The Hidden Lamp - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hidden Lamp write by Zenshin Florence Caplow. This book was released on 2013-10-21. The Hidden Lamp available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Hidden Lamp is a collection of one hundred koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of freedom and fearlessness, relevant for men and women of any time or place. In these pages we meet nuns, laywomen practicing with their families, famous teachers honored by emperors, and old women selling tea on the side of the road. Each story is accompanied by a reflection by a contemporary woman teacher--personal responses that help bring the old stories alive for readers today--and concluded by a final meditation for the reader, a question from the editors meant to spark further rumination and inquiry. These are the voices of the women ancestors of every contemporary Buddhist.
The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead write by Bryan J. Cuevas. This book was released on 2005-12-08. The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1927, Oxford University Press published the first western-language translation of a collection of Tibetan funerary texts (the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo) under the title The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Since that time, the work has established a powerful hold on the western popular imagination, and is now considered a classic of spiritual literature. Over the years, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has inspired numerous commentaries, an illustrated edition, a play, a video series, and even an opera. Translators, scholars, and popular devotees of the book have claimed to explain its esoteric ideas and reveal its hidden meaning. Few, however, have uttered a word about its history. Bryan J. Cuevas seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge by offering the first comprehensive historical study of the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo, and by grounding it firmly in the context of Tibetan history and culture. He begins by discussing the many ways the texts have been understood (and misunderstood) by westerners, beginning with its first editor, the Oxford-educated anthropologist Walter Y. Evans-Wentz, and continuing through the present day. The remarkable fame of the book in the west, Cuevas argues, is strikingly disproportionate to how the original Tibetan texts were perceived in their own country. Cuevas tells the story of how The Tibetan Book of the Dead was compiled in Tibet, of the lives of those who preserved and transmitted it, and explores the history of the rituals through which the life of the dead is imagined in Tibetan society. This book provides not only a fascinating look at a popular and enduring spiritual work, but also a much-needed corrective to the proliferation of ahistorical scholarship surrounding The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Buddhism through American Women's Eyes
Buddhism through American Women's Eyes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhism through American Women's Eyes write by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. This book was released on 2012-08-12. Buddhism through American Women's Eyes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Buddha's path to human transformation declares women and men equally capable of spiritual realization, yet throughout history most exemplars of this tradition have been men. Now, as Buddhism is transmitted to the West, women are playing a major role in its adaptation and development. The conversation presented here takes place among experienced practitioners from many Buddhist traditions who share their thoughts on the Buddhist outlook, its practical application in everyday life, and the challenges of practicing Buddhism in the Western world. Thirteen women contribute a wealth of thought-provoking material on topics such as bringing Dharma into relationships, dealing with stress, Buddhism and the Twelve Steps, mothering and meditation, the monastic experience, and forging a kind heart in an age of alienation.
The Librarians and The Lost Lamp
The Librarians and The Lost Lamp - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Librarians and The Lost Lamp write by Greg Cox. This book was released on 2016-10-11. The Librarians and The Lost Lamp available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Based on the hit TNT television series"--Front cover.
The Hidden Hand
The Hidden Hand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hidden Hand write by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitt Southworth. This book was released on 1859. The Hidden Hand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
