Thursday, July 14, 2011

Opening the Mind's Eye: Clarity and Spaciousness in Buddhist Practice

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Many of us view the world through a murky filter, unaware that a glimpse through the lens of the Dharma removes the cloudiness, revealing brilliance, clarity, and indescribable joy. Venerable Master Hsing Yun has dedicated his life to helping innumerable people put on "Dharma glasses" and look at their precious lives through new eyes—eyes that see the true nature of the universe and human existence.

In Opening the Mind’s Eye, Master Hsing Yun invites us to find ease in every moment and "face life and the future with confidence and radiance." We discover that each precious moment of our lives has either the potential to enshroud us in confusion, distress, and an atrophied mind, or to invite us into peace, joy, and boundless freedom.

Through expounding upon basic teachings that help us understand conscious and conscientious Buddhist practices and perspectives, Opening the Mind's Eye gives us tools with which to access our true nature, realize its infinite dimensions, and manifest its perfection and beauty in every moment, bringing unlimited joy to ourselves and others.


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Friday, July 8, 2011

Dong xi nan bei (Chinese Edition)

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Dong xi nan bei. Trade paperback. Text in Chinese. Illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs.


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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Dharma-Samgraha; An Ancient Collection of Buddhist Technical Terms

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EDITED BY F. MAX MULLER AND H. WENZEL; REPRINT.


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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Zen Mountain Monastery Liturgy Manual

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In Zen liturgy we manifest that which is known to us intuitively as a tangible reality. This book is a collection of chants used during services and ceremonies at Zen Mountain Monastery. A chapter by Abbot John Daido Loori anchors the book and presents an introduction to this powerful practice.


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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma, Vol. 2

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The five volume set, Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma, includes the text as taught by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra (KTD) from 1999 to 2003, with translations by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso and Chojor Radha. Volume two examines the complete path of Mahamudra from initial experience to full realization. There is emphasis on how to conduct a proper retreat, including the use of geomancy in determining the appropriate site, the longevity practices of White Tara and Tseringma, chA practice, and how to use compassion as protection from fear and danger. This volume introduces the tantras, and gives anuttara yoga tantra instructions for Vairochana purification practices both for oneself and for the deceased.


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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book

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Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book Overview


* Author posits that enlightenment is an attainable goal
* Argues that meditation is a method for examining reality

The very idea that the teachings of meditation can be mastered will arouse controversy within Buddhist circles. Even so, Ingram insists that enlightenment is an attainable goal, once our fanciful notions of it are stripped away, and we have learned to use meditation as a method for examining reality rather than an opportunity to wallow in “self-absorbed mindnoise”.

Ingram sets out concisely the difference between concentration-based and insight (vipassana) meditation; he provides example practices; and most importantly he presents detailed maps of the states of mind we are likely to encounter, and the stages we must negotiate as we move through clearly-defined cycles of insight. It’s easy to feel overawed, at first, by Ingram’s assurance and ease in the higher levels of consciousness, but consistently he writes as a down-to-earth and compassionate guide—to the practitioner willing to commit themselves this is a glittering gift of a book.


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Friday, May 27, 2011

Wisdom of Buddha: The Samdhinirmochana Sutra (Tibetan Translation Series)

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This is the Elucidation of the Intention Sutra, or the Sutra Unravelling the Thought (of the Buddha).


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Thursday, May 26, 2011

JOURNEY WITHOUT GOAL (Dharma Ocean Series)

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Based on the author's talks at Naropa Institute, this volume introduces the reader to the principles of tantra, based on the practice of meditation, which leads to the discovery of egolessness. Trungpa Rinpoche provides a direct and experiential picture of the tantric world, explaining the importance of self-existing energy, the mandala principle, differences between Buddhist and Hindu tantra--stressing the nontheistic foundation of Buddhism. The role of the teacher and the meaning of tantric transmission are also presented. Written for the student of Buddhism rather than the scholar, "Journey without Goal" demystifies the vajrayana and at the same time affirms the power and sacredness of its ancient teaching.


