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A Swift Pair of Messengers: Serenity with Insight in the Buddha's Words
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Serenity and insight are the two great wings of Buddhist meditation. They each have a special role to play in the path to... More > Awakening. While some modern approaches seek to marginalize serenity in favor of 'dry' insight, the Buddha's own discourses place serenity right at the center of the path. This book collects virtually all the significant passages on this topic that are found in the early discourses, carefully elucidated for the modern reader. < Less
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White Bones Red Rot Black Snakes
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Enchanting, powerful, horrific, beautiful, wise, deadly, compassionate, seductive.

Women in Buddhist story and image are... More > all these things and more. She takes the signs of the ancient goddess – the lotus, the sacred grove, the serpent, the sacrifice – and uses them in astonishing new ways. Her story is one of suffering and great trials, and through it all an unquenchable longing to be free.

This beautifully illustrated work is as layered and subversive as mythology itself. Based directly on authentic Buddhist texts, and informed with insights from psychology and comparative mythology, it takes a fresh look at how Buddhist women have been depicted by men and how they have depicted themselves. < Less
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Serenity and insight are the two great wings of Buddhist meditation. They each have a special role to play in the path to... More > Awakening. While some modern approaches seek to marginalize serenity in favor of ‘dry’ insight, the Buddha’s own discourses place serenity right at the center of the path. This book collects virtually all the significant passages on this topic that are found in the early discourses, carefully elucidated for the modern reader. < Less
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Bhikkhuni Vinaya Studies
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Although historically marginalized, Buddhist nuns are taking their place in modern Buddhism. Like the monks, Buddhist nuns... More > live by an ancient system of monastic law, the Vinaya. This work investigates various areas of uncertainty and controversy in how the Vinaya is to be understood and applied today. < Less
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Enchanting, powerful, horrific, beautiful, wise, deadly, compassionate, seductive.

Women in Buddhist story and image are... More > all these things and more. She takes the signs of the ancient goddess – the lotus, the sacred grove, the serpent, the sacrifice – and uses them in astonishing new ways. Her story is one of suffering and great trials, and through it all an unquenchable longing to be free.

This beautifully illustrated work is as layered and subversive as mythology itself. Based directly on authentic Buddhist texts, and informed with insights from psychology and comparative mythology, it takes a fresh look at how Buddhist women have been depicted by men and how they have depicted themselves. < Less
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Serenity and insight are the two great wings of Buddhist meditation. They each have a special role to play in the path to... More > Awakening. While some modern approaches seek to marginalize serenity in favor of ‘dry’ insight, the Buddha’s own discourses place serenity right at the center of the path. This book collects virtually all the significant passages on this topic that are found in the early discourses, carefully elucidated for the modern reader. < Less
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Serenity and insight are the two great wings of Buddhist meditation. They each have a special role to play in the path to... More > Awakening. While some modern approaches seek to marginalize serenity in favor of 'dry' insight, the Buddha's own discourses place serenity right at the center of the path. This book collects virtually all the significant passages on this topic that are found in the early discourses, carefully elucidated for the modern reader. < Less
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Serenity and insight are the two great wings of Buddhist meditation. They each have a special role to play in the path to... More > Awakening. While some modern approaches seek to marginalize serenity in favor of ‘dry’ insight, the Buddha’s own discourses place serenity right at the center of the path. This book collects virtually all the significant passages on this topic that are found in the early discourses, carefully elucidated for the modern reader. < Less
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Serenity and insight are the two great wings of Buddhist meditation. They each have a special role to play in the path to... More > Awakening. While some modern approaches seek to marginalize serenity in favor of ‘dry’ insight, the Buddha’s own discourses place serenity right at the center of the path. This book collects virtually all the significant passages on this topic that are found in the early discourses, carefully elucidated for the modern reader. < Less
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Bhikkhuni Vinaya Studies
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Although historically marginalized, Buddhist nuns are taking their place in modern Buddhism. Like the monks, Buddhist nuns... More > live by an ancient system of monastic law, the Vinaya. This work investigates various areas of uncertainty and controversy in how the Vinaya is to be understood and applied today. < Less
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Bhikkhu Sujato is a Buddhist monk. In 1994 he ordained in the Theravada forest tradition in Thailand, and is currently the abbot of Santi Forest Monastery near Sydney, Australia. His writings are published through Santipada.org, a non-profit Buddhist publisher.