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 constantly were - a Buddhist. This consciousness used to be to behave because the driver in the back of a existence during which Lingwood, now larger referred to as Sangharakshita, has performed an enormous half within the advent of Buddhism to the West. The Rainbow street strains Sangharakshita's improvement from a adolescence 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 among the most crucial sutras in Mahayana Buddhism. It was once translated into chinese language via Kumarajiva in 406 CE less than the name: Myohorengekyo (Miao-Fa-Lien-Hua-Ching). The chinese language identify potential “Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the fantastic Dharma.

Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practitioner's Guide

A realistic, down-to-earth advisor to Vasubandhu's vintage paintings "Thirty Verses of cognizance Only" that can remodel 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 fancy and numerous non secular culture in early sleek and Meiji Japan, 1600-1868. Highlighting the function of the god Okuninushi and the mythology based at the Izumo Shrine in western Japan as a part of this procedure, he indicates how and why this god got here to be neglected in nation Shinto within the glossy interval.