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'dul ba me tog phreng rgyud dang dge tshul ka ri ka sum brgya pa dang lnga bcu pa bcas so
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'dul ba me tog phreng rgyud dang dge tshul ka ri ka sum brgya pa dang lnga bcu pa bcas so (Tibetan Only)
240 Pages, Western book format, paperback, Vajra Vidya
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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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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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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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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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1000 Buddhas of Genius
By: Thomas William Rhys Davids
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Buddha ranks among the most often depicted holy figures of the world - perhaps appearing more than Christ, a subject widely treated by Western artists. Venerated in all the nations of Asia, and even beyond, his image took form along the Silk Road, the birthplace of many schools of Buddhism. Indeed, the Buddhist religion recognizes many Buddhas representing various traditions: such as Buddhism of “the Ancient Teaching” (Theravada), of “the Great Vehicle” (Mahayana) and Tantric Buddhism (Varjrayana).
A figure adored by all, Buddha has been depicted in every art form: sculpture, often of monumental size, like the now destroyed Buddhas of Bamyan, painting and above all in countless cave murals, such as those of Ajanta in India or Dunhuang in China.
Perfect for all those passionate about Asian art, from neophytes to Buddhists, this fascinating work invites the reader to discover or rediscover Buddha, his history, his codes, but also his innumerable faces through one thousand representations selected from among the most beautiful works held in the world’s greatest museums.
1000 Buddhas of Genius, Thomas William Rhys Davids, Hardcover, 543 Pages, $24.95
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108 Buddhist Statues in Tibet: Evolution of Tibetan Sculptures
By: Ulrich von Schroeder
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Mostly unknown to the outside world, the temples and storerooms of Tibet’s monasteries shelter a great number of ancient Buddhist objects. Not only are there a great number of Buddhist sculptures and paintings produced by Tibetan artists, but included also are rare examples originating from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Burma, and China. These images have withstood sometimes more than one thousand years of warfare and other calamities.
Despite a growing number of books dealing with various aspects of Tibetan culture and religion, most publications have the shortcoming that they are almost exclusively illustrated with objects scattered worldwide in private and public collections. A notable exception is the two-volume chronicle Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, published in 2001 by this author. However, it is monumental in scale and there is a need for a more affordable condensed edition.
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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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12-Step Buddhist: Enhance Recovery from Any Addiction
By: Darren Littlejohn
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The face of addiction and alcoholism is a face that many have seen before -- it may be a celebrity, a colleague, or even a family member. And though the 12-step program by itself can often bring initial success, many addicts find themselves relapsing back into old ways and old patterns, or replacing one addiction with another. Author Darren Littlejohn has been there and back, and presents a complimentary guide for recovery to the traditional twelve-step program, out of his own struggles and successes through the study of Zen and Tibetan Buddhism.
Working with the traditional 12-Step philosophy, the author first shares his own life path, and how he came to find the spiritual solace that has greatly enhanced his life in recovery. Then, he details out how his work integrating Buddhism into the traditional twelve-step programs validates both aspects of the recovery process. While being careful not to present himself as a Tibetan lama or Zen master, the author shows how each step -- such as admitting there is a problem, seeking help, engaging in a thorough self-examination, making amends for harm done, and helping other drug addicts who want to recover -- fits into the Bodhisattva path. This integration makes Buddhism accessible for addicts, and the 12 Steps understandable for Buddhists who may otherwise be at a loss to help those in need.
The 12-Step Buddhist is designed to be a complimentary practice to the traditional 12-step journey, not a replacement. While traditional twelve-step programs help addicts become sober by removing the drug of choice and providing a spiritual path, they rarely delve deep into what causes people to suffer in the first place. The integration of Buddhism with the traditional process provides the wisdom and meditations that can help addicts truly find a deep, spiritual liberation from all causes and conditions of suffering -- for good.
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1325 Buddhist Ways to Be Happy
By: Barbara Ann Kipfer
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At the core of Buddha's teachings is the path to happiness. The Buddha himself was known as "The Happy One," so it's no surprise that Buddhism has produced a rich heritage of ways to be happy. This book gathers the best of these ideas and makes them accessible to modern readers.
"1352 Buddhist Ways to Be Happy" looks at everyday situations and provides the Buddha's and other Buddhist teachers' guidance for navigating them in a cheerful, positive way. The attainment of happiness has always been the goal of Buddhism, and even the Dalai Lama admits that one doesn't need to change religions to benefit from the teachings of the Happy One. The sayings in this book allow readers of any faith (or no faith) to explore the Buddha's ideas and relate them to their own personal quest for happiness.
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16 Arhats, Murals at the Vajra Vidya Institute
By: Gene Kudirka
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in the main shrine room of the Vajra Vidya, there are eight arhats along the east side and eight against the west side of the main shrine room. They are placed on the walls according to their rank, with the most senior closest to the main Buddha statue. The two attendants, Huashang and Dharamatala are placed along the south wall. They are both laymen; Huashang is the plump Chinese sponsor who is surrounded by playful children and Dharmatala is the great Indian master who can be seen carying a basket of texts. They are not considered as part of the sixteen original arhats since they are laymen and not monks, but are always pictured as part of the group. The four guardian kings can be seen upon entering the Vajra Vidya Institute compound as the facing wall.
