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T

he role of nuns in the Buddhist com-munity is more prominent than everand now is the time to bring to

fruition the Buddha’s vision of total equality and full ordination for men and womenalike.This brilliant collection of resounding

voices represents the movement to reinstatefull ordination of women in all Buddhist tra-ditions—amid great controversy.

Covering the breadth of Buddhist tradi-tions, DignityandDiscipline is a seminal volumethat conveys the history and the vision forthe future of the role of women as ambassa-dors and curators of the ordained Buddhistcommunity.

Thea Mohr is author and direc-tor of numerous documentaries dealing

with religious subjects, primarily Buddhism.Since 1994 she has been a lecturer for religious

studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt.

Bhikshuni Jampa Tsedroen (Carola Roloff ) is an ordainedTibetan Buddhist nun and a lecturer and research fellow at Hamburg

University specializing in nuns’ ordination and women in Buddhism.

352 pages | 978-086171-588-6 | $18.95

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Sometimes history is cruel: A civilizationstarts to fall apart and a stable socialorder starts to unravel; upheaval and

uncertainty abound.Tyrants ride high, oldnotions of justice vanish, and people may feel

they have nowhere to turn for relief. In some ways, this is our world, now.

But now is not the first time such chal-lenges have been met and faced boldly. Indeed,thisiswhathappenedtotheChineseworldinthe thirteenth century when the Mongol con-querors mangled China and left the Chinesesocial order in tatters.

This book, from one of the pioneering andpreeminent translators of Zen for the West,presents a selection of Zen lessons from fourteachers in four successive generations whosepublic lives spanned the turbulent period inChinese history from the last generation of the Song dynasty (overthrown by the Mon-gols in 1279) to the first generation of the Ming dynasty (which drove out the Mongols,and proclaimed its own reign in 1368). These four Zen masters were all eminent publicteachers, and their teaching words reflect the state of the art of Zen teaching in their time.

And they are, even now, all vividly relevant.

J.C. Cleary holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and

Civilizations from Harvard University. He is the trans-lator, along with his brother Thomas Cleary, of The BlueCliff Record as well numerous other translations of textsfrom Zen’s Chinese history. He lives outside Boston.

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240 pages | 978-086171-592-3 | $16.95

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foun-dation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT),a worldwidenetworkof Buddhist centers, monasteries, and affil-iated projects, including Wisdom Publications. His booksinclude How to Be Happy, Transforming Problems intoHappiness, andUltimate Healing . He lives in Aptos, California.

Kathleen McDonald was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist

nun in 1974. She is a respected and inspiring teacher in theFoundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition.She is the author of Wisdom’s bestselling How to Meditate.

The inevitability of sickness, old age,and death is a subject that makes a lot of people uneasy. And yet, as

Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Kathleen McDon-

ald tell us in this powerful and moving littlebook,ouranxietyaroundthesethingscanbea “wholesome fear”—a fear that can have a pos-itive quality that ultimately enriches and nour-ishes our lives. It does this by leaving us nochoicebuttofacedifficulttruthsandlivemoreauthentically because of them. Truly, we canuse our anxiety around all aspects of imper-

manence and death as a spur to really live what’s most important; we can transform anx-ious energy into high-octane fuel to help ustake up the practices right now that will leadto peace, compassion, and joy. Doing so willhelp us to live well and, when the time comesas it inevitably will, to die well too. It’s nevertoo early to start making this most important

of efforts—and, fortunately, it is never too late.

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A timely and universally important book from the bestselling andworld-renowned authors of How to Be Happy and How to Meditate.

168 pages | 978-086171-630-2 | $14.95

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A profoundly practical book, Wholesome Fear also includes instruction

in beginning meditation and ten powerful guided meditations that have

the power to transform your fear—and your life.



Almost every Buddhist practitioner ordabbler into Zen has been intrigued, atonetimeoranother,bythisfamousline

from the Heart Sutra. This powerful and pro-found ancient scripture, of crucial importanceto all of Mahayana Buddhism, offers us insightinto the nature of ultimate reality perceivedthrough intuitive wisdom. The spaciousness of

thisapproachallowsthehearttobeatinitsnat-uralness, beyond disputations and ideologicalarguments—and in this important offering from Mu Soeng, we can start to see how intel-lect and intuition can begin to meet.

In offering a thorough exploration of thisimportant piece of the world’s great religiousliterature, The Heart of the Universe establishes a broad context to encounter the Heart Sutra onmany levels—historical, spiritual, linguistic, andempirical—each serving to interdependently illuminate the other.

