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Buddha Heavenly Sovereign: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Tu MuyixiangshengIn his previous life he had fused his Primordial Spirit and mastered the Grand Dao of Immortality Whoever wanted to block his way would have no mercy
Buddha, Volume 1: Kapilavastu (Buddha #1)
by Osamu TezukaOsamu Tezuka's vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his eight-volume epic of Siddhartha's life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddha's ideas; the emphasis is on movement, action, emotion, and conflict as the prince Siddhartha runs away from home, travels across India, and questions Hindu practices such as ascetic self-mutilation and caste oppression. Rather than recommend resignation and impassivity, Tezuka's Buddha predicates enlightenment upon recognizing the interconnectedness of life, having compassion for the suffering, and ordering one's life sensibly. Philosophical segments are threaded into interpersonal situations with ground-breaking visual dynamism by an artist who makes sure never to lose his readers' attention. Tezuka himself was a humanist rather than a Buddhist, and his magnum opus is not an attempt at propaganda. Hermann Hesse's novel or Bertolucci's film is comparable in this regard; in fact, Tezuka's approach is slightly irreverent in that it incorporates something that Western commentators often eschew, namely, humor.
Buddha, Volume 2: The Four Encounters (Buddha #2)
by Osamu TezukaOsamu Tezuka's vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his eight-volume epic of Siddhartha's life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddha's ideas; the emphasis is on movement, action, emotion, and conflict as the prince Siddhartha runs away from home, travels across India, and questions Hindu practices such as ascetic self-mutilation and caste oppression. Rather than recommend resignation and impassivity, Tezuka's Buddha predicates enlightenment upon recognizing the interconnectedness of life, having compassion for the suffering, and ordering one's life sensibly. Philosophical segments are threaded into interpersonal situations with ground-breaking visual dynamism by an artist who makes sure never to lose his readers' attention. Tezuka himself was a humanist rather than a Buddhist, and his magnum opus is not an attempt at propaganda. Hermann Hesse's novel or Bertolucci's film is comparable in this regard; in fact, Tezuka's approach is slightly irreverent in that it incorporates something that Western commentators often eschew, namely, humor.
Buddha: Volume 3: Devadatta (Buddha #3)
by Osamu TezukaThe Eisner and Harvey Winner The third volume of this epic graphic novel send Siddhartha further into a world mired in pain and suffering. The journey to peace and enlightenment looms far but bright. Prince Siddhartha quickly learns that the monk's path is covered in thorns and self-abuses much more profound than shaving your head. His new companions Dhepa and Assaji accompany him to plague-ridden town, ruled by the ravishing Visakha. On a different path filled with as many vagaries is Devadatta, an orphan who learns only that bad almost always gets worse. To strange cities, and dire prophecies...
Buddha: Volume 4: The Forest of Uruvela (Buddha #4)
by Osamu TezukaThe Eisner and Harvey Winner In this fourth volume of the award-winning graphic novel biography, Buddha slowly discovers that his destiny lies in a path not readily available to him. With fellow ascetics Dhepa who has complete faith in the purifying quality of painful physical ordeals, and Assaji, who can predict everyone's death to the hour, Buddha travels through the kingdom of Magadha into the Forest of Uruvela, where The Middle Path and Enlightenment wait beyond a series of death-defying trials. Awake under the Pippala tree...
Buddha: Volume 5: Deer Park (Buddha #5)
by Osamu TezukaIn the fifth installment of manga-godfather Osamu Tezuka's Buddha, engagement with death imparts the lesson of life's sanctity. In a Machiavellian rise to power, Devadatta, a rogue aristocrat, incites war between two kingdoms that will leave thousands dead. King Bimisara of Magadha, fearing death his son's own hand, withdraws fatherly love. The true measure of the Buddha's divinity will turn out to be a test of diplomacy - the power of words.
Buddha: Volume 6: Ananda (Buddha #6)
by Osamu TezukaIn the sixth volume of manga visionary Osamu Tezuka's Buddha, the devil Mara possesses the bandit Ananda, half-brother of Devadatta, in an effort to eliminate the Buddha. A ruthless killer who is impervious to physical harm, Ananda will retain the devil's favor only if he spurns his love interest. When Ananda and his bandit buddy attack the Fire Shrine of the Brahmin brothers Kassapa, it is none other than the Awakened One who happens by. Buddha must confront his eternal enemy, Mara, before he can open the eyes of arrogant priests and hardened criminals.
Buddha: Volume 7: Prince Ajatasattu (Buddha #7)
by Osamu TezukaOsamu Tezuka's vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his eight-volume epic of Siddhartha's life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddha's ideas; the emphasis is on movement, action, emotion, and conflict as the prince Siddhartha runs away from home, travels across India, and questions Hindu practices such as ascetic self-mutilation and caste oppression. Rather than recommend resignation and impassivity, Tezuka's Buddha predicates enlightenment upon recognizing the interconnectedness of life, having compassion for the suffering, and ordering one's life sensibly. Philosophical segments are threaded into interpersonal situations with ground-breaking visual dynamism by an artist who makes sure never to lose his readers' attention. Tezuka himself was a humanist rather than a Buddhist, and his magnum opus is not an attempt at propaganda. Hermann Hesse's novel or Bertolucci's film is comparable in this regard; in fact, Tezuka's approach is slightly irreverent in that it incorporates something that Western commentators often eschew, namely, humor.
