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Dignity and Discipline: The Evolving Role of Women in Buddhism
By: Thea Mohr & Jampa Tsedroen
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Many of the issues surrounding bhiksuni (nun) ordination in Tibetan Buddhism are shared by other parts of the Buddhist world. While some regard the bhiksuni ordination movement to be largely driven by Western Buddhist converts, efforts to revive the female order have actually been initiated by various progressive Asian monks and nuns over the last century. New bhiksuni groups at various sites, including Korea, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, are now at varying stages of maturity. All of these groups are participating in an ineluctable movement across Buddhism, one that is ultimately to be connected to larger shifts in our contemporary global civil society. This is a collection of essays taken from a global conference on bhiksuni ordination from all traditions that took place in Hamburg, Germany. The essays in this book cover the breadth of Buddhist traditions and convey the history and the vision for the future of the role of women as ambassadors and curators of the ordained Buddhist community. This book shows a shift toward granting women full ordination in all traditions of Buddhism.
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Dispeller of Disputes: Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani
By Nagarjuna
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Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani is an essential work of Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical literature. Written in an accessible question-and-answer style, it contains Nagarjuna's replies to criticisms of his philosophy of the "Middle Way." The Vigrahavyavartani has been widely cited both in canonical literature and in recent scholarship; it has remained a central text in India, Tibet, China, and Japan, and has attracted the interest of greater and greater numbers of Western readers.
In The Dispeller of Disputes, Jan Westerhoff offers a clear new translation of the Vigrahavyavartani, taking current philological research and all available editions into account, and adding his own insightful philosophical commentary on the text. Crucial manuscript material has been discovered since the earlier translations were written, and Westerhoff draws on this material to produce a study reflecting the most up-to-date research on this text. In his nuanced and incisive commentary, he explains Nagarjuna's arguments, grounds them in historical and textual scholarship, and explicitly connects them to contemporary philosophical concerns.
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Jokhang: Tibet's Most Sacred Buddhist Temple
By: Gyurme Dorje & Tashi Tsering
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Lying at the centre of an ancient network of Buddhist temples in the Great Temple of Lhasa, the Johkang Temple is the pulsating heart of spiritual and economic life in Tibet. It has been said that the turbulent history of the Great Temple mirrors the turbulent history of the Tibetan nation as a whole. This UNESCO world heritage site, an enduring symbol of extraordinary devotion and pilgrimage, is the atmospheric focal point of Lhasa, from which bustling narrow lanes of commerce radiate outwards in all directions. Copiously illustrated with photographs taken over eight decades, this landmark publication is introduced by the personal reminiscences of HH the Dalai Lama. Part One by Gyurme Dorje presents Zhakabpa's detailed Inventory to the Great Temple, and Part Two by Tashi Tsering compiles historical sources illustrating its importance in Tibetan life. Part Three by Heather Stoddard draws upon early historical material to highlight the temples geomantic origins and the inauguration of the Great Prayer Festival. In Part Four Andre Alexander explores the temples intricate Indo-Nepalese architecture, while in Part Five Ulrich von Schroeder documents its extant bronze images.
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Karma Chakme’s Mountain Dharma, Volume Four As Taught by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
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“Karma Chakme’s Mountain Dharma is a
complete text for those who want to practice
Tibetan Buddhism. Whether you are in an
intensive retreat where you practice most of
the time or in a busy life where you practice
as much as you can, the issues are the same,
the practices are the same, and the postmeditation
is the same. Mountain Dharma contains
everything you need to undertake any practice,
from the most basic to the tantrayana,
including how to conduct a proper retreat.
Because this text is very precise and very
clear, you do not have to obtain sixty different
volumes of texts. If you become well
acquainted with this text, you have everything
you need to achieve enlightenment.”
Volume Four explores the conduct and
lifestyle that create an appropriate framework
for Dharma—how to relate to the sangha;
incorporating insights on how to benefit
others through the traditions of scholarship
and realization. and includes a comprehensive
exploration of the phenomenon of death.
