Freedom Through Understanding : The Buddhist Path to Happiness and Liberation

Freedom Through Understanding : The Buddhist Path to Happiness and Liberation Review

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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

Freedom Through Understanding : The Buddhist Path to Happiness and Liberation Overview

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

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

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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Buddhism: A Concise Introduction

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Buddhism: A Concise Introduction Overview

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

DECLINE OF THE DHARMA: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Buddhism Review

DECLINE OF THE DHARMA: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Buddhism Overview

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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