Buddhism: branches and groups Books

Thiền học Trung Hoa khởi đầu từ Bồ-đề Đạt-ma, vị tổ sư đã khai mở pháp môn “truyền riêng ngoài giáo điển, chẳng lập thành văn tự, chỉ thẳng tâm người, thấy tánh thành Phật”...

Trong khoảng vài thập niên vừa qua, sự bùng nổ các phương tiện thông tin trên toàn thế giới, và nhất là trên khắp các thành phố lớn ở Việt Nam ta, đã mang đến những...

Đức Phật ra đời vì một đại sự nhân duyên, một mục đích duy nhất là cứu khổ ban vui cho tất cả chúng sinh, hay nói một cách cụ thể hơn là chỉ bày cho nhân loại con đường...

Thiền đã trở thành một trong những tinh hoa của nhân loại. Ngày nay, từ Đông sang Tây người ta không còn xa lạ gì với thiền và những công năng kỳ diệu của nó. Nhiều trung...

Настоящата книга съдържа пълната транскрипция на поредицата от епизоди, в които се разказва за живота и делото на учителя Сюендзан. След дълго и трудно пътуване до Индия той донася в Китай множество будистки сутри и шастри, с което дава тласък на...

Bài giảng của Thầy là hợp tuyển các bài giảng pháp của hai vị Đạo sư tôn quý dòng Drikung Kagyu: Sonam Rinpoche và Garchen Rinpoche (tại Việt Nam) trong năm 2009 - 2010. Trong tập...

In The Healthy Mind, Dr. Henry M. Vyner presents the findings of twenty-seven years of research spent interviewing Tibetan lamas about their experiences of the mind. The interviews have generated a science of stream of consciousness that demonstrates...

Dreamworlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism explores the fertile interaction of Buddhism, shamanism, and Tibetan culture with the subject of dreaming. In Tibetan Buddhist literature, there are numerous examples of statements that express the value of...

If you're a person who loves beer, then you probably like to share with friends. If you're someone who enjoys meditating on the deeper meaning of life, then you probably spend a lot of time alone.  Either way, each page of this...

Đạo Phật đã song hành cùng dân tộc Việt suốt mấy ngàn năm nay, ngay từ thuở mới du nhập vào xứ Việt. Đạo Phật đã lập tức bén rễ và ăn sâu vào dòng tâm thức của người Việt, giáo lý từ bi, giải thoát kết hợp với truyền thống văn bóa đã tạo nên một bản sắc...

The Kalachakra Path offers a profound method for actualising your greatest potential and contributing to greater peace and harmony within this world. For the first time ever, this extraordinary path is revealed in a step-by-step manner, allowing students...

Why do we need to train our mind? Before we realise samsaric life to be suffering, when a lama teaches the Dharma, we misunderstand it as a catalogue of misery and inevitability. We get the impression that everything we are interested in, all our wishes...

In this book Ringu Tulku brings us directly and lightheartedly to the point of Buddhist meditation: it helps to develop the two positive life enhancing qualities that lie naturally within us, clarity of mind and kindness for self and others. He reminds...

Down the age Zen has conveyed its wisdom through stories. Those stories are very short, but are deep and profound; pregnant with meaning. This book is a collection of 50 Zen Stories which will make you smile!

Ajahn Sumedho urges us to trust in awareness and find out for ourselves what it is to experience genuine liberation from mental anguish and suffering, just as the Buddha himself did two and a half thousand years ago.Buddhism is not about becoming the...

First published in 1932.As well as an extensive introduction, this edition contains notes to all four books, a bibliographical index, a general index and an index of Tibetan words. The introduction is particularly valuable in that it sets the importance...

This volume resolves the ontology from the two previous volumes concerning the concept of a 'subtle self'. First a commentary of the Tantra Great Gates of Diamond Liberation, that presents detailed information concerning the nature of some important...

Stories, parables, and examples have been a favoured way of conveying spiritual insights and truths since time immemorial, and Trevor Leggett was a master at it. He had the knack of pointing out the spiritual implications of practical events which...

The Way Of The Zen Cowboy: Fireside Stories From A Globetrotting Rhythmatist is a new collection of 35 short stories from Grammy-winning percussionist, composer, and storyteller Barrett Martin. These stories are based on personal experiences around the...

IT WAS THE EARLY 1960s. The place, a far-off corner of the Himalayas long fabled in Tibetan tradition to be hiding a valley of immortality among its peaks and glaciers-a real-life Shangri-La. They waited generations for the prophesied lama to come, the...

