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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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; ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Vessantara

Plate One Heruka Cakrasamvara Plate Two Vajrabhairava Plate Three Kalacakra Plate Four Vajravarahi Plate Five Vajrayogim in a form also known as Sarvabuddhadakini Plate Six Six-Armed Mahakala Plate Seven Sridevi ...

epub |eng | | Author:Edwin Arnold

For things done and undone. Higher than Indra's ye may lift your lot, And sink it lower than the worm or gnat; The end of many myriad lives is this, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Stephen Batchelor

In other words, Nanavira was convinced that he had become a “stream entrant” and thereby become “independent of the opinions of others regarding the Buddha’s teaching.” He believed that he ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-03 | Author:Karen Armstrong

the flowering trees bloomed; the fruit trees were weighed down by the burden of their fruit; the trunk lotuses bloomed on the trunks of trees . . . The system ...