Orthodox Chinese Buddhism
A Contemporary Chan Master's Answers to Common Questions
Written by Master Sheng Yen, Translated by Otto Chang and Douglas Gildow
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
As a well-known scholar and meditation master—His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama called him “extremely modest, a true spiritual practitioner of deep and broad learning”—Sheng Yen is uniquely qualified to guide Western seekers into the world of contemporary Chinese Buddhism. Written while the author was secluded in solitary retreat in southern...
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Buddha Takes No Prisoners
A Meditator's Survival Guide
Written by Patrick Ophuls, Foreword by Jack Kornfield
Price: $17.95
North Atlantic Books
This insightful, easy-to-read handbook offers a non-traditional perspective on meditation. Written primarily for American insight meditation students, it delivers the Buddha's essential teachings clearly, straightforwardly, and without spiritual jargon, and helps make sense of practices often laden with traditional terminology. Practical explanations of the meditation process, its benefits and applicability to...
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Getting the Buddha Mind
On the Practice of Chan Retreat
Written by Master Sheng-Yen
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
Chan—or in Japanese, Zen—involves studying, practicing, acting, and being, but beyond words and ideas, the true Chan cannot be described, only learned. Under the guidance of authentic teachers like Chan Master Sheng Yen, many students in the West have learned how to follow the path. Collected from a series of talks...
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You Are the Weaver of Your World
Buddhism and the Psychology of Being
Written by Robert Hartzema
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
In nine accessible chapters, You Are the Weaver of Your World examines the forces that stunt spiritual growth and offers strategies for countering them. Based on the author’s 15 years of operating a Tibetan Buddhist center, readers learn how to release "the two spirals"—childhood hopes and fears—and embrace their own power...
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The Sword of Wisdom
A Commentary on the Song of Enlightenment
Written by Master Sheng-Yen
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North Atlantic Books
The Sword of Wisdom is a penetrating commentary on the Song of Enlightenment, a famous Chan text that speaks of proper methods and attitudes for practice. In this book, compiled from a series of lectures delivered during intensive meditation retreats, Master Sheng-yen gives valuable advice and guidance to those who are...
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Thich Nhat Hanh
The Joy of Full Consciousness
Written by Rachel Cartier and Jean-Pierre Cartier, Translated by Joseph Rowe
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North Atlantic Books
In 1999 two French journalists spent time with Buddhist Zen master and Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh at Plum Village, the religious community he founded in southwestern France. This account of their experience shows what daily life is like in this celebrated community and provides a glimpse of the personality and...
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Reflections from the Journey of Life
Collected Sayings of the Dalai Lama
Edited by Catherine Barry, Translated by Joseph Rowe
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
Reflections from the Journey of Life presents quotations from the Dalai Lama selected from personal conversations with editor Catherine Barry. The Fourteenth Dalai Lama is known throughout the world for his promotion of justice, truthfulness, and compassion for all cultures, races, and religions. Inside these pages you will read the Dalai...
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Tenzin Gyatso
The Early Life of the Dalai Lama
Written by Claude Levenson, Translated by Joseph Rowe
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North Atlantic Books
This exciting and often intense biography describes the Dalai Lama's rigorous education and his full assumption of power at the age of fifteen following the Chinese invasion in 1950. Though Tibetan tradition holds that the Dalai Lama is a reincarnation of his predecessors, one still marvels at the level of responsibility...
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There Is No Suffering
A Commentary on the Heart Sutra
Written by Master Sheng-Yen
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books
The Heart Sutra, just over a page long, distills the teachings of the Buddha to their purest essence. Perhaps the best known of all Buddhist sutras, it is recited in Buddhist centers and monasteries around the world. Emphasizing a living wisdom directly experienced, the schools of Chan have revered the Heart...
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Zen Wisdom
Conversations on Buddhism
Written by Master Sheng-Yen
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North Atlantic Books
Master Sheng-yen combines wisdom gained from years of study and practice with knowledge of the contemporary world to show how Chan and Buddha’s teachings are still relevant today. Beginners as well as those already on the path will find clear and useful guidance as the revered teacher answers questions from his...
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Wind Bell
Teachings from the San Francisco Zen Center - 1968-2001
Edited by Michael Wenger
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North Atlantic Books
In the 1960s, the San Francisco Zen Center established itself as a focal point for the study and practice of Zen Buddhism. Lectures and talks given at the center and compiled for this collection cover such topics as applying Zen to family life ('Karma, Dharma, and Diapers'), to other disciplines ('Facing...
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Blossoms of the Dharma
Living as a Buddhist Nun
Edited by Thubten Chodran, Foreword by Sylvia Boorstein
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North Atlantic Books
In recent years Buddhist nuns from Asia and the West have met together to become more active in improving their status in the female sangha. At "Life As A Buddhist Nun," the 1996 conference in Dharamsala, His Holiness the Dalai Lama supported this effort of Buddhist nuns to clarify their purpose...
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead
For Reading Aloud
Adapted by Jean-Claude Van Itallie
Price: $20.00
North Atlantic Books
The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Reading Aloud is famed playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie’s poetic adaptation of traditional Tibetan passages used to aid and comfort at the time of death. His lyrical and insightful poetry is accompanied by Gerry Vezzuso’s vivid photographs, Tibetan art, and other images evocative of this...
