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  • Our Glorious Future
    Mabel Collins
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    16,90 €

  • Beyond the Fairway
    Jeff Wallach
    Golf involves far more than hitting a perfect approach to the green. Every shot is an invitation to self-discovery, transcendence, and adventure. That is the theme behind Jeff Wallach’s unique approach to a game that, as any true golfer knows, is much more than a game - it’s an experience often bordering on the mystical. Beyond the Fairway explores the joys and subtle mysteries...
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    17,85 €

  • Jerusalem and Athens
    Susan Orr
    Leo Strauss dedicated his life to rejuvenating the serious study of political philosophy. But those who study his writings are at odds on the question of what he thought about revelation. By applying Strauss’s own principles of analysis to his pivotal essay ’Jerusalem and Athens: Some Preliminary Reflections,’ Susan Orr reveals that Strauss’s understanding of religion, contrary...
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    76,47 €

  • Can Virtue Be Taught?
    Barbara Darling-Smith
    In this book philosophers, scholars of religion, and activists address the theme of responsibility. Barbara Darling-Smith brings together an enlightening collection of essays that analyze the ethics of responsibility, its relational nature, and its global struggle. With references to Homer’s Iliad and Buddhist teachings, these essays demonstrate that while selfhood is an illusi...
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    28,29 €

  • Emotions in Asian Thought
    Treats the nature and ethical significance of emotions from a comparative cultural perspective emphasizing Asian traditions. ...
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    43,04 €

  • On Being Buddha
    Paul J Griffiths / Paul J. Griffiths
    What is it like to be a Buddha? Is there only one Buddha or are there many? What can Buddhas do and what do they know? Is there anything they cannot do and cannot know? These and associated questions were much discussed by Buddhist thinkers in India, and a complex and subtle set of doctrinal positions was developed to deal with them. This is the first book in a western lan...
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    43,25 €

  • Encouraging Words
    Robert Aitken
    'Aitken’s title says it all. Encouraging Words will appeal to both beginning and advanced lay Zen students who seek to integrate their spiritual practice into everyday life. Curious readers will be rewarded, too. Here is a teacher both wise and practical in equal measure'.--Honolulu Advertiser. Now in paperback. ...
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    16,91 €

  • Path to the Middle
    Anne Carolyn Klein
    Does a Bodhisattva’s initial direct cognition of emptiness differ from subsequent ones? Can one 'improve' a nondualistic understanding of the unconditioned and, if so, what role might subtle states of concentration play in the process? In material collected by Anne Klein over a seven-year period, Kensur Yeshey Tupden addresses these and other crucial issues of Buddhist soteriol...
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    43,09 €

  • Buddhism and Language
    Jose Ignacio Cabezon
    Taking language as its general theme, this book explores how the tradition of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophical speculation exemplifies the character of scholasticism.Scholasticism, as an abstract and general category, is developed as a valuable theoretical tool for understanding a variety of intellectual movements in the history of philosophy of religion. The book investigat...
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    43,12 €

  • Occult Science in India and Among the Ancients
    Louis Jacolliot / William L. Felt / William LFelt
    Occult Science in India and Among the Ancients: With an Account of their Mystic Initiatiations and the History of Spiritism is a book written by Louis Jacolliot. The book delves into the history and practices of occult science in India and among ancient civilizations. It explores the mystic initiations and rituals that were performed by these groups, and how they were connected...
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    34,88 €

  • Leo Strauss
    Kenneth LDeutsch / Walter Nicgorski
    In this book, 19 prominent representatives of each side in the basic division among Strauss’s followers explore his contribution to political philosophy and Jewish thought. ...
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    73,09 €

  • Zen Antics
    Thomas Cleary
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    18,35 €

  • The Small Golden Key
    Thinley Norbu / Lisa Anderson
    In The Small Golden Key, Thinley Norbu Rinpoche explains in simple, concise language the important ideas and practices of Buddhism, with special attention to the Vajrayana teachings of Tibetan Buddhism. He discusses the origins of Buddhism in India and its spread to Tibet; the important lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, with emphasis on the Nyingma school; the differences between t...
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    18,29 €

  • Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Eastern Thought
    John R Suler / John R. Suler
    This book explores the convergence of psychoanalysis and Asian thought. It explores key theoretical issues. What role does paradox play in psychological transformations? How can the oriental emphasis on attaining 'no-self' be reconciled with the western emphasis on achieving an integrated self? The book also inquires into pragmatic questions concerning the nature of psychol...
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    43,17 €

  • Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought
    John S Major / JOHN S. MAJOR
    The Huainanzi has in recent years been recognized by scholars as one of the seminal works of Chinese thought at the beginning of the imperial era, a summary of the full flowering of early Taoist philosophy. This book presents a study of three key chapters of the Huainanzi, 'The Treatise on the Patterns of Heaven,' 'The Treatise on Topography,' and 'The Treatise on the Seasonal...
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    42,74 €

  • Buddhism After Patriarchy
    Rita M Gross / Rita M. Gross
    This book surveys both the part women have played in Buddhism historically and what Buddhism might become in its post-patriarchal future. The author completes the Buddhist historical record by discussing women, usually absent from histories of Buddhism, and she provides the first feminist analysis of the major concepts found in Buddhist religion. Gross demonstrates that the cor...
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    42,87 €

