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Dr Ludwig Reichert Die 'Grosse Halle' Von Karakorum: Zur
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£139.65
Dr Ludwig Reichert Sutrengeschichten: Von Karma Und Wiedergeburt
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£36.10
Dr Ludwig Reichert The Life and Works of Karma 'Phrin Las Pa
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£139.65
Ergon Verlag I Believe in Buddhism and Travelling: Denoting
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£45.00
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Los siete pasos hacia el amor / How to Expand
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£10.76
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Anatomía del corazón Compasión budista para transformar tu vida A Fearless Heart How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives
£12.25
Editorial Terracota El Arte de Estar Bien: Con Base En Las Enseñanzas
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£14.36
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP The Buddhist Monastery: A Cross-Cultural Survey
Book SynopsisWhat is a Buddhist monastery? We might define it as a long-term residence of monastics, whether monks or nuns, but even this basic definition fails to cover the whole Buddhist world. In all periods and regions, the architectural, social, and religious organization of Buddhist places of worship and monastic residence have varied considerably. This collection is the result of an international research program conducted by the Bangkok branch of the Ecole francaise d’Extreme-Orient between 1997 and 2003. The simple and straightforward title belies the uniqueness of the work, for this is the only comprehensive study presenting a clear geographical and historical overview of Buddhist monasteries throughout Asia, especially Southeast Asia, and particularly in Thailand.
£41.00
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Sazigyo, Burmese Manuscript Binding Tapes: Woven
Book SynopsisSazigyo are fine, tablet-woven Burmese tapes used to bind the palm-leaf manuscripts of an earlier era. Tiny images and extended texts were deftly woven into the long, colorful bindings. These Buddhist “textile texts” were commissioned by donors to make merit in the hope of attaining a better rebirth and ultimately nirvana. This beautiful book elucidates the religious and social context of sazigyo and describes in detail the weaves, texts, designs, and images. It contains stunning, full-scale reproductions and enlargements of many hundreds of sazigyo segments found in collections throughout the world and presents translated excerpts from 150 sazigyo texts. The book is a celebration of a craft now vanishing and a tribute to the skill and flair of Burmese women weavers. It will appeal to weavers and textile designers and to all admirers of exquisite craftsmanship.
£85.50
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Buddhism and Buddhist Art: An Illustrated
Book SynopsisOver 180 color photographs from temples, museums, historical sites, and private collections enhance this attractive survey of the Buddhist art of India, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Nepal, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam. It presents the life story and teachings of Sakyamuni Buddha, founder of Buddhism, as shown in paintings, sculptures, and other works of art, and explores the major schools of Buddhism—Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, Zen—and the styles and characteristics of the Buddhas, bodhisattvas, deities, and other images seen in their art. Everyone interested in Buddhist art and its enduring significance will find this volume a useful reference for the study and appreciation of the various gestures, poses, and artistic elements seen in Buddhist art through the ages.Trade Review"Buddhism and Buddhist Art: An Illustrated Introduction is a joyous gem of a book, compactand brilliant, a treasure to accompany you whether to Sri Lanka, Nepal or the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art. The styles and varieties of Buddhas, bodhisattvas and related deities are introduced progressively in a narration, first of the Buddha’s life story, then ofBuddhism’s spread through Asia. . . . The more one learns the more one will wish to reread this dense compendium, with its beautiful color photographs and its useful bibliography, glossary and index." -- Peter Dale Scott * Inquiring Mind - A Journal of the Buddhadharma *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Life and Teachings of Sakyamuni Buddha 2. Buddhist Art and Buddhist Beliefs: Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, and Zen Appendix 1: Mudra, Asana, and Bhanga Terminology Appendix 2: The Five Transcendent Buddhas of the Mahayana and Vajrayana Faiths Glossary Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations and Photo Credits Acknowledgments Index
£29.99
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Gender and the Path to Awakening: Hidden
