Product Description: The Eight Realizations of a Bodhisattva Sutra allows us to see the world as a bodhisattva does: complete with its share of difficulties and troubles, but also equip with endless opportunities to become wiser and more compassionate...read more

Product Description: Being Good invites readers to consider what it means to lead a good life. In this collection of essays, Venerable Master Hsing Yun offers practical advice on specific moral and ethical issues, using passages from the Buddhist scriptures as points of departure for his discussions...read more

Product Description: Experience the tradition of Buddhist storytelling as Venerable Master Hsing Yun draws from the life of the Buddha and the wisdom of the great Chan masters as well as the many monastics and practitioners he has encountered in his over forty years as a Buddhist monk...read more

Product Description: RRIIIINGGG! Five little firefighters are about to eat dinner when the alarm bell sounds. Off they go, racing through the streets to put out a fire. Soon everyone’s safe . . . but where’s Cleo the cat? MEEOOW! The five firefighters rescue Cleo...read more

Product Description: Openly erotic and smart, the stories of Best Gay Romance deliver hope and happy endings. Dale Chase’s “The Early Show” describes the tantalizing flirtation of two writers who share an eccentric habit of showing up early to Sunday matinees to enjoy the promising half-dark of the theater...read more

Product Description: The real rodeo starts when the spurs are hung up and the chaps come off. Twenty-four stories of ropin’ and ridin’ on the open range.Saddle up and go for a long, hot ride. There's nothing in this world like a sexy cowboy...mounting another cowboy...read more

In A Look at Modern Social Issues, Master addresses Buddhist views on potentially troubling social issues of our time. The topics range from the ethical concerns in biological sciences such as euthanasia to personal challenges associated with suicide and depression. Family management in contemporary life has been addressed, especially in regard to dealing with problems of aging and hospice care. Life education and physical and mental illness are also covered by this book.

Traces the story of the legendary basketball athlete who crossed racial barriers to play professionally in a league that had previously barred black players, in an account that documents the racially charged abuse he suffered throughout his career, his sale to the Harlem Globetrotters by the Celtics, and his work as a coach for the Indianapolis Crispus Attucks team. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: A companion volume to Master Hsing Yun's Lotus in the Stream, an accessible and popular introduction to Buddhist thought and practice, Buddhism: Core Ideas presents additional concepts central to a full understanding of the teachings of the Buddha, including cause and effect, Buddhist psychology, meditation and wisdom, the practices of repentance and sharing, and the six primary virtues that Buddhists seek to perfect...read more

Product Description: This easy-to-follow commentary on the Sutra of the Eight Realizations of Great Beings explains the importance of life in this world. The sutra itself is short but Hsing Yun's wonderful stories help readers understand the deeper meaning of these teachings and how to incorporate them into their lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Diamond Sutra is revered throughout Asia as one of the Buddha's most profound expressions of the nature of reality. A gem among the vast Perfection of Wisdom literature, the Diamond Sutra elicits an experience of eternal truth through its use of a seemingly paradoxical style, as the reader goes back and forth between "what is" and "what is not...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Over the centuries, Buddhism has produced an enormous quantity of teachings, doctrines, and highly complex systems of thought, making it very difficult to obtain a grasp of the full range of Buddhist philosophy and practice. In Lotus in a Stream , Chinese Buddhist Master Hsing Yun offers a Buddhist primer to organizes the major ideas and practices of Buddhism, from the most basic to the most complex, and presents them in concise, accessible, yet highly insightful mini-essays...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Storytelling is one of the most ancient Buddhist traditions, and in fact many of the most revered Buddhist scriptures are collections of stories. Where is Your Buddha Nature? is too: stories that teach, encourage, guide, inspire, and, not least of all, amuse...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Inspired by the growing links between Eastern and Western spirituality, this foray into the often underexposed methods of Chinese Buddhist meditation explores the connections between the Three Higher Trainings--ethical conduct, meditation, and wisdom--and reveals how they can be integrated into a modern life. Original. IP.