Provides alphabetically arranged entries covering topics related to the understanding of Zen Buddhism. Includes entries in the following categories: art, architecture, and iconography; biographical entries; Buddhas and Bodhisattvas; concepts; geography; monastic life; mythology …
The gentle wisdom of "Zen and the Art of Happiness" shows how to invite magnificent experiences into your life and create a philosophy that will sustain you through anything. The Zen of doing anything is to behave with a particular state of mind that brings the experience of enl…
The gentle wisdom of "Zen and the Art of Happiness" shows how to invite magnificent experiences into your life and create a philosophy that will sustain you through anything. The Zen of doing anything is to behave with a particular state of mind that brings the experience of enl…
Believing the Buddhist teachings and traditional ceremonies should be adapted to twentieth-century life styles, Kapleau presents an introduction to the philosophy and practice of Zen written especially for American readers.
This new book from Zen teacher, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and critical favorite Barry Magid inspires us -- in wryly gentle prose -- to outgrow the impossible pursuit of happiness, and instead make peace with the perfection of the way things are. Including ourselves! Magid inv…
Barry Magid inspires us to outgrow the impossible pursuit of happiness, and instead make peace with the perfection of the way things are, including ourselves.
Zen's Chinese Heritage surveys 25 generations of enlightened Buddhist teachers through brief biographies and starkly beautiful prose and poetry from Chinese Zen sources.
Zen's Chinese Heritage surveys 25 generations of enlightened Buddhist teachers through brief biographies and starkly beautiful prose and poetry from Chinese Zen sources.
Yongming Yanshou ranks among the great thinkers of the Chinese and East Asian Buddhist traditions, one whose legacy has endured for more than a thousand years. Albert Welter offers new insight into the significance of Yanshou and his major work, the Zongjing lu, by showing their…
Yongming Yanshou ranks among the great thinkers of the Chinese and East Asian Buddhist traditions, one whose legacy has endured for more than a thousand years. Albert Welter offers new insight into the significance of Yanshou and his major work, the Zongjing lu, by showing their…