Buddhism

47 books

Zen Is a Flower cover
Rating 4.0
Zen Is a Flower Hu Lancheng China Chang'an Publishing House · 2013 Zen Is a Flower is Hu Lancheng's reading of the Zen classic The Blue Cliff Record, also known by the subtitle New Words on the Blue Cliff Record. Writ…
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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 法显 / 理雅各 Dover Publications · 1991 A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms is the English translation of the travel record by the Eastern Jin monk Faxian (c. 337–c. 422), translated and annotat…
Seeking the Dharma in the Snowlands: The Oral History of a Han Chinese Lama cover
Rating 4.2
Seeking the Dharma in the Snowlands: The Oral History of a Han Chinese Lama Xing Suzhi / Zhang Jianfei / Yang Nianqun SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2008 Seeking the Dharma in the Snowlands is the oral autobiography of Xing Suzhi (dharma name Lobsang Dronme), compiled and written by Zhang Jianfei and Ya…
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Rating 4.2
The Legend of Mahoraga Feihua Volumes Publishing Company · 2008 The Legend of Mahoraga is a long fantasy novel by Fei Hua, published by Wanjuan Publishing Company in 2008 as a trilogy and previously serialized in t…
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Barlaam and Ioasaph John of Damascus / Eusebius Harvard University Press · 1914 Barlaam and Ioasaph (Latin: Barlaam et Josaphat) is one of the most widely circulated hagiographic romances of the Middle Ages and a remarkable meetin…
Li Shutong on Buddhism (Illustrated Edition), Volume Two cover
Li Shutong on Buddhism (Illustrated Edition), Volume Two Li Shutong (Hong Yi) Zhongzhou Ancient Books Publishing House · 2011 Li Shutong on Buddhism (Illustrated Edition) is a compilation of Buddhist lectures and writings by Master Hongyi (Li Shutong), including Master Hongyi…
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Rating 3.0
The Thirteen Hells 宁三意 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2017 Forty years ago, a violent clash broke out at a factory deep in the mountains. The scene was bizarre: the dead bore no wounds, yet the floor and rooms…
Record of the Transmission of the Lamp (Simplified Chinese Edition) cover
Record of the Transmission of the Lamp (Simplified Chinese Edition) Shi Daoyuan Zhejiang Publishing United Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. · 2020 The Record of the Transmission of the Lamp is the common short title of the Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp, compiled by the Northern So…
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Rating 2.4
Stories of Zen 《书立方》编委会 Chongqing Publishing House · 2010 This book is one volume in the "Shu Li Fang · Reading the Classics" series, compiled by the Shu Li Fang Editorial Board and published by Chongqing Pub…
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The Unofficial History of Zen Truth 方汝浩 Heilongjiang Fine Arts Publishing House · 2014 The Unofficial History of Zen Truth, whose full title is The Newly Engraved, Critically Annotated, Illustrated Popular Tale of the Wondrous Knight-Err…
Blessings: Master Hsing Yun's Lessons on the Wealth of Life cover
Rating 3.9
Blessings: Master Hsing Yun's Lessons on the Wealth of Life Hsing Yun Thread-Binding Books Publishing House · 2012 Blessings: Master Hsing Yun's Lessons on the Wealth of Life is Master Hsing Yun's work on the theme of "wealth." The book opens with "Preface in Lieu:…
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A History of Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism 2nd Dudjom Rinpoche Tibet Tibetan Ancient Books Publishing House · 2013 A History of Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism (full title: A History of Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism: The Drum of Dharma, Wondrous Sound) is a history of the or…
The Flower Ornament Sutra in Modern Chinese cover
The Flower Ornament Sutra in Modern Chinese Hong Qisong Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2014 The Flower Ornament Sutra in Modern Chinese is a complete modern Chinese translation with commentary of the Mahāvaipulya Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra, transl…
From India to China: The Course of Chinese and Indian Buddhist Art cover
Rating 3.7
From India to China: The Course of Chinese and Indian Buddhist Art Ruan Rongchun / Zhang Tongbiao The Commercial Press · 2017 From India to China: The Course of Chinese and Indian Buddhist Art is a comprehensive history of Buddhist art. Taking chronology as its main thread an…
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The Twenty Devas Yun Waishan The Twenty Devas is a long wuxia novel by the web author Yunwaishan, roughly 1.17 million characters in length and completed. The title comes from the…
Buddhism: A General Introduction (Boya Bilingual Masters Series · Chinese-English) cover
Rating 4.6
Buddhism: A General Introduction (Boya Bilingual Masters Series · Chinese-English) Zhao Puchu Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press · 2012 This is a popular introduction to Buddhist knowledge written in question-and-answer form by Mr. Zhao Puchu (1907–2000). In the preface the author desc…
A Web of Faith and Profit: Monks, Maritime Merchants, and Sino-Japanese Exchange (839–1403) cover
Rating 3.9
A Web of Faith and Profit: Monks, Maritime Merchants, and Sino-Japanese Exchange (839–1403) Li Yiwen Peking University Press · 2025 In 839 CE, the last Japanese embassy to Tang China returned home; in 1403, the Ashikaga shogunate and the Ming dynasty formally restored official trib…
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Old Path White Clouds 一行禅师 Thread-Binding Books Publishing House · 2007 Old Path White Clouds is one of the most beloved works by the Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Drawing on twenty-four Pali, Sanskrit, and Chinese …
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Rating 4.0
Zen Thought and Poetic Feeling (Expanded Edition) 孙昌武 Zhonghua Book Company · 2020 This book, a representative work by Professor Sun Changwu of Nankai University, employs a "descriptive" method to examine the mutual influence between…
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Tibet Code 10: The Sacred Finale He Ma Chongqing Publishing House · 2011 Tibet Code 10: The Sacred Finale is the tenth and concluding volume of He Ma's Tibet Code series. Zhuomu Qiangba and his companions repel the team of …