Buddhism category: 3907 books
Hidden Dimensions
The Unification of Physics and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Bridging the gap between the world of science and the realm of the spiritual, B. Alan Wallace introduces a natural theory of human consciousness that has its roots in contemporary physics and Buddhism. Wallace's "special theory of ontological relativity" suggests that mental phenomena are...
by Michel Clasquin-Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
The emergence of e-books has created new opportunities for academic authors. Like many academics, there are a number of shorter works that I have published over the years for which I never signed away the electronic publishing rights - mostly because they didn't exist at the time!Some...
by Thomas Cleary
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 1999
The Prajnaparamita ("perfection of wisdom") sutras are one of the great legacies of Mahayana Buddhism, giving eloquent expression to some of that school's central concerns: the perception of shunyata, the essential emptiness of all phenomena; and the ideal of the bodhisattva, one who postpones...
The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life
Commentaries on the Writings of Nichiren
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Where have we come from and where do we go? Why are human beings born? Are our lives just random events or do they have some greater purpose? What is the meaning of death? Nichiren Buddhism, based on the Lotus Sutra, is a teaching of hope that provides answers to these and other important questions...
Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth & Death
. . . And Everything in Between, A Buddhist View Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This introduction to Nichiren Buddhism explores the philosophical intricacies of life and reveals the wonder inherent in the phases of birth, aging, and death. Core concepts of Nichiren Buddhism, such as the 10 worlds and the nine consciousnesses, illustrate the profundity of human existence. This...
A New Buddhist Path
Enlightenment, Evolution, and Ethics in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Engage with a new vision of Buddhism and the modern world with the bestselling author of Money Sex War Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution.
David R. Loy addresses head-on the most pressing issues of Buddhist philosophy in our time. What is the meaning of enlightenment--is it an escape from...
by Henry Steel Olcott
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
A founding member of the Theosophical Society, and perhaps the first well-known European to convert to Buddhism, Henry Steel Olcott made a lasting contribution with his Buddhist Catechism of 1881. Seeing Buddhism with a Westernized scientific eye, the work is given in the same question and answer structure...
Lust for Enlightenment
Buddhism and Sex
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 1990
Over the centuries, Buddhism has responded to sexuality in a variety of fascinating ways, sometimes suppressing the sexual urge, sometimes sublimating it, sometimes cultivating it, and, on the highest levels, transforming it. This book reveals how Buddhists, beginning with Shakyamuni Buddha himself,...
by Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside of Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange...
Lack & Transcendence
The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism, and Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Loy draws from giants of psychotherapy and existentialism, from Nietzsche to Kierkegaard to Sartre, to explore the fundamental issues of life, death, and what motivates us.
Whatever the differences in their methods and goals, psychotherapy, existentialism, and Buddhism are all concerned with...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Although recent scholarship has shown that the term ‘Theravāda’ in the familiar modern sense is a nineteenth- and twentieth-century construct, it is now used to refer to the more than 150 million people around the world who practice that form of Buddhism. Buddhist practices such as meditation,...
Craving and Salvation
A Study in Buddhist Soteriology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Is there any escape form the awareness of pain and the bonds of an unending cycle of life? Why are human subject to craving" What is the nature human beings? The Buddhist understanding of salvation is based upon such queries.
A thorough grasp of the function of craving in religious life...
by Nagarjuna; Jay L. Garfield
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For nearly two thousand years Buddhism has mystified and captivated both lay people and scholars alike. Seen alternately as a path to spiritual enlightenment, an system of ethical and moral rubrics, a cultural tradition, or simply a graceful philosophy of life, Buddhism has produced impassioned followers...
Introduction to the Middle Way
Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara with Commentary by Ju Mipham
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2005
Introduction to the Middle Way presents an adventure into the heart of Buddhist wisdom through the Madhyamika, or "middle way," teachings, which are designed to take the ordinary intellect to the limit of its powers and then show that there is more.
This book includes a verse translation...