History Books


Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha (Mentor) Best Price: $3.64 This is one of the "original" "self-help books" written by a great thinker. ...	The Life of the Buddha : According to the Pali Canon Best Price: $13.51 Buddhists have no equivalent of the Bible. But this book is perhaps is as close as it comes in...	Learning True Love: Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War Best Price: $10.13 Sister Chan Kong is truly a living bodhisattva. Her selflessness, generosity, and meritous...	Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations (Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices Series) Best Price: $34.34 I found this book extremely helpful on mutiple levels. Beyond the fact that Mahayana Buddhism...	The Buddha: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $6.22 This lucid little book draws on the Pali canon to retell the life of the Buddha and to recast...



Practicing Wisdom Best Price: $4.85 This book is truly remarkable, even among the excellent books written by His Holiness. It is a...	The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History Best Price: $50.00 I had the very good fortune of meeting and attending meditation sessions with Dudjom Rinpoche...	Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai Best Price: $8.00 This is Shunryu Suzuki's commentary on the Sandokai. The Sandokai is a poem by Zen master Sekito...	Orientalism and Religion: Post-Colonial Theory, India and 'The Mystic East' Best Price: $38.65 Although this book is a mine of information on historical aspects of Neo-Hinduism and...	The Living Buddha: An Interpretive Biography (Soka Gakkai History of Buddhism) Best Price: $10.17 As a practitioner of Nichiren Buddhism, and member of SGI-USA, I have found this book to be...



Dogen on Meditation And Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen Best Price: $20.65 Kim advances my understanding of Dogen's reasoning. I have long been baffled by Abe's...	Merton & Buddhism: (The Fons Vitae Thomas Merton series) Best Price: $16.58 Divided into three sections, this insightful volume of essays by numerous scholars focuses on...	The Ajanta Caves: Ancient Paintings of Buddhist India Best Price: $21.78 If you, like me, have never been to the Ajanta Caves and would like to get a feel for the...	Steps on the Path to Enlightenment, Vol.2: Karma: A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo Best Price: $13.90 This second volume of the five-volume commentary focuses on karma, or cause and effect, and is...	A Dictionary of Buddhism (Oxford Paperback Reference) Best Price: $11.96 I am of the opinion that this contemporary dictionary is the yet the most concise,...

Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment Best Price: $4.80 Unbelievable that the author could have transformed an epic pilgrimage by a legendary Buddhist...	Honen The Buddhist Saint: Essential Writings and Official Biography (Spiritual Masters: East and West) Best Price: $4.98 Joseph A. Fitzgerald edits Honen The Buddhist Saint: Essential Writings And Official Biography,...	Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs in America: A Short History (Religion in American Life) Best Price: $7.50 Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America explores the challenges that Asian immigrants face when...	Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China Best Price: $43.18	The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century Best Price: $33.60 Yoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout...

Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo Best Price: $29.65 Theravada is the branch of Buddhism is found in Sri Lanka and parts of South East Asia. The...	Karmapa: The Politics of Reincarnation Best Price: $7.90 This history of the Karmapas reads more like novel than biography though it provides...	Buddha (Penguin Lives) Best Price: $4.80 If a person wishes to understand a basic but thorough overview of Buddhism during it's...	Women of the Way: Discovering 2,500 Years of Buddhist Wisdom Best Price: $3.53 This is an incredibly valuable resource for information and inspiration for women who are...	Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation (Topics in Contemporary Buddhism) Best Price: $25.00 This is a very important book, one that covers uncharted ground and grapples straightforwardly...

Zen at War (2nd Edition) Best Price: $11.73 This exhaustively researched, well-documented and courageous book is incorrectly titled; it...	Encountering Jesus & Buddha: Their Lives and Teachings Best Price: $4.99 New Testament Professor (University of Berlin, Switzerland) Ulrich Luz and Professor of...	Japanese Buddhism: A Cultural History Best Price: $7.99 When I've searched for a general introduction for the subject of Japanese Buddhism, I wanted to...	Buddhadasa: Theravada Buddhism and Modernist Reform in Thailand Best Price: $22.45 Buddhadasa Bhikkhu (1906-1993) is widely regarded as modern Thailand's most influential Buddhist...	The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God Best Price: $17.79 "The inquisitorial apparatus that was first invented in the Middle Ages remained in...

Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China Best Price: $60.00 This is an excellent treatment of the Lotus Sutra in Chinese art, primarily focusing on Dunhuang...	Buddhism at Work Best Price: $23.18 Buddhism At Work: Community Development, Social Empowerment, And The Sarvodaya Movement by...	Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism (Studies in East Asian Buddhism) Best Price: $38.40 Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism is the first book-length study of...	Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity Best Price: $6.00 First let me say that I share many of the reviewers sentiments here regarding the inaccuracy of...	When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty: The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet Best Price: $45.75 In the fifteenth century, the princess Chokyi Dronma was told by the leading spiritual masters...

Zen Buddhism: A History, India & China Best Price: $4.97 A detailed survey that begins in India with the historic Buddha, Sakyamuni, and finishes with...	Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China Best Price: $57.11 Enlightenment in Dispute is the first comprehensive study of the revival of Chan Buddhism in...	Zen Buddhism, Volume 2: A History (Japan) (Treasures of the World's Religions) Best Price: $11.93 ... than Volume 1. I am a lay person so I can not speak to the challenges in recent years...	Living Without Regret: Human Experience in Light of Tibetan Buddhism Best Price: $7.30 This book is so full of amazing insight and profound wisdom I may read it again with a pencil...	A Treasury of Mahayana Sutras: Selections from the Maharatnakuta Sutra Best Price: $26.95 I can't believe people are selling these used for more than the cost of it new. Penn State...

Zen Buddhism: A History : India and China With a New Supplement on the Northern School of Chinese Zen (Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture) Best Price: $16.00 A detailed survey that begins in India with the historic Buddha, Sakyamuni, and finishes with...	A Beginner's Guide to Buddhism: A Short Course on This Powerful Eastern Philosophy (Beginner's Guide Series) Best Price: $5.35 I bought this CD in hopes of listening to it several times; picking up new things here and...	Religion of India (The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism) Best Price: $21.50 Weber based most of his later works on his first theory of rise of capitalism in Protestant...	Nichiren: Leader of Buddhist Reformation in Japan Best Price: $10.29 This book is the best English language resource on the life of Nichiren available today. The...	Gotama Buddha: A Biography Based on the Most Reliable Texts Best Price: $11.99 This book deserves an award for its clarity and scholarly presentation of the life-history of...

Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples Best Price: $42.13 Teiser--D. T. Sukuki professor in Buddhist Studies at Princeton--puts the classical source of...	The Buddha: A Short Biography (Oneworld Short Guides) Best Price: $25.17 One of the problems of this book is it is too short. It can be finished in two hours flat or...	Buddhist History of the West, A (Suny Series in Religious Studies) Best Price: $12.87 As an expat who has lived and worked in Japan for over 15 years, I am a huge fan of both history...	The Prince and Monk: Shotoku Worship in Shinran's Buddhism Best Price: $24.65 How Shinran, a seminal figure in Pure Land Buddhism, was guided by a vision of Shotoku, the...	Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation Best Price: $24.05 This a great read for anyone interested in The Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism, and / or Tibetan...

Development in the Early Buddhist Concept of Kamma/Karma Best Price: $13.91 One of the central concepts in Buddhism is the idea of Kamma. Although the importance of Karma...	Early Buddhism - A New Approach: The I of the Beholder (Curzon Critical Studies in Buddhism) Best Price: $43.12 This is a fantastic book that explores from a scholarly perspective the fundamental teachings of...	Gandharan Buddhism: Archaeology, Art, and Texts (Asian Religions and Society) Best Price: $32.00 Integrating archaeology, art history, numismatics, epigraphy, and textual sources, this is the...	Did Dogen Go to China?: What He Wrote and When He Wrote It Best Price: $112.90 If you want to know about the life and Zen teachings of Eihei Dogen, all of Steven Heine's books...	Buddhism Its History And Literature (1896) Best Price: $28.45 Text extracted from opening pages of book: AMERICAN LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS FIRST...

A History of Japanese Buddhism Best Price: $23.76	Rennyo and the Roots of Modern Japanese Buddhism Best Price: $69.79 Rennyo Shonin (1415-1499) is considered the "second founder" of Shin Buddhism. Under...	Our Great Qing: The Mongols, Buddhism, And the State in Late Imperial China Best Price: $44.20 Although it is generally believed that the Manchus controlled the Mongols through their...

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