Buddhism: branches and groups

What kind of person should I strive to be?

THE BIG PANDA AND TINY DRAGON AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR JAMES NORBURY TELLS THE STORY OF THE CAT WHO LEARNED HOW TO BE MORE ZEN .

A wise and warm guide to the preliminary practices that lay the fundamental groundwork for traversing the path to buddhahood.

Creating True Peace is both a profound work of spiritual guidance and a practical blueprint for peaceful inner change and global change.

Books, audiotapes, and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread, but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years, in fact.

This book explores the emergence and growth of Zen as a non-monastic spiritual practice in modern Japan.

This book provides the first English translation of Candrakirti's commentary (ca.

How does a real-life Zen master - not the preternaturally calm, cartoonish Zen masters depicted by mainstream culture - help others through hard times when he's dealing with pain of his own?

In this inspiring and incisive offering, Barry Magid uses the language of modern psychology and psychotherapy to illuminate one of Buddhism's most powerful and often mysterious technologies: the Zen koan.

This remarkable Zen book is of great importance not only for the variety of the 365 kong-ans, but for Zen Master Seung Sahn's own questions and commentary which accompany each kong-an.

Throughout the past millennium, certain Tibetan Buddhist yogins have taken on profoundly norm-overturning modes of dress and behavior, including draping themselves in human remains, consuming filth, provoking others to violence, and even performing sacrilege.

This book provides a translation and critical bilingual edition on the Verse Comments on the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye.

In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world.

This book offers an in-depth introduction to the philosophy and practice of Zen Buddhism.

In the classic bestseller, Introduction to Tantra, Lama Yeshe offered a profound and wonderfully clear glimpse into the sophisticated practices of Tibetan Buddhist tantra.

An essential guide to what it's like to spend a week inside a Zen Buddhist monastery.

A unique presentation of the Buddhist path by Chkyi Dragpa, the foremost Gelug disciple of the famed nineteenth-century Tibetan master Patrul Rinpoche.

The first in-depth English commentary on the Five Ranksa core text of the Zen tradition that teaches what can't be taughtwhich contains new translations of all of the key texts of the Five Ranks cycle.

Dzogchen is a particular practice that has its own history and tradition while it illuminates a timeless, universal truth.

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

A perfect companion to the well-known Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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As a religion concerned with universal liberation, Zen grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism.

Ritual is one of the most pervasive religious phenomena in the Tibetan cultural world.

Cyber Zen ethnographically explores Buddhist practices in the online virtual world of Second Life.

A Classical Tibetan Reader answers a long-standing need for well chosen readings to accompany courses in classical Tibetan language.

"e;Locher's stunning presentation highlights 37 master gardens in Japan and abroad (including in the U.

The imperialist ambitions of China - which invaded Tibet in the late 1940s - have sparked the spectacular spread of Tibetan Buddhism worldwide, and especially in western countries.

As spiritual paths, Zen and Christianity can learn from one another.

Zen Buddhist priest Shunmyo Masuno understands that today's busy world leaves little time or space for self-reflection, but that a gardeneven in the most urban of spacescan provide some respite.

Although psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism derive from theoretical and philosophical assumptions worlds apart, both experientially-based traditions share at their heart a desire for the understanding, development, and growth of the human experience.

Bridging the gap between the world of science and the realm of the spiritual, B.