{"title":"Indian Editions","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"5179","title":"Art of Dying (Indian Edition)","description":"  \u003cp\u003eThe Art of Dying, a wonderful collection of writings on the acceptance of the truth of suffering, contains texts by late Vipassana Meditation Teacher S.N. Goenka, explanations of the teaching of the Buddha, scriptural verses, poetical stories of monks and nuns from the time of the Buddha, and accounts from fellow meditators. Inspiring examples of people gaining strength and a taste of freedom through their practice of Vipassana.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eThese stories not only help to sustain and strengthen established Vipassana meditators in their quest, but also to encourage others searching for peace and understanding to take up the practice of getting to  know thyself  truly, on an experiential level to develop their own wisdom. \u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"\u003e Endorsements \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA thoughtful look at the greatest challenge facing each of us: death, whether our own or a loved ones. Weaving together material from many sources, this collection provides a context for understanding death and experiencing it with awareness and equanimity. Here are passages from the Pali texts, writings of S.N. Goenka, poems, theoretical expositions, and questions and answers. But perhaps the most compelling parts are the sections by or about meditators confronting the end of life. With humility, tenderness and often a smile, they learn to accept their own impermanence, suffering and non-self. Their courage and compassion gives every Vipassana meditator an example to which we can aspire.\u003cbr\u003e William Hart, author, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Art of Living\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eI was inspired by the stories of ordinary people who faced death with exemplary poise and courage, and who attributed this gift to Vipassana meditation.  \u003cbr\u003e Paul R. Fleischman, author, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eWonder\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCultivating Inner Peace\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Brings a piercing light to a universal reality too often darkened by ignorance, fear and mythology. Alternately intelligent and moving, instructive and poetic, scientific and devotional, it examines its important subject from a variety of angles in its quest to explain and accept the great mystery of death. That it does so in such a concise and readable way is truly remarkable. \u003cbr\u003e Ron Graham, award-winning Canadian author and journalist \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eI imagine there is no better way to experience the end of life apart from meditating or living it oneself than to read these beautiful stories.  \u003cbr\u003e Rivers Cuomo, lead singer, Weezer \u003c\/p\u003e     ","brand":"Goenka, S.N.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101590523998,"sku":"777320","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/777320.jpg?v=1760548643"},{"product_id":"6512","title":"The Buddha's Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony (Indian edition) - Softcover","description":" \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClick Google Preview button to preview. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e \u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9781614293552'); \u003c\/script\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eIn this volume acclaimed scholar-monk Bhikku Bodhi has collected and translated the Buddha's teachings on conflict resolution, interpersonal and social problem-solving, and the forging of harmonious relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn times of social conflict, intolerance, and war, the Buddha's approach to creating and sustaining peace takes on a new and urgent significance.  Even readers unacquainted with Buddhism will appreciate these ancient teachings, always clear, practical, undogmatic, and so contemporary in flavor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe chapters deal with such topics as the quelling of anger, good friendship, intentional communities, the settlement of disputes, and the establishing of an equitable society. Each chapter begins with a concise and informative introduction by the translator that guides us toward a deeper understanding of the texts that follow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bodhi, Bhikkhu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101599273054,"sku":"773843","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/Social_16fd7ef5-250b-4190-be28-e02e2cc1fd4f.png?v=1760548860"},{"product_id":"6524","title":"The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering (Indian Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuddha s teachings centre around two basic principles. One is the Four Noble Truths, in which the Buddha diagnoses the problem of suffering and indicates the treatment necessary to remedy this problem. The other is the Noble Eightfold Path, the practical discipline he prescribes to uproot and eliminate the deep underlying causes of suffering.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers, in simple and clear language, a concise yet thorough explanation of the Eightfold Path. Basing himself solidly upon the Buddha own words, the author examines each factor of the path to determine exactly what it implies in the way of practical training. Finally, in the concluding chapter, he shows how all eight factors of the path function in unison to bring about the realisation of the Buddhist goal: enlightenment and liberation.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author, American-born monk Bhikkhu Bodhi, was President of the Buddhist Publication Society. He is the co-translator of The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nik ya) and translator of The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Samyutta Nik ya). His most recent work is The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Anguttara Nik ya). Bhikkhu Bodhi presents the essential teaching of the Buddha with great care and clarity. The Noble Eightfold Path is sure to be a guide and a source of inspiration for which many will be grateful.  Sharon Salzberg, author, Loving Kindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness; A Heart as Wide as the World  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBhikkhu Bodhi great gift to us all is his clear and authentic transmission of the Buddha teaching. The Noble Eightfold Path expresses the essence of the spiritual path and lives up to the author wonderfully high standards. This book is a wonderful contribution to the Dhamma in the West.  