Description: Ellen C. Babbitt has collected, and retold the best thirty-nine of the 547 Jataka Tales. These charming fables originated in India sometime around the fifth century, and have been teaching children valuable lessons ever since.
Description: THUS has it been said by the Buddha, the Enlightened One: It is through not understanding, not realizing four things, that I, Disciples, as well as you, had to wander so long through this round of rebirths. And what are these four things? The
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Description: Lecturer On English Literature In The Imperial University Of Japan, London.
Description: The Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King: A Life of Buddha by Asvaghosha Bodhisattva, translated from Sanskrit into Chinese by Dharmaraksha A.D. 420, and From Chinese into English by Samuel Beal This is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which
Description: Excellent translations of basic works in later Buddhism feature the Buddha-Karita of Asvaghosha, concerning the life and teachings of the Buddha. Additional documents include the Larger and Smaller Sukhavati-vyuha, describing the Land of Bliss, the Vagrakkhedika, the Larger and Smaller Pragna, two kernel statements of the Mahayana, and the Meditation Sutra of Amida Buddhism.
Description: Libellilege dea Juvenilia d'Alfred Jarry publiea par Le College de 'Pataphysique--P. 2 of cover.Drame en trois actes--T.p. Page 5 appears to reproduce the information from the 1888 publication (Saint-Brieuc, 1888).Cet ouvrage a ete tire pour le College de 'Pataphysique sur les presses de l'imprimerie Firmin-Didot et Cie (Mesmil, Eure) a 666 exemplaires dont 222 sous couverture couleur de rose et 25 marques de la chouette briochine le Ier Haha XCII 1965--Colo...
Description: Edmond Holmes, a Pantheist, reviews Buddhist theology and critiques Western conceptions (or misconceptions) of fundamental concepts such as Nirvana. In this book Holmes attempts to get back to the core of what Buddha taught, not necessarily what is considered orthodox. His interpretation is thought-provoking.--J.B. Hare
Description: In this Buddhist Publication Society book, editor N.K.G. Mendis abridges the Milindapanha, a spirited dialogue between the Greek King Milinda and the Buddhist sage Nagasena in the Pali Canon. An excerpt from the cover follows: Today the encounter between Buddhism and Western civilization has been hailed as a cultural event of far-reaching significance, promising to exercise a major impact on both partners to the meeting. However, the first encounter between ...
Description: A succinct, engaging, and practical guide for succeeding in any creative sphere, The War of Art is nothing less than Sun-Tzu for the soul. hat keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? Why is there a naysayer within? How can we avoid the roadblocks of any creative endeavor—be it starting up a dream business venture, writing a novel, or painting a masterpiece? Bestselling novelist Steven Pressfield identif ies the enemy that every one of us must face...
Description: Asvaghosa's The Awakening of Faith is one of the most concise works on Mahayana Buddhism, and was translated at an early date from the Sanskrit to the Chinese. The original Sanskrit text is lost. The Awakening of Faith has been used as a textbook for Buddhist priests. This translation was the first into English; it is by Teitaro Suzuki, one of the principal writers on Buddhism of the 20th century. Suzuki, a Zen Buddhist scholar, manages to convey the difficu...
Description: This classic Zen Buddhist collection of 49 koans with commentary by Mumon was originally published in 1934, and later included in Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki's popular anthology Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. Due to non-renewal it is currently in the
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Colics of the horse ; Includes bibliographical references and index ; Veterinary Library's copy part of the John A. Seaverns Equine Collection
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Description: The Awakening of Faith of Ashvagosha. In the Mahayana Doctrine, The New Buddhism by the Patriarch Ashvagosha. Translated into Chinese by Paramartha. Translated into English by Timothy Richard.
Description: The Vinaya (a word in Pāli as well as in Sanskrit, with literal meaning 'leading out', 'education', 'discipline') is the regulatory framework for the Buddhist monastic community, or sangha, based on the canonical texts called Vinaya Pitaka. T
Description: These seven scriptural writings are considered to be the most important and oldest of the Buddhist religion. Originally written in the Pali language, they date to the fourth and third centuries BC. This early date is what makes them so import