Paths of Pure vision
Paths of Pure Vision consolidates the multiple facets of spirituality in Tibet through elaborating three themes: historical developments, philosophical views and meditative practices. Narrating the historical processes of Buddhism developing in India and its transmission Tibet, this book gives us a rare glimpse into the major figures, thoughts and that comprise the spiritual heritage of Tibet. In this book, Khentrul Jamphal Lordo Rinpoche explains the indigenous Bon religion of Tibet, the four most widely known Tibetan Buddhism traditions, Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu and Gelung, and the fifth Jonang Buddhist Tradition.
Buddhist Essays
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Realizing the Profound View
The eighth volume in the Dalai Lama's definitive and bestselling Library of Wisdom and Compassion series, and the second of three focusing on emptiness. In Realizing the Profound View the Dalai Lama presents the analysis and meditations necessary to realize the ultimate nature of reality. With attention to Nagarjuna's five-point analysis, Candrakirti's seven-point examination, and Pali sutras, the Dalai Lama leads us to investigate who or what is the person. Are we our body? Our mind? If we are not inherently either of them, how do we exist, and what carries the karma from one life to the next? As we explore these and other fascinating questions, he skillfully guides us along the path, avoiding the chasms of absolutism and nihilism, and introduces us to dependent arising. We find that although all persons and phenomena lack an inherent essence, they do exist dependently. This nominally imputed mere I carries the karmic seeds. We discover that all phenomena exist by being merely designated by term and concept--they appear as like illusions, unfindable under ultimate analysis but functioning on the conventional level. Furthermore, we come to understand that emptiness dawns as the meaning of dependent arising, and dependent arising dawns as the meaning of emptiness. The ability to posit subtle dependent arisings in the face of realizing emptiness and to establish ultimate and conventional truths as non-contradictory brings us to the culmination of the correct view. The second of three volumes on the nature of reality in the Library of Wisdom and Compassion series, Realizing the Profound View challenges the ways we view the self and the world, bringing us that much closer to liberation.
The Analects of Confucius
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Ancestor-worship and Japanese Law
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Writings of Nichiren Shonin Followers I
This volume, the 14th project of the English Translation Committee of the Nichiren Shu Overseas Propagation Promotion Association (NOPPA), constitutes all 56 writings of Buddhist reformer Nichiren Shōnin (1222-1282) included in the Nichiren Shonin Zenshu, Complete Writings of Nichiren Shonin, Volume 6: Followers I, published in Tokyo in 1995. The Nichiren Shonin Zenshu is a modern Japanese version of Nichiren's original writings, translated and edited with annotations by modern scholars of Nichiren Buddhism. Despite its all-inclusive title, the Zenshu is highly selective in that it takes into account only writings considered bibliographically authentic: attested to by original manuscripts. Among such texts, those included in the Showa Teihon Nichiren Shonin Ibun, Writings of Nichiren Shonin Standardized in the Showa Period, complied by the Rissho Daigaku Nichiren Kyogaku Kenkyu-jo, Center for the Study of Nichiren Buddhism, published by Minobusan Kuonji Temple between 1951 and 1959, are considered the most authoritative, and they provide the basic texts for this volume.This is the first of the two "Followers" volumes and contains 56 writings to many people to whom we have already been introduced in the first five volumes. These include Toki Jonin, Shijo Kingo and the Ikegami brothers: Munenaga and Munenaka.It is especially interesting to read the progression of events through these letters, such as when the elder Ikegami brother, Munenaka, was disowned by his father, Yasumitsu, because he would not renounce faith in the Lotus Sutra. Nichiren expresses his encouragement to both brothers to hold fast to their faith, comparing them to the brothers Pure-Store and Pure-Eyes in Chapter 27 of the Lotus Sutra and telling them stories from ancient China of brothers who faced similar difficulties. In the end, the brothers hold true, Munenaka reconciles with his father, and Yasumitsu realizes faith in the Lotus Sutra. Nichiren's joy can hardly be contained, and he expresses it generously in his letters.
The Analects of Confucius
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An Authentic Guide to Meditation
My hope of this book is to guide you to finding a type of meditation that will "bring you home" whenever you choose - to a space of calm clarity in which you will find peace and restore your energy or from which you can effectively engage in the world. Yet above all, I hope this book can serve as a "bridge" to enlightenment, whether you are following a Buddhist path or any other authentic spiritual tradition.
The History Of Buddhist Thought
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Opening the Pandora’s Box of Religion
The first part of the book, the large part, explains the many terms that occur in Tibetan Buddhism, they deal with the approach of Death, the various ocular events that occur when death is approaching, and the events that one experiences right after the occurrence of body death. They are varied indeed! Depending on the kind of life that has been led there can be pretty lights and the approach of relatives and ancestors, usually benign, and sometimes the actual appearances of great Buddhas or Christlike figures to help the entity get through the process. In the case of negative lives, the Spirit falls into suffering states In which he or she becomes the same as the victim of the one he or she afflicted. There is no end to the variety of events the following death. Death is not an event of terror unless the entity has terrified people in the previous life. There are 12 levels to attain, usually achieved in several thousand lives. Since most entities are around level one, their spirit guides can be accessed to ask for ways of reaching the higher levels, which always involve future reincarnations. The second part of the book is information about the universe and incarnation taught by an entity at the 11th level and nearly finished with the whole process.
