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All the Way to Lhasaby Barbara Helen BergerISBN 0399233873 (0-399-23387-3)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peaceby Jack KornfieldISBN 0553802054 (0-553-80205-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Autobiography of a Yogiby Paramahansa YoganandaISBN 0685384764 (0-685-38476-4)
Softcover, Wehman Brothers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography of a Yogi'Book summary:Born in India on January 5, 1893, Paramahansa Yogananda devoted his life to helping people of all races and creeds to realize and express more fully in their lives the true beauty, nobility, and divinity of the human spirit. After graduating from Calcutta University in 1915, Sri Yogananda took formal vows as a monk of India's venerable monastic Swami Order. Two years later, he began his life's work with the founding of a how-to-live school since grown to twenty-one educational institutions throughout India where traditional academic subjects were offered together with yoga training and instruction in spiritual ideals. In 1920, he was invited to serve as India's delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals in Boston. His address to the Congress and subsequent lectures on the East Coast were enthusiastically received, and in 1924 he embarked on a cross-continental speaking tour. Over the next three decades, Paramahansa Yogananda contributed in far-reaching ways to a greater awareness and appreciation in the West of the spiritual wisdom of the East. In Los Angeles, he established an international headquarters for Self-Realization Fellowship, the nonsectarian religious society he had founded in 1920. Through his writings, extensive lecture tours, and the creation of Self-Realization Fellowship temples and meditation centers, he introduced hundreds of thousands of truth-seekers to the ancient science and philosophy of Yoga and its universally applicable methods of meditation. Today, the spiritual and humanitarian work begun by Paramahansa Yogananda continues under the direction of Sri Mrinalini Mata, one of his closest disciples and president of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India since 2011. In addition to publishing his writings, lectures and informal talks (including a comprehensive series of Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons for home study), the society also oversees temples, retreats, and centers around the world. [via]
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Awarenessby Anthony De Mello, J. Francis StroudISBN 0385249373 (0-385-24937-3)
Softcover, Image Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Awareness'Book summary:"This is your wake-up call! You may not have even realized you were sleep-walking. Most of us are most of the time. Awareness is an eye-opener. It's Anthony de Mello telling you gently but firmly, 'It's time to get up now.'" --Charles Osgood of "CBS Sunday Morning" and "The Osgood File"
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"Awareness will be the critical test of American business in the next decade. I call it the 'business of awareness.'" --F.X. Maguire, Hearth Communications Group
The heart of Anthony de Mello's bestselling spiritual message is awareness. Mixing Christian spirituality, Buddhist parables, Hindu breathing exercises, and psychological insight, de Mello's words of hope come together in Awareness in a grand synthesis.
In short chapters for reading in quiet moments at home or at the office, he cajoles and challenges: We must leave this go-go-go world of illusion and become aware. And this only happens, he insists, by becoming alive to the needs and potential of others, whether at home or in the workplace.
Here, then, is a masterful book of the spirit, challenging us to wake up in every aspect of our lives.More editions of Awareness:
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Awareness: A de Mello Spirituality Conference in His Own Wordsby Anthony De MelloISBN 0385249365 (0-385-24936-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Bare-Bones Meditation: Waking Up from the Story of My Lifeby Joan TollifsonISBN 0517887924 (0-517-88792-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Be Here Nowby Lama Foundation EditorISBN 0517543052 (0-517-54305-2)
Softcover, Crown Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Be Here Now'Book summary:It's easy to dismiss Be Here Now as the relic of a whacked-out '60s acid tripper. Paging through the center section of the book, with its inch-high print and psychedelic drawings, you come across lines like:
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Then you turn to the first page of the book, and you are suddenly sucked into the story of a Harvard psychiatrist who has reached the pinnacle of success, discovers the mind-expanding powers of acid, and ends up trooping through India with a 23-year-old holy man from Laguna Beach, California. In the story, you see all the trappings of your own life and begin to wonder if India might hold the answers after all. Before booking your ticket, turn to the last section of the Be Here Now, "Cookbook for a Sacred Life." Ram Dass saves you the trouble by proffering a sober introduction to the basics of Hindu religion. Although he still can't resist CAPITAL LETTERS, he has done his homework, presenting a whole range of concepts and practices having to do with yoga postures, meditation, renunciation, dying, and sexual energy. So, for the most part, Be Here Now stands the test of time, and if you can entertain the center section in a retro kind of a spirit, it might be just what you're looking for: "The opposite of craving is saying, baby, this is the way it is, yeah, OK, here and now, this is it. I ACCEPT THE HERE & NOW FULLY." --Brian Bruya [via]
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The Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditationby Jean Smith, Arinna WeismanISBN 0609806475 (0-609-80647-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayasby Kim GutschowISBN 0674012879 (0-674-01287-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas'Book summary:They may shave their heads, don simple robes, and renounce materialism and worldly desires. But the women seeking enlightenment in a Buddhist nunnery high in the folds of Himalayan Kashmir invariably find themselves subject to the tyrannies of subsistence, subordination, and sexuality. Ultimately, Buddhist monasticism reflects the very world it is supposed to renounce. Butter and barley prove to be as critical to monastic life as merit and meditation. Kim Gutschow lived for more than three years among these women, collecting their stories, observing their ways, studying their lives. Her book offers the first ethnography of Tibetan Buddhist society from the perspective of its nuns.