We are offered a chapter on Balaha, a horse
known to be the emanation of the bodhisattva
Chenrezik and a practice method that corresponds
to Balaha's heroism
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Path of Compassion: The Bodhisattva Precepts
By: Martine Batchelor
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A translation of the Chinese text, the Brahmajala Sutra. This a fundamental text for Chinese, Korean and Japanese Buddhists in the East and West and demonstrates an ancient ground for socially engaged Buddhism.
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Tibetan Amulets
By: Tadeusz Skorupski
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A systematic study of the Tibetan charms and amulets, mantras and cakras that have afforded their wearers protection for centuries and which remain a living tradition today. Drawing from indigenous works of the 19th century, the author illustrates and explains 109 amulets and their accompanying mantras, as well as 102 cakras, primarily associated with the Nyingma-pa and Bon traditions. The author also employs the amulets and cakras to reveal details of the myriad gods, demons and other supernatural beings—many incorporated into Buddhism from earlier belief systems—that comprise the Tibetan pantheon.
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Adhyardhasatika Prajnaparamita: Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts Critically Edited
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Sanskrit and Tibetan text.
The Adhyardhasatika Prajnaparamita is one of the most influential and revered scriptures in East-Asian esoteric Buddhism. Known as the Rishukyo, this sutra, in its Chinese version by Amoghavajra, has for centuries been at the core of the Shingon liturgy in Japan. Its Sanskrit text, however, was known until recently only through a fragmentary Central-Asian manuscript studied by Ernst Leumann in early twentieth century. This volume presents a critical edition of the Adhyardhasatika based on the a newly available photocopy, kept at the China Tibetology Research Center (Beijing), of a newly available Sanskrit manuscript from Tibet. Also edited in this volume is the Tibetan version of the text, Zes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i tshul brgya lna bcu pa, using fourteen exemplars of Kanjur and a Dunhuang manuscript. The introduction to the edition includes a survey of previous studies of on the Adhyardhasatika, a description of the materials used, as well as remarks on the distinctive features of the Sanskrit text. xvii, 100p (Austrian Academy of Sciences 2009)
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Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason: Pema Chodron (DVD)
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Why does an ancient Eastern spiritual practice appeal to workaholic, frenetic, emailing, fast-talking, fast-typing, and overly stressed Americans? In Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, Pema Chodron, whose teachings and writings on meditation have helped make Buddhism accessible to a broad Western audience, talks about how her own spiritual search led her to becoming a Buddhist nun.
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Buddha: The Story of Siddharta (DVD)
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The United States, primarily a Judeo-Christian nation until recently, now encompasses theological groups relatively unknown in the early days of the republic. Buddhism -- the world's fourth largest religion after Christianity, Islam and Hinduism -- has been steadily gaining adherents in America.
THE BUDDHA, a two-hour documentary from Emmy Award winner David Grubin, relates the life of the Indian sage who famously gained enlightenment as he sat beneath a fig tree two-and-a-half millennia ago. This film tells the Buddha's story through painting and sculptures by some of the world's greatest artists and tracks his biography across the sweeping landscapes of northern India.
The testimony of contemporary Buddhists, from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin to the Dalai Lama, provide insight into the ancient narrative of the man who never claimed to be God or God's emissary, but merely a human being who, in a world of unavoidable pain and suffering, had achieved a serenity that others, too, could find.
This documentary tells the story of his life, a journey especially relevant in our own times.
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Celebration: Karmapa Comes Home
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The book focuses on the Gyalwang Karmapa’s return to his seat at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra and includes the affiliate centers: Karme Ling Retreat Center, New Jersey KTC, Kunzang Palchen Ling, and Kagyu Thubten Choling Monastery.
