Religion / Buddhism

Open Heart, Open Mind: Awakening the Power of Essence Love

von Tsoknyi Rinpoche & Eric Swanson

In Open Heart, Open Mind, Tsoknyi Rinpoche—one of the most beloved of the contemporary generation of Tibetan Buddhist meditation masters—explains that a life free of fear, pain, insecurity, and doubt is...

Studying Buddhism in Practice

von John S. Harding

This book introduces the rich realities of the Buddhist tradition and the academic approaches through which they are studied. Based on personal experiences of Buddhism on the ground, it provides a reflective...

The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life

von John Daido Loori

For many of us, the return of Zen conjures up images of rock gardens and gently flowing waterfalls. We think of mindfulness and meditation, immersion in a state of being where meaning is found through simplicity....

Buddhist Thought

von Paul Williams, Anthony Tribe & Alexander Wynne

This book serves as an accessible and reliable survey for students wishing to gain familiarity with the basic ideas of Buddhist philosophical and religious thought, and with some of the recent research in the...

Square Sun Square Moon: A Collection of Sweet Sour Essays

von Paul Reps

Some of these writings have appeared in American Fabrics magazine, New York, USA and in Mainichi Daily News, Tokyo, Japan, to whom thanks, thanks.

All of them are about human experiences in China, Samoa, Tahiti,...

Becoming Vajrasattva: The Tantric Path of Purification

von Lama Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush & Lama Rinpoche

Like Becoming the Compassion Buddha, this is another of Lama Yeshe's examinations of key Tantric deity practices in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Common to all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, the practice...

Wisdom Wide and Deep: A Practical Handbook for Mastering Jhana and Vipassana

von Shaila Catherine

Wisdom Wide and Deep is an extended introduction to an in-depth training that emphasizes the application of concentrated attention to profound and liberating insight. With calm, tranquility, and composure established...

Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry

von Taigen Leighton

Zen is about questioning. Zen continuously questions. This does not necessarily involve finding answers, but finding a space in which to sustain questioning, being willing to remain present and upright in the...

Speaking for Buddhas: Scriptural Commentary in Indian Buddhism

von Richard Nance

As with many religious and philosophical traditions, Buddhist intellectual discourse owes its development to a dynamic interplay of primary source material and subsequent interpretation, yet until now Buddhist...

Mind and Life: Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality

von Pier Luisi & Zara Houshmand

For over a decade, a small group of scientists and philosophers—members of the Mind and Life Institute—have met regularly to explore the intersection between science and the spirit. At one of these meetings,...

Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom

von Yongey Rinpoche Mingyur & Eric Swanson

Yongey Mingyur is one of the most celebrated among the new generation of Tibetan meditation masters, whose teachings have touched people of all faiths around the world. His first book, The Joy of Living, was...

Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World

von Robert Thurman

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is an extraordinary example of a life dedicated to peace, communication, and unity. What he represents, and what he has accomplished, heals and transcends the current tensions between...

How to Meditate: A Practical Guide

von Kathleen McDonald & Robina Courtin

In a world seemingly moving at hyperspeed, it can be daunting to simply slow down -- or stop -- even briefly to try to make sense of things. Meditation has been proven to help. But exactly what is it? Why practice...

The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

von Bhikkhu Nanamoli & Bhikkhu Bodhi

This thoughtfully translated and organized volume is the cornerstone of any Buddhist library. The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha is a companion to the equally essential The Connected Discourses of the...

The Meditator's Atlas: A Roadmap to the Inner World

von Matt Flickstein & Bhante G.

The Meditator's Atlas truly is a comprehensive and trustworthy "roadmap of the inner world" for anyone who meditates. What makes this book unique is the way Flickstein uses two classic Buddhist texts -- the...

A Heart Full of Peace

von Joseph Goldstein

Following in the footsteps of two millennia of Buddhist practitioners, author-teacher Joseph Goldstein leads Forest Refuge programs, lengthy retreats in which seekers develop "the practice of awakening." A Heart...

Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand: A Concise Discourse on the Path to Enlightenment

von Michael Richards & Trijang Rinpoche

A seminal text for the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, this book clearly and powerfully presents the stages of the path to enlightenment (lamrim). Based on a teaching given by Pabongka Rinpoche in 1921 that...

Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students

von Robert Aitken

Encouraging Words is a collection of short talks and brief essays that Aitken Rashi has offered his students at meditation retreats during the past two decades. They are arranged according to themes central...

How Much is Enough?: Buddhism, Consumerism, and the Human Environment

von Richard Payne

The massive outpouring of consumer products available to most people living in the West today might alone lead one to ask "How much is enough?" But at the same time, if we allow ourselves to see the social,...

The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza

von John Daido Loori & Taigen Dan Leighton

This unprecedented and unparalleled volume offers essential guidance--from the most influential Buddhist masters, and from many of modern Zen's preeminent teachers--on one of Zen's two most central practices....