Shawn Frederick McHale, "Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism, and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam"
English | 2008 | pages: 274 | ISBN: 082483304X | PDF | 2,2 mb
In this ambitious and path-breaking book, Shawn McHale challenges long held views that define modern Vietnamese history in terms of anticolonial nationalism and revolution. McHale argues instead for a historiography that does not overstress either the role of politics in general or Communism in particular. Using a wide range of sources from Vietnam, France, and the United States, many of them previously unexploited, he shows how the use of printed matter soared between 1920 and 1945 and in the process transformed Vietnamese public life and shaped the modern Vietnamese consciousness.

Journal of Integral Buddhism: Tradition, Comparative Disciplines, Practitioner Perspectives by Traleg Kyabgon, Bhante Tejadhammo, Ekai Korematsu Roshi, Sam Bercholz, Dechen Davies
English | December 20th, 2022 | ISBN: 9780645665314 | 129 pages | True EPUB | 0.84 MB
The Journal of Integral Buddhism presents papers given by esteemed scholars, monastics, and practitioners from various backgrounds within the Buddhist tradition and complimentary disciplines such as philosophy, psychology.

Buddhism: Simplicity in a Distracted World: The Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path (Happiness is a trainable, attainable skill!) by Lawrence Wallace
English | 2017 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B06WVDDKH8 | 57 pages | EPUB | 0.15 Mb
Live a Beautiful, Skilful Life!

Buddhism For Beginners by Thubten Chodron | 326.24 KB
English | 161 Pages

Title: Buddhism For Beginners
Author: Thubten Chodron
Year: 2001

Peter N. Gregory, "Tsung Mi and the Sinification of Buddhism"
English | 1991 | ISBN: 0691073732, 082482623X | PDF | pages: 364 | 19.1 mb
This study of Tsung-mi is part of the Studies in East Asian Buddhism series. Author Peter Gregory makes extensive use of Japanese secondary sources, which complements his work on the complex Chinese materials that form the basis of the study.

James Stewart, "Vegetarianism and Animal Ethics in Contemporary Buddhism "
English | ISBN: 1138802166 | 2015 | 224 pages | EPUB | 658 KB
Buddhism is widely known to advocate a stance of total pacifism towards all sentient beings, and because of this, it is often thought that Buddhist doctrine would stipulate that non-violent food practices, such as vegetarianism, be mandatory. However, the Pāli source materials do not encourage vegetarianism and most Buddhists do not practice it. Using research based on ethnographic evidence and interviews, this book discusses this issue by presenting an investigation of vegetarianism and animal ethics within a Buddhist cultural domain.

Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism By Jin Y. Park (editor), Gereon Kopf (editor)
2009 | 350 Pages | ISBN: 0739118250 | PDF | 3 MB
Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers such as Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. Challenging the dualistic paradigm of existing philosophical traditions, Merleau-Ponty proposes a philosophy in which the traditional opposites are encountered through mutual penetration. Likewise, a Buddhist worldview is articulated in the theory of dependent co-arising, or the middle path, which comprehends the world and beings in the third space, where the subject and the object, or eternalism and annihilation, exist independent of one another. The thirteen essays in this volume explore this third space in their discussions of Merleau-Ponty's concepts of the intentional arc, the flesh of the world, and the chiasm of visibility in connection with the Buddhist doctrine of no-self and the five aggregates, the Tiantai Buddhist concept of threefold truth, Zen Buddhist huatou meditation, the invocation of the Amida Buddha in True Pure Land Buddhism, and Nishida's concept of basho.In his philosophical project, Merleau-Ponty makes vigorous efforts to challenge the boundaries that divide philosophy and non-philosophy, the East and the West, experience and concepts, the subject and the object, and body and mind. Combining the Eastern philosophical tradition of Buddhism with Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism offers an intercultural philosophy in which opposites intermingle in a chiasmic relationship, and which brings new understanding regarding the self and the self's relation with others in a globalized and multicultural world.

English | ASIN: B08F5H83CN | 2020 | 7 hours and 28 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 209 MB
Explore the transformative power of Buddhist philosophy with Dr. Douglas Gentile, renowned psychologist, celebrated professor, and Zen Buddhist monk. Buddhism is a philosophy and set of practices designed to help us achieve inner peace and balance. It is a practical approach to working with our own habits of mind. In 19 revelatory audio lectures, Dr. Douglas Gentile aligns core Buddhist concepts such as karma, non-duality, and Nirvana with modern psychological science, making them easy to understand and use in our own lives, the practices and ideas explored in this series can improve your life.

English | 2023 | ISBN: 1839971576 | 205 pages | True PDF EPUB | 5.49 MB
This series of reflective accounts explores the benefits that Buddhist practice can bring for autistic individuals, and outlines how Dharma teachers, centre directors and meditation group leaders can help ensure sessions are truly autism sensitive.
Including a wide range of international contributors discussing aspects of their autistic experience and the impact of Buddhism on their lives, this is a thought-provoking and often moving portrayal of the intersect between the lived experience of autistic people and spiritual practice.

Vision of Buddhism: The Space Under the Tree By Roger J. Corless
1998 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 1557782008 | PDF | 8 MB