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The Role of Chanting in Buddhism

By Barbara O'Brien — 2019

When you go to a Buddhist temple, you may encounter people chanting. All schools of Buddhism have some chanted liturgy, although the content of the chants varies widely.

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Early Buddhist Meditation Studies

In this book, Bhikkhu Analayo, scholar and meditation teacher, examines central aspects of Buddhist meditation as reflected in the early discourses of the Buddha, based on revised and reorganized material from previously published articles.

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Analayo
2025
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Lama Surya Das: "Buddhism 202"

A concise elucidation of the next stage on the Buddhist path by one of the foremost American meditation teachers, Lama Surya Das.

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Lama Surya Das
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2007
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Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel on Empowerment.Mov

Mrs. Namgyel speaks about the essential purpose of empowerment: to awaken our potential. Beyond culture and ritual form, if we have a longing to wake up, then that aim meets with the intention of the empowerment, and the experience is powerful.

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Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
2010
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A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson: Life as a Spiritual Path

Founders of the Diamond Approach Hameed Ali (A. H. Almaas) and Karen Johnson explore key principles of the Diamond Approach and how daily life can be used as its own spiritual practice.

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A. H. Almaas
2015
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Buddha’s Heart: Meditation Practice for Developing Well-Being, Love, and Empathy

With Buddha’s Heart, senior meditation teacher Stephen Snyder reveals an original and clear path to the powerful brahmavihāras. These practices offer rich, soothing support for the soul and a portal to spiritual awakening and deepening self-realization.

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Stephen Snyder
2020
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Diamond Heart Book Five: Inexhaustible Mystery

The final volume in A. H. Almaas’ masterwork on the contemporary spiritual path known as the Diamond Approach. From one perspective, we can see ourselves merely as human beings struggling in a crowded and chaotic world of suffering.

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A. H. Almaas
2011
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It’s Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness

Using delightful and deceptively powerful stories from everyday experiences, beloved Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein demystifies spirituality, charts the path to happiness through the Buddha’s basic teachings, shows how to eliminate hindrances to clear seeing, and develops a realistic course...

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Sylvia Boorstein
1997
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