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Essentials of Tibetan Traditional Medicine
By: Thinley Gyatso & Chris Hakim
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Tibetan medicine is a rarified field with few publications in English; it is also one of the most comprehensive of alternative therapies, addressing body, mind, and spirit. Written for intermediate-level practitioners, Essentials of Tibetan Traditional Medicine brings this important healing tradition to Western practitioners. The book begins by summarizing the basics behind Tibetan medical theory and its methods of diagnosis. The second part of the book presents the core concepts of wind, bile, phlegm, dark phlegm, epidemic fever, heat, and cold, along with their corresponding nosologies, differential diagnoses, and treatments. The third section covers therapeutics, with an emphasis on medicinals—the mainstay of contemporary practice. A chapter on therapeutic strategies discusses unclear diagnosis and other challenging clinical situations. Other chapters explore the crucial components of lifestyle and diet. Each herb and animal product used in Tibetan medicine is profiled on its own page, with its Tibetan, common, and botanical names; its key properties and clinical uses; its known pharmacological properties; and a simple illustration. This useful handbook concludes with a description and indepth analysis of some 60 frequently used formulas.
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First Invite Love In: 40 Time-Tested Tools for Creating a More Compassionate Life
By: Tana Pesso with Penor Rinpoche
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In First Invite Love In, Tana Pesso and the late His Holiness Penor Rinpoche work together to create a secular guidebook for anyone who would like to live more compassionately, wisely, and with an open and inviting heart. Moment by moment, thought by thought, step by step, we can transform our minds through time-tested compassion practices, and ultimately create a garden of delight out of any life history or current circumstance, regardless of how traumatic or difficult. There are countless examples of people from all spiritual paths, faiths, and religions who have experienced terrible hardships or even themselves created hardships and suffering for others, who have turned their minds towards love and compassion and found peace and happiness.
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Heart of Buddhist Philosophy
By: Nolan Pliny Jacobson
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Hidden Treasures of the Himalayas: Tibetan Manuscripts, Paintings and Sculptures of Dolpo
By: Amy Heller
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In 1999, a hidden library was found in the Nesar Temple at a remote village of Bicher, in Dolpo, Nepal. It contains more than six hundred volumes of Tibetan manuscripts, ranging in date from the late 11th to the early 16th century. This library in many ways constitutes a cultural history of Dolpo in this period thanks to some sixty volumes with historical prefaces explaining the commission of the manuscripts for the Nesar Temple, while more than one hundred other volumes have illuminations of the scenes of the life of the Buddha and episodes from the Prajnap aramita (Perfection of Wisdom) texts. Th ese illuminations inform us about the donors, their costumes, their Buddhist rituals while the dedications tell us about the systems of patronage and donation. Some illuminations re flect the ancient manuscripts of Tabo and Th oling, others re ect the sophisticated Newar aesthetic of Kathmandu and all these diverse tendencies reached Dolpo where they were appreciated.
By studying these texts within and examining the styles of the manuscript illuminations, Amy Heller was able to shed light on the history of this remote Tibetan enclave, the spread of Buddhism in the Himalayas and its artistic legacy. The manuscripts, sculptures and mural paintings discovered in Dolpo are the concrete expression of the complex economic, political, artistic and religious interactions between the people of Dolpo and their neighbours in India, Nepal, and Tibet.
In addition to the illuminations selected for publication, the reader will find in this volume a complimentary DVD that includes photographs of all volumes with historic dedications, all the illuminations and historic documents preciously conserved in Bicher village. A combination of Amy Heller’s fine contributions, beautifully illustrated photographs, and a useful and accessible DVD makes this volume an important addition to the library of every scholar, collector, and academic institution with an interest in Himalayan studies.
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Himalayas and Beyond: Karma Kagyu Buddhism in India and Nepal
By: Gelongma Lama Palmo
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Established two-and-a-half millennia ago, Buddhism continues to touch being's hearts worldwide as a path leading to understanding the true nature of one’s mind. The qualities of love, acceptance and tranquility, so essential for individual, and therefore universal peace, well-being and happiness are developed by the techniques of meditation taught by the Buddha, and practised in everyday living.