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Sex, Orgasm, and the Mind of Clear Light
The Sixty-four Arts of Gay Male Love
Written by Jeffrey Hopkins
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North Atlantic Books
In this ground-breaking work, Tibetan Buddhist scholar Jeffrey Hopkins has adapted Tibetan philosopher Gedun Chopel's heterosexual sex manual Tibetan Arts of Love as a gay sex guide. Interweaving ecstatic poetry and prose, Hopkins shows how sexual passion can open the door to spiritual growth.
Hopkins argues that orgasm itself can bring lovers...
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Unlocking the Zen Koan
A New Translation of the Zen Classic Wumenguam
Translated by Thomas Cleary
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North Atlantic Books
Elusive and enigmatic, zen koans have long puzzled people with their surprise meanings hidden in simple tales. Now one of America's finest translators of Asian philosophy provides a brillian new translation of the 12th century Wumenguan, the most popular of Chinese Zen koans. In Unlocking the Zen Koan (originally published as...
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Dharma Family Treasures
Sharing Buddhism with Children
Written by Sandy Eastoak
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North Atlantic Books
In this updated revised second edition of Dharma Family Treasures, Sandy Eastoak combines previous essays by lay and ordained Buddhist practitioners, children, spiritual teachers, young adults, educators, parents, writers and poets, including Diane Di Prima, Barbara Gates, and Thich Nhat Hanh, with nine new essays by Robert Aitken, Richard Nelson, Jin...
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Blooming in the Desert
Favorite Teachings of the Wildflower Monk Taungpulu Sayadaw
Edited by Anne Teich
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North Atlantic Books
In 1978, at the age of 80, the Burmese forest monk Taungpulu Sayadaw left his native country for the first time and came to California, where he taught and established the West's first Burmese Buddhist temple and monastery. Revered as a saint in his lifetime and after his death in 1986...
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Buddhist Women on the Edge
Contemporary Perspectives from the Western Frontier
Edited by Marianne Dresser
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North Atlantic Books
As Buddhism is assimilated into the West, it is imperative that women reshape its patriarchal structures and carve out a fully legitimate, empowering position for themselves. Marianne Dresser brings together the likes of Pema Chodron, Tsultrim Allione, and bell hooks, 30 women in all, who are doing just that. Writers, nuns...
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Beyond Dogma
Dialogues and Discourses
Written by Dalai Lama, Edited by Marianne Dresser, Annotations by Steven Goodman
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
Beyond Dogma presents a record of a 1993 visit to France by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, recipient of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize and the world's most prominent Buddhist leader. During a series of public lectures and question-and-answer sessions with political activists, religious leaders, students, scientists, Buddhist practitioners, and interfaith...
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Sleepless Nights
Verses for the Wakeful
Translated by Thomas Cleary
Price: $9.95
North Atlantic Books
Nearly 800 years ago, pagan Mongol tribes from the Central Asian steppes broke upon the ancient civiliations of Asia like a tidal wave, unleashing a whirlwind of destructive fury with unprecedented force. Through this holocaust wandered a lone buddhist poet, a pacifist and feminist, a former politcal prisoner and a lifelong...
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Essential Teachings
Written by Dalai Lama
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North Atlantic Books
Essential Teachings presents the first English translation of a series of talks given in 1974 by the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India—the site of the Buddha's enlightenment—to a gathering of Tibetan refugees and Western Buddhists. His precise and eloquent commentary on the "Path of the Bodhisattva," one of the most...
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Instant Zen
Waking Up in the Present
Translated by Thomas Cleary
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North Atlantic Books
Instant Zen presents the teachings of Foyan, a twelfth-century Chinese Zen master recognized as one of the greatest masters of the Song dynasty Zen renaissance in China. Returning to the uncomplicated genuineness of the original and classical Zen masters, Foyan offers many simple exercises in attention and thought designed to lead...
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The Double Mirror
A Skeptical Journey into Buddhist Tantra
Written by Stephen Butterfield
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North Atlantic Books
In The Double Mirror, the author's personal history-- as a student of the late Tibetan master Chogyam Trungpa, known for his unconventional lifestyle and "crazy wisdom" teaching style-- is the framework for an incisive and eloquent examination of a profound spiritual journey. Writing both from a critical perspective and from his...
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Morning Dew Drops of the Mind
Teachings of a Contemporary Zen Master
Written by Shodo Harada Roshi
Price: $9.95
Frog Books
In this concise collection of essays, Shodo Harada Roshi brings zen to life. Reflecting on current events and the state of society, he applies zen's direct and simple teachings to the benefit of the reader.
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The Guru Papers
Masks of Authoritarian Power
Written by Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad
Price: $19.95
Frog Books
The Guru Papers demonstrates with uncompromising clarity that authoritarian control, which once held societies together, is now at the core of personal, social, and planetary problems, and thus a key factor in social disintegration. It illustrates how authoritarianism is embedded in the way people think, hiding in culture, values, daily life...
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