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Author: Edward Dickey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 98
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The Buddha taught his followers to transcend the cycle of birth and death by doing no harm, training the mind, and benefiting others. Shakespeare wrote plays about romantic love, sex, war, royal power, betrayal, jealousy, murder and revenge. What can these two figures, separated by 2000 years and living in such different societies, possibly have in common? More than you might think. Both recognized that our thoughts shape our experience. Both were concerned with suffering and its causes. Both embraced qualities that counter suffering, including love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. Both were concerned with impermanence and death. Both understood the illusory nature of existence. Both believed that ill-intentioned actions bring bad consequences for the actor. And both realized that the self to which we cling has no enduring reality. Our book explores each of these areas, drawing on passages from Buddhist teachings and passages from many of Shakespeare's works. Through our exploration we will find that Shakespeare's mirror-like mind reflected universal wisdom that resonates with the some of the Buddha's basic teachings.
Author: Edward Dickey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 98
Book Description
The Buddha taught his followers to transcend the cycle of birth and death by doing no harm, training the mind, and benefiting others. Shakespeare wrote plays about romantic love, sex, war, royal power, betrayal, jealousy, murder and revenge. What can these two figures, separated by 2000 years and living in such different societies, possibly have in common? More than you might think. Both recognized that our thoughts shape our experience. Both were concerned with suffering and its causes. Both embraced qualities that counter suffering, including love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. Both were concerned with impermanence and death. Both understood the illusory nature of existence. Both believed that ill-intentioned actions bring bad consequences for the actor. And both realized that the self to which we cling has no enduring reality. Our book explores each of these areas, drawing on passages from Buddhist teachings and passages from many of Shakespeare's works. Through our exploration we will find that Shakespeare's mirror-like mind reflected universal wisdom that resonates with the some of the Buddha's basic teachings.
Author: James Howe Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press ISBN: 9780838635223 Category : Buddhism and literature Languages : en Pages : 290
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"The essential Buddhist perspective, Howe argues, is that "reality" lacks the solidity which we habitually assume it has, and that therefore the appropriate attitude toward life is to play it as we would a game - with unusual seriousness, for itself rather than for any ulterior motive, even that of investing it with meaning. Howe also demonstrates that the "real" subject of representational art is always just itself. The significance of such art depends upon the concession that it has no significance. In the same way, it is precisely the self-deconstructive nature of Shakespeare's plays which makes their Buddhist-like affirmative positions visible."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Lauren Shufran Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 200
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What does Shakespeare have to teach us about mindfulness? What Eastern spiritual views about death, love, and presence are reflected in the writings of The Bard? The Buddha and the Bard reveals the surprising connections between the 2,500-year-old spiritual leader and the most compelling writer of all time. “Shufran’s compelling juxtapositions will encourage the reader to ask the deepest questions of themselves while delighting in the play of resonances across a cultural and historical divide.” – YOGA Magazine Shakespeare understood and represented the human condition better than any writer of his time. As for the Buddha, he saw how to liberate us from that condition. Author Lauren Shufran explores the fascinating interplay of Western drama and Eastern philosophy by pairing quotes from Shakespeare with the tenets of an Eastern spiritual practice, sparking a compelling dialogue between the two. There’s a remarkable interchange of echoes between Shakespeare’s conception of “the inward man” and Buddhist approaches to recognizing, honoring, and working with our humanness as we play out our roles on the “stage” of our lives. The Buddha and the Bard synthesizes literature and scripture, embodied drama and transcendent practice, to shape a multifaceted lyric that we can apply as mindful practice in our own lives. Shufran’s compelling juxtapositions will encourage the reader to ask the deepest questions of themselves while delighting in the play of resonances across a cultural and historical divide.
Author: David Jon Peckinpaugh Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 059530916X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Buddha & Shakespeare recounts, in one of the more dramatic narratives that you will likely ever come across, the epic nature of both Love and War. Each of which befalls us, most often unexpectedly. It is the story, then, of our being-human, as told through the lives of two princes who come to find themselves caught up in the throes of battles that seem to have found them, as much or more than they have found those battles. One prince from the East: Siddhartha, Guatama, the Buddha-to-be. The other prince from the West: Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, heir to Elsinore. Both of these young men--children of royalty--find themselves transformed at the hands of a breath-stealing revelation. Siddhartha encounters suffering for the first time. Hamlet's world is devastated by a King's passing--and the news from his father's ghost that he has been the victim of a murderous conspiracy. Something is afoul. Something is not quite right in each of their worlds any longer. We know that this one thing holds for both princes: that the worlds these young men had once inhabited will be home for them no more. That everything they had ever known up to the moment of revelation has just been radically transformed in relation to a knowledge of things that neither of them has ever had before. How this all plays out unfolds in the pages of Buddha & Shakespeare. That nothing will be the same again. That everything has changed. That this is the exact same moment of revelation that confronts each and every one of us at some point in our lives: the impossibility of our ever going back; or pretending that we don't know what we know, and haven't seen what we have in moments of excruciating clarity.
