The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture
10 best books like The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture (Anonymous): The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Οι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας, What the Buddha Taught, The Way of the Bodhisattva, Born in Tibet, Holy Science, The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui-Neng, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen, The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
| Author | Shoshana Zuboff |
| ISBN | 1610395697 |
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.
In this masterwork of original thinking and research,...
Στους γάμους του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας ήταν η τελευταία φορά όπου, με την ευκαιρία εκείνης της γιορτής, οι θεοί του Ολύμπου κάθισαν στο ίδιο τραπέζι με...
| Author | Walpola Rahula |
| ISBN | 0802130313 |
This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. For years,” says the Journal of the Buddhist Society, the newcomer to Buddhism has lacked a simple and reliable introduction to the complexities of the subject. Dr. Rahula’s What the Buddha Taught fills...
| Author | Śāntideva |
| ISBN | 1590300572 |
One of the great classics of Mahayana Buddhism, The Way of the Bodhisattva ( Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. Presented in the form of a personal meditation in verse, it outlines...
| Author | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1570627142 |
Chögyam Trungpa—meditation master, scholar, and artist—was identified at the age of only thirteen months as a major tulku, or reincarnation of an enlightened teacher. As the eleventh in the teaching lineage known as the Trungpa tulkus, he underwent a period of intensive training in mediation,...
| Author | Sri Yukteswar Giri |
| ISBN | 0876120516 |
This extraordinary treatise explores parallel passages from the Bible and the Hindu scriptures to reveal the essential unity of all religions. Swami Sri Yukteswar, the revered guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, outlines the universal path that every human being must travel to enlightenment. He also...
| Author | Hui-Neng |
| ISBN | 0877730059 |
The Diamond Sutra, composed in India in the 4th century CE, is one of the most treasured works of Buddhist literature & is the oldest existing printed book in the world. It's known as the Diamond Sutra because its teachings are said to be like diamonds that cut away all dualistic thought, releasing...
| Author | Hui-Neng |
| ISBN | 0231083610 |
The "Platform Sutra" records the teachings of Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch, who is revered as one of the two great figures in the founding of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. This translation is the definitive English version of the eighth-century Ch'an classic.
Phillip B. Yampolsky has based his...
Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), among the first to transmit Zen Buddhism from China to Japan and founder of the important Soto School, was not only a profoundly influential and provocative Zen philosopher but also one of the most stimulating figures in Japanese letters.
Kazuaki Tanahashi, collaborating...
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 0938077112 |
No one but Thay could make the Abhidharma technicalities and mind-bending paradoxes of emptiness of the Heart Sutra read like simple breathing while looking at clouds. The highest wisdom, prajnaparamita, in Thay's hands shows you its immediacy and practicality for everyday living. After reading...
Modern Social Imaginaries
| Author | Charles Taylor |
| ISBN | 0822332930 |
One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries,...
