Category Search Results:  Southern Buddhism: The Theravada School

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 Awakened One, The
 Kohn, Sherab Chodzin (Michael)

A great number of works have been consulted in the preparation of this book. Primary were three traditional sources: the Pali canon, the Lalitavishtara Sutra and the Buddhacharita by Ashvagosha. A labor of love from a disciple of Chogyam Trungpa.   Read more...

 Tibetan Buddhism
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 Awakening of the West, The
 Batchelor, Stephen

"Buddhism is more than an Asian religion. Batchelor's illuminating and timely account of the transmission of Buddhism to the West is essential reading for all who are concerned with the significance of religious experience in the modern world." ~D. L.   Read more...

 Buddha and Buddhism
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 Be an Island
 Khema, Ayya

Before the Buddha died, 2,500 years ago, he told his cousin, "Ananda, be islands unto yourselves, refuges unto yourselves, seeking no external refuge; with the Dharma as your island, the Dharma as your refuge." The 24 talks here are given in that spirit.   Read more...

 Buddha and Buddhism
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 Being Dharma
 Chah, Ajahn
Translated by: Breiter, Paul

Beloved Thai forest "teacher of teachers" transmits Theravada Buddhism through gentle, humorous anecdotes. "This pot-bellied monk who looked more like a bullfrog than a saint had a way of communicating truth that reached across cultural barriers."   Read more...

 Buddha and Buddhism
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 Being Nobody, Going Nowhere
 Khema, Ayya

Winner of the Christmas Humphreys Award: Best Introductory Buddhist Book. A ten-day meditation course in Kundasale, Sri Lanka was the venue for the talks that are published here. The students on the course provided the impetus for the talks.   Read more...

 Buddha and Buddhism
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 Breath by Breath
 Rosenberg, Larry

The book follows the structure of the Anapanasati Sutta, and points out that the Sutta "starts with the most basic aspect of practice - following the in and out breath - and goes all the way to full liberation."    Read more...

 Buddha and Buddhism
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 Buddha's Words, In the
 Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama
Edited, Introduced by: Bodhi, Bhikkhu

"The American scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi, whose voluminous translations have won widespread acclaim, here presents selected discourses of the Buddha from the Pali Canon, the earliest record of what the Buddha taught.   Read more...

 Buddha and Buddhism
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 Buddhacarita or Acts of the Buddha
 Asvaghosa
Translated by: Johnston, E. H.

"The Buddhacarita is the most famous work of Asvaghosa, the well-known Buddhist poet-philosopher supposed to have been a contemporary of King Kaniska of the early 2nd century AD.   Read more...

 Buddha and Buddhism
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 Buddhism: A Way of Life and Thought
 Ross, Nancy Wilson

'The lucid and graceful ease with which Nancy Wilson Ross reviews the history and elucidates the methods of the great schools of Buddhism is unmatched - as far as I know - in the literature of the subject.' ~Joseph Campbell   Read more...

 Buddha and Buddhism
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 Buddhism: Its Essence and Development
 Conze, Edward

"He has opened the stately ground of scholarship to the public so that nothing of value and interest shall be missed. His readers are given an opportunity to understand something that has hitherto been only a mystery." ~The Times (London)   Read more...

 Buddha and Buddhism
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