
By Anne Carolyn Klein,Tenzin Rinpoche, Geshe Wangyal
By Anne Carolyn Klein,Tenzin Rinpoche, Geshe Wangyal
By Jack Kerouac,Robert A. F. Thurman,Claude Demanuelli,Jean Demanuelli
By Jean Herbert
By Sarah Harding
Machik built a process, the Mahamudra Chöd, that takes the Buddha's teachings as a foundation and applies them to the fast stories of adverse brain states and malignant forces. Her special female procedure is to invoke and nurture the very "demons" that we worry and hate, remodeling these reactive feelings into love. it's the tantric model of constructing compassion and fearlessness, an intensive approach to slicing via ego-fixation.
This multiplied version contains Machik Lapdrön's earliest identified educating, the unique resource textual content for the culture, The nice package deal of Precepts on Severance (Chöd). This pithy set of directions finds that the lessons of the perfection of knowledge are the genuine thought for Chöd. it really is superbly clarified in a brief statement via Rangjung Dorje, the 3rd Karmapa.
By Chogyal Namkhai Norbu,Fabio Andrico,Paula Barry,Naomi Zeitz
because the 8th century, this yoga instructing has been handed down from instructor to scholar in an unbroken lineage. Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, the present lineage holder, started transmitting Yantra Yoga within the West within the Seventies. featuring special directions followed by means of over four hundred educational images, the e-book describes the sequences of activities, tools of respiring, and the concrete health and wellbeing merits of the practice.
From the alternate Paperback edition.
By Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche,Mark Dahlby
By Chokgyur Lingpa,Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo,Adeu Rinpoche,Orgyen Topgyal Rinpoche,Erik Pema Kunsang
By C. Pierce Salguero
These resources discover intimately clinical subject matters starting from the advance of fetal anatomy within the womb to nursing, hospice, nutritional routine, magical powers, visualization, and different therapeutic wisdom. Works translated right here contain meditation courses, renowned narratives, ritual manuals, spells texts, monastic disciplinary codes, recipe inscriptions, philosophical treatises, poetry, works by means of physicians, and different genres. Altogether, those choices and their introductions supply a finished assessment of Buddhist therapeutic all through Asia. in addition they show the critical position of therapeutic in Buddhist perform and within the way of life of the premodern world.
By Liz Wilson
The Buddha left his domestic and kinfolk and enjoined his fans to move forth and “become homeless.” With a historically celibate clergy, Asian Buddhism is frequently considered as a world-renouncing faith inimical to kin existence. This edited quantity counters this view, displaying how Asian Buddhists in a variety of ancient and geographical conditions relate as relations to their organic households and to the spiritual households they subscribe to. utilizing modern and ancient case reports in addition to textual examples, members discover how Asian Buddhists invoke family members ties within the intentional groups they convey and use them to set up non secular authority and safeguard non secular privilege. The language of relatives and lineage emerges as principal to a number of South and East Asian Buddhist contexts. With an interdisciplinary, Pan-Asian technique, Family in Buddhism demanding situations got knowledge in non secular stories and gives new how one can take into consideration relatives and society.
“Wilson … frames the items with an creation that successfully grounds their really good and infrequently esoteric focuses. This paintings is most fitted for complex undergraduates and graduate scholars studying to imagine outdoor the field of conventional scholarship and methodologies.” — CHOICE
Liz Wilson is Professor of Comparative faith at Miami collage in Ohio. She is the editor of The dwelling and the lifeless: Social Dimensions of demise in South Asian Religions, additionally released via SUNY Press, and the writer of Charming Cadavers: bad Figurations of the female in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature.
By Thomas Cleary