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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Buddhism > General

The Buddha's Teaching - A Buddhistic Analysis (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): G.A. Somaratne The Buddha's Teaching - A Buddhistic Analysis (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
G.A. Somaratne
R3,628 Discovery Miles 36 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book approaches the Dhamma, the Buddha's teaching, from a Buddhistic perspective, viewing various individual teachings presented in hundreds of early discourses of Pali canon, comprehending them under a single systemic thought of a single individual called the Buddha. It explicates the structure of this thought, going through various contextual teachings and teaching categories of the discourses, treating them as necessary parts of a liberating thought that constitutes the right view of one who embraces the Buddha's teaching as his or her sole philosophy of life. It interprets the diverse individual dhammas as being in congruence with each other; and as contributory to forming the whole of the Buddha's teaching, the Dhamma. By exploring some selected topics such as ignorance, configurations, not-self, and nibbana in thirteen chapters, the book enables readers to understand the whole (the Dhamma) in relation to the parts (the dhammas), and the parts in relation to the whole, while realizing the importance of studying every single dhamma category or topic not for its own sake but for understand the entirety of the teaching. This way of viewing and explaining the teachings of the discourses enables readers to clearly comprehend the teaching of the Buddha in early Buddhism.

Joyful Path of Good Fortune - The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment (Paperback, Revised Ed): Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Joyful Path of Good Fortune - The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment (Paperback, Revised Ed)
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
R576 R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Save R53 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A clear and comprehensive explanation of the entire path to enlightenment. We all have the potential for self-transformation, and a limitless capacity for the growth of good qualities, but to fulfil this potential we need to know what to do along every stage of our spiritual journey. With this book, Geshe Kelsang offers us step-by-step guidance on the meditation practices that will lead us to lasting inner peace and happiness. With extraordinary clarity, he presents all Buddha's teachings in the order in which they are to be practised, enriching his explanation with stories and illuminating analogies. This is a perfect guidebook to the Buddhist path.

Thanh Van Tang, Tap 19 - Cau-xa Luan, Quyen 2 - Bia Cung (Vietnamese, Hardcover): Tue Sy Thanh Van Tang, Tap 19 - Cau-xa Luan, Quyen 2 - Bia Cung (Vietnamese, Hardcover)
Tue Sy; Produced by Hoi Dong Hoang Phap
R1,052 Discovery Miles 10 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Thus I Have Seen - Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism (Hardcover): Andy Rotman Thus I Have Seen - Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism (Hardcover)
Andy Rotman
R2,984 Discovery Miles 29 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Although Buddhism is often depicted as a religion of meditators and philosophers, some of the earliest writings extant in India offer a very different portrait of the Buddhist practitioner. In Indian Buddhist narratives from the early centuries of the Common Era, most lay religious practice consists not of reading, praying, or meditating, but of visually engaging with certain kinds of objects. These visual practices, moreover, are represented as the primary means of cultivating faith, a necessary precondition for proceeding along the Buddhist spiritual path. In Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism, Andy Rotman examines these visual practices and how they function as a kind of skeleton key for opening up Buddhist conceptualizations about the world and the ways it should be navigated.
Rotman's analysis is based primarily on stories from the Divyavadana (Divine Stories), one of the most important collections of ancient Buddhist narratives from India. Though discourses of the Buddha are well known for their opening words, "thus have I heard" - for Buddhist teachings were first preserved and transmitted orally - the Divyavadana presents a very different model for disseminating the Buddhist dharma. Devotees are enjoined to look, not just hear, and visual legacies and lineages are shown to trump their oral counterparts. As Rotman makes clear, this configuration of the visual fundamentally transforms the world of the Buddhist practitioner, changing what one sees, what one believes, and what one does.

