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 came across that he used to be - and continuously have been - a Buddhist. This attention was once to behave because the driving force at the back of a existence during which Lingwood, now greater referred to as Sangharakshita, has performed an incredible half within the creation of Buddhism to the West. The Rainbow highway strains Sangharakshita's improvement from a early life ruled by means of sickness 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 crucial sutras in Mahayana Buddhism. It used to be translated into chinese language by means of Kumarajiva in 406 CE less than the name: Myohorengekyo (Miao-Fa-Lien-Hua-Ching). The chinese language identify skill “Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the fantastic Dharma.

Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practitioner's Guide

A pragmatic, down-to-earth consultant to Vasubandhu's vintage paintings "Thirty Verses of recognition Only" that can remodel sleek existence and alter the way you see the area. during this down-to-earth publication, Ben Connelly sure-handedly courses us throughout 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 posh and numerous non secular culture in early sleek and Meiji Japan, 1600-1868. Highlighting the function of the god Okuninushi and the mythology established at the Izumo Shrine in western Japan as a part of this approach, he exhibits how and why this god got here to be neglected in country Shinto within the glossy interval.