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What Is Buddhism?

2017

What is Buddhism? What do Buddhists believe? That's what we'll find out today. In this video I'll explain Buddhism and we'll see who was the Buddha. Buddhism the one of the world’s major religions. But outside of Asia it isn’t very well known. See more...

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Opening the Lotus: A Woman’s Guide to Buddhism

Part primer, part personal history, part guide to spiritual practice, this book opens the door to an understanding of Buddhist spirituality, which engages more and more Westerners as the millennium approaches.

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Sandy Boucher
1998
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Dancing in the Dharma: The Life and Teachings of Ruth Denison

Ruth Denison was one of the great innovators in the early years of Buddhism in the West.

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Sandy Boucher
2006
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Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction

This Very Short Introduction offers readers a superb overview of the teachings of the Buddha, as well as a succinct guide to the integration of Buddhism into daily life.

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Damien Keown
2013
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The Foundations of Buddhism

Buddhism is a vast and complex religious and philosophical tradition with a history that stretches over 2,500 years, and which is now followed by around 115 million people.

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Rupert Gethin
1998
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Buddhism as Philosophy: An Introduction

In this clear, concise account, Siderits makes the Buddhist tradition accessible to a Western audience, offering generous selections from the canonical Buddhist texts and providing an engaging, analytical introduction to the basic tenets of Buddhist thought.

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Mark Siderits
2007
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Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism

The most influential work on Buddhism to be published in the nineteenth century, Introduction à l’histoire du Buddhisme indien, by the great French scholar of Sanskrit Eugène Burnouf, set the course for the academic study of Buddhism—and Indian Buddhism in particular—for the next hundred years.

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Eugène Burnouf, Katia Buffetrille (translator), Donald S. Lopez Jr. (translator)
2010
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What Makes You Not a Buddhist

So you think you're a Buddhist? Think again. Tibetan Buddhist master Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, one of the most creative and innovative lamas teaching today, throws down the gauntlet to the Buddhist world, challenging common misconceptions, stereotypes, and fantasies.

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Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
2008
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Glimpses of Abhidharma: From a Seminar on Buddhist Psychology

The Abhidharma is a collection of Buddhist scriptures that investigate the workings of the mind and the states of human consciousness. In this book, Chögyam Trungpa shows how an examination of the formation of the ego provides us with an opportunity to develop real intelligence.

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Chögyam Trungpa
2001
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How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America

This new updated edition of How the Swans Came to the Lake includes much new information about recent events in Buddhist groups in America and discusses such issues as spiritual authority, the role of women, and social action.

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Rick Fields
1992
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Approaching the Buddhist Path

The first volume in a multivolume collection presenting the Dalai Lama’s comprehensive explanation of the Buddhist path—now in paperback! His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been publicly teaching Buddhism for decades.

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The Dalai Lama, Thubten Chodron
2020
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