Buddhism

Part 1
A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
by Jack Kornfield
Beloved Western Buddhist master Kornfield makes known his personal, practical wisdom, garnered from 25 years of practicing and teaching the path of awakening, as he guides self-searchers to a simplicity of perception that brings alive spiritual practice,

Introduction
The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World
by The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, M.D.
Blending common sense and modern psychiatry, The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World applies Buddhist tradition to twenty-first-century struggles in a relevant way. The result is a wise approach to dealing with human problems that is both optimistic

Part 1
The Wise Heart; A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
by Jack Kornfield
You have within you unlimited capacities for extraordinary love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom - and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, celebrated author and psychologist Jack Kornfield offers the most accessible

Foreword
Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
by Joan Halifax, Ph.D.
Being with dying is a phrase that aptly describes the human condition. We may be unique among species in being aware of our mortality. Although the capacity to contemplate death is an essential human trait, most people actively eschew thinking about how

Part 1
Going On Being; Buddhism and the Way of Change
by Mark Epstein, M.D.
Mark Epstein combines a memoir of his own journey as a student of Buddhism and psychology with a powerful message about how cultivating true self-awareness and adopting a Buddhist understanding of change can free the mind.

Introduction
Going to Pieces without Falling Apart
by Mark Epstein, M.D.
For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego. We are taught that the ideal is a strong, individuated self, constructed and reinforced over a lifetime.

The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan
by Kaiten Nukariya
Buddhism is geographically divided into two schools - the Southern, the older and simpler, and the Northern, the later and more developed faith. The former, based mainly on the Pali texts is known as Hinayana (small vehicle), or the inferior doctrine

Going to the Mountain
Circling the Sacred Mountain: A Spiritual Adventure Through the Himalayas
by Robert Thurman, Tad Wise
In the tradition of The Snow Leopard, Circling the Sacred Mountain is a remarkable account of spiritual adventure through the magical and forbidding landscape of remote western Tibet.

The Last Days of Puu Jih
Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia
by George Crane
In 1959 a young monk named Tsung Tsai (Ancestor Wisdom) escapes the Red Army troops that destroy his monastery, and flees alone three thousand miles across a China swept by chaos and famine. Knowing his fellow monks are dead, himself starving and hunted,

The Origins of the Abhidhamma
A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma: Buddhist Publication Society
by Bhikkhu Bodhi
Although modern critical scholarship attempts to explain the formation of the Abhidhamma by a gradual evolutionary process Theravada orthodoxy assigns its genesis to the Buddha himself. According to the Great Commentary (maha-atthakatha) quoted by Acariya

Distinctive Features of the Abhidhamma
A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma: Buddhist Publication Society
by Bhikkhu Bodhi
Apart from its strict adherence to the philosophical method of exposition, the Abhidhamma makes a number of other noteworthy contributions integral to its task of systemization. One is the employment, in the main books of the Abhidhamma Pitaka

The Abhidhammattha Sangaha of Acariya Anuruddha
A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma: Buddhist Publication Society
by Bhikkhu Bodhi
The nucleus of the present book is a medieval compendium of Buddhist philosophy entitled the Abhidhammattha Sangaha. This work is ascribed to Acariya Anuruddha, a Buddhist savant about whom so little is known that even his country of origin

Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of Saint Benedict
Benedict's Dharma
by Patrick Henry
The root meaning of the Latin and Greek words translated as 'rule' is trellis. Saint Benedict was not promulgating rules for living; he was establishing a framework on which a life can grow.

Transforming Dissatisfaction At Work
The Art of Happiness at Work
by The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, M.D.
It had been a long day for the Dalai Lama. Even by the time he had eaten his meager breakfast of tsampa and tea at 7:30 a.m., he had already been up for four hours, completing his rigorous daily regimen of prayer, study, and meditation.

Experiencing the Seven Qualities of Awakened Awareness
Passionate Presence
by Catherine Ingram
Over the millennia the search for meaning and belonging has been humankind's most fervent pursuit, and to that end religions and philosophies abound. Yet, in our time, many people feel alienated from all religion and philosophy.

Ramayana
Open to Desire
by Mark Epstein, M.D.
The grandest and most vivid portrayal in all of Indian mythology - indeed, in all of the world's mythologies - of the enlightening potential of desire can be found in an ancient Hindu epic, the Ramayana.

The path of desire
Open to Desire
by Mark Epstein, M.D.
The Buddha's path did not focus on desire as an enemy to be conquered but rather as an energy to be perceived correctly. The Buddha was interested in teaching us not only how to find our own freedom, but in how to stay in affectionate relationship

Awakening to desire
Open to Desire
by Mark Epstein, M.D.
What distinguishes the tantric, or left-handed, path is its recognition that desire itself can be transformed through a process that is at once mental, emotional, psychological and spiritual.

The Truth About What the Buddha Taught
Open to Desire
by Mark Epstein, M.D.
One of my favorite stories comes from the Sufi tradition of mystical Islam. It is a tale that tells us exactly what we will have to face if we endeavor to walk the path of desire.

Bringing an Unworthy Self into Spiritual Life
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
by Tara Brach, Ph.D.
Buddhism offers a basic challenge to this cultural worldview. The Buddha taught that this human birth is a precious gift because it gives us the opportunity to realize the love and awareness that are our true nature.