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The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780143104940 / Angielski / Miękka / 535 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The first complete translation of a classic Buddhist text on the journey through living and dying Graced with opening words by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the Penguin Deluxe Edition of The Tibetan Book of the Dead is "immaculately rendered in an English both graceful and precise." Translated with the close support of leading contemporary masters and hailed as "a tremendous accomplishment," this book faithfully presents the insights and intentions of the original work. It includes one of the most detailed and compelling descriptions of the after-death state in world...
The first complete translation of a classic Buddhist text on the journey through living and dying Graced with opening words by His Holiness...
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99,75 zł |
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The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain : Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet
ISBN: 9780195120073 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Tibetan district of Tsari with its sacred snow-covered peak of Pure Crystal Mountain has long been a place of symbolic and ritual significance for Tibetan peoples. In this book, Toni Huber provides the first thorough study of a major Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage center and cult mountain, and explores the esoteric and popular traditions of ritual there. The main focus is on the period of the 1940s and '50s, just prior to the 1959 Lhasa uprising and subsequent Tibetan diaspora into South Asia. Huber's work thus documents Tibetan life patterns and cultural traditions which have largely...
The Tibetan district of Tsari with its sacred snow-covered peak of Pure Crystal Mountain has long been a place of symbolic and ritual significance for...
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974,61 zł |
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The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism : Conversion, Contestation, and Memory
ISBN: 9780195131222 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book explores the Buddhist role in the formation of Tibetan religious thought and identity. In three major sections, the author examines Tibet's eighth-century conversion, sources of dispute within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the continuing revelation of the teaching in both doctrine and myth.
This book explores the Buddhist role in the formation of Tibetan religious thought and identity. In three major sections, the author examines Tibet's ...
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891,70 zł |
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The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism : Conversion, Contestation, and Memory
ISBN: 9780195152272 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book explores the Buddhist role in the formation of Tibetan religious thought and identity. In three major sections, the author examines Tibet's eighth-century conversion, sources of dispute within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the continuing revelation of the teaching in both doctrine and myth.
This book explores the Buddhist role in the formation of Tibetan religious thought and identity. In three major sections, the author examines Tibet's ...
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410,83 zł |
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Unbounded Wholeness : Dzogchen,Bon, and the Logic of the Nonconceptual
ISBN: 9780195178500 / Angielski / Miękka / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this book, Anne Carolyn Klein, an American scholar and teacher of Buddhism, and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, a rigorously trained Tibetan Lama who was among the first to bring Bon Dzogchen teachings to the West, provide a study and translation of the Authenticity of Open Awareness, a foundational text of the Bon Dzogchen tradition. This is the first time a Bon philosophical text of this scope has been translated into any Western language, and as such it is a significant addition to the study of Tibetan religion and Eastern thought. Klein and Rinpoche provide extensive...
In this book, Anne Carolyn Klein, an American scholar and teacher of Buddhism, and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, a rigorously trained Tibetan Lama wh...
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239,21 zł |
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Sera : The Way of the Tibetan Monk
ISBN: 9780231128919 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Tibet was once home to thousands of thriving Buddhist monasteries. But in 1959, following a Tibetan uprising against China's long occupation, nearly all were destroyed by the Chinese military, the practice of Buddhism was outlawed, and the Dalai Lama was forced into exile. In March of that year, Chinese tanks bombarded the 540-year-old Sera Jey Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, killing hundreds of monks and destroying ancient texts and invaluable artifacts that had been collected over centuries. Thousands of survivors fled over perilous mountain passes to neighboring India, many with only thin robes...
Tibet was once home to thousands of thriving Buddhist monasteries. But in 1959, following a Tibetan uprising against China's long occupation, nearly a...
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205,05 zł |
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Teachings and Practice of Tibetan Tan
ISBN: 9780486437422 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Concise guide describes the art of spiritualizing one's sexuality and offers efficient methods for transmuting fear and attachment into love and universal power. Step-by-step instructions demonstrate how to perform traditional yoga exercises and provide practical applications for expanding and liberating one's consciousness. A wealth of information for students of religion.
Concise guide describes the art of spiritualizing one's sexuality and offers efficient methods for transmuting fear and attachment into love and unive...
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36,38 zł |
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The Religions of Tibet
ISBN: 9780520063488 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. "No one is better qualified than Tucci to write a general yet comprehensive work on such a complex subject. His explorations in Tibet, extensive personal experiences, direct observations of ritual, and unmatched textual knowledge are graciously combined in this valuable and highly readable volume."--Barbara Nimri Aziz, Journal of Asian Studies "Tucci's most significant contribution is his application of a systematic analysis of parallels and interconnections among the religious practices of Tibetans. . . . We have both a thorough analysis of significant texts as well as a description...
"No one is better qualified than Tucci to write a general yet comprehensive work on such a complex subject. His explorations in Tibet, extensive perso...
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136,82 zł |
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Sherpas through their Rituals
ISBN: 9780521292160 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Sherpas of the Himalayas practice Tibetan Buddhism, a variety of Mahayana Buddhism. This is a general interpretation of Sherpa culture through examining the relationship between the Sherpas' Buddhism and other aspects of their society, and a theoretical contribution to the study of ritual and religious symbolism. In analysing the symbols of Sherpa rituals, professor Ortner leads us toward the discovery of conflict, contradiction, and stress in the wider social and cultural world. Following a general ethnographic sketch, each chapter opens with a brief description of a ritual. The ritual...
The Sherpas of the Himalayas practice Tibetan Buddhism, a variety of Mahayana Buddhism. This is a general interpretation of Sherpa culture through exa...
