Buddhism category: 3907 books
Abhidhamma Studies
Buddhist Explorations of Consciousness and Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The Abhidhamma, the third great division of early Buddhist teaching, expounds a revolutionary system of philosophical psychology rooted in the twin Buddhist insights of selflessness and dependent origination. In keeping with the liberative thrust of early Buddhism, this system organizes the entire...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The centrality of death rituals has rarely been documented in anthropologically informed studies of Buddhism. Bringing together a range of perspectives including ethnographic, textual, historical and theoretically informed accounts, this edited volume presents the diversity of the Buddhist funeral...
Buddhism, War, and Nationalism
Chinese Monks in the Struggle Against Japanese Aggression 1931-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
This thesis examines the doctrinal grounds and different approaches to working out this "new Buddhist tradition," a startling contrast to the teachings of non-violence and compassion which have made Buddhism known as a religion of peace. In scores of articles as war approached in 1936-37,...
Ch'oui Uisun
A Liberal Son Master in Late Choson Korea
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Scholars of Choson Korea tend to view Buddhism negatively, or at best ignore it, and at present there is a lack of research on this crucial topic. Through appreciation of the life and thought of Ch'oui Uisun (1786-1866), this study is an attempt to recover and supplement the intellectual history of...
The Mystique of Transmission
On an Early Chan History and Its Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
The Mystique of Transmission is a close reading of a late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist hagiographical work, the Lidai fabao ji (Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations), and is its first English translation. The text is the only remaining relic of the little-known Bao Tang Chan school...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Dating back to the eighth century C.E., the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a foundational text of Chan/Zen Buddhism that reveals much about the early evolution of Chinese Chan and the ideological origins of Japanese Zen and Korean Son. Purported to be the recorded words of the famed Huineng,...
Meditation in Modern Buddhism
Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
In contemporary Thai Buddhism, the burgeoning popularity of vipassanā meditation is dramatically impacting the lives of those most closely involved with its practice: monks and mae chee (lay nuns) living in monastic communities. For them, meditation becomes a central focus of life and a way to transform...
Indian Esoteric Buddhism
A Social History of the Tantric Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
Despite the rapid spread of Buddhism—especially the esoteric system of Tantra, one of its most popular yet most misunderstood forms—the historical origins of Buddhist thought and practice remain obscure. This groundbreaking work describes the genesis of the Tantric movement in early medieval India,...
by Jamgon Kongtrul
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This translation of a fundamental Tantric text reveals the richness and profundity of the intellectual and contemplative traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. The text describes the Four Foundation Practices that all practitioners of Vajrayana Buddhism must complete. The nature of impermanence, the effects...
by Sangharakshita
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
The pieces collected here were written over a ten year period crucial to the development of Sangharakshita's thought and expression. From visionary early writings to the later articles leavened by deep reflection, there emerges the unmistakeable voice of the writer of A Survey of Buddhism. There is...
Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism
In-Between Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Contextualising the seemingly esoteric and exotic aspects of Tibetan Buddhist culture within the everyday, embodied and sensual sphere of religious praxis, this book centres on the social and religious lives of deceased Tibetan Buddhist lamas. It explores how posterior forms – corpses, relics, reincarnations...
Tibetan Mantra Magick: Tap Into The Power Of Tibetan Mantras
Mantra Magick, #6
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
When we think about Tibet, we are often taken back to the stories of the search for Shangri La. We are beguiled by stories of men and women who spend their entire lives in meditation in hopes to achieve liberation from the ties that bind us here on this earth. We are further in awe of those stories...
A Monastery in Time
The Making of Mongolian Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
A Monastery in Time is the first book to describe the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery—the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia—from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural Revolution, Caroline Humphrey and Hürelbaatar Ujeed...
Oriental Philosophy II
Supreme God and the demigods
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Eastern philosophy Philosophy Chinese philosophy Iranian philosophy Japanese philosophy Indian philosophy Korean philosophy Divine presence Revelation Divine language Will of God Divine judgment Salvation Divine providence Metaphysics Natural philosophy Bhagavad Gita Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Aldous...