The Rainbow Road: From Tooting Broadway to Kalimpong Memoirs of an English Buddhist: From Tooting Broadway to Kalimpong - Memoirs of an English Buddhist

On the age of 16 Dennis Lingwood chanced on that he was once - and consistently have been - a Buddhist. This awareness was once to behave because the driving force at the back of a existence during which Lingwood, now larger referred to as Sangharakshita, has performed an immense half within the creation of Buddhism to the West. The Rainbow street strains Sangharakshita's improvement from a early life ruled by way of disorder and books to homeless wandering and ordination as a Buddhist monk.

The Lotus Sutra: The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Dharma

The go back of  Murano’s vintage TranslationThe Lotus Sutra is likely one of the most vital sutras in Mahayana Buddhism. It was once translated into chinese language through Kumarajiva in 406 CE lower than the name: Myohorengekyo (Miao-Fa-Lien-Hua-Ching). The chinese language identify capability “Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the glorious Dharma.

Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practitioner's Guide

A realistic, down-to-earth advisor to Vasubandhu's vintage paintings "Thirty Verses of awareness Only" that can remodel glossy lifestyles and alter the way you see the realm. during this down-to-earth publication, Ben Connelly sure-handedly publications us during the intricacies of Yogacara and the richness of the “Thirty Verses.

The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo (Bloomsbury Shinto Studies)

Yijiang Zhong analyses the formation of Shinto as a fancy and numerous non secular culture in early glossy and Meiji Japan, 1600-1868. Highlighting the position of the god Okuninushi and the mythology based at the Izumo Shrine in western Japan as a part of this technique, he indicates how and why this god got here to be overlooked in kingdom Shinto within the glossy interval.