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 stumbled on that he used to be - and continuously were - a Buddhist. This attention was once to behave because the driving force in the back of a lifestyles during which Lingwood, now larger referred to as Sangharakshita, has performed an immense half within the advent of Buddhism to the West. The Rainbow highway lines Sangharakshita's improvement from a adolescence ruled via disease 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 among the most crucial sutras in Mahayana Buddhism. It used to be translated into chinese language through Kumarajiva in 406 CE below the identify: Myohorengekyo (Miao-Fa-Lien-Hua-Ching). The chinese language name ability “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 awareness Only" that can remodel glossy existence and alter the way you see the area. during this down-to-earth booklet, 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 smooth and Meiji Japan, 1600-1868. Highlighting the function of the god Okuninushi and the mythology founded at the Izumo Shrine in western Japan as a part of this strategy, he exhibits how and why this god got here to be overlooked in country Shinto within the smooth interval.