Buddhism

The work of Lama E.Kh. Galshiev (1855-1915) is an outstanding monument of pre-revolutionary Buryat literature. He spent over ten years in Tibet studying Budd...

Wisdom and simplicity, graceful poetry and humor, and sometimes provocative statements, eccentric behavior and unconventional teaching methods - all these ar...

Laugh aloud even as you look at life anew with these stories from the bestselling author of Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?In 108 brief stories with t...

What is meditation? There are many answers to this question. Some people think that “meditation” means a state close to trance, others consider this concept ...

The Blue Chronicle is the most famous work on the history of Buddhism in Tibet. The author Goi-lotsawa Shonnupal (1392-1481) is an outstanding Tibetan histor...

The doctrine of karma (the concept of human activity) occupies an important position in the system of Buddhist theoretical speculation, linking into a single...

This volume combines two important monuments of Chinese written culture - the so-called yulu, records of conversations of the greatest Chan mentors: “Lin ji ...

The Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the publishing house "Orientalia" and the literary series "Samadhi" present to readers ...

AbstractThe two texts discussed in this book are devoted to the method of “training the mind,” that is, improving our attitude to reality. The first text, a ...

This book includes teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche during a retreat near Moscow in May 2003. In simple and accessible language, the author introduces t...

The book was prepared and published by the St. Petersburg Buddhist temple “Datsan Gunzechoiney” on the initiative of the rector of the datsan Jampa Donyod (B...