The Thirty-seven Practices of All Buddhas' Sons, and The Prayer of the Virtuous Beginning, Middle, and End
Author: Rgyal-sras Thogs-med Bzaṅ-po-dpal
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 42
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The Thirty-seven Practices of All Buddhas' Sons
Author: Rgyal-sras Thogs-med Bzaṅ-po-dpal
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 20
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Author: Kamala Tiyavanich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-08-28
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0861715365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA preacher must have common sense, knowing how to turn everyday life experience into Dharma lessons, and assess an audience to maximize communications with them. "Sons of the Buddha" shows how three boys evolved into remarkable exponents of this ideal. Filled with lively anecdotes and illustrations, and brimming with local color, the book shows how each worked successfully to change moral attitudes and Dharma practices, restore Buddhism's social dimension, bridge the divide between laypeople and monastics, and champion tolerance toward other religions.
Garland of Jewels
Author: Jamgon Mipham
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Published: 2008-11-25
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781934608036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a translation of a collection of stories about the eight great bodhisattvas. These stories are all taken from sutras and tantras taught by the Buddha, such as the Avatamsaka and the Lotus Sutras. They were collected and edited by the great Buddhist teacher Mipham Namgyal (1846-1912). Mipham was one of the greatest teachers in Tibet of his time, and his writings remain the basis for much of the study conducted by his own tradition, the Nyingma school of Buddhism, and by other traditions such as the Karma Kagyu. In writing his book, Mipham combined edited extracts from his sources with his own writing about his subject. Although we typically think of Buddhist sutras as teachings accompanied by sparing narrative, we discover in this book that the great sutras of the mahayana are repositories of extraordinary accounts of miracles and great deeds performed by buddhas and bodhisattvas.
The Imagery of the Cosmological Buddha
Author: Angela Falco Howard
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-08-14
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9004646558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLittle Buddhas
Author: Vanessa R. Sasson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 0199945616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdited by Vanessa R. Sasson, Little Buddhas brings together a wide range of scholarship and expertise to address the question of what role children have played in Buddhist literature, in particular historical contexts, and their role in specific Buddhist contexts today.
Songs of the Sons and Daughters of Buddha
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Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2020-07-07
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1611808227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lyrical translation of an inspired selection of verses from the earliest Buddhist monks and nuns. More than two thousand years ago, the earliest disciples of the Buddha put into verse their experiences on the spiritual journey--from their daily struggles to their spiritual realizations. Over time the verses were collected to form the Theragatha and Therigatha, the "Verses of Elder Monks" and "Verses of Elder Nuns" respectively. In Songs of the Sons and Daughters of the Buddha, renowned poets Andrew Schelling and Anne Waldman have translated the most poignant poems in these collections, bringing forth the visceral, immediate qualities that are often lost in more scholarly renditions. These selections reveal the fears, loves, mishaps, expectations, and joys of the early monks and nuns, when, struck by wild insight, they cried out the anguish or solace they knew in their lives.
The New Heart of Wisdom
Author: Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Publisher: Tharpa Publications
Published: 2012-07-26
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1906665168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis special presentation of Buddha's teachings by the author of Modern Buddhism, offers truly liberating insights and advice for the contemporary reader. It reveals the profound meaning of the very heart of Buddha’s teachings - the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras. The author shows how all our problems and suffering come from our ignorance of the ultimate nature of things, and how we can abandon this ignorance and come to enjoy pure, lasting happiness by developing a special wisdom associated with compassion for all living beings. 'Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position, reputation, wealth and success in business are deceptive. If we die tomorrow, they will disappear tomorrow, and nothing will be left for our future. Wisdom, however, will never deceive us. It is our inner Spiritual Guide, who leads us to the correct path. It is the divine eye through which we can see what we should know, what we should abandon, what we should practise and what we should attain.' -Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche
37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
Author: Rgyal-sras Thogs-med-dpal Bzaṅ-po-dpal
Publisher: Snow Lion
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 124
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Bodhisattva Precepts
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Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2012-02-02
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 146706467X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe spiritual training of a Buddhist comprises the Three Learning: precepts, meditation, and wisdom. Observance of precepts is the foundation of ones spiritual journey to Buddhahood. Classified into three clustersrestraining precepts, precepts for doing good dharmas, and precepts for benefiting sentient beingsBodhisattva precepts are called the three clusters of pure precepts. This book, Rulus third, presents seven sutras in English, all translated from texts in the Chinese Buddhist Canon. Five of these seven English translations have never before been published in book form. Sutras 1 and 2 cover the ten good karmas; Sutra 3 teaches repentance of sins; Sutra 4 expounds the Mahayana Vinaya; Sutras 57 each contain time-honored Bodhisattva precepts. Sutra 6 is the well-known Brahma Net Sutra; Sutra 7, Sutra of the Upasaka Precepts, also covers the six paramitas in detail. Buddhist terms are explained in the glossary. The translators introduction presents sets of Buddhist precepts and describes the arrival of the Hinayana Vinaya in China. It explains the development of the Vinaya School, a Mahayana school originated in China, and summarizes its tenets. It compares voice-hearer precepts with Bodhisattva precepts, and discusses five texts of the latter. It also touches on selecting those Bodhisattva precepts that suit our modern times. Such precepts will be fewer in number but complete in spirit. Buddhist or non-Buddhist, those who seek to benefit themselves and others need to learn and observe such Bodhisattva precepts.
