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This landmark collection is the definitive introduction to the Buddha's teachings - in his own words. The American scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi, whose voluminous translations have won widespread acclaim, here presents selected discourses of the Buddha from the Pali Canon, the earliest record of what the Buddha taught. Divided into 10 thematic chapters, In the Buddha's Words reveals the full scope of the Buddha's discourses, from family life and marriage to renunciation and the path of insight.

In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of young Japanese brides, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers....

When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he'd planned. But in an effort to westernize his passenger---and amuse himself---he decides to show the monk some "American fun" along the way.

Story is told by a narrator who is a psychologist in Indian country. What appears to be a consultation with a patient ends up being a meeting with his teacher, Tarrence. Tarrence proceeds to take the narrator into a dreamtime journey that melts the worldview held by the storyteller. The dream leads the narrator to a place in which the energy generated by ancient dreamers must be balanced. The lack of balance brought on by the power dreamers and their ceremony resulted in the atomic bomb.

A novel about family, open-minded spirituality, and the American road, Lunch with Buddha accompanies the characters from Breakfast with Buddha as they move further along the path toward lasting peace of mind. Facing one of life's greatest emotional challenges, Otto Ringling takes comfort in a loving family and offbeat lessons from eccentric spiritual teacher Volya Rinpoche.

The author of Breakfast with Buddha brings his characteristic whimsy to a new novel about New York book editor Otto Ringling and Mongolian monk Volya Rinpoche, who embark on a road trip from Rinpoche's meditation center in North Dakota to the glitter and glitz of the Las Vegas strip.

Dessert with Buddha takes the eccentric, sort-of-Buddhist monk, Volya Rinpoche, and his skeptical, middle-of-the-road brother-in-law, Otto Ringling, on another enlightening road trip filled with meals, humor, social commentary, and good times. On this journey, the couple that traveled from New York to North Dakota in Breakfast with Buddha, Seattle to North Dakota in Lunch with Buddha, and North Dakota to Las Vegas in Dinner with Buddha heads down the Eastern Seaboard from Boston to points south.

At the core of punk attitude is love—yearning for a better world where people can live in harmony and peace, free from suffering. It's the same attitude that Buddhists have, and that's why I'm a Punk Buddhist, and I'm not conflicted at all.

Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. As a result they share their small Vientiane house with an assortment of homeless people, mendicants, and oddballs. One of these oddballs is Noo, a Buddhist monk who rides out on his bicycle one day and never comes back, leaving only a cryptic note in the refrigerator - a plea to help a fellow monk escape across the Mekong River to Thailand. Naturally, Siri can't turn down the adventure.

“One of the things Gautama Buddha (Shakuson) had realized is probably that everything is existe

This volume offers a complete translation of the Saṃyutta Nikāya, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, the third of the four great collections in the Sutta Pitaka of the Pāli Canon. The Saṃyutta Nikāya consists of 56 chapters, each governed by a unifying theme that binds together the Buddha's suttas or discourses.

I racconti Jataka sono l'equivalente buddista delle Favole di Esopo. Sono storie di morale. Nelle culture buddiste dell'epoca, queste erano le storie che i bambini ascoltavano e che li facevano crescere. Erano l'intrattenimento popolare. Le famiglie si riunivano la sera, dopo il lavoro della giornata, e condividevano questi racconti. È da queste storie che si apprendevano le norme di comportamento dei seguaci del Buddha. Come nelle Favole di Esopo, i protagonisti di queste storie possono essere un re, un mercante, un artigiano o un animale.

In the heart of ancient India, amidst the opulence of palaces and the cries of suffering, one man embarks on a journey that will change the course of history. Siddhartha Gautama, the heir to a kingdom, forsakes his princely comforts in search of something greater: the elusive truth beyond worldly riches. Driven by an insatiable thirst for understanding, Siddhartha wanders the lands, encountering the depths of human suffering and the fleeting pleasures of existence.

هي أوديسة من نوع خاص . إبحار إلى الديار بعيدة دونما أمل في العودة . ارتحال مجموعة فتيات معدمات من أرياف اليابان وقراه المنسية بحثاً عن زوج يحفظ لهن عيشاً غير الذي كن يعشنه في مزارع الأرز البائسة . بنات أغلبهن عذارى يحملن صور أزواج لا يعرفنهم وألبسة تقليدية بسيطة ، وأشياء أخرى حميمة يحفظنها بين دفوف كتب من نوع " مرحبا أيتها الآنسات اليابانيات !" أو "دليل المسافر إلى أمريكا" ويخبئن بي الضلوع أسراراً لا يبحن بها لأحد ورغائب ومخاوف .رغائب أنثوية بفرحة العمر ، ومخاوف منح الجسد لرجل مجهول في بلد مجهول .

قام الدكتور مختار من مجلسه واتجه إلى حجرة المكتب والجميع من خلفه وهم في شوقٍ لسماع قصته، ولدهشتهم تقدَّم الرجل من إحدى الصور المعلقة على الحائط ثمَّ أزاحها عن مكانها فبانت من خلفها خزانة صغيرة راح يحرك قرصًا في واجهتها...ثمَّ ضغط على مقبضها فانفتح بابها في هدوء وبان من خلفه تمثالٌ للإله بوذا وهو جالسٌ ويداه فوق بطنه!!

Divertidísima novela negra, en la cual Ricardo Madden, exprofesor de literatura de una preparatoria y detective novato quiere recuperar una valiosa joya, que también buscan un matón y sus dos rehenes. Narrada en una doble perspectiva: lineal y en retroceso, la novela obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Novela Negra 'Una vuelta de Tuerca' 2007.

Rinpoche's Remarkable Ten-Week Weight Loss Clinic brings back two main characters from Roland Merullo's beloved Breakfast with Buddha series. This time, though, instead of cruising the American road together, Otto Ringling and Volya Rinpoche are part of the famous meditation master's offbeat weight loss clinic, held over the course of ten Saturdays in a New York City yoga studio.

Siddhartha était le fils d’un roi puissant qui vivait dans un immense palais aux pieds de l’Himalaya. Son père le tenait jalousement prisonnier, pour le préserver des souffrances du monde. À partir de cette enfance murée dans le silence et traversée de questions et de peurs, se construira une personnalité exemplaire toute entière tendue vers l’accomplissement et le don de soi.

This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikāya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pāli Canon, the authorised scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection - among the oldest records of the historical Buddha's original teachings - consists of 152 suttas or discourses of middle length, distinguished as such from the longer and shorter suttas of the other collections.

Buddha's Lighthouse is an audio library of one man's readings and personal conversations with teachers, friends, and himself as he sets sail seeking enlightenment.