David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby we must desire to end desire, the varieties of desir...
This study is the first in the English language to explore the ways medieval Japanese sought to overcome their sense of power-lessness over death. By attending to both religious practice and ritual ob...
Translated from the Japanese by Morris Augustine and Tessho Kondo. This is the principle work by Genku, founder of the Pure Land School in Japan, and is the most important single literary work in esta...
In the style of Iyanla Vanzant, Being Black is a down-to-earth spiritual handbook for all black people searching for true self-acceptance and lasting personal happiness. The average black person today...
This biographical text relates how King AEoka unified India for the first time in the third century BCE and, after his conversion, sent emissaries throughout his kingdom to spread Buhddhism.
Explores the importance of Buddhism as it develpoed in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra (modern-day Andhra Pradesh) and its influence.
The intersection of East and West is a vital one on many levels. The efforts to integrate Buddhism and its therapeutic ancestors to the Western ideas of Jungian Psychology have been particularly fruit...
This reprint of the seminal translation by the late Dr. Yoshito S. Hakeda is a comprehensive summary of the essentials of Mahayana Buddhism. The translator's extensive commentary within the text illum...
This book presents a useful insight into contemporary "British Buddhist "practice. It provides a survey of the seven largest Buddhist traditions in the United Kingdom, including the Forest Sangha (The...
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