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111,55 zł |
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation
ISBN: 9780670858866 / Angielski / Twarda / 535 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. One of the greatest works created by any culture and overwhelmingly the most significant of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has had a number of distinguished translations, but none encompassed the work in its entirety. Now, in one of the year's most important publishing events, the entire text has not only been made available in English but in a translation of quite remarkable clarity and beauty.
With an introductory commentary by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, who calls this translation "an extraordinary accomplishment undertaken with great care... One of the greatest works created by any culture and overwhelmingly the most significant of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The Tibetan Boo...
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158,97 zł |
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Tibet
ISBN: 9780671205591 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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91,65 zł |
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High Religion : A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
ISBN: 9780691028439 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century--a religious development that was a major departure from "folk" or "popular" Buddhism. Sherry Ortner is the first to integrate social scientific and historical modes of analysis in a study of the Sherpa monasteries and one of the very few to attempt such an account for Buddhist monasteries anywhere. Combining ethnographic and oral-historical methods, she scrutinizes the interplay of political and cultural factors in the events culminating in... An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth centu... |
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214,77 zł |
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Religions of Tibet in Practice : Abridged Edition
ISBN: 9780691129723 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1997, Religions of Tibet in Practice is a landmark work--the first major anthology on the topic ever produced. This new edition--abridged to further facilitate course use--presents a stunning array of works that together offer an unparalleled view of the Tibetan religious landscape over the centuries. Organized thematically, the twenty-eight chapters are testimony to the vast scope of religious practice in the Tibetan world, past and present. Religions of Tibet in Practice remains a work of great value to scholars, students, and general... Originally published in 1997, Religions of Tibet in Practice is a landmark work--the first major anthology on the topic ever produced. This ... |
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156,48 zł |
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The Bible of Tibet : Tibetan Tales from Indian Sources
ISBN: 9780710309488 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture : An Ethnomethodological Inquiry into Formal Reasoning
ISBN: 9780742556126 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Tibetan Buddhist scholar-monks have long engaged in face-to-face public philosophical debates. This original study challenges Orientalist text-based scholarship, which has overlooked these lived practices of Tibetan dialectics. Kenneth Liberman brings these dynamic disputations to life for the modern reader through a richly detailed, turn-by-turn analysis of the monks' formal philosophical reasoning. He argues that Tibetan Buddhists deliberately organize their debates into formal structures that both empower and constrain thinking, skillfully using logic as an interactional tool to organize...
Tibetan Buddhist scholar-monks have long engaged in face-to-face public philosophical debates. This original study challenges Orientalist text-based s...
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300,29 zł |
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The Jewel Tree of Tibet : The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism
ISBN: 9780743257633 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Few teachers in the West possess both the spiritual training and the scholarship to lead us along the path to enlightenment. Robert Thurman is one such teacher. Now, in his first experiential course on the essentials of Tibetan Buddhism, adapted and expanded from a popular retreat he led, Thurman -- the first Westerner ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama himself -- shares the centuries-old wisdom of a highly valued method of insight used by the great Tibetan masters. Tibetans think of their cherished tradition of Buddhism as a "wish-fulfilling jewel tree" for its power to generate...
Few teachers in the West possess both the spiritual training and the scholarship to lead us along the path to enlightenment. Robert Thurman is one suc...
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79,81 zł |
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How to See Yourself as You Really Are
ISBN: 9780743290463 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, we each possess the ability to achieve happiness and a meaningful life, but the key to realizing that goal is self-knowledge. In How to See Yourself As You Really Are, the world's foremost Buddhist leader and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize shows readers how to recognize and dispel misguided notions of self and embrace the world from a more realistic -- and loving -- perspective. Through illuminating explanations and step-by-step exercises, His Holiness helps readers to see the world as it actually exists, and explains how, through the...
According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, we each possess the ability to achieve happiness and a meaningful life, but the key to realizing that goal i...
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68,12 zł |
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The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
ISBN: 9780767920810 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Niels Bohr, Einstein. Their insights shook our perception of who we are and where we stand in the world, and in their wake have left an uneasy coexistence: science vs. religion, faith vs. empirical inquiry. Which is the keeper of truth? Which is the true path to understanding reality?
After forty years of study with some of the greatest scientific minds, as well as a lifetime of meditative, spiritual, and philosophic study, the Dalai Lama presents a brilliant analysis of why all avenues of inquiry--scientific as well as spiritual--must be pursued in order to... Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Niels Bohr, Einstein. Their insights shook our perception of who we are and where we stand in the world, and in their wak...
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60,07 zł |
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Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life
ISBN: 9780861710751 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. As long as our minds are dominated by the conditions of the external world, we are bound to remain in a state of dissatisfaction, always vulnerable to grief and fear. How then can we develop an inner sense of well-being and redefine our relationship to a world that seems unavoidably painful and unkind? Many have found a practical answer to that question in the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism. Here at last is an organized overview of these teachings, beginning with the basic themes of the sutras--the general discourses of the Buddha--and continuing through the esoteric concepts and advanced...
As long as our minds are dominated by the conditions of the external world, we are bound to remain in a state of dissatisfaction, always vulnerable to...
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71,91 zł |
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The World of Tibetan Buddhism : An Overview of Its Philosophy and Practice
ISBN: 9780861710973 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With characteristic humility, His Holiness the Dalai Lama begins this landmark survey of the entire Buddhist path by saying, "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." In this book, the Dalai Lama delivers a presentation that is both concise and profound, accessible and engaging. As readers explore Tibetan Buddhism more fully than ever before, they will find in His Holiness a great friend and authority.
With characteristic humility, His Holiness the Dalai Lama begins this landmark survey of the entire Buddhist path by saying, "I think an overview of T...
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71,91 zł |