Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
Secret Lives of the Dalai Lama
The Untold Story of the Holy Men Who Shaped Tibet, from Pre-history to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
The Complete Story of the Dalai Lamas
His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama is known to the world for his efforts to preserve Tibetan culture and for his inspiring spiritual teachings. Often unnoticed, however, is the long, colorful history from which this most beloved of holy men has...
by Nan, Huai-Chin
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1997
Nan Huai Chin, a learned representative of the Chinese Buddhist tradition, explores the many different schools of Buddhism and the many stories surrounding the life of Buddha. He explains various philosophical trends in Buddhism and the aspects it hastaken on throughout Asia, Europe, and America. For a solid understanding of Buddhism, this book is clearly indispensable reading! With index.
Why the Dalai Lama Matters
His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is an extraordinary example of a life dedicated to peace, communication, and unity. What he represents, and what he has accomplished, heals and transcends the current tensions between Tibet and China. Why the Dalai Lama Matters explores just why he has earned the world's...
The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Buddhism
Explore Buddhism and Keep the Faith!
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
You're no idiot, of couse. You know many people have turned to Buddhism as an alternative to organized religion, but you're mistaken if you believe that all Buddhists live a monklike existence.
Don't wait until your next life to experience Zen! 'The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Buddhism' reveals...
The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong
The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In December 2010 residents of Kalimpong, a town on the Indian border with Tibet, turned out en masse to welcome the Dalai Lama. It was only then they realized for the first time that the neighbor they knew as the noodle maker of Kalimpong was also the Dalai Lama's older brother. The Tibetan spiritual...
From the Heart of Tibet
The Biography of Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche, the Holder of the Drikung Kagyu Line age
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
"The story of Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche’s life," notes the Dalai Lama, "encompasses a remarkably broad range of Tibetan experience over the past fifty years." This is the story of a young boy, born in 1946 to inherit the role of high-ranking lama. When the Chinese army invaded,...
The Buddha
The Social-Revolutionary Potential of Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
A warm and stimulating book, this text describes the India into which the Buddha was born, recounts what is known of his life and the development of his teachings, and then follows the course of Buddhism through succeeding centuries in India and Sri Lanka. Far from being a recluse concerned only with...
Wrestling The Dragon
In search of the Tibetan lama who defied China
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
He's master of the PlayStation, he listens to rap music, he writes poetry and, in his eighteen-year-old hands, may hold the future of the Tibetan people. He is Ogyen Trinley Dorje, a Tibetan lama and the seventeenth incarnation of the Karmapa (third in line to the Dalai Lama).
When he was fourteen,...
The Difficulty of Being Good
On the Subtle Art of Dharma
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Why should we be good? How should we be good? And how might we more deeply understand the moral and ethical failings--splashed across today's headlines--that have not only destroyed individual lives but caused widespread calamity as well, bringing communities, nations, and indeed the global economy...
Demystifying Shambhala
The perfection of peace and harmony as revealed by the Jonang Tradition of Kalachakra.
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2016
Within each of us is an extraordinary potential for love and compassion that is capable of completely transforming the way that we experience our world. Through the ancient wisdom of the Kalachakra teachings it is possible to unlock this potential and manifest a sublime realm of experience, free from...
Unifying Force of Hinduism
The Harekrsna Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
The contents of the book are based upon the materials collected through extensive and careful research, for the preparation of a thesis for a higher degree for the Lancaster University. It deals with the conception of Hindu religion, its history and progress along with the gradual rationalization...
by Raimondo Bultrini
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
A triple homicide committed a few hundred yards away from the residence in exile of the Dalai Lama opens the doors to an unknown universe for Superintendent Rajeev Kumar Singh of the Indian police. He goes over every step of the crime and identifies its perpetrators as members of an exclusive cult...
by Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Though traditionally regarded as a peaceful religion, Buddhism has a dark side. On multiple occasions over the past fifteen centuries, Buddhist leaders have sanctioned violence, and even war. The eight essays in this book focus on a variety of Buddhist traditions, from antiquity to the present, and...
Religious Bodies Politic
Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Religious Bodies Politic examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with a large Buddhist population. Looking at religious transformation among...