Book SynopsisIn Gender and the Path to Awakening, Martin Seeger lays out the nuances and varying conceptions of female renunciation in modern Thai Buddhism. Centered on long-term textual and ethnographic research on six remarkable female practitioners, Seeger considers trends and changes over the last 140 years in the practices of female renunciants and their devotees. He also investigates understandings of female sainthood in Thai Buddhism, its expressions in material culture, and the importance of orality and memory in Thai Buddhist epistemology. Supported by interviews and careful study of sermons, hagiographies, and hitherto untranslated and rare Thai sources, this book examines the social backgrounds, modes of expression, veneration, and historical contexts of Thai women pursuing the Buddhist ideal. Rich in ethnographic detail and with additional grounding in foundational Indian Buddhist texts, this book offers new insights into the complexities of female renunciation and gender relations in modern Thai Buddhism. Highlights Offers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of female practitioners and gender relations in modern Thai Buddhism. Based on meticulous long-term ethnographic and textual research. Considers the role of orality and memory in the epistemological framework of Buddhist education, particularly for female practitioners. Illustrated by a number of photos—sometimes rare—of key figures and the material culture associated with them. Makes extensive use of early Buddhist texts to present or juxtapose modern developments with events and people in early Buddhism
£36.53
Parbpim Printing House Rethinking Karma: The Dharma of Social Justice
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£14.69
MENTE SALVAJE TIERRA SALVAJE
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£19.24
Editorial Kairos Recupera Tu Mente: Consejos Budistas Para Tiempos
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£18.63
Editorial Kairos Tal Como Vivimos, Morimos
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£19.68
Tharpa Publications Cómo Solucionar Nuestros Problemas Humanos (How
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£19.48
Kitsune Books Soji
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£19.23
Almuzara SER UN HUMANO Y TAMBIEN UN BUDA
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£31.87
Herder & Herder Budismo
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£40.34
Edaf Antillas Descubre a Buda
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£32.60
Editorial Kairos Dinero, Sexo, Guerra Y Karma: Ideas Para Una
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£21.01
Editorial Kairos Bailando Con La Vida: Intuiciones Budistas Para
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£25.77
Editorial Kairos La Verdad del Sufrimiento: Y El Camino de la
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£17.51
Editorial Kairos En Busca del Buda de la Medicina: La Sabiduría del Ayurveda
£32.58
Tharpa Publications Camino Gozoso de Buena Fortuna: El Sendero
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£26.79
Tharpa Publications Introduccion Al Budismo (Introduction to
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£13.04
Storyfire Ltd Dhammapada
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£14.16
Editorial Kairos En Palabras del Buddha: Una Antología de
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£30.36
Editorial Kairos Un Buda En La Oficina: El Antiguo Arte del
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£17.22
NIAS Press Engaging Asia: Essays on Laos and Beyond in
Book SynopsisLong regarded as a peripheral state in mainland Southeast Asia, Laos has attracted far less scholarly attention than richer and more powerful neighbours like Thailand and Vietnam. This has meant, however, that in Lao studies there is a greater potential for individual scholars to make significant contributions to their field. One such scholar is Australia's Martin Stuart-Fox, in honour of whom this festschrift has been produced with contributions from colleagues, former doctoral students and friends. The volume is more than a hagiography, however. Its chapters on Laos all make significant contributions to Lao studies. These range from the writing of Lao prehistory in Laos, to early Lao-Thai relations, from French colonial archaeology to medical practices and gun-boat diplomacy, from the `invention' of Laos as a modern state to its revolutionary transformation and present politics. Though the main focus is on the history, politics and national identity of Laos, essays also point `beyond' Laos, both geographically and metaphorically. In the first instance, the volume provides a welcome comparative perspective, from precolonial relations between Southeast Asian polities and European courts to colonial policies within French Indochina, to the structure of communist power in Vietnam. Three concluding essays point beyond Laos in a metaphorical sense in directions indicated by Professor Stuart-Fox's wider intellectual interests - to cultural legitimation and identity, to Buddhism and Buddhist meditation, and to how the principles of Darwinian evolution apply to historical change. Engaging Asia is thus a volume that will stimulate and satisfy, while at the same time honouring a scholar whose unusual career took him from marine biologist to war correspondent to respected scholar of Southeast Asian politics and history.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Desley Goldston) • Contributors • 1. Martin Stuart-Fox: Evolution of a Worldview (Jessica Harriden) • 2. On Writing Volume One of The History of Laos (Souneth Phothisane) • 3. The Half Millennium Quandary: Establishing the Ayutthaya–Lan Xang Frontier 1357–1827 (Pheuiphanh and Mayoury Ngaosrivathana) • 4. The La Grandière, 1894–1910: A French Naval Presence on the Upper Mekong (Kennon Breazeale) • 5. The Birth of French Research into the Prehistory of Laos (Lia Genovese) • 6. Nurse Khamphanh and His Dead Horse: The Practice of Biomedical Science in Early Twentieth Century Laos (Kathryn Sweet) • 7. The Invention of French Laos (Geoffrey Gunn) • 8. Laos in the 60s (Tim Page) • 9. The Lao Long of Cambodia: Ethnic Lao in the Cambodian Revolutions (Martin Rathie) • 10. Marxist Leninist Ideology Drove the Lao Revolution (Desley Goldston) • 11. Mobilizing Hearts and Minds: Reconciliation Politics in Laos (Soulatha Sayalath) • 12. Photographing Laos (Steve Northup) • 13. The Ethno-Religious Identity of the Tai People in Sipsong Panna and Its Resurgence in Recent Manuscripts (Volker Grabowsky) • 14. An Embassy from Banten at the Court of Charles II (Sarah Tiffin) • 15. Tonkinese Migrant Labour in Cambodia: A Coolie History (Margaret Slocomb) • 16. Decentralization in Vietnam: Resolving Central–Provincial Relations (Timothy McGrath) • 17. What is the First jhāna? The Central Question in Buddhist Meditation Theory (Roderick S. Bucknell) • 18. Biological and Cultural Evolution: A Proper Analogy (Juan Ramón Álvarez) • Afterword (Martin Stuart-Fox ) • Publications of Martin Stuart-Fox • Index