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201 Little Buddhist Reminders, Gathas for Your Daily Life
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Everyone is busy. So everyone needs little reminders to help remember to slow down, pay attention, and enjoy life. Designed for just this purpose, gathas are short Buddhist poems to recite inwardly throughout the day. Best-selling author Barbara Ann Kipfer has created gathas for waking up, for eating a meal, for driving, for appreciating nature, and more. These lyrical verses transform everyday activities like washing the dishes and taking out the garbage into opportunities to realize the sacredness of the present moment. Gathas help the reader weave a meditative rhythm and sensibility into daily life, no matter how hectic it might be.
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365 Dalai Lama, Daily Advice from the Heart
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Imagine having two minutes with the Dalai Lama offering you personal advice on how you could live your life better, overcome your problems, be more joyful and create a better world. This revolutionary new book brings you exactly that: short passages to offer you enlightening advice for everyday living.
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Abandoning What is Not Worthwhile
By: Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
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[...] This teaching is about the basic ideas of the buddhadharma - what the Buddha taught. There is really no limit to the Buddha’s teachings. He gave limitless teachings because there are limitless sentient beings, all with different intentions, interests, and affinities. In order to fulfill the wishes of all sentient beings, Buddha gave limitless teachings. [...]
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Abhidhamma Philosophy
By: Pandey
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The present book authored by Acariya Anuruddha Mahathera during the 11th-12th Century A.D. Several other books with the title Abhidhamma Philosophy have been published even then this work has retained the same title Abhidhamma Philosophy partly to preserve its continuity with its predecessor-books and partly because the earlier published books are either translation of the Abidhammatthasangaho or translation with explanatory notes on the Abhidhammic terms. While the present book makes a systematic study of the Abhidhamma-pitaka, and compiled in condensed form in the Abhidhammatthasangaho.
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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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Abhidharma Kosa Bhasyam
By: Vasubandhu / Louis De La Vallee Poussin Tr. / Leo M. Pruden, Tr.
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A translation of Vasubandhu’s Abhidharma Kosa Bhasyam.
The Sanskrit word “Abhidharma” means the systematic philosophy of Buddhism. From the time of the Buddha onward, the Buddha’s disciples, and many later generations of his followers studied, analyzed, and re-classified the teachings of the Buddha, and in the process created a unique field of study which has come to be known as the Abhidharma. Only a small but important portion of Abhidharma literature has been preserved in its original Sanskrit: Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakosabhasyam, and its commentary, Yasomitra’s Vyakhya
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Abhidharma Samuccaya
By: Asanga
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The Compendium Of The Higher Teaching (Philosophy)
The Abhidharmasamuccaya is an extremely important text of Mahayana Abhidharma. It contains nearly all the main teachings of the Mahayana and can be considered as the summary of all the works by Asanga. The method of treatment of the subjects in this work is the same as the traditional method found in the texts of the Pali Abhidhamma which preceded it by several centuries, such as the Dhammasangani, Vibhanga and Dhatukatha: posing a question and answering it.
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Abhidharmasamuccaya
By: Traleg Rinpoche
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We will be exploring the Abhidharmasamuccaya, a text that belongs to the later development of Buddhism. Early Buddhism is known as Theravadin or Hinayana Buddhism. Later Buddhism is known as Mahayana Buddhism. It has two schools: Madhyamika, the school of the middle way, and Yogacara, the practitioners of yoga. Yoga, in this case, has very little to do with physical dexterity, with how you can twist your arms or fiddle your toes. It is very much related with learning how to meditate properly and relate to one's own mind, with trying to understand the sort of mental states we go through in meditation and so on. The Abhidharmasamuccaya presents that kind of overall structure, in the fullest sense.
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Abhisamayalamkara with Vritti by Arya Vimuktisena and Aloka by Haribhadra Vol. 1
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This book is, firstly, a commentary on the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in 8,000 lines, and secondly, a commentary on Maitreya's Ornament for the Clear Realizations. It utilizes the latter to explain the former. The Ornament teaches the path to Buddhahood, bringing out and systematizing what is found buried in the voluminous Perfection of Wisdom Sutras. It became the most widely studied book in Tibet. There Haribhadra was regarded as the most authoritative Indian commentator on these topics, and virtually all of the many famous Tibetan teachers who wrote their own commentaries on them looked to him as their primary source. This is the first of four volumes, and contains Arya Vimuktisena's vritti as well.
Abhisamayalamkaraloka ( Vol. 1 of 4)
Light of the Ornament for the Clear Realizations
by Haribhadra, English translation by Gareth Sparham
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Abhisamayalamkara with Vritti by Arya Vimuktisena and Aloka by Haribhadra Vol. 2
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Maitreya's Abhisamayalamkara is the most widely studied book in Tibet, where it was brought from India many centuries ago. It is used in all the monasteries to teach the path to Buddhahood, in accordance with the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras. It teaches this in outline form, so it requires a commentary to be understood. The oldest extant commentary is Arya Vimuktisena's Vrtti. Haribhadra, the most influential Indian commentator, drew upon this to write his Aloka. Virtually all of the many famous Tibetan teachers who wrote their own commentaries on the Abhisamayalamkara relied on Haribhadra as their primary source.
This is the second of four volumes.
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Abhisamayalamkara with Vritti by Arya Vimuktisena and Aloka by Haribhadra Vol. 3
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Maitreya's Abhisamayalamkara is the most widely studied book in Tibet, where it was brought from India many centuries ago. It is used in all the monasteries to teach the path to Buddhahood, in accordance with the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras. It teaches this in outline form, so it requires a commentary to be understood. The oldest extant commentary is Arya Vimuktisena's Vrtti. Haribhadra, the most influential Indian commentator, drew upon this to write his Aloka. Virtually all of the many famous Tibetan teachers who wrote their own commentaries on the Abhisamayalamkara relied on Haribhadra as their primary source.
