Buddhism: sacred texts and revered writings

The whole world has fallen in love with this international bestseller - hundreds of thousands of copies have been sold across 25 countries.

This text communicates the sense of Buddhism as a comprehensive whole, as it is a non-sectarian guide to the Buddha''s essential teachings.

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.

Im Einklang mit der WirklichkeitDiese Zen-Unterweisungen sind das Alterswerk des einflussreichen und weltweit bekannten Zen-Meisters.

Bring compassion, self-awareness, radical acceptance, practitioner presence, and caring to the relationships you have with you patients by utilizing the advice in The Zen of Helping: Spiritual Principles for Mindful and Open-Hearted Practice.

It is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a 'peaceful' religion.

Buddhism in the Global Eye focuses on the importance of a global context and transnational connections for understanding Buddhist modernizing movements.

Be more Zen in 2025 with this little book of 100 tips and activities to soothe the soul'Brings the spirit of Zen Buddhism to everyday life .

Grassroots Zen envisions a socially engaged Buddhism where zazen is integrated each day with work, family, and social obligations.

By what narrow path is the ineffable silence of Zen cleft by the scratch of a pen?

This book is the first socio-intellectual history of the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan (Zen), a new lineage of Buddhism founded by the late Chinese Buddhist cleric, Sheng Yen (1931-2009)-arguably one of the most influential Chan masters in contemporary times.

Written in words so intimate, calm, kind, and immediate, this extraordinary book feels like a message from our very own heart.

Edward Conze, Verfasser eines grundlegenden Werkes über Buddha und den Buddhismus, hat zusammen mit einigen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeitern Zeugnisse des Buddhismus aus allen Jahrhunderten zusammengetragen und aus dem Sanskrit, Chinesischen, Tibetischen, Japanischen und aus dem Pali übertragen – Zeugnisse von einzigartiger Schönheit, Weltweisheit und Glaubenskraft.

A neurologist and Zen practitioner clarifies the benefits of meditative training, drawing on classical Buddhist literature and modern brain research.

In today's harried, ultra-connected, technology-laden society, it's easy to become overwhelmed.

Zen philosophy tells us that the great truth of the universe applies to all things at all times.

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.

This book, first published in 1994, is a compendium of new translations of certain works regarded as fundamental texts in the Serene Reflection Buddhist Tradition (Soto Zen).

The Shobogenzo (The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye) is a revered eight-hundred-year-old Zen Buddhism classic written by the Japanese monk Eihei Dogen.

In this new edition of his acclaimed autobiography - long out of print and rare until now - Alan Watts tracks his spiritual and philosophical evolution.

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.

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

Following the critically acclaimed Zen at War (1997), Brian Victoria explores the intimate relationship between Japanese institutional Buddhism and militarism during the Second World War.

Renew your life force with the chakras' seven energy centersChakras--seven power sources corresponding to your nervous system--are capable of revitalizing your body and restoring your spirit--and they're all natural, so no need for any caffeine or sugar!

Buddhism, Digital Technology and New Media in Korea introduces Uisang (625-702), a seminal figure in East Asian religion who founded the Korean Hwaom school of Buddhism, from various angles by placing his thought in the interdisciplinary and intercultural context of the twenty-first century.

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.

How American Buddhists use Zen riddles to imagine who they are The koan is one of the most recognizable East-Asian spiritual exercisesa thought experiment in the form of a riddle or puzzle that Zen Buddhists employ to become enlightened.

This book, first published as Selling Water by the River in 1972, is a practical and inspirational manual for all who wish to practice Zen.

The truth of Chan Buddhismbetter known as ';Zen'is regularly said to be beyond language, and yet Chan authorsmedieval and modernproduced an enormous quantity of literature over the centuries.

Cultivating the Empty Field is a modern translation of the core of Chinese Ch'an master Hongzhi's Extensive Record.

The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue offers a complete annotated translation, the first into English, of a Chan Buddhist classic, the collected letters of the Southern Song Linji Chan teacher Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163).

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When books about Zen Buddhism began appearing in Western languages just over a half-century ago, there was no interest whatsoever in the role of ritual in Zen.

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.

Revered by Buddhists in the United States and China, Master Sheng-yen shares his wisdom and teachings in this first comprehensive English primer of Chan, the Chinese tradition of Buddhism that inspired Japanese Zen.

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