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Healing
Parallax Press 2010; US$ 9.99This extraordinary story takes the reader from the rice fields of Vietnam to the peaceful surrounding of Thich Nhat Hanh?s monastery in Plum Village. Healing traces a young woman?s path from an abusive childhood in a war-torn Vietnam, to a promising career as a medical doctor and poet, to finally finding true happiness as a nun. With humor, insight,... more...
Subtle Wisdom
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00Master Sheng-yen, a dharma descendant from the founders of Buddhism in China, considers the concepts of suffering, enlightenment, and compassion; provides a glossary of key terms; and briefly recaps the history of Buddhism in China. But he goes beyond these issues to discuss contemporary matters and questions he has encountered in his years of teaching... more...
Cultivating the Mind of Love
Parallax Press 2009; US$ 12.99When Thich Nhat Hanh was a 24-year-old monk, he fell desperately in love with a nun of 20. He couldn?t sleep, and stayed up all night writing poetry. This book taps that experience in an ambitious double narrative that interweaves his memories of that first love with how it was transmuted into boddhichitta with a thoughtful study of the Mahayana... more...
Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang
BRILL 2010; US$ 147.00Drawing a wide variety of texts and images from Dunhuang, the six original contributions to this collection advance our understanding of the development of Esoteric Buddhism in late first millennium Tibet and China. Ritual, philosophy, and mortuary practice are among the topics considered. more...
Naturalness
World Wisdom 2010; US$ 9.99Kanamatsu's Naturalness, written in 1949, is more than an introduction to the essence of Shin Buddhism. It is a profound and enlightened meditation on the relationship between man and Amida Buddha, who is pure mercy and whose Name is a vehicle of Nirvanic Reality. Combining the erudition of a philosopher with the sensitivity of a poet, Kanamatsu leads... more...
The Golden Age of Zen
World Wisdom 2010; US$ 9.99This book gives a fascinating survey of the early years of Chinese Zen (Chan) Buddhism, staying focused on the movement of Buddhism to the land where Taoism and Confucianism flourished. Wu's survey, combined with interesting translations from these earliest Zen masters, reveals a time of spiritual vibrancy and powerful personalities that help explain... more...
The Essential Shinran
World Wisdom 2006; US$ 9.99Renowned scholar of Shin Buddhism, Alfred Bloom, presents the life and spiritual legacy of Shinran Shonin, the influential religious reformer and founder of Pure Land Buddhism, the most popular school of Buddhism in Japan today. Bloom presents a wide selection of Shinran?s essential writings on the key Shin Buddhist idea of ?true entrusting? (shinjin)... more...
Living In Amida's Universal Vow
World Wisdom 2004; US$ 9.99Though it has been in the West for over one hundred years, Pure Land and Shin Buddhism has been little known or understood among Western peoples. This book brings together a sampling of the resources available for the study of Shin Pure Land Buddhism through a variety of essays from important and influential journals, and so contributes to a greater... more...
The Way and the Mountain
World Wisdom 2008; US$ 9.99The Way and the Mountain is a selection of Marco Pallis? most important writings on Tibetan Buddhism. He provides the keen observations of a Westerner as he makes sense of spiritual practices, moral systems, modes of dress, and other traditions that are often hard to understand unless described by an open and seeking soul. more...
Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 32.00This book develops a contemporary interpretation of Zen Buddhism. more...









