"Emptiness" tackles an oft-misunderstood topic in the Buddhist religion. Here, emptiness does not imply a nihilistic worldview but rather the idea that a permanent entity doesn't exist in any single phenomenon or being...more details Format:Paperback Pages:156
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Arnie Kozak
ISBN:9780861715763
Mindfulness is a process of self-inquiry directed at what is happening in the moment, a focus on experience as it occurs without inner commentary or judgment. Metaphors are indispensable to mindfulness practice. They motivate us...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Arinna Weisman; Jean Smith
ISBN:9780861716715
A user-friendly introduction to Insight Meditation is offered by a well-known teacher of the practice with the author of the popular "The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism". 25 photos.
In this informative introduction to insight meditation...more details Format:Paperback Pages:238
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John Stanley
ISBN:9780861716050
Today, we are confronted by the gravest challenge that humanity has ever faced: the ecological consequences of our collective actions. What role can Buddhism play in our response to this global predicament...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:292
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Desi Sangye Gyatso
ISBN:9780861714674
Written by one of the greatest authorities on Tibetan medicine, "A Mirror of Beryl" presents an in-depth overview of the Tibetan medical system and its history. Covered are the Tibetan understanding of human physiology and anatomy...more details Format:Hardback Pages:661
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Kathleen McDonald
ISBN:9780861716951
Everyone appreciates kindness. A smile, a few friendly words, a show of concern when we're troubled or feeling unwell, an offer of help — gestures of kindness like these brighten our day and ease whatever sadness we may feel in our hearts. And just as we appreciate other people being kind to us...more details Format:Paperback Pages:152
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Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
ISBN:9780861715299
An Introductory Guide to Deeper States of Meditation
Every meditation tradition explains that there are two aspects to any effective meditation practice: insight and concentration. In "Mindfulness in Plain English...more details Format:Paperback Pages:222
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Kurt Spellmeyer
ISBN:9780861715824
Timely and audicious, Buddha at the Apocalypse challenges us to look directly at the devastating assumptions underlying the very mechanisms of the modern world. We believe with certainty in the inevitable forward march of what we take to be progress...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:175
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Sulak Sivaraksa
ISBN:9780861714988
From Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sulak Sivaraksa comes this look at Buddhism's innate ability to help us change our world. "Conflict, Culture, Change" explores the cultural and environmental impacts of consumerism...more details Format:Paperback Pages:145
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Lin Jensen
ISBN:9780861716111
Lin Jensen, one of Wisdom's most beloved and critically acclaimed authors, returns with this bounteous volume exploring what the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins calls...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:163
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Thea Mohr
ISBN:9780861715886
When the Buddha established his community over twenty-five centuries ago, he did so upon a foundation of radical equality among women and men. And indeed...more details Format:Paperback Pages:333
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Taigen Dan Leighton
ISBN:9780861716708
Eihei Dogen, the 13th-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto School of Zen, is renowned as one of the world's most remarkable religious thinkers. As Shakespeare did with English...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:800
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Anyen Rinpoche
ISBN:9780861716562
In this book, Anyen Rinpoche gives practical information beneficial to those wanting to explore the depth of the teachings on dying skillfully...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:170
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Tana Pesso
ISBN:9780861712854
First Invite Love In is a beautiful collection of exercises inspired by the ancient meditative arts of Tibetan Buddhism. Tana Pesso and the Penor Rinpoche work together to create a
guidebook for anyone who would like to live more compassionately...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:241
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Joan Stamm
ISBN:9780861715770
In this lovely, meditative exploration of Ikebana - the Japanese art of flower arranging - the author shows us how her twin paths of Buddhist practice and artistic endeavour converge and indeed become thoroughly intertwined. In reflecting on the fading of a lovely bloom...more details Format:Paperback Pages:168
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Richard Payne
ISBN:9780861716852
The massive outpouring of consumer products available to most people living in the West today might alone lead one to ask "How much is enough?" But at the same time...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:232
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Toni Bernhard
ISBN:9780861716265
This book will help and inspire those who must live with the challenges posed by any chronic illnesses, and their caregivers: the relentlessness of symptoms; coming to terms with a life of comparative isolation; weathering fear about the future; facing the judgment of others; dealing with the health care system; and...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:191
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Tagawa Shun'ei
ISBN:9780861715893
A magnificent fantasy series, brilliantly illustrated and filled with highly original characters from trogs and goblins, to savage cloddertrogs...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:150
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Peter Alan Roberts
ISBN:9780861714445
The Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism began in the eleventh century with such renowned figures as Marpa and Milarepa and continues today with...more details Format:Hardback Pages:764
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Deborah Schoeberlein
ISBN:9780861715671
Mindfulness is going mainstream, and author Schoeberlein pioneers its practical application in K-12 education. By showing teachers how to tune into what's happening...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:205
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Ippolito Desideri
ISBN:9780861716760
When Ippolito Desideri's Historical Notices of Tibet (Notizie Istoriche del Tibet) first appeared in an abridged English translation in 1932...more details Format:Paperback Pages:795
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Pilar Jennings
ISBN:9780861716166
"Mixing Minds" explores the interpersonal relationships between psychoanalysts and their patients, and Buddhist teachers and their students. Through the author's own personal journey in both traditions...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:261
