Download or read book The Land of Bliss The Paradise of the Buddha of Measureless Light written by Luis O. Gomez and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a free translation of two Buddhist texts on what is arguably the most popular of all Buddhist conceptions of an ideal world, the "Land of Bliss" of the Buddha Amitabha, the Buddha of Infinite Light. The two texts, known to Western students of Buddhism as the "Smaller" and "Larger" Sukhavatiyuha Sutra, explain the conditions that lead to rebirth in the Pure Land and the manner in which human beings are reborn there.

Download or read book Buddha in Paradise written by Glenn H. Mullin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Pure Lands are all around us -- The world and beyond -- Tushita Pure Land and the theater of the 1,000 Buddhas -- Padma Sambhava and the five Pure Lands of Bliss -- The Tantric Pure Lands -- A few more Buddhafields, just for fun -- Tushita revisited -- Powa, Niguma, and the Tibetan book of the dead -- Paradise found / Heather Stoddard.

Download or read book The Rivers of Paradise written by David Noel Freedman and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at the founders of the world's main religions. The major religious traditions of the world owe their existence to the vision of an ancient founder. This important volume explores the lives of the five founders of major world religions-Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad-chronicling what is actually known of these charismatic men and introducing readers to the cultural and religious worlds that heard their messages. Readers in predominantly Christian lands, in addition to learning about the lives of Confucius, Buddha, and Muhammad- whom they might not be familiar with- will also be introduced to modern research now casting fresh light on the careers of Moses and Jesus. Whether studied individually or in comparison with one another, these biographies, together with a chapter on the characteristics of religious leadership, chart the spiritual rivers that continue to feed the diversity of religious expression today.

Download or read book The Land of Bliss written by and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2002 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BUDDHISM

Download or read book Sukhavati Western Paradise written by Kiew Kit Wong and published by Cosmos Internet. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sakyamuni Buddha taught the Amitabha Sutra over 2000 years ago. It is one of the most important Sutras in Mahayana Buddhism. It teaches how a person can be reborn in Sukhavati, also known as the Western Paradise of Eternal Bliss. In Sukhavati, Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit, explains the principles and practice of Pure Land Buddhism. He introduces and comments on the various Sutras and Mantras that are important to Pure Land practitioners. The book includes: - Amitabha Buddha and the description of Sukhavati. - Majestic grandeur of Buddhism. - Other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in every direction. - Heaven and enlightenment. - Methods to win rebirth in Sukhavati. - Settling doubts. - Commentaries from the classics.

Download or read book Why Not Paradise written by and published by Empty Bowl Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Of all the Buddhists in China, Japan, and Korea, the vast majority follow teachings centered on rebirth in the Pure Land, or Western Paradise, of Amitabha Buddha. All Buddhist sutras are about the mind, the mind and the Buddha, and about reducing, if not eliminating, the apparent distance between the two. What the authors of the first Pure Land texts added was a stage on which that drama could take place. Their choice was an enclosed garden similar to the kind Persians called pairi-da?za- based on Biblical accounts of the Garden of Eden and from which we get the word 'paradise.' When Buddhists decided to imagine a better place to practice, it's not surprising they would conjure such a place, a place where devotees could return to Buddhist basics, a place no more than a thought away. In this small chapbook, Red Pine presents new translations of two of the three sutras sacred to Pure Land Buddhists and has added a preface and footnotes to help readers better understand this spiritual path followed by hundreds of millions of people in the world today.

Download or read book The Paradise Never Lost written by Pramod Bharati and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Paradise Never Lost' is a unique book of its kind to deal with the true nature of Enlightenment, Religion and Science . It describes the essential features of Vedanta, Sankya, Yoga, Jainism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity and correlates them. This book correlates Religion and Science as well and establishes Religion as the Supreme Science by using Philosophical method for the first time. This one book is enough to answer all religious enquiries and is indispensable for every seeker. This book deserves to be called 'The Handbook of Religion' and is useful for those also who want to specialize in the field of 'Comparative Religion' being unprecedented in its scientific manner. This book is remarkable for its originality and authenticity both and includes only the indispensable. Pramod Bharati has been a disciple of Osho and he has been transcendental in the fields of Enlightenment and Mysticism. I lowever,he has been a member of Rajasthan Higher Education Service and is working at present as a college Principal. His legal name is Pramod Kumar Joshi. The Diamond Hooks has already published his three books in Hindi recently two on fiction and one on poetry.

