Buddhism category: 3907 books
Learning True Love
Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Learning True Love, the autobiography of Sister Chân Không, stands alongside the great spiritual autobiographies of our century. It tells the story of her spiritual and personal odyssey, both in her homeland and in exile. Its anecdotal style presents an intensely personal portrait of a woman with...
Tibetan Renaissance
Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
How did a society on the edge of collapse and dominated by wandering bands of armed men give way to a vibrant Buddhist culture, led by yogins and scholars? Ronald M. Davidson explores how the translation and spread of esoteric Buddhist texts dramatically shaped Tibetan society and led to its rise...
Welcoming Flowers from across the Cleansed Threshold of Hope
An Answer to Pope John Paul II's Criticism of Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Welcoming Flowers is a pointed critique of the Buddhism chapter of Pope John Paul II’s 1994 best seller, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, written by the highly respected Buddhist teacher Thinley Norbu. In responding to the false charges of Buddhists’ indifference to the world and rejection of reality,...
The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism
Conversion, Contestation, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
This book explores the Buddhist role in the formation of Tibetan religious thought and identity. In three major sections, the author examines Tibet's eighth-century conversion, sources of dispute within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the continuing revelation of the teaching in both doctrine and myth.
The Buddha and His Dhamma
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
The Buddha and His Dhamma was B.R. Ambedkar's last work. Published posthumously, it presented a radical reorientation of Buddhist thought and literature, aptly called navayana. It deals with Ambedkar's conceptualization of Buddhism and the possibilities it offered for liberation and upliftment of...
by Subhuti
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
What does it mean to be a Buddhist today? How are we to relate to the diverse forms that have come down to us? Sangharakshita is one of the modern world's most influential and respected Buddhists. After spending many years in the East, he returned to Britain in 1967 to establish an international Buddhist...
Buddhism and Gandhara
An Archaeology of Museum Collections
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Gandhara is a name central to Buddhist heritage and iconography. It is the ancient name of a region in present-day Pakistan, bounded on the west by the Hindu Kush mountain range and to the north by the foothills of the Himalayas. ‘Gandhara’ is also the term given to this region’s sculptural...
Buddhism and Linguistics
Theory and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
This edited collection brings linguistics into contact with a millennia of works by Buddhist scholars. Examining the Buddhist contemplative tradition and its extensive writings from an interdisciplinary perspective, the authors bridge the gap between such customs and human language. To do so, they...
by Dawsonne Strong
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
An immense difficulty has to be encountered by those who have been deeply impressed by the value and beauty of Christianity when they are called upon to consider the claims of other faiths. Anyone who has had within his experience and under his observation such an exceptional case as that of a sincere...
Field-Being Interpretation of Buddhist Philosophy
Nine Essays on Its Relational Activity
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Buddhism is a religion despite the negative attitude of some in the West, who espouse that since it has no god, it is atheistic and, therefore, cannot be a religion. A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices that unite into one single moral community. A. N. Whitehead fortified this definition...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Passed along for centuries through oral tradition by the followers of Buddhism, “The Dhammapada” is a collection of sayings by Buddha which concisely presents the religion’s core philosophies. Widely recognized as one of the most accessible works of all the Buddhist scriptures, the verses of the...
Buddhist and Christian?
An Exploration of Dual Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The last century witnessed a gradual but profound transformation of the West's religious landscape. In today's context of diversity, people are often influenced by, and sometimes even claim to belong to, more than one religious tradition. Buddhism and Christianity is a particularly prevalent and fascinating...
Consequences of Compassion
An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
To many Westerners, the most appealing teachings of the Buddhist tradition pertain to ethics. Many readers have drawn inspiration from Buddhism's emphasis on compassion, nonviolence, and tolerance, its concern for animals, and its models of virtue and self-cultivation. There has been, however, controversy...
Always Remembering
Heartfelt Advice for Your Entire Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
The poems and teachings of a beloved Buddhist master, vividly presented so that readers feel they are listening to the precious and renowned teachings of His Holiness directly—and learning how to live with more joy and ease.
His Holiness Jigme Phuntsok was a prominent teacher in the Nyingma...