Buddhism category: 3907 books
by Taranatha
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
A doctor, outwardly successful and compassionate, Taranatha feels 'sucked dry' - and struggling with the twin demons of depression and alcoholism. His search for a way out involves him in a suicide attempt before his will to live reasserts itself. His path to recovery takes him through AA and anti-depressants,...
Diamond Mind
A Psychology of Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2001
Buddhism teaches that the mind is the source of 100 percent of all unhappiness: anxiety, agitation, desire, anger, grief. Through understanding how our mind works, it is possible to tame it—and to discover that happiness, wisdom, compassion, and clarity are actually inherent qualities in all of...
by Lao ZI
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The text, along with the Zhuangzi, is a fundamental text for both philosophical and religious Taoism, and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism, Confucianism and Chinese Buddhism, which when first introduced into China was largely interpreted through the...
Wake up and Cook
Kitchen Buddhism in Words and Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
A gorgeous, zen cookbook that celebrates balance, meditation, and everyday beauty.
From ancient teachings to the words of celebrated masters and contemporary cooks, this collection of commentaries, blessings, meditations, and recipes is a call to recognize everyday activities as opportunities...
Himalayan Hermitess
The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2004
Himalayan Hermitess is a vivid account of the life and times of a Buddhist nun living on the borderlands of Tibetan culture. Orgyan Chokyi (1675-1729) spent her life in Dolpo, the highest inhabited region of the Nepal Himalayas. Illiterate and expressly forbidden by her master to write her own life...
Zen Lessons
The Art of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
This guide to enlightened conduct for people in positions of authority is based on the teachings of several great Chinese Zen masters. Drawing on private records, letters, and long-lost documents of the Song dynasty (tenth to thirteenth centuries), Zen Lessons consists of short excerpts written in...
Warrior Origins
The Historical and Legendary Links Between the Bodhidharma's, Shaolin Kung-Fu, Karate and Ninjutsu
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Essential reading for martial arts practitioners and students of BuddhismThis book considers the universal question posed by both martial artists and practitioners of eastern religions regarding the origins of each style or school. It delineates the ancestries of the most famous and popular martial...
The Mirror of God
Christian Faith as Spiritual Practice--Lessons from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
What are the benefits of being a spiritual person? This is the question that James Jones explores in his newest book, The Mirror of God. Jones contends that true religious belief is not a passive process and that one must work hard towards believing in God through acts such as prayer, meditation and...
Thomas Hoover's Collection: The Zen Experience (Illustrated)
The best history of Zen ever written
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The truth of Zen has always resided in individual experience rather than in theoretical writings. To give the modern reader access to understanding of this truth, THE ZEN EXPERIENCE illumines Zen as it was created and shaped by the personalities, perceptions, and actions of its masters over the centuries....
Awake in the Wild
Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
“Nature deficit disorder” has become an increasingly challenging problem in our hypermodern world. In Awake in the Wild, Mark Coleman shows seekers how to remedy this widespread malady by reconnecting with nature through Buddhism. Each short (two to three pages) chapter includes a concrete nature...
Being Black
Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
**"Honest, courageous... Williams has committed an act of love."—Alice Walker
"A classic."—Jack Kornfield
There truly is an art to being here in this world, and like any art, it can be mastered.**
In this elegant, practical book, Angel Kyodo Williams combines the universal...
The Passion Book
A Tibetan Guide to Love and Sex
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
The Passion**Book is the most famous work of erotica in the vast literature of Tibetan Buddhism, written by the legendary scholar and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-1951). Soon after arriving in India in 1934, he discovered the Kama Sutra. Realizing that this genre of the erotic was unknown in Tibet, he...
by Phillip Duke Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The word Karma is very old, it comes from the Sanskrit, a language so ancient it is no longer spoken. The fact that the word Karma is still widely used shows its importance. Karma is the force that determines everything during life, and after death. Your Karma determines what kind of life you will...
by Venerable Myokyo-Ni The Vene
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
This Zen guide offers a readable, helpful interpretation of a classic pillar of Zen training.
The Venerable Myokyo-ni is one of today's most distinguished teachers in the Rinzai Zen tradition. In Gentling the Bull she offers an insightful explanation of the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures, showing...