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12 Steps on Buddha's Path Bill, Buddha, and We, A Spiritual Journey of Recovery
By: Laura S.
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12 Steps on the Buddha's Path is the extraordinary spiritual journey of a woman once trapped in the downward spiral of alcoholism. Misdiagnosed, Laura Keene was put in a mental hospital and given more than 40 electroshock treatments. Left incapable by the treatments of even speaking a coherent sentence, Keene was released against medical advice and ended up in the back row of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting where she embraced the 12 Step program and gradually recovered. Yet the black hole inside her remained, until, on a trek in the Himalayas, Keene discovered Buddhism and began a new path on the road to recovery. With humor and grace, this brilliant author shows that the experience, strength, and hope of Alcoholics Anonymous meld seamlessly with Buddha's teachings of wisdom and compassion.
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Abhidhamma Studies: Buddhist Exploration of Consciousness and Time
By: Thera, Nyanaponika
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The Abhidhamma, the third great division of early Buddhist teaching, expounds a revolutionary system of philosophical psychology rooted in the twin Buddhist insights of selflessness and dependent origination. In keeping with the liberative thrust of early Buddhism this system organizes the entire spectrum of human consciousness. It maps out with remarkable rigor and precision, the inner landscape of the mind to be crossed through the practical work of Buddhist meditation. In this groundbreaking book Venerable Nyanaponika Thera penetrates the formidable face of the Abhidhamma and makes its principles intelligible to the thoughtful reader of today. Basing his approach on the detailed list of mental factors that the Abhidhamma uses as a guide to psychological analysis he launches into bold explorations of the multiple dimensions of conditionality the nature of consciousness the temporality of experience and the psychological springs of spiritual transformation. Innovative and rich in insights this book does not merely open up new avenues in the academic study of early Buddhism-it also demonstrates the continuing relevance of Buddhist thought to our most astute contemporary efforts to understand the elusive yet intimate nature of the mind.
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Advice from a Spiritual Friend
By: Rabten, Geshe
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Down to earth advice for cultivating happiness.
Like wise old friends, two Tibetan masters explain to us how we can fill our lives with loving-kindness, compassion, and wisdom. By learning to respond to everyday difficulties with patience and joy, gradually changing our attitudes about ourselves and others, we can enjoy peace of mind in every situation. Based on practical Buddhist verses of "thought transformation" composed centuries ago, this profound wisdom reaches out from every page to all types of people from all walks of life. No matter what your spiritual orientation, you will appreciate and benefit, as will those around you, from this sage advice on how to develop the inner skills that lead to contentment and happiness.
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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 Disappearing: Buddha's Path to Lasting Joy
By: Ajahn Brahm
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As human beings, we strive to make life go smoothly for ourselves and others, but that is expecting from the world something it cannot give. Ajahn Brahm, the bestselling author of Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? and Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond, presents in this new work wisdom for learning to abandon the headwind of false expectations and follow instead the path of understanding in order to find true joy within. By releasing our attachment to past and future, hope and fear, we can settle into the stillness underlying all our thoughts and discover the bliss of the present moment..
Wisdom Publications , Paperback, 148 pages, $15.95
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Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza
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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Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work
By: Cheryl A. Giles
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"The Arts of Contemplative Care" collects together in one volume the voices of pioneers in the widening field of "Contemplative Care"--an exciting new domain of vocational Buddhism informed by practices of compassion and meditation. This collection captures the richness and diverse practices of socially engaged Buddhism within the context of the fields of chaplaincy and ministry that until recently were dominated primarily by Judeo-Christian faith-traditionsEach of the essays is first-person, vividly showing days-in-the-life of a chaplain or pastoral worker and also presenting a distillation of lesson's learned and wisdom gained--and each of the sections in this volume focuses on the specific challenges present and skills needed in the different venues in which a chaplain might work: with the terminally ill and actively dying (and their families) in hospice; amid the ever changing hectic urgency of a hospital; with college students struggling to discover themselves and make meaning with their lives; helping the "low-density" populations of non-Christian religious people in the military keep peace within themselves and on the war-front; and with prisoners who's daily life is a hell realm many of us can't even imagine.
This book also includes a thoughtful recommended reading list, and pointers to a variety of resources.
