A classic Indian work on the Mahayana Buddhist philosophy of emptiness by one of its greatest exponents is unlocked for contemporary readers in this new translation with lucid verse-by-verse explanations.
Experience for the first time in English the aural lineage of the Great Perfection Dzogchen tradition, expertly brought to life by the practitioner and translator Acarya Malcolm Smith.
Composed from the journals of explorer Hawking's sixty-two months in remote Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet, this book transports the reader into a legendary realm of light, a journey that leads to the discovery of the most refined and powerful metaphysical knowledge possessed by the human race.
Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha: An Indian Novel, published in 1922, is about a man named Siddhartha's spiritual quest of self-discovery during the time of the Gautama Buddha.
The Analects are also called the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Confucius, or the Lun Yu, and are an old Chinese book written of a wide collection of ideas and sayings credited to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his peers.
One of the best ENG translations of this ancient Indian treatise on politics, social mores, love, and intimacy are the Kama Sutra, which Mallanaga Vatsyayana wrote in the second century CE.
Legend holds that a border guard refused to let the aging sage Laozi leave China until he wrote down his wisdom - so he did, in eighty-one short verses, and then rode off and was never heard from again.
Reveals how making small, strategic changes to habits and behaviors in daily life can lead to better physical, mental, and spiritual well-being Explores breathing practices, sleep habits, the energetic effects of specific foods, and different types of fasting Explains how exercise and yoga, massage, bathing, and sexual energy retention can increase vitalityIn this classic guide to Ayurvedic principles, Indian artist, teacher, and scholar of tantra, Harish Johari reveals how making small, strategic changes to habits and behaviors in daily life can lead to better physical, mental, and spiritual well-being no matter what your current age or state of health.
This contributed volume investigates the non-Western understanding of happiness under the influence of various religions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto, and Christianity against Western thought on happiness.
This contributed volume investigates the non-Western understanding of happiness under the influence of various religions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto, and Christianity against Western thought on happiness.
Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer, is at once Japan's most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest, presiding over daily ceremonies at the Kenkoji Temple in Yokohama.
Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer, is at once Japan's most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest, presiding over daily ceremonies at the Kenkoji Temple in Yokohama.
Triple Award Winner, including Silver Nautilus Book Award and Independent Publisher Bronze Medal for Memoir, and Next Generation Book Award Finalist for SpiritualityTo the chagrin of her parents, Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust, the author became a Buddhist at 19, nearly tearing her family apart.
Injecting Substance Use, Recovery and Critical Harms: Understanding the Complexities of the Drug Problem provides an important overview into the history, drivers and consequences of drug injecting, what sustains it and why problems continue to surprise clinicians, policy-makers and politicians.
Injecting Substance Use, Recovery and Critical Harms: Understanding the Complexities of the Drug Problem provides an important overview into the history, drivers and consequences of drug injecting, what sustains it and why problems continue to surprise clinicians, policy-makers and politicians.
PSYCHOLOGY is generally considered to be the science of mind, although more properly it is the science of mental states-thoughts, feelings, and acts of volition.
In Converging Paths, author Susan Santucci gathers the world's greatest religious insights into one volume that is easy-to-read, thought-provoking, and inspirational.
In Converging Paths, author Susan Santucci gathers the world's greatest religious insights into one volume that is easy-to-read, thought-provoking, and inspirational.
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki's The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk invites you to step inside the mysterious world of the Zendo, where monks live their lives in simplicity.
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki's The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk invites you to step inside the mysterious world of the Zendo, where monks live their lives in simplicity.
Zen Koan as a Means of Attaining Enlightenment Presents the history and application of the koan exercisethe means for realizing enlightenmentwith depth and clarity.
Zen Koan as a Means of Attaining Enlightenment Presents the history and application of the koan exercisethe means for realizing enlightenmentwith depth and clarity.
Love Dharma offers compassionate guidance and advice, looking at contemporary relationship dilemmas from a Buddhist perspective as expressed in traditional stories of enlightened Buddhist women who lived and loved during the Buddha's lifetime.
Love Dharma offers compassionate guidance and advice, looking at contemporary relationship dilemmas from a Buddhist perspective as expressed in traditional stories of enlightened Buddhist women who lived and loved during the Buddha's lifetime.
