Changbi Publishers

Edited by Vanessa R. Sasson, Little Buddhas brings together a wide range of scholarship and expertise to address the question of what role children have played in Buddhist literature, in particular historical contexts, and their role in specific Buddhist contexts today.

WHAT IS THE PATTERN? This book shares my experiences as a soul traveler, healer, and energy specialist. It teaches how to achieve spiritual freedom through a unique expression of consciousness. I discovered this insight when my consciousness left my body during a deep meditation. Focusing my attention, I found myself in a limitless field of clear, sparkling, blue-and-white lines that intersected. These energy lines formed a grid, pulsating with starry lights, the countless manifestations of consciousness striving for greater self-awareness. What I experienced that day—what I call the “Pattern”—informed the rest of my life. Striving to know my soul’s origin and destination, I continue to merge with the Pattern to experience the Creator’s intent: the uplift of all forms of consciousness. The Pattern points to a pathway for you to experience a greater knowledge of Spirit’s ultimate design. * “This is a story of revelation and action, of the journey undertaken on the path to conscious living in both the physical and nonphysical worlds. It is not an easy path but made smoother by the insights that Kevin Jeffers brings to the subject. His stories are compelling. His prose helps illuminate what is essentially ineffable. Kevin brings a new lens on the two most fundamental inquiries of our time, the nature of Spiritual revelation and uplift of consciousness.” — DR. SCOTT TAYLOR Former President & Executive Director of the Monroe Institute

Does karma leave any room for self-deter­mination, or are we totally at the mercy of fate? Does personal responsibility exist, or is even that an illusion? These are questions rising when discussing karma. Also in the West there has always been a notion of the interdependence of deeds and their results, reflected in some of our sayings: As you sow, so shall you reap Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind Nobody pushes your button except you yourself. Gehlek Rinpoche, using four different characteristics explains how the law of karma works within the individual. In that, the part that ego plays, and our habitual patterns are central issues, rendering the key to freedom from (pre)-determination. The theme is clarified by lovely stories from the Indian and Tibetan tradition.

Produced specifically to answer QCA concerns over attainment and assessment in RE at Key Stage 3, Modern World Religions is a series that balances learning about religions with learning from religions. It comprises differentiated Student Books, Teacher's Resource Packs and CD-ROMs, on the six major world faiths.

Published in conjunction with a 2003 exhibition co-organized by the Columbus Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this hefty, oversize (10x13 catalogue features approximately 160 powerful masterpieces of Indian, Nepalese, Tibetan, Chinese, and Mongolian art produced over the pa

Produced specifically to answer QCA concerns over attainment and assessment in RE at Key Stage 3, this series balances learning about religions with learning from religions. It comprises differentiated Student Books, Teacher's Resource Packs and CD-ROMs, on the six major world faiths.

Reiko Ohnuma offers a wide-ranging exploration of maternal imagery and discourse in pre-modern South Asian Buddhism, drawing on textual sources preserved in Pali and Sanskrit. She demonstrates that Buddhism in India had a complex and ambivalent relationship with mothers and motherhood-symbolically, affectively, and institutionally. Symbolically, motherhood was a double-edged sword, sometimes extolled as the most appropriate symbol for buddhahood itself, and sometimes denigrated as the most paradigmatic manifestation possible of attachment and suffering. On an affective level, too, motherhood was viewed with the same ambivalence: in Buddhist literature, warm feelings of love and gratitude for the mother's nurturance and care frequently mingle with submerged feelings of hostility and resentment for the unbreakable obligations thus created, and positive images of self-sacrificing mothers are counterbalanced by horrific depictions of mothers who kill and devour. Institutionally, the formal definition of the Buddhist renunciant as one who has severed all familial ties seems to co-exist uneasily with an abundance of historical evidence demonstrating monks' and nuns' continuing concern for their mothers, as well as other familial entanglements. Ohnuma's study provides critical insight into Buddhist depictions of maternal love and maternal grief, the role played by the Buddha's own mothers, Maya and Mahaprajapati, the use of pregnancy and gestation as metaphors for the attainment of enlightenment, the use of breastfeeding as a metaphor for the compassionate deeds of buddhas and bodhisattvas, and the relationship between Buddhism and motherhood as it actually existed in day-to-day life.

Manual of Zen Buddhism's main object is to inform the readers to various literary materials relating to the monastery life. It also tells us about those edicts which the Zen monks read before the Buddha in daily service in the different quarters of institution.

2013 REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION! The new ebook version of the Pocket Calorie Counter is fully searchable, and text in all nutritional information charts is scaleable and easy to read. A speedy, discreet way to stay informed about the content of your meals and snacks, wherever you are! Count on it! More than 8,000 entries! Provides calorie counts for most foods and beverages, as well as protein, carbs, fiber, sodium, fats, and other essentials. Includes menu items from popular restaurants, too! With the ebook edition, look up information in seconds! Tables are fully visible at most font sizes—no need to squint. Column headings in nutritional information charts signify as follows: SS= Serving Size, C= Calories, TF= Total Fat (g), SF= Saturated Fat (g), S= Sodium (mg), CB= Carbohydrates (g), F= Fiber (g), P= Protein (g)