Buddhist Literature

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This book offers a comprehensive worldwide cultural and historical view of Buddhism. The initial chapters detail its spread from India into China, Asia, Tibet, Japan, and adjacent areas. Later chapters deal with Buddhism in Europe and the influence of Buddhism on psychotherapy. The Buddhist Handbook: A Complete Guide to Buddhist Schools, Teaching, Practice, and History  

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Buddhist Colour

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Tibetan Buddhists see colours as human energies. A colour can possess a positive virtue, or a negative vice. A vice can be transformed or sublimated into a principal virtue, such as intuition, fairness or intellect. Mandalas show the universe divided into four quadrants, blue, yellow, red and green, each being controlled by a meditation Buddha of the right colour. Above these zones a white meditation Buddha presides and the suppliant is awakened to a new experience, beyond wisdom, known as Nirvana. Buddhist Colour  

Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan (Buddhisms)

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Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan (Buddhisms)
"Miracles of Book and Body" is the first book to explore the intersection of two key genres of sacred literature in medieval Japan: sutras, or sacred Buddhist texts, and setsuwa, or 'explanatory tales,'. A highly original approach to understanding Buddhist text focusing on the sensual aspects of religious experience.

The Dhammapada: Teachings of the Buddha - Book and Audio-CD Set  (True Path)

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If you don't already know of Gil Fronsdal then perhaps you should make it your Buddhist business to do so. He has been a wonderful member of the Buddhist community for many years and is a true and compassionate expert that explains everything in plain English.The unabridged book-and-CD edition, read by renowned Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, offers a new way to encounter the beauty and power of these ancient teachings. 

The Dhammapada: Teachings of the Buddha - Book and Audio-
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The Long Discourses of the Buddha is an invaluable collection of the teachings of the Buddha, revealing his gentleness, compassion, and penetrating wisdom. These thirty-four discourses are among the oldest records of the Buddha's original teachings. This book is a companion to The Middle-Length Discourses of the Buddha, and The Connected Discourses of the Buddha.

The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya: Translation of the "Digha-Nikaya" (Teachings of the Buddha)