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Why the Dalai Lama Mattersby Robert Thurman
Simon & Schuster 2008; US$ 9.99The suppression of Tibet’s cultural heritage has the potential to set a precedent for all oppressed peoples of the world. Perched on the top of the world, changes in Tibet’s ecosystem affect the entire global climate. And, most importantly, Tibet is the spiritual and physical home of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, though he can never return. But why should Tibet matter to you? Tibet is more than its mountains, its monks, and its martyrs. Robert Thurman, renowned Tibetan scholar, teacher, and activist, presents his provocative, five-point plan that will enable China to win the respect of the entire world by allowing Tibet to regain its cultural, economic, and political autonomy. Thurman shows how the Dalai Lama’s tireless work... more...
The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleepby Rinpoche Tenzin Wangyal
Snow Lion Publications 1998; US$ 15.99This book gives detailed instruction for dream yoga, including foundational practices done during the day. In the Tibetan tradition, the ability to dream lucidly is not an end in itself, rather it provides an additional context in which one can engage in advanced and effective practices to achieve liberation. Dream yoga is followed by sleep yoga, also known as the yoga of clear light. It is a more advanced practice, similar to the most secret Tibetan practices. The goal is to remain awake during deep sleep when the gross conceptual mind and the operation of the senses cease. Most Westerners do not even consider this depth of awareness a possibility, yet it is well known in Tibetan Buddhist and Bon spiritual traditions. more...
Theravada Buddhismby Richard Gombrich
Routledge 1988; US$ 35.95In this book, Richard Gombrich shows how Theravada Buddism has affected and been afected by its social surroundings. He explains what the Buddha owed to his predecessors and what he was arguing against. Many issues are raised and discussed. more...
Samurai Zenby Trevor Leggett
Routledge 2003; US$ 29.95Samurai Zen brings together 100 of the rare riddles which represent the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. more...
Buddhist Unconsciousby William S. Waldron
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 39.95This study focuses on the development of the concept of unconscious mind within Indian Buddhist thought, presents issues of conception of mind and examines the doctrinal and philosophical arguments described and defended it. more...
Buddhist Hagiography in Early Japanby Jonathan Morris Augustine
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 180.00Much of the Scholarship on Gyôki is based on fantastic medieval biographies and legends. This work, however, makes use of many different lenses to develop multiple perspectives on the life of Gyôki. more...
Buddhism in Canadaby Victor Bruce Matthews
RoutledgeCurzon 2005; US$ 150.00This book analyzes the phenomenon of Buddhism in Canada from a regional perspective. more...
Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptinessby Karma Phuntsho
RoutledgeCurzon 2005; US$ 180.00This book explores a number of central themes in connection with the concept of 'emptiness', a highly technical but very central notion in Tibetan Buddhist thought. more...
The Jewel Tree of Tibetby Robert Thurman
Simon & Schuster 2005; US$ 11.99Few teachers in the West possess both the spiritual training and the scholarship to lead us along the path to enlightenment. Robert Thurman is one such teacher. Now, in his first experiential course on the essentials of Tibetan Buddhism, adapted and expanded from a popular retreat he led, Thurman -- the first Westerner ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama himself -- shares the centuries-old wisdom of a highly valued method used by the great Tibetan masters. Using a revered, once-secret text of a seventeenth-century Tibetan master, along with a thorough explanation for contemporary Westerners, The Jewel Tree of Tibet immerses you fully in the mysteries of Tibetan spiritual wisdom. A retreat in book form as well as a spiritual and philosophical... more...
Sensory Biographiesby Robert Desjarlais
University of California Press 2003; US$ 15.95Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest in his mid-eighties known as Ghang Lama, members of an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people whose ancestors have lived for three centuries or so along the upper ridges of the Yolmo Valley in north central Nepal. It was clear through their many conversations that both individuals perceived themselves as nearing death, and both were quite willing to share their thoughts about death and dying. The difference between the two was remarkable, however, in... more...