Mahayana Buddhism Books

Much of the teaching many Buddhists receive doesn't really get to the core of our suffering. After years of practice, nothing much really changes. As the 17th century Zen Master Benkei said, "the feeling I get is that of scratching an itchy foot with my...

The Heart Wisdom series aims to make the teachings of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche available to a wider audience, by bringing his oral teachings to the written page. In this volume, Ringu Tulku offers a commentary on the practice of Vajrasattva found in Brief...

To meditate on the nature of mind is the swift, effortless path for all who seek enlightenment. This direct instruction unifies the key points of all Sutra and Tantra; it is the experience of all realised masters and the enlightened intent of all buddhas...

The author says: "I began my Zen practice in the midst of a life crisis, under the guidance of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. When I asked that Zen Master what I should do about my life dilemmas, he responded, 'Do zazen. Life without zazen is like winding your...

42 Zen Teachers talk about the scope of Zen teaching and practice in North America ...Discovering Zen / The Function of Zen / Zen Practice / Adapting Zen to the West / Compassionate Action / EcodharmaGeoffrey Shugen Arnold / Chimyo Atkinson / Mitra...

Présentation de l'ouvrageLa philosophie zen était particulièrement adaptée aux samouraïs du Japon. Les principes moraux élevés du bouddhisme, lorsqu'ils furent adoptés et adaptés par les guerriers japonais qui devinrent les samouraïs, créèrent une...

2013 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This collection of essays reprints seven articles or lectures written by Suzuki beginning in 1906. The are:The Zen Sect of...

The way we think about wealth and livelihood affects our personal experience and our world dramatically. Yet we rarely contemplate the heart of prosperity, which may be why it feels like we are struggling personally and globally. The Four Noble Truths...

A letter to my parents regarding their current state in relation to God and peopleAnd he [Jesus] said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Mark 4:9I have come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John...

Buddhism first came to the West many centuries ago through the Greeks, who also influenced some of the culture and practices of Indian Buddhism. As Buddhism has spread beyond India, it has always been affected by the indigenous traditions of its new...

Explorando la luz interior: El budismo y su impacto en occidenteEl Budismo es una filosofía de vida y religión que surgió en la India hace más de dos milenios. Diccionario de Budismo, explora para ti este fascinante mundo.El Corazón del BudismoBasado en...

Algunas de las historias zen más conocidas se utilizan aquí para ilustrar la naturaleza de la iluminación, la meditación, el amor, el conocimiento y el saber, la identificación errónea del hombre con su ego y otras cuestiones muy relevantes hoy en día...

Das Lied der Erleuchtung (Zhengdao ge) ist ein berühmtes Zen Gedicht aus der frühen Tang Dynastie in China und wurde von Yongjia (665-713 n. Chr.), einem Zeitgenossen des 6. Zen Patriarchen Huineng verfasst. Dieser Text übte eine sehr starke Wirkung aus...

Die Texte im Buch sind allen Suchenden gewidmet. Die Suchenden wissen, dass die identifizierende Suche aufgegeben werden sollte. Der Zwang der Suche über das Ego kommt endlos immer wieder. Die Vorstellungen von der eigenen Person und die Identifikation...

It is often assumed that a revelation must be new and innovative, and that the point of a new sacred text must be to revitalize the heritage. Yet, in the Tibetan Nyingma Treasure Revelatory tradition, the ongoing vitality of textual production often has...

"Revelatory and therapeutic...a must-read for those impacted by war."--Camillo Mac Bica, author of Beyond PTSD: The Moral Casualties of WarIn his first book of poetry, Vietnam combat veteran and Zen monk Claude AnShin Thomas explores the boundaries...

Former Zen monk, Alex Mill, shares his writings and full-color cartoons (drawn while he was at the monastery) in this lighthearted, coffee table-worthy book on meditation and personal transformation.Meditation and Reinventing Yourself is a collection of...

Zen, the practice of seeking and achieving enlightenment, is embodied in art forms as diverse as sand gardens and tea ceremonies. However, the attempt to artistically express the inexpressible finds one of its clearest manifestations in painting...

El espejo de la luz introduce por primera vez en el mundo hispanohablante, las enseñanzas sobre el Ati Yoga del gran médico y adepto de meditación Yuthok Yönten Gonpo. El término Ati Yoga (tib. Dzogchen), significa...

Taro does not know how to provide for his family after the death of his father, but he knows he cannot be something he is not. Against the wishes of his family and expectations of his culture, Taro sets out to undergo one of the most difficult training...

Everyone is a poet and an artist. Life is an experiential range of wow and woe and the in-between ordinary living. Our unfolding moments are poetry in motions, actions, intentions, and emotions. The extremes write themselves while the mundane; you must...

This study focuses on the struggle of Tibetans for the recognition of their most fundamental rights and freedoms. In addition, it investigates the correlation between violations of cultural rights and the violence committed by state actors against a...

Nowadays people use the word Zen indiscriminately for everything from the Zen of making an instant fortune overnight to the Zen of cooking hard boiled eggs. But what is Zen and what are its philosophical origins as a living tradition of Mahayana...

History has pretty much established the fact that India has had many religious beliefs. It was the birthplace of Hinduism and Buddhism too. This book will focus on the latter. Read about the life and teachings of Siddhartha Gautama otherwise known as...

The Great SealLimitless Space & JoyThe Mahamudra View ofDiamond Way BuddhismLama Ole Nydahl's refreshing and modern commentary to this classic Buddhist text about the nature of mind makes these teachings accessible to many people. THE GREAT SEAL...

Scintille è l’ottavo libro di questo popolare autore, e il quarto pubblicato in italiano.Si tratta di una raccolta informale di brevi scritti e di poesie, frutto della sua pluriennale esperienza di pratica e insegnamento del Buddhismo.La...

The essays in this volume attempt to place the Chan and Zen tradition in their ritual and cultural contexts, looking at various aspects heretofore largely (and unduly) ignored. In particular, they show the extent to which these traditions, despite their...

THE FIVE MINDFULNESS TRAININGS are the basic statement of ethics and morality in Buddhism. In For a Future to Be Possible, Zen Master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh discusses these Five Mindfulness Trainings and offers insights and challenges for how...

WINNER OF THE TRICYCLE PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCEExpertly and lucidly surveying the basic varieties and teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, renowned scholar Robert Thurman makes this authentic spiritual tradition available to contemporary Western audiences

Tập Tổng quan kinh Đại Bát Niết-bàn này được chúng tôi biên soạn như một phần trong công trình dịch thuật và chú giải kinh Đại Bát Niết-bàn và đã được in chung...

Bản dịch Anh ngữ của sách này do Ramjampa Dupchok Gyaltsen và Peter Gold thực hiện vào tháng 4 năm 1992, dưới sự hướng dẫn biên tập của Lotsawa Tenzin Dorje và một số điểm hiệu đính nhất...

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!