Wisdom Publications: 444 books
A Hundred Thousand White Stones
An Ordinary Tibetan's Extraordinary Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
A Hundred Thousand White Stones is one young Tibetan woman's fearlessly told story of longing and change. Kunsang Dolma writes with unvarnished candor of the hardships she experienced as a girl in Tibet, violations as a refugee nun in India, and struggles as an immigrant and new mother in America....
The Tantric Distinction
A Buddhist's Reflections on Compassion and Emptiness
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
"The ideas, concepts, and methods of various religions must be tried on for size, must be lifted above museum displays, must be confronted and allowed to resonate with one's own character. It is in this spirit that I present here a personalized account of central Buddhist practices."--from the author's...
How to Raise an Ox
Zen Practice as Taught in Master Dogen's Shobogenzo
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
The writings of Zen master Dogen are among the highest achievements not only of Japanese literature but of world literature. Dogen's writings are a near-perfect expression of truth, beautifully expressing the best of which the human race is capable. In this volume, Francis Cook presents ten selections...
Ultimate Healing
The Power of Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
We experience illness on a physical level, but in order to be healed, we must understand where true healing begins: within our hearts and minds. In Ultimate Healing, internationally renowned meditation master Lama Zopa Rinpoche helps us to recognize the root of illness and gives us the tools to create...
The World of Tibetan Buddhism
An Overview of Its Philosophy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
With characteristic humility, His Holiness the Dalai Lama begins this landmark survey of the entire Buddhist path by saying, "I think an overview of Tibetan Buddhism for the purpose of providing a comprehensive framework of the path may prove helpful in deepening your understanding and practice."...
Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying
An Exploration of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
This is an absorbing account of a dialogue between leading Western scientists and the foremost representative of Buddhism today, the Dalai Lama of Tibet.
For modern science, the transitional states of consciousness lie at the forefront of research in many fields. For a Buddhist practitioner...
Ornament of Stainless Light
An Exposition of the Kalachakra Tantra
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The premiere volume of Thupten Jinpa's thirty-two-volume Library of Tibetan Classics series, inaugurated to coincide with the Dalai Lama's conferral of the initiation rite of Kalacakra in Toronto in April 2004.
The Kalacakra, or "wheel of time," tantra likely entered Indian Mahayana Buddhism...
Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond
A Meditator's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
Meditation: it's not just a way to relax, or to deal with life's problems. Done correctly, it can be a way to radically encounter bliss and to begin - and sustain - real transformation in ourselves.
In Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond, self-described meditation junkie Ajahn Brahm shares his knowledge...
Buddhism of the Heart
Reflections on Shin Buddhism and Inner Togetherness
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Jeff Wilson started his walk on the Buddha's path as a Zen practitioner - taking up a tradition of vigorous self-effort, intensive meditation, and meticulous attention to rectitude in every action. But in Jeff's case, rather than freeing him from his suffering, he found those Zen practices made him...
The Sound of Silence
The Selected Teachings of Ajahn Sumedho
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
The sound of silence is like a subtlety behind everything that you awaken to; you don't notice it if you're seeking the extremes. Yet as we start to become more poised, more present, fully receptive of all this moment has to offer, we start to experience it vividly and listening to it can draw us...
In This Very Life
Liberation Teachings of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Burmese meditation master Sayadaw U Pandita shows us that freedom is as immediate as breathing, as fundamental as a footstep. In this book he describes the path of the Buddha and calls all of us to that heroic journey of liberation. Enlivened by numerous case histories and anecdotes, In This Very Life is a matchless guide to the inner territory of meditation - as described by the Buddha.
The Great Awakening
A Buddhist Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
The most essential insight that Buddhism offers is that all our individual suffering arises from three and only three sources, known in Buddhism as the three poisons: greed, ill-will, and delusion. In The Great Awakening, scholar and Zen teacher David Loy examines how these three poisons, embodied...
by Hee-Jin Kim
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Eihei Dogen, the founder of the Japanese branch of the Soto Zen Buddhist school, is considered one of the world's most remarkable religious philosophers. Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist is a comprehensive introduction to the genius of this brilliant thinker. This thirteenth-century figure has much to...
Landscapes of Wonder
Discovering Buddhist Dharma in the World Around Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
"To most of us there have come exceptional, unworldly moments, like unsuspected deeps in a stream, when we fell through appearances - fell through ourselves - into an intuition of majesty and wonder."
- Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano in Landscapes of Wonder
Landscapes of Wonder deftly transports the...