In 2003, Brad Warner blew the top off the Buddhist book world with his irreverent autobiography/manifesto, Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and the Truth about Reality.
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture.
For nearly forty-five years, Arnaud Maitland has devoted himself to the teachings of Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche, one of the last surviving Nyingma lamas to receive a complete education in Old Tibet.
In this brilliant new translation and commentary on The Diamond Sutra--one of the sublime wisdom teachings of Mahayana Buddhism--Mu Soeng integrates this ancient wisdom teaching with current scientific and psychological thought.
This book, first published as two volumes in 1977 and 1978, was published purely for the purpose of showing how Buddhist training was done by the Reverend Jiyu-Kennett in the Far East.
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.
Brilliantly translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi, this anthology of suttas from the Samyutta Nikaya takes us straight to the heart of the Buddha's teaching on liberation through the four noble truths and the noble eightfold paththe two mainstays of Buddhist doctrine that illuminate the nature of things by generating direct insight into the teachings.
In this companion to his best-selling translation ofThe Dhammapada, Eknath Easwaran explains howThe Dhammapadais a perfect map for the spiritual journey.
Bringing the body-mind insights of Rinzai Zen from the mountains of Japan to the Western world, Zen master Julian Daizan Skinner and Sarah Bladen present simple meditation techniques to help achieve health, wellbeing and success.
Buddhism's influence is growing in the West, as seen in the widespread use of "e;Buddhist mindfulness apps"e; in people's attempts to unwind, or the casual use of words like "e;nirvana"e; and "e;karma"e; that have crept into the English language.
Dgen (1200-1253), the founder of the St Zen sect in Japan, is especially known for introducing to Japanese Buddhism many of the texts and practices that he discovered in China.
Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto school of Zen, is renowned as one the world's most remarkable religious geniuses.
Constant self-blame for past mistakes, setbacks, or failures, and being unable to forgive others for the pain and hardship that they have caused us, are inner pains that we may not easily overcome.
The Essence of Zen is an expert's guided tour of the ins and outs of the tradition's approach to meditation, enlightenment, and the oneness of all things.
Zen Masters of Japan is the second book in a series that traces Zen's profoundly historic journey as it spread eastward from China and Japan, toward the United States.
The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature explores the growth, makeup, and transformation of Chan (Zen) Buddhist literature in late medieval China.
This book offers a complete translation of the Digha Nikaya, the long discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism.
With the growing popularity of Zen Buddhism in the West, virtually everyone knows, or thinks they know, what a koan is: a brief and baffling question or statement that cannot be solved by the logical mind and which, after sustained concentration, can lead to sudden enlightenment.
