"A thoughtful and thought-provoking account of the experiences that are leading some Western doctors to abandon the mechanical model of the human body for a model based on an organic conception of reality."

Beyond Illness: Discovering the Experience of Health

Larry Dossey, M.D.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Shambhala Publications

The Diamond Sutra, composed in India in the fourth century CE, is one of the most treasured works of Buddhist literature and the oldest extant printed book in the world. It is known as the Diamond Sutra because its teaching is said to be like a diamond that cuts away all dualistic thought, releasing one from attachment to objects and bringing one to the further shore of enlightenment. The Sutra of Hui-neng, also known as the Platform Sutra, contains the autobiography of this pivotal figure in Zen history and some of the most profound passages in Zen literature. Hui-neng (638-713), the Sixth Patriarch of Zen in China, is often regarded as the true father of the Zen tradition. A poor illiterate woodcutter, he was said to have attained enlightenment upon hearing a recitation of The Diamond Sutra. Taken together, these two scriptures present the central teachings of a major Buddhist tradition and are essential reading for all students of Buddhism.

The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui Neng

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

This is a significant story, and Perrin tells it marvelously well, with rich detail, captivating quotations from observers of the time, both Japanese and Western, and a wealth of revealing comparisons with contemporary technology, warfare, and life in Europe. This little book is both thought-provoking and a delight to read. Edwin O. Reischauer, Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan

Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1979

Perrin, Noel

Feng - Shui, the Ancient Wisdom of Harmonious Living for Modern Times

Self-Help

WONG, EVA

Stress Management

A Shambhala Reader (Autumn 1996)

Religion & Spirituality

THONDUP, TULKU

Bonder, Rabbi Nilton

Cowan, James

Storlie, Erik Fraser

Judaism

One Language for the World

Mario Andrew Pei

Place Apart

Travel

dervla-murphy

Europe

Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture

Science & Math

J. Russell Smith

Nature & Ecology

In two novels, Zanoni (1842) and A Strange Story (1862), Bulwer-Lytton invented the Occult/Dark Fantasy subgenre (as opposed to other subgenres of fantasy like Tolkienian High Fantasy). Academic critics usually describe Zanoni as a künstlerroman (novel of the maturation of an artist) and as an allegory of Science versus Art, but Zanoni is also the first modern British work of occult fantasy. Occult fantasy didn't begin with Bulwer-Lytton, of course - it started with a number of Gothic novels, most prominently William Beckford's Vathek (1786) - but it was Bulwer-Lytton who moved British occult fantasy from something set in far countries in the distant past to something involving British men and women in the near-past or present. It was Bulwer-Lytton, in these two novels, who created or established tropes, including magical trances, rites, magic wands, and the "dweller on the threshold," which later became a standard part of occult fantasy. Charles Dickens took the ending of A Tale of Two Cities (1859) from Zanoni. A strong argument can be made that the school of cosmic horror which H.P. Lovecraft made famous begins with Zanoni and A Strange Story, or at the least is heavily influenced by it.

Strange Story

Literature & Fiction

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Contemporary

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

Chögyam Trungpa

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