Buddhism

Tun-Huang is the dream child of the Avatamsaka tradition of contemplation as it unfolded in Bamiyan. This richly illustrated book examines the Tun-...

Encyclopaedia of Indian Iconography, is intended to focus attention on the traditional details concerning images and their worship. The details giv...

The Guhyasamāja Tantra (Sanskrit; Tantra of the Secret Community) is one of the most important scriptures of Esoteric Buddhism. In its fullest form...

How Zen Became Zen takes a novel approach to understanding one of the most crucial developments in Zen Buddhism: the dispute over the nature of enl...

In Buddhism, Kuan Yin (also spelled Guan Yin, Kwan Yin) is the bodhisattva of compassion venerated by East Asian Buddhists. Commonly known as the G...

"Om mani padme hum" is the most important mantra in Buddhism. It is the six syllable mantra of the Bodhisattva of compassion Avalokiteshvara. Om Ma...

Bodhgaya is one of the four important religious sites (Lumbini, Bodhgaya, Sarnath and Kusinagar) of pilgrimage for the Buddhists. Of the four sites...

Tibetan Dorje pendant - made in solid White metal. Size is around 2.5 cm (1"). Cast from a Tibetan carving. Dorje or Vajra is a Sanskrit word m...

This book is the first attempt to describe all the fifteen places with which the Buddha had direct association. Narration of each of these places a...

Zen Buddhism is, first and foremost, a practice that was uninterruptedly transmitted from master to disciple, and that goes back to the spiritual a...