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 used to be - and continuously were - a Buddhist. This awareness was once to behave because the driver at the back of a existence within which Lingwood, now greater often called Sangharakshita, has performed an immense half within the creation of Buddhism to the West. The Rainbow highway lines Sangharakshita's improvement from a formative years ruled via ailment 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 without doubt one of the most vital sutras in Mahayana Buddhism. It was once translated into chinese language by means of Kumarajiva in 406 CE less than the identify: Myohorengekyo (Miao-Fa-Lien-Hua-Ching). The chinese language name potential “Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the fantastic Dharma.

Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practitioner's Guide

A pragmatic, down-to-earth advisor to Vasubandhu's vintage paintings "Thirty Verses of realization Only" that can rework glossy lifestyles and alter the way you see the area. during this down-to-earth e-book, Ben Connelly sure-handedly courses 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 posh and numerous spiritual culture in early smooth 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 procedure, he exhibits how and why this god got here to be overlooked in country Shinto within the sleek interval.