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  • The Magical Adventures of the Sixth Dalai Lama

    His Life and Loves

    by Annie Bien, Robert A.F. Thurman ...
    “Annie Bien and Robert Thurman invite us into the secret heart of the Sixth Dalai Lama, where poetry and politics dance as one.” Deepak Chopra, author and spiritual teacherAnnie Bien and Robert Thurman lead you through The Magical Adventures of The Sixth Dalai Lama: His Life and Loves, a historical novel on the life and world of the Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso (1683–1706). Based on period ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Man of Peace

    The illustrated life story of the Dalai Lama of Tibet

    by William Meyers, Michael G. Burbank, Robert A.F. Thurman ...
    Why the "life story" of the Dalai Lama? It is a story of one man taking on an empire, calling for truth, peace, and justice for his Tibetan people. Here, in full color for the first time, people can come to know the whole drama of his lifelong struggle.Since the age of 15, the Dalai Lama has defended his people against one of the last great empires, the People’s Republic of China. Under its ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Central Philosophy of Tibet

    A Study and Translation of Jey Tsong Khapa's Essence of True Eloquence

    by Robert A.F. Thurman ...
    Series series Princeton Library of Asian Translations
    This is the paperback edition of the first full study, translation, and critical annotation of the Essence of True Eloquence by Jey Tsong Khapa (1357-1419), universally acknowledged as the greatest Tibetan philosopher. Robert Thurman's translation and introduction present a strain of Indian Buddhist thought emphasizing the need for both critical reason and contemplative realization in the ... Read more

    $56.89 USD

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  • Basic Teachings of the Buddha

    by Glenn Wallis, Buddha ...
    In Basic Teachings of the Buddha, Glenn Wallis selects sixteen essential dialogues drawn from more than five thousand Pali-dialect suttas of the Buddhist canon. The result is a vibrant introductory guide to studying Buddhist thought, applying its principles to everyday life, and gaining a deeper understanding of Buddhist themes in modern literature. Focusing on the most crucial topics for today’s ... Read more

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  • The Wisdom of No Escape

    And the Path of Loving Kindness

    by Pema Chödrön ...
    The “down-to-earth, unsentimental, [and] high-humored” Pema Chödrön classic on learning to face our lives just as they are (Los Angeles Times)It's true, as they say, that we can only love others when we first love ourselves—and we can only experience real joy when we stop running from pain. The key to understanding these truisms is simple but not easy: we must learn to open ourselves up to life in ... Read more

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  • The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali

    A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary

    by Edwin F. Bryant ...
    A landmark new translation and editionWritten almost two millennia ago, Patañjali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind and consciousness and on the technique of meditation, it has exerted immense influence over the religious practices of Hinduism in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Dropping Ashes on the Buddha

    The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn

    by Stephen Mitchell ...
    The classic guide for Zen students pursuing the true way."Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha-statue, blows smoke in its face and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do?" This is a problem that Zen Master Seung Sahn was fond of posing to his American students who attended his Zen centers.Dropping Ashes on the Buddha is a ... Read more

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  • Alone With Others

    An Existential Approach to Buddhism

    by Stephen Batchelor ...
    The author of Buddhism Without Beliefs bridges the gap between Western and Eastern philosophy with this humanist approach to Buddhism.This uniquely contemporary guide to understanding the timeless message of Buddhism, and in particular its relevance in actual human relations, was inspired by Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life, which the author translated into English, the oral ... Read more

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  • Yoga: Discipline of Freedom

    The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali

    by Barbara Stoler Miller ...
    Dating from about the third century A.D., the Yoga Sutra distills the essence of the physical and spiritual discipline of yoga into fewer than two hundred brief aphorisms. It is the core text for any study of meditative practice, revered for centuries for its brilliant analysis of mental states and of the process by which inner liberation is achieved. Yet its difficulties are legendary, and until ... Read more

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  • Awakening Loving-Kindness

    by Pema Chödrön ...
    Inspiration and encouragement for cultivating kindness—by embracing the joy, suffering, confusion, and brilliance of our everyday lives—from the author of When Things Fall ApartDo you want to be a more compassionate person, confident and unafraid to love yourself and the world around you unconditionally, but aren’t sure how? We often look far and wide for guidance to become better people, as ... Read more

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  • Satipatthana

    by Analayo ...
    The Satipatthana Sutta is the teaching on mindfulness and the breath and is the basis of much insight meditation practice today. This book is a thorough and insightful guide to this deceptively simple yet profound teaching. 'With painstaking thoroughness, Ven. Analayo marshals the suttas of the Pali canon, works of modem scholarship, and the teachings of present-day meditation masters to make the ... Read more

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