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  • Followers of Buddha
    Dwight Goddard
    EFFORTS have been made during a number of years to establish Buddhism in America. Temples of the True Pure Land Sect have been opened in a number of cities on the Pacific coast, mainly for the benefit of the California Japanese. Efforts have been made, also, to introduce Zen Buddhism, notably by the Abbot Soyen Shaku at the time of the Congress of Religions at Chicago. He lectu...
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    15,56 €

  • A Buddhist Bible
    Dwight Goddard
    Dwight Goddard’s collection of translations of a cross-section of Buddhist traditions was a fundamental part of the importation of Buddhism into the USA and then, through the work of the Beat Poets that the book influenced, throughout the West as a whole.Goddard had originally been an engineer but after his wife’s death, when he was twenty-nine years old, he entered the Hartfor...
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  • A Buddhist Bible
    Dwight Goddard
    Dwight Goddard’s collection of translations of a cross-section of Buddhist traditions was a fundamental part of the importation of Buddhism into the USA and then, through the work of the Beat Poets that the book influenced, throughout the West as a whole.Goddard had originally been an engineer but after his wife’s death, when he was twenty-nine years old, he entered the Hartfor...
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    20,35 €

  • A Buddhist Bible
    Dwight Goddard
    2010 Facsimile of the 1932 Edition. Goddard compiled a collection of favorite texts of the Zen Sect of Buddhism. Includes a History of Zen Buddhism, Self-Realization of Noble Wisdom, The Diamond Sutra, The Prajna Paramita Sutra, the Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch. Edited and interpreted by Dwight Goddard. ...
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    14,75 €

  • A Pocketful of Zen
    Nyogen Senzaki Paul Reps Dwight Goddard
    In Buddha, Tao, Zen, 'Father of American Beat Zen' Dwight Goddard reveals the history of Zen’s transmission and development, from Shakyamuni Buddha’s Enlightenment in India, to Bodhidharma’s journey to bring the Dharma to China, through a succession of remarkable teachers, ending with Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch of Buddhism, whose experiential insight into traditional Chinese...
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    7,20 €

  • A Pocketful of Tao
    Dwight Goddard / Henri Borel
    Of the ancient Chinese Sage Laotzu, founder of Taoism, 'Father of Beat Zen' Dwight Goddard writes, 'I want you to appreciate this wise and kindly old man, and come to love him. He was perhaps the first of scholars (6th century B.C.) to have a vision of spiritual reality, and he tried so hard to explain it to others, only, in the end, to wander away into the Great Unknown in pat...
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    10,17 €

  • Love In Creation And Redemption
    Dwight Goddard
    Love In Creation And Redemption: A Study In The Teachings Of Jesus Compared With Modern Thought (1918) is a book written by Dwight Goddard. The book is a comparative study of the teachings of Jesus Christ and modern thought on the subject of love in creation and redemption. The author analyzes the concept of love and its significance in the context of creation and redemption, a...
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    34,38 €

  • A Buddhist Bible
    Dwight Goddard
    The book that launched American 'Beat Zen!' In a 1954 letter to poet Allen Ginsberg (Howl, Kaddish), emerging literary giant Jack Kerouac (On The Road, The Dharma Bums)wrote that Dwight Goddard’s A BUDDHIST BIBLE was 'by far the best book' available on the subject of Buddhism. Its clear, reader-friendly elucidation of such important Zen Scriptures as The Diamond Sutra, The Pr...
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    16,17 €

  • Lao-Tzu’s Tao and Wu Wei
    Henri Borel / Lao-Tzu / Dwight Goddard
    The Tao Te Ching is a spiritual, inspirational work that guides us through life, helping us to live within each moment and find the beauty that is all around each of us. Simple, beautiful, and life changing. The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy (Dàojia) and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism. This ancie...
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    11,77 €

  • Eminent Engineers
    Dwight Goddard
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    31,14 €

  • A Buddhist Bible
    Dwight Goddard
    The Buddhist Bible was first published in Vermont in 1932 by DWIGHT GODDARD (1861-1939), a pioneer in the American Zen Buddhist movement. It contains edited versions of foundational Buddhist texts designed to provide spiritual seekers with the heart of the Zen message.Writing at a time when Buddhism was greatly misunderstood in the West, Goddard hoped to bring a new and deep un...
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    28,92 €

  • A Buddhist Bible
    Dwight Goddard
    The Buddhist Bible was first published in Vermont in 1932 by DWIGHT GODDARD (1861-1939), a pioneer in the American Zen Buddhist movement. It contains edited versions of foundational Buddhist texts designed to provide spiritual seekers with the heart of the Zen message.Writing at a time when Buddhism was greatly misunderstood in the West, Goddard hoped to bring a new and deep un...
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    41,09 €

  • Laotzu’s Tao and Wu Wei
    Dwight Goddard / Henri Borel
    In this clarion translation of Laotzu’s Tao Te Ching, first published in 1919, Goddard brings the complexity and depth of the ancient philosopher’s poetry into the English language, his great love for the topic overcoming the necessary shortcomings of translation. There are three concepts that are essential to the Tao Te Ching-Tao, Te, and Wu Wei-that all have complex meanings ...
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    25,67 €

  • Was Jesus Influenced by Buddhism? a Comparative Study of the Lives and Thoughts of Gautama and Jesus
    Dwight Goddard
    How much contact did Jesus have with Buddhism early in his life? In this 1927 work, Dwight Goddard compares the lives and teachings of Christ and Gautama, the young Buddha, giving a context to the two religions and exploring their historical and theological intersections. Key to his investigation is a study of the Essenes, a semi-Buddhist Jewish sect that had a direct influence...
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    32,94 €

  • Eminent Engineers - Brief Biographies of Thirty-Two of the Inventors and Engineers Who Did Most to Further Mechanical Progress
    Dwight Goddard
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    40,40 €

  • Eminent Engineers
    Dwight Goddard
    CONTENTSBenjamin FranklinJohn FitchNathan ReadOliver EvansRobert FultonJohn StevensRobert L. StevensEli WhitneyThomas BlanchardElias HoweJohn EricssonPeter CooperGeorge H. CorlissAlexander L. HolleyWilliam R. JonesJames B. EadsRichard ArkwrightThomas NewcomenJames WattMatthew BoultonWilliam MurdockWilliam SymingtonRichard TrevithickHenry MaudsleyGeorge StephensonI. K. BrunelJam...
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    21,93 €

  • Laotzu’s Tao and Wu Wei
    Dwight Goddard / Henri Borel
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    22,86 €