The Buddha: A Storied Life

✍ Vanessa R. Sasson (editor), Kristin Scheible (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

<span>Retellings of the Buddha's life story have animated and sustained Buddhist thought and practice through some 2,500 years of history. To this day, Buddhist holidays and rituals are pinned to the arc of his biography, celebrating his birth, awakening, teaching, and final nirvana. His story is th

A Life of the Buddha

📁 A Life of the Buddha

✍ Sherab Chodzin Kohn 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Shambhala 🌐 English

The story of the Buddha and his awakening is more than an account of the birth of a religious tradition: it is also one of the great archetypal tales of the spiritual quest, colorful in its many details and thrilling in its depiction of the world transformed by an enlightened human being. Sherab Chö

Path of Compassion: Stories from the Bud

📁 Path of Compassion: Stories from the Buddha’s Life

✍ Thich Nhat Hanh; Nguyen Thi Hop 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Parallax Press 🌐 English

Path of Compassion is a collection of key stories from Thich Nhat Hanh's classic Old Path White Clouds, a book celebrating its 20th publishing anniversary this year. It tells the fascinating life story of Prince Siddhartha, who left his family and renounced his carefully guarded life, and after many

Buddha's Lions: The Lives of the Eighty-

📁 Buddha's Lions: The Lives of the Eighty-Four Siddhas (Caturasiti-siddha pravrtti)

✍ Abhayadatta; James B. Robinson; Tarthang Tulku; John C. Huntington; Rosalyn Whit 📂 Library 📅 1979 🏛 Dharma Publishing 🌐 English

These life stories of eighty-four Tantric masters who achieved the highest results of the Vajrayana have inspired generations of practitioners. By relying on a qualified teacher, devoted men and women of different backgrounds: cobblers, princes, blacksmiths, and wood-gatherers, were able to take the

Buddha's Lions: The Lives of the Eighty-

📁 Buddha's Lions: The Lives of the Eighty-Four Siddhas

✍ James B. Robinson 📂 Library 📅 1979 🏛 Dharma Publishing 🌐 English

These life stories of eighty-four Tantric masters who achieved the highest results of the Vajrayana have inspired generations of practitioners. By relying on a qualified teacher, devoted men and women of different backgrounds: cobblers, princes, blacksmiths, and wood-gatherers, were able to take eve

Buddha's Lions: The Lives of the Eighty-

📁 Buddha's Lions: The Lives of the Eighty-Four Siddhas

✍ James B. Robinson 📂 Library 📅 1979 🏛 Dharma Publishing 🌐 English

These life stories of eighty-four Tantric masters who achieved the highest results of the Vajrayana have inspired generations of practitioners. By relying on a qualified teacher, devoted men and women of different backgrounds: cobblers, princes, blacksmiths, and wood-gatherers, were able to take eve