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What is Nibbana? Is Awakening possible? This new book says definitely yes but, only if you add back in the step that is left out of other methods. And only if you follow the method laid out by the Buddha in his earliest teachings. Nibbana can and does occur and in this book you will be shown the step by step progression through the eight aware jhanas (levels of understanding) to the final cessation and the appearing of the unconditioned (Nibbana),...
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Get the Summary of Robert Wright's Why Buddhism Is True in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: This book is the culmination of a personal journey that began with Wright's landmark book on evolutionary psychology, The Moral Animal, and deepened as he immersed himself in meditative practice and conversed with some of the world's most skilled meditators.
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Dharma Transmission an amalgamation of public talks and study group discussion forums within Western Australia from 2006 to 2020 on various topics, by those who engage with the Dharma journey within the context of this secular western approach to Buddhism, meditation, life, and actuality. This context was developed as a current functional understanding of actuality that was realized within a period of meditation on the 13th June 1980 and then followed...
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Los GuíaBurros son manuales básicos para aprender a utilizar una herramienta, realizar una actividad o adquirir un conocimiento determinado de manera sencilla y fácil.
GuíaBurros Budismo, buda y su enseñanza, desde la figura de buda, Shiddarta Gautama, pasando por los conceptos clave para entender el budismo y su enseñanza, hasta las prácticas para la paz interior y el sosiego de la mente, para mejorar la relación con uno mismo y para mejorar...
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LUCIFER'S ORCHARD will open your eyes to the prison you live in. It is a prison where you are not only the prisoner, but the guard and warden all at the same time. This is the first of four witnesses to come out in a series showing the true teachings of the Buddha's! The eternal shadow teachings of the Dharma of darkness. The Darkness is where the truth of the light is to be found. Lucifer's Orchard the first witness will show the deception of what...
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Donald S. Lopez Jr., is Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the editor of three other volumes in this series: Religions of Tibet in Practice, Religions of India in Practice, and Religions of China in Practice.
This anthology, first published in 1995, illustrates the vast scope of Buddhist practice in Asia, past and present. Re-released now in a slimmer but still extensive...
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Seeker, adventurer, pilgrim, and scholar, David-Neel (1868-1969) was the first European woman to explore the once-forbidden city of Lhasa. This memoir offers an objective account of the supernatural events she witnessed during the 1920s among the mystics and hermits of Tibet - including levitation, telepathy, and the ability to walk on water.
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CONTENTS: Preface. Table of Chinese Dynasties. Maps of Dynasties. Introduction, Growth and Domestication. Maturity and Acceptance. Decline. Conclusion. Glossary. Chinese Names and Titles. Bibliography. Index. "A precious contribution to Buddhistic studies . . . The first true history of Chinese Buddhism written in a Western language. Not only does it till an important gap in research, but it is composed and written in a masterly manner."
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Bernard Faure is Associate Professor of Religion at Stanford University. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Immediacy, Chan Insights and Oversights, and Visions of Power (all from Princeton University Press).
Is there a Buddhist discourse on sex? In this innovative study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His remarkably broad range covers the entire geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the...
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In around 2009, Thiện Phúc composed a set of 8 books titled "Basic Buddhist Doctrines". However, it's really difficult for people, especially lay people with a lot of familiy duties, to read or to study the total of 6,184 big-sized pages. So, Thiện Phúc extracted some chapters, tried to revise and publish it as a small book titled "Essential Summaries of Buddhist Teachings". This little book is not a profoundly philosiphical study of Buddhism,...
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Anne M. Blackburn is Assistant Professor of South Asia and Director of the Sinhala Program in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University.
Anne Blackburn explores the emergence of a predominant Buddhist monastic culture in eighteenth-century Sri Lanka, while asking larger questions about the place of monasticism and education in the creation of religious and national traditions. Her historical analysis of the Siyam Nikaya, a monastic order...
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En el momento más oscuro de su vida Iván conoció el budismo zen, que le ayudó a entender lo inútil que es aferrarse a lo material. Después de años de estudio se convirtió en monje. Como maestro, Densho Quintero ha tenido que recorrer un arduo camino tratando de acercarse cada vez más a ese ideal, y decidió compartir sus experiencias para mostrar que el budismo no es algo lejano y complicado, sino una práctica a la que cualquiera puede acceder...
73) Summary, Analysis & Review of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's & Archbishop Desmond Tutu's & et al The
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Summary, Analysis & Review of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's & Archbishop Desmond Tutu's & et al The Book of Joy by Instaread Preview: The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams is a nonfiction meditation on enduring joy. It focuses on ways to cultivate joy in the face of widespread human suffering on both personal and collective levels. On the occasion of the Dalai Lama's eightieth birthday in 2015, the Dalai Lama and Tutu...
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An introduction to Buddhist mantras and mudras, used by meditators to open doors within.
This book shares beautiful Buddhist mantras and mudras, used by countless meditators to experience the matchless bliss of spiritual awakening. The book is dedicated to Lillian Too's teacher, Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Mantras and Mudras takes you through preparations such as purifying the space and ground, making dedications and generating motivation, to the mantras...
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An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century--a religious development that was a major departure from "folk" or "popular" Buddhism. Sherry Ortner is the first to integrate social scientific and historical modes of analysis in a study of the Sherpa monasteries and one of the very few to attempt such an account for Buddhist monasteries anywhere....
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Donald S. Lopez, Jr., is Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. He is the editor of Princeton Readings in Religions, which includes Religions of China in Practice, Buddhism in Practice, Religions of India in Practice, Religions of Tibet in Practice, and the forthcoming book, Religions of Japan in Practice. His most recent publication is Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan...
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John Kieschnick is an associate research fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, in Taipei.
From the first century, when Buddhism entered China, the foreign religion shaped Chinese philosophy, beliefs, and ritual. At the same time, Buddhism had a profound effect on the material world of the Chinese. This wide-ranging study shows that Buddhism brought with it a vast array of objects big and small--relics treasured as parts...
78) Buddhist India
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A rajput's perspective on ancient India during the Buddhist ascendancy is attempted in the following work. There are obvious differences. In India, priests and nobles have always cooperated as long as their feuds were not involved. When it did, the harmony was not as great as shown on the following pages. Attempting this may be seen as a form of lese majeste. In India, the brahmin view has been revered for so long that advancing the other seems almost...
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One of the first books to explain Theosophy for the general reader, this volume is made up of the author's correspondence with an Indian mystic. Sinnett's 1884 collection of writings on Theosophy-the nature and progress of humanity, the metaphysical cosmos of the Planetary Chain and World Periods, Buddha, life after death, and Nirvana-is a classic of the genre.
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Though I was not on the Isle of Patmos as John, I was humbled and moved during the wee hours of April 22, 2013, when I saw these words: "Copying the Image of God (Maturity)." As I sought the Lord concerning what He had shown me, He revealed to me His desire from the beginning (Genesis) for man to have His image. I gained insights to teach and share with believers, those yet to be saved, and all that have an ear to hear what the Spirit is saying to...
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