Gutschow depicts a gender hierarchy where nuns serve and monks direct, where monks bless the fields and kitchens while nuns toil in them. Monasteries may retain historical endowments and significant political and social power, yet global flows of capitalism, tourism, and feminism have begun to erode the balance of power between monks and nuns. Despite the obstacles of being considered impure and inferior, nuns engage in everyday forms of resistance to pursue their ascetic and personal goals.
A richly textured picture of the little known culture of a Buddhist nunnery, the book offers moving narratives of nuns struggling with the Buddhist discipline of detachment. Its analysis of the way in which gender and sexuality construct ritual and social power provides valuable insight into the relationship between women and religion in South Asia today.
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The Bhagavad Gitaby Franklin EdgertonISBN 0674069250 (0-674-06925-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:To most good Vishnuites, and to most Hindus, the Bhagavad Gita is what the New Testament is to good Christians. It is their chief devotional book, and has been for centuries the principal source of religious inspiretion for many millions of Indian. In this two-volume edition, Volume I contains on facing pages a transliteration of original Sanskirt and the autor's close translation. Volume II is Mr. Edgerton's interpretation in which he makes clear the historical setting of the poem and analyzes its influence on later literature and its place in Indian philosophy. Sir Edwin Arnold's beautiful translation, "The Song Celestial," is also includes in the second volume.
Mr. Edgerton is the author of many books and articles in the fields of Egyptology and Oriental languages and literature. He is an editor of the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literature.
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Bhagavad Gita: A New Translationby Stephen MitchellISBN 0609810340 (0-609-81034-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation'Book summary:On the list of the greatest spiritual books of all time, the Bhagavad Gita resides permanently in the top echelon. This poem of patently Indian genius sprouted an immense tree of devotional, artistic, and philosophical elaboration in the subcontinent. The scene is a battlefield with the prince Arjuna pitted against his own family, but no sooner does the poem begin than the action reverts inward. Krishna, Arjuna's avatar and spiritual guide, points the way to the supreme wisdom and perfect freedom that lie within everyone's reach. Worship and be faithful, meditate and know reality--these make up the secret of life and lead eventually to the realization that the self is the root of the world. In this titular translation, Stephen Mitchell's rhythms are faultless, making music of this ancient "Song of the Blessed One." Savor his rendition, but nibble around the edges of his introduction. In a bizarre mixture of praise and condescension, Mitchell disregards two millennia of Indian commentary, seeking illumination on the text from Daoism and Zen, with the Gita coming up just shy of full spiritual merit. Perhaps we should take it from Gandhi, who used the Gita as a handbook for life, that it nourishes on many levels. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Bhagavad Gitaby Christopher Isherwood, PrabhavanandaISBN 0451528441 (0-451-52844-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:[via]The Bhagavad-Gita is the Gospel of Hinduism, and one of the great religious classics of the world. Its simple, vivid message is a daily inspiration in the lives of millions throughout the world and has been so for countless generations.