The Buddha's Path of Peace - A Step-By-Step Guide (Hardcover): Geoffrey Hunt The Buddha's Path of Peace - A Step-By-Step Guide (Hardcover)
Geoffrey Hunt
R2,734 Discovery Miles 27 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book the core of the Buddha's teaching is comprehensively cast in modern models of thought - borrowed from science and philosophy - and informed by contemporary concerns. It sets out the basic instructions for the life-changing way of the Buddha (the so-called 'Noble Eightfold Path') wholly in the context of contemporary and everyday life, personal experience, human relationships, work, environmental concern and the human wish for peace. The reader, who may be completely new to Buddhism, is accompanied along the Path with practical exercises that are fully explained. The Path begins with an introductory overview and then proceeds through Right Speech, Right Acting, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Concentration, Right Mindfulness, Right Understanding and Right Resolve, and concludes with a short chapter on the relevance of the Path to the current global crisis. The reader is mentored throughout by practical meditational and contemplative exercises, with tables, diagrams, analogies and stories. Gradually the reader who has followed this handbook with commitment will feel the benefits of growing peacefulness, wisdom and compassion.

La Vida del Buda (Spanish, Hardcover): Edith Holland La Vida del Buda (Spanish, Hardcover)
Edith Holland; Revised by Pedro Jose Barrios Rodriguez; Translated by Carolina Haro Guerrero
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Encyclopedia of Monasticism - 2 volume set (Hardcover): William M. Johnston Encyclopedia of Monasticism - 2 volume set (Hardcover)
William M. Johnston
R14,630 Discovery Miles 146 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This well-written, well-researched reference source brings together monastic life with particular attention to three traditions: Buddhist, Eastern Christian, and Western Christian."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001.

Quy nguyen tr?c ch? - Tuy?n t?p v?n th? Ph?t giao khuy?n tu T?nh ?? (Vietnamese, Hardcover): ??i S? Tong B?n Quy nguyen trực chỉ - Tuyển tập văn thơ Phật giao khuyến tu Tịnh độ (Vietnamese, Hardcover)
Đại Sư Tong Bổn; Translated by Nguyễn Minh Tiến
R763 Discovery Miles 7 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Thanh Van Tang, Tap 18 - Cau-xa Luan, Quyen 1 - Bia Cung (Vietnamese, Hardcover): Tue Sy Thanh Van Tang, Tap 18 - Cau-xa Luan, Quyen 1 - Bia Cung (Vietnamese, Hardcover)
Tue Sy
R878 Discovery Miles 8 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Five Mental Hindrances (Paperback): Nyanaponika A. Thera Five Mental Hindrances (Paperback)
Nyanaponika A. Thera
R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Discourse on the All Embracing Net of Views - Brahmajala Sutta and Its Commentaries (Paperback): Bhikkhu Bodhi Discourse on the All Embracing Net of Views - Brahmajala Sutta and Its Commentaries (Paperback)
Bhikkhu Bodhi
R1,183 Discovery Miles 11 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Moving Against the Stream, 23 (Hardcover): Sanghara Kshita Moving Against the Stream, 23 (Hardcover)
Sanghara Kshita
R953 Discovery Miles 9 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this volume of memoirs we find Sangharakshita after twenty years in the East arriving back in England at the invitation of the English Sangha Trust. He expects to stay no more than a few months, but the months become years and, as he comes to know the then small world of British Buddhism, he realizes that after all it is here that he may best be able to work for the good of Buddhism , as one of his teachers had once exhorted him. After a farewell tour of his friends and teachers in India, he goes on to found a new Buddhist movement and to ordain twelve men and women into a new Buddhist Order. The answer to the question Why did Sangharakshita found a new Buddhist movement and Order? is in these pages. 'Moving Against the Stream' has for its backdrop 1960s Britain, with figures as diverse as Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and David Cooper, the anti-psychiatry psychiatrist. In the world of British Buddhism there is Christmas Humphreys, founder of the London Buddhist Society, and Maurice Walshe, translator of the Digha Nikaya, and many others. Here also is the story of a friendship that was to be deeply significant for Sangharakshita. As he and Terry Delamare drive across Europe visiting the sites of ancient Greece and the churches, museums and great works of art of Renaissance Italy, Sangharakshita makes vivid the role that higher culture can play in spiritual life. This volume includes '1970 - A Retrospect' in which Sangharakshita tells of a year that begins with lectures in Paris, continues with three months at Yale University as a visiting lecturer, and concludes back in Britain as he resumes his work for the Buddhist movement. A new phase is beginning.