£90.00
NIAS Press Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State,
Book SynopsisThis remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state and religious authorities as well as their farmer neighbors - even while handling new geopolitical challenges. The focus is mainly on marginal people and their navigation between competing forces over the decades of massive change since their incorporation into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1975. The sea, however, plays a major role in this study as does the location: a once-peripheral area now at the center of a global struggle for sovereignty, influence and control in the South China Sea. The coastal fishing communities at the heart of this study are peripheral not so much because of geographical remoteness as their presumed social 'backwardness'; they only partially fit into the social imaginary of Vietnam's territory and nation. The state thus tries to incorporate them through various cultural agendas while religious reformers seek to purify their religious practices. Yet, recently, these communities have also come to be seen as guardians of an ancient fishing culture, important in Vietnam's resistance to Chinese claims over the South China Sea. The fishers have responded to their situation with a blend of conformity, co-option and subtle indiscipline. A complex, triadic relationship is at play here. Within it are various shifting binaries - e.g. secular/religious, fishers/farmers, local ritual/Buddhist doctrine, etc. - and different protagonists (state officials, religious figures, fishermen and -women) who construct, enact, and deconstruct these relations in shifting alliances and changing contexts. Fishers, Monks and Cadres is a significant new work. Its vivid portrait of local beliefs and practices makes a powerful argument for looking beyond monolithic religious traditions. Its triadic analysis and subtle use of binaries offer startlingly fresh ways to view Vietnamese society and local political power. The book demonstrates Vietnam is more than urban and agrarian society in the Red River Basin and Mekong Delta. Finally, the author builds on intensive, long-term research to portray a region at the forefront of geopolitical struggle, offering insights that will be fascinating and revealing to a much broader readership.
£64.00
NIAS Press Dieties and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in
Book SynopsisIn central Thailand, a flamboyantly turbaned gay medium for the Hindu god of the underworld posts Facebook selfies of himself hugging and kissing a young man. In Myanmar’s largest city Yangon, a one-time member of a gay NGO dons an elaborate wedding dress to be ritually married to a possessing female spirit; he believes she will offer more support for his gay lifestyle than the path of LGBTQ activism. The only son of a Chinese trading family in Bangkok finds acceptance for his homosexuality and crossdressing when he becomes the medium for a revered female Chinese deity. And in northern Thailand, female mediums smoke, drink, flaunt butch masculine poses and flirt with female followers when they are ritually possessed by male warrior deities. Across the Buddhist societies of mainland Southeast Asia, local queer cultures are at the center of a recent proliferation of professional spirit mediumship. Drawing on detailed ethnographies and extensive comparative research, Deities and Divas captures this variety and ferment. The first book to trace commonalities between queer and religious cultures in Southeast Asia and the West, it reveals how modern gay, trans and spirit medium communities all emerge from a shared formative matrix of capitalism and new media. With insights and analysis that transcend the modern opposition of religion vs secularity, it provides fascinating new perspectives in transnational cultural, religious and queer studies.
£77.00
NIAS Press Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia:
Book SynopsisIn dramatic contrast to the reported growing influence of doctrinal and fundamentalist forms of religion in some parts of Southeast Asia, the predominantly Buddhist societies of the region are witnessing an upsurge of spirit possession cults and diverse forms of magical ritual. This is found in many social strata, including the urban poor, rising middle classes and elite groups, and across the different political systems of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. This volume reveals both the central historical place of spirit possession rituals in the Buddhist cultures of mainland Southeast Asia and their important contemporary roles to enhance prosperity and protection. This book examines the increasing prominence of spirit mediumship and divination across the region by exploring the interplay of neoliberal capitalism, visual media, the network cultures of the Internet, and the politics of cultural heritage and identity. It advances beyond critiques of the “secularization” and “disenchantment” theses to explore the processes of modernity that are actively producing magical worldviews and stimulating the rise of spirit cults. As such, it not only challenges the assumptions of modernization theory but demonstrates that the cults in question are novel ritual forms that emerge out of inherently modern conditions.