Here is a distinguished translation that can be read by every person, not as an archaic monument to an ancient culture, but as a living contemporary message that touches the most urgent personal and social problems.More editions of Bhagavad Gita:
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Bhagavad-Gitaby Barbara S. MillerISBN 0553213652 (0-553-21365-2)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad-Gita'Book summary:The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the core of Peter Brook's celebrated production of the Mahabharata. [via]
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The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of Warby Barbara S. MillerISBN 0553353403 (0-553-35340-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War'Book summary:"The Bhagavad-Gita" has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the core of Peter Brook's celebrated production of the "Mahabharata." [via]
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Bhagavad-Gita : The Song of Godby Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher IsherwoodISBN 0451627571 (0-451-62757-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad-Gita : The Song of God'Book summary:Product Description Uses the beauty of verse to express the highest truths of Vedanta. Includes an introduction to the Gita, and a study of non-violence versus the need to fight a just war.
The critics have singled out this translation:"The book is self-contained. A complete stranger to the Hindu Gospel can pick it up and in one or two evenings follow the poem from its terrific beginnings to its sublime end. [via]
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Bhagavadgitaby Bhagavadgita, Edwin ArnoldISBN 0486277828 (0-486-27782-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Bones of the Master: A Buddhist Monk's Search for the Lost Heart of Chinaby George CraneISBN 0553106503 (0-553-10650-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongoliaby George CraneISBN 0553379089 (0-553-37908-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Buddha Book: Buddhas Blessings, Prayers and Rituals to Grant You Love, Wisdom, and Heal Ingby Geoff Dann, Lillian TooISBN 051722514X (0-517-22514-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Buddha: The Living Wayby Pico Iyer, Deforest W. Trimingham, Dalai Lama XIVISBN 0679457844 (0-679-45784-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Buddha: The Living Way'Book summary:In Buddha: The Living Way, photographer deForest W. Trimingham takes you to the Buddhist centers of Asia. As though unrolling a scroll of photographs, you begin with vast landscapes and spires piercing clouds, then gradually move into an array of temple interiors, on to Buddhist sculptures and paintings, a panoply of trumpets and drums and such, and finally to practitioners in full regalia, including Westerners. Pico Iyer's introduction could just be the best 10-page capsule of Buddhism in print. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Buddha's Little Fingerby Victor Pelevin, Andrew BromfieldISBN 0670891681 (0-670-89168-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Buddha's Little Finger'Book summary:At one point in the hallucinatory trip that is Buddha's Little Finger, the protagonist regains consciousness in a cold-water bath, with a large, naked man prodding him awake and cheerfully acknowledging that the situation "might seem quite unbearably loathsome. Inexpressibly, inhumanly monstrous and absurd. Entirely incompatible with life." That would be an understatement. Yet Victor Pelevin, who's already produced such post-perestroika gems as Omon Ra and The Life of Insects, gets plenty of comic mileage out of Pyotr Voyd's dilemma. He also puts identity, reality, and existence up for grabs, and toys with time and continuity much as Italo Calvino did in his exhilarating If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.
A poet from St. Petersburg, Pelevin's hero finds himself caught in a temporal tug of war: on one hand, he's walking a tightrope between Reds and Whites during the Russian Revolution, and on the other, he's floating in and out of the bizarre world of a psychiatric hospital in 1990s Moscow. The revolutionary era does offer Pyotr the occasional boost. His commander, the sly and intellectually provocative comrade Chapaev, tells him that he is a "man of decisive character and at the same time you have a subtle appreciation of the essential nature of events. People like you are in great demand."