Mu Soeng’s previous two books have beenmuch-praised explorations of two other sem-

inal Buddhist texts: The Diamond Sutra, and the third Zen Ancestor’s famously inspiring poem, Trust in Mind.

Mu Soeng, a former Zen monk and teacher, is the

co-director of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.

He lives in Barre, Massachusetts.

Praise for previous works from Mu Soeng.

“Fresh and inspiring.”— Inquiring Mind

“A pleasure to read! Providing a full historical and cultural context

for this great teaching inspires an understanding of its contemporaryrelevance, while the clarity of Mu Soeng’s prose makes sophisticated

Buddhist scholarship available to all interested readers.”

—Sylvia Boorstein

152 pages | 978-086171-574-9 | $15.95

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“FORM IS EMPTINESS; EMPTINESS IS FORM.”

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Joan D. Stamm received Shihan, or authorization to teach, fromthe Saga School of Ikebana headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. Theessay that was the first seed of this book appeared in ChrysalisReader

and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review; it was subsequently picked up by Utne Reader and chosen for Best Spiritual Writing 2001.

I n this lovely, meditative exploration of

ikebana—the Japanese art of flowerarranging—Joan Stamm shows us

how her twin paths of Buddhist practice andartistic endeavor converge and indeedbecome thoroughly intertwined.

Joan’s lush, elegant voice weaves childhoodmemories of her mother’s joy at a just-bloomed morning glory with meditations on

the symbolic importance of bamboo, of pine,of the lily. She takes us with her on her trav-els to Japan as she learns the essential princi-ples of ikebana, and lets us join her as sheteaches flower arranging to women in a nurs-ing home who, though they won’t recalltomorrow the rules of arrangement or eventhe flowers’ names, nonetheless partake inthe joy and love that celebrates all living things, however briefly they endure.

And, when Joan shows us the natural sym-metry of a blossom, we find that we too haveregained our balance.

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200 pages | 978-086171-577-0 | $16.95

8 page color photo insert

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978-086171-285-4 | $15.95

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About the Authors

Tana Pesso holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a master’s degree inpublic policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She has worked extensively asa personal coach and an executive consultant. She lives in Rockport, MA. She has spent thelast decade as student of many prominent Buddhist teachers, including Penor Rinpoche.

Penor Rinpoche, one the most important teachers of his time, was the head of the Nying-ma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Born in 1932 in Eastern Tibet, he was renowned by all as anexemplary master of the Tibetan tradition. He tirelessly taught devoted students around the

world. He passed away in 2009.

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irst InviteLove In is a beautiful col-

lection of exercisesinspired by the ancientmeditative arts of Tibetan Buddhism. Tana Pesso and the late Penor Rinpoche workedtogether to create this universal handbook,

free of jargon or religious language, offering a gently guided course for anyone who

wants live more compas-sionately, wisely, and

with a more openand loving heart.

“The short exercises presented here will benefit anyone who practices them.”

—Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, author of Turning the Mind into an Ally

“An especially important guide at a time when so many

lack confidence about how to go beyond fear and uncertainty.” —Sharon Salzberg, author of Faith and Lovingkindness

“If we all spend a few minutes every day trying to develop a positive compassionate

mind, as explained here, eventually compassion will truly become

part of our lives.” —from the foreword by the Dalai Lama



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Dzogchen, or the “Great Perfec-tion,” is considered by many to bethe apex of Tibetan Buddhism,

and Longchen Rabjam, one of Tibet’s great-est writers and sages, is the preeminent mas-ter of Dzogchen. This book presents all theradical precepts of Dzogchen, pointing the

way to absolute liberation from conceptualfetters and pure, natural integration into thenature of one’s true being. Transcending theTibetan context or even the confines of Bud-

dhist tradition, Longchen Rabjam delivers a manual full of practical wisdom. Natural Per-

fection is a shining example of why people havecontinued to turn to the traditions of Tibetfor spiritual and personal transformation andrealization. This transmission of timeless wis-dom will take its place among the religiousclassics of the world.

Longchen Rabjam (1308–69) is the most recognizable and revered master in the history of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Well known and regarded as the premiereexpositor of the methods, paths, and results of Dzogchen practice, Longchen Rabjam is a peerless figure in the world of Dzogchen.

Keith Dowmanis the author of several books on Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism, includ-ing Flight of the Garuda and Sky Dancer . He lives in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu is the founder of the Dzogchen Community, an interna-tional network of Dharma centers, clinics, and the first Tibetan medical college to be estab-lished in the West.

