Essential Tibetan Buddhism

Essential Tibetan Buddhism
Author: Robert A. Thurman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 337
Release: 1996-11-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0062510517

WINNER OF THE TRICYCLE PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE Expertly and lucidly surveying the basic varieties and teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, renowned scholar Robert Thurman makes this authentic spiritual tradition available to contemporary Western audiences

Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism

Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
Author: John Powers
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2007-11-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1559392827

This is the most comprehensive and authoritative introduction to Tibetan Buddhism available to date, covering a wide range of topics, including history, doctrines, meditation, practices, schools, religious festivals, and major figures. The revised edition contains expanded discussions of recent Tibetan history and tantra and incorporates important new publications in the field. Beginning with a summary of the Indian origins of Tibetan Buddhism and how it eventually was brought to Tibet, it explores Tibetan Mahayana philosophy and tantric methods for personal transformation. The four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as Bön, are explored in depth from a nonsectarian point of view. This new and expanded edition is a systematic and wonderfully clear presentation of Tibetan Buddhist views and practices.

Essential Buddhism

Essential Buddhism
Author: Jack Maguire
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-09-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1476761965

Four hundred million people call themselves Buddhists today. Yet most Westerners know little about this powerful, Eastern-spawned faith. How did it begin? What do its adherents believe? Why are so many Westerners drawn to it? Essential Buddhism responds to these questions and many more, offering an accessible, global perspective on the religion's past, present, and future. It identifies how the principal concepts and practices originated and evolved through diverse cultural adaptations into three basic formats: * Theraveda (including Vipassana, brought from Vietnam in the 1960s and including such practitioners as Jack Kornfield and Jon Kapat-Zinn) * Mahayana (including Zen Buddhism, originally brought to America by Japanese teachers after World War II and popularized by Jack Kerouac and Thomas Merton) * Vajrayana (including Tibetan Buddhism, from the teachers who fled the Chinese takeover of Tibet in the 1950s as well as the Dalai Lama, and embraced by Allen Ginsberg, Richard Gere, and countless others) Essential Buddhism is the single best resource for the novice and the expert alike, exploring the depths of Buddhism's popularity and illuminating its tenets and sensible approach to living. Written in the lucid prose of a longtime professional storyteller, and full of Buddhist tales, scriptural quotes, ancient stories, and contemporary insights, Essential Buddhism is the first complete guide to the faith and the phenomenon.

Essential Chan Buddhism

Essential Chan Buddhism
Author: Guo Jun
Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0983358915

An inspiring introduction to Chan Buddhism in a value-priced hardcover edition. Perfect for daily spiritual guidance and gifts.

Bla Ma'i Mchod Pa

Bla Ma'i Mchod Pa
Author: Robert A. F. Thurman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2005-02-10
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780743257626

The most prominent expert on Buddhism in the West presents his most importantteaching and meditation practice for everyday life.

Inside Tibetan Buddhism

Inside Tibetan Buddhism
Author: Robert A. F. Thurman
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1995
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Rich in detail and visually powerful, this compelling picture book provides insight into the intricate and profound world of Tibetan Buddhism. Striking images of sacred spaces, participants, art, and ritual choreography are used to explain such precepts as karma, emptiness, compassion, death and rebirth, the Eight Fold Path, and the processes of Tantric deity practice. 150 color and black-and-white photos.

Essential Mind Training

Essential Mind Training
Author:
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2011-11-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0861717147

Essential Mind Training is the first volume in the Tibetan Classics series, which aims to make available accessible paperback editions of key Tibetan Buddhist works drawn from Wisdom Publications' Library of Tibetan Classics. The key to happiness is not the eradication of all problems but rather the development of a mind capable of transforming any problem into a cause of happiness. Essential Mind Training is full of guidance for cultivating new mental habits for mastering our thoughts and emotions. This volume contains eighteen individual works selected from Mind Training: The Great Collection, the earliest compilation of mind-training (lojong) literature. The first volume of the historic Tibetan Classics series, Essential Mind Training includes both lesser-known and renowned classics such as Eight Verses on Mind Training and The Seven-Point Mind Training. These texts offer methods for practicing the golden rule of learning to love your neighbor as yourself and are full of practical and down-to-earth advice. The techniques explained here, by enhancing our capacity for compassion, love, and perseverance, can give us the freedom to embrace the world.

Wisdom Is Bliss

Wisdom Is Bliss
Author: Robert Thurman
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2021-08-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1401943438

"Robert Thurman is a living treasure, one of today's most provocative spiritual thinkers." - Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence Robert Thurman, the preeminent scholar and interpreter of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy for the modern world, leads us on a joyful exploration into the nature of reality through Buddha's threefold curriculum of "super-education." "Buddha had to be an educator, rather than a prophet or religion founder, since he had achieved his goal of exact and complete understanding of reality by using reason, experiments to open his own mind, and vision to do so," Thurman writes. "From his own experience, he could help [others] as a teacher by streamlining the process. He could not just transplant his realization into their minds. They could not get their own realizations just by believing whatever he said. He could only provide them with a prospect of full realization along a path of learning and experiencing they could follow-they would have to travel on their own." This book is your invitation to travel that same road. Deeply felt and bracingly direct, it doesn't teach about the teaching-it is the teaching. Get ready to get real, and have fun along the way, as you chart a path to reliable, lasting happiness.

Vajra Wisdom

Vajra Wisdom
Author: Shechen Gyaltsap IV
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0834829002

Vajra Wisdom presents the commentaries of two great nineteenth-century Nyingma masters that guide practitioners engaged in development stage practice through a series of straightforward instructions. The rarity of this kind of material in English makes it indispensable for practitioners and scholars alike. The goal of development stage meditation in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition is to directly realize the inseparability of phenomena and emptiness. Preceded by initiation and oral instructions, the practitioner arrives at this view through the profound methods of deity visualization, mantra recitation, and meditative absorption.

Gates to Buddhist Practice

Gates to Buddhist Practice
Author: Chagdud Tulku
Publisher: Padma Publishing
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2012-05-20
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781881847144

This collection of teachings presents the traditional wisdom of the Vajrayana path of Tibeta Buddhism. It is a brilliant guide to the spiritual path ~ simple yet profound, intimate and immediate.