Previously published in hardcover as King's Cross The most influential man to ever walk the earth has had his story told in hundreds of different ways for thousands of years. Can any more be said? Now, Timothy Keller, New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet and the man Newsweek called a "C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century," unlocks new insights into the life of Jesus Christ as he explores how Jesus came as a king, but a king who had to bear the greatest burden anyone...
Originally published in 1935, this volume provides a discussion of the structures of belief and practice in popular Hinduism. Taking into account the complexity of Hinduism, and its position as a composite religion of many diverse elements, the text goes on to find certain common elements which draw together its various aspects. The relationship between Hinduism and social organisation is also considered, with detailed discussion regarding the importance of the caste system. This book will be of...
Die Autorin stellt mit Hilfe einer historisch-chronologischen Vorgehensweise die Anfange wie auch die Veranderungen wahrend des Prozesses westlicher Einflusse dar. Zunachst werden die westlichen Einflusse nach der Offnung Thailands in politischen, okonomischen und sozio-kulturellen Bereichen erarbeitet. Anschliessend wird das Verhaltnis zwischen Buddhismus und Kunst im Hinblick auf die gesellschaftliche Relevanz des Buddhismus und seine Auswirkungen auf Themen und Darstellungsweisen sowie die Ku...
Korea's Great Buddhist-Confucian Debate (Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion)
This volume makes available in English the seminal treatises in Korea's greatest interreligious debate of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. On Mind, Material Force, and Principle and An Array of Critiques of Buddhism by Confucian statesman Ch?ng Toj?n (1342-1398) and Exposition of Orthodoxy by S?n monk Kihwa (1376-1433) are presented here with extensive annotation. A substantial introduction provides a summary and analysis of the philosophical positions of both Neo-Confucianism and Buddhis...
The Evolvement and Interpretation of the Buddha Dharma: How the Buddha Dharma Has Been Misinterpreted for 2500 Years
by Ching-Er Chang and
Zen Buddhism (Zen Buddhism, #2) (Zen Buddhism Bundle, #1)
by Benson Hiles
This book offers the reader practical lessons in Tibetan meditation with 20 step-by-step exercises so that they are able to reconnect with their natural state and in doing so live happy, healthy and balanced lives. Interspersed throughout are traditional Buddhist stories, which illuminate the messages of the text. The overall result is to show that there is nothing mysterious or complicated about Tibetan meditation - rather than its benefits are available to us all, as long as we approach the pr...
Roger Jackson provides accurate, accessible translations of three classics of medieval Indian Buddhist mysticism: the "couplet-treasuries" of the great tantric masters Saraha, Kanha, and Tilopa. Since their composition around 1000 CE, these poems have exerted a powerful influence on spiritual life, as well as poetry and song, in India, Nepal, and Tibet. Jackson's fresh translations allow the poetry to shine through, capturing the sense and spirit of the poems in the original. Jackson offers a th...
The Vimāna-Vathu of the Khuddhaka Nikaya Sutta Pitaka (Classic Reprint)
by Edmund Rowland Gooneratne
Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Myanmar
One of the most comprehensive volumes on Myanmar’s identity politics to date, this book discusses the entanglement of ethnic and religious identities in Myanmar and the challenges presented by its extensive ethnic-religious diversity. Religious and ethnic conjunctions are treated from historical, political, religious and ethnic minority perspectives through both case studies and overview chapters. The book addresses the thorny issue of Buddhist supremacy, Burmese nationalism and ethnic-religi...
Journal Asiatique Recueil de Mémoires Et de Notices Relatifs Aux Études Orientales, 1815, Vol. 5
by Societe Asiatique
Cultivating the Buddhist Heart
by Nichiko Niwano and Suzanne Trumbull
Mindfulness in the Marketplace suggests a reorientation of consumers from passive purchasers to aware, responsible citizens who see the dynamic connection between their purchases and their values. The Middle Path of Buddhism is not to avoid all consumption, but to consume mindfully in a manner that protects ourselves and all living systems. This anthology outlines a path of compassionate resistance to global corporatization, and offers a view of getting into right relationship with the Earth. In...