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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

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Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.  This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West.  To make up his intimate and engrossing narrative, David Chadwick draws on Suzuki's own words and the memories of his students, friends, and family.  Interspersed with previously unpublished passages from Suzuki's talks, Crooked Cucumber evokes a down-to-earth life of the spirit.  Along with Suzuki we can find a way to "practice with mountains, trees, and stones and to find ourselves in this big world."


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"He's big Suzuki, I'm little Suzuki."

In the literary world, Shunryu Suzuki has always played second fiddle to D.T. Suzuki. With David Chadwick's biography of this extraordinary man, Shunryu Suzuki will take his rightful place as one of the progenitors of American Buddhism. Chadwick, a long-time student of Suzuki's, takes us back to Suzuki's childhood, his entry into monastic life at age 13, subsequent trials with his ornery master and in the notoriously strict Eiheiji Monastery, as well as life as a houseboy with a British tutor to the Chinese emperor, marital tragedies, and the political minefield of World War II while he served as abbot of his own temple. The overarching theme of Suzuki's teaching is practice--in a community setting--and when he takes over a temple of aging Japanese Americans in San Francisco, his practice begins to attract younger Americans. The second half of Crooked Cucumber relates the phenomenal growth of the San Francisco Zen Center and becomes a biography of the growing community and its members, inasmuch as the center was Suzuki's life. A monk who was thought to be as useless as a crooked cucumber, under the pen of Chadwick turns out to be a brilliant, witty, tireless patriarch of American Zen. --Brian Bruya

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

The Seven-Point Mind Training

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The central theme of The Seven-Point Mind Training is to make the liberating passage from constricting solitude of self-centeredness to the warm kinship with otherswhich occurs with the cultivation of cherishing others even more than oneself.


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Saturday, April 23, 2011

The Experience of Samadhi: An In-depth Exploration of Buddhist Meditation

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Dharma practice comprises a wide range of wise instructions and skillful means. As a result, meditators may be exposed to a diversity of approaches to the core teachings and the meditative path--and that can be confusing at times. In this clear and accessible exploration, Dharma teacher and longtime meditator Richard Shankman unravels the mix of differing, sometimes conflicting, views and traditional teachings on how samadhi (concentration) is understood and taught.

In part one, Richard Shankman explores the range of teachings and views about samadhi in the Theravada Pali tradition, examines different approaches, and considers how they can inform and enrich our meditation practice.

Part two consists of a series of interviews with prominent contemporary Theravada and Vipassana (Insight) Buddhist teachers. These discussions focus on the practical experience of samadhi, bringing the theoretical to life and offering a range of applications of the different meditation techniques.


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Friday, April 8, 2011

The Perfection of Wisdom (Wheel Series, 1)

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After the Torah, the Koran and the Gospels, the Indian literature of "The Perfection of Wisdom" has had the greatest impact on the religious consciousness of mankind. Its composition extended for over seven hundred years, and here we offer the reader the first two works which were composed in South India between 100 B.C. and A.D. 100.

These documents are not only indispensable to those who wish to undersand the mentality of the East, they still carry a potent spiritual message; and those who desire to diminish their personal worries by the disciplined contemplation of spiritual truths could make no better choice.


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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Wide Awake: A Buddhist Guide for Teens

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Many of today's teenagers are tired of the pressure to compete and consume-and are looking for a different way to live their lives. This book offers an alternative: the 2,500-year old practice of Buddhism.

Written in a style that will have immediate appeal to young "seekers" and those wanting to understand the ancient teachings, this book addresses such relevant topics as peer pressure, emotional difficulties, stress, fostering peace, and even protecting the environment. For everyone looking for self-help, self-esteem, and self-awareness, this book offers advice on:

€ Discovering truth in a world of hype
€ Finding peace amid the ups and downs of life
€ Accepting ourselves
€ Working with difficult emotions
€ How to meditate
€ Dealing with temptations and making the right decisions about sex and drugs
€ Advice on volunteering, working for peace, and protecting the environment


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Monday, March 21, 2011

The Heart of Prajna Paramita Sutra: With "Verses Without a Stand" and Prose Commentary

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The Heart of Prajna Paramita Sutra: With "Verses Without a Stand" and Prose Commentary Overview


The most popular Buddhist sutra in the world today, a mere 16 sentences. Includes extensive commentary.


