Buddhism: branches and groups

If the Western world knows anything about Zen Buddhism, it is down to the efforts of one remarkable man, D.

Shodo Harada is internationally recognized both as a Zen teacher and as a world-class master of the fine art of Zen calligraphy.

In January 2000, two Ambassador taxis twisted their way up the narrow road leading towards Dharamsala in the Himalayan foothills of northern India - the home-in-exile of the Dalai Lama.

All that I am, I am because of my mind.

What is meditation, and how do we practice it?

This book, first published in 1964, concerns the practice of Zen Buddhism.

A succinct, uncompromising study of what it means to help other people, this book, first published in 1978, examines the helping process in the light of the principles of Zen Buddhism.

"e;The key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion.

In this book, Anne Carolyn Klein, an American scholar and teacher of Buddhism, and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, a rigorously trained Tibetan Lama who was among the first to bring Bon Dzogchen teachings to the West, provide a study and translation of the Authenticity of Open Awareness, a foundational text of the Bon Dzogchen tradition.

Jodo's interpretations of the stories and koans of Zen master Ejo Takata *; Offers more than 60 Zen teaching tales, initiatory stories, koans, and haikus for self-realization and spiritual awakening *; Each story or koan is accompanied by the author's lucid and penetrating commentary, blending the same burlesque slapstick and sublime insight that characterize his films *; Explains how one must see beyond the words of the story to grasp the spiritual insights they contain Before he became the film maker and graphic novel author known throughout the world today, Alejandro Jodorowsky studied with Zen master Ejo Takata in Mexico City.

The Training Anthology--or Siksa-samuccaya--is a collection of quotations from Buddhist sutras with illuminating and insightful commentary by the eighth-century North Indian master Santideva.

Autumn Light: My Fifty Years in Zen is one woman's witness to the half-century when Zen Buddhism took root in the West.

Ornament of Dakpo Kagyu Thought presents a sparkling translation of The Mahamudra Aspiration Prayer by Rangjung Dorje and commentary by Mendong Tsampa.

Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is a wildly beautiful desert land up in the Western Himalayas.

The Lawudo Lama presents two life stories along with an extended introduction laying out their social and cultural context.

Koans are dialogues that stand at the center of Zen Buddhist literature and are often used to provoke the "e;great doubt"e; in testing a trainee's progress.

Gendun Chopel is considered the most important Tibetan intellectual of the twentieth century.

In The Healthy Mind, Dr.

One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration - for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike - of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama's work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher.

A key Dzogchen textavailable together with its Tibetan commentaries, including from the fifteenth Karmapafrom a preeminent translator.

Die Autobiografie des Zen-Meisters Thich Nhat Hanh über die Anfänge eines beispiellosen spirituellen LebenswegsWie wurde Thich Nhat Hanh zu einem spirituellen Meister?

Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism examines how the third Karmapa hierarch, Rangjung Dorj (1284-1339) transformed reincarnation from a belief into a lasting Tibetan institution.

A plain-English introduction to a major school of Tibetan Buddhism, by His Holiness the Sakya Trichen, its emeritus head.

In the years after World War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan.

Twenty-six centuries ago, the Buddha fleshed out the universal law of the spiritual realm: karma, which holds that our actions, our words, and even our thoughts inevitably produce effects that return to us in some form in this lifetime or a future one.

The definitive presentation of one of the most unique and compelling works of classical Tibetan literature.

This collection of autobiographical and teaching stories from peace activist and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is thought provoking and inspiring.

The final installment of the Steps on the Path to Enlightenment series examines the nature of reality with a master class in Buddhist Middle Way philosophy and meditation.

Abandon your treasured delusions and hit the road with one of the most important Zen masters of twentieth-century Japan.

Stages of the Buddhas Teachings is an extraordinary and systematized representation of the complete path to enlightenment.

Tibetan Buddhism derives from the confluence of Buddhism and yoga which started to arrive in Tibet from India briefly around the late eighth century and then more steadily from the thirteenth century onwards.

The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems, by Thuken Losang Chokyi Nyima (1737-1802), is arguably the widest-ranging account of religious philosophies ever written in pre-modern Tibet.

Deepen your meditation with advice on Buddhist practice from celebrated masters of Tibet's nonsectarian rime tradition.

The Dalai Lama has said that Tibetans consider themselves "e;the child of Indian civilization"e; and that India is the "e;holy land"e; from whose sources the Tibetans have built their own civilization.

Discover His Holiness the Dalai Lama's advice for finding happiness, helping others, and applying insights from Buddhist thought to everyday lifefor a life of greater harmony, meaning, and joy, for ourselves, others, and in our world.

In Door to Satisfaction Lama Zopa Rinpoche reveals a text he discovered in a cave in the Himalayas that captures the essential point of Buddhist training.

Shikantaza--or "e;just sitting"e;--is one of the simplest, most subtle forms of meditation, and one of the most easily misunderstood.

Based on newly discovered texts, this book explores the barely known but tremendously influential thought of the Tibetan Buddhist teacher, Mabja Jangchub Tsondru (d.

This book contains seven fundamental Buddhist texts considered essential to Western students by Geshe Wangyal, who first brought Tibetan Buddhism to America.