Buddhism category: 3907 books
Red Thread Zen
Humanly Entangled in Emptiness
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
A radical, life-affirming book that reconciles Zen with our embodied humanity.
Love, attachment, the passions, gender, carnality, birth, bodily being, mortality, belonging, suffering, hope, despair, personhood, imagination, vitality, the struggle to be fully human—how do these things dwell wholly...
by Sangharakshita
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Recollections of one man's journey of spiritual legacy, Buddhist lineage and friendship. In this latest addition to his memoirs, Sangharakshita shares his recollections of the diverse men and women who lived in and passed through Kalimpong, a hill station at the foot of the Himalayas, just as Tibetan...
by Ellen C. Babbitt
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 The Jatakas, or Birth-stories, form one of the sacred books of the Buddhists and relate to the adventures of the...
by Teddy Stanowski
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
When people begin to search for religions, they may start with talking to friends and family, people that they know and trust. They may have heard of them going to church, and might want to try that out. Others that are looking into more eastern traditions such as Confucianism, Buddhism or Taoism...
The Adornment of the Middle Way
Shantarakshita's Madhyamakalankara with Commentary by Jamgon Mipham
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
In the Madhyamakalankara, Shantarakshita synthesized the views of Madhyamaka and Yogachara, the two great streams of Mahayana Buddhism. This was the last great philosophical development of Buddhist India.
In his brilliant and searching commentary, Mipham re-presented Shantarakshita to a world...
Spiritual Friends
Meditations by Monks and Nuns of the International Mahayana Institute
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A collection of the favorite guided meditations of senior monks and nuns of the International Mahayana Institute of the FPMT.
A collection of the favorite guided meditations of senior monks and nuns of the International Mahayana Institute of the FPMT. These meditations center on different Buddhist...
by Paramabandhu Groves
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
This book is all about kindness behaviour training. The authors have drawn on their clinical experience as well as Buddhism to develop a practical course in cultivating kindness, intended to complement and augment other mindfulness-based approaches. Amid the recent explosion of secular mindfulness,...
Karmasiddhiprakarana
The Treatise on Action by Vasubandhu
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1987
Under the influence of his teacher, Louis de la Valle Poussin, Prof. Lamotte published several works in French, which were primarily editions, translations and commentaries on Tibetan and Chinese Buddhist texts. The theories and concepts contained in this particular work are closely related to those...
Elaborations on Emptiness
Uses of the Heart Sūtra
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
The Heart Sutra is perhaps the most famous Buddhist text, traditionally regarded as a potent expression of emptiness and of the Buddha's perfect wisdom. This brief, seemingly simple work was the subject of more commentaries in Asia than any other sutra. In Elaborations on Emptiness, Donald Lopez explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The Vessantara Jataka tells the story of Prince Vessantara, who attained the Perfection of Generosity by giving away his fortune, his children, and his wife. Vessantara was the penultimate rebirth as a human of the future Gotama Buddha, and his extreme charity has been represented and reinterpreted...
Ocean of Reasoning
A Great Commentary on N=ag=arjuna's Mūlamadhyamakak=arik=a
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Tsong kha pa (14th-century) is arguably the most important and influential philosopher in Tibetan history. An Ocean of Reasoning is the most extensive and perhaps the deepest extant commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way), and it can be argued that it...
by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Buddha's Golden Light is a modern re-visioning of classic Buddhist and Zen texts by best selling author and Zen priest Tai Sheridan. Esoteric essays, wisdom teachings, and non-dual philosophy are transformed into accessible, inspiring, and beautiful verse. The six books in this collection illuminate...
Mindfulness and Money
The Buddhist Path of Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From two leading instructors in business and Buddhism comes a fresh approach to making peace with your finances and creating true abundance.
It may seem contradictory that Buddhist teachers Kulananda and Dominic Houlder have also been highly successful in the business arena, but they have learned...
Zen Meditation Magic
Secrets to Finding the Time for Peace of Mind, Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Did you always want the benefits of meditation without the required 20 to 30 minutes of sitting “doing nothing?” Perhaps you would love to meditate but find it difficult to relax your body long enough? Or maybe it’s your mind that careens out of control, refusing to think of “nothing?”...