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Mindfulness in Plain English - Revised and Expanded Edition מאת Bhante Henepola Gunaratana With his distinctive clarity and wit, "Bhante G" takes us step by step through the myths, realities, and benefits of meditation and the practice of mindfulness. We already have the foundation we need to live a more productive and peaceful life — Bhante simply points to each tool of meditation, tel...

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Razor-Wire Dharma: A Buddhist Life in Prison מאת Calvin Malone Calvin Malone is nearing the end of a 20-year prison sentence. He’s also a practicing Buddhist. Oddly enough, it was in prison that Malone learned about Buddhism, and it’s the one thing that’s kept him going. Some of the stories he tells in Razor-Wire Dharma are hilarious, some are...

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Introduction to Tantra : The Transformation of Desire מאת Lama Thubten Yeshe According to Buddhism, every human being has the potential to achieve profound and lasting happiness. And according to the tantric teachings of Buddhism, this remarkable transformation can be realized very quickly if we utilize all aspects of our human energy, especially the energy of our desires. <...

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The Dharma of Star Wars מאת Matthew Bortolin Is Yoda a Zen Master? What might Jedi training be like? Are the adventures of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader part of a spiritual epic? The answers—as well as humor, excitement, and much more—are here. The Dharma of Star Wars' cover promises a fresh and fun take on the films that have so c...

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The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus מאת Dalai Lama In this landmark book of interreligious dialogue, the Dalai Lama provides an extraordinary Buddhist perspective on the teachings of Jesus, commenting on well-known passages from the four Christian Gospels including the Sermon on the Mount, the parable of the mustard seed, the Resurrection, and other...

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Being Nobody, Going Nowhere, Revised: Meditations on the Buddhist Path מאת Ayya Khema Being Nobody, Going Nowhere is the winner of the Christmas Humphreys Award for Best Introductory Buddhist Book. In this new edition of her classic best-selling book, Ayya Khema gives clear, practical instruction on meditation and techniques for overcoming counterproductive mental habits and b...

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Zen Women: Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters מאת Grace Schireson This landmark presentation at last makes heard the centuries of the voices of Zen’s women. Through exploring the teachings and history of Zen’s female ancestors, from the time of the Buddha to ancient and modern female masters in China, Korea, and Japan, Grace Schireson offers us a view of ...

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A Heart Full of Peace מאת 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 Full of Peace distills those teachings into breezy, entertaining lessons...

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Buddhism of the Heart: Reflections on Shin Buddhism and Inner Togetherness מאת Jeff Wilson Despite its 800-year history and standing as one of the most popular branches of Buddhism in the world, Shin Buddhism has been passed on primarily through an oral tradition, leaving few books written about it. Buddhism of the Heart addresses that gap. Using anecdote, reflection, hum...

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One Hundred Days of Solitude: Losing Myself and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat מאת Jane Dobisz In the middle of winter, Jane Dobisz arrives at a lonely, primitive cabin armed with nothing but modest food supplies and an intensely regimented daily schedule that she thumbtacks to the wall. “3:15 A.M. Wake Up. 3:20 300 Bows. 4:00 Ma. 4:15 Sitting. 4:45 Walking.” And so it goes, for 100 ...

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The Compassionate Life מאת The Dalai Lama His Holiness the Dalai Lama says, "the key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion." Giving and receiving affection is the key to happiness, and compassion is the key that opens our hearts to affection. Illuminating themes touched upon in The Good Heart and The A...

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Let Go: A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits מאת Martine Batchelor Everyone has negative habits — even the smallest ones can take control of us. Let Go is a much-needed guide to getting that control back. Martine Batchelor helps readers focus their minds and uncover the roots of their repetitive behaviors. For Batchelor, it's all about how we rel...

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The Tibetan Art of Parenting: From Before Conception Through Early Childhood מאת Anne Hubbell Maiden Steeped in the Buddhist traditions of wisdom, compassion, and the interconnectedness of all things, Tibetan childrearing practices are a refreshing new way to prepare for and raise children. This book provides a practical introduction to these practices and an integrated system of childcare tha...

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Essence of the Heart Sutra: The Dalai Lama's Heart of Wisdom Teachings מאת The Dalai Lama For more than 2,000 years, the Heart Sutra has been of central importance to millions of Buddhists. Whether memorized, chanted, or studied, this sacred text is often looked to for inspiration. Based on talks the Dalai Lama gave in the spring of 2001, Essence of the Heart Sutra is a masterful ...

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Emptiness: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought מאת Geshe Tashi Tsering Emptiness tackles an oft-misunderstood topic in the Buddhist religion. Here, emptiness does not imply a nihilistic worldview but rather the idea that a permanent entity doesn’t exist in any single phenomenon or being. Everything exists in dependence on an immeasurable quantity of cause...

