Religious Studies
azw3 |eng | 2010-06-16 | Author:Berzin, Alexander [Berzin, Alexander]

Whether or not we keep a distance from disturbing or abusive teachers, it is important to try to stop dwelling on their perplexing behavior or faults. Obsession with such matters ...
( Category: Education January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Trungpa, Chogyam [Trungpa, Chogyam]

Part Two MANDALA OF THE FIVE BUDDHA FAMILIES Karmê Chöling, 1974 ONE The Basic Ground IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND the mandala of the five buddha families, I think it is ...
( Category: Eastern January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-05-06 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan [Wallace, B. Alan]

The intertwining between imagination and perception can now be explored in greater detail, in terms of the dynamic relationship at their emergence in any moment of experience. Husserl realized that ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:B. Alan Wallace

If memories are indeed stored in a continuum that precedes this life, we might well ask, why is it that we do not remember our past lives? Tibetan Buddhism likens ...
( Category: Comparative Religion January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Sara L. McClintock

The second explanation for the motive behind the proof of the Buddha’s authority would preserve the intuition that the proof of the Buddha’s authority is intended to ground the Buddhist ...
( Category: Religious January 22,2015 )
azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-09-13 | Author:Dalai Lama

The joy of meeting someone you love, the sadness of losing a close friend, the richness of a vivid dream, the serenity of a walk through a garden on a ...
( Category: Science & Religion 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,” ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:Tam, Shek-wing [Tam, Shek-wing]

CHAPTER 13 Threefold Space and the Four Liberations–The Bardo of Meditation THE THIRD BARDO TEACHING is the bardo of meditation, known as natural liberation of awareness. The experience of natural ...
( Category: Death January 22,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-09 | Author:Candace Bure

1. Avoid trouble when you know it's lurking around. 2. Pretend that you're brave even if you're not. 3. Find a buddy who will stand by your side. Instead of ...
( Category: Theology January 21,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Robert Spencer

7 A Shared Sexual Ethic? Indeed, in the area of sexual morality, the correspondence of Islamic statutes with Catholic teaching seems exact. The Qur’an instructs: And approach not fornication; surely ...
( Category: Sociology January 20,2015 )
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 )
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 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-06 | Author:Ilham Dilman

9 HUME AND KANT Reason, passion and free will 1 ‘Passion and reason, self-division’s cause’ Oh, wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot, and ...
( Category: Philosophy January 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-16 | Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

AT THE RISK of oversimplifying the life cycle of a high-mass star, it is sufficient to recognize that a star is in the business of making and releasing energy, which ...
( Category: Astronomy January 17,2015 )