304 pages | 978-086171-640-1 | $17.95

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Eihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zenmaster who founded the Japanese Sotoschool of Zen, is renowned as one of the

world’s most remarkable religious thinkers. AsShakespeare does with English, Dogen utterly transforms the language ofZen, using it in noveland extraordinarily beautiful ways to point toeverything important in the religious life.

He is known for two major works. The first work, the massive Shobogenzo (“Treasury of the True Dharma Eye”), represents his early teachings and exists in myriad English transla-tions; the second work, the Eihei Koroku, is a

collection of all his later teachings, including short formal discourses to the monks training at his temple, longer informal talks, and koans

with his commentaries, as well as short appreci-atory verses on various topics. The Shobogenzohas received enormous attention in WesternZen and Western Zen literature, and with thepublication of this watershed volume, the Eihei

Koroku is now rising to commensurate stature.Dogen’s Extensive Record is the first-ever com-plete translation of this monumental work into English—a classic that belongs in the library of any student or scholar of Zen.

This edition also includes an extensive index and concordance of names.

828 pages | 978-086171-670-8 | $26.95

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Taigen Dan Leighton is a Soto Zen priest and Dharma heir in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi andthe San Francisco Zen Centerwith Dharma transmissionfrom Reb Anderson Roshi. Leighton began formal Soto practice in 1975 at the New York Zen Center with Kando Nakajima Roshi and graduated in East Asian Studiesfrom Columbia College. He is author of Faces of Compassion and Visions of Awakening SpaceandTime,and is co-translator and editor of several Zen texts, including Cultivating the Empty Field. He now leads the Ancient Dragon Zen Gate in Chicago.

Shohaku Okumura is a Soto Zen priest and Dharma successor of Kosho

Uchiyama Roshi (author of Opening the Hand of Thought ). He is the former directorof the Soto Zen Buddhism International Center in San Francisco, and is the found-ing teacher of the Sanshin Zen Community, based in Bloomington, Indiana, wherehe lives with his family. He is also the author of Realizing Genjokoan:TheKey to Dogen’sShobogenzo (Wisdom, Spring 2010).

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“We owe a great debt to Taigen Dan Leighton and Shohaku Okumura

for this monumental translation. ”— Inquiring Mind

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Richard K. Payne is dean and professor of

Japanese Buddhism and religion at the Instituteof Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, California. Amember of the doctoral faculty of the GraduateTheological Union, he is also a collaborating researcher with the Open Research Center forHumanities, Science, and Religion, RyukokuUniversity, Kyoto, Japan. He is also an ordainedShingon priest and the editor of Tantric Buddhism

in East Asia.

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he massive outpouring of consumer

products available to most people living in the West today might alone lead onetoask,“Howmuchisenough?”Butatthesametime, if we allow ourselves to see the social,political, economic, and environmental conse-quences of the system that produces such a mass of “goods,” then the question is not sim-ply a matter of one’s own personal choice, but

points to the profound importance of our day-to-day decisions.

This collection brings together essays froman international conference jointly sponsoredby Ryukoku University, Kyoto, and the Insti-tute of Buddhist Studies at UC Berkeley. Theeffects of our own decisions and actions onthe human environment are examined from

several different perspectives, all informed by Buddhist thought. The contributors are allsimultaneously Buddhist scholars, practition-ers, and activists—and this powerful collec-tion demonstrates the integral unity of theory and practice for Buddhism.

240 pages | 978-086171-685-2 | $16.95

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This beautifully illustrated storybook foradults and young people alike inspiresus to ask, “Wouldn’t it be a better

worldifweallhadthecouragetoputthewell-being of others above ourselves?” This is thestory of The Banyan Deer.

This inspiring tale reminds us that no onecan be truly at peace unless we all have a chance for peace, freedom, and happiness.TheBanyanDeer is a wonderful, heart-warming gift for anyone who loves a great story.

Rafe Martin is the recipient of the 2008Empire State Award, three American Library

Association Notable Book Awards, four Par-

ent’s Choice Gold Awards, two Anne Izard Sto-ryteller’s Choice Awards, an American FolkloreSociety Aesop’s Accolade award, several Amer-ican Bookseller “Pick of the Lists,” an IRATeacher’s Choice Award and many otherawards of distinction. His work has been cited in TIME Magazine,Newsweek, U.S News and World Report, and USA TODAY. The Women’s

National Book Association has honored him with their Lucille Micheels Pannell award.

