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azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-11-02 | Author:Donald S. Lopez Jr.
And as science changes, does Buddhism, renowned for its doctrine of impermanence, remain ever the same? Historians have duly documented the various transformations of Buddhist thought that have occurred across ...
( Category:
Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-03-25 | Author:Richard Barron
The causes of all these situations is said to be the four ways in which moral failings occur-that is, due to ignorance, lack of respect, heedlessness, and a plethora of ...
( Category:
Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-03-17 | Author:John B. Buescher
A TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST SECTION OF NGAWANG BELDEN'S An Explanation of the Meaning of the Conventional and the Ultimate in the Four Tenet Systems, The Spring Cuckoo's Song of ...
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Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Sarah Harding
The Ḍākinī’s Personal Instructions: Five Short Texts on Yogic Techniques 8 INTRODUCTION THESE FIVE BRIEF personal or oral instructions (zhal gdams) that are attributed to Niguma in the Peking Tengyur ...
( Category:
Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:Jacob P. Dalton
In many ways, the Dalai Lama’s language here follows the well-worn tracks of the language of ritual violence and of past Tibetan prophets warning of threats from the borderlands. Pointing ...
( Category:
Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Robert Thurman
A particularly sad fact of human history is that conflicts have arisen in the name of religion. Even today, individuals are killed, their communities destroyed, and societies destabilized as a ...
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Diplomacy
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:Sam van Schaik
WHOSE GAME? By the close of the nineteenth century, British India was very different from what it had been in the days of Warren Hastings and George Bogle. The gentleman ...
( Category:
Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-12-07 | Author:Jose Ignacio Cabezon
Accordingly, when many Mongol troops led by one called Khathasu arrived that Pig year (1587), they rushed from Oyug33 up to Nyugda.34 At that time, I had no aquaintance with ...
( Category:
Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-02-03 | Author:Santideva
Chapter VIII The Perfection of Meditation 1. Upon developing zeal in that way, one should stabilize the mind in meditative concentration, since a person whose mind is distracted lives between ...
( Category:
Inspirational & Religious
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-11-14 | Author:McMahan, David L. [McMahan, David L.]
If we look into this sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. If the sunshine is not there, the forest cannot grow.... And if ...
( Category:
Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Khyentse, Dilgo [Khyentse, Dilgo]
[*In which every instruction of the Buddha can be integrated for the enlightenment of an individual practitioner; called “wondrous” because texts, precepts and oral instructions are all brought into harmony.] ...
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Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-06-01 | Author:Jampa Mackenzie Stewart
The Kagyupa order is a loose conglomerate of monastic centers, each of which functions independently, while remaining loyal to the common history and heritage-rather like a necklace with many strings. ...
( Category:
Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-06-25 | Author:Heidi I. Koppl
Mipham is adamant in advocating the intrinsic purity of all phenomena and rebukes the idea of purity or divinities being merely skillful means (thabs), an approach already evident in Rongzom's ...
( Category:
Religion, Politics & State
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Lopez, Donald S. [Lopez, Donald S.]
INTERLUDE A Primer on Buddhist Meditation An essential element in the modernization of meditation is the claim that a particular form of practice is not “religious.” It may be “Buddhist,” ...
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Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:His Holiness the Dalai Lamai
Three Extra Verses The following three verses continue with the comparison of the Mahayana scriptures and the Hinayana scriptures. However, according to the Indian commentator Prajnakaramati, these three verses are ...
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Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
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