What Is Buddhism?

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. Making Friends With Our Mind gives a basic guide to Buddhist meditation. Starting with what meditation actually is and its basics, the book moves o...

Your hands-on guide to this widely practiced and ancient religion Buddhism, one of the world's most widely practiced religions, is a fascinating ye...

Reducere. The Pure Land Dharma Door is the most popular form of Buddhism in Asia, though it is largely unknown in the West. In this book, we introduce the Pu...

DescriptionExploring the esoteric subject of Dzogchen, His Holiness offers insights into one of Buddhism's most profound systems of meditation. He ...

DescriptionBuddhism is one of the oldest and largest of the world's religions. But it is also a tradition that has proven to have enormous contempo...

Reducere. Japanese Ink Painting: Lessons in Suiboku Technique teaches beginners the fundamental techniques of suiboku, a form of Japanese ink painting. Suibo...

Reducere. DescriptionAmbedkar has shown the harsh reality and true faces of the Congress leaders (and Gandhi in particular) of his era who acted no less than...

Reducere. As human beings, we have one thing in common: we search all our lives for lasting happiness. YOUR WERE BORN FOR A REASON tells us that happiness ca...

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Reducere. Kuji-Kiri means "Nine symbolic cuts." It is a technique that belongs to the Japanese esoteric Buddhist tradition. From the outside, it seems to con...

Reducere. Here is a lucid, accessible, and inspiring guide to the six perfections--Buddhist teachings about six dimensions of human character that require "p...

Building on the success of Life with Full Attention, Maitreyabandhu offers a profoundly useful work on how to practice Buddhism in everyday life. U...

Reducere. "We have so many ways to cope with life, many ways to worship comfort and pleasantness. All are based on the same thing: the fear of encountering a...

Reducere. Nagarjuna stands second only to the Buddha in his importance in Buddhist thought. The concept of "emptiness (shunyata)" became the central ontologi...

The first-ever biography with selected writings of one of the greatest Indian Buddhist masters in history. Few figures in the history of Buddhism i...

Religion plays a critical role in determining how disability is understood and how persons with disabilities are treated. Examining the world's rel...

This exploration of the radical, yet ancient, idea that everything and everyone is God will transform how you understand your life and the nature o...

DescriptionYoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to...

Reducere. DescriptionWhile in grad school in the early 1990s, Chris Niebauer began to notice striking parallels between the latest discoveries in psychology,...

DescriptionNowadays people use the word Zen indiscriminately for everything from the Zen of making an instant fortune overnight to the Zen of cooki...

Reducere. Cosmology and Buddhist Thought is the result of a conversation with astrophysicist and television celebrity, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, that took pla...

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. This t...

Reducere. DescriptionWhy am I here? What should I be doing? What happens when we pass away? Have you ever felt an invisible presence around you? These are so...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this text from a lecture originally given in 1981, Norbu Rinpoche discusses the relationship between Zen Buddhism and the various for...

DescriptionThe night Brad Warner learns that his childhood friend Marky has died, Warner is about to speak to a group of Zen students in Hamburg, G...

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...

Reducere. What is the highest state of consciousness? St. Paul called it "the peace that passeth understanding" and R. M. Bucke named it "cosmic consciousnes...

Reducere. Several years ago, Wendell Berry recommended we read Marco Pallis' Peaks and Lamas. He had obtained a copy of this out of print and elusive title, ...

David R. Loy draws from giants of psychotherapy and existentialism, from Nietzsche to Kierkegaard to Sartre, to explore the fundamental issues of l...

Reducere. In What the Buddha Thought, Richard Gombrich argues that the Buddha was one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of all time. Intended to se...

Reducere. The Wheel of Life is the spiritual autobiography of John Blofeld (1913-1987), a world-renowned British scholar and writer who devoted his life to t...

Reducere. IT'S NOT JUST SEX. IT'S NOT JUST LOVE. IT'S SOMETHING MORE.... But what could be better than sex? How about lovemaking that sweeps people into new ...

Reducere. A major figure in the transmission of Zen to the West, Zen Master Seung Sahn was known for his powerful teaching style, which was direct, surprisin...

DescriptionFallout is the memoir of one woman's journey from ignorance of the reports of physical, emotional and sexual abuse by Sogyal Rinpoche, s...

Reducere. Though the abhidharma is recognized as one of the major topics of the Buddhist teachings, up until now there have been few translations of any of t...