Be invited onto a pilgrimage within which starts in old India, 2500 years ago when Buddha Shakyamuni was born as a prince. The trip further leads up to meeting the particular lineage of a Living Buddha by the name of Gyalwa Karmapa. Lord Buddha had himself prophesied this lineage during his lifetime, saying that the Gyalwang Karmapas were to reincarnate until Buddhist teachings were no longer needed. This book illustrates the sacred world of a religious leader who fled Tibet in 2000, a saint as illustrious and charismatic as H. H. The Dalai Lama, his lineage and monasteries. In her unique and personal way, Lama Palmo intimately introduces the reader to the seemingly esoteric subject of Buddhism and monasticism, to the soothing heart of Buddhism in a fresh and modern language. Follow the trails of an intrepid traveler of the world and the soul
“This useful book focuses on the Karma Kagyu monasteries that now flourish in India and Nepal. It provides helpful background information about the origins of Buddhism, the Tibetan tradition and specifically the Karma Kagyu transmission. I am pleased to see too that the author reveals something of the actual way of life within the monasteries and how monastic training takes place.”
From the foreword by H. H. The Dalai Lama
Hardcover, 354 Pages
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Mongolian Buddhist Art: Masterpieces from the Museums of Mongolia Volume I, Part 1 & 2: Thangkas, Embroideries, and Appliqués
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Mongolian Buddhist Art: Masterpieces from the Museums of Mongolia presents
for the first time 441 masterpieces of Mongolian Buddhist art from five
major Mongolian museums: the Bogd Kahn Palace Museum, the Choijin Lama
Temple Museum, the Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts, the Erdene Zuu Museum
and the Danzanravjaa Museum. Selected by the Centre for Cultural
Heritage in conjunction with the curators of the participating museums,
these pieces were chosen for their religious and historical importance,
their aesthetic and technical quality, their uniquely Mongolian
characteristics and their rarity.
Volume 1: Thangkas, Appliqués and Embroideries is divided into
eight chapters — encompassing within these three media the visual
realms of the Buddhas and his disciples, mahasiddhas, Indian, Tibetan,
and Mongolian scholars, previous reincarnations, yidams, dakinis,
protectors and sacred architecture. Although constrained by the rules
of Buddhist iconography and strongly influenced by Tibetan art, the
Mongolians have succeeded in creating many works that are uniquely
Mongolian, a highly expressive and vibrant tradition that can be seen
in this volume. Dating from the late 17th to the 20th century, these
examples provide rich materials for the present and future studies of
Buddhist art and its heritage in Mongolia.
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Natural Perfection: Longchenpa’s Radical Dzogchen
By: Longchen Rabjam & Keith Dowman (translator)
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Dzogchen or the Great Perfection is the apex of Tibetan Buddhism, and Longchen Rabjam is recognized as the pre-eminent master of Dzogchen and one of Tibet's greatest writers and sages. His Treasury of Reality encompasses and optimizes the radical precepts of Dzogchen and is a shining example of why people continue to turn to the traditions of Tibet for spiritual and personal transformation. Transcending the Tibetan context, Longchen Rabjam’s book is a manual of practical wisdom for all people of all times, cultures, and traditions. Dzogchen teaches the natural perfection of all experience, phenomena, and life, just as it is, with no need to alter or fabricate complex ideas or philosophical views. This discipline of spiritual transcendence provides the key not only to our inner enlightenment but to the health and survival of our planet.
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Nine Ways of Bon: Excerpts from gZi-brjid
By: Snellgrove
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To practising bonpos, Bon simply means the true religion of Tibet, while to Tibetan Buddhists, Bon refers to the false teachings and practices that were prevalent before Buddhism finally succeeded in gaining a firm hold on the country.