This is the third of four volumes.
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Absorption in No External World: 170 Issues In Mind-Only Buddhism
By: Jeffrey Hopkins
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This stand-alone book is the final volume of a trilogy on Mind-Only that Hopkins composed over the last twenty-two years. Here Hopkins presents opinions on crucial issues from twenty-two commentaries on Dzong-ka-ba's The Essence of Eloquence, considered by his followers to be so challenging that it is called his steel bow and steel arrow, hard to pull but powerful when one succeeds. The careful and intense analysis with which these scholar-yogis probe these 170 issues over time opens a door into patterns of thought that constitute the environment of the text. Hopkins' lively style draws the reader into the drama, stimulating the reader's metaphysical imagination.
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Account of a Pilgrimage to Central Tibet
By: Jam Yang Tenpa Gyamtso
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Account of a Pilgrimage to Central Tibet investigates a rare text, the dbus gtsang gi gnas bskor and its author ‘Jam-dbyangs-bstan-pa-rgya-mtsho, about whom very little was formely known. The Brag-dgon-pa lama made his pilgrimage in 1916, while visiting Tibet and meeting the 13th Dalai Lama.
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Account of Tibet: The Travels of Ippolito Desideri of Pistoia, S.J. 1712- 1727
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As well as an extensive introduction, this edition contains notes to all four books, a bibliographical index, a general index and an index of Tibetan words. The introduction is particularly valuable in that it sets the importance of Desideri's mission in the general context of the Jesuit Missions to Tibet. In Desideri's account we receive the first accurate general description of Tibet: from the natural world to the sociological and anthropological aspects of the people and a complete exposition of Lamaism.
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Across the Tibetan Plateau: Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Conservation
By: Robert L. Fleming Jr., Dorje Tsering & Liu Wulin
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Here is the most comprehensive photography to date of a little-known and seldom-visited land whose area equals western Europe. The beauty and diversity of Tibet is staggering: from Mount Everest to the world's deepest gorge, from tropical jungles to arctic-like tundra, from trees twenty feet in diameter to vast herds and solitary specimens of some of the least-known animals of the planet. Certain photographs, such as those of a newborn Tibetan antelope or the elusive red ghoral, are among the first ever taken of these subjects. This book brings American, Tibetan, and Chinese scholarship to bear on the natural history of Tibet, and it also describes an extraordinary conservation accomplishment that has gone virtually unnoticed by the outside world. Where else has 40 percent of the land been set aside in nature preserves in twenty years? As a result of this effort, the animals and landscapes shown here will be saved for future generations.
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Across Tibet Vol. 1 and 2
By: Bonvalot, Gabriel
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A Translation of "DE PARIS AU TONKIN A TRAVERS LE TIBET INCONNU"áWith Illustrations from Photographs taken by Prince Henry of Orleans, and Map of Route.
The last journey undertaken by M. Bonvalot, who was on this occasion accompanied by Prince Henry of Orleans, the eldest son of the Duc de Chartres, has, perhaps, excited even greater interest than the preceding one, when, together with two other Frenchmen, he accomplished the difficult if not unprecedented feat of reaching India by scaling those tablelands of the Pamir - the "roof of the world," as that mountain mass is often called [.
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Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism
By: Queen, Christopher, Charles Prebish, and Damien Keown
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New Studies in Engaged Buddhism
Action Dharma charts the emergence of a new chapter in an ancient faith - the rise of social service and political activism in Buddhist Asia and the West.
Sixteen new essays, including a critical introduction and conclusion, treat the historical origins, global range, teachings and practices, and leaders and organizations that make up the latest turning of the Dharma. Environmentalism and peace walks through the minefields of South-East Asia, the future of the ‘untouchables’ in Japan, and outreach to minorities and inmates of the criminal justice system in the West are some of the challenging topics
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Activating Bodhichitta and a Meditation on Compassion
By: Dalai Lama XIV
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There is no more powerful mind than bodhicitta. There is no more joyous mind than bodhicitta. For the accomplishment of one's own ultimate purpose, the awakening mind is supreme, and to accomplish the purpose of all other living beings there is nothing superior to bodhicitta. The awakening mind is the unsurpassable way to collect merit. To purify obstacles bodhicitta is supreme. For protection from interferences bodhicitta is supreme. It is the unique, all-encompassing method. Every kind of ordinary and supra-mundane power can be accomplished through bodhicitta. Thus, it is absolutely precious.
Even though we personally may find difficulty in immediate and thorough generation of such a mind, we should at least direct our thoughts towards it. To train our mind in such an ultimately altruistic manner from the very beginning of our practice of Dharma is vitally important.
