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Windhorse Publications Pali Canon Teachings and Translations
Book SynopsisThis volume contains Sangharakshita's translations of several Pali suttas, including the Dhammapada, the 'best known and best loved of all Buddhist scriptures'. It also contains commentaries on the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha's seminal teaching on mindfulness; the Karaniya Metta Sutta, the equally essential teaching on loving kindness; the Mangala Sutta; and the Tiratana Vandana. The volume concludes with The Threefold Refuge, in which Sangharakshita explores perspectives on Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels not found elsewhere in his writings.Table of ContentsForeword A Note from the Editor Part 1: Translations Dhammapada Auspicious Signs (Mangala Sutta) Jewels (Ratana Sutta) Outside the Walls (Tirokudda Sutta) The Buried Treasure (Nidhikandha Sutta) Loving Kindness (Karaniya Metta Sutta) Salutation to the Three Jewels (Tiratana Vandana) Part 2: Commentaries Living with Awareness Living with Kindness Living Beautifully (Dhammapada Chapter 9) Auspicious Signs (Mangala Sutta) Salutation to the Three Jewels (Tiratana Vandana) The Threefold Refuge Notes and References Index A Guide to The Complete Works of Sangharakshita
£28.45
Windhorse Publications Pali Canon Teachings and Translations
Book SynopsisThis volume contains Sangharakshita's translations of several Pali suttas, including the Dhammapada, the 'best known and best loved of all Buddhist scriptures'. It also contains commentaries on the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha's seminal teaching on mindfulness; the Karaniya Metta Sutta, the equally essential teaching on loving kindness; the Mangala Sutta; and the Tiratana Vandana. The volume concludes with The Threefold Refuge, in which Sangharakshita explores perspectives on Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels not found elsewhere in his writings.Table of ContentsForeword A Note from the Editor Part 1: Translations Dhammapada Auspicious Signs (Mangala Sutta) Jewels (Ratana Sutta) Outside the Walls (Tirokudda Sutta) The Buried Treasure (Nidhikandha Sutta) Loving Kindness (Karaniya Metta Sutta) Salutation to the Three Jewels (Tiratana Vandana) Part 2: Commentaries Living with Awareness Living with Kindness Living Beautifully (Dhammapada Chapter 9) Auspicious Signs (Mangala Sutta) Salutation to the Three Jewels (Tiratana Vandana) The Threefold Refuge Notes and References Index A Guide to The Complete Works of Sangharakshita
£17.95
Windhorse Publications Living With Awareness
Book SynopsisLiving with Awareness is Sangharakshita's commentary on the Satipatthana Sutta, highlighting the power of mindfulness connected to the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. He offers practical advice for daily life, fostering wisdom, compassion, and peace, while encouraging presence and deeper understanding of impermanence.
£12.34
Windhorse Publications Living With Kindness
Book SynopsisKindness, or metta in Buddhism, is a powerful and fundamental quality. In Living with Kindness, Sangharakshita explores the Buddha's teachings on metta, offering guidance on cultivating kindness in everyday life. He emphasizes how developing a warm heart can lead to personal fulfillment and empathy for all beings.
£11.39
Three Pines Press Declarations of the Perfected: Part Two:
Book SynopsisDeclarations of the Perfected is the first complete, annotated translation of Zhen'gao, Tao Hongjing's (456-536) masterful compilation of the Shangqing or Higher Clarity revelations, setting the stage for the heyday of medieval Daoism. The present volume presents the Declarations' second part (fasc. 5-8), which focuses on the various difficulties that Daoist practitioners are likely to encounter in a dangerous world, and how to overcome them. It begins with instructions of a more general nature, before moving on to problems faced specifically by Xu Mi (303-376) and his family and fellow officials. This volume also sheds much light on the history of its time-the kinds of moral and philosophical issues that were being debated, as well political intrigues in the Eastern Jin court.Trade ReviewThe Zhen’gao or Declarations of the Perfected offers the unique opportunity to look over the shoulders of the "founder" of a new religious tradition. The text collects notes taken by the medium Yang Xi and his adherents, dealing with questions addressed to the immortals and their answers and admonitions. Chapters 5-8, which are translated in this volume, contain information on the otherworldly destiny of deceased members of the Xu family as well as of their acquaintances and their sepulchral plaints. They present a firsthand insight into the religious ideas and concepts that became the fashion of a southern Chinese elite from the third through the sixth centuries CE. Both the author’s translation and copious comments together with helpful contextualizations are praiseworthy. Not only Daoist specialists but anybody having an interest in comparative religion and Chinese history is well advised to peruse this work.
