Buddhism category: 3907 books
So Close to Heaven
The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
For more than a thousand years Tibet, Sikkim, Ladakh, and Bhutan were the santuaries of Tantric Buddhism. But in the last half of this century, geopolitics has scoured the landscape of the Himalayas, and only the reclusive kingdom of Bhutan remains true to Tantric Buddhism. As she travels through...
World of the Buddha
An Introduction to the Buddhist Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Selections from the most significant texts in the body of Buddhist literature.
For readers who want a deeper understanding of Buddhism, this is a rich, varied, and comprehensive collection in one volume. It includes the most significant texts from the vast body of Buddhist literature, and includes...
Buddhist Understanding of Childhood Spirituality
The Buddha’s Children
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
In this book, Alexander von Gontard, a child psychiatrist, uses the language, thought and imagery of Buddhism to explore the spirituality of children.
The book begins by exploring the Buddha's own childhood and the 'divine child' in Buddhism, a key archetype in Jungian psychology. The author...
Tibetan Zen
Discovering a Lost Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Until the early twentieth century, hardly any traces of the Tibetan tradition of Chinese Chan Buddhism, or Zen, remained. Then the discovery of a sealed cave in Dunhuang, full of manuscripts in various languages dating from the first millennium CE, transformed our understanding of early Zen. This...
Training in Compassion
Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. Though the practice is more than a millennium old, it has become popular in the West only in the last twenty...
by Lama Yeshe
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
This book contains public talks by Lama Yeshe on the general topic of Buddhism and mind. Each lecture is followed by a question and answer session. Lama presented one of the talk to a group of psychiatrists who were delighted to meet and question Lama, and this historic exchange underscores the difference...
by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Buddhism is a house full of treasures — practices for gaining the happiness of future lives, the bliss of liberation and the supreme happiness of enlightenment — but knowing the difference between Dharma and non-Dharma practices is the key that opens the door to all those treasures. No matter...
Introduction to Tantra
The Transformation of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
What is tantra? Who is qualified to practice it? How should it be practiced? What are the results? According to Buddhism, every human being has the potential to achieve profound and lasting happiness. And according to the tantric teachings of Buddhism, this remarkable transformation can be realized...
Vajrasattva Meditation
An Illustrated Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Walk step by step through the stages of this tantric ritual of purification with inspired commentary and forty full-color illustrations.
The force of our past actions makes it hard to attain our goals, including success in meditation. And so Buddhism has developed methods for purifying our...
Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record
Zen Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2002
The Blue Cliff Record is a classic text of Zen Buddhism, designed to assist in the activation of dormant human potential. The core of this extraordinary work is a collection of one hundred traditional citations and stories, selected for their ability to bring about insight and enlightenment. These...
Live in a Better Way
Reflections on Truth, Love, and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2002
Imbued with a friendly tone and pithy wisdom, this handsome handbook to approaching life "in a better way" includes six of His Holiness The Dalai Lama's most accessible and inspirational public lectures. Following each talk are the original question-and-answer sessions in which His Holiness...
by Tai Morello
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Mindfulness meditation is everywhere these days, from the therapy couch to the Google campus, from prisons to athletic events. But what are the origins of this surge in mindfulness? What kind of worldview and lifestyle went along with these ancient techniques of meditative training? And, beyond the...
by Sayadaw U Pandita
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
In The State of Mind Called Beautiful, Burmese meditation master Sayadaw U Pandita lays out the breadth, depth, and wealth of the Theravadan tradition of Buddhism. U Pandita begins with the basic guidelines of Buddhism, and moves on to various practices: those that can be done for one minute a day,...
A Little Bit of Buddha
An Introduction to Buddhist Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
At its heart, Buddhism blossoms from one source: the words and life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. Chad Mercree, a lifetime student of Buddhist philosophy and meditation, reveals in simple language how Buddhism can yield personal growth in the modern world. Because every journey is unique, Mercree...