The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism

10 best books like The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism (Robert A.F. Thurman): Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life, A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, Living Buddha, Living Christ, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself, The Dhammapada, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama, Tantra Illuminated, Law of Attraction: The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don't

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0553351397
In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be...
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
AuthorCaroline Moorehead
ISBN0061650706
They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera, a midwife, a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The...
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
AuthorHenry Louis Gates Jr.
ISBN0525559531
The New York Times bestseller.

A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American...
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
AuthorMalcolm Gladwell
ISBN0316478520
In July 2015, a young black woman named Sandra Bland was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in rural Texas. Minutes later she was arrested and jailed. Three days later, she committed suicide in her cell. What went wrong? Talking to Strangers is all about what happens when we encounter people we...
Living Buddha, Living Christ
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN1573225681
When you are a truly happy Christian, you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over the course...
Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
AuthorMark Epstein
ISBN0399564322
"Most people will never find a great psychiatrist or a great Buddhist teacher, but Mark Epstein is both, and the wisdom he imparts in Advice Not Given is an act of generosity and compassion. The book is a tonic for the ailments of our time."--Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth...
The Dhammapada
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0938077872
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,...
AuthorThomas Laird
ISBN0802118275
The Story of Tibet is a work of monumental importance, a fascinating journey through the land and history of Tibet, with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama as guide. Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in candid, one-on-one...
Tantra Illuminated
AuthorChristopher D. Wallis
Tantra Illuminated takes the reader on a fascinating journey to the very heart of Tantra: its key teachings, foundational lineages, and transformative practices.

Since the West's discovery of Tantra 100 years ago, there has been considerable fascination, speculation, and more than a...
Law of Attraction: The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don't
AuthorMichael J. Losier
ISBN0973224002
"The Science of Attracting More of What You Want
and Less of What You Don't"

You may not be aware of it, but a very powerful force is at work in your life. It's called the Law of Attraction and right now it is attracting people, jobs, situations, and relationships in your life -- not all of them...
Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0061697699
Common sense tells us that to lose weight, we must eat less and exercise more. But somehow we get stalled. We start on a weight-loss program with good intentions but cannot stay on track. Neither the countless fad diets, nor the annual spending of $50 billion on weight loss helps us feel better or lose weight.

Too...
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
AuthorDouglas Murray
ISBN1635579988
The challenging and brilliantly-argued new book from the bestselling author of The Strange Death of Europe.

In his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals...
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
AuthorSogyal Rinpoche
“A magnificent achievement. In its power to touch the heart, to awaken consciousness, [The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying] is an inestimable gift.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

A newly revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling spiritual classic, The Tibetan...
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