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Explores the prevalence of Buddhist ideas in American literature since the 1970s.This timely book explores how Buddhist-inflected thought has enriched contemporary American literature. Continuing the work begun in The Emergence of Buddhist American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966672718Author Gregory KramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Insight Dialogue CommunityPublisher Insight Dialogue Community

Many of us in the modern world are unhappier than they need to be, and mindfulness offers a solution that works. Science and clinical practice have only recently 'discovered' the profound potential of mindfulness-based practices for increasing our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559390828Author Geshe Sonam RinchenFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569751695Author Marcus BorgFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 234g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614292845Author Ben ConnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

'Once upon a time there was a rich old man who lived in a vast mansion ...' Aware that whatever our age, we never lose our responsiveness to story, myth and drama, the Buddha often told stories and parables, and in the Mahayana phase of the development...

In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with South African writer and scholar Julia Martin. Over this period many things changed decisively--globally, locally, and in...

In Awakening the Luminous Mind, meditation teacher Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides you to find refuge within instead of searching for support outside of yourself. Using the heart instructions of Dawa Gyaltsen, an 8th-century Tibetan meditation master, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590307748Author PadmasambhavaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

This volume includes two memoirs. In the Sign of the Golden Wheel tells the story of the `middle period' of the fourteen years Sangharakshita was based in the Indian hill station, Kalimpong. It is a crucial time for Buddhism as the whole Asian world...

Wu Zhao (624-705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China as emperor over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she-in a predominantly patriarchal and androcentric society-ascend the dragon throne?...

Lucid dreaming-waking up and becoming fully conscious in your dreams-has intrigued legions of those seeking to explore their vast inner worlds. Yet for many, "getting lucid" for the first time can be elusive. And for those who have, there are few...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789552403378Author P.V. BapatFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Buddhist Publication Society,Sri LankaPublisher Buddhist Publication Society,Sri Lanka

Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give about the life and teaching of the Buddha. He discusses the social and political background of India in the Buddha's time, and traces the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892813230Author Noor Inayat KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994113108Author John Tosan McKinnonFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Footprints Tours LtdPublisher Footprints Tours LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306994Author Kunzang PeldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951226190Author Anne WaldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Trident Business PartnersPublisher Trident Business PartnersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861715213Author Martine BatchelorFormat 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 9780937938812Author Geshe Lhundub SopaFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120803220Author Jaideva SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 197Imprint Motilal Banarsidass PublicationsPublisher Motilal Banarsidass...

Insights on the interface between Buddhist teachings and Western psychotherapy by the best-selling author of Thoughts without a Thinker Immersed in Buddhist psychology prior to studying Western psychiatry, Dr. Mark Epstein first viewed Western...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932040305Author Swami SatchidanandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Integral Yoga PublicationsPublisher Integral Yoga PublicationsWeight(grams) 0g

In this volume of memoirs we find Sangharakshita after twenty years in the East arriving back in England at the invitation of the English Sangha Trust. He expects to stay no more than a few months, but the months become years and, as he comes to know the...

Disease and death are undeniably integral parts of human life. Yet when they manifest we are easily caught unprepared. To prepare for these, we need to learn how to skilfully face illness and passing away. A source of practical wisdom can be found in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570756139Author Brian J. PierceFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

Buddhism is often the religion that teachers have the least confidence in teaching despite being the sixth largest religion in the UK and being commonly regarded as one of the six major religions to be taught in schools throughout the country. This book...

This book provides a detailed history of Hindu goddess traditions with a special focus on the local goddesses of Andhra Pradesh, past and present. The antiquity and the evolution of these goddess traditions are illustrated and documented with the help of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804645Author Dzigar KongtrulFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590307298Author Rodney SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946005892Author Timber HawkeyeFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Hawkeye PublishersPublisher Hawkeye PublishersWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932890167Author Elizabeth Clare ProphetFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Summit University Press,U.S.Publisher Summit University Press,U.S.

The phenomenon known as "Buddhism" embraces an uninterrupted process of communication through which the Buddha's followers have been guided and inspired for 25 centuries. Communication is a living, evolving thing, and for all its continuity the Buddhist...

In the breath Vessantara, who has been meditating on the breath for over 30 years, writes engagingly for both newcomers to meditation and those with some experience, giving us: Clear instruction on how to meditate on the breath; Practical ways to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590300909Author Chogyam TrungpaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

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 serve as an introduction to the Buddha's thought, and hence even to Buddhism itself, the book also has...

This book brings important new dimensions to the interface between contemporary Western science and ancient Eastern wisdom. Here for the first time the concepts and insights of general systems theory are presented in tandem with those of the Buddha. ...

In this book, the spirit teacher White Eagle - already known to many through his sayings in "The Quiet Mind" - seeks to remind us that we set out long ago upon an absolutely safe path of experience, unfolding spiritual gifts through the lessons...

The first part of this volume consists of Sangharakshita's writings about Anagarika Dharmapala, a Sri Lankan Buddhist who made it his life's mission to restore the sacred site of Bodh Gaya, and whom Sangharakshita came to revere as one of the great...