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Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki |
Studies in the Lankavatara Sutra |
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| The title Lankavatara might mean entering Lanka (Perhaps referring to the temporary Mahayana period of Ceylon), suggesting that the doctrine of this scripture are possibly consistent with earlier Buddhism preserved in the Pali language.
Suzuki has greatly helped the reader of the basic scripture by discussing the main ideas. He tells how to study this scripture, compares it with the popular Zen Buddhism discusses such typical and important doctrines as Mind-only the Triple body of the Buddha... |
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Adrian Snodgrass |
The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Shingon Buddhism (2 Vol) |
$109.95 $65.97 |
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| The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Singon Buddhism surveys and re-interprets the vast work of traditional and modern Japanese scholarship on the twin Mandalas. Adrian Snodgrass of the University of Sydney (Australia) has spent several years of detail the iconography of each and every deity of these two Mandalas as well as to bring out their traditional symbolism that reflects the Tantric thought in its earliest phases. Tantrism or Mantrayana reached China and Japan earlier than it did in... |
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C.W. Huntington |
The Emptiness of Emptiness: An Introduction to Early Indian Madhyamika |
$24.99 $14.99 |
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| The Madhyamika or Middle Way a school of buddhist thought that originated in India in the second or third century, was a decisive influence in the subsequent development of Mahayana Buddhism.
In a new approach to its study, the Emptiness of Emptiness reconsiders the central doctrine of emptiness and shows that the Madhyamika critique of all philosophical views is both subtler and more radical than most western interpretation indicates
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E.H. Johnston |
Buddhacarita or Acts of the Buddha |
$16.95 $10.17 |
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| 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 a.c. Of the twenty-eight cantos of the epic poem a
little less than half is now available in the original, but complete
translations in Chinese and Tibetan have been preserved.
This edition consists of three parts. The first part contains the Sanskrit text and the second the translation of the first fourteen... |
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Geshe Kelsang Gyatso |
Meaningful to Behold: The Bodhisattva's Way of Life |
$16.95 $10.17 |
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| Many people have the compassionate wish to benefit others, but few understand
how to effectively accomplish this in daily life. Bodhisattvas are friends of
the world, who have such strong compassion they are able to transform all their
daily activities into a means to benefit others.
The path of the Bodhisattva was exquisitely explained in the universally
loved poem Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life by the 8th century master
Shantideva. With this commentary by Geshe Kelsang,... |
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Jack Maguire |
Dhammapada |
$9.95 $5.97 |
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| The Dhammapada ("Path of the Buddha's Teachings") is a
daily inspiration for millions of Buddhists all over the world and for people of
all spiritual traditions who have been impressed by its beauty and power.
These words-believed to have been spoken by the Buddha himself over 2,500 years
ago - contain most of Buddhism's central teachings.
Nearly every line of the Dhammapada, from the first "All that we are is the result of what we have thought," is quotable and worth ruminating... |
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E.M. Hare |
The Book of The Gradual Sayings (5 Vols) |
$88.99 $53.39 |
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| The Book of the Gradual Sayings is a five volume work which presents the
Anguttara Nikaya or the More Numbered Suttas. The Anguttara Nikaya
consists of 9, 557 suttas in the collection of discourses of the Buddha.
The text runs in these five volumes:
Vol.I: Ones, Twos, Threes;
Vol.II: The Book of the Fours;
Vol.III: The Books of the Fives and Sixes;
Vol.IV: The Books of the Sevens, Eights and Nines;
and
Vol.V: The Books of the Tens... |
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Har Dayal |
Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature |
$21.99 $13.19 |
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| This present work consists of seven chapters that deal with the Bodhisattva doctrine as expounded in the principal Buddhist Sanskrit literature. Besides a general index appended at the end, the book contains comprehensive notes and references. It is written in a very lucid style that speaks of the writer's scholarly acumen and mastery of literary art.
The work describes the nature of the Bodhisattva doctrines with particular stress on the distinct characteristics of arhat, bodhisattva, and... |
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S. Radhakrishnan |
The Dhammapada With Introductory Essays, Pali Text, English Translation and Notes |
$10.99 $6.59 |
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| This is an internationally acclaimed translation of a classic Buddhist text, presented in both Pali and English by one of India's foremost philosophers and religious authorities.
S. Radhakrishan provides full explanatory notes to the text, as well as an introductory essay about Gautama Buddha, who, from very early times, was believed to have uttered the verses of the Dhammapada. |
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Sister Vajira |
The Dhamma-Cakka-Pavattana Sutta |
$2.99 $1.79 |
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| Buddhism is considered by many to be more than a religion. Its founder
and teacher, Siddhartha Gautama (later known as the Lord Buddha), was the
earthly saint who postualted the Buddhist ideas. The Dhamma-Chakka-Pavattana Sutta is a translation of Lord Buddha's original sermon spoken to a gathering at Sarnath just outside Varanasi. Devoid of superfluous issues, it gives the original Pali scriptures in parallel. |
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Karl H. Potter (Ed.) |
The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies (Vol. 7) |
$89.49 $53.69 |
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| Soon after the time of Gautama the Buddha a literature began to grow involving the reported words of Gautama, the rules and procedures governing the order of monks he founded, and attempts to set forth his philosophical teachings as understood and developed by his immediate pupils and the schools of Buddhist thought which grew in succeeding generations. The present volume undertakes to summarize the gist of these philosophical teachings, termed Abhidharma, from the first texts that developed... |
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Mark Tatz, Tr. |
The Skill in Means (Upayakausalya) Sutra |
$10.83 $6.50 |
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| This rare sutra, ancient but timely, has long been treated with circumspection because of its liberal attitude toward sexuality and other ethical concerns.
