Buddhism category: 3907 books
Tantric Ethics
An Explanation of the Precepts for Buddhist Vajrayana Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Tantra, or Vajrayana, Buddhism is a set of esoteric practices that involve mantra recitation and complex visualizations. Tantra constitutes the fabric of a Tibetan Buddhist's daily practice, but no practice of tantra can be successful without adherence to the tantric precepts, the highest of three...
The Life and Times of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
The Great Biography by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
An biography of one of the most outstanding Tibetan Buddhist masters of the twentieth century.
The foremost torchbearer of the ecumenical Rime movement, Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö (1893–1959) dedicated his life to the study, practice, and propagation of all the schools and lineages that...
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Thubten Chodron
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature takes up centrally important premises of Buddhism: the unsatisfactoriness (duhkha) of cyclic existence (samsara), the determination to be free of cyclic existence, and the mind as the basis for both the extreme duhkha of samsara and the bliss of nirvana. This volume...
Kalachakra Tantra
Rite of Initiation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Associated with the promotion of world peace, the Kalachakra - or "Wheel of Time" - tantra is one of the most detailed and encompassing systems of theory and practice within Tibetan Buddhism. This book contains a complete translation of the Kalachakra initiation ritual as it was conferred by His Holiness...
From the Heart of Chenrezig
The Dalai Lamas on Tantra
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The lineage of the reincarnated line of Dalai Lamas has held primary spiritual authority and, until recently, temporal power in Tibet since the beginning of the fifteenth century. The translations in this book represent a curated set of their writings specifically on tantra, the advanced path of Tibetan...
Buddhas and Kami in Japan
Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku (originals and their traces). It questions received, simplified accounts of the interactions between Shinto and Japanese Buddhism, and presents...
Buddhist Modernities
Re-inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The transformations Buddhism has been undergoing in the modern age have inspired much research over the last decade. The main focus of attention has been the phenomenon known as Buddhist modernism, which is defined as a conscious attempt to adjust Buddhist teachings and practices in conformity with...
by F. A. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
In this excellent small tome F. A. Bell delves into the mysteries of the Masonic Order of the Eastern Star including the role and history of the women who shaped and served the order.
“The spirit of modernity now pervades even our Ancient Mysteries, so that they must bear the stamp of recent...
Myth and Deity in Japan
The Interplay of Kami and Buddhas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Shinto is a tradition native to Japan that arose naturally on the eastern fringe of the Eurasian continent and was woven over many years into the fabric of people's everyday lives. When Buddhism entered the country in the sixth century, the two religions-rather than competing with or seeking to marginalize...
Forging the Golden Urn
The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
In 1995, the People’s Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. The Chinese Communist Party hoped to limit the ability of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile to...
Out of This World
Across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
In 1949, renowned travel writer Lowell Thomas, Jr., along with his father, the American writer and broadcaster best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous, was invited by the Tibetan government to make a film there, in the hope that their reports would help persuade the U.S. government...
The Japanese Tea Ceremony
Cha-no-Yu and the Zen Art of Mindfulness
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
The Japanese Tea Ceremony is a detailed examination of the five-centuries-old tea ceremony—or Cha-no-Yu in Japanese, literally "hot water for tea"—a cornerstone of Japanese culture and a core practice of Zen Buddhism.
Framed by intricately choreographed steps, the tea ceremony...
by Prof. Hilton Hotema
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
World Famous alternative health writer, esoteric author and mystic Hilton Hotema gives a fascinating exposition of his theories.
This course of study, 58 wonderful lessons, contains a clear and simple exposition of what all must learn, if they would get out of the fog of false teaching and travel the great way of regeneration and redemption.
by Paul Carus
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Buddhism, like Christianity, is split up into innumerable sects, and these sects not infrequently cling to their sectarian tenets as being the main and most indispensable features of their religion. The present book follows none of the sectarian doctrines, but takes an ideal position upon which all...