The present study resulted from a period during which the author, a renowned scholar of Asian languages and cultures, was engaged in intense contact with practicing bonpos. It consists of the translation of fundamental texts of Bon, based on a manuscript of some 400 years of age, in which the entire Bon tantric practice is summarized. In many ways remarkably parallel to the early Buddhist teachings, much of the Bon tradition was subsequently incorporated back into Buddhism when that religion was formally adopted into Tibetan culture.
This important study, first published in the 1960s and long out of print, will be welcomed by all with interest in the religions of the Himalayas.
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Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art
By: Adriana Proser (Editor)
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According to sacred texts, the historical Buddha encouraged his disciples to make pilgrimages to sites associated with his life. As sacred images of the Buddha proliferated over time, it is said that his relics were divided among 84,000 South Asian sites of Buddhist worship, or stupas. This abundance of sacred sites in turn rendered pilgrimage and worship increasingly prominent influences on Asian culture and daily life.
Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art employs sacred objects, textiles, sculpture, manuscripts, and paintings to discuss the relationship between Buddhist pilgrimage and Asia’s artistic production. Accompanying an exhibition of approximately 90 extraordinary objects, many of which have never before been displayed publicly, this book addresses the process of the sacred journey in its entirety, including discussion of pilgrimage motivation, ritual preparation, and worship at the sacred destination. Exceptional and visually stunning examples of painted mandalas, reliquaries, prayer wheels, and traveling shrines demonstrate that pilgrims and pilgrimage inspired centuries of artistic production and shaped the development of visual culture in Asia.
Through insightful essays by a team of scholars, Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art illuminates artwork’s complex role in Buddhist culture, in which art serves as a form of memory and a bridge to the spiritual world as well as a functional tool with temporal purposes.
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Pure Land Tradition: History and Development
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This new collection includes the latest scholarship on one of the most important strains of Buddhism, the Pure Land Tradition. The essays trace its historical evolution from its origins in India through its development in China to medieval Japan.
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Ratnakirti's Proof of Momentariness by Positive Correlation(Ksanabhangasiddhi Anvayatmika): Transliteration, Translation, and Philosophic Commentary
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The Ksanabhangasiddhi is a masterpiece of skillful reasoning by the eleventh-century Indian Buddhist philosopher Ratnakirti. This renowned scholar was a professor at the great Buddhist University of Vikrama??la, and was a master of practically all the classical philosophical schools which preceded him. The present work is informed by centuries of debate between Buddhist advocates of momentariness and arch-rival Nyaya philosophers who believed that both selves and things endure. This book is a first-time translation of Ratnakirti's proof based on positive correlations, and includes a commentary explaining each step of his reasoning.
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Secrets of Shangri-La: Quest for Sacred Caves - Bonus program: The Lost Cave Temples (DVD)
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In the legendary kingdom of Mustang, a remote corner of the Himalaya previously off-limits to outsiders, a team of explorers and scientists climbs for the first time into human-carved caves thousands of years old. They find priceless 14th-century wall paintings, ancient human remains and a centuries-old hidden library of sacred texts that may reveal some secrets about the mythic paradise Shangri-la.
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Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World
By: Mary Pipher
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After decades as a psychotherapist and best-selling author of such life-changing books as Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each Other, Mary Pipher turns her attention to herself - collecting insights from her own life to illuminate the importance of the journey, not just the destination. Her new book is called Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World.
Like most lives, Pipher's is filled with glory and tragedy, chaos and clarity, love and abandonment. She spent her childhood in small Nebraska towns, the daughter of a doctor mother and a restless jack-of-all-trades father. Often both of her parents were away and Pipher and her siblings lived as what she calls "feral children." Later, as a therapist, Pipher was able to do what she most enjoyed: learn about the world and help others. After the surprising success of Reviving Ophelia, she found herself overwhelmed by the demands on her time and attention. In 2002, Pipher realized that success and fame were harming her, and she began working to find a quieter, more meditative life that would carry her toward self-acceptance and joy.
