Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations
9 best books like Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations (Paul S Williams): Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes, Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation, A Separate Reality, The Dhammapada, Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha, The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic, Love For Sale: A World History of Prostitution, Nel paese delle nevi: Storia culturale del Tibet dal VII al XXI secolo
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. Its Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some of the Big Ideas are Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler...
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
| Author | Amber Scorah |
| ISBN | 0735222541 |
A riveting memoir of losing faith and finding freedom while a covert missionary in one of the world's most restrictive countries.
A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She volunteered to take the message...
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 0767903692 |
“If there is a candidate for ‘Living Buddha’ on earth today, it is Thich Nhat Hanh.”
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| Author | Carlos Castaneda |
| ISBN | 0671732498 |
"A man of knowledge is free...he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only life to be lived." --don Juan
In 1961 a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian's world of "non-ordinary...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0938077872 |
The Dhammapada (Pāli; Prakrit: धम्मपद Dhammapada; Sanskrit: धर्मपद Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya,...
Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
I’ve been reading and reviewing a bunch of books about Buddhism lately, and it occurred to me that I hadn’t read my very first introduction to the teachings in a really, really long time. We visited the Cham Shan Temple (also known as the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sarira Stupa, in Niagara Falls, Ontario)...
| Author | Gene Reeves |
| ISBN | 0861715713 |
The Lotus Sutra is regarded as one of the world's great religious scriptures and most influential texts. It's a seminal work in the development of Buddhism throughout East Asia and, by extension, in the development of Mahayana Buddhism throughout the world. Taking place in a vast and fantastical cosmic...
Love For Sale: A World History of Prostitution
| Author | Nils Johan Ringdal |
| ISBN | 0802141846 |
From the Whore of Babylon to The Happy Hooker, eminent historian Nils Johan Ringdal has written a masterly, extremely readable world history of the world’s oldest profession, spanning a wide historical swathe armed with a lively wit. Beginning with The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Old Testament, and...
Nel paese delle nevi: Storia culturale del Tibet dal VII al XXI secolo
| Author | Chiara Bellini |
| ISBN | 8806214918 |
Nell'immaginario occidentale, il Tibet è associato al volto sorridente del Dalai Lama, a film come Sette anni in Tibet, o alla tragedia dell'occupazione cinese consumatasi a partire dalla metà del XX secolo. Questo paese remoto e misterioso viene spesso percepito come il luogo per antonomasia...
