Author: Lopez, Donald S. , Jr. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous Buddhist text in the West, having sold more than a million copies since it was first published in English in 1927. Carl Jung wrote a commentary on it, T...
Author: Kipfer, Barbara Ann Publisher: Ulysses Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: At the core of Buddha's teachings is the path to happiness. The Buddha himself was known as "The Happy One," so it's no surprise that Buddhism has produced a rich heritage of ways to be happy. This bo...
Author: Kipfer, Barbara Ann Publisher: Ulysses Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Everyone is busy. So everyone needs little reminders to help remember to slow down, pay attention, and enjoy life. Designed for just this purpose, gathas are short Buddhist poems to recite inwardly th...
Author: Kipfer, Barbara Ann Publisher: Ulysses Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Peace of mind in rush-hour traffic. Relaxation despite the endless ring of the cell phone. Mindfulness during a chaotic workday. 865 Buddhist Ways to Conquer Life's Little Challenges shows how to over...
Author: Gross, Rita M. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rita M. Gross has long been acknowledged as a founder in the field of feminist theology. One of the earliest scholars in religious studies to discover how feminism affects that discipline, she is reco...
Author: Goldstein, Joseph Publisher: Wisdom Publications Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Following in the footsteps of two millennia of Buddhist practitioners, author-teacher Joseph Goldstein leads Forest Refuge programs, lengthy retreats in which seekers develop "the practice of awakenin...
Author: Goldstein, Joseph Publisher: Wisdom Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Following in the footsteps of two millennia of Buddhist practitioners, author-teacher Joseph Goldstein leads Forest Refuge programs, lengthy retreats in which seekers develop "the practice of awakenin...
Description: Presents two practical and compelling works related to a visualization and mantra practice of Padmasambhava. These are drawn from the teachings of three renowned nineteenth-century masters who togethe...
Author: Bruun,Ole Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Feng Shui has been known in the West for the last 150 years but has mostly been regarded as a primitive superstition. During the modern period successive regimes in China have suppressed its practice....
Author: McDonald, Kathleen Publisher: Wisdom Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Timely and audacious, Buddha at the Apocalypse challenges us to look directly at the devastating assumptions underlying the very mechanisms of the modern world. We believe with certainty in the inevit...
Description: Timely and audacious, Buddha at the Apocalypse challenges us to look directly at the devastating assumptions underlying the very mechanisms of the modern world. We believe with certainty in the inevit...
Author: Rinpoche, Lama Publisher: Snow Lion Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A popular Tibetan Buddhist teacher based in California explains the meaning of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. He presents a precise description of the process of dying, the nature of the intermediate s...
Description: This compendium of the core teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, based on a talk given at a prison, shows how mindfulness practice can cultivate freedom no matter where you are. "So many of us, inmates and o...
Author: Gunaratana, Bhante Henepola Publisher: Wisdom Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Every meditation tradition explains that there are two aspects to any effective meditation practice: insight and concentration. In Mindfulness in Plain English, author Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, a mo...
Description: Every meditation tradition explains that there are two aspects to any effective meditation practice: insight and concentration. In Mindfulness in Plain English, author Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, a mo...
Author: Suzuki, Shunryu Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind was published in 1972, it was enthusiastically embraced by Westerners eager for spiritual insight and knowledge of Zen. The book became the most s...
Author: Spellmeyer, Kurt Publisher: Wisdom Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Both broad and deep, this eye-opening book is one of the best overviews available of the radical psychological teachings that underlie the Buddhist approach to living a life of freedom and peace. Soph...
Author: Spellmeyer, Kurt Publisher: Wisdom Publications Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Both broad and deep, this eye-opening book is one of the best overviews available of the radical psychological teachings that underlie the Buddhist approach to living a life of freedom and peace. Soph...
Author: Metcalf, Franz Publisher: Ulysses Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A guide for navigating the teen years, Buddha in Your Backpack is for young people who want to learn more about Buddhism or for those who simply want to understand what's going on inside themselves an...
Description: In this follow-up to his classic book Understanding Our Mind, Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how we can instill the habit of happiness in our consciousness. With humor and compassion, Buddha Mind, Buddha Bo...
Author: Buddha, Gautama Publisher: Waking Lion Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The core Buddhist scriptures in a single volume, including the life of Buddha and his most important teachings: the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, and much more. Newly designed and types...
Author: Hodus, Lewis Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Buddhism is a religion which must be viewed from many angles. Its original form, as preached by Gautama in India and developed in the early years succeeding, and as embodied in the sacred literature o...
Author: Hodus, Lewis Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Book Jungle provides classic literature in a modern format. Thousands of historical titles are now readily available to the public. Because of the original condition of many of these historical manu...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The number of Buddhists in Australia has grown dramatically in recent years. In 2006, Buddhists accounted for 2.1 per cent of Australia's population, almost doubling the 1996 figures, and making it th...
