Download e-book for iPad: Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation by Carl Bielefeldt

Download PDF by Alan Cole: Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana

This fantastically written paintings sheds new mild at the origins and nature of Mahayana Buddhism with shut readings of 4 recognized texts—the Lotus Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Tathagatagarbha Sutra, and Vimalakirtinirdesa. Treating those sutras as literary works instead of as undemanding philosophic or doctrinal treatises, Alan Cole argues that those writings have been conscientiously sculpted to undermine conventional monastic Buddhism and to achieve legitimacy and authority for Mahayana Buddhism because it was once veering clear of Buddhism’s older oral and institutional kinds.

Download PDF by Isabelle Millon,Oscar Brenifier: Sagesse des contes Bouddhistes: Exercices philosophiques

Chacune des grandes religions est porteuse de sagesse. C'est le aspect de départ de cette assortment qui suggest 20 méditations pour penser sa vie et donner du sens à son lifestyles. Faut-il chercher à tout savoir ? Sommes-nous responsable de ce qui nous arrive ? Peut-on maîtriser ses émotions ? Doit-on souffrir pour se réaliser ?

New PDF release: Signs from the Unseen Realm: Buddhist Miracle Tales from

In early medieval China enormous quantities of Buddhist miracle texts have been circulated, inaugurating a pattern that will proceed for hundreds of years. every one story mentioned notable occasions regarding chinese language folks and places—events visible as verifying claims made in Buddhist scriptures, demonstrating the truth of karmic retribution, or confirming the efficacy of Buddhist devotional practices.

Download e-book for kindle: Patrons and Patriarchs: Regional Rulers and Chan Monks by Benjamin Brose

Buyers and Patriarchs breaks new floor within the learn of clergy-court kinfolk through the tumultuous interval that spanned the cave in of the Tang dynasty (618–907) and the consolidation of the Northern track (960–1127). this period, often called the 5 Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, has in most cases been characterised as a time of debilitating violence and instability, however it additionally introduced elevated financial prosperity, local improvement, and political autonomy to southern territories.