Nirv璽na
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Si-yu-ki, Buddhist Records of the Western World; Volume 2
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A Short History of The Twelve Japanese Buddhist Sects [microform]
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Commentary on BRINGING DREAMS onto the PATH from The Compassionate Sun of the Mother Tantra
The teaching presented in this book is an edited transcript of a retreat given by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin, Abbot of the Meditation School at Triten Norbutse Monastery, Kathmandu (28.12.2021 to 01.01.2022). Broadcast via video link from Nepal, the retreat was dedicated to instructions from the Mother Tantra of Yungdrung B繹n on taking dreams as the path. Although this book has been made public following Khenpo's explicit wish, anyone who seriously wants to apply these methods must seek an authentic master and receive the authorisation and transmission in person. This will give the practitioner the ability to clearly understand the meaning of these instructions and connect him/her to the blessing of this lineage, thus ensuring their practice bears fruit.
Buddhism in Translations
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Journal of the Pali Text Society
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Buddha
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Buddhism in China
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Buddha
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The Wisdom Of Confucius
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Meeting Challenges
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. This volume presents his commentary on a teaching by the Third Do Drupchen Rinpoche, Jigme Tenpe Nyima, called Bringing Happiness and Unhappiness onto the Path.'If we can work within ourselves, practically and experientially, and come to know that sorrow and joy arise from our own way of reacting and do not depend upon what others say or do, then we become a little bit fearless. Only then can the depth of our comprehension and knowledge penetrate our being.''The point is to watch our mind and bring it into order. The practice is to integrate our understanding with our life. And the purpose is to bring meaning to life, bringing peace and contentment to ourselves as well as others.'
Buddhism in Translations
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Going Through the Mystery’s One Hundred Questions
In Going Through the Mystery's One Hundred Questions we sit together with a passionate Zen pilgrim, Yuantong, and his cold-blooded teacher, the SotoZen master Wansong, also the teacher of Genghis Khan. They hail to us from sometime in the thirteenth century. We get to eavesdrop as a sincere student asks burning, heartfelt question after question. And as a genuine teacher responds with turning word after turning word.We are able to participate in their teacher-student relationship due to the presence of Wansong's attendant, Linquan, who later also became a famous Zen master and teacher of Kublai Khan. Linquan clarifies the meaning of each interaction in verse. Dosho Port has translated the original text and addedbrief commentaries to each Q&A to help the contemporary reader access the deep truths presented by these three exemplary practitioners.The book is intended to offer inspiration and guidance for any earnest spiritual seeker. The thirteenth century was an enormously rich time for Zen with many profoundly awakened and skillful teachers, including Wansong and Linquan. However, this book is primarily about urgent, spiritual questions. What is this one great life-and-death that we share? How can the intimate truth be realized and embodied with great compassion for the benefit of all living beings?
Buddhism in China
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The Spirit of Zoroastrianism
Henry S. Olcott, was a co-founder of the Theosophical Society, its first president and an early influential writer of the Theosophy movement of the late nineteenth century. Here he writes at length on the subject of Zoroastrianism.
The Saddharma-Pundar簾ka; or, The Lotus of the True Law
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The Dhammapada
A Beloved Classic of Buddhist Writing One of the best known and most beloved of the Buddhist scriptures, The Dhammapada is a collection of the sayings of the Buddha. According to tradition, each of the verses contained within the text were spoken by the Buddha, surviving through the centuries to find their way into the hands of modern readers. Translated by Max Muller, the verses cover a range of topics from Thought and Pleasure to Old Age, Happiness, and The Way. They are both simple and profound, guideposts to living an enlightened life and incisive shards of wisdom that cut through our passivity to the reality of spiritual enlightenment. This edition of The Dhammapada is part of the Essential Wisdom Library, a series that seeks to bring spiritual wisdom, both old and new, to modern readers.
Buddha
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Buddhism in Translations
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Guide to Buddahood
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Nirv璽na
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The Discourse on the Fruits of Recluseship
The Buddha traces the entire progress of a disciple from the first step on the path to the attainment of Nibbana in this second sutta of the Sutta Pitaka, one of the most elevating of the Buddha's discourses. On a full-moon night in Autumn, in reply to a question asked by King Ajatasattu of Magadha, the Buddha expounds the visible fruits of the Buddhist monk's life, sketching the progress of the disciple."...the Sāma簽簽aphala Sutta sounds a triumphant and lyrical proclamation of the fruitfulness of the course of spiritual training founded upon right view. It is the Buddha's announcement to the world that the life of renunciation he adopted for himself and opened up to humanity by founding the sangha brings immediately visible benefits in each of its stages. It is 'good in the beginning' through the bliss of blamelessness that comes with the purification of conduct; 'good in the middle' in yielding an exalted joy and bliss through the seclusion of the mind from the sensual hindrances; and 'good in the end' because it culminates in the highest wisdom and peace by transcending all mundane bonds." (From the translator's Preface)The work is not only a great spiritual classic, but also a literary gem distinguished by its beauty of poetic imagery.
The History Of Buddhist Thought
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Phallicism, Celestial and Terrestrial, Heathen and Christian, its Connexion With the Rosicrucians and the Gnostics and its Foundation in Buddhism, With an Essay on Mystic Anatomy
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Phallicism, Celestial and Terrestrial, Heathen and Christian, its Connexion With the Rosicrucians and the Gnostics and its Foundation in Buddhism, With an Essay on Mystic Anatomy
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The Sayings of Confucius
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