Author: Pankaj Mishra Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 1429933631 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 433
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An End to Suffering is a deeply original and provocative book about the Buddha's life and his influence throughout history, told in the form of the author's search to understand the Buddha's relevance in a world where class oppression and religious violence are rife, and where poverty and terrorism cast a long, constant shadow. Mishra describes his restless journeys into India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, among Islamists and the emerging Hindu middle class, looking for this most enigmatic of religious figures, exploring the myths and places of the Buddha's life, and discussing Western explorers' "discovery" of Buddhism in the nineteenth century. He also considers the impact of Buddhist ideas on such modern politicians as Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. As he reflects on his travels and on his own past, Mishra shows how the Buddha wrestled with problems of personal identity, alienation, and suffering in his own, no less bewildering, times. In the process Mishra discovers the living meaning of the Buddha's teaching, in the world and for himself. The result is the most three-dimensional, convincing book on the Buddha that we have.
Author: Barry Edelstein Publisher: Theatre Communications Group ISBN: 155936890X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 231
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Thinking Shakespeare gives theater artists practical advice about how to make Shakespeare’s words feel spontaneous, passionate, and real. Based on Barry Edelstein’s thirty-year career directing Shakespeare’s plays, this book provides the tools that artists need to fully understand and express the power of Shakespeare’s language.
Author: Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Publisher: Shambhala Publications ISBN: 0834823160 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 149
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An innovative meditation master cuts through common misconceptions about Buddhism, revealing what it truly means to walk the path of the Buddha So you think you’re a Buddhist? Think again. Tibetan Buddhist master Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, one of the most creative and innovative lamas teaching today, throws down the gauntlet to the Buddhist world, challenging common misconceptions, stereotypes, and fantasies. In What Makes You Not a Buddhist, Khyentse reviews the four core truths of the tradition, using them as a lens through which readers can examine their everyday lives. With wit and irony, he urges readers to move beyond the superficial trappings of Buddhism—beyond the romance with beads, incense, or exotic robes—straight to the heart of what the Buddha taught. Khyentse’s provocative, non-traditional approach to Buddhism will resonate with students of all stripes and anyone eager to bring this ancient religious tradition into their twenty-first-century lives.
Author: Richard Francis Gombrich Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK) ISBN: Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 262
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Argues that the Buddha was one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of all time. This book intends to serve as an introduction to the Buddha's thought, and hence even to Buddhism itself. It also argues that we can know far more about the Buddha than it is fashionable among scholars to admit.
Author: Tom Stoppard Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN: 155584894X Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 134
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Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end. Tom Stoppard was catapulted into the front ranks of modem playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in 1967. Its subsequent run in New York brought it the same enthusiastic acclaim, and the play has since been performed numerous times in the major theatrical centers of the world. It has won top honors for play and playwright in a poll of London Theater critics, and in its printed form it was chosen one of the “Notable Books of 1967” by the American Library Association.
Author: Diana Y. Paul Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520054288 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 366
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"In seeking to explore the interrelationships between, and mutual influence of, varieties of sexual stereotypes and religious views of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, Women in Buddhism succeeds in drawing our attention to matters of philosophical importance. Paul examines the 'image' of women which arise in a number of Buddhist texts associated with Mahayana and finds that, while ideally the tradition purports to be egalitarian, in actual practice it often betrayed a strong misogynist prejudice. Sanskrit and Chinese texts are organized by theme and type, progressing from those which treat the traditionally orthodox and negative to those which set forth a positive consideration of soteriological paths for women. . . . In Women in Buddhism, Diana Paul may be forcing our consideration of the problem of female enlightenment. Thus the main purport and accomplishment of her scholarship is revolutionary."—Philosophy East and West
Author: Edward Dickey
Author: Edward Dickey
Author: James Howe
Author: Lauren Shufran
Author: David Jon Peckinpaugh
Author: Pankaj Mishra
Author: Barry Edelstein
Author: Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Author: Richard Francis Gombrich
Author: Tom Stoppard
Author: Diana Y. Paul