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Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From renowned Zen Buddhist teacher Haemin Sunim, a guide to turning life's challenges into opportunities for self-discovery. Have you ever felt like life has thrown you a curveball? Are you struggling to overcome unexpected challenges and setbacks? While loss, heartbreak, and loneliness are all part of the human experience, in this warm guide, internationally bestselling author Haemin Sunim shows us that these moments can actually be rare opportunities...
Author
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
Understanding Buddhism covers the history of Buddhism and explores how the religion has evolved and expanded. Readers learn about monks and nuns, the branches of Buddhism, and important rituals. This title also discusses misunderstandings about Buddhism and the challenges some women have faced in the religion.
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lifting as They Climb is a love letter of freedom and self-expression from six Black women Buddhist teachers, conveyed through the voice of one of the many women who has benefitted from their wisdom. Toni Pressley-Sanon offers rich opening and closing chapters about the emergence of Black Buddhism as part of a long history of Black liberation in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world. The heart of the book is six chapters that profile the life stories...
Author
Series
Studies on East Asian religions volume Volume 3
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Author
Series
Studies in the history of religions volume Volume 163
Publisher
BRILL
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
7) The early 20th century resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist world: studies in Central Asian Buddhism
Author
Series
Global Asia volume 13
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Series
Studies on East Asian religions volume Volume 5
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper One
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists and the cartoonist and award-winning author of MUTTS join forces to call for a Compassionate Revolution that encourages everyone to work together to heal our relationships with each other and with the planet.
13) 49 days
Author
Publisher
LQ, Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Day 1. Gotta get up. Gotta keep moving. This map - it says I have to cross over here. Wait, what's that...? And so begins a graphic novel story unlike any other: 49 Days. In Buddhist tradition, a person must travel for forty-nine days after they die, before they can fully cross over. Here in this book, readers travel with one Korean American girl, Kit, on her journey, while also spending time with her family and friends left behind. Agnes Lee has...
14) Enlightened
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Prince Siddhartha lives in a beautiful palace in the heart of Kapilavastu. His father, the king, ensures that he has the best of everything--he just can't go outside. He is locked up away from the city, away from anything that might cause him pain. He knows nothing of illness, aging, sorrow, or death, yet Siddhartha feels the pain regardless, and it instills a burning curiosity to understand the world outside--and the nature of human suffering. Based...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala Publications
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In Welcoming Beginner's Mind, Buddhist teacher Gaylon Ferguson reflects on the ox herding images to show that the path into this contradiction can be walked with the practice of welcoming-the simple, challenging, and always new possibility of opening to exactly what's occurring in your experience. This practice, which he distinguishes from meditation, opens a middle path between spiritual bypassing (using meditation or other spiritual practices to...
Author
Publisher
Interlink Books, An imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Buddhism: a journey through art chronicles art and artefacts from the first to the twentieth century in a celebration of the artistic exchange of culture as Buddhism spread through Asia. Featuring a selection of over 300 of the most important works that exemplify a rich and diverse array of Buddhist art, each accompanied by stunning photographs, the book establishes the significance of every piece in antiquity, highlighting the stylistic and iconographic...