£77.00
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Buddhist Translation Practices in Medieval China:
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£218.50
Peeters Publishers Le Neant Evide: Ontologie et Politique Chez Keiji
Book SynopsisThe author studies the thought of the Japanese philosopher Nishitani. He examines the contradictory relationship existing between his political engagement in favour of ultra-nationalism and his religious ontology based on buddhist and christian values.
£29.45
Peeters Publishers Sino-Mongol Relations During the Ming, III. Trade
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£38.40
Peeters Publishers Buddhism and Daoism on the Holy Mountains of
Book SynopsisThis volume sheds new light on the matter of religious mountain culture in China – a theme of great relevance to the Chinese civilization. Already during the Chinese antiquity, mountains had specific ritual functions. This may be seen as a precursor to the importance mountains gained when in medieval China Buddhism and Daoism emerged as dominant religions. Adepts of both religions often went into retreat on mountains to practice spirituality, and as a result monastic communities often formed on mountains. In the further course, certain mountains began to attract pilgrims, since they were associated with famous practitioners who had lived there, or since they were seen as the seat of particular Buddhist or Daoist deities. As it would be impossible to cover this wide field in total, the present volume is designed to offer specialized studies of selected segments. Contributing scholars include Bart Dessein, Susan Andrews, Huang Chi-chiang, Timothy Wai Keung Chan, Thomas Jülch, Stephen Eskildsen, Jan de Meyer, and Louis Komjathy.
£97.00
Peeters Publishers Melanges Chinois Et Bouddhiques 6: 1938-1939
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£80.75
Editorial Terracota Despertar al zen
Book SynopsisLa meditación zen —o zazen— puede considerarse una “depuración de la mente” porque la purifica y libera de las ideas inútiles y fugaces que nos atascan y limitan. Una vez que logremos la concentración e interiorización que requiriere su práctica, despertaremos nuestro espíritu y tendremos una vida creativa, armoniosa y plena. Sin importar que nuestros conocimientos sobre budismo sean pocos, este libro nos da la oportunidad de iniciarnos en nuestra búsqueda espiritual.
£13.25
Editorial Terracota Relato de Un Despertar: Práctica Y Percepción En
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£10.44
Editorial Terracota El ideal del bodhisatva
Book SynopsisEl ideal del bodhisatva representa tanto la búsqueda de la claridad mental que otorgan la sabiduría, la renuncia y la reflexión, como la consideración y ayuda constante a los demás. Este libro, que ofrece un panorama reflexivo y práctico, muestra el camino exquisito de transformación y arduo adiestramiento que sigue el bodhisatva durante su vida para lograr las condiciones físicas, mentales, emocionales y energéticas que requiere para dedicarse a alcanzar la suprema iluminación en beneficio de todos los seres vivientes.
£14.20
Rabsel Editions The Handbook of Ordinary Heroes: The
Book SynopsisBuddhism is said to be universal because it transcends all notions of time and culture. A French shepherd from the Middle Ages can apply it just as easily as a Singaporean businessman from the twenty-first century. The Buddha’s teachings offer a method for understanding how to be and how to act—in other words, how to live our humanity while taking care of ourselves and others. The heroes referred to in this book are ordinary beings like us who choose to develop as individuals through their understanding and application of kindness and compassion. These heroes are bodhisattvas who wish for all beings to meet with lasting happiness and to experience protection from all causes for unhappiness. This handbook provides accessible explanations of what it means to live like a bodhisattva and offers a series of simple exercises directly related to daily life. It gives us key points for facing the difficulties we encounter in a new way and perceiving our lives according to altruistic values.Born in Tibet in 1949, Lama Jigme Rinpoche grew up and received his education with the principal teachers of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. The Sixteenth Karmapa named Lama Jigme Rinpoche as his official representative and the spiritual director of Dhagpo Kagyu Ling in France. Ever since, Lama Jigme Rinpoche has filled this role. Strengthened by many years of experience in the West, his unique and modern approach renders the Buddha’s millennia-old wisdom accessible and allows students to apply it concretely in daily twenty-first- century life.
£14.36
Rabsel Editions A Collection of Advice
Book SynopsisThaye Dorje imparts wisdom in-person and through social media. This book brings together his most important teachings so that everybody may have access to their inner wealth. The book focuses on the education that develops the values inherent to all beings: compassion and wisdom, aiming at establishing lasting peace and serenity on a personal and a societal level.Thaye Dorje, his holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa, is the spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Being in charge of more than 900 centers, he travels across the world to transmit the traditional Buddhist wisdom that encourages conflict resolution.
£12.30
