Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism
10 best books like Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism (Rita M. Gross): Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Loba, When Women Were Priests, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Zen Speaks: Shouts of Nothingness, Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace, Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy, Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals, 1969-1982, A Glimpse of Nothingness: Experiences in an American Zen Community, Buddhism as Philosophy: An Introduction
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0060925760 |
A combination of spiritual poetry and history of the poets. Really expansive, beautiful, informative collection.
My favorites were:
p 21, Zi Ye
All night I could not sleep / because of the moonlight on my bed. / I kept on hearing a voice calling: / Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
| Author | Diane di Prima |
| ISBN | 0140587527 |
Loba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for the first time in its completed form with new material, Loba, "she-wolf" in Spanish explores the wilderness...
| Author | Karen Jo Torjesen |
| ISBN | 0060686618 |
This is a challenging book, not in the sense that it is a tough read (it's very well written book), but in the sense that it forces readers to address their own assumptions and the way in which they view women and the church. In her book, Karen Jo Torjessen makes an attempt to both defend the reality of women's...
| Author | Nāgārjuna |
| ISBN | 0195093364 |
The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating...
| Author | Tsai Chih Chung |
| ISBN | 0385472579 |
This collection of comic strips is a wonderful distillation of Zen. Since Zen is more of a style of living than an actual religion, it converts well to bite-sized snippets. The tradition of Zen koans also lends itself to this presentation.
I originally read this book in the early 2000s, during...
| Author | Bernie Glassman |
| ISBN | 0609803913 |
Zen practitioner and non-profit community developer Bernie Glassman offers powerful teaching stories that illustrate ways of making peace one moment at a time. Each chapter focuses on an event or person and demonstrates how a particular peacemaker vow is put into practice. Through these stories...
| Author | Nyanaponika Thera |
| ISBN | 0861713818 |
A perennial favorite, Great Disciples of the Buddha is now relaunched in our best-selling Teachings of the Buddha series.
Twenty-four of the Buddha's most distinguished disciples are brought to life in ten chapters of rich narration. Drawn from a wide range of authentic Pali sources, the...
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
| ISBN | 1570623678 |
In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway—guests of his wife, a new student of Zen. Thirteen years later, Matthiessen was ordained a Buddhist monk. Written in the same format as his...
| Author | Janwillem van de Wetering |
| ISBN | 0312209452 |
I had another book on the go that I was having trouble getting through when I had a moment of despair and decided to pick this one up, having a feeling that it would be more appealing, since I really enjoyed the first book in the series, An Empty Mirror. I was right - I breezed through this one in a week. Not sure...
| Author | Mark Siderits |
| ISBN | 0872208737 |
160513: this is a book i have had for years, i read now, in chapter reads a day each, but not studying. this could be an excellent text for undergraduate courses, with your prof working through this particular logic, because it draws on an entire unfamiliar tradition for most who know only western philosophy....
| Author | Caroline Walker Bynum |
| ISBN | 0520063295 |
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including...
| Author | Rabindranath Tagore |
| ISBN | 0972635785 |
Tagore is unequivocal in his faith. He appreciates the intellectual triumphs of science, but he writes as a poet and philosopher. Man must always be a music-maker and dreamer of dreams; he must never lose, in his material quests, his longing for the touch of the divine. He traces the growth of the idea...
| Author | Bhikkhu Bodhi |
| ISBN | 0861713311 |
This volume offers a complete translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, the third of the four great collections in the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon. The Samyutta Nikaya consists of fifty-six chapters, each governed by a unifying theme that binds together the Buddha's...
In this series of 8 talks, given in Ojai, California in 1955, Krishnamurti confronts the confusion, habits, and assumptions of the human mind, and claims these lie at the root of all violence and suffering in the world. While these reflections were offered over 50 years ago, their meaning is as fresh...
| Author | Bhikkhu Ñaṇamoli |
| ISBN | 1928706126 |
This unique biography presents the Buddha's revolutionary solution for humanity that leads to the end of ill will, craving and delusion. Though born a prince surrounded by luxuries, Gotama the Buddha was transformed by realizing that no one escapes unhappiness. He spent the remainder of his life...
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
As more and more westerners study and practice Buddhism, reliable modern translations of the Buddha's teachings are increasingly in demand. One of the main sources for knowledge of the Buddhadharma is the four Pali Nikayas or "collections" of his sayings. Written in Pali, an ancient Indian language...
| Author | Eknath Easwaran |
| ISBN | 1586380974 |
Eknath Easwaran, translator of the best-selling edition of the Dhammapada, sees this powerful scripture as a perfect map for the spiritual journey. Said to be the text closest to the Buddha’s actual words, it is a collection of short teachings memorized during his lifetime by his disciples. Easwaran...
Сърцевината на всички тези източни философии не е някоя идея или теория, нито дори начин на поведение, а начин да изживееш такова преобразяване на всекидневното...
Some twenty-five centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire people across the globe, including those living in predominantly secular societies. But what does it mean to adapt religious practices to secular contexts?
Stephen Batchelor, an internationally...
Indian Philosophy: Volume 2
| Author | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| ISBN | 0195638204 |
190516: dense and deliberate book 2 (volume one: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...). this is a historical document (1923), of english academic style, though i do not know how significantly different is current understanding of indian philosophy. i have grown up more or less a-religious,...
| Author | Shaun Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0415391229 |
The Phenomenological Mind is the first book to properly introduce fundamental questions about the mind from the perspective of phenomenology. Key questions and topics covered include:
What is phenomenology? naturalizing phenomenology and the empirical cognitive sciences phenomenology...
| Author | Edwin Arthur Burtt |
| ISBN | 0486425517 |
After spending a summer at the cottage on Lake Michigan with my little brother, Fin, my co-parent, Martin, and I drove his Galaxy 500 up to the area of Hayward, Wisconsin to spend a week visiting Bill and his girlfriend, Terry, who had spent their summer at the cottage of his parents and had invited us, months...
Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India
| Author | Ritu Menon |
| ISBN | 0813525527 |
As an event of shattering consequence, the Partition of India remains significant today. While Partition sounds smooth on paper, the reality was horrific. More than eight million people migrated and one million died in the process. The forced migration, violence between Hindus and Muslims, and...
