Buddhism: sacred texts and revered writings

FALL IN LOVE WITH THE LIFE YOU ALREADY HAVE Its easy to think that meaning, fulfillment, and bliss are out there, somewhere outside of our daily routine.

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

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

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?

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.

Written by one of the world's top scholars in the field of Pali Buddhism, this new and updated edition of How Buddhism Began, discusses various important doctrines and themes in early Buddhism.

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.

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

Providing an overall interpretation of the Buddhist monument Borobudur in Indonesia, this book looks at Mahayana Buddhist religious ideas and practices that could have informed Borobudur, including both the narrative reliefs and the Buddha images.

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

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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.

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

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

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.

'The monk who taught the world mindfulness' TimeIn this masterful work, one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today shares his wisdom on how to be the change we want to see in the world.

According to Modern Cosmology, our Universe came from a primordial state 13.

The volume presents translations and editions of crucial mahamudra texts of Tibetan Buddhism.

An introduction to Buddhist mantras and mudras, used by meditators to open doors within.

The fascinating and quirky biography of a disheveled poet, skillfully interwoven with his original works.

This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the milk production of their herd for sustenance.

A fervent, lifelong student of Zen, Alan Watts shows us that it is both an experience - a singular, powerful moment of realization - and a simple way of life, with an awareness that affects every moment of every day.

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This book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early twentieth-century American poetry and its contribution to current definitions of ecopoetics, focusing on four key poets: William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E.

The stereotype of Zen Buddhism as a minimalistic or even immaterial meditative tradition persists in the Euro-American cultural imagination.

Attention, self-consciousness, insight, wisdom, emotional maturity: how Zen teachings can illuminate the way our brains function and vice-versa.