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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.

Hell Is Other People
City Dharma
by Arthur Jeon
My main impetus in writing this book is to help other people in the way that I have been helped by the teachings of the Dharma. There is no getting around the fact that most of life's difficulties, excepting illness, are caused by people's relationships

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 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

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.

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.

Buddhism
Zen Buddhism

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