Download or read book Land of Bliss written by Luis O. Gómez and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Heart of the World written by Ian Baker and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of Shangri-La emerged from the Tibetan Buddhist belief in beyul, or hidden lands. Tibetan prophecies proclaim that the greatest of these mythical sanctuaries lies at the eastern edge of the Himalayas, veiled by a colossal waterfall at the heart of the forbidding Tsangpo gorge. After years of research and investigation, Buddhist scholar and world-class climber Ian Baker and his team made worldwide news by reaching the bottom of the Tsangpo gorge and finding a magnificent 108-foot-high waterfall the legendary grail of both Western explorers and Tibetan seekers. The Heart of the World recounts one of the most captivating stories of exploration and discovery in recent memory an extraordinary journey into one of the wildest and most inaccessible places on earth, a meditation on our place in nature, and a pilgrimage to the heart of Tibetan Buddhism.

Download or read book Collecting Paradise written by Robert N. Linrothe and published by Serindia Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting Paradise features Buddhist objects, including manuscripts, paintings and sculptures in ivory, metal and wood, dating from the 7th to 17th centuries. With 44 objects, the exhibition presents an original and innovative look at art from the region of Kashmir and the Western Himalayas, as well as how it has been collected over time. The catalogue features essays by a leading scholar in the field, Robert Linrothe of Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, with the support of Christian Luczanits of SOAS, University of London.

Download or read book Paradise of Jesus and Nirvana of Buddha written by Isac Borgert and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I bring in this book logical information and objective procedures for you to practice and reach the Paradise of Jesus and Nirvana of Buddha. Believe, you will awaken the best feelings in your heart and prosperity, love and happiness will flow into your life.

Download or read book Pure Land Real World written by Melissa Anne-Marie Curley and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For close to a thousand years Amida’s Pure Land, a paradise of perfect ease and equality, was the most powerful image of shared happiness circulating in the Japanese imagination. In the late nineteenth century, some Buddhist thinkers sought to reinterpret the Pure Land in ways that would allow it speak to modern Japan. Their efforts succeeded in ways they could not have predicted. During the war years, economist Kawakami Hajime, philosopher Miki Kiyoshi, and historian Ienaga Saburō—left-leaning thinkers with no special training in doctrinal studies and no strong connection to any Buddhist institution—seized upon modernized images of Shinran in exile and a transcendent Western Paradise to resist the demands of a state that was bearing down on its citizens with increasing force. Pure Land, Real World treats the religious thought of these three major figures in English for the first time. Kawakami turned to religion after being imprisoned for his involvement with the Japanese Communist Party, borrowing the Shinshū image of the two truths to assert that Buddhist law and Marxist social science should reinforce each other, like the two wings of a bird. Miki, a member of the Kyoto School who went from prison to the crown prince’s think tank and back again, identified Shinran’s religion as belonging to the proletariat: For him, following Shinran and working toward building a buddha land on earth were akin to realizing social revolution. And Ienaga’s understanding of the Pure Land—as the crystallization of a logic of negation that undermined every real power structure—fueled his battle against the state censorship system, just as he believed it had enabled Shinran to confront the world’s suffering head on. Such readings of the Pure Land tradition are idiosyncratic—perhaps even heretical—but they hum with the same vibrancy that characterized medieval Pure Land belief. Innovative and refreshingly accessible, Pure Land, Real World shows that the Pure Land tradition informed twentieth-century Japanese thought in profound and surprising ways and suggests that it might do the same for twenty-first-century thinkers. The critical power of Pure Land utopianism has yet to be exhausted.

