Buddhism category: 3907 books
Illuminating Silence
Insights on the Path of Chinese Zen Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
An insider's guide to the principles of Chan – or Chinese Zen – this book gives unfiltered access to the kind of illuminating experience with a Zen Master that is usually only available to a few fortunate practitioners.
Having originated in China in the 6th century, Chan Buddhism is now...
The Dawn of Tibet
The Ancient Civilization on the Roof of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
This unique book reveals the existence of an advanced civilization where none was known before, presenting an entirely new perspective on the culture and history of Tibet. In his groundbreaking study of an epic period in Tibet few people even knew existed, John Vincent Bellezza details the discovery...
White Sail
Crossing the Waves of Ocean Mind to the Serene Continent of the Triple Gems
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2001
Buddhism teaches that enlightenment is our natural state; the problem is that we do not recognize this state, owing to the mind's confusion about its true nature. Thinley Norbu presents the Buddhist view in a way meant to clear up misconceptions and awaken the reader's innate wisdom. Thinley Norbu...
by Tsong-Kha-Pa
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 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 Practice of Dzogchen
Longchen Rabjam's Writings on the Great Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This classic collection of texts on the meditation practice and theory of Dzogchen presents the Great Perfection through the writings of its supreme authority, the fourteenth-century Tibetan scholar and visionary Longchen Rabjam. The pinnacle of Vajrayana practice in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan...
Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying
An Exploration of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
This is an absorbing account of a dialogue between leading Western scientists and the foremost representative of Buddhism today, the Dalai Lama of Tibet.
For modern science, the transitional states of consciousness lie at the forefront of research in many fields. For a Buddhist practitioner...
Mind of Mahamudra
Advice from the Kagyu Masters
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
The Mind of Mahamudra is the third volume in the Tibetan Classics series, which aims to make available accessible paperback editions of key Tibetan Buddhist works drawn from Wisdom Publications' Library of Tibetan Classics.
Enjoy six key texts on the cornerstone meditation practice of the Kagyu...
by Seung Sahn
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1997
The Compass of Zen is a simple, exhaustive—and often hilarious—presentation of the essence of Zen by a modern Zen Master of considerable renown. In his many years of teaching throughout the world, the Korean-born Zen Master Seung Sahn has become known for his ability to cut to the heart of Buddhist...
by Robert Aitken
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
There is a fine art to presenting complex ideas with simplicity and insight, in a manner that both guides and inspires. In Taking the Path of Zen Robert Aitken presents the practice, lifestyle, rationale, and ideology of Zen Buddhism with remarkable clarity.
The foundation of Zen is the practice...
by Pema Chodron, Lodro Rinzler, Natalie Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
A thought-provoking collection of the most notable and insightful Buddhism-inspired writing published in the last year:
• Thich Nhat Hanh’s vision for a more enlightened and sustainable society
• Ezra Bayda on avoiding the pitfalls that arise on the path of meditation
• Tsoknyi...
by J. Kumpiranonda
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Thepictorial book presents the visual context which contains more than 150 color photographs of rich variety of architectureandmonumentaltemples;Buddha statues; paintings; and sacred objects represented Buddhism in Thailand.Thedepictions of the Buddhaimages and temple architecture vary widely...
Samdhong Rinpoche
Tibetan Buddhism and Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
This is the first-ever series of in-depth dialogues with the current Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, Samdhong Rinpoche, presenting his views on the plight of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism in the face of the communist Chinese invasion.
The Wisdom of the Buddhist Masters
Common and Uncommon Sense
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
What does Buddhism have to say about sickness, poverty, and warfare—or social and political action? Would the wisest, most renowned Buddhist teachers go on the record and reveal their thoughts and perspectives on a wide array of contemporary issues? Robert Sachs decided to find out: he created a...
by Hee-Jin Kim
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Eihei Dogen, the founder of the Japanese branch of the Soto Zen Buddhist school, is considered one of the world's most remarkable religious philosophers. Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist is a comprehensive introduction to the genius of this brilliant thinker. This thirteenth-century figure has much to...