Reducere. Award NameIndieFab awardsAward categoryReligionExplore the common ground underlying the diverse expressions of the Buddha's teachings with two of T...

Thinley Norbu addresses questions of interest to Western and Eastern students of Tibetan Buddhism, ranging from matters of everyday practice to eso...

Reducere. The "spiritual but not religious" are the fastest-growing denomination on America today. Yet what are the roadmaps? What does the spiritual search ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book helps Christians to understand the Buddhist mind-set and world view, and to see where there are useful points of comparison an...

DescriptionA colorfully illustrated, pocket-size picture book biography of the Buddha.Gautama Buddha lived and taught in ancient India between the ...

Reducere. DescriptionJust what does the Third Precept mean for the gay Buddhist? Is being gay a consequence for something we did in a "previous life?" What i...

Over the past twenty-five years A. H. Almaas--widely recognized as a leader in integrating spirituality and psychology--has been developing and tea...

Reducere. Compelled to seek something more than what modern society has to offer, Robert Sibley turned to an ancient setting for help in recovering what has ...

DescriptionOne of Western Buddhism's most sophisticated thinkers on one of Buddhism's most central topics. The concept of nonduality lies at the ve...

Reducere. For thirty years, Fr. John-Julian has practiced contemplative prayer daily as a monk of the Order of Julian of Norwich. The book is a record of let...

Reducere. DescriptionMany practitioners of Buddhism find that Stoic philosophy, the ancient Greco-Roman philosophy as a way of life, is similar to their own ...

Reducere. Pastor and best-selling author Adam Hamilton returns to one of his most popular topics, Christianity and world religions. This new, fully updated b...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Keith DowmanIn Tibetan Buddhism, Mahamudra represents a perfected level of meditative realization: it is the inseparable un...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael WilliamsFourth Edition Now Available with even more Beautiful Content "Every morning we are born again. What we do ...

Engage with a new vision of Buddhism and the modern world with the bestselling author of Money Sex War Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution. Davi...

Contributor(s): Author: Wolfgang GiegerichThis essay has the purpose of sharpening psychology's self-understanding by reflecting it against the foi...

This new translation of the Buddha's most important, most studied teaching offers a radical new interpretation. In September, 2014 Thich Nhat Hanh ...

Reducere. Feuerstein is a renowned yoga scholar and a tireless communicator, sharing his knowledge in more than two dozen books on the subject as well as tra...

Reducere. New edition of this perennial classic. "The best introductory work on Tibetan Buddhist tantra available today."--Janet Gyatso, Harvard University W...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mamta NainyIllustrator: Siddhartha TripathiTashi is worried about his friend, the Moon. He seems thinner than usual. Maybe ...

Reducere. `` Hagan's] book will appeal to readers interested in what true Zen practice is supposed to be about beyond all the popular images and colorful sto...

A bold and provocative work from the late preeminent feminist scholar, which challenges men and women alike to free themselves from attachment to g...

Reducere. Thich Nhat Hanh brings his warmth and clarity to this unique explication of Zen Buddhism. Beginning with a discussion of daily life in a Zen monast...

The Rough Guide to Nepal is the most passionate and knowledgeable guidebook to this inspiring country. It offers an insider's guide to Kathmandu, f...

Reducere. What is God? is an eloquent introduction to the ideas behind God and religion, and brings forward complex ideas in a way children will understand. ...

Reducere. The Silk Road is iconic in world history; but what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty d...

Reducere. A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful expl...

Reducere. This comprehensive, compact, lucid, and faithful account of the Buddha's teachings persistently enjoys great popularity in colleges, universities, ...

"There are many words we can use to describe what our true nature is. The simplest name in Buddhism for that is 'buddha nature.' The definition of ...

Reducere. How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People) is a smart, hip guide for spiritual seekers who want to experience more love and stability in all...

Kiera Van Gelder's first suicide attempt at the age of twelve marked the onset of her struggles with drug addiction, depression, post-traumatic str...

A concise and inspirational book for anyone dealing with chronic or acute pain by a long time palliative care doctor who is greatly inspired by Nat...

Reducere. Buddhist masters of the past have explained the relationship between Buddhist theory and the Truth by way of a simple metaphor. The Truth, they say...

Reducere. Ajahn Sumedho urges us to trust in awareness and find out for ourselves what it is to experience genuine liberation from mental anguish and sufferi...