We look in every place for happiness. Some of us search for it in physical pleasure, some in power and some in religion. Yet it has always been within reach, for it is mind itself ‘the king of all creators’ which is the source of true joy,...

A comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of Buddhism, how it specifically evolved in Tibet and the Himalaya, and how it is practised today in Tibet, India, Nepal and Bhutan.This is a good introduction for the general public, and travellers to the...

This anthology is a classic of Chan (Zen) Buddhism that has served as a Chan handbook in both China and Japan since its publication in 1600. It is a compendium of extracts, over 80% of which are drawn from an enormous Chan corpus dating from the late...

All Buddhist practice is for the purpose of working to become free of the basic problem of suffering, and it's all based on the possibility of an inner transformation, the transformation of our perception, our view.If we can let go of the state of mind...

BERNARD DE GIVE, for many years a member of the Society ofJesus, was for eight years a seminary professor, first in SriLanka then in India, before pursuing oriental studies at Oxford,where he formed friendships with Tibetan monks.Since becoming a...

Generally, by Zen people think about peace and meditation. But sometimes the Zen Masters can fiercely use their stick to awaken you. This book is a collection of such 91 weird Zen Stories. In these stories, sometimes the Zen master hits the student,...

One of America's most respected Buddhist teachers distills a lifetime of practice and teaching in this groundbreaking exploration of the new Buddhist tradition taking root on American soil.

"Watermelons and Zen studentsgrow pretty muchthe same way.Long periods of sitting 'till they ripen and growall juicy inside, butwhen you knock them on the headto see if they're ready -sounds like nothing&

The Truth about Death, Life after Death and Deathlessness.About the AuthorMost Ven. Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thero is a meditation teacher in Sri Lanka. He is the founder of Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery, one of the largest Buddhist monasteries in Sri...

Petavatthu is a book written by Ivan Pavlovich Minayeff in 1888. The book is a translation of a Buddhist scripture called Petavatthu, which is a collection of stories about the sufferings of ghosts in the afterlife. The stories are meant to teach moral...

Le livre ""Le Tr�����sor des Belles Paroles"" de Pandita, Lama Saskya, publi����� en 1858, est un recueil de citations et de proverbes bouddhistes. Il est divis����� en plusieurs sections, chacune traitant d'un th�����me diff�����rent, tels que la...

The Puggala-Pannatti, Part 1: Text is a book written by Richard Morris in 1883. It is a translation of an ancient Buddhist text called the Puggala-Pannatti, which is a part of the Pali Canon. The book is divided into two parts, with the first part...

Ju Mipham Namgyal is one of the best known authors of the Nyingma tradition. He was a prolific writer with an extraordinary knowledge of his own and others' dharma traditions. He wrote several texts on the topics of the most profound level of Great...

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En ¿Dónde está el yo?, el Dalai Lama nos lleva aprofundizar en el tema de la naturaleza últimade la realidad, presentándolo desde diversas perspectivas,al tiempo que se centra en identificar nuestrasvisiones erróneas y nos orienta hacia el verdadero...

EL TESORO DEL VACÍOUna llave para comprenderla interdependencia y el vacíoSERMEY KHENSUR LOBSANG THARCHINEste libro combina las explicaciones de dos obras únicas sobre el tema particularmente importante de la sabiduría última. La primera parte es una...

ALABANZA A LA GRAN COMPASIÓNDecimocuarto Dalai LamayBhiksuni Thubten Chodron"El viaje del Buda hacia la Iluminación podría haber terminadocon la Liberación, pero su infinita compasión ante el sufrimientode todos los seres lo llevó a continuar su viaje...

EL ARTE DE MEDITARGuía practica según el budismo tibetanoIsidro GordiEl Arte de Meditar presenta el budismo tibetano desde la óptica de un practicante español. En él se dan numerosos consejos prácticos acerca de la meditación, entendido como un método...

La pareja perfecta. No la busques: Siémbrala.Si ya tienes pareja, perfecciónala con karma.Elimina la incertidumbre de estar buscando.Deja de conformarte con menos de lo que quieres que tu pareja sea.Todo puede cambiar aplicando la sabiduría del antiguo...

Este es el primero de una serie de ocho volúmenes que presenta la explicación completa del Dalai Lama sobre el camino budista. "Su Santidad el Dalai Lama, con la hábil asistencia de Bhiksuni Tubten Chodron, ilumina un sendero al Despertar que es...