£26.96
World Wisdom Books The Shin Buddhist Classical Tradition: A Reader
Book SynopsisThis book is an anthology of passages gathered from the leading monks and teachers of the Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhist teaching. Extending from the foundational texts and first interpreters in the 4th century, to Rennyo in the15th century, Professor Bloom's selections trace the development of Shin Buddhist teaching from monastic visualization practices to the widely popular path to salvation through faith in, and recitation of, the name of Amida Buddha. The collection features a foreword by Kenneth K. Tanaka and an insightful introduction by renowned scholar and editor, Alfred Bloom, whose selected passages have been arranged topically for easy reference on issues of Pure Land teaching. The key interpreters featured are the Seven Great Teachers from India, China, and Japan (Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu; T'an-luan, Tao-ch'o, Shan-tao; Genshin, Honen), selected as doctrinal authorities by Shinran (1173-1263), the founder of the Japanese Pure Land sect.
£17.09
World Wisdom Books The Shin Buddhist Classical Tradition: A Reader
Book SynopsisThis second volume of passages gathered from the leading monks and teachers of the Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhist teaching focuses on religious practice. Extending from the foundational texts and first interpreters in the 4th century, to Rennyo in the 15th century, Professor Bloom's selections trace the development of Shin Buddhist teaching from monastic visualization practices to the widely popular path to salvation through faith in, and recitation of, the name of Amida Buddha. Volume 2 features a foreword by Kenneth K. Tanaka and an introduction by renowned scholar and editor, Alfred Bloom, whose selected passages have been arranged topically for easy reference on issues of Pure Land teaching. The key interpreters featured are the Seven Great Teachers from India, China, and Japan (Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu; T'an-luan, Tao-ch'o, Shan-tao; Genshin, Honen), selected as doctrinal authorities by Shinran (1173-1263), the founder of the Japanese Pure Land sect.Trade ReviewAlfred Bloom's new anthology brings together a wide range of excerpts from sutras, commentaries, sermons, essays, letters, poetry, and other sources. Many of these materials have hitherto not been readily available in English translation. The volume's thematic arrangement recommends it to both scholars and general readers. It will be welcomed by those interested in Shinran's intellectual antecedents as well as the broader East Asian tradition of Pure Land Buddhism. -- Jacqueline Stone, Princeton University, author of Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism Professor Alfred Bloom has spent a full and productive career making the ideas and values of Shin Buddhism accessible to English readers. In this momentous undertaking, he brings together his lifetime of insights into the tradition by gathering and organizing passages from the complete range of Pure Land teachings. Like Shinran's Kyogyoshinsho, Bloom's selections serve as a handbook for personal study and engagement with the tradition. Keeping his own commentary to a minimum, Bloom leaves it to his readers to discover the spiritual riches for themselves. -- Thomas P. Kasulis, Ohio State University The Shin Buddhist Classical Tradition symbolizes Dr. Bloom's deep personal wish for this branch of Buddhism to be made known to as wide an audience as possible. The vital passages of the tradition are categorized along topics that make the teachings more accessible to a contemporary audience regardless of their previous knowledge of Pure Land Buddhism -- Kenneth K. Tanaka, Musashino University, author of The Dawn of Chinese Pure Land Buddhist Doctrine
£16.19
Parallax Press Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras
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£27.00
Les Belles Lettres Tanluan, Commentaire Au Traite de la Naissance
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£50.35
Les Belles Lettres Caraka-Samhita. Traite d'Ayurveda - Volume I: Le
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£97.85
Brepols N.V. Uygur Buddhist Literature
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£55.10
Brepols N.V. Prajnaparamita Literature in Old Uyghur
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£83.60
Brepols N.V. The Old Uyghur Agama Fragments Preserved in the
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£83.60
Brepols N.V. The Buddhāvataṃsaka Literature in Old
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£107.35
Harrassowitz Translating Buddhist Chinese: Problems and
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£50.00
Harrassowitz Buddhist Stone Sutras in China: Shandong Province
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£184.30
Harrassowitz Buddhist Stone Sutras in China: Sichuan Province.
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£351.11
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Sanskrit-Worterbuch der buddhistischen Texte aus
Book SynopsisThe Sanskrit dictionary opens up the canonical literature of the Sarvâstivâda school as it is passed down in the Turfan texts.
£67.57
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Sanskrit-Worterbuch der buddhistischen Texte aus
Book SynopsisSanskrit dictionary of the Buddhist texts from the Turfan finds. Delivery 27
£67.58
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Sanskrit-Worterbuch der buddhistischen Texte aus
Book SynopsisSanskrit dictionary of the Buddhist texts from the Turfan finds. Delivery 28
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Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Abkurzungsverzeichnis Zur Buddhistischen
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£68.35
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Sanskrit-Wörterbuch der buddhistischen Texte aus
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£67.06
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Sanskrit-Wörterbuch der buddhistischen Texte aus
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£67.19
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Sanskrit-Wörterbuch der buddhistischen Texte aus
Book SynopsisDas Sanskrit-Wörterbuch erschließt die kanonische Literatur der Sarvâstivâda-Schule, wie sie in den Turfan-Texten Ã"berliefert ist.