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Anyen Rinpoche
ISBN:9780861715985
In this book, esteemed scholar Anyen Rinpoche dispels a common misconception among Western Vajrayana Buddhists: that mindfulness is a Zen teaching and thus not essential for tantric practice. Rinpoche is adamant that Vajrayana practitioners should fully understand the crucial support that mindfulness brings to the practice of tantric meditation...more details Format:Paperback Pages:127
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Kerry Lee McLean
ISBN:9780861715732
Peter the Cow is having a bad day. After missing the bus and wiping out on his bike, he loses his temper and gets in trouble. To make matters worse...more details Format:Hardback Pages:32
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Longchen Rabjam
ISBN:9780861716401
Dzogchen or the Great Perfection is the apex of Tibetan Buddhism, and Longchen Rabjam is recognized as the pre-eminent master of Dzogchen and one of Tibet's greatest writers and sages...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
As can be seen in its glowing endorsements and reviews -- from Publishers Weekly to well-known Buddhist figures -- this modern spiritual classic has been embraced by readers of all types. In his singularly humorous and bitingly direct way...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:168
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Sara McClintock
ISBN:9780861716616
The great Buddhist writer Santaraksita (725-88) was central to the Buddhist traditions spread into Tibet. He and his disciple Kamalasila were among the most influential thinkers in classical India. They debated ideas not only within the Buddhist tradition but also with exegetes of other Indian religions...more details Format:Paperback Pages:417
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Andrew Olendzki
ISBN:9780861716203
Both broad and deep, this eye-opening book is one of the best overviews available of the radical psychological teachings that underlie the Buddhist approach to living a life of freedom and peace. Sophisticated without being daunting...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:190
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Shohaku Okumura
ISBN:9780861716012
Eihei Dogen Zenji, the 13th-century Zen master central to bringing Zen from China and helping it take root in Japan, is renowned as one the world's most remarkable religious geniuses. His works are both richly poetic and deeply insightful and philosophical...more details Format:Paperback Pages:296
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Jaimal Yogis
ISBN:9780861715350
Fed up with suburban teenage life, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries and the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer's tale...more details Format:Paperback Pages:238
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Geshe Namgyal Wangchen
ISBN:9780861716005
"Step by Step" is an easy-to-understand introduction to the meditation methods that have guided people along the path to awakening for millennia. The techniques explained in it are simple...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Rafe Martin
ISBN:9780861716258
A tale both ancient and timely -- and a moving story of compassion in the face of personal loss and trials -- "The Banyan Deer" is a parable that highlights courage...more details Format:Hardback Pages:44
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Geshe T Wangyal;Dalai Lama
ISBN:9780861710324
This book contains seven fundamental Buddhist texts considered essential to Western students by Geshe Wangyal, who first brought Tibetan Buddhism to America. Ranging from early scriptural sources to meditation and visualization guides of Tibetan Buddhist practice...more details Format:Paperback Pages:264
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Mu Soeng
ISBN:9780861715749
Though The Heart Sutra is an ancient Buddhist scripture, scholars are now discovering how it offers insight into the nature of an ultimate reality perceived through intuitive wisdom. Fascinatingly...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:150
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Matthew Flickstein
ISBN:9780861715862
Using hands-on exercises, journal entries, guided meditations, and stories, Matthew Flickstein combines Eastern meditation techniques and Western psychotherapy in this practical workbook for realizing one's greatest potential. "The Meditator's Workbook" helps readers find their own starting points...more details Format:Paperback Pages:226
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Dalai Lama
ISBN:9780861715527
The Dalai Lama offers a brief, brilliant, and complete presentation of the ultimate view of reality in the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism. The teachings are about the Buddhist view...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:184
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Gene Reeves
ISBN:9780861716463
The Lotus Sutra is one of the world's great religious scriptures and most influential texts. It has been a seminal work in the development of Buddhism throughout East Asia...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:368
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David R Loy
ISBN:9780861716159
In this unique and utterly novel presentation, David Loy explores the fascinating proposition that the stories we tell -- about what is and is not possible...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:116
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Heinrich Harrer;Edward Norbu Thubten JFitzgerald
ISBN:9780861710454
In the Dalai Lama's brother recalls the details of his life: his childhood, his recognition as a reincarnated lama, the story of his brother...more details Format:Paperback Pages:276
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche
ISBN:9780861716302
The subject of death makes a lot of people uneasy. We as a culture don't like to think, talk or hear about death. If something related to death comes up in conversation...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:158
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Perle Besserman
ISBN:9780861716913
The revolutionary figures in this book are those innovative, nonconformist Zen masters who often disguised their spiritual prowess by portraying themselves as lowly drifters...more details Format:Paperback Pages:252
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J C Cleary
ISBN:9780861715923
This book, from one of the pioneering and pre-eminent translators of Zen for the West, presents a selection of Zen lessons from four teachers in four successive generations. More than just a book on Zen philosophy...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:189
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Grace Schireson
ISBN:9780861714759
This landmark presentation at last makes heard the centuries of the voices of Zen's women. Through exploring the teachings and history of Zen's female ancestors...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:298
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Andrew Ferguson
ISBN:9780861716173
"Zen's Chinese Heritage" surveys 25 generations of enlightened Buddhist teachers through brief biographies and starkly beautiful prose and poetry from Chinese Zen sources. Andrew Ferguson moves chronologically through successive generations of Zen masters...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:551