That's not the sense he gets in the hospital, however, where he passes the time kneading lumps of Plasticene and sketching busts of Aristotle. Sharing a room and "turbo-Jungian" therapy sessions with three other nutters, Pyotr is all too easily submerged in their intricate fantasies. Sound complicated? Well, Pelevin offers up these parallel lives in such a kaleidoscopic jumble that it's sometimes easy to get lost. Yet those readers willing to follow the hero in his travails--to make, as it were, a leap into the Voyd--will encounter a hilarious, disturbing, and wildly inventive exploration of reality. --S. Ketchum [via]
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Buddha's Nature : A Practical Guide to Enlightenment Through Evolutionby Wes NiskerISBN 0553106015 (0-553-10601-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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Buddhist Meditationby Edward ConzeISBN 0486427161 (0-486-42716-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Buddhist Suttasby T.W. Rhys DavidsISBN 0486258300 (0-486-25830-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Christianity and the World Religions: Paths to Dialogue With Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhismby Hans KungISBN 0385194714 (0-385-19471-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Clay Machine-Gunby Viktor PelevinISBN 0571201261 (0-571-20126-1)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heartby Tara Bennett-GolemanISBN 0609809032 (0-609-80903-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart'Book summary:According to ancient legends, alchemists use a magical philosopher's stone to transmute lead into gold. In Emotional Alchemy, Tara Bennett-Goleman shows readers how they can use this alchemist metaphor to transform emotional confusion (lead) into insightful clarity (gold). And what does the magic stone represent? "Mindfulness," a lifelong practice that can bring readers more joy and contentment than the gold, according to Bennett-Goleman. "Mindfulness means seeing things as they are without trying to change them," she writes. "The point is to dissolve our reactions to disturbing emotions, being careful not to reject the emotion itself."
Those who have never entered this practice will find a concise and articulate teacher in Bennett-Goleman, who leads national workshops with her husband, author Daniel Goleman (Emotional Intelligence). What make this book such an exciting breakthrough is Bennett-Goleman's ability to apply Buddhist mindfulness to Western psychology. She shows how emotional alchemy can be used to address typical habits, such as mistrust, fear of rejection, feeling unlovable. Readers will also find fascinating scientific facts on how emotional alchemy affects brain chemistry and even cancer survival. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Essential Haikuby Robert HassISBN 0613339983 (0-613-33998-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Haiku'Book summary:An exquisite collection of the finest works of three distinct masters of the haiku tradition: Matsuo Basho (the ascetic and seeker), Yosa Buson (the artist), and Kobayashi Issa (the humanist).
The editor, Robert Hass, United States poet laureate, is the author of several books of poetry including Human Wishes as well as a book of criticism Twentieth Century Pleasures, for which he received The National Book Critics Circle Award. The book is one of the larger series of poetry collections, Essential Poets Series published by Ecco Press. [via]
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The Experience of Buddhism: Sources and Interpretationsby John S. StrongISBN 0534191649 (0-534-19164-9)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Experience of Buddhism: Sources and Interpretations'Book summary:Intended for Introduction to Buddhism, Introduction to Asian Religions, Religions of India, and Religions of East Asia courses found in religious studies and Asian studies departments.
This comprehensive anthology provides translations of texts illustrative of Buddhist philosophy and doctrine as well as descriptive, concrete accounts of Buddhist practices, rituals, experiences, and life situations. This approach does not neglect one dimension of the religion in favor of another and allows instructors to choose what they wish to emphasize in the classroom. The book also covers the development of Buddhism in a wide variety of geographical and cultural areas (India, Southeast Asia, Tibet, China, and Japan), and gives a sense of the historical evolution of the tradition in these areas. [via]
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Facing Death and Finding Hope: A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dyingby Christine LongakerISBN 0385483325 (0-385-48332-5)
Softcover, Doubleday
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First Thought, Best Thought : 108 Poemsby Chogyam Trungpa, Allen GinsbergISBN 0394732693 (0-394-73269-3)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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Gateway to Wisdom: Taoist and Buddhist Contemplative and Healing Yogas Adapted for Western Students of the Wayby John Eaton Calthrope BlofeldISBN 0394738780 (0-394-73878-0)
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GeetaISBN 0571061575 (0-571-06157-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Genuine Happiness: Meditation As The Path To Fulfillmentby Alan WallaceISBN 047146984X (0-471-46984-X)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Golden Age of Zen : The Classic Work on the Foundation of Zen Philosophyby John C. Wu, Thomas MertonISBN 038547993X (0-385-47993-X)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Gospel According to Zen: Beyond the Death of Godby Robert SohlISBN 0451627156 (0-451-62715-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Healer's Warby Elizabeth Ann ScarboroughISBN 0553282522 (0-553-28252-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Healer's War'Book summary:Although perhaps best-known for her lightly humorous fantasies and for her collaborations with Anne McCaffrey on the Petaybee series and the Acorna series, Elizabeth Anne Scarborough has also written Healer's War, a classic novel of the Vietnam War, enriched with a magical, mystical twist, which won the 1989 Nebula Award for Best Novel of 1988. The Minneapolis Star Tribune called it "A brutal