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Attention Revolution, Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind
By: Alan 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 Kindness: Finding Joy Through Compassion for Others By: Nawang Khechog
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In Nawang Khechog's view, one of the wonders and marvels of being human
is that we can choose to nurture and cultivate kindness, compassion, and
love. These precious human values are the foundation of true happiness
and are at the core of humanity's possibility of peaceful coexistence
with one another, with other species, and with our environment.
Based on his eleven years as a monk, studying Buddhist
philosophy and meditation with the Dalai Lama, as well as his own highly
regarded workshops, Awakening Kindness details the many ways we
can enrich our lives by simply being kind to each other and ourselves.
Nawang includes a range of simple meditations, mantras, and practices
that are easy to incorporate into even the busiest modern life.
Filled with the philosophy of many cultures and religions, and
touching on everything from human nature as it's portrayed in film to
scientific support of our limitless capacity for love, kindness, and
compassion, Awakening Kindness takes the reader on a life-changing journey where we all can take part in creating a culture of kindness.
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Awakening Mind: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 4
By: Geshe Tashi Tsering
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Bodhichitta [boh-dee-CHEE-tuh], often translated as "great compassion," is the gem at the heart of Buddhism. From this altruistic desire to serve others, all other Buddhist practices naturally flow, therefore, this state of mind is one Buddhists should understand and cultivate. In The Awakening Mind, Geshe Tashi Tsering leads us through the two main methods to develop bodhichitta that have been developed by the great Indian and Tibetan Buddhists over the centuries: the seven points of cause and effect, and equalizing and exchanging the self with others.
This is the third release from Geshe Tashi's Foundation of Buddhist Thought series, which-individually and collectively-represent an excellent introduction to Tibetan Buddhism. These unique and friendly books are based on the curriculum of a popular course of the same name, developed by Geshe Tashi himself.
Geshe Tashi's presentations combine rigor and comprehensiveness with lucidity and accessibility, never divorced from the basic humanity and warmth of his personality. In Geshe Tashi, we encounter the new generation of Tibetan monk-scholars teaching in the West who are following in the footsteps of such revered and groundbreaking teachers as Geshe Wangyal and Geshe Sopa.
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Awakening the Kind Heart: How to Meditate on Compassion
Kathleen MacDonald
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Everyone appreciates kindness. A smile, a few friendly words, a show of concern when we're troubled or feeling unwell, an offer of help -- gestures of kindness like these brighten our day and ease whatever sadness we may feel in our hearts. And just as we appreciate other people being kind to us, others appreciate it when we are kind to them. But thought kindness is important, it doesn't always come easily: sometimes we are filled with anger, jealousy, or pride, and being kind is the last thing we feel like doing. Or we get so caught up in our work and responsibilities that we find no time to think of others. Kathleen McDonald introduces two powerful methods for awakening the kind heart in us all. The first is the practice of the four immeasurable thoughts -- love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. The second method is thought transformation, a beautiful practice based on a short, eight-verse text that is an exemplary guide to living compassionately.
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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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Be An Island Takinig Refuge Kind of Love Affair
By: Khema, Ayya
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Taking refuge in the Enlightened One (Buddha) the teaching (Dhamma), and the community of enlightened disciples (Sangha) has a deep significance. A refuge is a shelter, a safe place. There are very few safe places in this world. n fact, to find a totally safe shelter anywhere in worldly life is impossible. Physical shelters burn down, get demolished, disappear. Buddha-Dhamma-Sangha is not a physical shelter but a spiritual one, a haven protected from the storm.
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Becoming a Child of the Buddhas: A Simple Clarification of the Root Verses of Seven Point Mind Training
By: Gomo Tulku
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The real reason behind all our problem is that we have not been taking care of our own mind, declares Gomo Tulku in this book about Tibetan Buddhist mind training ( lo jong). He shows us how the three mental poisons of attachment, hatred, and ignorance dominate our thinking and behavior even in the most subtle of ways. Through his commentary on a famous ancient text, he shows us how to look inward for the causes and cures of daily hardship and adversity. Becoming a Child of the Buddhas contains a fresh translation of one of the best known and studied Buddhist texts, Seven Points of Mind Training. Gomo Tulku's commentary provides a detailed description of how to put these mind training techniques into practice by developing mental qualities that will bring peace of mind in any circumstances.
