The Buddha-Womb and the way to Liberation
Title | The Buddha-Womb and the way to Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Bodo Balsys |
Publisher | Universal Dharma Publishing |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 2016-08-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0992356822 |
The Buddha-Womb and the way to Liberation This volume resolves the ontology from the two previous volumes concerning the concept of a ‘subtle self’. First a commentary of the Tantra Great Gates of Diamond Liberation, that presents detailed information concerning the nature of the Heart, Throat, Diaphragm, and Splenic centres I and II. This adds to what was earlier provided on the Solar Plexus, Sacral and Base of Spine centres. The focus of this book concerns the attributes of the Sambhogakāya Flower, utilising The Uttaratantra of Maitreya and the Buddha’s testimony, thus revealing an esoteric doctrine that has been veiled in Buddhist scriptures.
The Graduated Path to Liberation
Title | The Graduated Path to Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Geshe Rabten |
Publisher | |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Dharma (Buddhism) |
ISBN |
Great Doubt
Title | Great Doubt PDF eBook |
Author | Yuanlai |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2016-07-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1614292302 |
Intro -- Title -- Table of Contents -- Foreword by Brad Warner -- Introduction -- TRANSLATION -- Exhortations for Those Who Don't Rouse Doubt -- Exhortations for Those Who Rouse Doubt -- COMMENTARY -- A Commentary on Exhortations for Those Who Don't Rouse Doubt -- A Commentary on Exhortations for Those Who Rouse Doubt -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Also Available from Wisdom Publications -- About Wisdom Publications -- Copyright
The Way of Liberation
Title | The Way of Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Watts |
Publisher | Weatherhill, Incorporated |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN |
Alan Watts helped shape the thinking of a generation through his efforts to introduce and interpret Asian wisdom in the West. This collection of essays and lectures spans his career, from his first essay on Zen Buddhism in 1955 to his final seminar, given only weeks before he died in 1973. The last essay The Practice of Meditation is written and illustrated in his own hand.
Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand
Title | Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand PDF eBook |
Author | Pha-boṅ-kha-pa Byams-pa-bstan-ʼdzin-ʼphrin-las-rgya-mtsho |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1008 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
A classic guide for the study, practice and realization of Buddhist teachings.
Mother of the Buddhas
Title | Mother of the Buddhas PDF eBook |
Author | Lex Hixon |
Publisher | Quest Books |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1993-05-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780835606899 |
Lex Hixon's "contemplative expansion" of forty passages from the Prajnaparamita Sutra, the basic scripture of all schools of Mahayana Buddhism, yields a text of devotional beauty that is at once dramatic and uplifting. The text sets forth the Bodhisattva path to enlightenment. Features a foreword by renowned American Buddhist scholar Dr. Robert A. Thurman.
Birth in Buddhism
Title | Birth in Buddhism PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Paris Langenberg |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2017-06-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1315512521 |
Recent decades have seen a groundswell in the Buddhist world, a transnational agitation for better opportunities for Buddhist women. Many of the main players in the transnational nuns movement self-identify as feminists but other participants in this movement may not know or use the language of feminism. In fact, many ordained Buddhist women say they seek higher ordination so that they might be better Buddhist practitioners, not for the sake of gender equality. Eschewing the backward projection of secular liberal feminist categories, this book describes the basic features of the Buddhist discourse of the female body, held more or less in common across sectarian lines, and still pertinent to ordained Buddhist women today. The textual focus of the study is an early-first-millennium Sanskrit Buddhist work, "Descent into the Womb scripture" or Garbhāvakrānti-sūtra. Drawing out the implications of this text, the author offers innovative arguments about the significance of childbirth and fertility in Buddhism, namely that birth is a master metaphor in Indian Buddhism; that Buddhist gender constructions are centrally shaped by Buddhist birth discourse; and that, by undermining the religious importance of female fertility, the Buddhist construction of an inauspicious, chronically impure, and disgusting femininity constituted a portal to a new, liberated, feminine life for Buddhist monastic women. Thus, this study of the Buddhist discourse of birth is also a genealogy of gender in middle period Indian Buddhism. Offering a new critical perspective on the issues of gender, bodies and suffering, this book will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, including researchers in the field of Buddhism, South Asian history and religion, gender and religion, theory and method in the study of religion, and Buddhist medicine.