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RECENT RELEASES
Browse all of Wisdom's newest books in print, as well as re-launches of our classic titles.
(Organized with the most recent appearing first.)
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Arts of Contemplative Care
Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work
Cheryl A. Giles, Editor
Willa B. Miller, Editor
Powerful and life-affirming, this watershed volume brings together the voices of pioneers in the field of contemplative care-from hospice and hospitals to colleges, prisons, and the military. Each first-person essay offers a distillation of the wisdom gained over years of experience, and vividly shows days-in-the-life of the each pastoral worker. The stories told here are sure inspire-whether you are a professional caregiver or are simply called to serve through giving care. This is a book that can change lives.
ISBN:0-86171-664-7_|_368_|_Our Price: $27.96 (20% OFF)_|_More Info
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Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path
A Life of Awakening
Takamaro Shigaraki, Author
David Matsumoto, Translator
In his Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path, Takamaro Shigaraki examines Shin Buddhism anew as a practical path of spiritual growth and self-transformation, challenging assessments of the tradition as a passive religion of mere faith. Shigaraki presents the core themes of the Shin Buddhist path in fresh, engaging, down-to-earth language, considering each frankly from both secular and religious perspectives. Shigaraki discloses a nondual Pure Land that finds philosophical kinship with Zen but has been little discussed in the West. With its unassuming language and insights drawn from a life of practice, Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path dispels the fog of misconception that has shrouded Western appreciation of Shin traditions to reveal the limitless light of Amida Buddha that reaches all.
ISBN:1-61429-049-0_|_184_|_Our Price: $13.56 (20% OFF)_|_More Info
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A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages
Teachings on Guhyasamaja Tantra
Gavin Kilty, Translator
Tsongkhapa, Author
Tsongkhapa's Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages (1419) is a comprehensive presentation of the highest yoga class of Buddhist tantra, especially the key practices—the so-called five stages (pancakrama)—of the advanced phase of Guyhasamaja tantra. Beginning with a thorough examination of the Indian sources, Tsongkhapa draws particularly from the writings of Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, Candrakirti, and Naropa to develop a definitive understanding of the Vajrayana completion stage. Whereas in the generation stage, meditators visualize the Buddha in the form of the deity residing in a mandala palace, in the completion stage discussed in the present volume, meditators transcend ordinary consciousness and actualize the state of a buddha themselves. Among other things, Tsongkhapa's work covers the subtle human physiology of channels and winds along with the process of dying, the bardo, and rebirth. This definitive statement on Guhyasamaja tantra profoundly affected the course of Buddhist practice in Tibet.
ISBN:0-86171-454-7_|_636_|_Our Price: $47.96 (20% OFF)_|_More Info
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Ceasing of Notions
An Early Zen Text from the Dunhuang Caves with Selected Comments
Soko Morinaga, Author
Martin Collcutt, Introduction
Among the writings from the Dunhuang Caves, discovered in the mid-twentieth Century, are the Zen equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls—Ancient texts unknown for centuries. The Ceasing of Notions is one such text. It takes a unique form: a dialogue between two imaginary figures, a master and his disciple, in which the disciple tenaciously pursues the master's pithy utterances with follow-up questions that propel the dialogue toward ever more profound insights. And these questions prove to be the reader's very own. Soko Morinaga brings alive this compact and brilliant text with his own vivid commentary.
This volume also includes a generous selection from Morinaga's acclaimed autobiography, Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of my Own Stupidity.
ISBN:1-61429-041-5_|_128_|_Our Price: $12.76 (20% OFF)_|_More Info
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Song of the Road
The Poetic Travel Journal of Tsarchen Losal Gyatso
Cyrus Stearns, Translator
In Song of the Road, Tsarchen Losal Gyatso (1502-66), a tantric master of the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, weaves ecstatic poetry, song, and accounts of visionary experiences into a record of pilgrimage to central Tibet. Translated for the first time here, Tsarchen’s work, a favorite of the Fifth Dalai Lama, brims with striking descriptions of encounters with the divine as well as lyrical portraits of Tibetan landscape. The literary flights of Song of the Road are anchored by Tsarchen’s candid observations on the social and political climate of his day, including a rare example in Tibetan literature of open critique of religious power.
Like the Japanese master Basho's famous Narrow Road to the Interior, written 150 years later, Tsarchen's travelogue contains a mixture of luminous prose and verse, rich with allusions. Traveling on horseback with a band of companions, Tsarchen visited some of the most renowned holy sites of the Tsang region, incluing Jonang, Tropu, Ngor, Shalu, and Gyantse. In his introduction and copious notes, Cyrus Stearns unearths the layers of meaning concealed in the text, excavating the history, legends, and lore associated with people and places encountered on the pilgrimage, revealing the spiritual as well as geographical topography of Tsarchen's journey.
ISBN:1-61429-055-5_|_192_|_Our Price: $19.96 (20% OFF)_|_More Info
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Wisdom of the Kadam Masters
Geshe Thupten Jinpa, Translator
The phrase “Kadam masters” evokes for many Tibetans a sense of a spiritual golden age—the image of a community of wise yet simple monks devoted to a life of mental cultivation. These eleventh- and twelfth century masters were particularly famed for their pithy spiritual sayings that captured essential teachings in digestible bites. In these sayings one unmistakably detects a clear understanding of what comprises a truly happy life, one that is grounded in a deep concern for the welfare of others.