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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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Becoming Vajrasattva: The Tantric Path of Purification
By: Lama Yeshe
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The practice of purification is one of the most important solutions to life''s problems." -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Common to all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, the practice of Vajrasattva is used to purify obstacles to spiritual development, negative karma and illness. Lama Yeshe, the inspirational teacher who strongly influenced the development of Buddhism in the West, found that the practice of Vajrasattva brought dramatic results for his Western students. Becoming Vajrasattva, is a complete guide to this purification practice, providing instruction on the method, commentary on the traditional texts, and insight into tantra. Also included is an entire section of complete retreat instructions-required reading for anyone undertaking a meditation retreat in the Tibetan tradition.
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Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation
By: Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith
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Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith combine clear explanations of the Buddha's teachings on freedom and happiness with their personal stories highlighting some of the challenges and insights of practice. The Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation offers advice about going on retreat and help in choosing a teacher and a sangha (practice community), as well as suggestions for further reading and information on various Insight Meditation or Vipassana centers and resources. Here is an enormously practical book that covers every aspect of the teachings a beginner needs to get started.
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Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path
By: Ayya Khema
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In this book, Ayya Khema gives clear, practical instruction on meditation and techniques for overcoming conditioned mental habits, ideas, beliefs, and limited thinking patterns. Through these simple practices you will develop deeper insight, a sense of calm well-being, and a greater capacity to love and feel loved on a daily basis. She also includes an eloquent outline of the Buddhist path that can be understood and enjoyed by everybody.
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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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Bhutan, Land of the Thunder Dragon
By: John Berthold
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In Bhutan, progress is measured in terms of “Gross National Happiness” and Thimphu, the capital city, has no traffic lights. This mesmerizing book captures the beauties of this remote kingdom, the only independent country to support Buddhism as the official state religion. Readers are transported to ancient fortresses and temples, colorful festivals, and religious ceremonies, as well as to isolated communities along the roof of the world. Featuring photographs taken over the course of three years, the book guides readers through areas normally off-limits to Western visitors, and encompasses a wide range of landscape, portrait, and editorial photographs.
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Bliss of Inner Fire: Heart Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa
By: Thubten Yeshe
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Following Je Tsongkhapa's ( 1357-1419 A.D.) text Having the Three Convictions, Lama Yeshe introduces the renowned Six Yogas of Naropa, focusing mainly on the first of these six, the practice of inner fire (tummo). Mastery of inner fire quickly brings the mind to its most refined and penetrating state-the experience of clear light, an extraordinarily powerful state of mind that is unequaled in its ability to directly realize ultimate reality.
Lama Yeshe felt that twentieth-century Westerners could easily grasp the often misunderstood ideas of this esoteric tradition: "We really need tantra these days because there is a tremendous explosion of delusion and distraction...and we need the atomic energy of inner fire to blast us out of our delusion."
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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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Book of Kadam: The Core Texts, Attributed to Atisa Dipamkara (982-1054) and Dromtonpa (1005-1064)
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The Kadma School, which emerged from the teachings of the Indian master Atisa and his principal student, Dromtonpa, 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 Dromtonpa 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 Dromtonpa 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) Dromtonpa's Self-Exhortation, (4) Elucidation of the Heart-Drop Practice by Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen (1223-1305), (5) four selected chapters from Dromtonpa'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 Yeshe Gyaltsen (1713-93), and (7) Sayings of the Kadam Masters, compiled by Chegom Sherap Dorje (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.
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Buddha at the Apocalypse: Awakening from the Culture of Destruction
By: Kurt Spellmeyer
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Timely and audacious, Buddha at the Apocalypse challenges us to look directly at the devastating assumptions underlying the very mechanisms of the modern world. We believe with certainty in the inevitable forward march of progress, in the natural rightness of humankind’s control of the environment, and, most pervasively, in the idea of an epic struggle that requires righteousness to utterly destroy evil. These images of apocalypse and dominance pervade our language, our politics, and, with coming of 2012, even our escapist entertainment. In Buddha at the Apocalypse, Kurt Spellmeyer offers us an alternative view that comes like breath of cool, fresh air in these times. Drawing on the Buddha, Spellmeyer makes an impassioned clarion call to awaken from the culture of destruction — or perish within it.
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Buddha's Apprentices, More Voices of Young Buddhists
By: Sumi Loundon, editor
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Sumi Loundon’s Blue Jean Buddha was hailed by The New York Review of Books as “a bellwether anthology,” mapping the spiritual paths of a generation of young American Buddhists. The Buddha’s Apprentices explores that territory in greater detail, telling 27 more stories from young Buddhists, including teenagers, and prominent older Buddhist teachers looking back on their own youth. Loundon’s rich commentary helps contextualize these essays within the ever-evolving chorus of American Buddhism.