Jhanus in Theravada Buddhist Meditation (Paperback): Henepola Gunaratana Jhanus in Theravada Buddhist Meditation (Paperback)
Henepola Gunaratana
R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Thanh Van Tang, Tap 16 - Luat Tu Phan, Quyen 4 - Bia Cung (Vietnamese, Hardcover): Thich Dong Minh, Tue Sy Thanh Van Tang, Tap 16 - Luat Tu Phan, Quyen 4 - Bia Cung (Vietnamese, Hardcover)
Thich Dong Minh, Tue Sy; Produced by Hoi Dong Hoang Phap
R841 Discovery Miles 8 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
V?ng v?c m?t m?nh long (b?n bia c?ng) - Tuy?n t?p v?n ch??ng nhi?u tac gi? (Vietnamese, Hardcover): Nguy?n Hi?n ??c Vằng vặc một mảnh long (bản bia cứng) - Tuyển tập văn chương nhiều tac giả (Vietnamese, Hardcover)
Nguyễn Hiền Đức; Edited by Nguyễn Minh Tiến
R760 Discovery Miles 7 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Buddha and His Dharma (Paperback): Ambedkar The Buddha and His Dharma (Paperback)
Ambedkar
R977 Discovery Miles 9 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Iselin Frydenlund, Michael Jerryson Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Iselin Frydenlund, Michael Jerryson
R4,346 Discovery Miles 43 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first to critically analyze Buddhist-Muslim relations in Theravada Buddhist majority states in South and Southeast Asia. Asia is home to the largest population of Buddhists and Muslims. In recent years, this interfaith communal living has incurred conflicts, such as the ethnic-religious conflicts in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Experts from around the world collaborate to provide a comprehensive look into religious pluralism and religious violence. The book is divided into two sections. The first section provides historical background to the three countries with the largest Buddhist-Muslim relations. The second section has chapters that focus on specific encounters between Buddhists and Muslims, which includes anti-Buddhist sentiments in Bangladesh, the role of gender in Muslim-Buddhist relations and the rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Rohingya sentiments in Myanmar. By exploring historical fluctuations over time-paying particular attention to how state-formations condition Muslim-Buddhist entanglements-the book shows the processual and relational aspects of religious identity constructions and Buddhist-Muslim interactions in Theravada Buddhist majority states.

Manual of Light - AND The Manual of the Path to Higher Knowledge (Paperback): Ledi Sayadaw Manual of Light - AND The Manual of the Path to Higher Knowledge (Paperback)
Ledi Sayadaw
R203 Discovery Miles 2 030 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Life of Buddha (Hardcover, New edition): Edward J. Thomas The Life of Buddha (Hardcover, New edition)
Edward J. Thomas
R9,898 Discovery Miles 98 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings: * Prehistory and Historical Ethnography Set of 12: 0-415-15611-4: GBP800.00 * Greek Civilization Set of 7: 0-415-15612-2: GBP450.00 * Roman Civilization Set of 6: 0-415-15613-0: GBP400.00 * Eastern Civilizations Set of 10: 0-415-15614-9: GBP650.00 * Judaeo-Christian Civilization Set of 4: 0-415-15615-7: GBP250.00 * European Civilization Set of 11: 0-415-15616-5: GBP700.00

