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Ontmoetingen met meesters en dwazen : achter de schermen van de oosterse spiritualiteit
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ISBN: 9020280791 Year: 1996 Publisher: Deventer Ankh-Hermes

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Essence of the Dhammapada
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ISBN: 1586380982 1586380974 9781586380984 9781586380977 Year: 2013 Publisher: Tomales, CA Nilgiri Press

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Eknath Easwaran, translator of the best-selling edition of the Dhammapada, sees this powerful scripture as a perfect map for the spiritual journey. Said to be the text closest to the Buddha's actual words, it is a collection of short teachings memorized during his lifetime by his disciples. Easwaran presents the Dhammapada as a guide to spiritual perseverance, progress, and ultimately enlightenment -- a heroic confrontation with life as it really is, with straight answers to our deepest questions. We witness the heartbreak of death, for instance -- what does that mean for us? What is love? How does karma work? How do we follow the spiritual life in the midst of work and family? Does nirvana really exist, and if so, what is it like to be illumined? In his interpretation of Buddhist themes, illustrated with stories from the Buddha's life, Easwaran offers a view of the concept of Right Understanding that is both exhilarating and instructive. He shares his experiences on the spiritual path, giving the advice that only an experienced teacher and practitioner can offer, and urges us to answer for ourselves the Buddha's call to nirvana -- that mysterious, enduring state of wisdom, joy, and peace.

The concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
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ISBN: 0791445763 0791445755 9780791445754 9780791445761 9780791492536 0791492532 9780791492536 Year: 2000 Publisher: Albany : ©2000 State University of New York Press,

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This book explores an important concept within the Buddhist Mahāyāna tradition, bodhicitta. This term appears frequently in Sanskrit literature relating to the spiritual practices of the bodhisattva in Mahāyāna Buddhism and has been variously translated as "thought of enlightenment" or "desire of enlightenment." Francis Brassard offers a contextual analysis of bodhicitta based on the presuppositions underlying the spiritual practice of the bodhisattva. Since the understanding that emerges involves how one ought to view the process of spiritual transformation, this work contributes to Buddhist psychology and soteriology in particular, and to comparative religions in general. The book surveys the various interpretations of the concept of bodhicitta, analyzes its possible functions in the context of the spiritual path of the aspirant to enlightenment, and discusses an understanding of bodhicitta in the context of the Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra.


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The truth within : a history of inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism
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ISBN: 9780199684564 0199684561 9780198745211 0198745214 0191507490 1299981496 0191765937 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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The idea that there is a truth within the person linked to the discovery of a deeper, more fundamental, more authentic self has been a common theme in many religions throughout history and an idea that is still with us today. This inwardness or interiority unique to me as an essential feature of who I am has been an aspect of culture and even a defining characteristic of human being; an authentic, private sphere to which we can retreat that is beyond the conflicts of the outer world. This inner world becomes more real than the outer, which is seen as but a pale reflection. Remarkably, the image of the truth within is found across cultures, and this book presents an account of this idea in the pre-modern history of Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Furthermore, in theistic religions, Christianity, and some forms of Hinduism, the truth within is conflated with the idea of God within, and in all cases this inner truth is thought to be not only the heart of the person, but also the heart of the universe itself. Gavin Flood examines the metaphor of inwardness and the idea of truth within, along with the methods developed in religions to attain it such as prayer and meditation. These views of inwardness that link the self to cosmology can be contrasted with a modern understanding of the person. In examining the truth within in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism, Flood offers a hermeneutical phenomenology of inwardness and a defence of comparative religion.

Pratique de la voie tibétaine, coll. « Points », série « Sagesse » Chögyam Trungpa Vincent Bardet : au-delà du matérialisme spirituel,
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ISBN: 2020043955 9782020043953 Year: 1976 Volume: Sa2 Publisher: Paris Editions du Seuil


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L'infini dans la paume de la main : du big bang à l'éveil
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ISBN: 2266108611 9782266108614 Year: 2002 Volume: 11171 Publisher: Paris : Pocket,

The Tibetan book of the dead : the great liberation by hearing in the intermediate states
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ISBN: 9780713994148 0713994142 Year: 2005 Publisher: London : Penguin books,


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Les Cent mille chants
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ISBN: 2213023115 2213017107 2213030944 9782213017105 9782213023113 9782213030944 Year: 1989 Volume: 33, 37, 44 Publisher: Paris Fayard

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Encountering Buddhism : Western psychology and Buddhist teachings
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ISBN: 0791486796 1417506865 9781417506866 0791457354 9780791457351 0791457362 9780791457368 9780791486795 9780791486795 Year: 2003 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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"Creatively exploring the points of confluence and conflict between Western psychology and Buddhist teachings, various scholars, researchers, and therapists struggle to integrate their diverse psychological orientations - psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, transpersonal - with their diverse Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist practices. By investigating the degree to which Buddhist insights are compatible with Western science and culture, they then consider what each philosophical/psychological system has to offer the other. The contributors reveal how Buddhism has changed the way they practice psychotherapy, choose their research topics, and conduct their personal lives. In doing so, they illuminate the relevance of ancient Buddhist texts to contemporary cultural and psychological dilemmas."--Jacket

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