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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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Buddhism Between Tibet and China
By: Mathew Kapstein
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As Tibet enters into its 50th year of Chinese rule, questions of cultural distinctions and similarities become ever more important in determining the future of the relationship between the Snow Lion and the Red Dragon. But often left unsaid is the long history the two countries share, and the significant cultural interchanges that have existed over time. Setting political agenda aside, Buddhism Between Tibet and China features a collection of noteworthy essays that probe the nature of this relationship, from the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE) to the present. Annotated and contextualized by noted scholar Matthew Kapstein and others, the historical accounts that comprise this volume display the rich dialogue between Tibet and China in the areas of scholarship, the fine arts, politics, philosophy, and religion. This thoughtful book provides insight into the surprisingly complex history behind the relationship from a variety of geographical regions.
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Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved: Global Perspectives
By: Jonathan Watts, Yoshiharu Tomatsu (Editors)
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Since its beginning, Buddhism has been intimately concerned with confronting and understanding death and dying. Indeed, the tradition emphasizes turning toward the realities of sickness, old age, and death - and using those very experiences to develop wisdom and liberating compassion. In recent decades, Buddhist chaplains and caregivers all over the world have been drawing on this tradition to contribute greatly to the development of modern palliative and hospice care in the secular world at large. Specifically Buddhist hospice programs have also been further developing and applying traditional Buddhist practices of preparing for death, attending to the dying and comforting the bereaved. Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved contains comprehensive overviews of the best of such initiatives, drawn from diverse Buddhist traditions, and written by practitioners who embody the best of modern contemplative hospice care programs practiced all over the world today.
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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 Peacework: Creating Cultures of Peace
By: Chappell, ed.
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"Buddhists have suffered immeasurably from the brutality and injustice of the modern world; from this crucible has emerged a remarkable generation of Buddhist leadership intently focused on peacebuilding. This volume makes available--for the first time in one place--first-person statements of the ideas and work of such eminent Buddhist leaders as H.H. the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Maha Ghosananda, A.T. Ariyaratne, Daisaku Ikeda, Shih Cheng-yen, Sulak Sivaraksa, And Robert Aitken: a cornucopia of visionary and creative social engagement."--Sallie B. King, Professor of Religion, James Madison University, and co-editor of Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia."
This book is a welcome and highly readable addition to the growing literature on religiously inspired efforts toward world peace. It enlarges and deepens the discussion by asking not only the obvious questions about responsibility and engagement but also the seldom asked and uncomfortable questions about the role of the community and of the individual."--Harvey Cox, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School."
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Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle: Essays on Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka
By: David S. Ruegg
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Since the 1950s, David Seyfort Ruegg, an independent scholar affiliated with school of Oriental and African studies at the University of London, has been publishing precise, informed, and seminal works on the history and philosophy of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. Central to this highly regarded oeuvre has been his works on Madhyamaka philosophy, the core doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism that has animated thinkers for two millennia. Whether he's engaging in focused philological analysis, translating texts, or weighing in on larger trends in the field of Buddhist studies, Ruegg shows here why other scholars so often turn to him for insights and perspective. Drawing on decades of exhaustive and authoritative research and scholarship, The Philosophy of the Middle Way is the product of a lifetime of work and dedication to the study and presentation of Buddhist philosophy. This volume of the Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism series is a gift to all who are interested in utilizing the wisdom of a masterful scholar and a profound tradition of thought.
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Buddhist Psychology: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 3
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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Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency
By: John Stanley (Editor), David R. Loy (Editor), Gyurme Dorje (Editor)
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Never before have so many teachers from all Buddhist traditions-Zen, Vajrayana, Theravada, Vipassana; from the West and the East-come together to offer a unified response to a matter of utmost urgency. This watershed volume is at the same time a clarion call to action and a bright beacon of hope.