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Activity of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
By Namo Buddha Meditation and Education Center
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Contents: - Forward - Long Life Prayer for His Holiness Karmapa Urgyen Dorje - Long Life Prayer Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche - Biography of Thrangu Rinpoche 1. Thrangu Tashi Choling Monastery, Nepal 2. Namo Buddha, Nepal Pal Thrangu Tashi Choling 3. Thrangu Tara Abbey 4. Shree Mangal Dvip School 5. Nubri Thrangu Tashi Choling, Nepal 6. Vajra Vidya Institute 7. Thrangu Tashi Choling Monastery in Tibet 8. Photo Pages 9. International List of Centers and Organization 10. List of Publications: Thrangu Rinpoche’s Teachings
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Adornment of the Middle Way
By: Shantarakshita & Jamgon Mipham
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Madhyamaka, or the Middle Way, is accepted by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism as the most profound expression, in philosophical terms, of emptiness, the true nature of phenomena. Emptiness is the basis on which the whole of Mahayana practice is founded, from the mind-training meditations on bodhichitta to the advanced yogas of tantra and dzogchen. The Madhyamaka tradition, inaugurated by Nagarjuna and dominant in India for over a thousand years, remains a vibrant force in Tibetan Buddhism.
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Adventures with the Buddha
By: Jeffrey Paine, editor
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A Personal Buddhism Reader
The flavor, the savor, and the sense of Buddhism as revealed through personal stories.
Many books on Buddhism will edify you, but will they entertain you? Here, finally, is a book that yields an understanding of Buddhism—not by its metaphysics or rituals but through real characters and true stories as dramatic as those in the most imaginative novel.
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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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Advice from Buddha Sakyamuni
By: Dalai Lama
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The important small volume, Advice from Buddha Sakyamuni, on the discipline to be observed by monks following the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, is based on the Intermediary Verses of the Vinaya Sutra. His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet has composed this work for the benefit of all beings, and gives a concise but thorough commentary on the monastic vows and how to uphold them in a pure manner.
However, it should be noted that His focus on the necessity and wisdom of keeping strict moral discipline is not only of relevance to those holding monastic vows in our world. His commentary also contains timely advice for all who wish to live in harmony and peace with other sentient beings, and as such will be of enduring interest to a wide readership.
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Advice From the Lotus Born
By: Padmasambhava
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Padmasambhava is the primary master of Vajrayana, the teachings for our time. Out of his great compassion and wisdom, he instructed his main disciple Yeshe Tsogyal to conceal terma treasures to be revealed at the destined time for future practitioners. The profundity of this advice is meant to be personally apllied by all individuals in all circumstances. It is a classic work which contains valid truth for anyone who sincerely wants to follow a spiritual path.
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Aesthetic voyage of Indo Tibetan painting: Alchi and Tabo
By: A.K.Singh
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After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
By: Kornfield, Jack
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How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path
"Enlightenment does exist", Jack Kornfield assures us. "Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the divine...these experiences are more common than you know, and not far away." But even after achieving such realization, we are faced with the day-to-day task of translating that freedom into our imperfect lives. We are faced with the laundry.
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Against a Hindu God: Buddhist Philosophy of Religion in India
By: Parimal G. Patil
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Arguments about the existence of God are not confined to the West. Buddhist and Hindu philosophers in premodern India engaged in centuries-long arguments about the existence of a God-like being called "Isvara" and the religious epistemology used to support them. These arguments culminated in a sophisticated critique by the eleventh-century Buddhist intellectual Ratnakirti, one of the last great Buddhist philosophers of India. By focusing on Ratnakirti's arguments against his Hindu opponents, Parimal G. Patil summarizes South Asian intellectual practices and shows how the philosophy and intellectual history of religions was understood in precolonial South Asia.
Based at the famous university of Vikramasila, Ratnakirti brings the full range of Buddhist philosophical resources to bare on his critique of the Hindu "design-inference," the most important argument for the existence of Isvara in Medieval and early-modern India. At stake was nothing less than the nature of rationality, the metaphysics of epistemology, and the relevance of philosophy to the practice of religion. The first book to document Buddhist philosophy of religion in the final phase of Buddhism in India, Against a Hindu God transcends the disciplinary boundaries of religious studies, philosophy, and South Asian studies. Through a comparative approach to the philosophy of religions, it brings the remarkable work of philosophers like Ratnakirti to bear on contemporary conversations in religion and philosophy.
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Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
By: Noah Levine
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Buddha was a revolutionary. His practice was subversive; his message, seditious. His enlightened point of view went against the norms of his day—in his words, "against the stream." His teachings changed the world, and now they can change you too.
Presenting the basics of Buddhism with personal anecdotes, exercises, and guided meditations, bestselling author Noah Levine guides the reader along a spiritual path that has led to freedom from suffering and has saved lives for 2,500 years. Levine should know. Buddhist meditation saved him from a life of addiction and crime. He went on to counsel and teach countless others the Buddhist way to freedom, and here he shares those life-changing lessons with you. Read and awaken to a new and better life.
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Agents and Actions in Classical Tibetan
By: Tillemans & Herforth
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The Indigenous Grammarians on bdag and gzhan and bya byed las gsum
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Ahimsa: Buddhism & the Vegetarian Ideal
By: Bodo Balsys
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Ahimsa means "harmlessness," carried out in thought word, or deed. A major precept of Buddhists of all denominations is to practise harmlessness. Such activity is not supposed to be theory, but a practical fact, a sacred pledge (samaya) integrated into the fibre of one’s every mode of conduct on the path to enlightenment and liberation from the samsara. However, as this text elaborates, all good intent along this line falls flat in the light of the practice condoned by many Buddhists of meat consumption.
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Ajanta Caves; Ancient Paintings of Buddhist India
By: Benoy Behl
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In 1819, a group of British soldiers on a hunting expedition chanced upon the Ajanta caves in a ravine some 200 miles north-east of Bombay. Ranging from the second century BC to the sixth century AD, the breathtaking Buddhist paintings and sculptures found there rank among the world's most important cultural treasures.
