Buddhism
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The Thought of Sangharakshita
Sangharakshita (1925-2018) was a Buddhist writer and teacher, founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community (previously FWBO). Apart from his practical achievements, Sangharakshita was an original thinker on the adaptation of Buddhism to modern conditions, an autodidact whose intellectual cre...
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Many Buddhas, One Buddha
Many Buddhas, One Buddha introduces a significant section of the important early Indian Buddhist text known as the Avad ānaśataka, or "One Hundred Stories", and explores some of its perspectives on buddhahood. This text, composed in Sanskrit and dating to perhaps the third to fifth centuries of the...
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Dudjom Rinpoche's Vajrakīlaya Works
It is often assumed that a revelation must be new and innovative, and indeed, that the point of a new sacred text must be to revitalize the heritage. Yet in the Tibetan Nyingma Treasure Revelatory tradition, the ongoing vitality of textual production often has more to do with the fresh blessings, ra...
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Buddhist Path, Buddhist Teachings
This collection brings together scholarly contributions relating to the research of Lance Cousins (1942-2015), an influential and prolific scholar of early Buddhism. Cousins' interests spanned several related fields from the study of Abhidhamma and early Buddhist schools to Pāli literature and medit...
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The Buddha's Middle Way
Robert M. Ellis, Stephen Batchelor
The Middle Way was first taught explicitly by the Buddha. It is the first teaching offered by the Buddha in his first address, and the basis of his practical method in meditation, ethics, and wisdom. It is often mentioned in connection with Buddhist teachings, yet the full case for its importance ha...
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Setting Out on the Great Way
Setting Out on the Great Way brings together different perspectives on the origins and early history of Mahayana Buddhism and delves into selected aspects of its formative period. As the variety of the religion which conquered East Asia and also provided the matrix for the later development of Buddh...
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The Life of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya
Elizabeth J. Harris, John L. Crow
This is the first biography of Allan Bennett, one of the first British men to gain higher ordination as a Buddhist monk and one of the seminal figures in the development of Buddhism in the UK.
Bennett rejected Christianity early in his life and turned to late nineteenth century new relig...
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The Unofficial Buddhist
What is an unofficial Buddhist? Someone whose monastery is their living room! This book explores Buddhist-inspired teaching and practice for today’s secular world – but outside the monastic traditions of Buddhism.
The Unofficial Buddhist seeks to find a middle way between ancient and mod...
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Embodied Meaning and Integration
Embodied meaning is a new approach to understanding the significance of all symbols, including those of language, as association in human experience. It has been developed since the 1980’s, but its full practical significance has rarely been applied, nor have the full challenges that it presents...
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The Satipatthanasutta with Pemasiri Thera's Commentary
This book is a new contribution on the subject of mindfulness, having at its core the classic Buddhist meditation text, the Satipaṭṭhānasutta (“Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness”) in the original Pāli, translated here into English alongside the comments and explanations of the text by P...