Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
Work as a Spiritual Practice
A Practical Buddhist Approach to Inner Growth and Satisfaction on the Job
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
A guide to developing and maintaining a spiritual life on the job, drawn from the teachings and practices of Buddhist tradition.
Most people associate Buddhism with developing calmness, kindness, and compassion through meditation. Lewis Richmond's Work as a Spiritual Practice shows us another...
Mindful Money
Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Is it possible to be a conscientious citizen of the world and grow wealth? The author, a Buddhist and a financial planner, says yes and explains exactly how. Money drives many of our decisions. We all worry about earning it, spending it, and saving it — regardless of our income level or spiritual...
The Leader's Way
The Art of Making the Right Decisions in Our Careers, Our Companies, and the World at Large
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Born out of a decade of discussion between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and international management consultant Laurens van den Muyzenberg, The Leader’s Way is the unique meeting of two worlds: the global business landscape and Buddhism. At first sight, these seem to be an unlikely pairing. After...
by Stephanie Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
A former money manager discovers how investing can be about much more than just making money.Stephanie Griffiths was a successful money manager and self-described workaholic when she learned to meditate, hoping to reduce her stress and improve her productivity. But when she suddenly lost her job,...
A Guided Tour of Hell
A Graphic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Take a trip through the realms of hell with a man whose temporary visitor’s pass gave him a horrifying—and enlightening—preview of its torments. This true account of Sam Bercholz’s near-death experience has more in common with Dante’s Inferno than it does with any of the popular feel-good...
by Hermann Hesse
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse’s ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, lyrical style. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential...
The Hidden Lamp
Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The Hidden Lamp is a collection of one hundred koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of...
Flower Does Not Talk
Zen Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
These essays by a prominent Zen master are a classic introduction to Zen Buddhism, specifically written for Westerners.
The former abbot of Nanzenji Monastary in Kyoto, the Reverend Zenkei Shibayama, understood Western ways, and, in the early 1970s, prepared these introductory essays for English...
In the Buddha's Words
An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
This landmark collection is the definitive introduction to the Buddha's teachings - in his own words. The American scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi, whose voluminous translations have won widespread acclaim, here presents selected discourses of the Buddha from the Pali Canon, the earliest record of what...
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha
A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection--among the oldest records of the historical Buddha's original teachings--consists...
The Dhammapada
The Sayings of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
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...
by Mohandas K. Gandhi
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The Bhagavad Gita presents a synthesis of the Brahmanical concept of Dharma, theistic bhakti, the yogic ideals of liberation through jnana, and Samkhya philosophy. Numerous commentaries have been written on the Bhagavad Gita with widely differing views on the essentials. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi...
Japanese Death Poems
Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1998
"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." —Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Although the consciousness of...
Zen Poetry
Let the Spring Breeze Enter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
From the editors of Zen Poems of China and Japan comes the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English.
This collaboration between a Japanese scholar and an American poet has rendered translations both precise and sublime, and their selections, which span fifteen...