Author: Paramahamsa, K.R., Publisher: TotalRecall Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Buddhism In Scripture and Practice Buddhism arose more than 2500 years ago in India in an atmosphere of great philosophical ferment, when the philosophical sects such as Mimamsa, Vedanta, etc were s...
Author: Wilson, Jeff Publisher: Wisdom Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Despite its 800-year history and standing as one of the most popular branches of Buddhism in the world, Shin Buddhism has been passed on primarily through an oral tradition, leaving few books written ...
Author: Wilson, Jeff Publisher: Wisdom Publications Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Despite its 800-year history and standing as one of the most popular branches of Buddhism in the world, Shin Buddhism has been passed on primarily through an oral tradition, leaving few books written ...
Author: Drew, Rose Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The last century witnessed a gradual but profound transformation of the West's religious landscape. In today's context of diversity, people are often influenced by, and sometimes even claim to belong ...
Author: Drew, Rose Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The last century witnessed a gradual but profound transformation of the West's religious landscape. In today's context of diversity, people are often influenced by, and sometimes even claim to belong ...
Author: Tsering, Geshe Tashi Publisher: Wisdom Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Just as scientists observe and catalog the material world, Buddhists for centuries have been observing and cataloging the components of the human psyche. Addressing both the nature of the human mind a...
Description: Just as scientists observe and catalog the material world, Buddhists for centuries have been observing and cataloging the components of the human psyche. Addressing both the nature of the human mind a...
Author: Keown, Damien Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ranging from ancient India to modern America, the collection of essays in this book cover the four main areas of Charles Prebish's work: Vinaya studies and ethics, history of Buddhist schools, Western...
Author: Wallace, B. Alan / Hodel, Brian Publisher: Columbia University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Science has long treated religion as a set of personal beliefs that have little to do with a rational understanding of the mind and the universe. However, B. Alan Wallace, a respected Buddhist scholar...
Author: Shields, James Mark Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first book-length treatment of Critical Buddhism as both a philosophical and religious movement, where the lines between scholarship and practice blur. Providing a critical and constructiv...
Description: I am continually amazed at how Thich Nhat Hanh is able to translate the Buddhist tradition into everyday life and make it relevant and helpful for so many people. Cultivating the Mind of Love just mig...
Author: Payne, Richard K. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The medieval period of Japanese religious history is commonly known as one in which there was a radical transformation of the religious culture. This book examines how the discourse of medieval Japane...
Author: Bielefeldt, Carl Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Zen Buddhism is perhaps best known for its emphasis on meditation, and probably no figure in the history of Zen is more closely associated with meditation practice than the thirteenth-century Japanese...
Author: Ronkin, Noa Publisher: Routledge Curzon Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the earliest stratum of Buddhist thought to the system...
Author: Magid, Barry Publisher: Wisdom Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This new book from Zen teacher, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and critical favorite Barry Magid inspires us -- in wryly gentle prose -- to outgrow the impossible pursuit of happiness, and instead make ...
Author: Magid, Barry Publisher: Wisdom Publications Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This new book from Zen teacher, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and critical favorite Barry Magid inspires us -- in wryly gentle prose -- to outgrow the impossible pursuit of happiness, and instead make ...
Author: Piironen, Henry M. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dhammapada (The Path of the Eternal Truth) is one of the best known scriptures from the "Theravada canon", ascribed in origin to Siddhartha Gautama, the most known Buddha himself. This workbook contai...
Author: Ratnayake, Publisher: RGB World Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Buddhist concept of enlightenment is the answer to questions people everywhere ask every day: Why do bad things happen to good people? Why is life so unfair? Why is God so unkind? Why can'...
Author: Rinpoche, Khenchen Publisher: Snow Lion Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides the fundamental underpinnings necessary for understanding the Buddhist approach to psychology and personal transformation. It sets forth the nature of mind and human potential, and ...
Description: Jhana is a powerful meditative technique that opens the way to unfettered joy, radiant calm, and abiding happiness. Focused and Fearless presents this ancient meditative tradition as interpreted throu...
Author: Catherine, Shaila Publisher: Wisdom Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jhana is a powerful meditative technique that opens the way to unfettered joy, radiant calm, and abiding happiness. Focused and Fearless presents this ancient meditative tradition as interpreted throu...
Description: Renowned for the beauty and simplicity of his teachings, Ajahn Chah was Thailand's best-known meditation teacher. His charisma and wisdom influenced many American and European seekers, and helped shap...
Author: Chah, Ajahn Publisher: Wisdom Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Renowned for the beauty and simplicity of his teachings, Ajahn Chah was Thailand's best-known meditation teacher. His charisma and wisdom influenced many American and European seekers, and helped shap...