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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Heart Jewel: The Essential Practices of Kadampa Buddhism

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Heart Jewel: The Essential Practices of Kadampa Buddhism Overview


Kadampa Buddhism is becoming increasingly popular as a clear and practical spiritual path for the contemporary practitioner.

Originating with the special presentation of Mahayana Buddhism by the great Buddhist masters Atisha and Je Tsongkhapa, Kadampa Buddhism makes the path to enlightenment accessible to the modern world and explains clearly how to transform our lives into the spiritual path.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, a meditation master of this living tradition, explains two essential spiritual practices.

The first is a special meditation practice in conjunction with Je Tsongkhapa, through which we can receive blessings and gain the realizations of the path to enlightenment.

The second is meditation on the Buddha of Wisdom in the aspect of a Dharma Protector, whereby we gain the necessary internal strength to overcome all obstacles to our spiritual practice.


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Sunday, March 6, 2011

HEART JEWEL: The Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa combined with the condensed sadhana of his Dharma Protector

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HEART JEWEL: The Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa combined with the condensed sadhana of his Dharma Protector Overview


In the Introduction, the Heart Jewel states:"This sadhana includes two practices revealed by the Wisdom Buddha Manjushri. The first is a special Guru yoga in which we visualize our Spiritual Guide as Je Tsongkhapa, who himself is a manifestation of Manjushri. By relying upon this practice, we can purify negativity, accumulate merit, and receive blessings. In this way, we will naturally accomplish all the realizations of the stages of the path of Sutra and Tantra, and in particular we will attain a very special Dharma wisdom.""The second practice is a method for relying upon the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. Through this, we can overcome obstacles to our practice and create favorable conditions so that we can nurture and increase our Dharma realizations. If we rely upon the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden sincerely, our faith in Je Tsongkhapa will naturally increase and we will easily gain experience of the pure Buddhadharma transmitted directly to Je Tsongkhapa by the Wisdom Buddha Manjushri.""These two practices are the very essence of the New Kadampa Tradition of Mahayana Buddhism. If we practice them regularly and sincerely, we will reap a rich harvest of pure Dharma realizations, and eventually come to experience the supreme joy of full enlightenment."


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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Moonbeams of Mahamudra, phyag chen zla wa'i 'od zer (Tibetan Only)

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(Tibetan only)530 pages, Western book format, Paperback,


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Monday, February 28, 2011

Freedom Through Understanding : The Buddhist Path to Happiness and Liberation

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  • What is Meditation?
  • Intro to the Path of Enlightenment
  • Making the Most of Your Life
  • How to Meditate
  • The Importance of Motivation



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Lama Yeshe's/Lama Zopa Rinpoche's first trip to Europe offered a weekend seminar on their month-long Kopan meditation courses. Preceded by Lama Yeshe's lecture on meditation at Kensington Town Hall, these teachings at Royal Holloway College, Surrey, encompass entire Buddhist path to enlightenment. Short course videotaped and available on a DVD entitled Freedom Through Understanding.1959: Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935-1984) and Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche (1945-) fled Chinese occupation of Tibet; met at a Tibetan refugee camp in West Bengal, India. 1969: they founded Kopan Monastery; began teaching Buddhadharma to Westerners. 1974: they traveled the world, spreading the Dharma and founding centers. 1975: they established the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT); now head-quartered in Portland, Oregon, USA; comprises 150+ centers and related activities in 30+ countries worldwide."Buddhism isn't some fanatical religious trip. It's a philosophical way of living life. To study Buddhism you don't need to believe in something extreme. It's a matter of investigating, examining and experimenting on yourself. It's not just belief. Without understanding, belief can be dangerous. Lord Buddha emphasized understanding is the path to liberation, knowledge is the path to liberation." LAMA YESHE"The practice of religion, spirituality or Dharma has to be a method that completely destroys all suffering, a method that brings about the complete cessation of suffering and not just temporarily. That depends upon completely eradicating the root of all the billions of sufferings that exist-ignorance and all the other delusions that spring from the root of ignorance. True peace is received whenever we completely eradicate this root of suffering. Cessation of ignorance, attachment and anger is real freedom, true peace-the peace that never changes; the peace that once received can never change, is everlasting." LAMA ZOPA RINPOCHE


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Friday, February 25, 2011

Ichinyo (Collection of Dharma Talks by a "Living Buddha")

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In the Japanese community, Reverend Tamai is frequently called a "living Buddha", or a "modern-day Shinran". In his fifty years as a Jodo-Shinshu minister, Reverend Tamai has written voluminously of his understanding of Shinran Shonin's teachings. This book contains a small portion of those writings.


