Wisdom Publications: 444 books
Mipham's Beacon of Certainty
Illuminating the View of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
For centuries, Dzogchen - a special meditative practice to achieve spontaneous enlightenment - has been misinterpreted by both critics and malinformed meditators as being purely mystical and anti-rational. In the grand spirit of Buddhist debate, 19th century Buddhist philosopher Mipham wrote Beacon...
Purification in Tibetan Buddhism
The Practice of the Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
This is an indispensable guide for all practioners.
In Purification in Tibetan Buddhism, Geshe Jampa Gyatso explains The Bodhisattva’s Confession of Downfalls, a daily practice for purifying negativities. This essential practice helps us to clear negative thoughts and actions from our body,...
Emptiness
The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
In Emptiness, the fifth volume in The Foundation of Buddhist Thought series, Geshe Tashi Tsering provides readers with an incredibly welcoming presentation of the central philosophical teaching of Mahayana Buddhism. Emptiness does not imply a nihilistic worldview, but rather the idea that a permanent...
Taking the Result as the Path
Core Teachings of the Sakya Lamdre Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The tradition known as the Path with the Result, or Lamdre, is the most important tantric system of meditation practice and theory in the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. This volume contains an unprecedented compilation of eleven vital works from different periods in the history of the Path with...
Freedom from Extremes
Gorampa's "Distinguishing the Views" and the Polemics of Emptiness
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
What is emptiness? This question at the heart of Buddhist philosophy has preoccupied the greatest minds of India and Tibet for two millennia, producing hundreds of volumes. Distinguishing the Views, by the fifteenth-century Sakya scholar Gorampa Sonam Senge, is one of the most important of those works,...
Remembering the Lotus-Born
Padmasambhava in the History of Tibet's Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Remembering the Lotus-Born sheds light on the work of Nyangrel Nyima Öser (1124–92), one of the most influential yet least known figures in the history of Tibetan Buddhism. His pivotal work, the Copper Island, is the story of how the Indian tantric master Padmasambhava brought Buddhism to the region....
Steps on the Path to Enlightenment
A Commentary on Tsongkhapa's Lamrim Chenmo, Volume 3: The Way of the Bodhisattva
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2007
Geshe Lhundub Sopa's Steps on the Path to Enlightenment is a landmark commentary on what is perhaps the most elaborate and elegant Tibetan presentation of the Buddhist path, Tsongkhapa's monumental Lamrim Chenmo. In this third volume of five, readers are acquainted with the bodhisattva's path and...
by Yoshiro Tamura
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The Lotus Sutra--one of the most popular Buddhist classics--is here accessibly introduced by one of its most eminent scholars.
"Soon after entering university in December of 1943, I was sent to the front as a student soldier. I wondered if I were allowed to bring but a single book on the trip,...
If You're Lucky, Your Heart Will Break
Field Notes from a Zen Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Using vignettes and anecdotes from his own life - as well as quotations drawn from sources as varied as the Bible, Yiddish aphorisms, and stand-up comedy - Zen teacher and Unitarian Universalist minister James Ishmael Ford shares the gifts won over his lifetime of full-hearted engagement with the...
Zen Questions
Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Whether speaking of student or master, Zen hinges on the question. Zen practice does not necessarily focus on the answers, but on finding a space in which we may sustain uncertainty and remain present and upright in the middle of investigations. Zen Questions begins by exploring "The World of Zazen,"--the...
Under the Bodhi Tree
Buddha's Original Vision of Dependent Co-arising
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A renowned Buddhist master digs into the idea of interdependency—the very core of the Buddha’s teachings.
Under the Bodhi Tree takes us back to the principles at the heart of Buddha’s teachings—conditionality and dependent co-arising. Ajahn Buddhadasa Bhikkhu makes the case for dependent...
The Promise of Amida Buddha
Honen's Path to Bliss
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The Promise of Amida Buddha is the first complete English translation of a seminal collection of writings by the Japanese Pure Land school's founder, Honen-shonin (1133-1212). The so-called Japanese Anthology (Wago Toroku) collects his surviving short writings composed in Japanese, including letters...
The Wheel of Life
Buddhist Perspectives on Cause and Effect
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Using the traditional Buddhist allegorical image of the Wheel of Life and the teaching of the twelve links of dependent origination, the Dalai Lama deftly illustrates how our existence, though fleeting and often full of woes, brims with the potential for peace and happiness. We can realize that potential...
Shingon Refractions
Myoe and the Mantra of Light
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Shingon Buddhism arose in the eighth century and remains one of Japan's most important sects, at present numbering some 12 million adherents. As such it is long overdue appropriate coverage. Here, the well-respected Mark Unno illuminates the tantric practice of the Mantra of Light, the most central...