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Book of Kadam: The Core Texts, Attributed to Atisa Dipamkara (982–1054) and Dromtönpa (1005–1064)
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The Kadma School, which emerged from the teachings of the Indian master Atisa and his principal student, Dromtönpa, is revered for its unique practical application of the bodhisattva’s altruistic ideal in day-to-day life. One of the most well-known sets of spiritual teachings stemming from Atisa and Dromtönpa is a special collection of oral transmissions enshrined in the two-volume Book of Kadam (Bka’ gdams glegs bam). The texts in this volume include the core texts of The Book of Kadam, notably the twenty-three-chapter dialogue between Atisa and Dromtönpa that is woven around Atisa’s Bodhisattva’s Jewel Garland. Sometimes referred to as the “Kadam emanation scripture,” The Book of Kadam is indisputedly one of the greatest works of Tibetan Buddhism. This volume contains (1) Atisa’s Bodhisattva’s Jewel Garland, (2) the twenty-three chapters of the Jewel Garland of Dialogues, (3) Dromtönpa’s Self-Exhortation, (4) Elucidation of the Heart-Drop Practice by Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen (1223–1305), (5) four selected chapters from Dromtönpa’s birth stories, (6) two brief verse summaries of the Book of Kadam, one by the second Dalai Lama (1476–1542) and the other by Yongzin Yeshé Gyaltsen (1713–93), and (7) Sayings of the Kadam
Masters, compiled by Chegom Sherap Dorjé (ca. twelfth century).
Although the Kadam school no longer exists as an autonomous lineage within Tibetan Buddhism, its teachings have become fully incorporated into the teachings of all four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, especially the Geluk School.
Hardcover, 768 pages, $59.95
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Among Tibetan Texts
By: Smith, Gene
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History and Literature of the Himalayan Plateau
E. Gene Smith ran the Library of Congress' Tibetan Text Publication Project of the United States Public Law 480 (PL480)- an effort to salvage and reprint the Tibetan literature that had been saved by the exile community or by members of the Tibetan speaking communities of Sikkim, Bhutan , India, and Nepal. Smith wrote prefaces to these reprinted books to help clarify and contextualize the particular Tibetan texts: the prefaces served as rough orientations to a poorly understood body of foreign literature.
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Approaching the Great Perfection
By: Sam van Schaik
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Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, is the highest meditative practice of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Approaching the Great Perfection looks at a seminal figure of this lineage, Jigme Lingpa, an eighteenth-century scholar and meditation master whose cycle of teachings , the Longchen Nyingtig, has been handed down through generations as a complete path to enlightenment. Ten of Jigme Lingpa's texts are presented here, along with extensive analysis by van Schaik of a core within Buddhism: Does enlightenment develop gradually, or does it come all at once? Though these two positions are often portrayed by modern scholars as entrenched polemical views, van Schaik explains that both tendencies are present within each of the Tibetan Buddhist schools.
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Art of Just Sitting
By: Daido Loori, John
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Essential writings on the zen practice of Shikantaza
"This is the single most comprehensive treasury of writings in English on the practice of shikantaza, and it is likely to remain the most important collection for many years to come. This volume, spanning the centuries since Shakyamuni Buddha to the present day, will prove indispensable to meditators and scholars alike.
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Attention Revolution, Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind
By: Allan Wallace
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Meditation offers, in addition to its many other benefits, a method for achieving previously inconceivable levels of concentration. Author B. Alan Wallace has nearly thirty years' practice in attention-enhancing meditation, including a retreat he performed under the guidance of the Dalai Lama. An active participant in the much-publicized dialogues between Buddhists and scientists, Alan is uniquely qualified to speak intelligently to both camps, and The Attention Revolution is the definitive presentation of his knowledge.
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Available Truth: Excursions into Buddhist Wisdom and the Natural World
By: Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano
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With his books Landscapes of Wonder and Longing for Certainty, the American monk Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano led readers down literary trails, providing enlightening glimpses of the natural world.
In Available Truth, he guides us further along the path. His unqualified embrace of the Buddha’s worldview—in intelligent and deeply thoughtful prose—distinguishes his work from many other Western Buddhist books. Along with reflections on mindfulness, impermanence, and the end of suffering, Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano is not afraid to delve into the topics of rebirth, karma, nonvirtue, and the roles of reasoned faith, ritual, and monasticism, revealing their continuing relevance for today's seeker. His patient awareness of the workings of the mind and the natural world will enable readers to deepen both their practice and their lives.
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Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness
By: John Makransky
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Mother Theresa. The Dalai Lama. Nelson Mandela.
Gandhi. Some admire such figures from afar and think, How special they
are; I could never be like that. But as John Makransky has learned, the
power of real and enduring love lies within every one of us. Awakening Through Love is his guide to finding it.
