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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559394697Author Penor RinpocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

A remarkable cross-cultural history that rescues the swastika, an ancient Buddhist symbol, from its deployment by the forces of hate. The swastika has been used for over three thousand years by billions of people in many cultures and...

A provocative essay challenging the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism, from one of the world's most widely respected philosophers and writers on Buddhism and science Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733314305Author Chuan ZhiFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Songlark PublishingPublisher Songlark PublishingWeight(grams) 721gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

What is the meaning of life? How can we be truly happy? Buddhism answers these questions through the Dharma, which is a traditional term meaning both "the truth" and "the path", and is the subject of this book, which offers a starter-kit of Buddhist...

Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385485111Author Taitetsu UnnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

With new photography of extraordinarily rare works of art, this pioneering study features discoveries and research essential to understanding the origins and meaning of Buddhist artistic traditions "Both the show and the book are extraordinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804348Author The Terton Drime KungaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

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Buddhism is one of the major world religions today, with approximately 500 million followers worldwide and nearly 300,000 in the UK. Following the Buddha's Enlightenment in north India in the 5th century, Buddhism was adopted across Asia and is now...

The first English translation of a Kalmyk epic nearly lost to history. This is the first English translation of Jangar, the heroic epic of the Kalmyk nomads, who are the Western Mongols of Genghis Khan's medieval empire in Europe. Today, Kalmykia is...

A stunning modern translation of a Buddhist classic that is also one of the oldest literary texts in the world written by women.The Therigatha, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language by and about the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614294177Author GampopaFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

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A beautifully illustrated study of the caves at Dunhuang, exploring how this important Buddhist site has been visualized from its creation to todaySituated at the crossroads of the northern and southern routes of the ancient silk routes in western China,...

This is the story of an international Buddhist movement, from its inception in London to its growth worldwide. It is the story of mistakes made, lessons learnt and how a Buddhist community was built. Extract: This is the story of a circle of friends...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647224561Author Mandala PublishingFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

An essential companion to a timeless spiritual classicThe Lotus Sutra is among the most venerated scriptures of Buddhism. Composed in India some two millennia ago, it asserts the potential for all beings to attain supreme enlightenment. Donald Lopez and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614298410Author Bhikkhu AnalayoFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The tantric Buddhist traditions emerged in India beginning in the seventh century CE and flourished there until the demise of Buddhism in India circa the fifteenth century. These traditions were disseminated to Central, East, and Southeast Asia, and...

Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807943Author Kate CrosbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

"Farther on, I find other figures of Jizo, single reliefs, sculptured upon tombs. But one of these is a work of art so charming that I feel a pain at being obliged to pass it by. More sweet, assuredly, than any imaged Christ, this dream in white stone of...

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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?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306703Author Denise Patry LeidyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

This book helps Christians to understand the Buddhist mind-set and world view, and to see where there are useful points of comparison and contact. Steve explains the concerns, fears and stresses that Buddhists experience - Buddhism is not a way of...

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...

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A bold translation of Nobel Prize-winner Herman Hesse's most inspirational and beloved work, which was nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadA Penguin Classic Hesse's famous and influential novel, Siddartha, is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949163049Author Tsong Khapa Losang DrakpaFormat HardbackPage Count 402Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807080Author Ruth GambleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809336Author LongchenpaFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc