Buddhism: sacred texts and revered writings

This collection of guided meditations from eighteenth-century Tibet harnesses elements of tantric visualization to induce realizations while contemplating the steps on the path to buddhahood.

Chittamani Tara is the Highest Yoga Tantra aspect of Green Tara, one of the most popular yidams in Tibetan Buddhism.

The third volume in a historic six-volume series containing many of the first English translations of the classic mahamudra literature compiled by the Seventh Karmapa.

Explore an in-depth explanation of buddha nature and self-emptiness.

The Hidden Lamp is a collection of one hundred koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day.

This book is an anthology of passages gathered from the leading monks and teachers of the Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhist teaching.

A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit.

Revealing the man behind the icon.

This second volume of passages gathered from the leading monks and teachers of the Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhist teaching focuses on religious practice.

An annotated translation of five key texts of the Everlasting (Yungdrung) Bn school selected by the late H.

How an eccentric spiritualist from Trenton, New Jersey, helped create the most famous text of Tibetan BuddhismThe Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous Buddhist text in the West, having sold more than a million copies since it was first published in English in 1927.

An exultant song of realization by one of Tibet's greatest yogis, explained and elaborated upon by a beloved contemporary Tibetan teacher.

Der Koran, verfasst von Prophet Mohammed, ist eines der wichtigsten religiösen und literarischen Werke der islamischen Welt.

Presents two key Indian Buddhist philosophical masterpieces that integrate the Buddhist ethos of wisdom and compassion, with their profound relevance to contemporary thought clarified by a renowned scholar of contemplative science.

"La naturaleza de nuestro ser no es diferente de la de un Buda.

The book shows you just how to go about uncovering the layers of ignorance and illusion to realise your true nature - the Self.

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Libro central del budismo cuya concisión profundiza en el sentido de las palabras.

Indian Types of ethical and philosophical Buddhism did not easily find acceptance in China; it took centuries of contact before a distinctively Chinese adaptation of Buddhism was effected that proved to be congenial to Chinese soil.

In the dim twilight preceding the dawn of Indian literature the historical imagination can perceive the forms of Aryan warriors, the first Western conquerors of Hindustan, issuing from those passes in the north-west through which the tide of invasion has in successive ages rolled to sweep over the plains of India.

This is the extended and annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

The story of Amitabha has a historical setting in the ascendancy of the kingdom ofGandhara, under King Kanishka, whose interest in Buddhism and whose connection with Acvaghosha, the great Buddhist philosopher, are well known.

This is the extended and annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

The Dhammapada is a versified Buddhist scripture traditionally ascribed to the Buddha himself.

This book contains complete and/or excerpts from the following Buddhistic suttas:1.

The Sutta Nipata is a Buddhist scripture, a sutta collection in the Khuddaka Nikaya, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.

The Mahavagga includes accounts of the Buddha's and his great disciples' awakenings, as well as rules for uposatha days and monastic ordination.

The Kullavagga includes accounts of the First and Second Buddhist Councils and the establishment of the community of Buddhist nuns, as well as rules for addressing offenses within the community.

This is the extended and annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

This is the extended and annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

The Pali Version of this small collection of stories and sentences has not been translated into English until the early 20th century.

This book contains verses attributed, in the tradition of the Pali Canon, to certain eminent Sisters (Ther+-Bhikkhun+s) of the Buddhist Order, and forming the second and smaller portion of the work entitled Thera-ther+-gth-i.

This is the extended and annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

This is the extended and annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

This is the extended and annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

This is the annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

This is the extended and annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

This is the annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

The book contains 29 fairy tales from the Jatakas, or birth stories of Buddha, the fables of Bidpai and from other Sanskrit sources.

This is the extended and annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

This book contains the essential Buddhist scriptures, as preserved by the Buddhists of Ceylon and Further India and which are in the Pali language, a language related to Sanskrit much as Italian is related to Latin; and for several centuries before and after Christ it was spoken in varying dialects over most of Northern India.

This is the extended and annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

This is the annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

This is the annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

The She-rab Dong-bu (Tree of Wisdom) is a metrical translation in Tibetan of a Sanscrit ethical work entitled Prajnya Danda, written by Nagarjuna who flourished in the fourth century of the Buddhist era (about 100 B.

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This is the extended and annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

This is the annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.

With the Buddhist faith there came the germ of the belief that the Gautama Buddha in his own grandeur bore witness to One Greater-the Amitabha or Amida Buddha-that One who in boundless Light abideth, life of the Universe, without colour, without form, the Lover of man, his Protector and Refuge.