Buddhism category: 3907 books
Echoes
The Boudhanath Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
In colorful, bustling Boudhanath—Buddhism's great pilgrimage site in Nepal—a small group of students gathered to speak with Kyabje Thinley Norbu Rinpoche in an informal, relaxed atmosphere. This is the record of their lively dialogue, which the author described as "using the traditional method...
Sunlight Speech That Dispels the Darkness of Doubt
Sublime Prayers, Praises, and Practices of the Nyingma Masters
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
From the noble lotus pond of pure conduct,
The swan of intelligence calls.
By the white wings of the three practices of the teachings,
May all wise sentient beings be happy.
—Kunkhyen Longchenpa
With the wish to inspire and motivate practitioners, Kyabje Thinley Norbu Rinpoche has translated...
Tibet
The Country and its Inhabitants
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Tibet is a place of mystic Buddhism, conserved into its own cult, with its generic Bodpa inhabitants in one unity of manners and language. Tibet occupies the most enormous and highest mass of mountains, and broadly divided into two regions - is full of lakes and rivers. The graceful river of Brahmaputra...
by Andre Ferdinand Herold
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This is the annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids This "Life of Buddha" is not a work of fiction. For the most part it has been relied upon the LALITA-VISTARA. This book...
by Adidas Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
The Bushido code is a code of honor that greatly influenced Japan's culture in the 700's. Bushido started as a code of war and went onto become a way of life and art. It governed every part of life, from honor and war to literature and poetry. Moreover, it impacted history in a significant way, from...
Steps on the Path to Enlightenment
A Commentary on Tsongkhapa's Lamrim Chenmo. Volume 5: Insight
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
The final installment of the Steps on the Path to Enlightenment series examines the nature of reality with a master class in Buddhist Middle Way philosophy and meditation.
The late Geshe Sopa was a refugee monk from Tibet sent to the United States by the Dalai Lama in 1963. He became a professor...
by Jose Ignacio Cabezon
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Ritual is one of the most pervasive religious phenomena in the Tibetan cultural world. Despite its ubiquity and importance to Tibetan cultural life, however, only in recent years has Tibetan ritual been given the attention it deserves. This is the first scholarly collection to focus on this important...
Time to Stand Up
An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth -- The Buddha's Life and Message through Feminine Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Time to Stand Up retells the story of the historical Buddha, one of the greatest sacred activists of all time, as a practical human being whose teachings of freedom from suffering are more relevant than ever in this time of global peril. Evolving onward from the patriarchal template of spiritual...
Mountain Mandalas
Shugendo in Kyushu
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
In Mountain Mandalas Allan G. Grapard provides a thought-provoking history of one aspect of the Japanese Shugendo tradition in Kyushu, by focusing on three cultic systems: Mount Hiko, Usa-Hachiman, and the Kunisaki Peninsula. Grapard draws from a rich range of theorists from the disciplines of geography,...
Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom
Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Insightful commentary on a beloved ancient philosopher of Zen by a beloved contemporary master of Zen.
Famously insightful and famously complex, Eihei Dogen’s writings have been studied and puzzled over for hundreds of years. In Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom, Kosho Uchiyama, beloved twentieth-century...
Gone Beyond (Volume 2)
The Prajnaparamita Sutras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
The Abhisamayalamkara summarizes all the topics in the vast body of the Prajnaparamita Sutras. Resembling a zip-file, it comes to life only through its Indian and Tibetan commentaries. Together, these texts not only discuss the "hidden meaning" of the Prajnaparamita Sutras—the paths and...
The Training Anthology of Santideva
A Translation of the Siksa-samuccaya
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The Training Anthology--or Siksa-samuccaya--is a collection of quotations from Buddhist sutras with illuminating and insightful commentary by the eighth-century North Indian master Santideva. Best known for his philosophical poem, the Bodhicaryavatara, Santideva (or Shantideva) has been a vital source...
by Tsem Rinpoche
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Within the general chaos that is our daily lives, there is a perspective where everything falls into place and finally makes sense. H.E. Tsem Rinpoche brings this perspective through explaining the mechanism of life based on the fundamental principles of Buddhism. In his characteristically logical...
When the Clouds Part
The Uttaratantra and Its Meditative Tradition as a Bridge between Sutra and Tant ra
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
"Buddha nature" (tathāgatagarbha) is the innate potential in all living beings to become a fully awakened buddha. This book discusses a wide range of topics connected with the notion of buddha nature as presented in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and includes an overview of the sūtra sources of...