and the nature of the human mind. It is composed of detailed matrixes and lists that outline the interaction of consciousness and...
The Lankavatara Sutra
Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Having translated The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra, and following with The Platform Sutra, Red Pine now turns his attention to perhaps the greatest Sutra of all. The Lankavatara Sutra is the holy grail of Zen. Zen’s First Patriarch, Bodhidharma, gave a copy of this text to his successor, Hui-k’o,...
The Deathbed Sutra of the Buddha
Or Siddhartha's Regrets
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
What if, on the final night of his earthly existence, the Buddha experienced a second Enlightenment, leading him to radically revise his teachings about the self, the world, and spiritual fulfillment? And what if that final teaching, lost for over 2000 years, was rediscovered? "The Deathbed Sutra of...