Buddhism category: 3907 books
Freeing the Heart and Mind
Part Two: Chogyal Phagpa on the Buddhist Path
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Explore two seminal Sakya texts with an incomparable teacher.
His Holiness Kyabgon Gongma Sakya Trichen Rinpoche, the noble forty-first head of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism, with his trademark clarity and deep wisdom here unpacks two texts by the legendary thirteenth-centurty Drogön...
by Wong Cheng Heng
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
By taking refuge in the Three Jewels, (the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha) I learn and practice the way the Buddha taught us to end suffering, ultimately I seek to be enlightened and liberate from any realm of suffering. Venerating the Three Jewels is also a form of respect and gratitude toward...
Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism
A Social-Psychological Exploration of the Origins of a World Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community. It also addresses...
The Ri-me Philosophy of Jamgon Kongtrul the Great
A Study of the Buddhist Lineages of Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
This compelling study of the Ri-me movement and of the major Buddhist lineages of Tibet is comprehensive and accessible. It includes an introduction to the history and philosophy of the Ri-me movement; a biography of the movement's leader, the meditation master and philosopher known as Jamgön Kongtrul...
by L. De La Vallée Poussin
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
The primitive meaning of this celebrated word, Nirvāṇa, seems to be twofold: on the one hand, 'becoming cool, cooling'; on the other hand, 'blowing out,' 'extinguishing.' There is a nirvāṇa of a man who is thirsty as well as of a candle.
Hence two directions in the evolution of the religious...
Approaching Death
A Buddhist Guide To Death And Rebirth
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
The study of Abhidhamma is central to an understanding of Buddhism. Abhi (great, excellent, distinct, sublime) Dhamma (natural law, teaching, phenomena), is the Third Basket of the tripartite Buddhist Canon (Tripiṭaka). It offers a detailed analysis of the process of dying, death and rebirth.
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The Gâtakamâlâ
Garland of Birth-Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
"The Gâtakamâlâ" is a work well known to students of Buddhism.
The Buddha, in telling these stories of his former births or existences, speaks of himself, not exactly as the same individual, but rather as the enlightened one, the Buddha as he existed at any and at every time; and from...
by Thomas William Rhys Davids
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids In Buddhism, the Patimokkha is the basic Theravada code of monastic discipline, consisting of 227 rules for fully...
I Can't Believe It's Not Buddha!
What Fake Buddha Quotes Can Teach Us About Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Quotes from the Buddha are everywhere: on Facebook, Instagram, coffee mugs, posters. There's only one problem: the Buddha didn't actually say most of them. This humorous and informative book takes these fake Buddha quotes as a launching point for a discussion on what the Buddha really did say, and...
Religion and Ethics at Odds
A Buddhist Counter-Position
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
In this book, Sueki discusses the difficult relationship between religion and ethics. He understands ethics as something fundamentally tied to inter-human relationships, which presumes mutual intelligibility. How then do we relate to the "other" – that which cannot be reduced to our comprehension?...
Lighting the Path
The Dalai Lama teaches on wisdom and compassion
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
In this accessible and important follow up to The Art of Happiness His Holiness the Dalai Lama teaches us how to live a happier and more spiritual life by fostering compassion and wisdom.
Filled with his trademark honesty and warmth, this book explains how practically applying the values of...
by Henry S. Olcott
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
In the working, out of my original plan, I have added more questions and answers in the text of each new English edition of the Catechism, leaving it to its translators to render them into whichever of the other vernaculars they may be working in. The unpretending aim in view is to give so succinct...
A Storied Sage
Canon and Creation in the Making of a Japanese Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Since its arrival in Japan in the sixth century, Buddhism has played a central role in Japanese culture. But the historical figure of the Buddha, the prince of ancient Indian descent who abandoned his wealth and power to become an awakened being, has repeatedly disappeared and reappeared, emerging...
by Lionel David Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This is the annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids 'The Path of Light' is the first rendering of the Bodhicharyavatara of Santideva into and a manual of Mahayana Buddhism. Contents:...