Ajanta provides virtually the only evidence remaining of painting styles that first developed in India and then travelled with the spread of Buddhism into the Himalayan regions, and then via the Silk Roads across Central Asia into China, and from there to Japan and Korea.
By using long exposures which pick up only natural light, Benoy K. Behl has captured these works in all their glory and luminosity. The exquisite murals depict the Jatakas (tales of previous incarnations) of Lord Buddha, scenes of princely processions, ladies with their handmaidens, bejewelled animals, ascetics in monasteries and fantastical birds and beasts, all demonstratinga startling degree of sophistication.e Silk Roads across Central Asia into China, and from there to Japan and Korea.
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Ajanta: Monumental Legacy
By: A.P. Jamkhedkar
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Situated about 106 kilometers from Aurangabad in Maharashtra, Ajanta rock cut caves are creations of about 700 years, roughly from 200 BC to AD 525. This glorious Buddhist art of the Deccan was discovered in 1819, and given a World Heritage status by UNESCO in 1983. The most striking characteristic of Ajanta art is that architecture, sculpture and painting--the three expressions of fine art--all articulate at one place. Ajanta paintings give us graphic insights into the history of Buddhism in India. The caves also help us reconstruct the interrelationship between such centers in Central Asia and China, as also those in Buddhist countries like Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, which have similar specimens, but from a later period.
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Alambanapariksa and Vrtti by Dinnaga with the commentary of Dharmapala
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The Alambana-pariksa, "Examination of the Object of Consciousness," seeks to establish that the object of consciousness (alambana) as it appears to us is unreal; only consciousness is real. Dinnaga (or Dignaga) was a student of Vasubandhu, and this text, although brief, is an influential work of the Citta-matra or Mind-Only school. Dinnaga is most famous as the author of the Pramana-samuccaya and founding father of the Buddhist school of logic, and he here uses reasoning to establish his thesis. This book includes Dharmapala's commentary, retranslations into Sanskrit from Chinese and Tibetan, English translations, and Tibetan texts.
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Alchi
By: Goepper, Roger
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Ladakh's Hidden Buddhist Sanctuary
The Sumtsek
On the south bank of the Indus in Ladakh, facing a great trade and invasion route to the north, lies Alchi, a repository of magnificent Buddhist wall paintings and clay sculptures that have survived for over eight hundred years. This sumtuously illustrated book details the most impressive of the temples within the complex, the Sumtsek (Three-Tiered) Temple.
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Alexandra David-Neel, Portrait of an Adventurer
By: Ruth Middleton
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This unique biography explores the inner journey of a woman whose outer life was a thrilling story of passion and adventure. Alexandra David-Neel (1868û1969), born in Paris to a socially prominent family, once boasted, "I learned to run before I could walk!" In the course of a lifetime of more than one hundred years, she was an acclaimed operatic soprano, a political anarchist, a religious reformer, an intrepid explorer who traveled in Tibet for fourteen years, a scholar of Buddhism, and the author of more than forty books. But perhaps the most intriguing of all her adventures was the spiritual search that led her from a youthful interest in socialism and Freemasonry to the teachings of the great sages of India and culminated in her initiation into the secret tantric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This book reveals the penetrating insight and courage of a woman who surmounted physical, intellectual, and social barriers to pursue her spiritual quest.
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All the Way to Lhasa; a Tale from Tibet
By: B.H. Berger
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A young boy and his yak bravely overcome all odds to get to Lhasa, giving a wise and simple message that will inspire children of any age to dream and reach for a shining goal that may seem "very far."
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All You Ever Wanted to Know from His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Happiness, Life, Living, and Much More: Conversations with Rajiv Mehrotra
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama describes himself as “a simple Buddhist monk.” However, to millions of people around the world, he embodies the highest human aspiration: to be happy. His messages of compassion, altruism, and peace are articulated in a unique secular ethic for our times and supported with techniques and practices that can help us achieve these ideals. He is the Dalai Lama—or simply, His Holiness—the epitome of the Buddhist model of loving-kindness and an incarnation of Avalokitesvara, the bodhisattva of infinite compassion and mercy. Evoking global respect and admiration, he is both a prophet and a statesman for our troubled times, yet he’s intensely human and accessible. He’s an inspiration to millions, yet many feel as if he touches and speaks to them personally. He is a Buddhist but belongs to all humanity. His Holiness is one of the most recognizable—and recognized—faces in the free world.
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All-Pervading Melodies Sound of Thunder: The Outer Liberation Story of Terton Migyur Dorje
By: Karma Chagme
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This namthar is not only the tale of one extraordinary terton, revealing as it does - through anecdotes, letters, poetry, visions and dreams - the deep personal relationship that existed between two great masters: Terton Migyur Dorje and Karma Chagme Rinpoche. It also contains considerable information on the nature of liberation stories themselves, how authentic tertons and tulkus can be identified, the importance and significance of treasure teachings and sacred places, the nature of the guru-disciple relationship and other crucial topics. The text is further graced with a wealth of stories of many other tertons, prophecies by Guru Rinpoche and other masters, as well as insights into the daily life and times of some the great practitioners of 17th century Kham.
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Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics
By: Tony Trigilio
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Allen Ginsberg’s Buddhist Poetics revives questions of poetics, religious authenticity, and political efficacy in Ginsberg's prophetic poetry. Author Tony Trigilio examines Ginsberg's Buddhism as an imperfect but deepening influence on the major poems of his career.
