The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography
ISBN: 9780143118152 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new way of getting to know one of the world's most beloved spiritual leaders.
Featuring a charmingly illustrated format that will appeal to readers of all ages, this unique biography is an ideal introduction to the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Born in 1935 to a peasant family in a small village, Tenzin Gyatso was recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of his predecessor, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. In 1950, His Holiness assumed full political power when China invade Tibet-a tragedy that forever changed him and shaped his efforts on behalf of world peace,... A new way of getting to know one of the world's most beloved spiritual leaders.
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Sources of Tibetan Tradition
ISBN: 9780231135986 / Angielski / Twarda / 856 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most comprehensive collection of Tibetan works in a Western language, this volume illuminates the complex historical, intellectual, and social development of Tibetan civilization from its earliest beginnings to the modern period. Including more than 180 representative writings, Sources of Tibetan Tradition spans Tibet's vast geography and long history, presenting for the first time a diversity of works by religious and political leaders; scholastic philosophers and contemplative hermits; monks and nuns; poets and artists; and aristocrats and commoners. The selected readings reflect...
The most comprehensive collection of Tibetan works in a Western language, this volume illuminates the complex historical, intellectual, and social dev...
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605,12 zł |
Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness
ISBN: 9780231141512 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bridging the gap between the world of science and the realm of the spiritual, B. Alan Wallace introduces a natural theory of human consciousness that has its roots in contemporary physics and Buddhism. Wallace's "special theory of ontological relativity" suggests that mental phenomena are conditioned by the brain, but do not emerge from it. Rather, the entire natural world of mind and matter, subjects and objects, arises from a unitary dimension of reality that is more fundamental than these dualities, as proposed by Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung. To test his hypothesis,...
Bridging the gap between the world of science and the realm of the spiritual, B. Alan Wallace introduces a natural theory of human consciousness that ...
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117,81 zł |
Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet
ISBN: 9780415441155 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature. Filling a significant gap, this book explores Tibetan medical history. It examines embryological narratives in relation to turning points in Tibetan medical history, and its relationship with religious doctrine and practice.
Explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature. Filling a significant gap, this book explores Tibetan ...
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763,09 zł |
The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness
ISBN: 9781590308042 / Angielski / Twarda / 902 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third volume of this landmark series presents the vajrayana teachings of the tantric path. The vajrayana, or "diamond vehicle," also referred to as tantra, draws upon and extends the teachings of the hinayana and mahayana. As with the hinayana and the mahayana, the formal acceptance into the vajrayana is marked by a vow, in this case the "samaya" vow. There is an emphasis at this stage on the student-teacher relationship and on the quality of devotion. Generally, students must complete preliminary practices, called "ngOndro," to prepare themselves for initiation into the vajrayana path...
The third volume of this landmark series presents the vajrayana teachings of the tantric path. The vajrayana, or "diamond vehicle," also referred to a...
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343,35 zł |
On the Path to Enlightenment: Heart Advice from the Great Tibetan Masters
ISBN: 9781611800395 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche inspired Matthieu Ricard to create this anthology by telling him that "when we come to appreciate the depth of the view of the eight great traditions of Tibetan Buddhism] and also see that they all lead to the same goal without contradicting each other, we think, 'Only ignorance can lead us to adopt a sectarian view.'" Ricard has selected and translated some of the most profound and inspiring teachings from across these traditions.
The selected teachings are taken from the sources of the traditions, including the Buddha himself, Nagarjuna, Guru Rinpoche, Atisha,... Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche inspired Matthieu Ricard to create this anthology by telling him that "when we come to appreciate the depth of the view of the...
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98,56 zł |
Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule
ISBN: 9780231142878 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in 1941, Tubten Khetsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples' uprising of March 10, 1959. Khetsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama's summer palace, and after four years in prisons and labor camps, he spent close to two decades in Lhasa as a requisitioned laborer and "class enemy." In this eloquent autobiography, Khetsun describes what life was like during those troubled years. His account is one of the most dispassionate, detailed, and readable firsthand descriptions yet published...
Born in 1941, Tubten Khetsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan people...
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149,94 zł |
The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China : Charisma, Money, Enlightenment
ISBN: 9781138024892 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is concerned with contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in Tibetan regions of China, interpreting the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China.
This work is concerned with contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in Tibetan regions of China, interpreting the intricate entanglements of the Buddhi...
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188,18 zł |
A Lamp's Illumination Condensed Advice on Great Completion's Thorough Cut
ISBN: 9789937572699 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a text called "A Lamp's Illumination" Condensed Advice on Great Completion's Thorough Cut, written by the Tibetan master Jigmey Tenpa'i Nyima, the third Dodrupchen 1849-1907]. The text is an explanation of the Thorough Cut practice of innermost unsurpassed Great Completion.
This book presents a text called "A Lamp's Illumination" Condensed Advice on Great Completion's Thorough Cut, written by the Tibetan master Jigmey Ten...
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96,20 zł |
My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone
ISBN: 9780822357124 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he describes his upbringing as a nomad on Tibet's eastern plateau. He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries, including a 1500-mile horseback expedition his family made to and from Lhasa. A year or so later, they attempted that same journey as they fled from advancing Chinese troops. Naktsang's father joined and was killed in the little-known 1958 Amdo rebellion against the Chinese People s Liberation Army, the armed branch of the Chinese Communist...
In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he ...
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493,47 zł |
My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone
ISBN: 9780822357261 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he describes his upbringing as a nomad on Tibet's eastern plateau. He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries, including a 1500-mile horseback expedition his family made to and from Lhasa. A year or so later, they attempted that same journey as they fled from advancing Chinese troops. Naktsang's father joined and was killed in the little-known 1958 Amdo rebellion against the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the armed branch of the Chinese Communist...
