The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-Neng (Pine Red)(Paperback)

The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-Neng (Pine Red)(Paperback)

A Zen Buddhist masterpiece, winner of the 2018 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation. The Platform Sutra occupies a central place in Zen (Ch'an) Buddhist instruction for students and spiritual seekers worldwide. It is often linked with The Heart Sutra and The Diamond Sutra to form a trio of texts

Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening (Hai Hui)(Paperback)

Zen teaching of instantaneous awakeningA complete translation of the teaching of the Chinese Ch'an (Zen) Master Hui Hai by John Blofeld, with a foreword by Charles LukHui Hai, was one of the great Ch'an (Zen) Masters. He was a contemporary of both Ma Tsu and Huang Po, those early masters who

The Heart Sutra (Pine Red)(Paperback)

The Heart Sutra is Buddhism in a nutshell. It has had the most profound and wide-reaching influence of any text in Buddhism. This short text covers more of the Buddha's teachings than any other scripture, and it does so without being superficial or hurried. Although the original author is unknown,

Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (Cleary J. C.)(Paperback)

The writings of the twelfth-century Chinese Zen master Ta Hui are as immediately accessible as those of any contemporary teacher, and this book, which introduced them to the English-speaking world in the 1970s, has become a modern classic--a regular feature of recommended reading lists for Zen

The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo (Uchiyama Kosho)(Paperback)

Abandon your treasured delusions and hit the road with one of the most important Zen masters of twentieth-century Japan. Eschewing the entrapments of vanity, power, and money, Homeless Kodo Sawaki Roshi refused to accept a permanent position as a temple abbot, despite repeated offers. Instead, he

Vimalakirti & the Awakened Heart: A Commentary on The Sutra that Vimalakirti Speaks (Sutherland Roshi Joan)(Paperback)

Vimalakirti & the Awakened Heart: A Commentary on The Sutra that Vimalakirti Speaks by Zen teacher Joan Sutherland, Roshi is a timeless meditation on developing a peaceful and generous heart in a world of sorrows, and on how the awakening of each of us is an inextricable part of the awakening of

Mammoth Book of the Kama Sutra (Jakubowski Maxim (Bookseller/Editor))(Paperback / softback)

The fullest ever collection of the Kama Sutra and its modern

Bodhicitta: Cultivating the Compassionate Mind of Enlightenment (Gyatso Losang)(Paperback)

One is unlikely ever to receive a Tibetan Buddhist teaching on either sutra or tantra in which Bodhicitta does not have a central role. Bodhicitta, the compassionate mind which aspires to attain full enlightenment in order to benefit beings, is the very quintessence of the Mahayana path of Buddhist

The Lotus Sutra (Watson Burton)(Paperback)

Since its appearance in China in the third century, The Lotus Sutra has been regarded as one of the most illustrious scriptures in the Mahayana Buddhist canon. The object of intense veneration among generations of Buddhists in China, Korea, Japan, and other parts of the world, it has had a profound

The Vimalakirti Sutra (Watson Burton)(Paperback)

One of the most popular Asian classics for roughly two thousand years, the Vimalakirti Sutra stands out among the sacred texts of Mahayana Buddhism for its conciseness, its vivid and humorous episodes, its dramatic narratives, and its eloquent exposition of the key doctrine of emptiness or

The Zen Teaching of Huang-Po: On the Transmission of Mind (Calthorpe Blofeld John Eaton)(Paperback)

This complete translation of the original collection of sermons, dialogues, and anecdotes of Huang Po, the illustrious Chinese master of the Tang Dynasty, allows the Western reader to gain an understanding of Zen from the original source, one of the key works in its teachings; it also offers deep

Marrying Buddha (Zhou Wei Hui)(Paperback / softback)

Zhou Wei Hui lives in Shanghai and is a graduate of the prestigious Fudan University. Marrying Buddha is her second novel; her first, Shanghai Baby, was an international

The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic (Reeves Gene)(Paperback)

The Lotus Sutra is regarded as one of the world's great religious scriptures and most influential texts. It's a seminal work in the development of Buddhism throughout East Asia and, by extension, in the development of Mahayana Buddhism throughout the world. Taking place in a vast and fantastical

The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma (Bodhidharma)(Paperback)

A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years after his death, today millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu claim him as their spiritual

Everyday Zen - Love and Work (Beck Charlotte Joko)(Paperback / softback)

Charlotte Joko Beck is one of the most popular Zen teachers currently teaching in the

The Emotional Rollercoaster of Language Teaching (Gkonou Christina)(Paperback)

This book focuses on the emotional complexity of language teaching and how the diverse emotions that teachers experience are shaped and function. The book covers a range of emotion-related topics on both positive and negative emotions, including emotional labour, burnout, emotion regulation,

The Feldenkrais Method: Teaching by Handling (Large Print 16pt) (Rywerant Yochanan)(Paperback)

The Feldenkrais Method: Teaching By Handling is a presentation of the system of Functional Integration devised by the Israeli scientist Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais. The Feldenkrais system is a way of handling the body by communicating specific sensations to the central nervous system in order to improve

Content-Based Language Teaching (Lyster Roy)(Paperback)

This module explores the content-driven approach to language teaching, or the teaching of non-linguistic content such as geography, history, or science using the target language. It lays out effective techniques that help facilitate students' comprehension of curricular content and also discusses

A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter (Hui Andrew)(Paperback)

An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures Aphorisms-or short philosophical sayings-appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this ubiquity, the aphorism is the least studied

The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways (Ashley Mike)(Paperback)

The Platform Edge is a collection of the greatest stories of strange happenings on the tracks. In this express service to the unknown, phantom passengers join the jostling of the daily commute, a subway car disappears into another dimension without a trace, while a tragic derailment on a lonely

Recursivity and Contingency (Hui Yuk)(Paperback)

This book is an investigation of algorithmic contingency and an elucidation of the contemporary situation that we are living in: the regular arrival of algorithmic catastrophes on a global scale. Through a historical analysis of philosophy, computation and media, this book proposes a renewed

On the Existence of Digital Objects, 48 (Hui Yuk)(Paperback)

Digital objects, in their simplest form, are data. They are also a new kind of industrial object that pervades every aspect of our life today--as online videos, images, text files, e-mails, blog posts, Facebook events.Yet, despite their ubiquity, the nature of digital objects remains unclear.On the

Task-Based Language Teaching (Nunan David)(Paperback)

The field of task-based language teaching has developed considerably since the publication of Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom (Nunan, 1989), a book which helped to set the research agenda in teaching methodology for the following decade. While Designing Tasks underpins this new

The Art of Teaching Russian (Dengub Evgeny)(Paperback)