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  • Asian Traditions of Meditation

    by Professor Edwin F. Bryant, Professor Madhu Khanna, Johannes Bronkhorst, Professor Kristina Myrvold, Professor Sarah Shaw, professor Geoffrey Samuel, Morten Schlutter, Harold D. Roth, Professor Masaya Mabuchi, Professor Are Holen ...
    Meditation has flourished in different parts of the world ever since the foundations of the great civilizations were laid. It played a vital role in the formation of Asian cultures that trace much of their heritage to ancient India and China. This volume brings together for the first time studies of the major traditions of Asian meditation as well as material on scientific approaches to meditation ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Readings of the Platform Sutra

    Edited by Morten Schlütter, Stephen Teiser ...
    Series series Columbia Readings of Buddhist Literature
    The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. Purported to contain the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638–713), the legendary Sixth Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been popular among monastics and the educated elite for centuries. The first study of its kind in English, this volume offers essays that introduce the history and ideas of the sutra to a ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • The Other Shore

    A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries

    by Thich Nhat Hanh ...
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  • The Hidden Lamp

    Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women

    Edited by Zenshin Florence Caplow, Reigetsu Susan Moon ...
    The Hidden Lamp is a collection of one hundred koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of freedom and fearlessness, relevant for men and women of any time or place. In these pages we meet ... Read more

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  • The Treasury of Knowledge: Books Two, Three, and Four

    Buddhism's Journey to Tibet

    by Jamgon Kongtrul ...
    Translated by Ngawang Zangpo ...
    Series Book 2 - The Treasury of Knowledge
    Jamgön Kongtrül’s ten-volume Treasury of Knowledge is a unique, encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as they were preserved in Tibet. Tibetan Buddhist teachers expected their students to study Buddhist philosophical texts as well as practice reflection and meditation; present-day students have also realized that awakening has its source in study as well as in ... Read more

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  • The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen

    With Hui-neng's Commentary on the Diamond Sutra

    by Thomas Cleary ...
    Hui-neng (638–713) is perhaps the most beloved and respected figure in Zen Buddhism. An illiterate woodcutter who attained enlightenment in a flash, he became the Sixth Patriarch of Chinese Zen, and is regarded as the founder of the "Sudden Enlightenment" school. He is the supreme exemplar of the fact that neither education nor social background has any bearing on the attainment of enlightenment. ... Read more

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  • Inside the Grass Hut

    Living Shitou's Classic Zen Poem

    by Ben Connelly ...
    Enter the mind and practice of Zen: apply the insights of one of Zen's classic poems to your life--here and now.Destined to become a trusted, dog-eared companion.Shitou Xiqian’s “Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage” is a remarkably accessible work of profound depth; in thirty-two lines Shitou expresses the breadth of the entire Buddhist tradition with simple, vivid imagery. Ben Connelly’s Inside the ... Read more

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  • Eight Verses for Training the Mind

    by Geshe Sonam Rinchen ...
    Translated by Ruth Sonam ...
    How do we free ourselves from the demon of self-concern? These instructions are found in Eight Verses for Training the Mind, one of the most important texts from a genre of Tibetan spiritual writings known as lojong (literally "mind training"). The root text was written by the eleventh-century meditator Langritangpa. His Holiness the Dalai Lama refers to this work as one of the main sources of his ... Read more

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  • The House is Burning - How to Get Out Alive!

    by Dr. Meath Conlan ...
    A new book by author Meath Conlan, PhD takes select teachings of a modern-day Buddhist Master and reveals how common ground of inter-spiritual wisdom can be found between his aphorisms, or sayings, and teachings of the Desert Elders from the early Christian centuries (250 AD to Late Roman Antiquity). Khejok Tulku Rinpoche is one of the diminishing numbers of “old teachers” in the Tibetan Tradition ... Read more

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  • Passing Through the Gateless Barrier

    Koan Practice for Real Life

    by Guo Gu ...
    Gateways to awakening surround us at every moment of our lives. The whole purpose of kōan (gong’an, in Chinese) practice is to keep us from missing these myriad opportunities by leading us to certain gates that have traditionally been effective for people to access that marvelous awakening. The forty-eight kōans of the Gateless Barrier (Chinese: Wumenguan; Japanese: Mumonkan) have been waking ... Read more

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  • The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Dating back to the eighth century C.E., the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a foundational text of Chan/Zen Buddhism that reveals much about the early evolution of Chinese Chan and the ideological origins of Japanese Zen and Korean Son. Purported to be the recorded words of the famed Huineng, who was understood to be the Sixth Patriarch of Chan and the father of all later Chan/Zen ... Read more

    $33.29 USD