Book Description
"A Doubleday Anchor original, A763." Bibliography: p. [255]-261.
Author : Sangharakshita (Bhikshu)
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Buddha (The concept)
ISBN :
"A Doubleday Anchor original, A763." Bibliography: p. [255]-261.
Author : Sangharakshita (Bhikshu)
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781899579068
Illuminates the precious gems of Buddhism - the Buddha Jewel: symbol of Enlightenment, the Dharma Jewel: the path to Enlightenment, and the Sangha Jewel: symbol of the fellowship enjoyed by those who tread that path - in a clear and radiating light. To understand the Three Jewels is to understand the central ideals and principles of Buddhism.
Author : Dharmarakshita
Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN :
The Wheel of Sharp Weapons, one of the most important and influential texts in the Mahayana training of the mind. It was composed by the great Indian Yogi Dharmarakshita and he transmitted these teachings to Atisha (982-1054), who later transmitted the same to his greatest disciple Upasaka Dromtonpa and together translated it into Tibetan from Sanskrit. The present English translation is based on its Tibetan text, done by the Translation Bureau of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. Commentary to The Wheel of Sharp Weapons was given by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey.
Author : Yeshe Tsöndru
Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8185102023
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Author : Alysia Burton Steele
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1455562831
Inspired by memories of her beloved grandmother, photographer and author Alysia Burton Steele -- picture editor on a Pulitzer Prize-winning team -- combines heart-wrenching narrative with poignant photographs of more than 50 female church elders in the Mississippi Delta. These ordinary women lived extraordinary lives under the harshest conditions of the Jim Crow era and during the courageous changes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the help of local pastors, Steele recorded these living witnesses to history and folk ways, and shares the significance of being a Black woman -- child, daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother in Mississippi -- a Jewel of the Delta. From the stand Mrs. Tennie Self took for her marriage to be acknowledged in the phone book, to the life-threatening sacrifice required to vote for the first time, these 50 inspiring portraits are the faces of love and triumph that will teach readers faith and courage in difficult times.
Author : Robert A. F. Thurman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 2005-02-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780743257626
The most prominent expert on Buddhism in the West presents his most importantteaching and meditation practice for everyday life.
Author : Sangharakshita
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1909314811
For Buddhists everywhere, the Three Jewels - the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha - are at the heart of daily life and practice. But how can we make our engagement with these precious ideals practical and real? In this volume - the companion volume to the forthcoming Three Jewels I, in which the nature of going for Refuge to the Three Jewels is explored - are gathered three much loved books, Who is the Buddha?, What is the Dharma? and What is the Sangha?
Author : Anne Bishop
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 39,61 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451456731
In the astonishing conclusion of Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels Trilogy, the Dark Court has been formed and the end—for some—draws exceedingly near... Jaenelle Angelline now reigns as Queen—protector of the Shadow Realm. No longer will the corrupt Blood slaughter her people and defile her lands. But where one chapter ends, a final, unseen battle remains to be written, and Jaenelle must unleash the terrible power that is Witch to destroy her enemies once and for all. Even so, she cannot stand alone. Somewhere, long lost in madness, is Daemon, her promised Consort. Only his unyielding love can complete her Court and secure her reign. Yet, even together, their strength may not be enough to hold back the most malevolent of forces. And in the end, under the emergent shadow of evil and unforeseen betrayal, only Jaenelle’s greatest sacrifice will save those she loves—and the realm she’s bound to protect...
Author : Longchen Yeshe Dorje
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0834823101
This book is a translation of the first part of Jigme Lingpa’s Treasury of Precious Qualities, which in a slender volume of elegant verses sets out briefly but comprehensively the Buddhist path according to the Nyingma school. The concision of the root text and its use of elaborate poetic language, rich in metaphor, require extensive explanation, amply supplied here by the commentary of Kangyur Rinpoche. The present volume lays out the teachings of the sutras in gradual stages according to the traditional three levels, or scopes, of spiritual endeavor. It begins with essential teachings on impermanence, karma, and ethics. Then, from the Hinayana standpoint, it describes the essential Buddhist teachings of the four noble truths and the twelve links of dependent arising. Moving on, finally, to the Mahayana perspective, it expounds fully the teachings on bodhichitta and the path of the six paramitas, and gives an unusually detailed exposition of Buddhist vows.
Author : Bret Lott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439121915
In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband, Leston, are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome. Jewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In this story of a woman's devotion to the child who is both her burden and God's singular way of smiling on her, Bret Lott has created a mother-daughter relationship of matchless intensity and beauty, and one of the finest, most indomitable heroines in contemporary American fiction.