£77.77
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Sanskrit-Wörterbuch der buddhistischen Texte aus
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£78.82
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Sanskrit-Worterbuch der buddhistischen Texte aus
Book SynopsisThe Sanskrit dictionary opens up the canonical literature of the Sarvâstivâda school as it is passed down in the Turfan texts. The 29th delivery forms the ninth and final delivery of Volume IV and thus closes the dictionary. It is dedicated to the addenda to tri / hrī-dhana.
£58.52
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Penser l'Autorite Des Ecritures: La Polemique de
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£58.90
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Die Lhan Kar Ma: Ein Fruher Katalog Der Ins
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£100.70
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Vasubandhu`s Pancaskandhaka: Sanskrit Texts from
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£29.45
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Adhyardhasatika Prajnaparamita: Sanskrit and
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£29.45
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Candrakirti's Vajrasattvanispadanasutra
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£32.30
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Dharmakirti's Hetubindu
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£35.15
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Claus Oetke: Truth Paradoxes, Meaning, and
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£55.88
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Jinendrabuddhi's Visalamalavati
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£41.80
Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag Simavicarana
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£34.00
Dr Ludwig Reichert A Critical Edition of the Tibetan Translation of
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£125.40
Dr Ludwig Reichert Pali Literature Transmitted in Central Siam: A
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£31.35
Wandel Verlag The Seven Chapters of Prayer: as taught by Padma
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£27.20
Dr Ludwig Reichert The Life and Works of Karma 'Phrin Las Pa
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£139.65
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Buddhist Cosmology: The Study of a Burmese
Book SynopsisIn this book, a Burmese manuscript from the mid-nineteenth century is the catalyst for a study of the multifaceted Buddhist cosmos. The manuscript not only lays out the complex array of realms in the Buddhist universe but also ventures into a number of esoteric and little-understood aspects of the Theravāda cosmological system and its inhabitants. By presenting translations and narration of much of the manuscript’s text and sharing his careful analysis of its vivid illustrations, the author uncovers fascinating details of the Theravāda Buddhist cosmos. Detailed color and black-and-white illustrations, including a complete reduced-scale reproduction of the manuscript, help clarify and explain the complex, segmented Buddhist cosmology.
£56.95
Editorial Sirio Mulamadhyamakakarika
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£25.82
Edaf Antillas Dhammapada (Edaf)
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£14.62
Shang Shung Edizioni Longchenpa's Advice from the Heart
£16.23
Istituto Shang Shung Parting from the Four Attachments
£11.88
Shang Shung Publications Creative Vision and Inner Reality
£14.76
Shang Shung Publications The Light of the Sun: Teachings on Longchenpa's Precious Mala of the Four Dharmas
£18.63
Peeters Publishers Buddhist Nonduality, Paschal Paradox: A Christian
Book SynopsisThe Teaching of Vimalakirti, treasured in China and Japan and best known in the West in Canon Étienne Lamotte's classic translation from the Tibetan and Chinese, has now surfaced in its original language, Sanskrit, after two thousand years. Centered on a lay bodhisattva, a master of paradox, who has no equal in debate except the Buddha and Manjusri, the embodiment of wisdom, Vimalakirti is the most humorous and engaging of the major Buddhist scriptures, comparable to the Book of Job in its dramatic format. In the first commentary on the recovered text, an Irish theologian reads Vimalakirti and the Gospels in light of each other, and finds resonances between the Buddhist wisdom of nonduality and the Christian dynamic of incarnation and paschal transformation.
£63.62
Peeters Publishers Les mythes du déluge de l'Inde ancienne: Histoire
Book SynopsisEn Europe, durant les périodes moderne et contemporaine, les mythes du déluge de l'Inde ancienne ont joué un rôle non négligeable dans les constructions savantes de l'histoire sacrée chrétienne et des histoires universelles. Confrontés au récit diluvien de la Genèse, bien avant le déchiffrement de la XIe tablette de l'épopée de Gilgamesh par G. Smith en 1872, ils ont alimenté nombre de controverses sur l'origine de l'Homme et ont contribué, aux côtés de la géologie et de la paléontologie naissantes, à sortir progressivement l'Europe d'une représentation biblique de l'histoire de l'humanité. La présente étude se propose de revenir sur la chronologie des multiples réceptions de ces récits traditionnels brahmaniques - Satapatha Brahmana, Mahabharata, Purana - chez les érudits occidentaux, depuis la fin de la période médiévale jusqu'à nos jours. Un parcours qui rappelle que missionnaires chrétiens des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, administrateurs coloniaux et orientalistes du XVIIIe siècle, indianistes des XIXe et XXe siècles ont tous participé, par leur comparatisme analogique ou différentiel, fondé ou infondé, à la construction de représentations orientées de l'histoire de l'humanité et de ses origines ainsi qu'au développement de la mythologie comparée et, plus largement, de l'histoire comparée des religions.
£86.00
