Wisdom Publications: 444 books
by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
"Happiness and suffering are dependent upon your mind, upon your interpretation. They do not come from outside, from others. All of your happiness and all of your suffering are created by you, by your own mind," says Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Commenting on an early-twentieth-century Tibetan text...
The Mountains and Waters Sutra
A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's "Sansuikyo"
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
An indispensable map of a classic Zen text.
“Mountains and waters are the expression of old buddhas.”
So begins “Sansuikyo,” or “Mountains and Waters Sutra,” a masterpiece of poetry and insight from Eihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century founder of the Soto school of Zen.
Shohaku...
Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?
Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life's Difficulties
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2005
The 108 pieces in the international bestseller Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? offer thoughtful commentary on everything from love and commitment to fear and pain. Drawing from his own life experience, as well as traditional Buddhist folk tales, author Ajahn Brahm uses over thirty years of spiritual...
Buddhism
One Teacher, Many Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Explore the common ground underlying the diverse expressions of the Buddha's teachings with two of Tibetan Buddhism's bestselling authors.
Buddhism is practiced by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, from Tibetan caves to Tokyo temples to redwood retreats. To an outside viewer, it might...
Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand
A Concise Discourse on the Path to Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
Pabongka Rinpoche was one the twentieth century's most charismatic and revered Tibetan lamas, and in Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand we can see why. In this famous twenty-four-day teaching on the lamrim, or stages of the path, Pabongka Rinpoche weaves together lively stories and quotations with...
The Essential Nectar
Meditations on the Buddhist Path
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Exploring crucial points on the path to enlightenment, “Stages of the Path” literature continues to hold its place as one of the great treasures of Buddhist thought. In this volume, Geshe Rabten presents a structured explanation of the popular and practical text, The Essential Nectar of Holy Doctrine,...
Mission to Tibet
The Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Account of Father Ippolito Desideri S. J.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Mission to Tibet recounts the fascinating eighteenth-century journey of the Jesuit priest ippolito Desideri (1684 - 1733) to the Tibetan plateau. The italian missionary was most notably the first european to learn about Buddhism directly with Tibetan schol ars and monks - and from a profound study...
Buddhist Psychology
The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
This new volume from the Foundation of Buddhist Thought series, provides a stand-alone and systematic - but accessible - entry into how Buddhism understands the mind. Geshe Tashi, an English-speaking Tibetan monk who lives in London, was trained from boyhood in a traditional Tibetan monastery and...
Going on Being
Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Before he began training as a psychiatrist, Mark Epstein immersed himself in Buddhism through influential teachers such as Ram Dass, Joseph Goldstein, and Jack Kornfield. Buddhism's positive outlook and the meditative principle of living in the moment profoundly influenced his study and practice of...
Unlimiting Mind
The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
Both broad and deep, this eye-opening book is one of the best available overviews of the radical psychological teachings underlying the Buddhist approach to freedom and peace. Sophisticated without being daunting, brilliantly clear without becoming simplistic, Andrew Olendzki's writing is filled with...
Mixing Minds
The Power of Relationship in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
"We cannot find ourselves, or be ourselves, alone." - from Mixing Minds
Mixing Minds explores the interpersonal relationships between psychoanalysts and their patients, and Buddhist teachers and their students. Through the author's own personal journey in both traditions, she sheds light on...
Psychoanalysis and Buddhism
An Unfolding Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
"What a wonderful book! Jeremy Safran has assembled an absolutely stellar group of writers and has himself contributed an illuminating introduction. The essays are riveting and the book is the rare edited collection with real thematic unity. If you think you might have an interest in the intersection...
Nothing Is Hidden
The Psychology of Zen Koans
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
In this inspiring and incisive offering, Barry Magid uses the language of modern psychology and psychotherapy to illuminate one of Buddhism's most powerful and often mysterious technologies: the Zen koan. What's more, Magid also uses the koans to expand upon the insights of psychology (especially...
Ordinary Mind
Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Is meditation an escape from--or a solution to--our psychological problems? Is the use of antidepressants counter to spiritual practice? Does a psychological approach to meditation reduce spirituality to "self-help"? What can Zen and psychoanalysis teach us about the problems of the mind and suffering?
Psychiatrist...