In Seeking Peace, Mary Pipher tells her own remarkable story, and in the process reveals truths about our search for happiness and love. While her story is unique, "the basic map and milestones of my story are universal," she writes. "We strive to make sense of our selves and our environments."
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Symbiosis of Buddhism with Brahmanism/Hinduism in South Asia and of Buddhism with "local cults" in Tibet and the Himalayan region
David Seyfort Ruegg
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This book is concerned with the complex and indeed difficult question of the relationship between Buddhism and Brahmanism/Hinduism (Vedism, Shivaism, Vishnuism, etc.) in India, and between Buddhism and local religious cults in Tibet and certain other parts of the Buddhist world including Japan. Although they are clearly not identical twins brought forth by the Indian religious soil, Buddhism and Brahmanism/Hinduism are closely related siblings. Thus, questions arise concerning the function and significance of the so-called "Hindu" gods and godlings as they appear in substantial parts of the Buddhist tradition, as well as the traditional "local" divinities in other Buddhist lands. In this connection, borrowing and syncretism have often been referred to by writers on the subject. But in fact these religious interrelationships appear to be considerably more complicated and interesting than this: in much of Buddhist thought they possess both salvific (soteriological) and gnoseological implications.
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Tibet in Exile
By: Jane Perkins
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Since the 14th Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959, inspiring one hundred thousand of his countrymen to follow, a new Tibet has emerged in exile. Essential national institutions have been rebuilt; religious teaching and scholarship have been retrieved and preserved.
Introduced by a historical chapter with valuable photographs from the past, this book is a visual record of the Dalai Lama and his people in exile in Dharamsala, portraying the vibrant traditions of an endangered community.
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Treasury of Knowledge: Books 2, 3, and 4, Buddhism's Journey to Tibet
Jamgon Kongtryl Lodro Taye
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Tsong Khapa's Extremely Brilliant Lamp
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Tsong Khapa's Great Stages of Mantra
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Tsong Khapa’s Illumination of the Hidden Meaning: Mandala, Mantra, and the Cult of the Yognis: A Study and Annotated Translation of Chapters 1-24 of the sbas don kun sel
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This is the first in a two-volume annotated translation of Tsong Khapa's Illumination of the Hidden Meaning (sbas don kun sel). A magnificent and massive commentary on the Cakrasamvara Tantra, this is first English translation of a work that marks a milestone in the Tibetan assimilation of the Indian Buddhist tantras.
This first volume, which includes Tsong Khapa's detailed introduction to chapters 1 to 24 of the 51 chapter root tantra, covers the history of the tradition, its interpretation, and a range of topics including the construction of the mandala, the consecration therein, and the decoding of mantras and their ritual applications, as well as extensive details concerning the clans of the yoginis and the procedures to win their favor. David B. Gray situates the work in context and explores in depth the sources used in composing this commentary. He also provides detailed notes, a trilingual English-Tibetan-Sanskrit glossary, and an appendix that includes a translation and a critical edition of the Laghusamvaratantrapatalabhisandhi, a synopsis of the Cakrasamvara Tantra composed by Sumatikirti, which is quoted in its entirety by Tsong Khapa in his commentary. This work will be followed by a second volume of the annotated translation subtitled Yogic Vows, Conduct, and Ritual Praxis (An Annotated Translation of Chapters 25-51) and a third volume that will include a critical edition of the entire Tibetan text.