Download or read book The True Paradise written by Gāmini Salgādo and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood in Ceylon is vividly portrayed in a sequence of mysterious stories and exotic vignettes which evoke the author's birthplace, the secretive pleasures of boyhood, and the poignance of Buddhism which stresses so strongly the ephemerality of life. The lyricism of the writing and the rich cast of characters make the book a delight. It portrays an exceptional person growing up in one culture and gradually being possessed by another, by European attitudes, but never losing the vibrant heart of his first years. The True Paradise has been compiled from his writings, after the author's untimely death in 1985, by his widow, Fenella Copplestone.

Download or read book Prince Siddartha written by John L. Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Buddhist Paradise written by Pratapaditya Pal and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Step Away from Paradise written by Thomas K. Shor and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED... If Lewis Carroll had proclaimed the reality of Alice's Wonderland? What if he had gathered a following & launched an expedition? THE TRUE STORY OF A JOURNEY TO A FANTASTIC LAND IT WAS THE EARLY 1960s. The place, a far-off corner of the Himalayas long fabled in Tibetan tradition to be hiding a valley of immortality among its peaks and glaciers--a real-life Shangri-La. They waited generations for the prophesied lama to come, the one with the secret knowledge of how to 'open' the Hidden Land. Then, one day, he came. His name was Tulshuk Lingpa. THIS BOOK TELLS THE TRUE STORY of this charismatic visionary lama and his remarkable expedition. Against the wishes of the kings of both Sikkim and Nepal, he and over three hundred followers ventured up the snowy slopes of the third highest mountain of the planet. Their aim: to open a crack in the very fabric of reality and go to a land we would all wish to inhabit if it were only there--a land of peace and concord. FORTY YEARS LATER, the author spends over five years tracking down the surviving members of this extraordinary expedition. He deftly weaves their stories together with humor, wisdom, and scholarly research into Tibetan traditions of Hidden Lands, all the while reflecting on what this means for the rest of us. "LIKE NO OTHER BOOK I have ever read...a riveting tale of adventure...honest to the real spirit of Tibet...both unique and intriguing...an engrossing read. Highly recommended." JETSUNMA TENZIN PALMO, from the Foreword From Tulshuk Lingpa's Guidebook to the Hidden Land: "DON'T LISTEN TO ANYBODY. Decide by yourself and practise madness. Develop courage for the benefit of all sentient beings. Then you will automatically be free from the knot of attachment. Then you will continually have the confidence of fearlessness and you can then try to open the Great Door of the Hidden Place." FIRST PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN 2011 CITY LION PRESS EDITION 2017 THIS EDITION IS NOT FOR SALE IN SOUTH ASIA, MALAYSIA, OR SINGAPORE

Download or read book Prince Siddartha the Japanese Buddha written by John L. Atkinson and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXV. THE BUDDHA'S PARADISE. TN a former chapter Buddha is represented as having ascended on a cloud to the heavens with several of his followers, and having made an official and friendly call on the king of Indra and his queen. He also claimed one of the three heavens, visited at that time, as his own particular paradise. This doctrine of a Buddha's paradise, whether it had its germ in the original teachings of Buddha or not, has taken strong possession of the leading minds of the Buddhists of the Northern school, and they have elaborated it very beautifully and effectively. The same is true of the Buddhist hells, although the word horribly instead of beautifully must necessarily be used when speaking of that part of the Buddhistic doctrine of the future. It must be borne in mind while reading this chapter that a birth into and a residence in paradise does not mean to an orthodox Buddhist that the one thus born and residing there will continue there forever. Far from it. This paradise is but one of the stages on the path toward perfection--that is, total extinction of being. Life in this paradise is obtained by a concentrated accumulation of merits; but the force inherent in those merits ultimately dies out--according to the teaching of orthodox Buddhism--as power wanes and dies out of an electric motor when the producing machinery ceases to be active. When this occurs, another birth, as a man, becomes necessary. It is expected that this following birth will ultimate in perfection, though it may ultimate in a series of acts involving demerit. In that case the whole weary round of birth and rebirth as insect, reptile, bird, beast, demon, or sufferer of the horrible tortures of the awful hells may have to be again trod through...