Buddhism category: 3907 books
Zen Echoes
Classic Koans with Verse Commentaries by Three Female Chan Masters
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The voices of three female Zen masters reverberate in this much-needed collection.
Too often the history of Zen seems to be written as an unbroken masculine line: male teacher to male student. In this timely volume, Beata Grant shows us that women masters do exist—and have always existed.
Zen...
The Religion of Tomorrow
A Vision for the Future of the Great Traditions - More Inclusive, More Comprehensive, More Complete
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A provocative examination of how the great religious traditions can remain relevant in modern times by incorporating scientific truths learned about human nature over the last century.
A single purpose lies at the heart of all the great religious traditions: awakening to the astonishing reality...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The result of a dialogue between poets and scholars on the meaning and making of the sacred, this book endeavours to determine how the sacred emerges in sacred script as well as in poetic discourse. It ranges through scholarship in areas as apparently disparate as postmodernism and Buddhism. The perspectives...
by Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro Rinpoche
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
the fundamental doctrines of Buddhism: impermanence, suffering, no-self and nirvana
Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness
To Be, Not to Be or Neither
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005
This is an introduction to the Buddhist philosophy of Emptiness which explores a number of themes in connection with the concept of Emptiness, a highly technical but very central notion in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. It examines the critique by the leading Nyingma school philosopher Mipham (1846-1912)...
You Are Not Your Fault and Other Revelations
The Collected Wit and Wisdom of Wes "Scoop" Nisker
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Wes Scoop” Nisker is an award-winning broadcast journalist and commentator, a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher, a best selling author and a captivating performer. In How to be an Earthling, Wes draws on his diverse experiences delivering a collection that brims with the insight, humor and wisdom...
Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Buddhist Site
Bodh Gaya Jataka
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Bodh Gaya in the North Indian state of Bihar has long been recognized as the place where the Buddha achieved enlightenment. This book brings together the recent work of twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, art history, history, and religion – to highlight their various...
The Path of the Human Being
Zen Teachings on the Bodhisattva Way
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Dennis Merzel, one of the most highly regarded American Zen teachers, explains how meditation can gradually lead us to becoming more and more familiar with our minds, allowing us to better understand ourselves and the nature of human life. He explores the practice of meditation in depth, as well as...
Public Zen, Personal Zen
A Buddhist Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Among Buddhist traditions, Zen has been remarkably successful in garnering and sustaining interest outside the Buddhist homelands of Asia, and “zen” is now part of the global cultural lexicon. This deeply informed book explores the history of this enduring Japanese tradition—from its beginnings...
The Buddhist Visnu
Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2004
John Holt's groundbreaking study examines the assimilation, transformation, and subordination of the Hindu deity Visnu within the contexts of Sri Lankan history and Sinhala Buddhist religious culture. Holt argues that political agendas and social forces, as much as doctrinal concerns, have shaped...
Buddhist-Based Universities in the United States
Searching for a New Model in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Buddhist-Based Universities in the United States: Searching for a New Model in Higher Education investigates four Buddhist universities in the United States, each of which offers degrees in liberal arts and professional fields while simultaneously educating their students in the philosophy and practices...
Dialogues in a Dream
The Life and Zen Teaching of Muso Soseki
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Drawing on his encyclopaedic knowledge, one of the most famous masters in the history of Zen leads us on a grand tour of Buddhist theology in all its timeless relevance.
Muso Soseki, the renowned fourteenth century Zen master, is today most known for developing the art of traditional Japanese...
Zen Odyssey
The Story of Sokei-an, Ruth Fuller Sasaki, and the Birth of Zen in
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Explore two lives—and a relationship—that profoundly shaped American Zen.
Ruth Fuller Sasaki and Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki: two pioneers of Zen in the West. Ruth was an American with a privileged life, even during the height of the Great Depression, before she went to Japan and met D. T....
The Way of Tenderness
Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
“What does liberation mean when I have incarnated in a particular body, with a particular shape, color, and sex?”
In The Way of Tenderness, Zen priest Zenju Earthlyn Manuel brings Buddhist philosophies of emptiness and appearance to bear on race, sexuality, and gender, using wisdom forged...