The first sustained scholarly effort to test Ginsberg’s work as Buddhist poetry, this volume goes beyond biography to contemporary critical theory and textual and historical analysis to show how Ginsberg’s Buddhist religious practices inform his poetry. Trigilio takes us through the poet’s first autodidactic struggles with Buddhism to his later involvement with highly trained teachers, as he follows the development of Ginsberg’s Buddhist poetics.
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Alone With Others, An Existential Approach to Buddhism
By: Stephen Batchelor
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Alone With Others is a uniquely contemporary guide to understanding the timeless message of Buddhism, and in particular its relevance in actual human relations. It was inspired by Shantideva’s Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life , the oral instructions of living Buddhist masters, Martin Heidegger’s classic Being and Time , and the writings of the Christian theologians Paul Tillich and John MacQarrie.
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Already Home: A topography of spirit and place
By: Barbara Gates
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This powerfully moving memoir explores the connections between local history, the environment, the body, and the spirit. Intertwining themes of love and family, home and homelessness, neighborhood and lost wilderness, Barbara Gates takes the reader on a journey of personal discovery that artfully bridges the inner and outer worlds of experience.
Prompted by a diagnosis of breast cancer and the accompanying recognition of mortality, Gates follows an intuition that her own life is simply an expression of the changing terrain. She researches far-ranging elements of her Berkeley, California, surroundings: the geological history of the Bay and hills, the history of her house and neighborhood, and the shellmound home of Native Americans who inhabited her area five thousand years ago. Encounters with a homeless woman who sleeps in her car, a rat in her refrigerator, and other adventures alternate with explorations of the area and its history. Gates seeks out original shorelines long since changed by landfill, original creeks that have been run into sewers, and diverse local wildlife now at risk from the pollution of industry and traffic.
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Altar of the Earth: The life, Land and Spirit of Tibet
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Altar of the Earth takes on a vivid journey into the majestic environment of today's Tibet-its people, places and matters of the spirit Engagingly written essays and stunning color photographs capture the beauty and magnificence of Central tibet's most important sacred and natural places, events and ways of life-adding a dimension of understanding beyond that available in guidebooks. With his captivating style and artistic vision Peter Gold leads us across rivers and mountain passes, towns and villages and into temples, monasteries, shrines and homes for an intimate glimpse of the essence of Tibet.
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Altruism and Reality
By: Williams, Paul
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-This volume brings together Paul Williams's previosly published papers on the Indian and Tibetan interpretations of selected verses from the eighth and ninth chapters of the Bodhicaryavatara. In addition, there is a much longer version of the paper 'Identifying the Object of Negation', and nearly half the book consists of a wholly new essay, 'The Absence of Self and the Removal of Pain', subtitled 'How Santideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva Path'. In this paper Williams seeks to engage in a critical way with some central issues of Buddhist thought relating to the coherence of a reductionist model of the person. He argues for an irreducible subject-involvement of pain statements, and suggests that given an approach to the person explicitly avowed in the Bodhicaryavatara it becomes impossible to make sense of subject-involvement, and thus of the removal of pain which is central to the path to Buddhahood.-
Paul Williams approaches selected verses from the Bodhicaryavatara in the light of all the extant Indian commentaries available as well as many indigenous Tibetan commentaries from all Tibetan traditions. He is thus able to indicate varieties and shifting patterns of interpretation and influence, showing how the Bodhicaryavatara comes to be used by the different Tibetan traditions according to their differing overall religious and philosophical agendas.
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Always Maintain a Joyful Mind (Book and CD)
By: Pema Chodron
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And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness
For centuries Tibetan Buddhists have employed a collection of pithy, penetrating slogans to help them develop equanimity, intelligence, and compassion amid the turbulence of daily life. This book presents this transformative spiritual practice (called lojong in Tibetan) in a way that readers of any background can understand and put to use.
Each lojong slogan is followed by Pema Chödrön’s fresh, succinct, and inspiring commentary on how to understand and apply the maxim in everyday living.
Also included is a 45-minute audio program entitled “Opening the Heart,” in which the author offers in-depth instruction on tonglen meditation practice (“taking in and sending out”), a powerful practice that anyone can undertake to awaken compassion for oneself and others.
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Ambrosia Heart Tantra
By: Yeshi Donden
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In Sanskrit this text is known as Amrta-astangahrdayupadesatantra; in Tibetan: bDud rtsi snying po yan lag brgyad pa gsang ba man ngag gi rgyud tranlslated into English as Ambrosia Heart Tantra: The Four Secret Oral Teachings on the Eight Branches of the Science of Healing.
The original Sanskrit work was probably written during the fourth century A.D. It was translated into Tibetan by Vairochana and given-to King Khri-srong IDe'u-btsan (755-797 A.D.) and to the royal court physician, the Elder Yuthog Yontan Gonpo (708-833 A.D). Yuthog not only clarified this work but also wrote 18 supplements to it. It is most likely that after the famous international medical conference at Samye, Yuthog synthesized the best of the then known medical systems and rewrote the rGyud-bzhi Four Tantras. His work was shaped by his most famous descendent, the Younger Yuthog Yontan Gonpo (1112-1203 A.D.).