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Drawn from a wide range of authentic Pali sources, the material in these stories has never before been assembled in a single volume. Through these engaging tales, we meet all manner of human beings rich, poor, male, female, young, old whose unique stories are told with an eye to the details of ordinary human concerns. If read with careful attention, these stories can sharpen our understanding of the Buddhist path by allowing us to contemplate the living portraits of the people who fulfilled the early Buddhist ideals of human perfection.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhile in recent years in the West oceans of ink have been expended on books dealing with the Buddha and his Teaching, the first two of the Jewels of Buddhism, the coverage given to the third Jewel, the Sangha, has been far from adequate. This book is an attempt to fill this gap in Western Buddhist literature with living portraits of twenty-four of the most distinguished disciples of the Buddha. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe book evolved from a series of individual tracts which are known as the \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic; \"\u003eLives of the Disciples\u003c\/span\u003e series from the Buddhist Publication Society's well known \"Wheel\" imprint. The first of these small biographies to appear, in 1966, was written by Ven. Nyanaponika Thera, the founder of the BPS. In the same year, by coincidence, the German Buddhist author Hellmuth Hecker began publishing short biographical portraits of the great disciples in the German Buddhist periodical \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic; \"\u003eWissen und Wandel\u003c\/span\u003e. Over the next twenty years, forty-one such short profiles appeared in German.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eVen. Nyanaponika translated or oversaw the translation of this series into English and published the series of BPS Wheels in the 1970s and 1980s. Ven Bhikkhu Bodhi has compiled, edited, and enlarged the original series to the form in which they now exist, as this inspiring and comprehensive survey of the great disciples of the Buddha.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hecker, Hellmuth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101770322014,"sku":"773818","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/great_20.png?v=1760548845"},{"product_id":"6511","title":"In The Buddha's Words (Indian edition) - Softcover","description":" \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClick Google Preview button to take a look inside\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e \u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780861714919'); \u003c\/script\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the Buddha's Words\u003c\/em\u003e contains selected discourses from the Pali Canon designed to reveal the outline and breadth of the Buddha's teaching. This is a masterful collection of Venerable Bodhi's lucid translations that allows even readers unacquainted with the teachings to grasp the significance of the Buddha's contributions to our world heritage. Taken as a whole, these texts bear eloquent testimony to the breadth and intelligence of the Buddha's teaching and point the way to an ancient yet ever-vital path. \u003c\/p\u003e   ","brand":"Hecker, Hellmuth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101770551390,"sku":"775911","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/in_20Buddhas_20words.png?v=1760548859"},{"product_id":"6510","title":"The Long Discourses (Indian edition) - Hardcover","description":" \u003cp\u003eThis book offers a complete translation of the Digha Nikaya, the long discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection--among the oldest records of the historical Buddha's original teachings, given in India two and a half thousand years ago--consists of thirty-four longer-length suttas, or discourses, distinguished as such from the middle-length and shorter suttas of the other collections.  These suttas reveal the gentleness, compassion, power, and penetrating wisdom of the Buddha. Included are teachings on mindfulness (Mahasatipatthana Sutta); on morality, concentration, and wisdom (Subha Sutta); on dependent origination (Mahanidrana Sutta); on the roots and causes of wrong views (Brahmajala Sutta); and a long description of the Buddha's last days and passing away (Mahaparinibbana Sutta); along with a wealth of practical advice and insight for all those travelling along the spiritual path.  Venerable Sumedho Thera writes in his foreword: \"[These suttas] are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience, with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.  Introduced with a vivid account of the Buddha's life and times and a short survey of his teachings, The Long Discourses of the Buddha brings us closer in every way to the wise and compassionate presence of Gotama Buddha and his path of truth. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pariyatti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42103658840158,"sku":"775086","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/775086.png?v=1760582970"},{"product_id":"6536","title":"The Middle Length Discourses (Indian edition) - Hardcover","description":" \u003cp\u003eThis book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection--among the oldest records of the historical Buddha's original teachings--consists of 152 suttas or discourses of middle length, distinguished as such from the longer and shorter suttas of the other collections. The Majjhima Nikaya might be concisely described as the Buddhist scripture that combines the richest variety of contextual settings with the deepest and most comprehensive assortment of teachings. These teachings, which range from basic ethics to instructions in meditation and liberating insight, unfold in a fascinating procession of scenarios that show the Buddha in living dialogue with people from many different strata of ancient Indian society: with kings and princes, priests and ascetics, simple villagers and erudite philosophers. Replete with drama, reasoned argument, and illuminating parable and simile, these discourses exhibit the Buddha in the full glory of his resplendent wisdom, majestic sublimity, and compassionate humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe translation is based on an original draft translation left by the English scholar-monk Bhikkhu Nanamoli, which has been edited and revised by the American monk Bhikkhu Bodhi, who provides a long introduction and helpful explanatory notes. Combining lucidity of expression with accuracy, this translation enables the Buddha to speak across twenty-five centuries in language that addresses the most pressing concerns of the contemporary reader seeking clarification of the timeless issues of truth, value, and the proper conduct of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nanamoli, Bhikkhu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42103658872926,"sku":"770720","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/middle-length-discourses-indian.jpg?v=1760582973"}],"url":"https:\/\/pariyatti.org\/collections\/indian-editions.oembed","provider":"Pariyatti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}