Buddhism In Canada
Buddhism has become a major religion in Canada over the last half-century. The "ethnic Buddhism" associated with immigrant Asian peoples is the most important aspect, but there is also a growing const...
Religion, Medicine And The Human Embryo In Tibet
At the core of this book lies the history of embryology and what it reveals about medicine and religion in Tibet. By linking aspects of Tibetan medicine to expressions of culture, religion, art, and l...
Religions Of Immigrants From India And Pakistan - New Threads In The American Tapestry
Landmark changes in the immigration law of 1965 admitted to the United States large numbers of immigrants from India and Pakistan. The religious groups formed by these new immigrants have exerted and ...
The Summary Of The Great Vehicle
This is a Revised Second Edition of translation from the Chinese by John P. Keenan, with notes. This "Compendium of the Mahayana" (Mahayanasamgraha) is so called because it presents an attempt to syst...
The Buddhist Experience In America
The Buddhist Experience in America explores how the world's fourth-largest religion came to America and flourished here. Although the percentage of Buddhists in America has always been, and will proba...
Learman: Budd Mission Era Global
This insightful volume dispels the common notion that Buddhism is not a missionary religion by revealing Asian Buddhists as active agents in the propagation of their faith. It presents at the same tim...
Imagining The Course Of Life: Self-Transformation In A Shan Buddhist Community
Imagining the Course of Life offers a rich portrait of rural life in contemporary Southeast Asia and an accessible introduction to the complexities of Theravada Buddhism as it is actually lived and ex...
Guia Al Paraiso De Las Dakinis: La Practica Del Tantra Del Yoga Supremo De Vajrayoguini
"Guide to Dakini Land" is the first complete explanation in English of the Tantric practice of Vajrayogini, the female Buddha of wisdom. Geshe Kelsang provides detailed instructions on the eleven yo...
The Storehouse Of Sundry Valuables
Translated from the Chinese by Charles Willemen. This sutra contains 121 parables covering a time span from the time of Shakyamuni Buddha and his disciples and ending with King Kaniska of the second c...
The Sutra On The Concentration Of Sitting Meditation
The Sutra on the Concentration of Sitting Meditation is a meditation manual compiled in China in the 5th century CE by Kumarajiva, the noted translator of many important Mahayana sutras and philosophi...
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