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April 20th, 2007 by admin

buddhist holy books

GSEPod Religious Studies – Buddhist Worship and Holy Books

The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti

$13.00

This book presents the major teachings of Mahayana Buddhism in a precise, dramatic, and even humorous form. For two millennia this Sutra, called the “jewel of the Mahayana Sutras” has enjoyed immense popularity among Mahayana Buddhists in India, central and southeast Asia, Japan, and especially China, where its incidents were the basis for a style in art and literature prevalent during several cen…

The Holy Land Reborn: Pilgrimage and the Tibetan Reinvention of Buddhist India (Buddhism and Modernity series)

$38.97

The Dalai Lama has said that Tibetans consider themselves âthe child of Indian civilizationâ and that India is the âholy landâ from whose sources the Tibetans have built their own civilization. What explains this powerful allegiance to India? In The Holy Land RebornÂ¸ Toni Huber investigates how Tibetans have maintained a ritual relationship to India, particularly by way of p…

Rude Awakenings: Two Englishmen on Foot in Buddhism’s Holy Land

$6.23

Half down-and-dirty adventure and half inspirational memoir, Rude Awakenings documents an unusual pilgrimage. Two very different men earthy scientist Nick Scott and fastidious Buddhist monk Ajahn Sucitto together spend six months retracing the Buddhas footsteps through India. Told alternately by Sucitto and Scott in their distinctively different voices, this story blends self-effacing humo…