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Establishing Appearances as Divine: Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity by Heidi I. Koppl
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 )
The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life (The Terry Lectures Series) by Lopez Donald S
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,” ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
Practicing Wisdom by His Holiness the Dalai Lamai
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 ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Lewis Bernard
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-03-24 | Author:Lewis, Bernard [Lewis, Bernard]

CHAPTER V SATAN AND THE SOVIETS America’s new role—and the Middle East’s perception of it—was vividly illustrated by an incident in Pakistan in 1979. On November 20, a band of ...
( Category: Islam January 20,2015 )
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
epub, mobi |eng | 1807-01-18 | Author:Thomas Paine [Paine, Thomas]

Table of the Prophets, with the time in which they lived before Christ, and also before the books of Kings and Chronicles were written: Name: Isaiah Years before Christ: 760 ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2015 )
Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
azw3 |eng | 1953-12-22 | Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To Eberhard Bethge [Tegel] 21 February 1944 Dear Eberhard, It was an indescribable joy to hear from you! And also from Maria today, that you wrote to her on my ...
( Category: Christianity January 18,2015 )
Introduction to the Lotus Sutra by Yoshiro Tamura
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Yoshiro Tamura

Good, good, if you can protect those who receive and keep even the name of the Dharma Flower Sutra, your blessings will be immeasurable.184 People have often recited passages such ...
( Category: Buddhism January 13,2015 )
Sinister Yogis by David Gordon White
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David Gordon White

It is in the scriptures of Mahāyāna and tantric Buddhism, however, that rays become the prime media for the transmission of teachings and the transformative process of initiation and yoga.145 ...
( Category: Buddhism January 13,2015 )
The Jew is Not My Enemy by Tarek Fatah
epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Tarek Fatah [Fatah, Tarek]

Although references to Jews in Hadith literature can be seen as hostile to Jews as a people, a study of the Quran reveals a much more positive image. In fact, ...
( Category: Islam January 11,2015 )
Medieval Christianity: A New History by Kevin Madigan
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Kevin Madigan [Madigan, Kevin]

19. St. Francis of Assisi as an old man. Detail from Madonna and Child with Angels, by Cimabue (1240–1302). Photo credit: Scala/Art Resource, NY. To the distress occasioned by unwanted ...
( Category: Christianity January 11,2015 )
The Buddha by John S. Strong
mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:John S. Strong

6 Daily routines, miracles, and distant journeys Throughout the next forty years and more of his career, the Buddha continues to live in Northern India, visiting and revisiting different communities, ...
( Category: Buddhism January 10,2015 )
Tea Party Catholic by Samuel Gregg
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-05 | Author:Samuel Gregg

Religion and Liberty These and similar questions were of intense interest to Alexis de Tocqueville during his visit to America in the early 1830s. Though Tocqueville struggled for most of ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism January 8,2015 )
Buddha: The Gospel by Paul Carus
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-19 | Author:Paul Carus

The Annihilation of Suffering The Buddha said: "What, my friends, is evil? Killing is evil; stealing is evil; yielding to sexual passion is evil; lying is evil; slandering is evil; ...
( Category: Buddhism January 6,2015 )
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:Sam Harris

Document Outline Cover Contents 1 Reason in Exile 2 The Nature of Belief 3 In the Shadow of God 4 The Problem with Islam 5 West of Eden 6 A ...
( Category: Rationalism January 6,2015 )
After the prophet the epic story of the
mobi | | | Author:Lesley Hazleton

( Category: Islam January 6,2015 )

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