The rGyud-bzhi is written in question and answer form between Rishi Yid-las-skye and Rishi Rig-pa'i Ye-shes, both of whom were believed to be the emarlations of the Medicinal Buddha. The work is divided into four books containing 156 chapters and 5,900 verses which deal together with the following eight branches of medicine:
Lus-The body (this includes physiology, anatomy, embryology,pharmacology etc.); Byis-pa-paediatrics; Mo-nad- gynaecology; gDon-disorders associated with harmful influences; mTson-disorders of wounds inflicted by missiles; Dug-toxicology; rGas-geriatrics; and Ro-rtza-fertility and reproductivity.
The Ambrosia Heart Tantra, commentator Yeshi Donden, translator Jhampa Kelsang, LTWA, 118 pp, $10.95, Like new, minor imperfections
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American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship
By: Duncan Ryuken Williams; Christ
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This is the first scholarly treatment of the emergence of American Buddhist Studies as a significant research field. The academic study of Buddhism in America--including the religions of Asian immigrants and of American-born converts--is barely twenty years old, dating from the works of Charles Prebish and Emma McCoy Layman in the 1970s. A great deal has since then, prompted by new waves of refugees from Southeast Asia and Tibet and by the rising popularity of Buddhist practices in the West.
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American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912 : Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent
By: Thomas A. Tweed
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In this landmark work, Thomas Tweed examines nineteenth-century America’s encounter with one of the world’s major religions. Exploring the debates about Buddhism that followed upon its introduction in this country, Tweed shows what happened when the transplanted religous movement came into contact with America’s established culture and fundamentally different Protestant tradition.
Tweed traces the efforts of various American interpreters to make sense of Buddhism in Western terms. He demonstrates that while many of those interested in Buddhism considered themselves dissenters from American culture, they did not abandon some of the basic values they shared with their fellow Victorians. In the end, the Victorian understanding of Buddhism, even for its most enthusiastic proponents, was significantly shaped by the prevailing culture. Although Buddhism attracted much attention, it ultimately failed to build enduring institutions or gain significant numbers of adherents in the nineteenth century. Not until the following century did a cultural environment more conducive to Buddhism’s taking root in America develop.
In a new preface, Tweed addresses Buddhism’s growing influence in contemprary American culture.
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Amitabha Long, Commentary
Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
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[...] When we explain that Amitabha’s pure land is a buddha realm where any ordinary being can experience rebirth, some people may underestimate the power of this pure realm. Such a person might think, “Well, that realm must be ordinary and probably does not have the power of an actual buddha field, because anyone can experience rebirth here.”
But you need to understand that Amitabha’s buddha field is as powerful, and as pure, as any other buddha field [...]. It is said that by being reborn in Amitabha Buddha’s pure land, you naturally obtain many miraculous powers of realization; that in an instant, you have the power to visit any buddha field you wish to visit, in order to obtain dharma teachings.
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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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Amrita of Eloquence: A Biography of Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
By: Lama Karma Drodul, translated by Yeshe Gyamtso
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Amrita of Eloquence is a luminous portrait of the life of Khenpo
Karthar Rinpoche, one of the Kagyu lineage's most beloved and revered
teachers. Beautifully written by Lama Karma Drodul (Rinpoche's nephew
and disciple) and elegantly translated by Yeshe Gyamtso, Amrita of
Eloquence describes Khenpo Rinpoche and his life with humor, lyrical
beauty, and boundless affection. The book composed in the traditional
style of Tibetan spiritual biographies, but is nonetheless completely
accessible to modern readers. The importance of such biographies cannot
be overestimated: studying the life of one's guru brings devotion, and
devotion brings awakening.
Born in eastern Tibet in 1924, Khenpo
Karthar Rinpoche is one of the great masters of the Karma Kagyu
tradition. Rinpoche, who received most of his training and education in
Tibet before the Chinese invasion, is highly accomplished in
meditation, philosophy, and monastic arts.
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Amy and Gully in Rainbowland
By: Rowe, W.W.
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Finding themselves in Rainbowland, two apple-pie American kids meet a magical man dressed in red and gold robes who send s them on a strage quest. Along the way, they are led to discover some special qualities within themselves. They learn to be courageous, to look beyond appearances, to do no harm, and to practice loving kindness.
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Analysis of the Abhisamayalamkara
By: Obermiller, E.
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The Abhisamayalamkara is the text used in the Tibetan monastic curriculum to teach the path to Buddhahood.
The Indian teacher Asanga requested the future Buddha Maitreya to systematize the teachings on the path from the large and diffused Prajna-paramita Sutras, and this book is the result. It is a concise outline work, so it is studied in Tibet with the help of commentaries and study manuals.
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Analytical Buddhism: The Two-Tiered Illusion of Self
By: Miri Albahari
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We spend our lives protecting an elusive self - but does the self actually exist? Drawing on literature from Western philosophy, neuroscience and Buddhism (interpreted), the author argues that there is no self. The self - as unified owner and thinker of thoughts - is an illusion created by two tiers. A tier of naturally unified consciousness (notably absent in standard bundle-theory accounts) merges with a tier of desire-driven thoughts and emotions to yield the impression of a self. So while the self, if real, would think up the thoughts, the thoughts, in reality, think up the self.
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Analytical Study of Four Nikayas
By: Barua, Dipak Kumar
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The first four Nikaya texts belonging to the Suttapitaka of the Pali Tipitaka which contains the sacred sayings of Gotama (Skt. Gautama) Buddha are of inestimable value since they provide important source materials to study the religious and cultural history of the contemporary period. From the sociological point of view too they are of utmost significance, because they vividly present the daily life of the people of ancient India.
