Free Download Arnold Kotler, "Engaged Buddhist Reader"
English | 1999 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0938077988 | PDF | 18,4 mb
The Engaged Buddhist Reader is a collection of the most prominent voices of engaged Buddhism.

Free Download Jan Westerhoff, "The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy "
English | ISBN: 019873266X | 2018 | 352 pages | EPUB | 970 KB
Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy in the first millennium CE. He starts from the composition of the Abhidharma works before the beginning of the common era and continues up to the time of Dharmakirti in the sixth century. This period was characterized by the development of a variety of philosophical schools and approaches that have shaped Buddhist thought up to the present day: the scholasticism of the Abhidharma, the Madhyamaka's theory of emptiness, Yogacara idealism, and the logical and epistemological works of Dinnaga and Dharmakirti. The book attempts to describe the historical development of these schools in their intellectual and cultural context, with particular emphasis on three factors that shaped the development of Buddhist philosophical thought: the need to spell out the contents of canonical texts, the discourses of the historical Buddha and the Mahayana sutras; the desire to defend their positions by sophisticated arguments against criticisms from fellow Buddhists and from non-Buddhist thinkers of classical Indian philosophy; and the need to account for insights gained through the application of specific meditative techniques. While the main focus is the period up to the sixth century CE, Westerhoff also discusses some important thinkers who influenced Buddhist thought between this time and the decline of Buddhist scholastic philosophy in India at the beginning of the thirteenth century. His aim is that the historical presentation will also allow the reader to get a better systematic grasp of key Buddhist concepts such as non-self, suffering, reincarnation, karma, and nirvana.

Free Download Wannaporn Rienjan, "Gandharan Art in Its Buddhist Context: Papers from the Fifth International Workshop of the Gandhara Connections Project,"
English | ISBN: 1803274735 | 2023 | 96 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Gandharan Art in its Buddhist Context is the fifth set of papers from the workshops of the Classical Art Research Centre's Gandhara Connections project. These selected studies revolve around perhaps the most fundamental topic of all for understanding Gandharan art: its religious contexts and meanings within ancient Buddhism. Addressing the responses of patrons and worshippers at the monasteries and shrines of Gandhara, these papers seek to understand more about why Gandharan art was made and what its iconographical repertoire meant to ancient viewers. The contributions from an array of international experts consider dedicatory practices in monasteries, the representation of Buddhas, and the lessons to be learned from some of the latest excavations and survey work in the region.

Free Download Pintu Kumar, "Buddhist Learning in South Asia: Education, Religion, and Culture at the Ancient Sri Nalanda Mahavihara"
English | ISBN: 149855492X | 2018 | 338 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
This interdisciplinary study is the first book to provide a complete survey of Śrī Nālandā Mahāvihāra from the perspective of its educational curricula as well as its religious influence. It provides detailed descriptions of the origin, growth, management, and academic and cultural life of Nālandā, with particular attention to its pedagogy, curriculum, teachers, and students. It also presents an alternative interpretation of nationalist and popular notions about Śrī Nālandā as an international university and proves that it was, at its core, a Buddhist monastery and an institution of Buddhist learning focused on the study and promotion of Buddhism.

Free Download The Buddhist and the Ethicist
by Peter Singer, Shih Chao-Hwei
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1645472175 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 6.27 MB

The Essentials of Buddhist Meditation, Kalavinka Buddhist Classics (01) by Shramana Zhiyi PDF | 3.12 MB
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Title: The Essentials of Buddhist Meditation
Author: Shramana Zhiyi (Chih-i)
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Free Download Gratitude – The Buddhist way out of Suffering to Joy
Published 11/2023
Created by Ahjan Samvara
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 5 Lectures ( 4h 7m ) | Size: 5.32 GB

Free Download Gratitude – The Buddhist way out of Suffering to Joy
Published 11/2023
Created by Ahjan Samvara
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 5 Lectures ( 4h 7m ) | Size: 5.32 GB

Dying With Confidence A Tibetan Buddhist Guide to Preparing for Death by Anyen Rinpoche PDF | 7.44 MB
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Title: Dying with Confidence: A Tibetan Buddhist Guide to Preparing for Death
Author: Anyen
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Jhana Consciousness Buddhist Meditation in the Age of Neuroscience by Paul Dennison | 23.5 MB
English | 304 Pages

Title: Jhana Consciousness
Author: Paul Dennison
Year: 2022