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It reveals how the sutra was originally made and the conservation work that the british library employs to preserve itthe diamond sutra is a stunning book for anyone curious about the earliest origins of printing and the sacred foundations of buddhismoxfam shop burleigh street the buddhist text known as the diamond sutra is believed to be the oldest surviving printed book in the worldthe book extensively discusses the content of the sutra and also describes the invention of paper in china and the origins of far eastern printingthe diamond sutra was hidden for centuries in a cave in northwest china, and it was created from seven strips of yellow-stained paper that were printed from carved wooden blocks and pasted together to form a scroll over five meters longthis beautifully designed book, the first to focus solely on the diamond sutra, features a full-color reproduction of the work, along with an account of the discovery of the sutra by sir aurel stein in may in a hidden cave on the edge of the gobi desertsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe oldest dated example of wood block printing, produced some six hundred years before gutenberg's movable type printing in europe, it is clearly the product of a mature printing industry in chinamade in 868 ad and written in chinese, the text contains a significant dialogue on perception, and is one of the most important sacred works of the buddhist faith
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White brings to life the improbable cast of characters whose interpretations-and misappropriations-of the yoga sutra led to its revered place in popular culture todayfirst introduced to the west by the british orientalist henry thomas colebrooke, the yoga sutra was revived largely in europe and america, and predominantly in englishvirtually forgotten in india for hundreds of years and maligned when it was first discovered in the west, the yoga sutra has been elevated to its present iconic status-and translated into more than forty languages-only in the course of the past forty yearsoxfam bookshop cotham hill first edition grey boards and spine with gilt embossed title to spine light shelf-wear to corners and top and bottom of spine but otherwise clean small marks to dust cover which is not price-clipped light bumps to edges of cover rough-cut pages are clean and bright with no marks, creases, or tears book and spine are bright and tight previous owner's pencil commentary to front end flap ("far outshines any since") consisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, patanjali's yoga sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practiceas david gordon white demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of these assumptions are incorrectsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhite retraces the strange and circuitous journey of this confounding work from its ancient origins down through its heyday in the seventh through eleventh centuries, its gradual fall into obscurity, and its modern resurgence since the nineteenth centurytracing the remarkable trajectory of this enigmatic work, white's exhaustively researched book also demonstrates why the yoga of india's past bears little resemblance to the yoga practiced today
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35 €
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Oxfam bookshop bloomsbury street the lankavatara sutra draws upon the concepts and doctrines of yogacara and buddha-naturethe most important doctrine issuing from the lankavatara sutra is that of the primacy of consciousness (sktin the sutra, the buddha asserts that all the objects of the world, and the names and forms of experience, are merely manifestations of the mind: on the contrary my teaching is based upon the recognition that the objective world, like a vision, is a manifestation of the mind itself; it teaches the cessation of ignorance, desire, deed and causality; it teaches the cessation of suffering that arises from the discrimination of the triple worldas to the first; he must recognise and be fully convinced that this triple world is nothing but a complex manifestation of one's mental activities; that it is devoid of selfness and its belongings; that there are no strivings, no comings, no goingsas to the third; he must recognise and patiently accept the fact that his own mind and personality is also mind-constructed, that it is empty of substance, unborn see oxfam website for delivery information read morehe must recognise and accept the fact that this triple world is manifested and imagined as real only under the influence of habit-energy that has been accumulated since the beginningless past by reason of memory, false-imagination, false-reasoning, and attachments to the multiplicities of objects and reactions in close relationship and in conformity to ideas of body-property-and-abodebecause the world is seen as being "mind-only" or "consciousness-only", all phenomena are void, empty of self (atman) and illusory: there are four things by the fulfilling of which an earnest disciple may gain self-realisation of noble wisdom and become a bodhisattva-mahasattva: first, he must have a clear understanding that all things are only manifestations of the mind itself; second, he must discard the notion of birth, abiding and disappearance; third, he must clearly understand the egolessness of both things and personsas to the second; he must recognise and be convinced that all things are to be regarded as forms seen in a vision and a dream, empty of substance, un-born and without self-nature; that all things exist only by reason of a complicated network of causationvijñana) and the teaching of consciousness as the only reality
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The lotus sutra has been regarded for centuries as one of the most important teachings in mahayana buddhismbased on the teachings of nichiren, a 13th-century buddhist teacher and reformer, the scriptures of the lotus sutra show how every person can attain buddhahoodthis book goes beyond theory to show how to bring these teachings into practice in daily lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreminimal shelf wearcontaining profound truths for all people from every culture, it reveals the secret for attaining happiness for both oneself and others through the process of self-reformationoxfam shop kendal very good condition paperback
8 €
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Publisher: shoemaker & hoard, div of avalon publishing group incauthor: red pinepublication date
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The heart sutra - tibet 2songs for cynthia – native american 5lune au-dessus d`aix – french 6free delivery - quality guaranteed global journey - world voices track listing: (11 tracks) 1elel sol en la montana – spanish 8peace – buddhist chant 4skibbereen – irish 9the sand mandala – tibet 11cherokee drums - native american 10indy echo – bombay mix read moreepiphany & light – gregorian 7he le luma – african voices 3
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Black mudguards i took off my kona sutra , will give a clean before giving them to anyone
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You can come to him with all your skepticism - he accepts and welcomes you, and he says, 'come with me"no belief is required to travel with buddhasee oxfam website for delivery information read morein his inimitable style, osho interprets the "sutra of forty-two chapters" - a scripture compiled by a chinese emperor in the first century cusing wonderful contemporary anecdotes to make profound pointsas we laugh or shake our heads at the folly, the ineptitude or the goodness of the characters in the stories, osho engages us at every level to let us experience the buddha's teachings and take in their timeless truthsthis rich and refreshing book invites us to travel with the buddha on a path of radical wisdom
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Cds reviewed new discs in this edition over 400 new artist listings 'it's the kind of book that you'll yank off the shelf to look up a quick fact and still be reading two hours later' fortune 'part jazz history, part jazz karma sutra with cook and morton as the knowledgeable, urbane, wise and witty guidesoxfam bookshop chiswick the penguin guide to jazz recordings is now firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticismthis is one of the great books of recorded jazz; the other guides don't come close' irish times see oxfam website for delivery information read morefor this completely revised ninth edition, richard cook and brian morton have reassessed each artist's entry, and updated the text to incorporate thousands of additional cdsthe result is an endlessly browsable companion that will prove required reading for aficionados and jazz novices alike
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Pages and cover are clean and intactthis volume includes an overview of sankya-yoga and an extensive glossary/indexfor each sutra, a word-by-word translation is supplied, followed by vyasa's commentary and then the author's discussion, which presents the views of pre-eminent commentators see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop skipton "designed expressly for the serious practitioner of yoga, this is an outstanding work of scholarship that is eminently practical, even to those students who have no previous familiarity with the yoga sutrasno inscriptions
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Oxfam shop haverfordwest showcasing philip glass solo performances of his own works metamorphosis, mad rush and wichita sutra vortexcat no fm the record is in near mint condition whilst the sleeve is very good to near mintthere is an original price sticker on the sleeve which has been left on to preserve its integritysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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