Biographies

As Noah Levine delved deeper into Buddhism, he chose not to reject the punk scene, instead integrating the two worlds as a catalyst for transformation....

Dinty Moore never intended to change his life, he just wanted to document the lives of others. This investigative reporter set out to explore America's fascination with Buddhism...

The Wisdom of Compassion offers rare insights into the Dalai Lama’s life and his efforts to translate compassion into action....

This rich, timely, and highly original portrait of the Buddha explores both the archetypal religious icon and Buddha the man....

"Everyone dies, but no one is dead," goes the Tibetan saying. It is with these words that Advice on Dying...

In this extensive lesson, Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, beautifully elucidates the meaning of the path to enlightenment....

While many accounts of the Buddha’s life mix legend and history, this compelling new biography discriminates between fact and fiction....

Wake Up is Kerouac's retelling of the life of Prince Siddartha Gotama, who abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong search for Enlightenment....

Daisaku Ikeda, one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the world today, offers powerful and inspiring teachings aimed at an American audience....

Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, the author, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, she describes her time in the barn as well as an extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France....

As accessible as it is inspirational, this audiobook to approaching life "in a better way" represents a decade's worth of His Holiness's annual public lectures given in...

The captivating life story of renowned Buddhist activist Sulak Sivaraksa. Matteo Pistono’s deft prose weaves together the story of Sulak Sivaraksa’s years of social-justice work and his tireless campaigns to effect change....

In this extended pamphlet, free-thinking advocate Henry Tichenor presents the life story of Gotama Buddha in the style of a hagiography, in which the fundamental doctrines of Buddhism are interwoven....

Completed just four years after his escape from Tibet and four years after completing his religious education, the Dalai Lama's classic text on Buddhist philosophy...

Von einem, der auszog, sich selbst zu finden. Was hilft uns, ein freieres Leben zu führen? Auf der Suche nach einer Antwort gibt Björn Lindeblad...