The Path to Peace: A Buddhist Guide to Cultivating Loving-Kindness by Ayya Khema
English | July 19th, 2022 | ISBN: 1611809509 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 3.44 MB
Beloved Buddhist nun Ayya Khema expertly guides the reader through ten meditations on generating loving-kindness and cultivating the fifteen wholesome qualities necessary for igniting compassion and boundless love.

Superiority Conceit in Buddhist Traditions: A Historical Perspective by Bhikkhu Analayo
English | February 9, 2021 | ISBN: 1614297193 | 159 pages | PDF | 2.35 Mb
Renowned scholar-monk writes accessibly on some of the most contentious topics in Buddhism-guaranteed to ruffle some feathers.

Early Buddhist Oral Tradition: Textual Formation and Transmission by Analayo Bhikkhu
English | July 5th, 2022 | ISBN: 1614298270 | 312 pages | True EPUB | 16.93 MB
A fascinating investigation into the formation and transmission of the early Buddhist oral tradition.

Michael R. Sheehy, "Other Emptiness, The: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet"
English | ISBN: 1438477589 | 2020 | 399 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
Presents a new vision of the Buddhist history and philosophy of emptiness in Tibet.

The Grandeur of Gandhara : the Ancient Buddhist Civilization of the Swat, Peshawar, Kabul and Indus Valleys. By Rafi U Samad; Rafi-us Samad
2011 | 301 Pages | ISBN: 0875868592 | PDF | 10 MB
The northwestern regions of Pakistan and southeastern regions of Afghanistan were once the heart of a highly developed civilization whose cultural impact was felt from China to Persia. A major center of Buddhism, its cultural attainments were highlights of ancient civilization. The author's research, accompanied by some 60 illustrations, offers Americans an entirely new understanding of the desolate region shown on the nightly news. The Persian, Greek and Central Asian invasions of Gandhara, rather than causing wide scale destruction in the region, promoted the development of a multi-cultural.

Toni Bernhard, "How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1614290563 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.9 mb
Intimately and without jargon, How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow describes the path to peace amid all of life's ups and downs. Using step by step instructions, the author illustrates how to be fully present in the moment without clinging to joy or resisting sorrow. This opens the door to a kind of wellness that goes beyond circumstances. Actively engaging life as it is in this fashion holds the potential for awakening to a peace and well-being that are not dependent on whether a particular experience is joyful or sorrowful. This is a practical book, containing dozens of exercises and practices, all of which are illustrated with easy-to-relate to personal stories from the author's experience.

Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan edited by C. Pierce Salguero, Andrew Macomber
English | August 31, 2020 | ASIN: B0828ZJTG3, ISBN: 0824881214, 0824889843 | True AZW3 | 264 pages | 2.1 MB
From its inception in northeastern India in the first millennium BCE, the Buddhist tradition has advocated a range of ideas and practices that were said to ensure health and well-being. As the religion developed and spread to other parts of Asia, healing deities were added to its pantheon, monastic institutions became centers of medical learning, and healer-monks gained renown for their mastery of ritual and medicinal therapeutics. In China, imported Buddhist knowledge contended with a sophisticated, state-supported system of medicine that was able to retain its influence among the elite. Further afield in Japan, where Chinese Buddhism and Chinese medicine were introduced simultaneously as part of the country's adoption of civilization from the "Middle Kingdom," the two were reconciled by individuals who deemed them compatible. In East Asia, Buddhist healing would remain a site of intercultural tension and negotiation. While participating in transregional networks of circulation and exchange, Buddhist clerics practiced locally specific blends of Indian and indigenous therapies and occupied locally defined social positions as religious and medical specialists.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1138492256 | 703 pages | True PDF | 7.49 MB
The Routledge Handbook of Indian Buddhist Philosophy is the first scholarly reference volume to highlight the diversity and individuality of a large number of the most influential philosophers to have contributed to the evolution of Buddhist thought in India. By placing the author at the center of inquiry, the volume highlights the often unrecognized innovation and multiplicity of India's Buddhist thinkers, whose unique contributions are commonly subsumed in more general doctrinal presentations of philosophical schools. Here, instead, the reader is invited to explore the works and ideas of India's most important Buddhist philosophers in a manner that takes seriously the weight of their philosophical thought.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1350246123 | 193 pages | True PDF | 7.12 MB
D.T. Suzuki (1870-1966) reached global fame for his writings on Zen Buddhism. In this introduction to his theories of self, knowledge, and the world, Suzuki is presented as a Buddhist philosopher in his own right.

Madhu Bhalla, "Culture as Power: Buddhist Heritage and the Indo-Japanese Dialogue"
English | ISBN: 0367313596 | 2020 | 214 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book presents new studies on intellectual and cultural interactions in the context of Buddhist heritage and Indo-Japanese dialogue in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on art, religion, and cultural politics. By revisiting Buddhist connections between India and Japan, it examines the pathways of communication on common aesthetic and religious heritage that emerged in the backdrop of colonial experiences and the rise of Asian nationalisms. The volume discusses themes such as Asian arts and crafts under colonialism, formation of East Asian art collections, development of Buddhist art history in Japan, Japanese encounters with Ajanta, India in the history of the Shinto tradition, Japan in India's xenology, and Buddhism and world peace, and suggests paradigms of reconnecting cultural heritage within a global platform.