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  • The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation

    Visionary Meditation Texts from Early Medieval China

    by Eric M. Greene, Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...
    Series Book 18 - Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism
    In the early 400s, numerous Indian and Central Asian Buddhist “meditation masters” (chanshi) traveled to China, where they established the first enduring traditions of Buddhist meditation practice in East Asia. The forms of contemplative practice that these missionaries brought with them, and which their Chinese students further developed, remained for several centuries the basic understanding of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Chan Before Chan

    Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism

    by Eric M. Greene, Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...
    Series Book 39 - Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism
    What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval China, this book takes up these questions through a cultural history of the earliest traditions of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    by James Miller ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    From T’ai Chi to the Ming Dynasty, this is an engrossing guide to the elusive Chinese tradition of Daoism.Spanning the centuries and crossing the globe, this engaging introduction covers everything Daoist, from the religion of the ancients to 21st century T’ai Chi and meditation. Complete with a timeline of Daoist history and a full glossary, Daoism: A Beginner's Guide will prove invaluable not ... Read more

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  • Basic Buddhism

    Exploring Buddhism and Zen

    by Nan Huai-Chin ...
    From a Chinese religious scholar, the history of Buddhism from its beginnings in sixth-century India to twentieth-century global practices.Nan Huai Chin, a learned representative of the Chinese Buddhist tradition, explores the many different schools of Buddhism and the many stories surrounding the life of Buddha. He explains various philosophical trends in Buddhism and the aspects it has taken on ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Birth of Insight

    Meditation, Modern Buddhism & the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw

    by Erik Braun ...
    Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see it as the Buddha's most important gift to humanity. In the first book to examine how this practice came to play such a dominant—and relatively ... Read more

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  • Asian Religions

    A Cultural Perspective

    by Randall L. Nadeau ...
    ASIAN RELIGIONS“A unique introduction to Asian religions, combining the scholarly rigor of an established historian of Asian religions with the willingness to engage empathetically with the traditions and to suggest that readers do the same.”Joseph A. Adler, Kenyon College“Randall L. Nadeau has accomplished what only a few have tried, but which has been much needed in the study of religions. He ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • Daodejing

    The New, Highly Readable Translation of the Life-Changing Ancient Scripture Formerly Known as the Tao Te Ching

    Translated by Hans-Georg Moeller ...
    by Hans-Georg Moeller, Laozi ...
    This translation presents Daoism’s basic text in highly readable contemporary English. Incorporating the latest scholarship in the field (including the most recent discoveries of ancient manuscripts in the 1970s and '90s), the book explains Daodejing's often cryptic verses in a clear and concise way. The introduction interprets the Daodejing's poetic imagery in the context of ancient Chinese ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Records of the Transmission of the Lamp

    Volume 2 (Books 4-9) The Early Masters

    by Daoyuan ...
    Translated by Randolph S. Whitfield ...
    This compilation of Buddhist biographies, teaching and transmission stories of Indian and Chinese Chan (Japanese ‘Zen’) masters from antiquity up to about the year 1008 CE is the first mature fruit of an already thousand year-long spiritual marriage between two great world cultures with quite different ways of viewing the world. The fertilisation of Chinese spirituality by Indian Buddhism ... Read more

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  • The Daoist Tradition

    An Introduction

    by Professor Louis Komjathy ...
    Using a historical, textual and ethnographic approach, this is the most comprehensive presentation of Daoism to date. In addition to revealing the historical contours and primary concerns of Chinese Daoists and Daoist communities, The Daoist Tradition provides an account of key themes and defining characteristics of Daoist religiosity, revealing Daoism to be a living and lived religion. Exploring ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Daoism

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    by Ronnie L. Littlejohn ...
    Series series I.B.Tauris Introductions to Religion
    'The way that can be told is not the eternal Way; the name that can be named is not the eternal Name.' So begins the first verse of the mysterious "Dao De Jing", foundation text of the ancient Chinese religion of Daoism. Often attributed to semi-mythical sage Laozi, the origins of this enigmatic document - which probably came into being in the third century BCE - are actually unknown. But the ... Read more

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  • Love Letters from Golok

    A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet

    by Holly Gayley ...
    Love Letters from Golok chronicles the courtship between two Buddhist tantric masters, Tāre Lhamo (1938–2002) and Namtrul Rinpoche (1944–2011), and their passion for reinvigorating Buddhism in eastern Tibet during the post-Mao era. In fifty-six letters exchanged from 1978 to 1980, Tāre Lhamo and Namtrul Rinpoche envisioned a shared destiny to "heal the damage" done to Buddhism during the years ... Read more

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  • Readings of the Platform Sutra

    Edited by Morten Schlütter, Stephen Teiser ...
    Series series Columbia Readings of Buddhist Literature
    The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. Purported to contain the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638–713), the legendary Sixth Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been popular among monastics and the educated elite for centuries. The first study of its kind in English, this volume offers essays that introduce the history and ideas of the sutra to a ... Read more

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