Zen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick By Daniel Herman
2014 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 1611461561 | EPUB | 1 MB
In Moby-Dick's wide philosophical musings and central narrative arch, Daniel Herman finds a philosophy very closely aligned specifically with the original teachings of Zen Buddhism. In exploring the likelihood of this hitherto undiscovered influence, Herman looks at works Melville is either known to have read or that there is a strong likelihood of his having come across, as well as offering a more expansive consideration of Moby-Dick from a Zen Buddhist perspective, as it is expressed in both ancient and modern teachings. But not only does the book delve deeply into one of the few aspects of Moby-Dick's construction left unexplored by scholars, it also conceives of an entirely new way of reading the greatest of American books-offering critical re-considerations of many of its most crucial and contentious issues, while focusing on what Melville has to teach us about coping with adversity, respecting ideological diversity, and living skillfully in a fickle, slippery world.

Until Nirvana's Time: Buddhist Poems from Cambodia by Trent Walker
English | December 27th, 2022 | ISBN: 1645471349 | 368 pages | True EPUB | 11.19 MB
A unique Buddhist tradition, accessible in English for the first time-translations of forty-five Cambodian Dharma songs, with contextualizing essays and a link to audio of stunning vocal performances.

Jhāna Consciousness: Buddhist Meditation in the Age of Neuroscience (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BNJXZD2Q | 2022 | 7 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Paul Dennison
Narrator: James Anderson Foster
An interdisciplinary deep dive into Buddhist jhāna meditation and how it can transform our understanding of self and consciousness. States of profound meditative concentration, the jhānas are central to the earliest Buddhist teachings. For centuries in Southeast Asia, oral yogāvacara (yoga practitioner) lineages kept traditional jhāna practices alive, but in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, reforms in Theravāda Buddhism downplayed the importance of jhāna in favor of vipassanā (insight) meditation. Some began to consider the jhānas to be strictly the domain of monastics, unattainable in the context of modern lay life.

Gil Fronsdal, "A Monastery Within: Tales from the Buddhist Path"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0984509216 | PDF | pages: 101 | 1.5 mb
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.

Jhana Consciousness: Buddhist Meditation in the Age of Neuroscience by Paul Dennison
English | December 20th, 2022 | ISBN: 1645470806 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 23.50 MB
An interdisciplinary deep dive into Buddhist jhāna meditation and how it can transform our understanding of self and consciousness

The Guide to Buddhist Counseling
by Kin Cheung Lee
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367458055 | 216 pages | True PDF | 6.04 MB

The Buddhist Architecture of Gandhara By Kurt A Behrendt
2003 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 9004135952 | PDF | 121 MB
Kurt Behrendt in this book for the first time and convincingly offers a description of the development of 2nd century B.C.E. to 8th century C.E. Buddhist sacred centers in ancient Gandhara, today northwest Pakistan.Gandhara, with its wide variety of architectural remains and sculptures, has for many decades perplexed students of South and Central Asia. Kurt Behrendt in this volume for the first time and convincingly offers a description of the development of 2nd century B.C.E. to 8th century C.E. Buddhist sacred centers in ancient Gandhara, today northwest Pakistan.Regional variations in architecture and sculpture in the Peshawar basin, Swat, and Taxila are discussed. At last a chronological framework is given for the architecture and the sculpture of Gandhara, but also light is being shed on how relic structures were utilized through time, as devotional imagery became increasingly significant to Buddhist religious practice.With an important comparative overview of architectural remains, it is indispensable for all those interested in the development of the early Buddhist tradition of south and central Asia and the roots of Buddhism elsewhere in Asia.

The Tao of the Side Hustle: A Buddhist Martial Arts Approach to Your New Business by Don Hyun Kiolbassa
English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1637741960 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 2.13 MB
Your pay isn't keeping up with the cost of living. Student debt weighs you down. Job opportunities just aren't there, and you feel like you're falling farther and farther behind.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 0190632925 | 689 pages | True PDF EPUB | 81.51 MB
Popular representations of Buddhism often depict it as spiritual, disembodied, and largely devoid of ritual. Yet embodiment, materiality, emotion, and gender shape the way most Buddhists engage with their traditions. The essays within The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice push beyond traditional representations of Buddhism as divided into static schools and traditions, highlighting instead the contested and negotiated character of individual and group identities.
This volume will serve as a corrective to the common misconception that Buddhist practice is limited to seated meditation and that ritualized activities are not an integral dimension of authoritative Buddhist practice. Essays in this handbook explore the transformational aims of practices that require practitioners to move, gesture, and emote in prescribed ways, including the ways that scholars' own embodied practices are integral to their research methodology. Authors foreground the role of the body, examining how the senses, gender, specific emotions, and material engagements impact religious experience. They highlight, as well, the multiplicity of methods and theoretical perspectives that scholars of Buddhism use in their research and writing, including field-based, textual, and historical approaches. Given the fluidity and diversity of Buddhist practices, the question that animates this volume is: What makes a given practice Buddhist?

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.