In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he ...
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128,63 zł |
Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro
ISBN: 9780231147682 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life. Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Chonyi Wangmo (also called Dewe Dorje, 1892-1940) was extraordinary not only for achieving religious mastery as a Tibetan Buddhist visionary and guru to many lamas, monastics, and laity in the Golok region of eastern Tibet, but also for her candor. This book listens to Sera Khandro's conversations with land deities, dakinis, bodhisattvas, lamas, and fellow religious community members whose voices...
Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her li...
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428,40 zł |
Meditation and the Initiation Process (Vol.6 of a Treatise on Mind)
ISBN: 9780992356859 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides practical background information and teachings on meditation primarily for a Western audience. Through meditation, compassionately focused actions, and group sharing the Heart centre is awakened and Bodhicitta is manifested. For this to occur the development of wisdom is essential. The associated process concerning the path of Initiation into the Mysteries of being/non-being, and the planetary Head centre (Shambhala) shall be provided. The subtleties of the Initiation path will be revealed through an esoteric interpretation of passages from the Bible, as the New Testament...
This book provides practical background information and teachings on meditation primarily for a Western audience. Through meditation, compassionately ...
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185,18 zł |
The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China: A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation
ISBN: 9780231168526 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A major new work in modern Tibetan history, this book follows the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism's trulku (reincarnation) tradition from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, along with the Emperor of China's efforts to control its development. By illuminating the political aspects of the trulku institution, Schwieger shapes a broader history of the relationship between the Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China, as well as a richer understanding of the Qing Dynasty as an Inner Asian empire, the modern fate of the Mongols, and current Sino-Tibetan relations. Unlike other...
A major new work in modern Tibetan history, this book follows the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism's trulku (reincarnation) tradition from the sev...
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294,53 zł |
Buddhisms: An Introduction
ISBN: 9781780745053 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Exemplary for its organization and writing, this work is likely to become the standard single-volume text on Buddhism for the student, whether within the walls of the academy or without."
--Starred Review, Library Journal Buddhisms: An Introduction represents a novel way of presenting the whole of the Buddhist tradition in its unity and multiplicity. Clear in its explanations, replete with tables and suggestions for further reading, it should appeal to students, yet also be of interest to scholars for some of its ways of viewing the Buddha, his teachings, and... "Exemplary for its organization and writing, this work is likely to become the standard single-volume text on Buddhism for the student, whether wit...
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149,94 zł |
The Holy Madmen of Tibet
ISBN: 9780199391202 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the past millennium, certain Tibetan Buddhist yogins have taken on profoundly norm-overturning modes of dress and behavior, including draping themselves in human remains, consuming filth, provoking others to violence, and even performing sacrilege. They became known far and wide as "madmen" (smyon pa, pronounced nyonpa), achieving a degree of saintliness in the process. This book offers the first comprehensive study of Tibet's "holy madmen" drawing on their biographies and writings, as well as tantric commentaries, later histories, oral traditions, and more. Much of The...
Throughout the past millennium, certain Tibetan Buddhist yogins have taken on profoundly norm-overturning modes of dress and behavior, including drapi...
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584,64 zł |
The Holy Madmen of Tibet
ISBN: 9780199391219 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the past millennium, certain Tibetan Buddhist yogins have taken on profoundly norm-overturning modes of dress and behavior, including draping themselves in human remains, consuming filth, provoking others to violence, and even performing sacrilege. They became known far and wide as "madmen" (smyon pa, pronounced nyonpa), achieving a degree of saintliness in the process. This book offers the first comprehensive study of Tibet's "holy madmen" drawing on their biographies and writings, as well as tantric commentaries, later histories, oral traditions, and more. Much of The...
Throughout the past millennium, certain Tibetan Buddhist yogins have taken on profoundly norm-overturning modes of dress and behavior, including drapi...
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218,31 zł |
The Teacup and the Skullcup: Where Zen and Tantra Meet
ISBN: 9781611802917 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exposition of the similarities and differences between Vajrayana Buddhism and Zen, by one of the twentieth century's greatest meditation teachers. The Teacup and the Skullcup is made up of edited transcripts from two seminars that Chogyam Trungpa gave near the beginning of his North American teaching career in 1974--one in Barnet, Vermont, and one in Boston--called "Zen and Tantra." Although Trungpa Rinpoche belonged to the tantra tradition, he acknowledged the strength and discipline gained from Zen influence. Through these talks you can see his respect for the Zen...
An exposition of the similarities and differences between Vajrayana Buddhism and Zen, by one of the twentieth century's greatest meditation teacher...
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87,72 zł |
Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro
ISBN: 9780231147699 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life. Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Chonyi Wangmo (also called Dewe Dorje, 1892-1940) was extraordinary not only for achieving religious mastery as a Tibetan Buddhist visionary and guru to many lamas, monastics, and laity in the Golok region of eastern Tibet, but also for her candor. This book listens to Sera Khandro's conversations with land deities, dakinis, bodhisattvas, lamas, and fellow religious community members whose voices...
Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her li...
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187,43 zł |
Walking Into It: A Pilgrimage Through Foreign Lands to Inner Worlds
ISBN: 9788293244011 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Borghild Bo: psychologist, spiritual acolyte and eternal optimist. Follow her journey into the heart of one of the world's most sacred places; travel with her as the landscape of the Himalayas plays its magic with her inner turmoil and leads her to a place of inner peace and tranquillity-a place where she can see the world through new eyes. Borghild wants to leave it all behind. Her practice in Norway, the trappings of her life and a failing relationship. So she heads for the hills-to Spain first of all, to follow the pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago. Her five hundred mile (790...
Borghild Bo: psychologist, spiritual acolyte and eternal optimist. Follow her journey into the heart of one of the world's most sacred places; travel ...
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94,48 zł |