The Tibetan book of living and dying
by Harvey, Andrew, Gaffney, Patrick, Rinpoché, Sogyal
by Harvey, Andrew, Gaffney, Patrick, Rinpoché, Sogyal
by Harvey, Andrew, Sogyal,, Rinpoche, Gaffney, Patrick
by Harvey, Andrew, Sogyal,, Rinpoche, Gaffney, Patrick
by Harvey, Andrew, Sogyal,, Rinpoche, Gaffney, Patrick
by Harvey, Andrew, Sogyal,, Rinpoche, Gaffney, Patrick
In this book, a renowned Buddhist teacher focuses on how to understand the meaning of life, accept death, and how to help the dying, and the dead from a Buddhist perspective. He also presents a complete introduction to the practice of meditation and compassion, karma and rebirth…
Offering a valuable perspective on New Religious Movements and on religion and violence, 'Sacred Suicide' brings together contributions from a diverse range of international scholars of sociology, religious studies and criminology.
The label 'Suicide Cults' has been applied to a wide variety of different alternative religions, from Jonestown to the Solar Temple to Heaven's Gate. Additionally, observers have asked if such group suicides are in any way comparable to Islamist suicide terrorism, or to historic…
A heretical ethnography of the global age. Setting his book within Thailand's pro-democracy movement and the street massacres that accompanied it, Alan Klima offers a strikingly original interpretation of mass-mediated violence through a study of funeral gambling and Buddhist me…