Buddhism category: 3907 books
by Thomas Cleary
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 1997
Zen Buddhism emerged in China some fifteen centuries ago and remained the most dynamic and influential spiritual movement in Asia for more than a millennium. Though the teachings of the first Zen masters are sometimes considered innovation, they were actually a return to the core of Buddhist teaching...
Subtle Sound
The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1996
Maurine Stuart (1922–1990) was one of a select group of students on the leading edge of Buddhism in America: a woman who became a Zen master. In this book, she draws on down-to-earth Zen stories, her friendships with Japanese Zen teachers, and her experiences as a concert pianist to apply the inner...
Dharma Drum
The Life and Heart of Chan Pracice
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Here is an ideal guide to the practice of Chan Buddhism by a great modern teacher. Part One presents Master Sheng Yen’s lively, anecdotal account of the history and main principles of the Chan tradition, along with his careful instructions for meditation. Part Two consists of 180 of his gemlike...
The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa, Volume 9
True Command - Glimpses of Realization - Shambhala Warrior Slogans - The Teacup and the Skullcup - Smile at Fear - The Mishap Lineage - Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Volume nine includes five books published between 2003 and 2009, a set of cards that present the Shambhala warrior slogans, and eighteen articles and interviews, all from 1983 or earlier.
The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa brings together in ten volumes the writings of one of the first...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Reflects the current state of scholarship in Buddhist Studies, its entries being written by specialists in many areas, presenting an accurate overview of Buddhist history, thought and practices, most entries having cross-referencing to others and bibliographical references. Contain around 1000 pages and 500,000 words, totalling around 1200 entries.
by Tsong-Kha-Pa
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Tib. Lam rim chen mo) is one of the brightest jewels in the world’s treasury of sacred literature. The author, Tsong-kha-pa, completed it in 1402, and it soon became one of the most renowned works of spiritual practice and philosophy...
The Lotus-Born
The Life Story of Padmasambhava
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
How often do you hear the story of a man who was immaculately born from within a lotus flower with a thousand petals, in the middle of a lake, having been sent as a meteor from the heart of the Boudha of Boundless light? Lotus-Born is the fabulous story of the mystic, master scholar, and outrageous yogi,...
To Dispel the Misery of the World
Whispered Teachings of the Bodhisattvas
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
"Offered here is the pith advice on mind training according to the great vehicle. This is the path followed by all the buddhas and their children of the past, present, and future, the most profound instruction of the oral lineage, and the quintessence of the ocean of all the excellent teachings."
--Ga...
by Master Sheng Yen
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 1999
Complete Enlightenment is the first authoritative translation and commentary on The Sutra of Complete Enlightenment, a central text that shaped the development of East Asian Buddhism and Ch'an (Chinese Zen). The text is set in the form of a transcription of discussions between the Buddha and the...
Golden Age Of Zen: Zen Masters Of The T
Zen Masters of the T'ang Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
This book gives a fascinating survey of the early years of Chinese Zen (Chan) Buddhism, staying focused on the movement of Buddhism to the land where Taoism and Confucianism flourished. Wu's survey, combined with interesting translations from these earliest Zen masters, reveals a time of spiritual...
Encouraging Words
Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
*"The inspiration that guided monks and nuns in ancient times is our own deepest incentive as we establish our practice in a world that desperately needs new forms of kinship and love."
—Robert Aitken
Encouraging Words* is a collection of short talks and brief essays that Aitken...
by Hugo Munsterberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Zen & Oriental Art is an indispensable, beautifully illustrated introduction to the influences of Zen Buddhism on Oriental painting, folk art, and architecture, with a special section on the role of Zen in twentieth-century art and architecture in the West.
Author, Dr. Munsterberg quite...
by Venerable Adrian Feldmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Born in Melbourne in 1943, Adrian Feldmann was one of the first Westerners to become a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. On the eve of a three-year, solitary meditation retreat, he recounts the inner and outer journeys that lead him to Nepal where, in the early 1970's, he met two Tibetan lamas,...
Pyrrhonism
How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008
Pyrrhonism is commonly confused with scepticism in Western philosophy. Unlike sceptics, who believe there are no true beliefs, Pyrrhonists suspend judgment about all beliefs, including the belief that there are no true beliefs. Pyrrhonism was developed by a line of ancient Greek philosophers, from...