Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

Philosophy

illustrations of the history of Medieval Thought and Learning

The paper cover is damaged as can be seen in the picture. The book is autographed, and signed to John.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A new venture in philosophy 

The World of Silence

Hubert L. Dreyfus

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

A Commentary on Heidegger's Being in Time, Division I

Being-In-the-World

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B. Alan Wallace

Daniel Goleman

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

Shamatha meditation is a method for achieving previously inconceivable levels of concentration. Author B. Alan Wallace, an active participant in the much-publicized dialogues between Buddhists and scholars, has more than 20 years' practice in the discipline, some of it under the guidance of the Dalai Lama. This book is a definitive presentation of his knowledge of shamatha. It is aimed at the contemporary seeker who is distracted and defocused by the dizzying pace of modern life, as well as those suffering from depression and other mental maladies. Beginning by addressing the inherent problems that follow from an inability to focus, Wallace moves on to explore varying levels of meditation. The result is an interior travelogue that recounts an exciting, rewarding "expedition of the mind," tracing everything from the confusions at the bottom of the trail to the extraordinary clarity and power that come with making it to the top.

The Attention Revolution

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It has cigarette stains and coffee stains. This was a text book from a number theory class at The University of Maryland Collage Park. I studied there for one semester I never completed the math degree there but went on to do more work in number theory and graph theory. My current work involves Heegner numbers. 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Math

Problem-Solving and Proofs

Mathematical Thinking

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Philip Rawson

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Tibetan religion and the art which illuminates it are a summation, an interweaving of many strands - shamanic spiritualism, magic myth, insights into time and death, combined in a unique form of Buddhism. Tibet retained its own religious and imaginative art for centuries without interference from the outside world, until the Chinese invasion of 1950 brought wholesale destruction. What remains - inside and outside Tibet - is doubly precious. The magnificent and mysterious arts of Tibet are much more than an adjunct to spiritual life; they are dwellings for the divine and images of inner states. Here text and illustrations together enter into the meanings of Tibetan imagery and practice, and reveal both the sources and living manifestations of Tibetan Buddhist belief and philosophy.

Sacred Tibet

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Voice of Tibetan Religion and Culture No. 3

Cho Yang 

Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Indian Buddhism

John B. Roberts

Elizabeth A. Roberts

50 Years of Struggle, Resilience, and Hope

Recounts the first fifty years of Tibet's struggle against occupation by China, covering secret CIA propaganda campaigns and the abandonment of freedom fighters in the Himalayas that resulted in the adoption of the cause by the counterculture of the 1960s, including many musicians, artists, celebrities, students, and world leaders.

Freeing Tibet

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Bryan J. Cuevas

In 1927, Oxford University Press published the first western-language translation of a collection of Tibetan funerary texts (the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo) under the title The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Since that time, the work has established a powerful hold on the western popular imagination, and is now considered a classic of spiritual literature. Over the years, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has inspired numerous commentaries, an illustrated edition, a play, a video series, and even an opera. Translators, scholars, and popular devotees of the book have claimed to explain its esoteric ideas and reveal its hidden meaning. Few, however, have uttered a word about its history. Bryan J. Cuevas seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge by offering the first comprehensive historical study of the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo, and by grounding it firmly in the context of Tibetan history and culture. He begins by discussing the many ways the texts have been understood (and misunderstood) by westerners, beginning with its first editor, the Oxford-educated anthropologist Walter Y. Evans-Wentz, and continuing through the present day. The remarkable fame of the book in the west, Cuevas argues, is strikingly disproportionate to how the original Tibetan texts were perceived in their own country. Cuevas tells the story of how The Tibetan Book of the Dead was compiled in Tibet, of the lives of those who preserved and transmitted it, and explores the history of the rituals through which the life of the dead is imagined in Tibetan society. This book provides not only a fascinating look at a popular and enduring spiritual work, but also a much-needed corrective to the proliferation of ahistorical scholarship surrounding The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead

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A Tibetan Method for Cultivating Mind and Heart

In this society with its hurly-burly pace demanding of our time, it is ever so easy to let life slip by. The process of simply existing is not necessarily meaningful. And yet, there is an unlimited potential for meaning and value in this human existence. The Seven-Point Mind Training is one eminently practical way of tapping into that meaning. The central theme of the Seven-Point Mind Training is to make the liberating passage from the constricting solitude of self-centeredness to the warm kinship with others which occurs with the cultivation of cherishing others even more than oneself. This mind training technique is especially well-suited for an active life. It does not require that we withdraw into seclusion, but that we re-examine all of our relationships-to family, friends, enemies, and strangers-and gradually transform our responses to whatever life throws our way. Book jacket.

The Seven-Point Mind Training

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A Search for the Mythical Kingdom beyond the Himalayas

The Way to Shambhala

An Introduction to Early Indian Madhyamika

The Emptiness of Emptiness

Bill Porter

A Pilgrimage to China

In the spring of 2006, Bill Porter traveled through the heart of China, from Beijing to Hong Kong, on a pilgrimage to sites associated with the first six patriarchs of Zen. Zen Baggage is an account of that journey. He weaves together historical background, interviews with Zen masters, and translations of the earliest known records of Zen, along with personal vignettes. Porter's account captures the transformations taking place at religious centers in China but also the abiding legacy they have somehow managed to preserve. Porter brings wisdom and humor to every situation, whether visiting ancient caves containing the most complete collection of Buddhist texts ever uncovered, enduring a six–hour Buddhist ceremony, searching in vain for the ghost in his room, waking up the monk in charge of martial arts at Shaolin Temple, or meeting the abbess of China's first Zen nunnery. Porter's previously published Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits has become recommended reading at Zen centers and universities throughout America and even in China (in its Chinese translation), and Zen Baggage is sure to follow suit.

Zen Baggage

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Studies of Indian Buddhist History

Peter Fenner

A System-Cybernetics Model and Therapeutic Interpretation of Buddhist Middle Path Analysis

Reasoning into Reality

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The Surangama Sutra

The Sutta-Nipata

Aryasanga Maitreya

E. Obermiller

Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation

Uttaratantra, or Ratnagotravibhaga

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Lewis R. Lancaster

New Cultural Patterns

A collection of articles dealing with the introduction of Buddhism in Korea and its subsequent spread from there to Japan. The studies contained in this volume cover the Three Kingdom period.

Introduction of Buddhism to Korea

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Pema Chodron

A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva

A best-selling American Buddhist nun introduces the traditional spiritual program that guides her own life, laying out a ten-stage path toward becoming a bodhisattva that includes such topics as commitment, awareness, vigilance, patience, and meditation.

No Time to Lose

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Alex Wayman

Bk. I: Study of the Vairocanabhisambodhi-Tantra; Bk. II: Study of the Mahavairocana-Sutra

The Enlightenment of Vairocana

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