  • In Search of the Dharma
    Chen-hua / Denis C Mair
    This is the first and only book in English on modern Chinese Buddhism written by a practicing Chinese monk. Chen-hua provides a rare eyewitness account of Chinese monastic life and Buddhist practices before they were changed forever by the Communist revolution. It begins with his departure from home in northern China to study Buddhism in Kiansu and Chekiang in the south and e...
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    43,13 €

  • A Dose of Emptiness
    Jose Ignacio Cabezon
    This book is an annotated translation of one of the great Tibetan classics of Mahayana Buddhist thought, mKhas grub rje’s sTong thun chen mo. The text is a detailed critical exposition of the theory and practice of emptiness as expounded in the three major schools of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy: the Yogacara, Svatantrika, and Prasangika. Used as a supplement to the scholastic ...
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    44,51 €

  • Inner Peace, World Peace
    Kenneth Kraft
    What can one person do to foster world peace? How does one person’s state of mind affect the state of the world? How can the ideal of nonviolence be manifested in daily life? Buddhists have been exploring questions like these for twenty-five centuries, and they are still timely today.Inner Peace, World Peace is the first work in any western language to examine the Buddhist appr...
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    41,14 €

  • The Classical Tibetan Language
    Stephan V Beyer / Stephan V. Beyer
    Among Asian languages, Tibetan is second only to Chinese in the depth of its historical record, with texts dating back as far as the eighth and ninth centuries, written in an alphabetic script that preserves the contemporaneous phonological features of the language.The Classical Tibetan Language is the first comprehensive description of the Tibetan language and is distinctive i...
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    44,83 €

  • A Thousand Teachings
    John M Koller / Sengaku Mayeda
    This is the best introduction to Vedanta and to Śaṅkara’s philosophy. The Upadeśasāhasrī, or A Thousand Teachings consists of a metrical part and a prose part. In the metrical part, Sankara discusses the basic philosophical problems of non-dualism, at the same time refuting the teachings of other philosophical schools. In the prose part, he explains how to teach the way to self...
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    43,24 €

  • Lectures of the Arya
    Albert Pike
    ''Lectures of the Arya'' is a book authored by Albert Pike that contains a series of lectures on the philosophy and teachings of the ancient Aryans. The lectures delve into various aspects of Aryan culture, religion, and mythology, and explore the influence of these beliefs on modern society. Pike provides a detailed analysis of the Vedas, the Upanishads, and other sacred texts...
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    39,76 €

  • The Two Truths
    Guy Newland
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    31,67 €

  • Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender
    Jose Ignacio Cabezon
    This book explores historical, textual, and social questions relating to the position and experience of women and gay people in the Buddhist world from India and Tibet to Sri Lanka, China, and Japan. It focuses on four key areas: Buddhist history, contemporary culture, Buddhist symbols, and homosexuality, and it covers Buddhism’s entire history, from its origins to the presen...
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    43,34 €

  • Orderly Chaos
    Chogyam Trungpa
    According to the mandala principle, a prominent feature of tantric Buddhism, all phenomena are part of one reality. Whether good or bad, happy or sad, clear or obscure, everything is interrelated and reflects a single totality. As Ch?gyam Trungpa explains in this book, from the perspective of the mandala principle, existence is orderly chaos. There is chaos and confusion becaus...
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    19,90 €

  • A Study of Dōgen
    Masao Abe
    This complete translation of Masao Abe’s essays on Dogen probes the core of the Zen master’s philosophy and religion. This work analyzes Dogen’s formative doubt concerning the notion of original awakening as the basis for his unique approach to nonduality in the doctrines of the oneness of practice and attainment, the unity of beings and Buddha-nature, the simultaneity of time ...
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    43,35 €

  • Further Reflections on Things at Hand
    Allen Wittenborn / Chu Hsi / Hsi Chu / Xi Zhu
    Chu Hsi (1130-1200), the renowned Chinese philosopher, lived during what is sometimes referred to as a ’renaissance’ in Chinese history-a time of commercial expansion and intellectual innovation. Available for the first time in English, Chu Hsi’s Sequel to Reflections on Things at Hand (Su chin-ssu-lu) is a collection of his sayings and writings, including personal letters, com...
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    109,37 €

  • Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory
    Joanna Macy
    This book brings important new dimensions to the interface between contemporary Western science and ancient Eastern wisdom. Here for the first time the concepts and insights of general systems theory are presented in tandem with those of the Buddha. Remarkable convergences appear between core Buddhist teachings and the systems view of reality, arising in our century from bio...
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    44,67 €

  • The Buddha Within
    Susan K Hookham / Susan K. Hookham
    Tathagatagarbha - Buddha Nature - is a central concept of Mahayana Buddhism crucial to all the living practice traditions of Tibetan and Zen Buddhism. Its relationship to the concept of emptiness has been a subject of controversy for seven hundred years. Dr. Hookam’s work investigates the divergent interpretations of these concepts and the way the Tibetan tradition is resolvi...
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    46,53 €

  • Buddha Nature
    Sallie B King / Sallie B. King
    This volume presents the first book-length study in English of the concept of Buddha nature as discussed in the Buddha Nature Treatise (Fo Xing Lun), attributed to Vasubandhu and translated into Chinese by Paramartha in the sixth century. The author provides a detailed discussion of one of the most important concepts in East Asian Buddhism, a topic little addressed in Western ...
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    42,20 €


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