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Turning the Wheel of Truth: Commentary on the Buddha's First Teaching
By: Ajahn Sucitto
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- Immediately after his enlightenment, the Buddha gave a talk that contained within it the foundation for all further Buddhist teachings. The text of this remarkable discourse is presented here and is brilliantly illuminated by a respected, contemporary teacher of the Theravada tradition. This discourse by the Buddha, called “The Sutta That Set in Motion the Wheel of the Truth,” is revered by all schools of Buddhism, yet it isn’t studied regularly due to the density of the material it contains. Ajahn Sucitto’s engaging, chapter-by-chapter unpacking of the text makes it accessible for everyone, showing how it serves as a complete digest of all the Buddhist teachings, and thus, as a worthy guide for life. His commentary includes enlightening discussions of fundamental Buddhist ideas and principles such as:
- The Middle Way,
- The Eightfold Path,
- The Four Noble Truths,
- Buddhist cosmology,
- Karma,
- Enlightenment.
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Understanding Buddhism
By: Nolan Pliny Jacobson
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Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism
By: Andrew Olendzki
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Grounded in deep scholarship, psychological sophistication, and decades of teaching and personal practice, this much-anticipated collection of essays helps readers gain a richer understanding of Buddhism. Arranged thematically, the pieces in On Becoming the Dharma explore important, challenging concepts that underlie the Buddhist teachings — karma, self and no-self, interconnection, and interdependence. Each brief chapter stands alone as a sparklingly appealing presentation of a particular idea, and as a whole the book comprises one of the best overviews available of the concepts that underlie the Buddhist worldview. Sophisticated without being daunting, clean and clear without becoming simplistic, Andrew Olendzki’s writing is filled with rich phrases, remarkable images, and the fruits of much careful thought.
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Yasodhara, the Wife of the Bodhisattva
By: Ranjini Obeyesekere
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Translations of two works from Sri Lanka on Yasodhara, the wife of the Buddha—an allusive and intriguing figure in Buddhist lore and literature.
What about Buddha’s wife? We all know that Prince Siddhartha left his wife and infant son to begin his journey to enlightenment. The Pali canon does not mention the woman he left behind. Yasodhara enters the commentarial tradition around the first century CE and lives on in the folk tradition, growing from a shadowy figure to a nun and arahat (an Enlightened One), even gaining magical powers. In this book, Ranjini Obeyesekere offers a translation of two works from Sri Lanka on this intriguing figure. The Yasodharavata (The Story of Yasodhara) is a folk poem, whose best-known verses are Yasodhara’s lament over the departure of her husband. The Yasodharapadanaya (The Sacred Biography of Yasodhara) is an account of Yasodhara as a nun capable of miracles, who has traveled through sam|sara with the Bodhisattva, and who is praised by him. Obeyesekere places these works within their historical and literary context and provides a glossary of Buddhist terms.
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Buddhism for a Violent World?
By: Elizabeth Harris
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Elizabeth Harris explores what Buddhism has to say about the human condition and in particular about living in a violent world. It draws on conversations with Buddhists, Buddhist texts, the author’s personal diaries and experiences to show that Buddhism in action is rarely about physical withdrawal but about engagement with the suffering of others. Drawing on the realities of the violent ethnic conflicts in Sri Lanka, the book shows that there are no easy answers but Buddhism has much to offer to those who want to understand better the dynamics of conflict.
The turbulent history of relationships between Buddhists and Christians in countries such as Sri Lanka, where the actions of Christian missionaries in the colonial period led to a Buddhist revival and Buddhist-Christian conflict are explored as a backdrop to more positive examples of Buddhist-Christian encounters.
Written by a Christian with a positive perspective on Buddhism, this book illustrates the practical as well as theoretical value of dialogue and mutual respect in a troubled world.
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Dorje Chang Thungma
By: Tai Situpa Rinpoche
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This prayer was written by Benkar Jampal Zangpo and somewhat represents the teachings and the gurus of the Dagpo Kagyu. This prayer can be divided roughly into two parts: to whom you are praying and; the essence of the prayer, which includes verses on turning the mind away from samsara, devotion and aspiration, non-distraction and insight meditation. The second half of the book is a teaching on the guru-disciple relationship, which covers the importance of a guru, four types of guru, the qualities of a guru. There is also a very good question and answer session.
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