Buddhist life and practice

Ganz unabhängig von Religion und Kultur setzen Mantras nachweislich mentale und spirituelle Energie frei.

Zen master Julian Daizan Skinner guides the reader through a sequence of meditation techniques that can safely lead even a complete novice through to advanced levels.

This Element offers a brief overview of Buddhist thought and modern scholarly approaches to its diverse forms of moral reflection.

The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates.

First published in 1987, Buddhist Civilization in Tibet is unique among works in English as it provides a whole range of information on Tibetan religion and literature, with extensive scholarly data, in a compact single volume.

The number of Buddhists in Australia has grown dramatically in recent years.

Laugh aloud even as you look at life anew with these stories from the bestselling author of Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?

Mindfulness-Based Teaching and Learning is the first comprehensive survey text exploring the history, research, theory, and best practices of secular-scientific mindfulness.

How do you describe a sublime being like Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche, the simile of a diamond and its' different qualities come closest to fulfilling that difficult task.

The chapters in this book explore the transcultural, multi-ethnic, and cross-regional contexts and connections between the Buddhavatamsaka-sutra, Mount Wutai and the veneration of Manjusri that contributed to the establishment and successive transformations of the cult centered on Mount Wutai - and reduplications elsewhere.

This book examines the importance of the topic of 'feeling tone' (vedana) as it appears in early Buddhist texts and practice, and also within contemporary, secular, mindfulness-based interventions.

"Machen Sie sich bereit, die Welt zu verändern, indem Sie Ihr Leben verändern.

In Sacred High City, Sacred Low City, Steven Heine argues that lived religion in Japan functions as an integral part of daily life; any apparent lack of interest masks a fundamental commitment to participating regularly in diverse, though diffused, religious practices.

This ethnographic account of a Northern Thai monastery examines meditation in detail and analyzes the motivation and experience of renouncers.

The True Eightfold Path: Guideposts for Self-Innovation explains how we can apply the Eightfold Path, one of the main pillars of Shakyamuni Buddha's teachings, as everyday guideposts in the modern-age to achieve self-innovation to live better and make positive changes in this era of uncertainty.

This book is the first comprehensive overview of Buddhist architecture in North America and provides an analysis of Buddhist architecture and communities.

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

Buddhist violence is not a well-known concept.

Contextualising the seemingly esoteric and exotic aspects of Tibetan Buddhist culture within the everyday, embodied and sensual sphere of religious praxis, this book centres on the social and religious lives of deceased Tibetan Buddhist lamas.

Immigrants often face considerable challenges when it comes to preserving their cultural and religious teachings.

This book explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting 'magical' and 'shamanic' practices associated with vernacular religions across Monsoon Asia.

This book on Christian missions to the Buddhist world not only provides understanding of many Buddhist cultures, but provides culturally relevant ideas on sharing Jesus with Buddhists around the world.

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In Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self, Les Roberts extends his earlier work on spatial anthropology to consider questions of time, spaciousness and the phenomenology of self.

New interpretations of the central teachings of early Buddhism, mainly the relationship between identity and perception in early Buddhism.

Stories centering on the lovelorn ghost (Mae Nak) and the magical monk (Somdet To) are central to Thai Buddhism.

Taking a comparative approach, this fieldwork-based study explores the lives and thoughts of Buddhist nuns in present-day Taiwan and Sri Lanka.

The area of Buddhist monasticism has long attracted the interest of Buddhist studies scholars and historians, but the interpretation of the nature and function of monasteries across diverse cultures and vast historical periods remains a focus for debate.

In Japan verschmelzen Shintoismus und Buddhismus zu einem faszinierenden und einzigartigen Glaubenssystem, das die japanische Kultur und Spiritualität seit Jahrhunderten prägt.

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.

Wisdom Wide and Deep is a comprehensive guide to an in-depth training that emphasizes the application of concentrated attention (jhana) to profound and liberating insight (vipassana).

The Buddha was the source.

Eine Geschichte voller Hoffnung über die einzigartige Beziehung zwischen Mensch und ErdeDer Dalai Lama bekommt Besuch von einem Pandabären, der viele Meilen gewandert ist, um ihn zu sehen.

This book examines culture, religion and polity in the context of Buddhism.

Mindfulness-based approaches to medicine, psychology, neuroscience, healthcare, education, business leadership, and other major societal institutions have become increasingly common.

Though traditionally regarded as a peaceful religion, Buddhism has a dark side.

Tauchen Sie ein in die farbenfrohe Welt einer der beeindruckendsten kulturellen Traditionen Sri Lankas – der Perahera.

This is the first scholarly treatment of the emergence of American Buddhist Studies as a significant research field.

For millennia, Buddhists have enjoyed the limitless benefits of meditation.

This book offers a new interpretation of the relationship between 'insight practice' (satipatthana) and the attainment of the four jhanas (i.

Extensively revised and updated, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of Buddhism in Asia and the West.

Teaching Contemporary Yoga provides a novel look at how modern yoga is understood, practiced, and taught globally.

Recent decades have seen a groundswell in the Buddhist world, a transnational agitation for better opportunities for Buddhist women.

Buddhists: Understanding Buddhism through the Lives of Practitioners provides a series of case studies of Asian and modern Western Buddhists, spanning history, gender, and class, whose lives are representative of the ways in which Buddhists throughout time have embodied the tradition.

Theravada Buddhism has experienced a powerful and far-reaching revival in modern Nepal, especially among the Newar Buddhist laity, many of whom are reorganizing their lives according to its precepts, practices and ideals.

Essential reading for those seeking life-changing psychological tools and transcendent wisdom, Enlightenment to Go provides a lively and accessible introduction to the 'best of' Shantideva.

Der praktische Lebensratgeber von dem international bekannten Gartenbau-Architekten und Zen-Mönch Shunmyo Masuno zeigt, wie man aus den alltäglichen Pflichten ein sinnvolles, freudiges Tun macht.