Richard Wehrman was born in St. Louis and attended the Washington University schoolof fine arts. His award-winning paintings have been exhibited at the Saint Louis Art Museum,the St. Louis Artists Guild, and Washington University. He was chosen as a Rochester Com-

municator of the Year for illustration and has received a gold medal from theNational Society of Illustrators. He serves on the board of directors of the Heart-

work Institute and lives in upstate New York.

48 pages | hardcover | 5.5 X 6.5

978-086171-625-8 | $15.00

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“Rafe Martin is an amazing storyteller.”

—Arthur A. Levine, editor and publisher of Harry Potter

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Two-Color Interior!



Both broad and deep, this eye-opening book is one of the best overviews avail-able of the radical psychological teach-

ings that underlie the Buddhist approach to

living a life of freedom and peace.Sophisticated without being daunting, bril-liantly clear without becoming simplistic,

Andrew Olendzki’s writing is filled with richphrases, remarkable images, and the fruits of decades of careful thought. Grounded in deepscholarship, psychological sophistication, andmany years of teaching and personal practice,

this much-anticipated collection of essays willappeal to anyone looking to gain a richerunderstanding of Buddhism’s experientialtools for exploring the inner world.

Andrew Olendzki, Ph.D., was trained in Buddhist Studies atLancaster University in England, as well as at Harvard and theUniversity of Sri Lanka. The former executive director of theInsight Meditation Society, he is currently the executive director of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Barre, MA. He is editorof the Insight Journal.

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160 pages | 978-086171-620-3 | $15.95

April 2010



Timely and audacious, BuddhaattheApoca-lypse challenges us to look directly at thedevastating assumptions underlying the

very mechanisms of the modern world. Webelieve with certainty in the inevitable forwardmarch of what we take to be progress, in thenatural rightness of humankind’s efforts to

subdue and control our environment, andmost pervasively, most dangerously, and mostsubtly in the paradigm of the epic struggle of righteousness against evil that requires utterdestruction—an apocalypse that will end timeitself—before all can once again be unchang-ingly right with the world. And it’s increasingly easy to find verification that the apocalypse isfast approaching, and easier still to see how thespirit of apocalypse is taking over great num-bersofheartsandminds.Theimagesofapoc-alypse pervade our language, our politics, and

with the coming of 2012, vividly pervade evenour escapist entertainment.

In Buddha at the Apocalypse, Kurt Spellmeyeroffers us an alternative view that comes like a breath of cool fresh air in these burning

times. Drawing on the teaching and tradition of Buddhism and Zen, Spellmeyer showsus an alternative—a healing, whole-making perspective and a clarion call to awaken fromthe culture of destruction into a natural, sustainable, and sane peace.

Kurt Spellmeyer is an award-winning teacher and scholar in the English

department at Rutgers University in New Jersey and a Rinzai Zen Master. He is

the author of Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for theTwenty-first Century and

several other books.

Robert Thurman currently teaches at Columbia and was chosen by TIME as one

of the twenty-five most influential people of 1997. He is the author of numerousbooks.

260 Pages | 978-086171-582-4 | $16.95

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For more than half a century, David

Seyfort Ruegg, an independent scho-lar affiliated with the School of Ori-ental and African Studies (SOAS) at theUniversity of London, has been publishing precise, informed, and seminal works on thehistory and philosophy of Indian and TibetanBuddhism. Central to this highly regardedoeuvre have been his works on Madhyamaka

(Middle Way) philosophy, the core doctrineof Mahayana Buddhism that has animatedthinkers for two millennia. Whether engag-ing in focused philological analysis, translat-ing texts, or weighing in on larger trends inthe field of Buddhist studies, Ruegg showshere why other scholars so often turn to himfor insights and perspective.

Drawing on decades of exhaustive andauthoritative research and scholasticism, ThePhilosophyoftheMiddleWayrepresents a lifetimeof work and dedication to the study and pres-entation of Buddhist philosophy. This vol-ume of the Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhismseries is a gift to all who are interested indrawing on the wisdom of a masterful scholar

and a profound tradition of thought.

About the Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism Series

This series provides a forum for publishing outstanding new contributions toscholarship on Indian and Tibetan Buddhism and also to make accessible seminalresearch not widely known outside a narrow specialist audience, including trans-lations of appropriate monographs and collections of articles from other languages.The series strives to shed light on the Indic Buddhist traditions by exposing themto historical-critical inquiry, illuminating through contextualization and analysisthese traditions’ unique heritage and the significance of their contribution to the world’s religious and philosophical achievements. We are pleased to make availableto scholars and the intellectually curious some of the best contemporary researchin the Indian and Tibetan traditions.