Thanh Van Tang, Tap 15 - Luat Tu Phan, Quyen 3 - Bia Cung (Vietnamese, Hardcover): Thich Dong Minh, Tue Sy Thanh Van Tang, Tap 15 - Luat Tu Phan, Quyen 3 - Bia Cung (Vietnamese, Hardcover)
Thich Dong Minh, Tue Sy; Produced by Hoi Dong Hoang Phap
R1,321 Discovery Miles 13 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kautilya and Non-Western IR Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Deepshikha Shahi Kautilya and Non-Western IR Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Deepshikha Shahi
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The ancient Indian text of Kautilya's Arthasastra comes forth as a valuable non-Western resource for understanding contemporary International Relations (IR). However, Kautilya's Arthasastra largely suffers from the problem of 'presentism', whereby present-day assumptions of the dominant theoretical models of Classical Realism and Neorealism are read back into it, thereby disrupting open reflections on Kautilya's Arthasastra which could retrieve its 'alternative assumptions' and 'unconventional traits'. This book attempts to enable Kautilya's Arthasastra to break free from the problem of presentism - it does so by juxtaposing the elements of continuity and change that showed up at different junctures of the life-history of both 'Kautilya's Arthasastra' and 'Eurocentric IR'. The overall exploratory venture leads to a Kautilyan non-Western eclectic theory of IR - a theory which moderately assimilates miscellaneous research traditions of Eurocentric IR, and, in addition, delivers a few innovative features that could potentially uplift not only Indian IR, but also Global IR.

Bauddha Dharma Aur Paryavaran (Hindi, Hardcover): Dhrub Kumar Bauddha Dharma Aur Paryavaran (Hindi, Hardcover)
Dhrub Kumar
R855 Discovery Miles 8 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Bodhicaryavatara (Paperback): Santideva The Bodhicaryavatara (Paperback)
Santideva; Translated by Kate Crosby, Andrew Skilton; Edited by Paul Williams
R318 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R21 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Written in India in the early eighth century AD, Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara became one of the most popular accounts of the Buddhist's spiritual path. The Bodhicaryavatara takes as its subject the profound desire to become a Buddha and save all beings from suffering. The person who enacts such a desire is a Bodhisattva. Santideva not only sets out what the Bodhisattva must do and become, he also invokes the intense feelings of aspiration which underlie such a commitment, using language which has inspired Buddhists in their religious life from his time to the present. Important as a manual of training among Mahayana Buddhists, especially in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the Bodhicaryavatara continues to be used as the basis for teaching by modern Buddhist teachers. This is a new translation from the original language, with detailed annotations explaining allusions and technical references. The Introduction sets Santideva's work in context, and for the first time explain its structure. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Kinh ??i Bat Ni?t Ban - T?p 1 (Tai b?n n?m 2020) - T? quy?n 1 ??n quy?n 20 (Vietnamese, Hardcover): Nguy?n Minh Ti?n, ?oan... Kinh Đại Bat Niết Ban - Tập 1 (Tai bản năm 2020) - Từ quyển 1 đến quyển 20 (Vietnamese, Hardcover)
Nguyễn Minh Tiến, Đoan Trung Con
R1,047 Discovery Miles 10 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Buddhist-Christian Dialogue as Christian Exchange - An Orthodox Contribution to Comparative Theology (Paperback): Ernest M Valea Buddhist-Christian Dialogue as Christian Exchange - An Orthodox Contribution to Comparative Theology (Paperback)
Ernest M Valea
R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is intended to encourage the use of comparative theology in contemporary Buddhist-Christian dialogue as a new approach that would truly respect each religious tradition's uniqueness and make dialogue beneficial for all participants interested in a real theological exchange. As a result of the impasse reached by the current theologies of religions (exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism) in formulating a constructive approach in dialogue, this volume assesses the thought of the founding fathers of an academic Buddhist-Christian dialogue in search of clues that would encourage a comparativist approach. These founding fathers are considered to be three important representatives of the Kyoto School - Kitaro Nishida, Keiji Nishitani, and Masao Abe - and John Cobb, an American process theologian. The guiding line for assessing their views of dialogue is the concept of human perfection, as it is expressed by the original traditions in Mahayana Buddhism and Orthodox Christianity. Following Abe's methodology in dialogue, an Orthodox contribution to comparative theology proposes a reciprocal enrichment of traditions, not by syncretistic means, but by providing a better understanding and even correction of one's own tradition when considering it in the light of the other, while using internal resources for making the necessary corrections.

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