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Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide מאת Barry Magid This new book from Zen teacher, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and critical favorite Barry Magid inspires us — in wryly gentle prose — to outgrow the impossible pursuit of happiness, and instead make peace with the perfection of the way things are. Including ourselves! Magid invites readers t...

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Wholesome Fear: Transforming Your Anxiety About Impermanence and Death מאת Lama Zopa Rinpoche The subject of death makes a lot of people uneasy. Most of us just don’t know much about death — especially how to handle it and how to prepare for it — and we may feel anxious and afraid whenever we start to contemplate either the death of a loved one or our own death. But as Lama Zopa R...

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Mindfulness With Breathing : A Manual for Serious Beginners מאת Ajahn Buddhadasa Bhikkhu Any practitioner, after meditating for some time, inevitably wonders what meditation method the historical Buddha Shakyamuni himself used while beneath the Bodhi Tree. Many people understand that prior to his realization, Shakyamuni Buddha studied with many of great yogis of his time, but most do no...

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Buddhist Teaching in India (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism) מאת Johannes Bronkhorst Though intimately related, Buddhist teaching and Buddhist philosophy are not one and the same. Philosophy is a Western term (originating in ancient Greece) that may be appropriately applied to some, but not all Buddhist teachings. In Buddhist Teaching in India, scholar Johannes Bronkhors...

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Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage Through the Himalayas מאת Sienna Craig A tender account – by turns cultural exploration and memoir – of a young woman’s first hand experience of change and continuity in one of the world’s most remote regions, through the lens of the horseand ‘horse culture’...At just 19, Sienna Craig made her first venture to Mustang, a...

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Who ordered this truckload of Dung Ajahn Brahm

Who ordered this truckload of Dung מאת Ajahn Brahm

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Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness מאת John Makransky Drawing from the author's life as a father, professor, Buddhist, and Buddhist teacher — as well as on pop culture references from Bob Dylan to Harry Potter — Awakening Through Love is a welcoming guide to achieving the deepest well-being and joy. Rooted in Buddhism’s Dzogchen trad...

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Buddhist Psychology: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought (Foundation of Buddhist Thought, The) מאת Geshe Tashi Tsering Just as scientists observe and catalog the material world, Buddhists for centuries have been observing and cataloging the components of the human psyche. Addressing both the nature of the human mind and how humans know what they know, Buddhist psychology offers a rich and subtle knowledge of th...

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Mindfulness Yoga: The Awakened Union of Breath, Body and Mind מאת Frank Jude Boccio This groundbreaking book introduces an entirely new form of yoga, Mindfulness Yoga, which seamlessly integrates the Buddha's teachings on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness with traditional asana yoga practice. Mindfulness Yoga emphasizes the spiritual side of yoga practice, an aspect often ...

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Focused and Fearless: A Meditator's Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity מאת Shaila Catherine Jhana is a powerful meditative technique that opens the way to unfettered joy, radiant calm, and abiding happiness. Focused and Fearless presents this ancient meditative tradition as interpreted through the practice of a contemporary American teacher, and as such, it represents a landmar...

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Relative Truth, Ultimate Truth: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought (Volume 2) מאת Geshe Tashi Tsering Here, the Foundations of Buddhist Thought series shifts to helping readers progress on the Buddhist path by explaining the two "truths," or ways of viewing reality. Geshe Tashi Tsering describes how our perception of reality is obscured or clarified depending on the truth in which we per...

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How to Be Happy מאת Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche is considered one of the most remarkable Buddhist teachers alive, and How to Be Happy represents him at his most engaging and inspiring. Here Rinpoche helps readers find their Good Heart, the heart that can easily rejoice in the happiness of others. He also gives sage ...

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Momentary Buddhahood: Mindfulness and the Vajrayana Path מאת Anyen Rinpoche In this book, esteemed scholar Anyen Rinpoche dispels a common misconception among Western Vajrayana Buddhists: that mindfulness is a Zen teaching and thus not essential for tantric practice. Rinpoche is adamant that Vajrayana practitioners should fully understand the crucial support that mindf...

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Buddhism Between Tibet and China (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism) מאת Matthew Kapstein As Tibet enters into its 50th year of Chinese rule, questions of cultural distinctions and similarities become ever more important in determining the future of the relationship between the Snow Lion and the Red Dragon. But often left unsaid is the long history the two countries share, and the s...

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The Blue Poppy and the Mustard Seed: A Mother's Story of Loss and Hope מאת Kathleen Willis Morton Katie Morton's son Liam was born with profound brain damage. When he died six-and-a-half weeks later, she searched for answers in books on grief and coping, but none seemed to address her situation. Without completely understanding why, Morton embarked on a wider search for solace. The Blue ...