One of the original statements of the early Mahayana School, it is here collated from Chinese and Tibetan translations, and from passages that remain in the original Sanskrit. Originally part of a larger sutra on the six perfections that included the well-known perfection of Wisdom sutra, the Skill in Means sutra explicates the other five... |
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Ramesh S. Balsekar |
A Buddha’s Babble |
$12.99 $7.79 |
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| In his latest book Ramesh Balsekar, the banker-sage from Mumbai and author of over 30 best selling books on Advaita philosophy, presents a 3600 view of life and living.
In this collection of insightful brief notes, he lucidly provides pointers to the Truth in the most direct manner possible. With delightful humour and a crisp writing style he debunks misconceptions, steers you clear of pitfalls to bring you back to the core question: what is the spiritual seeker really seeking?
A most... |
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T.W. Rhys Davids |
Dialogues of the Buddha (3 Pts.) |
$93.49 $56.09 |
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| The Digha Nikaya or "the collection of long doctrinary lectures" of the Buddha is one of the five Nikayas or collections belonging to the Suttapitaka or "the basket of (Buddha`s) discourses" which is one of the three majorr collections of Pali Buddhist texts, the other two being Vinayapitaka and Abhidhammapitaka.
It consists of 34 long suttas of which each individual one treats intensively some particular point or points of the doctrine. The Buddha, like other Indian teachers of his time,... |
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Lord Chalmers |
Buddha's Teachings |
$39.95 $23.97 |
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| Buddha's Teachings contains a metrical English rendering of an important
Buddhist work in Pali named `Sutta-Nipata' with the original text in Romanized
version on the opposite page. The Pali Canon, as it has come down to us, is
divided into three Pitakas or `baskets', viz. Vinaya-Pitaka Sutta-Pitaka and
Abhidhamma-Pitaka. The Sutta-Nipata, translated here, contains an ancient,
probably the most ancient, part of the Sutta-Pitaka. It belongs to that portion
of the Sutta-Pitaka which... |
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Lama Doboom Tulku |
Buddhist Translations |
$16.95 $10.17 |
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| The history of translation of Buddhist texts from Sanskrit and Tibetan in
various phases had been marked by the imposition of Western conceptual scheme
upon Buddhist material. The result has been distortion to a greater or lesser
extent of the original genuine Buddhist message. Other factors too have been
responsible for incaccurate translations. The goal should however be to ensure
translations which will speak with genuine Buddhist voice in a language and
style comprehensible to... |
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Jaideva Singh (Ed.) |
Conception of Buddhist Nirvana of Stcherbatsky |
$31.95 $19.17 |
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| This book provides as English translation of Nagarjuna's chapters on
Casuality and Nirvana and Chandrakirti's comprehensive commentary on the
Sanskrit text and presents a rare exposition of the Madhyamaka Dialectic. The
book is edited by Jaideva singh with an exhaustive introduction, containing the
historical background of the Madhymaka Philosophy, a lucid exposition of its
merciless logic, an admirable presentation of its uncanny metaphysics and a
systematic account of its... |
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Dipak Kumar Barua |
An Analytical Study of Four Nikayas |
$36.49 $21.89 |
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| The first four Nikaya-texts are of inestimable value since they provide important source materials to study the religious/cultural history of the contemporary period. Because they vividly present the daily life of the people of ancient India, they are, from the sociological point of view, of utmost significance. The importance of the Nikayas can neither be gainsaid nor exaggerated. In this book an attempt has been made to introduce the first four Nikaya texts in their entirety.The... |
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Charles Willemen |
Essence of Scholasticism |
$33.49 $20.09 |
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| The Essence of Scholasticism is a meditation manual, leading to arhatship. It is the Gandharan cultural area, i.e. Bactria. Brobably composed in the first century BCE, it was commented on and elaborated in several sastras, the best known being the Abhidharmakosabhasya of the fifth century.
The Essence and the Astagrantha are the basic treatises of the non-Vailbhasika sarvastivadins, i.e. of the sautrantikas, of the Gandharan cultural area. These texts were translated in China in the fourth... |
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V.V.S. Saibaba |
Discourses in Buddhist Classics |
$17.99 $10.79 |
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| Discourses in Buddhist Classics is primarily designed with twofold objective viz.,
(a) to serve as the tool for post-graduate teaching of the Course in "Philosophy of the Buddha", and (b) to sustain the interest of the enterprising student by providing comprehensive understanding of Theravada and Mahayana schools of Buddhism.
This work serves as a useful companion for the scholars and researchers who are seriously interested in the history of Buddhist literature; who wish to probe... |