In Awakening Through Love, he pioneers new ways of
making Tibetan meditations of compassion and wisdom accessible to
people of all backgrounds and faiths. Drawing from Tibetan teachings of
compassion and the Dzogchen teachings of innate wisdom, and using
plain, practical instruction, he helps readers uncover the unity of
wisdom and love in the very nature of their minds. Then Lama John
describes how to actualize those qualities in every aspect of family
life, work, service and social action.
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Becoming the Compassion Buddha
By: Lama Yeshe
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Tantric Mahamudra for Everyday Life
Becoming the Compassion Buddha is a complete meditation retreat from one of the pioneers of Buddhism in the West. Lama Yeshe guides readers through the tantric practice of Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion, basing his instructions on a text written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama at age nineteen. Lama Yeshe gives special emphasis to mahamudra, the emptiness of one's own mind, and demystifies these esoteric techniques, clearly showing them for what they are: Highly developed psychology.
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Beside Still Waters: Jews, Christians, and the Way of the Buddha
By: Harold Kasimow, John Keenan, and Linda Klepinger Keenan
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A compelling question for people of faith today is how to remain committed to one''s own religious tradition while being open to the beauty and truth of other religions. By example: Some fear that Buddhism is a threat to Western faith traditions and express grave doubts about interreligious and cross-cultural encounters. Yet, many who have actually broadened their experience profess to have developed a deeper understanding of and a deeper commitment to their tradition of origin.
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Blue Jean Buddha, Voices of Young Buddhists
By: Loundon, Sumi
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In the twenty-first century, when the Dalai Lama's image is used to sell computers and "Nirvana" is a rock band, what does Buddhism really mean to young people? Here are real stories about young Buddhists in their own words that affirm and inform the young adult Buddhist experience of trying to live in the modern world, and bring Buddhism into their lives.
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Buddha's Teachings on Prosperity: At Home, at Work, in the World
By: Bhikku Rahula
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Money and investing. Family. Relationships. Work and business. Sex. What could the Buddha tell us about such worldly concerns?
The Buddha had an unusually keen insight into what people with everyday concerns need to know, and you'll find it all here. Some of it might well surprise you. All of it will guide you toward a more lastingly prosperous, more fulfilling, and truly happier life.
This book delivers the particular teachings that he gave to all the many laypeople he encountered-the people who, like most of us, were not monks or nuns, and sometimes not even meditators.
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Buddhism and Psychotherapy Across Cultures, Essays on Theories and Practices By: Mark Unno, Editor
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As both Buddhism and psychotherapy have grown and diversified in Asia as well as in the West, so too has the literature dealing with their interaction. Today, Japan and the United States are the two largest psychotherapeutic cultures in the world, and this volume brings together seminal thinkers in both disciplines on both sides of the Pacific. Both Buddhism and psychotherapy are cultural institutions that evolved over time as their native cultures have evolved, as the configurations of the self have evolved, and as new cultures have assimilated them. And both have transformed the cultures in which they have evolved.
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Buddhist Ethics
By: Saddhatissa, Hammalawa
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For more than a quarter of a century those in search of an introduction to Buddhist mor"For more than a quarter of a century those in search of an introduction to Buddhist moral thought have turned and returned to this little volume" which includes "a remarkable range of information on Buddhist history, thought and practice as background for understanding the fundamental issues of Buddhist ethics."
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Buddhist Psychology
By: Geshe Tashi Tsering
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Just as scientists observe and catalog the material world, Buddhists for centuries have been observing and cataloging the components of the human psyche. Addressing both the nature of the human mind and how humans know what they know, Buddhist psychology offers a rich and subtle knowledge of the inner experience. Here, Buddhism's unique, time-tested way of viewing the mind is explained so that followers of Tibetan Buddhism can understand their anger and aversion, and develop equanimity, patience, and love.
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Business and the Buddha: Doing Well by Doing Good
By: Lloyd Field
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All businesses want to do well, but can they also do good? Lloyd Field says yes, and moreover, no business can afford to focus simply on “ doing well.” Increasingly, public assessment of a business’ s worth must take into account its consideration of shared human values. That doesn’ t mean a business can’ t or should not compete; it means that investing in efforts to build a better society can, on many levels, be an asset. In this book, Field lays out the guidelines for putting social responsibility, both corporate and individual, into practice without sacrificing profits. Drawing from traditional Buddhist teachings, Field shows how, with attention to ethics, skillful means, and corporate responsibility, entrepreneurs and decision-makers can achieve new levels of happiness and security both inside the company and out, while acting as a powerful force for positive global change.
