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Author : Gautam Sachdeva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788188479436
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)
Download or read book The Buddha's Sword written by Gautam Sachdeva and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the teachings of Ramesh Balsekar and his essay, The purpose of life, written in September 2008.
Author : Lama Surya Das
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0767918649
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book The Mind is Mightier Than the Sword written by Lama Surya Das and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2009 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible guide to the essential teachings of Buddhism counsels readers on such topics as developing one's spiritual center, integrating Buddhist principles into a daily life, and making a meaningful difference in the world. Original.
Author : Brian Daizen Victoria
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461647479
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Zen at War written by Brian Daizen Victoria and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support of a supposedly peaceful religion for Japanese militarism throughout World War II. Drawing on the writings and speeches of leading Zen masters and scholars, Brian Victoria shows that Zen served as a powerful foundation for the fanatical and suicidal spirit displayed by the imperial Japanese military. At the same time, the author recounts the dramatic and tragic stories of the handful of Buddhist organizations and individuals that dared to oppose Japan's march to war. He follows this history up through recent apologies by several Zen sects for their support of the war and the way support for militarism was transformed into 'corporate Zen' in postwar Japan. The second edition includes a substantive new chapter on the roots of Zen militarism and an epilogue that explores the potentially volatile mix of religion and war. With the increasing interest in Buddhism in the West, this book is as timely as it is certain to be controversial.
Author : Chang Sik Kim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Art of Zen Sword written by Chang Sik Kim and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Mone
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847992498
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (479 download)
Download or read book The Sword from the Scabbard written by James Mone and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depression, suicide and drug use are issues that will, one way or another, have an affect on all our lives. The search for meaning in life has almost been given up in exchange for short term pursuits and goals. The question must now be asked if the modern world has placed nihilism at the centre of its world view? If this is so then the advice of a man who brought meaning into his own life and the lives of those around him is well needed. Can we overcome our own cultural bias' to understand that the man known as the Buddha and his teachings have so much to show us about ourselves and our place in the world.
Author : Khenchen Palden Sherab
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614294402
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Mipham's Sword of Wisdom written by Khenchen Palden Sherab and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the Nyingma-lineage understanding of valid cognition in Buddhism. Its core subject is the Buddhist view of the two truths—the relative truth of conventional appearances and the absolute truth of emptiness and buddha nature—and how the two truths are inseparable. The main questions posed are: How can we know the two truths and how can we be certain that our knowledge is accurate? “The great scholar and advanced spiritual master Jamgon Mipham’s Sword of Wisdom is a classic work that explicates valid cognition. I am happy to see it now available in English with commentary and scholarly appendices that will be very helpful for serious students in understanding this profound and important text.”—His Holiness the Sakya Trichen Mipham’s Sword of Wisdom explores the Nyingma-lineage understanding of valid cognition in Vajrayana Buddhism. This translation, a clear and concise primer on higher realization through valid cognition in Buddhist philosophy, presents these ideas in English for the very first time and includes the sutra presentation of the two truths and the tantra teachings of the two truths as the purity and equality of all phenomena. When you’ve finished Mipham’s Sword of Wisdom, you’ll have rich insights into Nyingma teachings on valid cognition, a profound new understanding of the two truths and their inseparability, a solid foundation in valid cognition through direct perception and reasoning according to the traditional Indian treatises of Dharmakirti and Dignaga, and much more.
Author : Peter Haskel
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824837231
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Sword of Zen written by Peter Haskel and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takuan Sōho’s (1573–1645) two works on Zen and swordsmanship are among the most straightforward and lively presentations of Zen ever written and have enjoyed great popularity in both premodern and modern Japan. Although dealing ostensibly with the art of the sword, Record of Immovable Wisdom and On the Sword Taie are basic guides to Zen—“user’s manuals” for Zen mind that show one how to manifest it not only in sword play but from moment to moment in everyday life. Along with translations of Record of Immovable Wisdom and On the Sword Taie (the former, composed in all likelihood for the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu and his fencing master, Yagyū Munenori), this book includes an introduction to Takuan’s distinctive approach to Zen, drawing on excerpts from the master’s other writings. It also offers an accessible overview of the actual role of the sword in Takuan’s day, a period that witnessed both a bloody age of civil warfare and Japan’s final unification under the Tokugawa shoguns. Takuan was arguably the most famous Zen priest of his time, and as a pivotal figure, bridging the Zen of the late medieval and early modern periods, his story (presented in the book’s biographical section) offers a rare picture of Japanese Zen in transition. For modern readers, whether practitioners of Zen or the martial arts, Takuan’s emphasis on freedom of mind as the crux of his teaching resonates as powerfully as it did with the samurai and swordsmen of Tokugawa Japan. Scholars will welcome this new, annotated translation of Takuan’s sword-related works as well as the host of detail it provides, illuminating an obscure period in Zen’s history in Japan.
Author : Vessantara
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
ISBN 13 : 1911407961
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Meeting the Buddhas written by Vessantara and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meeting the Buddhas is a modern classic, giving a vivid and accessible introduction to all the main figures meditated on in the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition. First published in 1993, this new edition incorporates a section on Vajrakīla, as well as new images, and hundreds of small changes that nuance and deepen earlier editions. It is a mine of information for those who want to learn about buddhas, bodhisattvas and tantric deities, and of inspiration for those who are already doing the practices. Vessantara powerfully evokes the figures, giving the reader a real feeling for what it’s like to meditate on them, and how they can transform us on a deep level. It gives detailed descriptions of the figures, including their mudras and symbolic emblems, so it can be used as a handy reference to identify and learn about particular images.
