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January 20, 2024

Killing the Buddha Henry Miller’s Long Journey to Satori

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Free Download Jennifer Cowe, "Killing the Buddha: Henry Miller’s Long Journey to Satori"
English | ISBN: 168393041X | 2020 | 116 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Incorporating the novels, pamphlets and letters of Henry Miller, Killing the Buddha argues for Miller’s written work to be considered as a whole in relation to the theme of Zen Buddhism, specifically the concept of Satori (awakening). By reading Miller’s literary output and letters as a spiritual journey to awakening, it is possible to chart his development as a writer, and offer insight into his repetitive use of biographical material. Reflecting upon the influence of Otto Rank and Henri Bergson on Miller’s conceptualization of the role of the writer, and then by examining his complex rejection of Surrealism, it is possible to show Miller’s burgeoning Zen Buddhism as a life-long quest for acceptance and authenticity explicitly explored within his work. With close readings of the ‘Obelisk Trilogy’ of the 1930s (Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring) and The Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy (1949-1960), Miller’s complex journey to Satori is shown as a continuous progression from his early notorious novels through to the essays and pamphlets of his later career.

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January 5, 2024

Conjuring the Buddha Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism

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Free Download Conjuring the Buddha: Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism by Jacob P. Dalton
English | November 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 023120583X, 0231205821 | 344 pages | True EPUB | 31.51 MB
Ritual manuals are among the most common and most personal forms of Buddhist literature. Since at least the late fifth century, individual practitioners-including monks, nuns, teachers, disciples, and laypeople-have kept texts describing how to perform the daily rites. These manuals represent an intimate counterpart to the canonical sutras and the tantras, speaking to the lived experience of Buddhist practice.

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January 4, 2024

The Buddha A Storied Life [Audiobook]

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Free Download The Buddha: A Storied Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQF46KX4 | 2023 | 9 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 265 MB
Author: Vanessa R. Sasson, Kristin Scheible
Narrator: Leslie Howard
To this day, Buddhist holidays and rituals are pinned to the arc of the Buddha’s biography, celebrating his birth, awakening, teaching, and final nirvana. His story is the model that exemplary Buddhists follow. Often, there is a moment of insight akin to the Buddha’s experience with the Four Sights, followed by a great departure from home, and a period of searching that it is hoped will lead to final awakening. The Buddha’s story is not just the Buddha’s story; it is the story of Buddhism. In this book, twelve leading scholars of South Asian texts and traditions articulate the Buddha-life blueprint-the underlying and foundational pattern that holds the life story of a buddha together.

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December 29, 2023

The Buddha and the Terrorist The Story of Angulimala

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Free Download Clifford Harper, "The Buddha and the Terrorist: The Story of Angulimala"
English | 2004 | pages: 52 | ISBN: 1903998433, 1565125207 | EPUB | 2,3 mb
Among all the experiences of the Buddha, his eye-to-eye encounter with a terrorist is perhaps the most relevant and vital for those of us caught in the binds of the early 21st century.

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