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Daily Wisdom
By: Bartok, Josh
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365 Buddhist Inspirations
Open up "Daily Wisdom" and find page after page of illuminating words. You'll encounter ancient Buddhist sages and contemporary meditation masters offering encouragement and quiet counsel- some in spacious poetry, others in lucid prose- on love and living wisely, on meditation and mindfulness, on the pitfalls of anger and the necessity of compassion. Whether you're seeking morning inspiration or a few uplifting words to help keep a difficult day in perspective, "Daily Wisdom" is a valuable companion.
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Dear Lama Zopa: Radical Solutions for Transforming Problems into Happiness
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Perhaps no other figure of Tibetan Buddhism today is so committed to the contemporary relevance of its traditional views as Lama Zopa. In Dear Lama Zopa, he shares letters from advice-seekers around the globe, each reproduced with his always inspired, often surprising replies. Lama Zopa’s counsel, radical as it may seem, is all about how to handle life’s problems big and small, age-old and modern: from final exams, depression, and eating disorders to jealousy, aging, and loss. The key is to consciously work to perceive our problems differently, and in so doing see that we can be victors, not victims. The result is what Lama Zopa has dedicated his life to: our real, persisting happiness.
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Describing the Indescribable: A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra
By: Hsing Yun, Master
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The Diamond Sutra is revered throughout Asia as one of the Buddha's most profound expressions of the nature of reality. A gem among the vast Perfection of Wisdom literature, the Diamond Sutra elicits an experience of eternal truth through its use of a seemingly paradoxical style, as the reader goes back and forth between "what is" and "what is not." Master Hsing Yun skillfully plumbs the depths of the Diamond Sutra, illuminating for us its power to change who we are and how we interpret our world.
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Direct Path to the Buddha Within: Go Lotsawa's Mahamudra Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhaga
Klaus-Dieter Mathes
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Maitreya's Ratnagotravibhaga, also known as the Uttaratantra, is the main Indian treatise on buddha nature, a concept that is heavily debated in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. In A Direct Path to the Buddha Within, Klaus-Dieter Mathes looks at a pivotal Tibetan commentary on this text by Go Lotsawa Zhonu Pal, best known as the author of the Blue Annals. Go Lotsawa, whose teachers spanned the spectrum of Tibetan schools, developed a highly nuanced understanding of buddha nature, tying it in with mainstream Mahayana thought while avoiding contested aspects of the so-called empty-of-other (zhentong) approach. In addition to translating key portions of Go Lotsawa's commentary, Mathes provides an in-depth historical context, evaluating Go’s position against those of other Kagyü, Nyingma, and Jonang masters, and examining how Go Lotsawa's view affects his understanding of the buddha qualities, the concept of emptiness, and the practice of mahamudra.
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Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path
By: Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
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In the same engaging style that has endeared him to readers of "Mindfulness in Plain English," Bhante Gunaratana delves deeply into each step of the Buddha's most profound teaching on bringing an end to suffering: The Noble Eightfold Path.
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Essence of the Heart Sutra
By: Dalai Lama
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Clarifying the meaning of the Buddhist term “emptiness”, the Dalai Lama dispels misperceptions that it implies a nihilistic outlook or a philosophical view with no real implications in our lives, skillfully guiding the reader to a clear appreciation of a profound truth.
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Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes & Their Modern Expression
By: Leighton, Taigen Dan
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Archetypes of wisdom and compassion, the bodhisattvas of Buddhism are powerful and compelling images of awakening. Scholar and Zen teacher Taigen Dan Leighton engagingly explores the imagery and lore of the seven most important of these archetypal figures, bringing them alive as psychological and spiritual wellspring. Emphasizing the universality of spiritual ideals, Leighton finds aspects of the bodhisattvas expressed in a variety of familiar modern personages -- from Muhammad Ali to Mahatma Gandhi, from Bob Dylan to henry Thoreau, and from Gertrude to Mother Teresa.
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Flight of the Garuda, The Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
By: Dowman, Keith
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As the mystical teachings of Dzogchen are becoming more widely taught in the West, those who wish to gain further insight into these clear and powerful practices will find Flight of the Garuda to be essential.
The book conveys the heart advice of one of the most beloved masters of Tibet. The itinerant yogi Shabkar communicates the essence of the Dzogchen teachings through songs both poetic and poignant.
Along with Shabkar's songs, Keith Dowman has translated four other seminal Dzogchen texts, including one by Patrul Rinpoche that is new to this edition. Dzogchen practice brings us into direct communion with the most subtle nature of experience, the unity of samsara and nirvana as experienced within our own consciousness, bringing the meditator face to face with the nature of reality. Buddhists of all stripes, including practitioners of Zen and Vipassana, will find ample sustenance in these lyrical explications of the Dzogchen view.