Author : Winston L. King
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195092615
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Zen and the Way of the Sword written by Winston L. King and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the samurai cultivated Zen, relating its teaching of a free and spontaneous mind to the experience of a warrior in individual combat, and finding philosophical strength in Zen as they prepared themselves for death.
Author : Steve Bein
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 045141635X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Daughter of the Sword written by Steve Bein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the only female detective in Tokyo's most elite police unit, Mariko Oshiro has to fight for every ounce of respect, especially from her new boss. But when he gives her the least promising case possible, the attempted theft of an old samurai sword, it proves more dangerous than anyone on the force could have imagined. Mariko's investigation has put her on a collision course with a curse centuries old and as bloodthirsty as ever. She is only the latest in a long line of warriors and soldiers to confront this power, and even the sword she wields could turn against her.
Author : Chang Sik Kim
Publisher : World Shim Gum Do Association Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780989458108
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (581 download)
Download or read book The First Star Black Belt Forms of Shim Gum Do Zen Sword written by Chang Sik Kim and published by World Shim Gum Do Association Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Star Black Belt Forms of Shim Gum Do Zen Sword documents the history of this twentieth century Zen Buddhist martial art. It includes the history of Shim Gum Do Founding Master Great Zen Master Chang Sik Kim including his Dharma lineage. It details the traditions of Zen Buddhism that are a fundamental part of Shim Gum Do and explains how the essence of Zen is integral in the practice of Shim Gum Do Zen Sword. The book contains the complete curriculum of the basic forms, forms and fighting forms for each level of the Shim Gum Do Zen Sword First Star Black Belt course. The process of fulfilling requirements for the preliminary test and taking the test are explained as well. There are many photographs from the different locations of the World Shim Gum Do Association branch centers in America, South Korea, Italy and Poland.
Author : Willis Meeker Hawley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Symbols on the Japanese Sword written by Willis Meeker Hawley and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Bradford
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1423140877
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Way of the Sword, The (Young Samurai, Book 2) written by Chris Bradford and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2010-03-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being shipwrecked in Japan, adopted, and taught the Way of the Warrior at samurai school, Jack is ready to embark on the next chapter of his training: the Way of the Sword. His lessons involve fighting blindfolded, using a b-o staff, and finding messages in origami—all while withstanding the constant pressure of being a foreigner. The stakes are raised even higher when the school holds a contest. The winners will learn the great samurai Masamoto-sama's secret martial arts technique.
Author : Lama Surya Das
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 038553051X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Mind Is Mightier Than the Sword written by Lama Surya Das and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author and beloved teacher Lama Surya Das comes a thorough, engaging, and user-friendly guide to the teachings of Buddhism. Lama Surya Das is one of the most well-regarded Buddhist teachers and scholars in America today. His books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and his seminars and retreats are continually in demand. In part, it is his straightforward, accessible, and humorous approach that audiences react so strongly to–and in The Mind Is Mightier Than the Sword, Surya brings that unique approach to a comprehensive guide to the most essential Buddhist teachings. For beginners and experienced practitioners alike, Lama Surya Das outlines his Six Building Blocks of Spiritual Practice and offers insight and advice not only on how to find and develop a spiritual center, but how to integrate it into your daily life. From daily meditation and yoga to creative work, journaling, volunteering in your community, and finding teachers in unexpected places, Buddhist practice can and should be part of everything you do. The Mind Is Mightier Than the Sword is a practical guide to using the teachings of Buddhism to live a happier, healthier, more enlightened life.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (241 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Symbols on the Japanese Sword written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stevens
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1570620504
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Sword of No-Sword written by John Stevens and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1994-10-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insightful martial arts biography of Yamoaka Tesshu, the larger-than-life samurai who founded his own school of swordsmanship and helped restore practical imperial rule to Japan Master swordsman, calligrapher, and Zen practitioner, Yamoaka Tesshu is a seminal figure in martial arts history. John Stevens’s biography is a fascinating, detailed account of Tesshu’s remarkable life. From Tesshu’s superhuman feats of endurance and keen perception in life-threatening situations, to his skillful handling of military affairs during the politically volatile era of early nineteenth-century Japan, Stevens recounts the stories that have made Tesshu a legend. This is the book all martial artists must own.
Author : Chen Uen‧illustrated
Publisher : Locus Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9865549697
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (655 download)
Download or read book ABI-SWORD：Volume I《Searching》 written by Chen Uen‧illustrated and published by Locus Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These books tell the story of He Wu-sheng, who bears the burden of being a bastard son. He witnesses the death of his biological father Yu Jing at the hands of Shi Fei-hong, who employs the A Bi (or Avici) technique of sword fighting. Wanting to avenge his father’s death, He Wu-sheng himself studies this method of sword fighting but consequently suffers every day when the flow of his qi and blood goes into reverse. Later, He sees the ninth emissary of the Avici Hell reborn in a fire. As he begins to experience representations of greed, stupidity, foolish attachment and anger in the realm of martial arts, he comes to the profound conclusion that the Avici Hell—that last and deepest of the eight hot hells— might in fact be the world of men….
