Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
Written by Stephen Batchelor
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $16.00
Does Buddhism require faith? Can an atheist or agnostic follow the Buddha’s teachings without believing in reincarnation or organized religion?
This is one man’s confession. In his classic
Buddhism Without Beliefs, Stephen Batchelor offered a profound, secular approach to the teachings of the Buddha that struck an emotional chord...
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Niguma, Lady Of Illusion
Written by Sarah Harding
Format: Hardcover, 418 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2011
Price: $32.95
Providing a rare glimpse of feminine Buddhist history,
Niguma, Lady of Illusion brings to the forefront the life and teachings of a mysterious eleventh-century Kashmiri woman who became the source of a major Tibetan Buddhist practice lineage. The circumstances of her life and extraordinary qualities ascribed to her are analyzed in...
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The Buddha Speaks
A Book of Guidance from the Buddhist Scriptures
Edited by Anne Bancroft
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $14.00
Here is the core of the Buddha’s teaching in his own words, as it was memorized word-for-word by his disciples and written down two hundred years after his death. These selections from the Buddhist scriptures deal with the search for truth, the way of contemplation, life and death, living in community...
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Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
Written by Stephen Batchelor
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $26.00
Written with the same brilliance and boldness that made
Buddhism Without Beliefs a classic in its field,
Confession of a Buddhist Atheist is Stephen Batchelor’s account of his journey through Buddhism, which culminates in a groundbreaking new portrait of the historical Buddha.
Stephen Batchelor grew up outside London and came of...
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A Life of the Buddha
Written by Sherab Chodzin Kohn
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $19.95
The story of the Buddha and his awakening is more than an account of the birth of a religious tradition: it is also one of the great archetypal tales of the spiritual quest, colorful in its many details and thrilling in its depiction of the world transformed by an enlightened human...
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Lion Of Siddhas
The Life And Teachings Of Padampa Sangye
Translated by David Molk and Tsering Wangdu
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2008
Price: $26.95
Best known as Machig Labdron's teacher, the Indian mahasiddha Padampa Sangye is counted as a lineage guru by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He brought the lineage of Chöd to Tibet, carried the Buddha's teachings to China, and is even asserted in the Tibetan tradition to have been the legendary Bodhidharma...
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The Great Kagyu Masters
The Golden Lineage Treasury
Edited by Huckenpahler
Translated by Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2006
Price: $16.95
For inspiration, Buddhists turn to the life stories of how the great masters of their lineage struggled with their circumstances and achieved enlightenment. This important and very readable volume tells the extraordinary tales of the greatest teachers of the Kagyu the lineage with the widest following in the U.S.
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The Second Dalai Lama
His Life And Teachings
Written by Glenn H. Mullin
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 2, 2005
Price: $16.95
The Second Dalai Lama's writings and biography are brought vividly to life in this extraordinary book by the renowned translator Glenn Mullin through a selection of the Second Dalai Lama's ecstatic outpourings of enlightened teaching. He gives us a glimpse into the visionary life of this outspoken and unconventional Dalai Lama...
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Echoes From An Empty Sky
The Origin Of The Buddhist Doctrine Of The Two Truths
Written by John B. Buescher
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2005
Price: $18.95
The important Buddhist doctrine of the two truths—conventional truths and ultimate truths—is the subject of this book. It examines how the doctrine evolved within early Buddhism from efforts to make sense of contradictions within the collected sayings of the Buddha. The two truths, however, came to refer not primarily to statements...
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The Life Of Gampopa
Written by Jampa Mackenzie Stewart
Introduction by Lobsang P. Lhalungpa
Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2004
Price: $15.95
Compiled from numerous Tibetan biographies, this comprehensive and inspiring rendition highlights the extraordinary details of Gampopa's meditative experiences and presents direct insights into the practice and realization of Mahamudra. Includes a history of the Kagyu and an essay on Mahamudra.
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