and beautiful book." Scarborough herself was a nurse in Vietnam during the war and she draws on her own personal experiences to create the central character, Lt. Kitty McCulley. McCulley, a young and inexperienced nurse tossed into a stressful and chaotic situation, is having a difficult time reconciling her duty to help and heal with the indifference and overt racism of some of her colleagues and with the horrendously damaged soldiers and Vietnamese civilians whom she encounters during her service at the China Beach medical facilities. She is unexpectedly helped by the mysterious and inexplicable properties of an amulet, given to her by one of her patients, an elderly, dying Vietnamese holy man, which allows her to see other people's "auras" and to understand more about them as a result. This eventually leads to a strange, almost surrealistic journey through the jungle, accompanied by a one-legged boy and a battle-seasoned but crazed soldier and, by the end of the journey, McCulley has found herself and a way to live and survive through the madness and destruction. [via]
Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventureby Pratapaditya Pal, Amy Heller, Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Oskar Von Hinuber, Freer Gallery of Art, Gautama V. VajracharyaISBN 0520239008 (0-520-23900-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachingsby Richard GombrichISBN 0415371236 (0-415-37123-6)
Hardcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings'Book summary:Written by one of the world's top scholars in the field of Pali Buddhism, this new and updated edition of How Buddhism Began, discusses various important doctrines and themes in early Buddhism. It takes 'early Buddhism' to be that reflected in the Pali canon, and to some extent assumes that these doctrines reflect the teachings of the Buddha himself. Two themes predominate. Firstly, the author argues that we cannot understand the Buddha unless we understand that he was debating with other religious teachers, notably Brahmins. The other main theme concerns metaphor, allegory and literalism. This accessible, well-written book is mandatory reading for all serious students of Buddhism.
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In the Footsteps of the Buddhaby Rene GroussetISBN 0670400211 (0-670-40021-1)
Hardcover, Grossman Publishers
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Instructions to the Cook : Zen Lessons for Living a Life That Mattersby Bernard Glassman, Rick FieldsISBN 0517703777 (0-517-70377-7)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Islandby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0586044396 (0-586-04439-6)
Hardcover, Triad/Panther
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Island'Book summary:Will Farnaby is travelling in the Far East as a journalist and business contact for an oil and newspaper magnate. A sudden squall shipwrecks him on Pala, the fabled island no reporter has ever visited. Here he discovers a kind and happy people who enjoy equality without the stifling of initiative. [via]
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Journey Without Goal : The Tantric Wisdom of the Buddhaby Chogyam TrungpaISBN 0394741943 (0-394-74194-3)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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Kaby Tim Parks, Roberto CalassoISBN 0679775471 (0-679-77547-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Ka : Stories of the Mind and Gods of Indiaby Roberto Calasso, Tim ParksISBN 0679451315 (0-679-45131-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Lady and the Monkby Pico IyerISBN 0679738347 (0-679-73834-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyotoby Pico IyerISBN 0679403086 (0-679-40308-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Life Without Stress: The Far Eastern Antidote to Tension and Anxietyby Arthur SokoloffISBN 0553067516 (0-553-06751-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna A Ten Year Journeyby China GallandISBN 0670828181 (0-670-82818-1)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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Magister Ludiby Hermann HesseISBN 0553262378 (0-553-26237-8)
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The Masks of God: Oriental Mythologyby Joseph CampbellISBN 0670460451 (0-670-46045-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Oriental Philosophiesby John M. KollerISBN 0684127210 (0-684-12721-0)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Perfection of Wisdomby Craig JamiesonISBN 0670889342 (0-670-88934-2)
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Problems of Suffering in the Religions of the Worldby John Westerdale BowkerISBN 052109903X (0-521-09903-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Religion and Nothingnessby Keiji NishitaniISBN 0520049462 (0-520-04946-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Religion and Nothingness'Book summary:In Religion and Nothingness the leading representative of the Kyoto School of Philosophy lays the foundation of thought for a world in the making, for a world united beyond the differences of East and West. Keiji Nishitani notes the irreversible trend of Western civilization to nihilism, and singles out the conquest of nihilism as the task for contemporary philosophy. Nihility, or relative nothingness, can only be overcome by being radicalized to Emptiness, or absolute nothingness. Taking absolute nothingness as the fundamental notion in rational explanations of the Eastern experience of human life, Professor Nishitani examines the relevance of this notion for contemporary life, and in particular for Western philosophical theories and religious believes. Everywhere his basic intention remains the same: to direct our modern predicament to a resolution through this insight.[via]
The challenge that the thought of Keiji Nishitani presents to the West, as a modern version of an Eastern speculative tradition that is every bit as old and as variegated as our own, is one that brings into unity the principle of reality and the principle of salvation. In the process, one traditional Western idea after another comes under scrutiny: the dichotomy of faith and reason, of being and substance, the personal and transcendent notions of God, the exaggerated role given to the knowing ego, and even the Judeo-Christian view of history itself.
