Buddhism

This landmark collection is the definitive introduction to the Buddha's teachings - in his own words.

';A straightforward and pragmatic guide to deepening levels of concentration and insight.

12 Steps on Buddha's Path is an inspiring firsthand account of what happens when life seems hopeless and the miracle of finding out that it's anything but.

The Dalai Lama opens The Middle Way with an elegant argument for the power of compassion in cultivating a happy life.

This is not your typical Zen book.

The Lotus Sutra is regarded as one of the world's great religious scriptures and most influential texts.

What is meditation?

Meditation can be a way to radically encounter bliss and to beginand sustainreal transformation in ourselves.

With this accesssible guide, meditators (and non-meditators) can understand how to attain extraordinary states with relative ease.

For more than two thousand years, the Heart Sutra has been part of the daily life of millions of Buddhists.

In the classic bestseller, Introduction to Tantra, Lama Yeshe offered a profound and wonderfully clear glimpse into the sophisticated practices of Tibetan Buddhist tantra.

For over thirty years, Opening the Hand of Thought has offered an introduction to Zen Buddhism and meditation unmatched in clarity and power.

We all have a right to the pursuit of happiness - but could we actually be happier if we gave that whole thing up?

Renowned for the beauty and simplicity of his teachings, Ajahn Chah was Thailand's best-known meditation teacher.

In this lucid classic, beloved teacher Ayya Khema introduces the reader to the essence of the Buddhist path.

In The Gateless Gate, one of modern Zen Buddhism's uniquely influential masters offers classic commentaries on the Mumonkan, one of Zen's greatest collections of teaching stories.

Jeff Wilson started his walk on the Buddha's path as a Zen practitioner - taking up a tradition of vigorous self-effort, intensive meditation, and meticulous attention to rectitude in every action.

With characteristic humility, His Holiness the Dalai Lama begins this landmark survey of the entire Buddhist path by saying, "e;I think an overview of Tibetan Buddhism for the purpose of providing a comprehensive framework of the path may prove helpful in deepening your understanding and practice.

Meditation can seem a mystery.

In Emptiness, the fifth volume in The Foundation of Buddhist Thought series, Geshe Tashi Tsering provides readers with an incredibly welcoming presentation of the central philosophical teaching of Mahayana Buddhism.

What's Wrong with Sex?

The four noble truths are well known as the Buddha's first and most essential explanation of his enlightened realizations.

This new volume from the Foundation of Buddhist Thought series, provides a stand-alone and systematic - but accessible - entry into how Buddhism understands the mind.

This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism.

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.

This volume offers a complete translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, the third of the four great collections in the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon.

Many books have been published in recent years on the topic of mahamudra, or meditation on the fundamentally clear nature of the mind.

Before he began training as a psychiatrist, Mark Epstein immersed himself in Buddhism through influential teachers such as Ram Dass, Joseph Goldstein, and Jack Kornfield.

The sound of silence is like a subtlety behind everything that you awaken to; you don't notice it if you're seeking the extremes.

"e;After my death I will come back and haunt over you, checking on your practice.

This landmark presentation at last makes heard the centuries of Zen's female voices.

Mother Theresa.

Razor-Wire Dharma is an eloquent, enlightening, and utterly inspiring personal story how one man found Buddhismand real, transformative meaning for his lifedespite being in one of the worlds harshest environments.

This unique collection presents the verse, much of it translated for the first time, of fourteen eminent Chinese Buddhist poet monks.

Using the traditional Buddhist allegorical image of the Wheel of Life and the teaching of the twelve links of dependent origination, the Dalai Lama deftly illustrates how our existence, though fleeting and often full of woes, brims with the potential for peace and happiness.

Mahamudra meditation is simultaneously the most profound of meditative disciplines and the most accessible for modern practitioners.

Shikantaza--or "e;just sitting"e;--is one of the simplest, most subtle forms of meditation, and one of the most easily misunderstood.

An excellent, practical introduction to Zen meditation.

Relative Truth, Ultimate Truth is a clear and remarkably practical presentation of a core Buddhist teaching on the nature of reality.

Love, compassion, and peace - these words are at the heart of all spiritual endeavors.

Pabongka Rinpoche was one the twentieth century's most charismatic and revered Tibetan lamas, and in Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand we can see why.

"e;We all have the same human mind - each and every one of us has the same potential.

Drawing inspiration from such diverse sources as Khalil Gibran, Virginia Woolf, and Frank Sinatra, as well as the Bible and the great Zen masters of old, this book offers a path to rich and lasting happiness achieved through what Huston Smith calls "e;goal-attaining patience.

His Holiness Sakya Trizin, the head of the glorious Sakya lineage, one of the four primary schools of Tibetan Buddhism, presents here the essential Buddhist teachings of the four noble truths, universal compassion, and the proper motivation for practice.

"e;We cannot find ourselves, or be ourselves, alone.

The word "e;mu"e; is one ancient Zen teacher's response to the earnest question of whether even a dog has "e;buddha nature"e;.

Zen's Chinese Heritage traces twenty-five generations of inlightened Buddhist teachers, supplementing their core teachings with history, biography, and poetry.

With the right perspective, our anxiety around sickness, old age, and death can be a "e;wholesome fear"e;--a fear with a positive quality that ultimately enriches and nourishes our lives.

Form is emptiness; emptiness is form.

Eihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto School of Zen, is renowned as one of the world's most remarkable religious thinkers.