This book is a vivid, richly illustrated guide to the history and legends of Buddhism, and to the main themes and beliefs in the Buddhist spiritual tradition, both today and in the past.

The Vision of the Buddha: An Illustrated Guide to the History, Beliefs, and Practices of Buddhism

Religion & Spirituality

LOWENSTEIN, TOM

Buddhism

Thorsons Pub.

A vivid guide to the history and legends of Buddhism traces its development and growth while explaining how the Buddha's ethical and spiritual teachings have influenced Western thought. Original.

The Vision of the Buddha

Little,Brown & Co

A vivid guide to the history and legends of Buddhism traces its  development and growth while explaining how the Buddha's ethical and  spiritual teachings have influenced Western thought.

Vision of the Buddha (Living Wisdom)

Pan Books

A chronicle of the lives and culture of the Tikigaq people of Point Hope, Alaska, is based on a long series of poems that detail the ritual year and its stories

Ancient Land, Sacred Whale: The Inuit Hunt and Its Rituals

History

Americas

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Large beautiful book in gift format with colorful illustrations. It is book about buddistm in many different coutries, history and present time.

Vision of the Buddha

One Spirit

Book by Allan, Tony, Lowenstein, Tom

Gods of Sun and Sacrifice: Aztec & Maya Myth (Myth and Mankind)

ALLAN, Tony

Duncan Baird Publishers

Time-Life Education

In the North Alaskan wilderness on a tiny peninsula called Tikigaq an ancient people evolved an intricate densely woven system of rites to accompany their hunting. For fifteen hundred years, till late last century, elaborate myth and magic were integral to the Tikigaq way of life. Tom Lowenstein began to tap this rich and sacred lore in 1973 when he met Asatchaw, born in 1891, the last great singer and story-teller of his people. Packed close for half the year in underground whale-bone iglus connected by tunnels, Tikigaq people formed complex webs of kinship and alliance. But they were also connected to ancestor spirits, the spirits of the sun and moon, and the animals they both worshipped and ate. To follow the Tikigaq for half the year from storytellings, ritual athletics, dances, shaman seances, puppet shows and divinations, through spirit quests, encounters with the souls of animals, and lunar rites conducted by women, to the climax in spring with the annual whale hunt, is to enter a disorientating world where ritual and symbols become a daily reality. "Ancient Land: Sacred Whale" is a work unique in contemporary literature. Its pages team with the rich detail of ancient life. To the grandeur of Tikigaq imagination, Lowenstein has brought the insight of a scholar and a poet's mastery. Written in a variety of styles and voices, the book is packed with lyrical and dramatic sequences of power and haunting beauty. This "ancient" and yet most modern of texts culminates with a long poem of the whale hunt itself.

Ancient land, sacred whale: The Inuit hunt and its rituals

BLOOMSBURY

Native American myths.Illustrated.

Mother Earth, Father Sky (Native American Myth and Mankind)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Barnes&Noble

This book offers a superb distillation of Buddhist belief, practice and art. The book presents a fascinating kaleidoscope of all aspects of Buddhism, including Tantra, Zen and the Pure Land beliefs of Japan. The emphasis throughout is on the wisdom, healing power and beauty of Buddhism and on its relevance to those who seek an alternative to secular materialism. Buddhism has given immeasurable riches to the West—a collection of profound and life-enhancing ideas, a host of beautiful works of art (from statues of the Buddha to Zen gardens) and a repetoire of spiritual practices from mantras to mindfulness that can change all our lives for the better.

Buddhist Inspirations: Essential Philosophy, Truth and Enlightenment (Inspirations Series)

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Chartwell Books

A haiku is a short Japanese poem, mostly of just three lines, often capturing the fleeting moment in a spirit of Zen like immediacy - the falling of plum blossom, the splash of a frog as it leaps into a pond.
This book is a beautifully illustrated celebration of the places, people, customs, festivals and transient pleasures evoked by this much loved verse form. Fresh new translations of more than 50 haiku accompanied by sympathetic landscape photographs, woodcut prints and calligraphy irresistibly capture the spirit of old Japan.
The book traces the evolution of haiku from courtly accomplishments in Kyoto during the Heian period (9th century to 12th centuries) to the work of the great haiku poets of the 17th and 19th centuries. Also explored thoroughly in the book is the cultural background of haiku - everything from Zen Buddhism and Shinto shrines to the samurai warrior code, tea ceremonies, and Noh and Kabuki theater.

Haiku Inspirations: Poems and Meditations on Nature and Beauty (Inspirations Series)

James, Victoria

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