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Product Description: Heated words, cool malice, deadly feuds, the furious rush of adrenaline-anger is clearly the most destructive of the seven deadly sins. It can ruin families, wreck one's health, destroy peace of mind and, at its worst, lead to murder, genocide, and war...read more

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9780195169751 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 15, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: An authority on Buddhism and Eastern philosophy offers a study of anger and its destructive influence and explains how anger can be transformed by wisdom into a powerful force for change.

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9780195312089 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 23, 2006, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Heated words, cool malice, deadly feuds, the furious rush of adrenaline-anger is clearly the most destructive of the seven deadly sins.

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Product Description: From Tibet, the wind blows the blessings of the Buddha out over the Earth. The couriers of these benedictions are the brightly colored prayer flags (PF). Printed with designs & prayers handed down through many centuries, Tibetan PF encapsulate the deep beauty & wisdom of Tibetan Buddhist beliefs...read more
By Robert A. F. Thurman (foreword by) and Tad Wise

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9780756787714 | Diane Pub Co, January 30, 2002, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: From Tibet, the wind blows the blessings of the Buddha out over the Earth.

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Presenting more than ninety sacred images of Buddha--both Eastern and Western, ancient and modern--in the form of paintings, carvings, sculptures, photographs, and drawings, this treasury invites readers to contemplate the face of enlightenment. IP.
By Frank Olinsky and Robert A. F. Thurman (introduced by)

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9780811817776 | Chronicle Books Llc, November 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Surveys the portrayal of the Buddha figure in art throughout history
9780756763589 | Diane Pub Co, January 1, 1997, cover price $20.00

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Product Description: Una introduccion extraordinaria a los conocimientos basicos del budismo. Horizontes del espiritu, una forma de vivir y de pensar que busca la felicidad suprema en la conciencia total de uno mismo y del universio.

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9788479272548 | Robinbook, July 1, 1998, cover price $20.90 | About this edition: Una introduccion extraordinaria a los conocimientos basicos del budismo.

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Chronicles the journey of Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman and his students to Mount Kailash, a remote site of spiritual significance in Tibet, and covers the challenges, both physical and metaphysical, that they faced. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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9780553103465 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, April 1, 1999, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: This true story of spiritual mountain adventure is told by a trekking group's leader, a teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, and one of its members, a student struggling to acclimate both physically and emotionally to his surroundings.

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9780553378504 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, August 1, 2000), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Explores Tibetan Buddhism as part of a spiritual and physical journey to Mount Kailash, holiest of the Himalayan mountains, to reach sacred graveyards, majestic monasteries, and meditation caves.

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Introduces Tibetan Buddhism and gathers selections from the most important Tibetan writings on Buddhism and the path to enlightenment

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9780785808725 | 2 edition (Book Sales, August 1, 1997), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Introduces Tibetan Buddhism and gathers selections from the most important Tibetan writings on Buddhism and the path to enlightenment
9780062510488 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, October 1, 1995), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Introduces Tibetan Buddhism and gathers selections from the most important Tibetan writings on Buddhism and the path to enlightenment
9780788167577 | Diane Pub Co, September 1, 1995, cover price $20.00

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9780062510518 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, December 1, 1996), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Introduces Tibetan Buddhism and gathers selections from the most important Tibetan writings on Buddhism and the path to enlightenment

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Product Description: The Tibetan version of this key Buddhist scripture rendered in English, previously known only from translations of Chinese texts.

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9788120808744 | South Asia Books, June 1, 1991, cover price $16.50 | About this edition: The Tibetan version of this key Buddhist scripture rendered in English, previously known only from translations of Chinese texts.

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Furnishing a life-changing series of lessons, a guide to understanding the human role in the universe and the path to true fulfillment introduces the Seven Virtues, which integrate the power of the body and mind to reduce negative consequences and enhance the positive. Reprint.

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9781594480690 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, February 19, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Furnishing a life-changing series of lessons, a guide to understanding the human role in the universe and the path to true fulfillment introduces the Seven Virtues, which integrate the power of the body and mind to reduce negative consequences and enhance the positive.

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Furnishing a life-changing series of lessons, a guide to understanding the human role in the universe and the path to true fulfillment introduces the Seven Virtues, which integrate the power of the body and mind to reduce negative consequences and enhance the positive.

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9781573222679 | Riverhead Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Furnishing a life-changing series of lessons, a guide to understanding the human role in the universe and the path to true fulfillment introduces the Seven Virtues, which integrate the power of the body and mind to reduce negative consequences and enhance the positive.

