Product Description: Some twenty-five centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire people across the globe, including those living in predominantly secular societies. What does it mean to adapt religious practices to secular contexts?Stephen Batchelor, an internationally known author and teacher, is committed to a secularized version of the Buddha's teachings...read more

Product Description: [*Read by the author -Stephen Batchelor] Stephen Batchelor synthesizes over four decades of study to offer a radical and unorthodox interpretation of foundational Buddhist texts and doctrines. Some twenty-five centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire people across the globe, including those living in predominantly secular societies...read more

Product Description: Peace begins here, right where we are. Far from being a distant concept, inner and outer peace can be created at every moment, in every conversation, and with our every action.In this compilation of short teachings, Tsem Rinpoche brings us back to the basics of what it means to create peace and lasting harmony within ourselves and with the people around us...read more

Product Description: Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see it as the Buddha’s most important gift to humanity...read more

Product Description: The kitchen is the most vital place on Earth, because survival, even now in the age of iPads and large hadron colliders, still depends on wholesome, nutritious food. In keeping with this simple truth Veggiyana provides 108 tasty, beloved and simple recipes from around the world...read more

Offers a compilation of the Thai Buddhist master's talks on Buddhism and spiritual practice. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Tarthang Tulku presents the differences between traditional and Western views of Dharma study and practice. Chapters cover academic, therapeutic, and self-centered approaches to the Dharma.