With contributions from: the Dalai Lama, the Seventeenth Karmapa, Sakya Trizin,Dudjom Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche, Ato Rinpoche,Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche,Thrangu Rinpoche,Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche,Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Robert Aitken, Joanna Macy, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Joseph Goldstein,Taigen Dan Leighton, Susan Murphy,Matthieu Ricard,Hozan Alan Senauke, Lin Jensen, and Thich Nhat Hanh
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Buddhist Symbols in Tibetan Culture
By: Dagyab Rinpoche
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The Queen's Earrings. The Fur-Bearing Fish. The Endless Knot. Tibetan Buddhism is filled with rich, colorful symbols. But what do they all mean?
In this fascinating study, Dagyab Rinpoche not only explains the nine best-known groups of Tibetan Buddhist symbols but also shows how they serve as bridges between our inner and outer worlds. As such, they can be used to point the way to ultimate reality and to transmit a reservoir of deep knowledge formed over thousands of years.
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Buddhist Teaching in India
By: Johannes Bronkhorst
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The earliest records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death, and the body of teachings attributed to him continued to evolve in India for centuries afterward across a shifting cultural and political landscape. As one tradition within a diverse religious milieu that included even the Greek kingdoms of northwestern India, Buddhism had many opportunities to both influence and be influenced by competing schools of thought. Even within Buddhism, a proliferation of interpretive traditions produced a dynamic intellectual climate. Johannes Bronkhorst here tracks the development of Buddhist teachings both within the larger Indian context and among Buddhism's many schools, shedding light on the sources and trajectory of such ideas as dharma theory, emptiness, the bodhisattva ideal, buddha nature, formal logic, and idealism. In these pages, we discover the roots of the doctrinal debates that have animated the Buddhist tradition up until the present day.
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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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Clouds Should Know Me By Now
By: O'Connor, Mike
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Buddhist Poet Monks of China
This unique collection presents the verse- much of it translated for the first time- of fourteen eminent Chinese Buddhist poet monks. Featuring the original Chinese as well as English translations and historical introductions by Burton Watson, J.P.
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Compassion: The Key to Great Awakening
By: Tsultrim Gyeltsen, Geshe
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In this inspiring book, a venerable Tibetan monk draws on two classic Buddhist texts to present a range of techniques for beneficially transforming our minds. Arguing that one cannot attain awakening, or the complete cessation of all suffering, without the great key of compassion, Geshe Gyeltsen provides much practical advice on how to combat negative mental states and conditioning. His suggestions, which are deeply rooted in the Buddhist culture of Tibet, are often surprising - as when he counsels us to regard a bothersome person as a precious treasure that provides us with the opportunity to engage in the difficult practices of tolerance and patience! Through the rigorous application of "thought training" and the cultivation of the bodhisattva's altruistic attitude, we can learn to transform both ourselves and the environment around us.
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Conflict, Culture, Change; Engaged Buddhism in a Globalizing World
By: Sulak Sivaraksa
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This book explores the integration of mindfulness with social activism; using Buddhist ethics to confront structural violence; globalization''s threat to traditional identity; and the recent transformation of Thailand.
Sulak Sivaraksa has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and received the Right Livelihood Award and the Gandhi Millennium Award. He is the founder of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists and more than a dozen other international organizations. Born in 1933, the year Thailand emerged from absolute monarchy into democracy, his life has been intimately bound up with Southeast Asia''s modern history. He was a Buddhist monk for two years, and then completed his higher education in Great Britain, where he also worked as a writer and commentator for the BBC. He is the intellectual voice of his generation in Asia, best known for his indefatigable efforts to bring people together into community, common work, and a shared vision of a more enlightened world. Sulak is author of Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society and more than 100 other books and monographs. He lives in Thailand.
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Connected Discourse of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya
By: Bodhi Bhikkhu, tr.
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A New Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha is a complete translation of the Samyutta Nikaya - the third great collection of the Buddha's discourses preserved in the Pali Canon - containing all of the important short suttas on such major topics as the Four Noble Truths, dependent origination, the seven factors of enlightenment, and the Noble Eightfold Path. The Connected Discourses ranks as one of the most inspiring compilations in the Buddhist canon. Bhikkhu Bodhi's distinguished and precise translation, his insightful introductory materials, and his extensive notes guide the reader through this vast collection of the Buddha's ancient teachings. This is the third title in Wisdom Publications' award-winning Teachings of the Buddha Series, following The Long Discourses of the Buddha and The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha. Like its two predecessors, The Connected Discourses is sure to merit a place of honor in the library of every student of Buddhism.
