Buddhism

This book provides an in-depth textual and literary analysis of the Blue Cliff Record (Chinese Biyanlu, Japanese Hekiganroku), a seminal Chan/Zen Buddhist collection of commentaries on one hundred gongan/koan cases, considered in light of historical,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880015110Author Nelson FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint ECCO PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

For many people attracted to Eastern religions (particularly Zen Buddhism), Asia seems the source of all wisdom. As Bernard Faure examines the study of Chan/Zen from the standpoint of postmodern human sciences and literary criticism, he challenges this...

Hoping to rediscover his deeper purpose, Rijumati, an English Buddhist teacher and businessman, embarked on a journey into the unknown: a round-the-world trip by land and sea that became a kind of pilgrimage. Months - and many crises - later he returned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614295419Author Pabongkha RinpocheFormat HardbackPage Count 738Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888375954Author Daniel Doen SilberbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995734340Author Ringu TulkuFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Bodhicharya Publications CICPublisher Bodhicharya Publications CICWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614290773Author Thomas Yuho KirchnerFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

As we move towards a one world consciousness, we need an evolved spirituality to follow. We can have an adult, non-dogmatic spiritual life that transcends borders and language. This book is a mixture of talks on truth and recorded satsangs. It is an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984823222Author John IwoharaFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Kobozu the Little Priest PublishingPublisher Kobozu the Little Priest...

This anthology, first published in 1995, illustrates the vast scope of Buddhist practice in Asia, past and present. Re-released now in a slimmer but still extensive edition, Buddhism in Practice presents a selection of thirty-five translated texts--each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614294283Author Khenchen Palden SherabFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692663349Author Jeffrey a BermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Tibetan Art PublicationsPublisher Tibetan Art PublicationsWeight(grams) 249g

Robert Buswell, a Buddhist scholar who spent five years as a Zen monk in Korea, draws on personal experience in this insightful account of day-to-day Zen monastic practice. In discussing the activities of the postulants, the meditation monks, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532639401Author Deborah J HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949163148Author David R. Komodo KittayFormat HardbackPage Count 668Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

This annotated translation by Daisetz Suzuki (1870-1966) comprises the first four of six chapters of the Kyogyoshinsho, the definitive doctrinal work of Shinran (1173-1262). Shinran founded the Jodo Shin sect of Pure Land Buddhism, now the largest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590560693Author Norm PhelpsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559394321Author Adriano ClementeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Visions of the Buddha offers a ground-breaking approach to the nature of the early discourses of the Buddha, the most foundational scriptures of Buddhist religion. Although the early discourses are commonly considered to be attempts to preserve the...

What did the Dalai Lama say to the pizza guy from Brooklyn? "Make me one with everything!" It's a familiar joke, muses Lama Surya Das, but it holds a profound truth: that in addition to inner peace, meditation is a path for all-inclusive connection .With...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806748Author Stephanie KazaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

The idea of nirvana (Pali nibbana) is alluring but elusive for non-specialists and specialists alike. Offering his own interpretation of key texts, Steven Collins explains the idea in a new, accessible way - as a concept, as an image (metaphor), and as...

This book argues that Buddhism has spread due to globalized capitalism, and explores how capitalism is also impacting Buddhists and Buddhism today. Edited by two leading scholars in Buddhist studies, the book examines how capitalism and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861716562Author Anyen RinpocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614293972Author Gesshin Claire GreenwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559393225Author Artemus B. EngleFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 885g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861712397Author Matthew T. KapsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937938140Author Khetsun Sangpo RinbochayFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

We know from our own experience that when our mind is peaceful we are happy all the time, even if our external conditions are poor, but when our mind is not peaceful we are not happy, even if our external conditions are excellent. The method to make our...

A radical approach to studying the mind. Renowned Buddhist philosopher B. Alan Wallace reasserts the power of shamatha and vipashyana, traditional Buddhist meditations, to clarify the mind's role in the natural world. Raising profound questions about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808964Author Jane HawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865477773Author Ethan NichternFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901032607Author Venerable Myokyo-NiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The Buddhist SocietyPublisher The Buddhist SocietyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559394505Author Jigme PhuntsokFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 163g

In many ways, Buddhism has become the global religion of the modern world. For its contemporary followers, the ideal of enlightenment promises inner peace and worldly harmony. And whereas other philosophies feel abstract and disembodied, Buddhism offers...

Buddhism and Jainism share the concepts of karma, rebirth, and the desirability of escaping from rebirth. The literature of both traditions contains many stories about past, and sometimes future, lives which reveal much about these foundational doctrines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888375824Author Thich Nhat HanhFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm...

David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby we must desire to end desire, the varieties of desire that are articulated in the Pali texts are examined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681723099Author Narada MahatheraFormat PaperbackPage Count 522Imprint Bpe Pariyatti EditionsPublisher Bpe Pariyatti EditionsWeight(grams)...