Buddhism

Mindfulness Quotations and PuppiesJoin some cuddly puppies for a collection of sayings from the Buddha. The verses, taken from the Dhammapada, were...

Discover the Benefits of Exercise as MeditationLet me say it simply. Someone should have written this book a long time ago. Shinzen Young, meditati...

The feeling that it is five minutes to midnight is known to many by now, and is often referred to as the Doomsday Clock. As the many crises faced b...

What if you set out to travel the world and got sidetracked in a Himalayan sewing workshop? What if that sidetrack turned out to be your life''s pa...

Zen is a way of life, providing a means of engaging on the great questions and of seeking enlightenment. Zen is also very much in the real world an...

How do Buddhas teachings answer the most profound questions of our existence? What makes his thinking unique amongst other systems of thought? The ...

Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy in the fir...

In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first dec...

The Wind from Vulture Peak addresses the history of the gradual incorporation of Buddhist concepts into Heian waka poetry and the development among...

An absorbing tale of healing from a most surprising spiritual guide Drawn from the deeply personal reflections of a formerly depressed person, this...

The Wind from Vulture Peak addresses the history of the gradual incorporation of Buddhist concepts into Heian waka poetry and the development among...

In Living Buddhism, Julia Cassaniti explores Buddhist ideas of impermanence, nonattachment, and intention as they are translated into everyday prac...

Endorsed by WJEC/Eduqas, the Student Book offers high quality support you can trust. / Written by an experienced teacher and author with an in-dept...

The Temiar are a Mon-Khmer-speaking group living in the uplands of northern Peninsular Malaysia. People in the region once practised Mahayana Buddh...

From Comrades to Bodhisattvas is the first book-length study of Han Chinese Buddhism in post-Mao China. Using an ethnographic approach supported by...

A?vaghoa, N?g?rjuna, and ?ryadeva are among the most celebrated Indian patriarchs in Asian Buddhist traditions and modern Buddhist studies scholars...

This is a refreshingly direct and down-to-earth read. It takes a number of key issues that are central to the practice of Buddhism; the values of c...

Few writers have led as storied a life as Setouchi Jakuch. Writer, translator, feminist, peace activist, Buddhist nun . . . even this list cannot c...

With the increased popularity of zombies in recent years, scholars have considered why the undead have so captured the public imagination. This ...

Hidden at the margins of Burmese Buddhism and culture, the cults of the weikzaweikza in relation to the Vipassana insight meditation movement and c...

This is a study of visual and textual images of the mythical creature tengu from the late Heian (897-1185) to the late Kamakura (1185-1333) periods...

In early medieval China hundreds of Buddhist miracle texts were circulated, inaugurating a trend that would continue for centuries. Each tale recou...

Farther on, I find other figures of Jizo, single reliefs, sculptured upon tombs. But one of these is a work of art so charming that I feel a pain a...

Pure Land Buddhism as a whole has received comparatively little attention in Western studies on Buddhism despite the importance of buddha-fields (p...