The Way of the Buddha
Title | The Way of the Buddha PDF eBook |
Author | Rubin Museum of Art, The |
Publisher | Harry N. Abrams |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-09-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780810972957 |
Consists more than 400 sayings from Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism. This title presents the text of F Max Muller's 1881 translation alongside illustrations from the collections of the Rubin Museum of Art. It portrays the Buddha as well as other sages in paintings, sculptures and textiles.
The Dhammapada
Title | The Dhammapada PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780700706006 |
The Dhammapada
Title | The Dhammapada PDF eBook |
Author | Buddha |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 105 |
Release | 2011-12-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0307950719 |
Trembling and quivering is the mind, Difficult to guard and hard to restrain. The person of wisdom sets it straight, As a fletcher does an arrow. The Dhammapada introduced the actual utterances of the Buddha nearly twenty-five hundred years ago, when the master teacher emerged from his long silence to illuminate for his followers the substance of humankind’s deepest and most abiding concerns. The nature of the self, the value of relationships, the importance of moment-to-moment awareness, the destructiveness of anger, the suffering that attends attachment, the ambiguity of the earth’s beauty, the inevitability of aging, the certainty of death–these dilemmas preoccupy us today as they did centuries ago. No other spiritual texts speak about them more clearly and profoundly than does the Dhammapada. In this elegant new translation, Sanskrit scholar Glenn Wallis has exclusively referred to and quoted from the canonical suttas–the presumed earliest discourses of the Buddha–to bring us the heartwood of Buddhism, words as compelling today as when the Buddha first spoke them. On violence: All tremble before violence./ All fear death./ Having done the same yourself,/ you should neither harm nor kill. On ignorance: An uninstructed person/ ages like an ox,/ his bulk increases,/ his insight does not. On skillfulness: A person is not skilled/ just because he talks a lot./ Peaceful, friendly, secure–/ that one is called “skilled.” In 423 verses gathered by subject into chapters, the editor offers us a distillation of core Buddhist teachings that constitutes a prescription for enlightened living, even in the twenty-first century. He also includes a brilliantly informative guide to the verses–a chapter-by-chapter explication that greatly enhances our understanding of them. The text, at every turn, points to practical applications that lead to freedom from fear and suffering, toward the human state of spiritual virtuosity known as awakening. Glenn Wallis’s translation is an inspired successor to earlier versions of the suttas. Even those readers who are well acquainted with the Dhammapada will be enriched by this fresh encounter with a classic text.
The Tibetan Dhammapada
Title | The Tibetan Dhammapada PDF eBook |
Author | Gareth Sparham |
Publisher | Wisdom Publications (MA) |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN |
Dhammapada
Title | Dhammapada PDF eBook |
Author | Sangharakshita |
Publisher | Windhorse Publications |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2013-10-23 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1909314323 |
The Dhammapada is one of the most popular and influential of Buddhist scriptures. Contained within its short verses are the essential teachings of the Buddha, words to be savoured, reflected upon and revisited. This beautiful new pocket-sized paperback edition presents a new translation of the scripture, one that brings a refreshing sense of directness and immediacy to these verses.
The Way of the Buddha
Title | The Way of the Buddha PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Publication Division |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
On Buddhist art and antiquity.
The Gospel of Buddha
Title | The Gospel of Buddha PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Carus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Buddhism |
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