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A Monastery Within

Author : Gil Fronsdal

Publisher :

Page : 108 pages

File Size : 44,20 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9780984509218

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Inspired by his years of Buddhist monastic life, Gil Fronsdal has written these warm-hearted stories as part of the tradition of teaching through storytelling. These are tales of transformation and spiritual growth. They delight and challenge as they express different facets of the Buddhist path to liberation in familiar, yet fresh and engaging, ways. These stories can be reread often, each time supporting new reflec- tions on the spiritual life and the possibility of each person awakening to the kindness, clarity and insight available to all of us. A Monastery Within points to how each person can build an inner home for the awakened life.



A Monastery in Time

Author : Caroline Humphrey

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 441 pages

File Size : 13,30 MB

Release : 2013-07-05

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 022603206X

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A Monastery in Time is the first book to describe the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery—the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia—from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural Revolution, Caroline Humphrey and Hürelbaatar Ujeed tell a story of religious formation, suppression, and survival over a history that spans three centuries. Often overlooked in Buddhist studies, Mongolian Buddhism is an impressively self-sustaining tradition whose founding lama, the Third Mergen Gegen, transformed Tibetan Buddhism into an authentic counterpart using the Mongolian language. Drawing on fifteen years of fieldwork, Humphrey and Ujeed show how lamas have struggled to keep Mergen Gegen’s vision alive through tremendous political upheaval, and how such upheaval has inextricably fastened politics to religion for many of today’s practicing monks. Exploring the various ways Mongolian Buddhists have attempted to link the past, present, and future, Humphrey and Ujeed offer a compelling study of the interplay between the individual and the state, tradition and history.



Monastery Without Walls

Author : Bruce L. Davis, PhD

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 197 pages

File Size : 32,21 MB

Release : 2001-06-21

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN : 1475920202

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There is a part of each of us that is a monk or a mystic. We yearn for perfect peace yet live our lives far removed from traditional monasteriesyet most of us would not want to give up our personal and spiritual freedom to join monastic life. We seek wholeness but realize that wholeness is not possible without sacredness. Sacred life takes root in solitude, in the time we take to develop a relationship with our inner lifein the kind of setting a monastery would offer. This book speaks to the monk or mystic within us. It affirms our place in the sacred silence of solitude and inner reflection, showing how even everyday life is filled with opportunities to live fully in the worldas if it were a holy monastery. Here we learn to live within the limits as well as the spirit of everyday life, how to appreciate our most human self as the path to explore the divine. Here we encounter a world that is clearly available to us, a world filled with nothing less than the gift of sacred silence within the monastery without walls.



Cloister and Community

Author : Mary Jo Weaver

Publisher : Indiana University Press

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 19,35 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780253341846

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Cloister and Community is both a history of the Carmelite monastery of Indianapolis and an introduction to the Carmelites, a contemplative order of Roman Catholicism, founded in the 13th century and rededicated as a reform movement for women religious in the 16th century by Teresa of Avila. A key element of the order is that its nuns live an ascetic, cloistered life, but as Mary Jo Weaver demonstrates, the view that one must "leave the world" to find sacred space apart from it has evolved to embrace the notion that the world itself is a sacred space.Weaver focuses on a modern Indianapolis community and describes how the sisters incorporate Carmelite belief and practice into their daily lives. Cloister and Community is a beautifully written and handsomely produced book that offers readers a privileged view of the world of present-day contemplative spirituality.ALSO OF INTEREST Being RightConservative Catholics in AmericaEdited by Mary Jo Weaver and R. Scott Appleby0-253-32922-1 HB £34.500-253-20999-4 PB £15.50What's LeftLiberal American CatholicsEdited by Mary Jo Weaver0-253-21332-0 HB £30.500-253-21332-0 PB £14.50



Monastery Guest Houses of North America: A Visitor's Guide (Fifth Edition)

Author : Robert J. Regalbuto

Publisher : The Countryman Press

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 45,47 MB

Release : 2010-06-22

Category : Travel

ISBN : 0881509000

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A guide to monasteries and convents in the United States and Canada covers contact information, accommodations offered, points of interest in the area, and travel directions.



The Issue at Hand

Author : Gil Fronsdal

Publisher : Insight Meditation Center

Page : 161 pages

File Size : 39,82 MB

Release : 2008-02

Category : Religion

ISBN : 061516286X

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Essays on Buddhist Mindfulness Practice. An inspiring and very accessible compilation of essays and edited talks on the Buddhist practice of mindfulness. As Gil Fronsdal states, "the search for the issue at hand is the search for what is closest at hand, for what is directly seen, heard, smelt, tasted, felt, and cognized in the present." Gil brings the practice of mindfulness not only to formal meditation but to all the varying aspects of every day life.



My Monastery Is a Minivan

Author : Denise Roy

Publisher : Loyola Press

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 33,89 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9780829416879

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Thirty-five entertaining and touching stories that show how family moments can bring the greatest spiritual rewards. We find everything we need for spiritual growth as we picnic with the children, go to the grocery store, and pick up the morning paper. The author's intimate approach invites us to recognize the grace that exists within our own lives. We needn't pull over and look for enlightenment; the divine is always present, even in the carpool lane.



The Monastery Rules

Author : Berthe Jansen

Publisher : University of California Press

Page : 298 pages

File Size : 30,49 MB

Release : 2018-09-25

Category : History

ISBN : 0520297008

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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Monastery Rules discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies and how that position was informed by the far-reaching relationship of monastic Buddhism with Tibetan society, economy, law, and culture. Jansen focuses her study on monastic guidelines, or bca’ yig. The first study of its kind to examine the genre in detail, the book contains an exploration of its parallels in other Buddhist cultures, its connection to the Vinaya, and its value as socio-historical source-material. The guidelines are witness to certain socio-economic changes, while also containing rules that aim to change the monastery in order to preserve it. Jansen argues that the monastic institutions’ influence on society was maintained not merely due to prevailing power-relations, but also because of certain deep-rooted Buddhist beliefs.



The Monks and Me

Author : Mary Paterson

Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 34,4 MB

Release : 2012-01-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1571746854

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Recounts the author's experiences during forty days spent at Thich Nhat Hanh's Bordeaux retreat in France where she sought peace and perspective following the death of her father.



The View from a Monastery

Author : Benet Tvedten

Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 27,79 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Monastic and religious life

ISBN : 9781557254771

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Combining memoir and paean for modern monastic life, Br. Benet Tvedten creates this charming book out of his love for his brothers, his place, his tradition. It has now been completely revised with many additional stories and colorful characters, and a new foreword from Kathleen Norris, author of Dakota, Cloister Walk, and many other books. It is often presumed that people who live in monasteries are either exceptionally holy or exceedingly strange. But A View from a Monastery portrays monks as ordinary men, some of whom are as quirky as the rest of us. Although monastic life differs from secular life in many remarkable ways, readers will discover that the monks themselves are not extraordinary. There are, however, certain characters in every monastery whose lives and personalities provide good material for storytelling'and Br. Benet is a charming teller of stories. This book is not intended for the reader who will be disappointed to learn that monks are fully human and always fal