After Buddhism

Reducere. DescriptionEach time the teachings of the Buddha have entered a new culture outside their Indian birthplace, they have to undergo renewal and reint...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rita M. GrossThis book surveys both the part women have played in Buddhism historically and what Buddhism might become in i...

Reducere. What are the foundational scriptures and major schools for Chinese Buddhists? What divinities do they worship? What festivals do they celebrate? Th...

Erik J. Hammerstrom recasts the history of twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism by examining how Huayan Buddhism was imagined, taught, and practiced ...

DescriptionIn this volume Sangharakshita approaches communicating Buddhism in the West from two very different, but equally illuminating, angles. I...

Reducere. "The Awakening of the West" is an insightful and elegantly written history chronicling the developing relationship between Buddhism and Western cul...

Reducere. With The Garden, centuries of Tibetan Buddhist wisdom are brought to life for readers by one of its greatest Western teachers, Michael Roach. Throu...

Reducere. What is this? Ancient questions for modern minds presents talks given by Martine and Stephen Batchelor during a Sŏn (Chan/Zen) retreat in England ...

DescriptionRita M. Gross offers an engaging survey of the changes feminism has wrought in religious ideas, beliefs, and practices around the world,...

With characteristic humility, His Holiness the Dalai Lama begins this landmark survey of the entire Buddhist path by saying, "I think an overview o...

Reducere. In what he calls a "200 percent potent" teaching, Ch gyam Trungpa reveals how the spiritual path is a raw and rugged "unlearning" process that draw...

DescriptionKindness is one of the most basic qualities we can possess, and one of the most powerful. Living with Kindness shows us how to cultivate...

Reducere. For anyone curious about the teachings of Buddha and modern Buddhist practice, Tell Me Something about Buddhism offers the perfect introduction. Wr...

Reducere. Dwight Goddard's collection of translations of a cross-section of Buddhist traditions was a fundamental part of the importation of Buddhism into th...

Reducere. Buddhist Pali chants with English translations for use by students in Meditation Retreats. Pali is an Indo-Aryan language, current in Northern Indi...

Reducere. It is not events that disturb us, but what we believe about them.In ancient Greece, a group of philosophers developed highly effective techniques t...

DescriptionThis book, designed as a conversation between the Dalai Lama and Western neuroscientists, takes readers on a journey through opposing fi...

DescriptionThe author has consistently developed an attempt to dismantle Soka Gakkai study from traditional Nichiren Shoshu doctrine. This book dea...

Reducere. Through arduous and enthusiastic study of the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, the author successfully conquered the anxiety and depression that aros...

Reducere. Having practiced zazen for more than half a century, Robert Aitken sits today as the senior American Roshi, a teacher of broad reputation and conse...

A unique approach to Buddhism, What Would Buddha Do? shows that anyone can find guidance in Buddha s teachings. It demonstrates how to use the advi...

Reducere. A collection of parables and teaching stories from the martial arts traditions of Japan and China that emphasizes their spiritual foundation. - The...

Reducere. Awards🏆Finalist (2004) - Story Prize - (Fiction Collection)Contributor(s): Author: Joan SilberIntense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stor...

Reducere. Mitsu Suzuki is the widow of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, the Zen monk who founded the San Francisco Zen Center and helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the ...

Reducere. Journeys are rarely straight lines. Unlike a committed tradition such as, say, Buddhism or Catholicism, this is the spiritual path of "Whatever Lif...

Reducere. These extraordinary teachings on the spiritual path were given between March 3, 2000 and June 6, 2003, when Geshe Michael Roach engaged in a 3 year...

Reducere. Zen experience defies all thinking and linguistic description and simply affirms what is evidently real. "The ordinary way -- that precisely is the...

Reducere. DescriptionThis important new book brings together the work of top scholars and clinicians at leading universities and medical centers on the benef...

Reducere. The Lotus Sutra is one of the most popular and influential Mahayana sutras, and the basis on which several schools of Buddhism were established.The...

In 1919 the distinguished scholar Walter Evans-Wentz visited an Indian monastery, where he encountered the source of this famous volume. Derived fr...

The sixth volume of the Dalai Lama's definitive Library of Wisdom and Compassion series. Courageous Compassion, the sixth volume of the Library of ...

For many centuries Indian and Tibetan Buddhists have employed this collection of pithy, penetrating Dharma slogans to develop compassion, equanimit...

Reducere. Explore the seminal Platform Sutra, with one of the greatest living Zen masters as a guide. A lodestone of Zen Buddhism, the Platform Sutra present...

DescriptionThe legendary exploits of a spiritual superhero, and Tibetan Buddhism's most renowned saint--in a full-color graphic novel. From avengin...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book by Anatoliy Anshin documents the life of famous Japanese swordsman Yamaoka Tesshu and his historical role in the end of the To...

Reducere. From the German Romantics to the Beats and beyond: how the West has imagined IndiaIn 1808, German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schlegel published...

Description10 lectures, Basel, September 15-26, 1909 (CW 114)Rudolf Steiner was born with clairvoyant capacities, but it was not until he was forty...

Reducere. How do the Japanese about their native philosophy, Shinto, a decade and a half after its abolishment as a state religion by the Western Allies? // ...

Reducere. "A superb exploration of the importance of emotional pain--how we deal with it, how we can deal with it. Eaton weds psychoanalysis and Buddhism to ...

Reducere. The Roaring, Stream: A New Zen Reader is a groundbreaking, immensely readable anthology drawn From the vast corpus of Ch'an and Zen Buddhist litera...

Reducere. DescriptionGary Snyder (b. 1930) is one of the most distinguished American poets, remarkable both for his long and productive career and for his eq...

Reducere. After years of searching for meaning through drugs, Buddhism, sex, and Eastern philosophy, a long-haired hippie musician walked his bare feet into ...

Reducere. Brilliant Sanity: Buddhist Approaches to Psychotherapy and Counseling (Volume 1: Revised and Expanded Edition) brings together influential scholars...

Reducere. Allison Hong is not your typical fifteen-year-old Taiwanese girl. Unwilling to bend to the conditioning of her Chinese culture, which demands that ...

From the author of the National Book Award longlisted epic The Great Offshore Grounds, here is the debut novel that launched her career--a story of...

Path of Compassion is a collection of key stories from Thich Nhat Hanh's classic Old Path White Clouds, a book celebrating its 20th publishing anni...

Reducere. Teresa of vila (1515-1582) is one of the most beloved of the Catholic saints. In 1562, during the era of the Spanish Inquisition, Teresa sat down t...

An illustrated depiction of Steve Jobs' friendship with Zen Buddhist Kobun Chino Otogawa and the impact it had on Jobs' career Apple cofounder Stev...

Reducere. It is surely a significant manifestation of the permanence of the soul's quest for God that the Western world, at a time when human values, princip...

A portable treasury of gems from a lifetime of Wisdom. To know Lama Yeshe was to know he loved chocolate; it was his favorite metaphor to describe ...

Reducere. The writings of Zen master Dogen are among the highest achievements not only of Japanese literature but of world literature. Dogen's writings are a...

Reducere. "Sumi-E" is composed of the words "Sumi", which means "black ink", and "E", which means "picture". Sumi-e is thus a Japanese art, where the picture...

Reducere. "Our main object will be to describe one of the most incomparably beautiful myths that has ever flowered from the mind of man, or from the unconsci...