Religion / Buddhism

Essays in Zen Buddhism

von D.T. Suzuki & Christmas Humphreys

Included in this volume are Suzuki’s famous study “Enlightenment and Ignorance,” a chapter on “Practical Methods of Zen Instruction,” the essays “On Satori — The Revelation of a New Truth in Zen Buddhism”...

Manual of Zen Buddhism

von D.T. Suzuki

Here are the famous sutras, or sermons, of the Buddha; the gathas, or hymns; the intriguing philosophical puzzles known as koan; and the dharanis, or invocations to expel evil spirits. Included also are the...

How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind

von Pema Chödrön

"When something is bothering you-a person is bugging you, a situation is irritating you, or physical pain is bothering you-you must work with your mind, and that is done through meditation. Working with our...

Zen and the Art of Falling in Love

von Brenda Shoshanna

As the great teacher Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh once said, "We never ask the meaning of life when we're in love." In fact, the question we should really be asking is, "Why aren't we in love all the time?"

We are...

Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English: An Introductory guide to Deeper States of Meditation

von Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

Every meditation tradition explains that there are two aspects to any effective meditation practice: insight and concentration. In Mindfulness in Plain English, author Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, a monk from...

Radical Acceptance

von Tara Brach

For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to...

Night Light: A Devotional for Couples

von James C. Dobson & Shirley Dobson

Now for the first time in softcover! Whether you're just married or are celebrating your golden anniversary, you need regular, quiet moments with your mate-times to renew love and intimacy with each other and...

Path of Compassion: Stories from the Buddha's Life

von Thich Nhat Hanh & Nguyen Thi Hop

Path of Compassion is a collection of key stories from Thich Nhat Hanh’s classic Old Path White Clouds, a book celebrating its 20th publishing anniversary this year. It tells the fascinating life story of...

Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment--And Your Life

von Jon Kabat-Zinn

NOTE: This ebook does not contain the spoken-word audio component included in the original printed edition.

We may long for wholeness, suggests Jon Kabat-Zinn, but the truth is that it is already here and already...

Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice

von Kosho Uchiyama Roshi & Tom Wright

For over thirty years, Opening the Hand of Thought has offered an unmatched introduction to Zen Buddhism. This new edition contains even more useful material: new prefaces, an index, and extended end notes are...

Solid Ground: Buddhist Wisdom for Difficult Times

von Sylvia Boorstein & Norman Fischer

Solid Ground: Buddhist Wisdom for Difficult Times is a lively and topical book that offers guidance on how to respond to the individual crises that inevitably arise in all of our lives as well as to the political,...

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

von Stephen Batchelor

Does Buddhism require faith? Can an atheist or agnostic follow the Buddha’s teachings without believing in reincarnation or organized religion?

This is one man’s confession.

In his classic Buddhism Without...

Cultivating the Mind of Love

von Nhat Hanh, Thich & Natalie Goldberg

When Thich Nhat Hanh was a 24-year-old monk, he fell desperately in love with a nun of 20. He couldn't sleep, and stayed up all night writing poetry. This book taps that experience in an ambitious double narrative...

The Treasury of Knowledge: Books Two, Three, and Four: Buddhism's Journey to Tibet

von Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye

This masterful history of Buddhism in India and Tibet describes the Buddha's life, his enlightenment, and what he taught from many Buddhist viewpoints. Narratives about scriptural transmissions, meditation practice...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

von Gyurme Dorje & Graham Coleman

Hailed as a "tremendous accomplishment," the first complete translation of a classic Buddhist text

Graced with opening words by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the Penguin Deluxe Edition of The Tibetan Book of the...

The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

von Dalai Lama

An updated edition of a beloved classic, the original book on happiness, with new material from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Dr. Howard Cutler.

Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling....

Seven Years in Tibet

von Heinrich Harrer

The astonishing adventure classic about life in Tibet just before the Chinese Communist takeover is now repackaged for a new generation of readers.In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies worldwide,...

The World Is Made of Stories

von David Loy

In this unique and utterly novel presentation, David Loy explores the fascinating proposition that the stories we tell — about what is and is not possible, about ourselves, about right and wrong, life and death,...

Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment

von Lama Surya Das

Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.

The radical and compelling message of Buddhism...

Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism

von Andrew Olendzki

Long before he probed the workings of time, human choice, and human frailty in Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace wrote a brilliant philosophical critique of Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. In 1962,...