Wisdom Publications imprint: 453 books
by Johannes Bronkhorst
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
The earliest records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death, and the body of teachings attributed to him continued to evolve in India for centuries afterward across a shifting cultural and political landscape. As one tradition within a diverse religious...
by Tamara Levitt
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Trying—and failing—can be a path to happiness too.
Leela loves to do yoga. She could do all sorts of poses, but there was one pose she couldn’t do. Every time Leela tried to do a headstand…KERPLUNK!
This book explores the themes of acceptance, resilience, and self-compassion...
by Andrée Salom
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Join a group of adventurous children on their ever-changing journey across the sea in this delightfully illustrated book that playfully teaches impermanence, change, and acceptance.
Enjoy things with pleasure and do let them go,
And grow into life—let it flow, flow, flow, flow.
Four...
The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle
Essays on Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
Madhyamaka, the "philosophy of the middle," systematized the Buddha's fundamental teaching on no-self with its profound non-essentialist reading of reality. Founded in India by Nagarjuna in about the second century CE, Madhyamaka philosophy went on to become the dominant strain of Buddhist thought...
How to Be Sick (Second Edition)
A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A brand-new edition of the best-selling classic with added and updated practices.
In 2001, Toni Bernhard got sick and, to her and her partner’s bewilderment, stayed that way. As they faced the confusion, frustration, and despair of a life with sudden limitations—a life that was vastly different...
How Do Madhyamikas Think?
And Other Essays on the Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
A respected professor of Buddhist philosophy brings readers on a fascinating journey through Buddhism’s most animating ideas.
Tom Tillemans, who has studied Buddhist philosophy since the 1970s, excels in bringing analytic and continental philosophy into conversation with thinkers in the Sanskrit...
by Venerable Hammalawa Saddhatissa
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
"For more than a quarter of a century, those in search of an introduction to Buddhist moral thought have turned and returned to this little volume..." Thus notes Charles Hallisey of Harvard University in his introduction. Starting with an examination of classical Greek notions of ethics, Venerable...
The Buddha's Apprentices
More Voices of Young Buddhists
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Sumi Loundon's Blue Jean Buddha was hailed by the New York Times Review of Books as "a bellwether anthology"--mapping the spiritual trails followed by a generation of American Buddhist youths. The Buddha's Apprentices examines that territory in fuller detail, telling twenty-six more stories of this...
The Death of You
A Book for Anyone Who Might Not Live Forever
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A yoga teacher, punk rock bassist, and Buddhist teaches from experience on how approaching death and grief with a little more compassion and a little less fear will make for a better life—and a better death, too.
DEATH.
Even the word itself probably makes you a little uncomfortable....
Selfless Love
Beyond the Boundaries of Self and Other
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Selfless Love shows how meditation can help us realize that we don’t love—we are love.
Gentle, elegant, and radically inspiring, Selfless Love presents a holistic, experiential meditative path that enables us to see beyond our preconceived notions of identity, spirituality, and humanity....
What Makes You So Busy?
Finding Peace in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2019
A Tibetan Buddhist lama gives advice on the issues facing people in the modern world.
In this book, Khenpo Sodargye, a world-famous Tibetan Buddhist lama and scholar, offers guidance on an issue that troubles so many of us in the modern world:
What is true happiness, and how do we achieve...
The Theravada Abhidhamma
Inquiry into the Nature of Conditioned Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
A lucid explanation of the basic contours of the Theravada Abhidamma system for serious students of Buddhist thought.
The renowned Sri Lankan scholar Y. Karunadasa examines Abhidhamma perspectives on the nature of phenomenal existence. He begins with a discussion of dhamma theory, which describes...
Shantideva's Guide to Awakening
A Commentary on the Bodhicharyavatara
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The most comprehensive modern commentary on Shantideva’s master work.
One of the great classics of Buddhist literature, the Bodhicharyavatara, or Way of the Bodhisattva, is required reading for understanding Tibetan Buddhism. Presented in the form of a personal meditation in verse, Shantideva,...
The Cakrasamvara Tantra (The Discourse of Sri Heruka)
A Study and Annotated Translation
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
This is the first complete, critical English translation of the Cakrasamvara Tantra, also known as the Sriherukabhidhana and Laghusamvara.
This is the first complete, critical English translation of the Cakrasamvara Tantra. Composed in India during the eighth century, it is a foundational scripture...