Like the Sayings of the Desert Fathers, Lao Tzu, or Rumi, the teachings contained in Wisdom of the Kadam Masters can be approached as a part of the wisdom heritage of mankind, representative of the long history of the long human quest to understand our existence and its meaning. This volume offers some of the most beloved teachings of the Tibetan tradition.
ISBN:1-61429-054-7_|_232_|_Our Price: $13.56 (20% OFF)_|_More Info
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Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved
Jonathan S. Watts, Editor
Yoshiharu Tomatsu, Editor
Since its beginning, Buddhism has been intimately concerned with confronting and understanding death and dying. Indeed, the tradition emphasizes turning toward the realities of sickness, old age, and death—and using those very experiences to develop wisdom and liberating compassion. In recent decades, Buddhist chaplains and caregivers all over the world have been drawing on this tradition to contribute greatly to the development of modern palliative and hospice care in the secular world at large. Specifically Buddhist hospice programs have been further developing and applying traditional Buddhist practices of preparing for death, attending the dying, and comforting the bereaved.
Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved contains comprehensive overviews of the best of such initiatives, drawn from diverse Buddhist traditions, and written by practitioners who embody the best of contemporary Buddhist hospice care programs practiced all over the world today.
Contributors include Carl B. Becker, Moichiro Hayashi, Yozo Taniyama, Mari Sengoku, Phaisan Visalo, Beth Kanji Goldring, Caroline Prasada Brazier, Joan Jiko Halifax, and Julie Chijo Hanada.
ISBN:1-61429-052-0_|_312_|_Our Price: $18.36 (20% OFF)_|_More Info
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Thunderous Silence
A Formula for Ending Suffering: A Practical Guide to the Heart Sutra
Dosung Yoo, author
Thunderous Silence throws light on the Heart Sutra—a pithy encapsulation of the essence of Perfection of Wisdom literature—using stop-by-step analysis and an easy, conversational voice. Dosung Yoo examines the sutra phrase by phrase, using rich explanations and metaphors drawn from Korean folklore, quantum physics, Charles Dickens, and everything in between to clarify subtle concepts for the reader. This book invites us to examine the fundamentals of Buddhism—The Four Noble Truths, emptiness, enlightenment—through the prism of the Heart Sutra. Both those new to Buddhism and longtime practitioners looking to revisit a core text from a fresh perspective will find this work appealing.
ISBN:1-61429-053-9_|_272_|_Our Price: $14.36 (20% OFF)_|_More Info
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Moody Cow Learns Compassion
Kerry Lee MacLean,
This delightful sequel to Moody Cow Meditates reintroduces us to Peter (aka Moody Cow) and meet his mischievous “boys-will-be-boys” friend Bully. Along the way we meet a snake named Jaws, who also goes on to appear in Peter’s terrifying dreams, and watch as Bully revels in the deaths of the crickets he feeds the snake. Peter is uncomfortable with the plight of the little creatures, earning him a new nickname: “Coward Cow” because Bully thinks he’s a wimp. Once again, Grandfather, the beloved old steer from Moody Cow Meditates, brings serenity and long-horned wisdom as he gently teaches to compassionately identify with other beings. And the story ends with everyone sharing a laugh — and even Jaws and the crickets are happy.
This book also includes two activities — compassionate cricket release and compassionate worm rescue — for parents and children to do together.
Look for the Moody Cow Mind Jar App for iPhone and iPad, available in the App Store and iTunes! http://bit.ly/MindJar
ISBN:1-61429-033-4_|_32_|_Our Price: $13.56 (20% OFF)_|_More Info
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2013 Tibetan Art Calendar
Now 50% off! (Regularly priced at $28.95)
Poster-sized reproductions of classical paintings produced to the highest standards. Wisdom’s Tibetan Art Calendar is an annual favorite.
The antique scroll-art masterpieces seen in Wisdom's Tibetan Art Calendar 2013 are called thangkas. While the thangka is common to Tibetan Buddhists, its finest examples are highly sought-after in the international art community and have become hot properties in the same vein as Oriental rugs and ceramics. As a result, the best of these works are seldom, if ever, available for public viewing.
This is why Wisdom's Tibetan Art Calendar is so special. It's an affordable way to enjoy incredibly rare and meaningful works of sacred art, year-round. These thirteen sacred paintings by Tibet's master painters represent a variety of classical images, mandalas, deities, and icons. Each poster-sized picture is produced to the highest German printing standards, and is suitable for framing. Complete with in-depth explanations of their cultural and philosophical significance, these exquisite fine art reproductions will be treasured for years to come.
Images included in the 2011 calendar are:
•Medicine Buddha
•Ushnishavijaya
•Vajrabhairava and Vajravetali
•Buddha's Miracles
•Arhat Vanavasin
•Fith Dalai Lama
•Hayagriva
•Wrathful Deities of the Bardo
•Khasarpana Avalokiteshvara
•Arhats Ajita, Vanavasin, Kalika
•Tara, Savior from eight dangers
•Mahasamvara Kalachakra
•Arhat Kalika
Please note that calendars are unable to ship via USPS Media Mail. Please choose USPS Priorty or UPS for your shipping option. If you are ordering a calendar and Wisdom books, you should place the book orders separately to ensure the least expensive shipping.
For 2013, the calendar returns to its traditional days of the week and moon phases layout.
Click here to view sample pages from the Calendar.
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