Stephen Mitchell, a longtime Zen student, is recognized as an outstanding translator of poetry. This anthology contains Buddhist and Taoist poetry, writings...
In this talk at Amaravati Buddhist monastery, ven.Ajahn Sumedho offers his reflections on the various issues concerning families and family life in our modern western culture. He invites us to consider how the...
The "Salistamba Sutra" appears to represent a formative period in which there still remained many points in common between the incipient Mahayana Buddhism and what was to become Theravada...
In Buddhism conversion occurs on a number of levels and takes several forms. This book explores four dimensions of conversion: the going for refuge; the point...
A thought-provoking exploration asking how we can live by myths today, showing their relevance to our own modern technological society. The old myths were a way of explaining the cosmos and...
A Chinese master interprets the I-Ching from Buddhist, meditational and social viewpoints. Chih-hsu Ou-i (1599-1655) wrote commentaries on many Buddhist texts and Chinese...