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Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A modern guide to the transformative practice of silent illumination from Chan Buddhist teacher Rebecca Li. Silent illumination, a way of penetrating the mind through curious inquiry, is an especially potent, accessible, and portable meditation practice perfectly suited for a time when there is so much fear, upheaval, and sorrow in our world. It is a method of reconnecting with our true nature, which encompasses all that exists and where suffering...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From renowned Zen Buddhist teacher Haemin Sunim, a guide to turning life's challenges into opportunities for self-discovery Have you ever felt like life has thrown you a curveball? Are you struggling to overcome unexpected challenges and setbacks? While loss, heartbreak, and loneliness are all part of the human experience, in this warm guide, internationally bestselling author Haemin Sunim shows us that these moments can actually be rare opportunities...
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English
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This book does not go into the volumes of rules, discourses, and teachings set out in the Buddhist canon but addresses directly the essential doctrines of the Buddhist faith shared by all the different sects of Buddhism. It is essentially written for easy reading while capturing the essence of the Buddhist faith and that of Christianity. More importantly, it dicusses the major doctrine of self-denial, meditation methods, enlightenment, and the Samsara...
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English
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"Winner of the 1994 James Henry Breasted Prize, American Historical Association" "Winner of the 1994 Tricycle Prize for Excellence in Buddhist Scholarship" Miranda Shaw is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Richmond.
The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for the sexual practices of its adherents, who strive to transform erotic passion into spiritual ecstasy. Historians...
6) Wesak
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"Wesak is about celebrating Buddha. It is a Buddhist holiday. People clean and decorate temples for the celebration. Then, they honor Buddha at temples by making offerings and reciting holy texts. People also do good deeds during Wesak. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways"--
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Through countless editions and across centuries, the Tibetan Book of the Dead has drawn readers intrigued by the Tibetan Buddhist view of the end of life. In a world that often ignores death or hides it from view, Tibetan Buddhists acknowledge it as the last of a countless series of endings in this lifetime. And after each ending comes a new beginning. The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Beginners draws on this timeless wisdom to help readers today...
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Language
English
Description
Dharma Transmission an amalgamation of public talks and study group discussion forums within Western Australia from 2006 to 2020 on various topics, by those who engage with the Dharma journey within the context of this secular western approach to Buddhism, meditation, life, and actuality. This context was developed as a current functional understanding of actuality that was realized within a period of meditation on the 13th June 1980 and then followed...
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Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Robert Wright's Why Buddhism Is True in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: This book is the culmination of a personal journey that began with Wright's landmark book on evolutionary psychology, The Moral Animal, and deepened as he immersed himself in meditative practice and conversed with some of the world's most skilled meditators.
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Language
English
Description
Donald S. Lopez, Jr., is Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. He is the editor of Princeton Readings in Religions, which includes Religions of China in Practice, Buddhism in Practice,
Religions of India in Practice, and Religions of Tibet in Practice.
The Heart Sutra is perhaps the most famous Buddhist text, traditionally regarded as a potent expression...
Author
Language
English
Description
Donald S. Lopez Jr., is Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the editor of three other volumes in this series: Religions of Tibet in Practice, Religions of India in Practice, and Religions of China in Practice.
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...
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English
Description
Meditating with Character invites the reader to get really, curious about what goes on in their meditation practice, through understanding their embodying and disembodying habits. These habits and patterns are, explored through the lens of character positions, a body of knowledge taken from post-Reichian psychotherapy. This book breaks new ground in weaving together important threads from meditation, body psychotherapy, and Buddhism, encouraging the...
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Language
Español
Description
Libro con más de 50 pequeños artículos, que nos invitan a reflexionar sobre la Espiritualidad y la vida. Escrito por el Monje Budista, Fotógrafo y Escritor Thupten Chophel, discípulo de S.S. el Dalai Lama, tratando de unir el mundo Occidental en el que ha nacido, con el mundo Oriental. Occidente y Oriente deben aprender uno del otro y el otro del uno.
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English
Description
In the 1950's and 1960's, Americans combined psychedelics with Buddhist meditation to achieve direct experience through altered states of consciousness. As some practitioners became more committed to Buddhism, they abandoned the use of psychedelics in favor of stricter mental discipline, but others carried on with the experiment, advancing a fascinating alchemy called psychedelic Buddhism. Many think explorations with psychedelics and Buddhism faded...
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Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Pema Chödrön's When Things Fall Apart in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart-when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chödrön suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving toward painful situations and becoming intimate...
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Language
English
Description
The Title 'The Modern Buddhism and Its Followers in Orissa written/authored/edited by Nagendra Nath Vasu', published in the year 2013. The ISBN 9788121200561 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 202 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Philosophy. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms.
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English
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LUCIFER'S ORCHARD will open your eyes to the prison you live in. It is a prison where you are not only the prisoner, but the guard and warden all at the same time. This is the first of four witnesses to come out in a series showing the true teachings of the Buddha's! The eternal shadow teachings of the Dharma of darkness. The Darkness is where the truth of the light is to be found. Lucifer's Orchard the first witness will show the deception of what...
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Language
English
Description
Robert E. Buswell, Jr., is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Director of the Center for Korean Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among his other works is The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea (Princeton).
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...
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