Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Buddhism - General (see also Philosophy - Buddhist)

Start a Revolution, Incite Happiness

Delivered with fearless candor and disarming humor, Lama Marut introduces a simple set of exercises that offers a revolutionary yet wholly practical approach to creating and sustaining happiness in a complex modern age.

Integrating the ancient teachings of Tibetan Buddhism into the everyday...

A vivid picture of the people, the places, and the experiences that shaped Sangharakshita's life.

Sangharakshita read the Diamond Sutra for the first time the summer he turned seventeen. It seemed to awaken him to something whose existence he had forgotten, and he joyfully embraced those profound teachings -with an unqualified acceptance.- This experience decided the whole future direction of his life.

In this first volume of memoirs he describes how, from a working-class childhood in the London suburb of Tooting, he came, a twenty-four-year-old Buddhist novice monk, to...

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche was someone with extra¬ordinary experience and realization, a fact known throughout the world. It is evident to everyone that he...

Nine Canadian scholars of Buddhism consider philosophical and cultural issues in Buddhist thought. Part I, On Being, discusses the philosophical problem of Being in the school of the Middle Way, M dhyamika Buddhism, and in the Tantric School of Mah y na Buddhism. Part II, On the Indian Milieu, surveys Hindu views of Buddhism and explores Buddhism s relationship with other Indian religious and philosophical traditions. Part III, On the Chinese Milieu, analyzes developments in Buddhist thought in China. "

This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians on the subject of sacred place and sacred biography in Asia. The chapters span a broad geographical area that includes India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, and China, and explore issues from the classical and medieval periods to the present. They show how sacred places have a plurality of meanings and how in their construction, secular politics, private religious experience, and sectarian rivalry intersect.

Contributors explore the fundamental challenges that religious groups face as they...