Religion and Nothingness represents the major work of one of Japan's most powerful and committed philosophical minds. 
Sadhana: A Way to Godby Anthony De MelloISBN 0385196148 (0-385-19614-8)
Softcover, Doubleday
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The Search for the Panchen Lamaby Isabel HiltonISBN 0393321673 (0-393-32167-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Shin Buddhism: Bits of Rubble Turn into Goldby Taitetsu UnnoISBN 0385504691 (0-385-50469-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Sky Burialby Xinran, Julia Lovell, Esther TyldesleyISBN 0385515480 (0-385-51548-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sky Burial'Book summary:It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China. Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu Wen, who recounted the story of her thirty-year odyssey in the vast landscape of Tibet.
Shu Wen and her husband had been married for only a few months in the 1950s when he joined the Chinese army and was sent to Tibet for the purpose of unification of the two countries. Shortly after he left she was notified that he had been killed, although no details were given. Determined to find the truth, Shu Wen joined a militia unit going to the Tibetan north, where she soon was separated from the regiment. Without supplies and knowledge of the language, she wandered, trying to find her way until, on the brink of death, she was rescued by a family of nomads under whose protection she moved from place to place with the seasons and eventually came to discover the details of her husbands death.
In the haunting Sky Burial, Xinran has recreated Shu Wens journey, writing beautifully and simply of the silence and the emptiness in which Shu Wen was enveloped. The book is an extraordinary portrait of a woman and a land, each at the mercy of fate and politics. It is an unforgettable, ultimately uplifting tale of love loss, loyalty, and survival. [via]More editions of Sky Burial:
Smile Of The Buddha: Eastern Philosophy And Western Art; From Monet To Todayby Jacquelynn Baas, Robert A.F. ThurmanISBN 0520242084 (0-520-24208-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayasby Barbara CrossetteISBN 0679743634 (0-679-74363-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Song of God, Bhagavad-Gitaby Christopher Isherwood, PrabhavanandaISBN 0460004956 (0-460-00495-6)
Hardcover, Dent
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The Sound of the One Hand: 281 Zen Koans with Answersby Yoel Hoffmann, Hau HooISBN 0465080790 (0-465-08079-0)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Tao of Poohby Benjamin HoffISBN 0416195261 (0-416-19526-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Tassajara Bread Bookby Edward BrownISBN 039474196X (0-394-74196-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Tassajara Recipe Book: Favorites of the Guest Seasonby Edward Espe BrownISBN 039473520X (0-394-73520-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Tea With the Black Dragonby R.A. MacAvoyISBN 0553279920 (0-553-27992-0)
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Thunder and Lightningby Natalie GoldbergISBN 0553374966 (0-553-37496-6)
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Thunder and Lightning : Cracking Open the Writer's Craftby Natalie GoldbergISBN 0553095285 (0-553-09528-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thunder and Lightning : Cracking Open the Writer's Craft'Book summary:More musings from Natalie Goldberg on writing as a spiritual path, as "an authentic Zen way." Goldberg has some nice things to say about the importance of the process of writing. She recommends her students spend two years at writing "practice" before undertaking a specific project, so that they can "get in touch with their wild minds." The most inspired writing, she says, comes when one's conscious mind gets out of the way. Still, we are puzzled by Thunder and Lightning: is it really meant to show us how to turn "our flashes of inspiration ... into a polished piece of work," as the book jacket touts? It comes off more as a collection of Goldberg's ruminations on writing and reading. Goldberg tells us about her friend Julie's writing process. Another pal, Kate, talks about plot. We study Styron with Goldberg's workshop students and take a road trip through the South to try to figure out just how some of the poorest states in the union managed to produce so many great writers. There are some good stories here, and it's vaguely interesting to know what Nat likes to order when she does her café writing or lunches with her editors, but we end up desiring a little less wandering and a little more focus. --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Treasures on the Tibetan Middle Way: A Newly Revised Edition of Tibetan Buddhism Without Mystificationby Herbert V. GuentherISBN 0394731751 (0-394-73175-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Twisting the Ropeby R.A. MacAvoyISBN 055326026X (0-553-26026-X)