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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Buddhism: A Concise Introduction

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A concise and up-to-date guide to the history, teachings, and practice of Buddhism by two luminaries in the field of world religions.




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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Endless Vow: The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa

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Endless Vow: The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa Overview


Soen Nakagawa Roshi (1907-1984) was an extraordinary Zen master and a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from Japan to the Western world. A man of many faces, he was a simple Japanese monk, a world traveler, a spiritualized being of the highest order, a poetic genius, a creator of dynamic calligraphy - and a notoriously eccentric teacher who, for example, was known to conduct "tea ceremonies" using instant coffee and styrofoam cups. Endless Vow is the first English-language collection of the literary works of this remarkable teacher.


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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

DECLINE OF THE DHARMA: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Encyclopedia of Buddhism</i>

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The “Encyclopedia of Buddhism” provides a comprehensive overview of one of Asia's most important religious and social forces, describing the Buddhist worldview, basic teachings and practices, history, and the different schools and sects. This intriguing set illuminates a religion that is a mystery to most Westerners by exploring Buddhist scriptures, art, architecture, saints, demons, monastic orders, festivals, rites and ceremonies, as well as the different forms Buddhism has taken in different parts of the world, and how it has blended with other religions like Shinto, Confucianism, Daoism and Christianity.




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Friday, January 14, 2011

Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students

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Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students Overview


"Aitken's title says it all. Encouraging Words will appeal to both beginning and advanced lay Zen students who seek to integrate their spiritual practice into everyday life. Curious readers will be rewarded, too. Here is a teacher both wise and practical in equal measure".--Honolulu Advertiser. Now in paperback.


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Sunday, January 9, 2011

The Blooming of a Lotus: Revised Edition of the Classic Guided Meditation for Achieving the Miracle of Mindfulness

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Companion volume to the best-selling The Miracle of Mindfulness
 
One of the world’s great meditation teachers offers guided exercises that will bring both beginning and experienced practitioners into closer touch with their bodies, their inner selves, their families, and the world. In this revised edition of the classic text, five new meditations show readers how mindful consumption and mindful actions can help prevent suffering and water the seeds of compassion; how to be in touch with our Buddha selves; and how to deepen our relationships with our parents. Compassionate and wise, Thich Nhat Hanh’s healing words help us acknowledge and dissolve anger and separation by illuminating the way toward the miracle of mindfulness.



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Friday, January 7, 2011

Rethinking the Mahabharata: A Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King

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Rethinking the Mahabharata: A Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King Overview


The ancient Indian Sanskrit tradition produced no text more intriguing, or more persistently misunderstood or underappreciated, than the Mahabharata. Its intricacies have waylaid generations of scholars and ignited dozens of unresolved debates. In Rethinking the Mahabharata, Alf Hiltebeitel offers a unique model for understanding the great epic. Employing a wide range of literary and narrative theory, Hiltebeitel draws on historical and comparative research in an attempt to discern the spirit and techniques behind the epic's composition. He focuses on the education of Yudhisthira, also known as the Dharma King, and shows how the relationship of this figure to others-especially his author-grandfather Vyasa and his wife Draupadi-provides a thread through the bewildering array of frames and stories embedded within stories. Hiltebeitel also offers a revisionist theory regarding the dating and production of the original text and its relation to the Veda. No ordinary reader's guide, this volume will illuminate many mysteries of this enigmatic masterpiece.

This work is the fourth volume in Hiltebeitel's study of the Draupadi cult. Other volumes include Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra (Volume One), On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess (Volume Two), and Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics (Volume Three).



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