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480 pages | 978-086171-590-9 | $39.95

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Awakening the Kind Heart offers powerfuland inviting techniques to touch thekindness within, all in a way that will

allow you to practice them in your daily life.The powerful teachings in this small book arean open invitation to living and loving with a genuinely awakened heart of kindness.

Kathleen McDonald was ordained asa Tibetan Buddhist nun in 1974. She is a respected and inspiring teacher in theFoundation for the Preservation of theMahayana Tradition, a worldwide organi-zation of Buddhist teaching and meditationcenters. She is the author of the bestselling How to Meditate and the coauthor, with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, of Wholesome Fear.

From the author of the bestselling How to Meditate.

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Praise for How to Meditate

“An excellent and engaging book for anyone

interested in learning how to meditate.”

—Thubten Chodron,

author of Open Heart, Clear Mind

“Whether you are a beginner or a

seasoned practitioner, this book has jewels

of wisdom and practical experience to

inspire you. Kathleen McDonald comes

from a long and trustworthy lineage. In

How to Meditate, she shares the best of

what she has received.” —Richard Gere

168 pages | 978-086171-695-1 | $15.95

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Shohaku Okumura is a Soto Zen priest and Dharma successorof Kosho Uchiyama Roshi (author of Opening the Hand of Thought ). Heis the former director of the Soto Zen Buddhism International Cen-

ter in San Francisco. He is the founding teacher of the Sanshin ZenCommunity, based in Bloomington, Indiana, where he lives with hisfamily. He is also the co-translator of Dogen’s Extensive Record.

Dogen, the thir-teenth-century Zenmaster who founded the

Japanese Soto school of Zen, isrenowned as one the world’s mostremarkable religious geniuses. His worksare both richly poetic and deeply insightful andphilosophical, pointing to the endless depthsof Zen exploration. And almost precisely because of these facts, Dogen is often difficultfor readers to understand and fully appreciate.

RealizingGenjokoan is a comprehensive intro-duction to the teachings and approach of thisgreat thinker, taking us on a thorough guided

tour of the most important essay—Gen-jokoan—in Dogen’s seminal work, theShobogenzo. Indeed, the Genjokoan isregarded as the pinnacle of Dogen’s writings,encompassing and encapsulating the essenceof all the rest of his work.

Our tour guide for this journey is ShohakuOkumura, a prominent teacher in his own

right, who has dedicated his life to translating and teaching Dogen.This volume also includes an introduction

to Dogen’s life from Hee-Jin Kim’s classic,Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist, with updated anno-tations by Okumura.

240 pages | hardcover

978-086171-601-2 | $19.95

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About the Author



In fresh and inviting language andmaking frequent use of strikingly cleardiagrams and illustrations, Unlearning

the Basics challenges many of our common-sense understandings about ourselves and the

world. The author lays out a new way of see-ing that enables us to live more serenely, morecompassionately, and more free from theslings and arrows of our busy lives.

Along the way, Rishi Sativihara looks atlove and grasping, at “the great unfixables,”and at how vulnerability and pain feed the“evolution of character”—all in the service of helping us return to our true home and findnew ways to flourish.

Grounded in the Buddhist tradition yetcompletely free from the formulas of tradi-

tional, tired presentations, Unlearning the Basicshas an informal, straightforward style that will immediately captivate the reader.

Dr. Rishi Sativihari is a former Buddhist monk, trained and ordained in the Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka. He has worked as a clinical psychologist for the University of Torontoand currently he is involved in interfaith ministry with the United Church of Canada, His cur-rent project is the design of a spiritual rehabilitation program for clergy suffering from

burnout.

Mu Soeng is the co-director of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and the author of TheDiamond Sutra: Transforming the Way We Perceive the World, Trust in Mind, and The Heart of the Universe.

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The Middle Way Faith Grounded in Reason

The Dalai Lama 200 pages, hardcover, 978-086171-552-7, $19.95

Saltwater Buddha A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea

Jaimal Yogis256 pages, 978-086171-535-0, $14.95

Mindfulness in Plain EnglishBhante Henepola Gunaratana

224 pages, 978-086171-321-9, $14.95

How to Meditate A Practical Guide

Kathleen McDonald288 pages, 978-086171-341-7, $14.95

How to Be Happy Lama Zopa Rinpoche

144 pages, 978-086171-196-3, $9.95

Hardcore Zen

Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth About Reality Brad Warner

224 pages, 978-086171-380-6, $14.95

Money, Sex, War, Karma Notes for a Buddhist Revolution

David R. Loy 176 pages, 978-086171-558-9, $15.95

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