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Visions Of Buddhist Lifeby Don Farber, Huston SmithISBN 0520244796 (0-520-24479-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Waste Landby T. S. Eliot, Helen Hennessy VendlerISBN 0451526848 (0-451-52684-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land'Book summary:This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important early poems, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, The Waste land, which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements from many diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speech linked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreated the chaos and disillusionment of Europe in the aftermath of WWI. The Waste Land is a modernist literary masterpiece. Contains a number of early poems, including Spleen, The Death of St. Narcissus, The Love Song of J. Prufrock, Preludes, Gerontion, The Hippopotmaus, and Sweeny Among the Nightingales. T.S. Eliot is the winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, and is one of America's greatest poets. Edited and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler, a foremost scholar of moderism at Harvard University who writes regularly for the New Yorker and The New Republic. Vendler is also the author of books on other essential poets, including W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, George Herbert, and the forthcoming The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnete. @DeadFlowers Note From Ezra Pound: Maybe cut 75%? From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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The Waste Land and Other Writingsby T. S. Eliot, Mary KarrISBN 0679641017 (0-679-64101-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Writings'Book summary:First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot "the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression."
As influential as his verse, T.S. Eliot's criticism also exerted a transformative effect on twentieth-century letter, and this new edition of The Waste Land and Other Writings includes a selection of Eliot's most important essays.
In her new Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the great poem's inaccessibility and sheds fresh light on the ways in which "The Waste Land" illuminates contemporary experience. [via]More editions of The Waste Land and Other Writings:
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The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poemsby T. S. EliotISBN 0486400611 (0-486-40061-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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The Wisdom Teachings of the Dalai Lamaby Matthew E. Bunson, Dalai LamaISBN 0452279275 (0-452-27927-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in the Mahayana Traditionby Diana PaulISBN 0520054288 (0-520-05428-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The World of Buddhismby Richard Gombrich, Heinz Bechert, Etienne LamotteISBN 0500276285 (0-500-27628-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Zen: Direct Pointing to Realityby Anne BancroftISBN 0500810184 (0-500-81018-4)
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Zen Guitarby Philip Toshio SudoISBN 068483877X (0-684-83877-X)
Softcover, Fireside
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Zen in the Art of Writingby Ray BradburyISBN 0553296345 (0-553-29634-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen in the Art of Writing'Book summary:"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a land mine. The land mine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces back together. Now, it's your turn. Jump!" Zest. Gusto. Curiosity. These are the qualities every writer must have, as well as a spirit of adventure. In this exuberant book, the incomparable Ray Bradbury shares the wisdom, experience, and excitement of a lifetime of writing. Here are practical tips on the art of writing from a master of the craft-everything from finding original ideas to developing your own voice and style-as well as the inside story of Bradbury's own remarkable career as a prolific author of novels, stories, poems, films, and plays. Zen In The Art Of Writing is more than just a how-to manual for the would-be writer: it is a celebration of the act of writing itself that will delight, impassion, and inspire the writer in you. In it, Bradbury encourages us to follow the unique path of our instincts and enthusiasms to the place where our inner genius dwells, and he shows that success as a writer depends on how well you know one subject: your own life. [via]
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Zen Miracles: Finding Peace in an Insane Worldby Brenda ShoshannaISBN 0471414816 (0-471-41481-6)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Zen to Goby Jon WinokurISBN 0452265312 (0-452-26531-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen to Go'Book summary:A sometimes humorous, always provocative collection of wise and witty Zen proverbs from the bestselling author of The Portable Curmudgeon. Look no farther than Zen to Go for the indispensable quotebook of the New Age. 20 black-and-white drawings. [via]
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