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Anatta / Anatmata: An Analysis of Buddhist Anti-Substantialist Crusade
By: Chinchore
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Anti-Substantialist CrusadeThere perhaps is already in circulation a certain kind of descriptive account of the main pillars of Buddhism, viz. Duhkha, Anatta or Nairatmya and Anityata together with superficial clue concerning interrelationship between them. However, there seems to be an utter lack of any account concerning any pillar which takes appropriate cognisance of the phenomenon of conceptual change, spells out defensible rationale of its acceptance and brings out the way it is connected with those of the other pillars.
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Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara: The British Library Kharosthi Fragments
By: Salomon
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As the Dead Sea scrolls have changed our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, so a set of twenty-nine scrolls recently acquired by the British Library promise to provide a window into a crucial phase of the history of Buddhism in India.
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Ancient Futures
By: Norberg-Hodge, Helen
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A linguist by training, Helena Norberg-Hodge was the first Westerner in modern times to master the Ladakhi language. For the last seventeen years, she has spent half of every year in Ladakh, working with the Ladakhi people to protect their culture and environment from the effects of rapid modernization. For this work, Ms. Norberg-Hodge was awarded the 1986 Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize. She is currently Director of the Ladakh Project, which she founded in 1978, and its parent organization, the International Society for Ecology and Culture.
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Ancient Metria Medica (Tibetan Science of Healing)
By: Smanla T. Phuntsog
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The book is a treasure-house of the traditional system
of Tibetan medicine. Dr Smanla T Phuntsog’s keen observations and understanding
of the system makes it’s a valuable source of information for students and
research scholars alike.
The book deals with the fundamental knowledge of
human physiology and medication by traditional as well as modern methods. The
chapter on dharmic physiology explains and illustrates the teachings of Buddha
and it goes into the deeper aspects of mind and the insignificance of the body
and its response to various curative applications and its true nature of
physiology.
Of great importance is the listing of rare 493 herbs
formulations and their therapeutic value. This surely will come handy as a
ready-made presentation of medicinal formulations and curative
applications.
In short, the book shows the mastery of the author on
Tibetan medicine and functional system of health. The correlation of many
aspects of Tibetan and modern medicinal applications gives us a clearer concept
of the human physiology and its functional and curative systems.
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Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thich Nhat Hanh in his trademark exquisite simplicity gives tools and advice for transforming relationships and rejuvenating those parts of our that have been laid waste by anger. This is for every part of life: work, family, love and the world.
Wise and loving way to transform anger into peace.
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Anger; The Seven Deadly Sins
By: Robert Thurman
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Heated words, cool malice, deadly feuds, the furious rush of adrenaline-anger is clearly the most destructive of the seven deadly sins. It can ruin families, wreck one's health, destroy peace of mind and, at its worst, lead to murder, genocide, and war. In Anger, Robert A. F. Thurman, best-selling author and one of America's leading authorities on Buddhism and Eastern philosophy, offers an illuminating look at this deadliest of sins. In the West, Thurman points out, anger is seen as an inevitable part of life, an evil to be borne, not overcome. There is the tradition of the wrathful God, of Jesus driving the money-changers from the temple. If God can be angry, how can men rid themselves of this destructive emotion? Thurman shows that Eastern philosophy sees anger differently. Certainly, it is a dreadful evil, one of the "three poisons" that underlie all human suffering. But Buddhism teaches that anger can be overcome. Indeed, the defeat of anger is not only possible, but also the only thing worth doing in a lifetime. Thurman shows how to recognize the destructiveness of anger and understand its workings, and how we can go from being a slave to anger to becoming "a knight of patience." We discover finally that when this deadliest emotion is transmuted by wisdom, it can become the most powerful force in freeing us from human suffering. Drawing on the time-tested wisdom of Buddhism, Robert A. F. Thurman ranges from the individual struggle with anger to global crises spurred by dogmatic ideologies, religious fanaticism, and racial prejudice. He offers a path of calm understanding in a time of terrorism and war.
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Angkor Wat
By: Mannikka
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Book - "Magnificently illustrated and richly detailed, this book describes the art and architecture of the 12th-century Buddhist temple complex of Ankor Wat in Cambodia. By themselves, the elaborate descriptions, elegant drawings, and beautiful black-and-white and color photographs of architectural features and Khmer art make this book an invaluable reference work for specialists in Asian art history, arch'ology, architecture, and religion.
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Aniccata Anityata, An Analysis of the Buddhist
By: Chinchore
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Opposition to Permanence/Stability and Alternative Foundation of Ontology and/or Anthropology
This work undertakes a detailed study of the nature and rationale of Anityata, the third pillar of Buddhism.
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Answers from the Heart: Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
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What is the right way to live? How do I balance my work and my family? Why do I worry, even when everything is okay? How can I repair my relationship with my parents? In Answers from the Heart, each answer is a conscise summary of Thich Nhat Hanh's own insight based on his lifetime of practice. Together, the question and answers provide a useful guide for dealing with concrete problems, an accessible way into Buddhist teachings, and a lively glimpse into the connection between students and their teacher.
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Answers
By: Dalai Lama
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In these lively exchanges the Dalai Lama exhibits clear and penetrating insight into issues that are most important to Western students. Some of the topics discussed are: psychology, Christianity, being a practicing Buddhist in the West, spiritual teachers, reincarnation, emptiness, tantra protector deities, liberation, meditation, compassion, disciplining others, the power of holy places, and retreats.
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