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1) Siddhartha
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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A young man, blessed with loving parents and a safe home in a world where want and neglect abound, leaves this haven in search of himself. He joins the Samanas, a band of wandering ascetics without possessions or earthly ties. His quest unfulfilled, he descends into a life of unbounded luxury and indulgence. Where is truth? Where will his soul find true ease? In denial? In decadence? Or in some truth far greater than himself, so simple, so close to...
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""Most people think of love as a feeling," says David Richo, "but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present." Drawing on the Buddhist concept of mindfulness, Richo offers a fresh perspective on love and relationships that focuses not on finding an ideal mate but on becoming a more loving and realistic person. Here, he explores five hallmarks of mindful loving and how they play a key role in our relationships throughout life: Attention...
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A current death-row inmate relates the story of his life--including heroin-addict parents, an abusive foster family, a life of crime and imprisonment, and his eventual embracing of Buddhism.
"When I think about the fact that society, a nation, has sentenced me to death, all I can do is turn inside myself, to the place in my heart that wants so desperately to feel human, still connected to this world, as if I have a purpose." The moving memoir of...
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Shambhala
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English
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"Beloved Buddhist nun and bestselling author Pema Chödrön's wise words on working with the countless changes in our lives to find more freedom and less fear. As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment-the end of a relationship, the end of a day, the end of a breath, and ultimately the end of life. And behind each ending is a beginning-though it may be unclear what the beginning holds. How We Live is How We'll Die shares Pema...
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Mystic Fire Video
Pub. Date
2002, c1999
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English
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[Disc 1] (On Tibet) Robert A.F. Thurman presents lectures on the history of Tibet and the role of Tibetan Buddhism from ancient times to the present. [Disc 2] (Buddhism) Thurman discusses the Buddha in the world and the difficulties and methods of becoming one; the four noble truths, the three wheels of Dharma, the three vehicles, and the metaphor of the turning of the wheel of Dharma; and the Sanga, or community of those who try to live according...
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Alexander Cold trilogy volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.
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Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2003] ℗2003
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English
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Lectures by Professor Malcolm David Eckel of Boston University in which he presents a survey of Buddhism from its origins in India to contemporary times in America. The course introduces the vitality and adaptability of Buddhism which has transformed civilizations in Asia and become a lively component of Western culture.
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