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Creation and Completion
By Jamgon Kongtrul & Thrangu Rinpoche
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Essential Points of Tantric Meditation
Creation and Completion is a unique guide to the practice of Tibetan Buddhist tantra. Drawing on experiential explanations from two great masters, it is both concise and thorough, both authoritative and clear. In the creation stage of tantra, practitioners visualize themselves in the form of buddhas and other enlightened beings. This meditation practice prepares the mind for engaging in the completion stage, where one comes face to face with the ultimate nature of mind and reality.
Jamgon Kongtrul, a pivotal figure in the Buddhist revival movement of nineteenth-century Tibet, was a master practitioner and one of Tibetan Buddhism's most prolific writers. His guide to tantric Buddhist meditation, translated here by Sarah Harding, was written in the style of the Tibetan songs of realization. The commentary by contemporary master Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche skillfully clarifies the nuances of Kongtrul's text, making the language come alive in a practical way for the modern reader. Harding's excellent introduction distills the essential features of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
The powerful meditation instructions, traditionally reserved for initiates alone, will be of immense value, both to aspiring and experienced practitioners alike.
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Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems: A Tibetan Study of Asian Religious Thought
By: Thuken Chokyi Nyima
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Thuken Chokyi Nyima's The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems is the widest-ranging account of religious philosophies ever written in premodern Tibet. After covering the major schools of India, both Buddhist and non-Buddhist, Thuken discusses in detail the entire range of Tibetan traditions, with separate chapters on the Nyingma, Kadam, Kagyu, Shijé, Sakya, Jonang, Geluk, and Bon schools. He then describes the major traditions of China — Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist — as well as those of Mongolia, Khotan, and Shambhala. Not content with simply describing and analyzing doctrines, Thuken traces the historical development of the various traditions. While he favors his own Geluk school, Thuken treats the views of other traditions with sympathy and respect, sometimes even defending them against criticisms from his own tradition. Eloquent, erudite, and informative, The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems is evidence that serious and balanced study of the history of religions has not been a monopoly of Western scholarship.
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Daily Wisdom 365 Buddhist Inspirations
By: Josh Bartok
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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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Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns
By: Grant, Beata
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Women played major roles in the history of Buddhist China, but given the paucity of the remaining records, their voices have all but faded. In Daughters of Emptiness, Beata Grant renders a great service by recovering and translating the enchanting verse -- by turns assertive, observant, devout -- of forty-eight nuns from sixteen centuries of imperial China. This selection of poems, along with the brief biographical accounts that accompany them, affords readers a glimpse into the extraordinary diversity and sometimes startling richness of these women's lives.
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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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Deities of Tibetan Buddhism
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Deities of Tibetan Buddhism is an extraordinary encyclopedia of Buddhist icons. Illustrating the Rin 'byung brgya rtsa, the sNar thang brgya rtsa, and the Vajravali, the book is based on a collection of over five hundred images of Tibetan deities. The images, presented in the book at full scale, were originally created by a master artist in the early nineteenth century to serve as initiation cards (tsakli). The original tsakli were woodblock prints, hand colored at the request of a Ch'ing Dynasty nobleman who had received the initiations. Such cards are used in ceremonies to introduce the practitioner to the deity and his or her practice. The paintings are housed in the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich. Deities of Tibetan Buddhism is also an indispensable reference tool for Tibetologists, students of Mahayana Buddhism, and museum curators. Its extensive supplementary materials include English translations of the basic invocation texts; the associated visualization with descriptions of the deities' postures, attributes, and colors; and the dharanis and mantras used in their invocation.
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Dependent Arising and Emptiness, A Tibetan Buddhist Interpretation of Madhyamika Philosophy
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Emptiness and dependent-arising are two core concepts within Buddhism. An understanding of their integral relationship allows us to see how the Madhyamika school, the preeminent school of Buddhist philosophy in Tibet, can completely deny any inherent ontological status to the world around us while maintaining a valid presentation of reality based on ethical principles. The brilliant scholar and yogi Dzong-kha-ba, founder of the Ge-luk-ba lineage, demonstrated how these two core concepts are not only compatible, but are actually mutually contingent.
Along with a translation of the special insight (vipasyana) section of Dzong-kha-ba's Great Exposition of the Stages of the Path (lam rim chen mo), Napper provides an extensive introduction that contrasts the Ge-luk-ba view of emptiness to that of Western scholars and a translation of four interwoven commentaries on the text.
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