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  • Tibet

    by Sam van Schaik ...

    $25.99 USD

  • Buddhist Magic

    Divination, Healing, and Enchantment through the Ages

    by Sam van Schaik ...
    A fascinating exploration of the role that magic has played in the history of BuddhismAs far back as we can see in the historical record, Buddhist monks and nuns have offered services including healing, divination, rain making, aggressive magic, and love magic to local clients. Studying this history, scholar Sam van Schaik concludes that magic and healing have played a key role in Buddhism's ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Tibet

    Storia di un popolo e di una nazione

    by Sam van Schaik ...
    Famoso per la sua cultura unica e per i monasteri buddhisti inerpicati sul tetto del mondo, il Tibet esercita da sempre uno straordinario fascino che affonda le radici nel più lontano passato. Questo libro, scritto con efficace stile narrativo da un grande esperto di storia tibetana, conduce il lettore nel cuore del Paese, dal VII secolo, periodo di gloria dell’impero tibetano, fino ai giorni ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Approaching the Great Perfection

    Simultaneous and Gradual Methods of Dzogchen Practice in the Longchen Nyingtig

    by Sam Van Schaik ...
    Series series Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
    Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, is the highest meditative practice of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. Approaching the Great Perfection looks at a seminal figure of this lineage, Jigme Lingpa, an eighteenth-century scholar and meditation master whose cycle of teachings, the Longchen Nyingtig, has been handed down through generations as a complete path to enlightenment. Ten of Jigme Lingpa's ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism

    by Dhongthog Rinpoche ...
    Translated by Sam van Schaik ...
    Explore a complete history of one of Tibet’s four main Buddhist schools, from its origins to the present day.Since its 1976 publication in Tibetan, Dhongthog Rinpoche’s history of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism has been a key reference for specialists in Tibetan studies. Now English readers can consult it as well through Sam van Schaik’s authoritative, fully annotated and accessible ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Spirit of Zen

    by Sam van Schaik ...
    Series series The Spirit of ...
    An engaging introduction to Zen Buddhism, featuring a new English translation of one of the earliest Zen textsLeading Buddhist scholar Sam van Schaik explores the history and essence of Zen, based on a new translation of one of the earliest surviving collections of teachings by Zen masters. These teachings, titled The Masters and Students of the Lanka, were discovered in a sealed cave on the old ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Spirit of Tibetan Buddhism

    by Sam van Schaik ...
    Series series The Spirit of ...
    A leading writer and researcher on Tibet, Sam van Schaik offers an accessible and authoritative introduction to Tibetan Buddhism by examining its key texts, from its origins in the eighth century to teachings practiced across the world today. In addition to demonstrating its richness and historical importance, van Schaik’s fresh translations of and introductions to each text provide a ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Tibetan Zen

    Discovering a Lost Tradition

    by Sam van Schaik ...
    Until the early twentieth century, hardly any traces of the Tibetan tradition of Chinese Chan Buddhism, or Zen, remained. Then the discovery of a sealed cave in Dunhuang, full of manuscripts in various languages dating from the first millennium CE, transformed our understanding of early Zen. This book translates some of the earliest surviving Tibetan Zen manuscripts preserved in Dunhuang. The ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Meditation, Karma, Zen, Tantric and Nirvana are some of the many Buddhist ideas Westerners hear of frequently, even if their meaning has been lost in translation. This vast and complex non-theistic religion is woven into the fabric of Asian civilisations. from India to the Himalayan regions, China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan and elsewhere. What is Buddhism really all about?Introducing Buddha describes ... Read more

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  • Nagarjuna's Middle Way

    Mulamadhyamakakarika

    by Mark Siderits, Shoryu Katsura ...
    Series series Classics of Indian Buddhism
    Winner of the 2014 Khyenste Foundation Translation Prize.Nagarjuna's renowned twenty-seven-chapter Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika) is the foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy. It is the definitive, touchstone presentation of the doctrine of emptiness. Professors Siderits and Katsura prepared this translation using the four surviving ... Read more

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  • Rainbow Body

    The Life and Realization of a Tibetan Yogin, Togden Ugyen Tendzin

    by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu ...
    Translated by Andriano Clemente ...
    Rainbow Body: The Life and Realization of a Tibetan Yogin, Togden Ugyen Tendzin, presents the remarkable life story of Togden Ugyen Tendzin (1888–1962), a Tibetan yogin who in death achieved the “rainbow body,” the release of the physical body in the essence of the five elements and one of the highest spiritual attainments of Dzogchen, recognized as the supreme level of Tibetan Buddhism. His ... Read more

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  • A Leaf in the Wind: A Life's Journey

    by Venerable Adrian Feldmann ...
    Born in Melbourne in 1943, Adrian Feldmann was one of the first Westerners to become a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. On the eve of a three-year, solitary meditation retreat, he recounts the inner and outer journeys that lead him to Nepal where, in the early 1970's, he met two Tibetan lamas, Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. They were among the first lamas to teach Buddhism to ... Read more

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