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Step by Step: Basic Buddhist Meditations מאת Geshe Namgyal Wangchen Step by Step is an easy-to-understand introduction to the meditation methods that have guided people along the path to awakening for millennia. The techniques explained in it are simple, direct, and all-inclusive, and present a time-tested means for counteracting depression, anxiety...

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Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution מאת David R. Loy David R. Loy has become perhaps the greatest advocate of the Buddhist worldview's ability to transform the sociopolitical landscape of the modern world. In this, his most accessible work to date, he offers clear presentations of oft-misunderstood Buddhist staples — the working of karma, the n...

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The Meditator's Workbook: A Journey to the Center מאת Matthew Flickstein Using hands-on exercises, journal entries, guided meditations, and stories, Matthew Flickstein combines Eastern meditation techniques and Western psychotherapy in this practical workbook for realizing one’s greatest potential. The Meditator's Workbook helps readers find their own ...

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Together Under One Roof: Making a Home of the Buddha's Household מאת Lin Jensen In Together Under One Roof, Lin Jensen turns his keen eye and powerful prose explicitly to the teachings of the Buddha, to traditional Zen stories, and to the practices of meditation and compassion — as well as the intricacies of everyday language and the natural world, truth, and beau...

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Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea מאת Jaimal Yogis Fed up with suburban teenage life, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries and the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir ...

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Keep Me in Your Heart a While: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri מאת Dosho Mike Port One of the great pioneers of Zen in America, Dainin Katagiri had a teaching style that was at once powerful, gentle, and sometimes even casual. For his student, Dosho Mike Port, some of Katagiri's most profound teachings came in the simple moments of everyday interactions. Keep Me in Your He...

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Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist - One Woman's Spiritual Journey מאת Jan Willis Jan Willis is not Baptist or Buddhist. She is simply both. Dreaming Me is the story of her life, from growing up a Baptist in the segregated South, dealing with racism in an Ivy League college, and becoming involved with the Black Panther Party to traveling to a Tibetan Buddhist m...

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Freedom from Extremes: Gorampa's "Distinguishing the Views" and the Polemics of Emptiness (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism) מאת Jose Ignacio Cabezon Fifteenth-century Buddhist scholar Gorampa challenged his contemporaries’ thinking about the fundamental concept of “emptiness,” pioneering an approach that avoided what he critiqued as the traps of eternalism and nihilism. Freedom from Extremes is his powerful polemic on the subje...

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The Essential Sangharakshita: A Half-Century of Writings from the Founder of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order מאת Urgyen Sangharakshita Urgyen Sangharakshita is unique in his experience with Buddhist traditions and his distillation of their core practices. Born Dennis Lingwood in South London, he is neither of the East nor of the West — rather, he springs from both, providing readers with the best of both traditions. Profound...

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Eloquent Silence: Nyogen Senzaki's Gateless Gate and Other Previously Unpublished Teachings and Letters מאת Nyogen Senzaki The most comprehensive collection available of Nyogen Senzaki’s brilliant teachings, Eloquent Silence brings new depth and breadth to our knowledge and appreciation of this historic figure. It makes available for the first time his complete commentaries on the Gateless Gate, on...

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Resurrecting Candrakirti: Disputes in the Tibetan Creation of Prasangika (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism) מאת Kevin A. Vose Though his writings form the basis for studying the Middle Way in many Tibetan monasteries, the seventh century Indian master Candrakirti was widely unknown during his lifetime and in the centuries following his death. Despite this lack of recognition, Candrakirti is now celebrated as offering ...

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The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems: A Tibetan Study of Asian Religious Thought (Library of Tibetan Classics) מאת Nyima Chokyi Thuken Thuken Chökyi Nyima’s The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems is the widest-ranging account of religious philosophies ever written in premodern Tibet. After covering the major schools of India, both Buddhist and non-Buddhist, Thuken discusses in detail the entire range of Ti...

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A Mirror of Beryl: A Historical Introduction to Tibetan Medicine (Library of Tibetan Classics) מאת Desi Sangye Gyatso Mirror of Beryl is a detailed account of the origins and history of medicine in Tibet through the end of the seventeenth century. Its author, Desi Sangyé Gyatso (1653–1705), was the heart disciple and political successor of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama and the author of several highly regarded...

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Real Meditation in Minutes a Day: Enhancing Your Performance, Relationships, Spirituality, and Health מאת M.D. Joseph Arpaia Just as exercise improves the body, meditation improves the mind. It restores memory, enhances creativity, and leads to clearer thinking. And, much like exercise, most people have a hard time getting motivated to do it, much less stick with it — until now. Real Meditation in Minutes a Day<...