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Focused and Fearless: A Meditator's Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity
By: Catherine Shaila
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Now ordinary meditators (and non-meditators) can understand how to attain non-ordinary states with relative ease. Blended with contemporary examples, pragmatic exercises, and "how to" instructions that anyone can try, Focused and Fearless provides a wealth of tools to cultivate non-distracted attention in daily life and on retreat. Shaila Catherine has a friendly, wise approach to rarely-talked-about meditative states that lead to liberating insight.
Focused and Fearless is about much more than merely meditation or concentration. It offers a complete path towards bliss, fearlessness, and true awakening.
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Food for the Heart
By: Ajahn Chah
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"It's hard to know how to best introduce the wisest man I have ever met. In Ajahn Chah's presence, there was immediacy and aliveness, simplicity and truth-telling, dignity and intimacy, humor and serious discipline, heart-breaking compassion and spontaneous freedom. In these pages, he invites us all to reflect on the essence of teachings, to consider them, to take them to heart.
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Freedom from Extremes: Gorampa's "Distinguishing the Views" and the Polemics of Emptiness
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Fifteenth-century Buddhist scholar Gorampa challenged his contemporaries’ thinking about the fundamental concept of “emptiness,” pioneering an approach that avoided what he critiqued as the traps of eternalism and nihilism. Freedom from Extremes is his powerful polemic on the subject. This critical edition of a book renowned for its conciseness, lucidness, and profundity provides students and scholars with direct access to Gorampa’s own words. The authors offer illuminating context in an extensive introduction on his life and work, along with an overview of Tibetan polemical literature.
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Gesture of Awareness: A Radical Approach to Time, Space, and Movement
By: Charles Genoud
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From a major mind of Buddhism today comes this unique philosophical work, which hearkens back to the classical verse-form, but in a modern voice that speaks directly to the 21st-century reader and practitioner.
Gesture of Awareness involves a fascinating philosophical exploration of time, space, and movement but at the same time is a manual for an embodied 'practice of exploration.'
Genoud is very well known to the leading lights of Buddhism today. He and his work are continuingly praised for their invention and importance. Well-versed in French and continental philosophies, as well as Eastern thought, he has produced a work that will be welcomed as a Buddhist book and a noteworthy contribution to the larger philosophical community.
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Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory
By: Loy, David R.
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A Buddhist Social Theory
"In this daring work, David Loy applies his theory of a Buddhist psychology of 'lack' -- the human experience of incompleteness and craving -- to a dazzling array of social problems in the world today including economic injustice and political tyranny, war and terrorism after 9/11, and the destruction of our natural environment. In so doing, he exemplifies the rise of socially engaged Buddhism and this new vehicle of spiritual practice." ---- PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER S.
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Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree: The Buddha's Teaching on Voidness
By: Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
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"In this remarkable book, Ajahn Buddhadasa teaches us beautifully, profoundly, and simply the meaning of sunnata, or voidness, which is a thread that links every great school of Buddhism... He teaches us the truth of this voidness with the same directness and simplicity with which he invites us into his forest."
- From the Foreword by Jack Kornfield
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Imagining Tibet: Perceptions, Projections, and Fantasies
By: Rather & Dodin, ed.
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Scarcely has a region captured popular imagination as has Tibet. In the past century, the Western view of Tibet evolved from backward shamanistic theocracy to exotic Shangri-La promising immortality, to an enlightened society now ravaged by outside aggression. Where did such ideas come from and why did they change?
"Imagining Tibet" represents the first comprehensive attempt to explore such portrayals of Tibet in their 'sthetic, intellectual, and political dimensions.
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In This Very Life, Liberation Teachings of the Buddha
By: Sayadaw U. Pandita
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Burmese meditation master Sayadaw U Pandita shows us that freedom is as immediate as breathing, as fundamental as a footstep. In this book he describes the path of the Buddha and calls all of us to that heroic journey of liberation. Enlivened by numerous case histories and anecdotes, In This Very Life is a matchless guide to the inner territory of meditation as described by the Buddha.
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Karmapa: The Politics of Reincarnation
By: Lea Terhune
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In January 2000, the world was introduced to the 17th Karmapa lama, a young man who had just made a dramatic escape from Tibet, where Chinese officials had installed him as a ranking Tibetan political leader. This fascinating story begins 900 years ago and reveals political intrigue and controversy among powerful spiritual leaders. Karmapa: The Politics of Reincarnation reveals how the Karmapa, one of the most important reincarnate lamas in Tibet, is chosen.
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Landscapes of Wonder
By: Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano
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In language that sings, former actor and playwright Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano communicates the essence of Buddhism in eighteen inspiring |
