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Popular understanding of Zen Buddhism typically involves a stereotyped image of isolated individuals in meditation, contemplating nothingness. This book presents the 'other side of Zen', by examining the movement's growth during the Tokugawa period (1600-1867) in Japan and by shedding light on the Japanese religious landscape during the era.

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In this book, Dennis Merzel brings a friendly and inviting flavour to Zen Buddhist wisdom. Merzel (also known as Genpo Roshi) explains how meditation can gradually lead us to becoming more and more familiar with our own minds, allowing us to better understand ourselves and the nature of human life.

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Dzogchen, or the Great Perfection, is considered in Tibet to be the culmination of all teachings embraced by both Bonpos and the followers of the Nyingma school.

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Asks whether Buddhism offers women liberation or limitation. This work focuses on Buddhist conceptions of women and constructions of gender. It also asserts that the study of Buddhism through the gender lens leads us to question what we uncritically call Buddhism, in the singular.

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The Dalai Lama taught the popular Kalachakra to thousands of people in New York, Bloomington, Los Angeles and Madison, Wisconsin.

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Is there a Buddhist discourse on sex This book reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. It covers the geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the time of its founder, Xvkyamuni, to the premodern age.

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Exploring key concepts and metaphors, Bernard Faure guides readers to an appreciation of some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese traditions of Chan Buddhism and Japanese Zen. Faure focuses on Chan's insistence on "immediacy"--its denial of all traditional meditations, including scripture, ritual, good works--and yet shows how these mediations have always been present in Chan.

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'An invitation to a sane life' Jack Kornfield

Do you feel at home Feeling truly at home, he believes, comes not from our physical location but the ability to belong in the present moment, without worrying about yesterday's regrets or tomorrow's to-do list.

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Layman P'ang (740-808) was a Chan/Zen Buddhist who serves as a model for Buddhist practice for all those who choose to lead the spiritual life outside the bounds of institutionalized monasticism. This title contains the sayings of and stories about Layman P'ang that provide an inspiration to spiritual practice for anyone.

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"The Sun of Wisdom" is a commentary on a famous text by an early Indian Buddhist known as Nagarjuna. He is credited with discovering the Buddha's Vajrayana, or Tantric, teachings, 400 years after his death.

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Translated from the Japanese Shumon mujintoron.

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Discuss Buddhist background history, initiation rites, generation and completion stage practices of Kalachakra.

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An account of day-to-day Zen monastic practice. In discussing the activities of the postulants, the meditation monks, the teachers and administrators, and the support monks of the monastery of Songgwang-sa, it reveals a religious tradition that differs radically from the stereotype prevalent in the West.

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Attempts to penetrate the core of spirituality and consciousness by employing a psychological approach to the understanding of religious experience.

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This is a collection of extracts from Thomas Merton's "Asian Journal", and other short works on Eastern religions written in the last few years of his life. It provides essential definitions of the Eastern religions that so interested him in the last years of his life.

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The sixty-four arts of love-making are lucidly presented.

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"Presents new methodologies and theoretical frameworks for understanding the contested category of magic in Tibetan contexts"--

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