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9781593973704 | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, February 1, 2004), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A guide to understanding the human role in the universe and the path to true fulfillment introduces the seven virtues, which integrate the power of the body and mind to reduce negative consequences and enhance the positive.

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The first American Tibetan Buddhist monk offers a sensitive and insightful exploration of Buddhist traditions, showing their special and life-affirming implications for modern society and discussing how to steer civilization onto a wiser path. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. PW.

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9781573220903 | Riverhead Books, March 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The first American Tibetan Buddhist monk shares his own philosophies for enlightening readers and the world, based on a thirty-year friendship with the Dalai Lama and firsthand experience of the social revolutions of India, China, and Tibet

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9781573227193 | Riverhead Books, March 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The first American Tibetan Buddhist monk shares his own philosophies for enlightening readers and the world, based on a thirty-year friendship with the Dalai Lama and firsthand experience of the social revolutions of India, China, and Tibet

A photographic tour of the Tibetan Buddhist faith examines the role of ceremonial rites and provides insight into its philosophies

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9780006382997 | Collins Pub San Francisco, February 1, 1995, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A photographic tour of the Tibetan Buddhist faith examines the role of ceremonial rites and provides insight into its philosophies

A best-selling author and one of America's leading authorities on Buddhism and Eastern philosophy offers an illuminating comparison between anger as understood in the Christian West and the Buddhist East.

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9788449318498 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, February 28, 2006), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A best-selling author and one of America's leading authorities on Buddhism and Eastern philosophy offers an illuminating comparison between anger as understood in the Christian West and the Buddhist East.

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Product Description: Tibetans call their cherished tradition of Buddhism a "wish-fulfilling jewel tree" for its power to generate bliss and enlightenment within all who absorb its teachings. This path to enlightenment, it is taught, requires more than a sitting meditation practice alone...read more

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9781591793175 | Sounds True, May 30, 2005, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Tibetans call their cherished tradition of Buddhism a "wish-fulfilling jewel tree" for its power to generate bliss and enlightenment within all who absorb its teachings.

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A first guide to the essentials of Tibetan Buddhism by the creator of the Sounds True cassette series outlines an accessible, eleven-step system for pursuing happiness and enlightenment using a metaphor based on the Buddhist jewel tree tradition. By the author of Infinite Life. 40,000 first printing.

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9780743257626 | Atria Books, February 1, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Outlines an eleven-step system for pursuing happiness and enlightenment using a metaphor based on the Buddhist jewel tree tradition.

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9781564558312 | Sounds True, January 1, 2001, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Tibetan Buddhism’s Abundant "Jewel Tree" Tibetans call their cherished tradition of Buddhism a "wish-fulfilling jewel tree" for its power to generate bliss and enlightenment within all who absorb its teachings.

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Product Description: This is the first complete English translation of the second chapter of the esoteric Buddhist Kalacakratantra text, and its eleventh-century commentary, the Stainless Light (Vimalaprabha) , often accorded pride of place as the first volume of the Tibetan Tanjur...read more
By Robert A. F. Thurman (introduced by), Vesna A. Wallace (trans) and Thomas F. Yarnall (editor)

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9780975373415 | Bilingual edition (Amer Inst of Buddhist Studies, June 30, 2004), cover price $56.00 | About this edition: This is the first complete English translation of the second chapter of the esoteric Buddhist Kalacakratantra text, and its eleventh-century commentary, the Stainless Light (Vimalaprabha) , often accorded pride of place as the first volume of the Tibetan Tanjur.

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This volume presents the art and philosophy of mandala design in 100 examples, including the Copper Palace of Padmasambhava from Bhutan, a painted and gilded star mandala from Japan and the Kalachakra Father-Mother from Tibet. A history and overview of mandala art is also presented.

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9780500280188 | Gardners Books, November 3, 1997, cover price $28.70 | About this edition: This volume presents the art and philosophy of mandala design in 100 examples, including the Copper Palace of Padmasambhava from Bhutan, a painted and gilded star mandala from Japan and the Kalachakra Father-Mother from Tibet.
9781570622977 | Shambhala Pubns, October 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: "Mandala" is an ancient Sanskrit word meaning "sacred circle that protects the soul.

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An intimate pictorial tour of Tibet as captured by a photographer whose works have appeared in Life magazine is accompanied by authoritative text and depicts the beauty of the land and the spirituality of its people. (view table of contents)

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9781570622564 | Shambhala Pubns, September 1, 1997, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The author, a professional photographer, describes the beauty of Tibet and its people, and shows a culture that is in danger of being lost forever

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