Philosophy and Religion

Dharma combat is a practice form unique to Zen in which student and teacher confront each other before a live audience, so to speak.

One of the most creative and innovative young Tibetan Buddhist lamas teaching today challenges readers to make sure they know what they're talking about before they claim to be Buddhist.

Treasured by Buddhists of all traditions, The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, ...

Buddhism began to take root in the West at just the same time that women’s voices were arising to find expression here—after millennia of being relegated to the background. If that was a coincidence, it was an auspicious one, for the women who emerged as Buddhist teachers have been among the most articulate of Dharma-communicators

"Whatever you are doing should be done mindfully, dynamically, with totality and completeness. Then it becomes meditation.

Zen teacher Halifax emphasizes that the process of dying is a rite of passage, and can be viewed as natural and not something to be denied.

The timeless wisdom of "The Art of War" is as effective in the modern boardroom as it was on the ancient battlefield.

This anthology of Buddhist teachings offers an antidote to the unprecedented level of anxiety and uncertainly that grips the modern world.

Here is the book that brought the mystical implications of subatomic physics to popular consciousness for the very first time--way back in 1975.

This classic teaching by a Tibetan master continues to inspire both beginners and long-time practitioners of Buddhist meditation.

In the forty years since its original publication, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" has become one of the great modern Zen classics, much beloved, much reread, and much recommended as the best first book ...

For the first time, the great depth and diversity of Taoist spirituality is introduced in a single, accessible manual.

The Sufis are as diverse as the countries in which they've flourished--from Morocco to India to China--and as varied as their distinctive forms of art, music, poetry, and dance.