Born amidst the ruins of post-war Japan, a boy is drawn to the life of training as a Zen monk, and graduates from his monastery to roam the world among rogues and lost souls, all the while...
The author, known by his Western Buddhist ordained name of Ananda, reveals how thirty years of pursuit of his real nature and the practise of Buddhism have helped...
A major English translation of these central scriptures of Hinduism from the Oxford World Classics series. The first major English translation of the ancient...
Anne Marie's Da, her father Jimmy the Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first takes up meditation at the Buddhist centre, no one takes him seriously. But as...
These essays treat: Zen as the Chinese interpretation of the doctrine of enlightenment, enlightenment and ignorance, the history of Zen in China up to the...
A modern re-telling of the life of the Buddha and how it relates to us by a member of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order. We have all seen images of this particular...