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  • Skillful Graceby Tulku Rinpoche Urgyen; Trulshik Rinpoche Adeu; Erik Pema Kunsang; Marcia Binder Schmidt; Tara Bennett-Goleman

    North Atlantic Books 2011; US$ 15.95

    Tara is one of the most inspiring of Buddhist deities, embodying the most compelling and vital qualities of the feminine: beauty, grace, and the ability to nurture, care for, and protect. This complex goddess, whose practice transcends sect and class, is also a true warrior, vanquishing fear and ignorance?in a sense the earliest known incarnation of... more...

  • Kuan-yinby Chun-fang Yu

    Columbia University Press 2000; US$ 38.99

    By far one of the most important objects of worship in the Buddhist traditions, the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is regarded as the embodiment of compassion. He has been widely revered throughout the Buddhist countries of Asia since the early centuries of the Common Era. While he was closely identified with the royalty in South and Southeast Asia,... more...

  • Buddha in the Crownby John Clifford Holt

    Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 124.99

    Sri Lanka has one of Asia's most pluralistic religious cultures. From a study of the changing role played by one Buddhist deity in Sinhala religious culture, the author of this study develops a thesis about the mechanism of religious change. more...

  • Living Buddhist Statues in Early Medieval and Modern Japanby Sarah J. Horton

    Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00

    Straddling the divide between art history and religious studies, Face to Face with the Buddha examines several surprising functions of Buddhist statues, all of which helped rapidly spread Buddhist beliefs among the populace in tenth and eleventh century Japan. more...

  • Faces of Compassionby Taigen Dan Leighton; Joan Halifax

    Wisdom Publications 2012; US$ 18.95

    From Ali to Gandhi, Dylan to Thoreau - and from Gertrude Stein to Mother Theresa - Faces of Compassion introduces us to enlightened beings, the bodhisattvas of Buddhist lore. They're not otherworldly gods with superhuman qualities, but shining examples of our own highest potential. Zen teacher and scholar Taigen Dan Leighton takes us through the ages... more...

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