Buddha: Volume 8: Jetavana (Buddha #8)
by Osamu TezukaOsamu Tezuka's vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his eight-volume epic of Siddhartha's life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddha's ideas; the emphasis is on movement, action, emotion, and conflict as the prince Siddhartha runs away from home, travels across India, and questions Hindu practices such as ascetic self-mutilation and caste oppression. Rather than recommend resignation and impassivity, Tezuka's Buddha predicates enlightenment upon recognizing the interconnectedness of life, having compassion for the suffering, and ordering one's life sensibly. Philosophical segments are threaded into interpersonal situations with ground-breaking visual dynamism by an artist who makes sure never to lose his readers' attention. Tezuka himself was a humanist rather than a Buddhist, and his magnum opus is not an attempt at propaganda. Hermann Hesse's novel or Bertolucci's film is comparable in this regard; in fact, Tezuka's approach is slightly irreverent in that it incorporates something that Western commentators often eschew, namely, humor.
Buddhism Fanatic: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Shen MoThe Ancestral Buddha prophesied: Eighty-four thousand years later, when the Buddhist Mantra dissipated and the Taoism was cut off, the Buddhist disciple Lu Yang was reborn with the "Devil Subduing Heaven Book". With his Diamond Body, he started cultivating his demonic powers internally, and from then on, he embarked on a path of cultivation that defied the heavens. He pointed to the sky with his left hand and the earth with his right — he was the supreme being in all the heavens and the earth!
Buddhism Fanatic: Volume 6 (Volume 6 #6)
by Shen MoThe Ancestral Buddha prophesied: Eighty-four thousand years later, when the Buddhist Mantra dissipated and the Taoism was cut off, the Buddhist disciple Lu Yang was reborn with the "Devil Subduing Heaven Book". With his Diamond Body, he started cultivating his demonic powers internally, and from then on, he embarked on a path of cultivation that defied the heavens. He pointed to the sky with his left hand and the earth with his right — he was the supreme being in all the heavens and the earth!
Buddhism Fanatic: Volume 7 (Volume 7 #7)
by Shen MoThe Ancestral Buddha prophesied: Eighty-four thousand years later, when the Buddhist Mantra dissipated and the Taoism was cut off, the Buddhist disciple Lu Yang was reborn with the "Devil Subduing Heaven Book". With his Diamond Body, he started cultivating his demonic powers internally, and from then on, he embarked on a path of cultivation that defied the heavens. He pointed to the sky with his left hand and the earth with his right — he was the supreme being in all the heavens and the earth!
Buddhism Fanatic: Volume 8 (Volume 8 #8)
by Shen MoThe Ancestral Buddha prophesied: Eighty-four thousand years later, when the Buddhist Mantra dissipated and the Taoism was cut off, the Buddhist disciple Lu Yang was reborn with the "Devil Subduing Heaven Book". With his Diamond Body, he started cultivating his demonic powers internally, and from then on, he embarked on a path of cultivation that defied the heavens. He pointed to the sky with his left hand and the earth with his right — he was the supreme being in all the heavens and the earth!
Buddhism Fanatic: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Shen MoThe Ancestral Buddha prophesied: Eighty-four thousand years later, when the Buddhist Mantra dissipated and the Taoism was cut off, the Buddhist disciple Lu Yang was reborn with the "Devil Subduing Heaven Book". With his Diamond Body, he started cultivating his demonic powers internally, and from then on, he embarked on a path of cultivation that defied the heavens. He pointed to the sky with his left hand and the earth with his right — he was the supreme being in all the heavens and the earth!
Buddy the Cat
by Sara StarkNoel is a lonely librarian who spends most of his time working, surfing dating websites to no avail, and hanging out with the cat who shows up on his balcony every night. When he meets Mike, he's finally found a man who holds his interest. But it soon becomes clear that there's more to the bird-chasing businessman than what's on the surface.A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2016 Daily Dose package "A Walk on the Wild Side".
Buddy's Bedtime Battery (Growing with Buddy #1)
by Christina GeistIt&’s Buddy&’s bedtime, but there&’s just one problem—he&’s decided that he&’s a robot! His accommodating parents must now &“power down&” their little machine step by step, from his toes to his tushy. Tim Bowers&’s bubbly illustrations capture Buddy&’s energy and imagination, and parents and kids will enjoy adopting this new bedtime ritual into their own routines.
Un buen hijo de p...
by Ismael CalaSegundo libro de la serie Cala Contigo Rompe paradigmas para transformar tu vida¿Hijo de p...? No, no es lo que piensas. Las pes de las que hablamos aquí son otras muy diferentes. Tras el enorme éxito de su primer libro El poder de escuchar, el presentador de CNN en Español y conferencista en desarrollo humano Ismael Cala vuelve con una fábula inspiradora sobre el desarrollo humano, los significados reales de nuestras historias de vida, la inteligencia emocional, la búsqueda del éxito y el bienestar interior que nos ayudará a transformar la manera en que vivimos nuestras vidas. A través de la historia y las conversaciones de dos personajes, Arturo y Chris, Cala nos enseña como sólo nosotros mismos tenemos el poder de transformar nuestras vidas y que con el poder de la mente y el amor, todo es posible. Esta forma de vivir queda encapsulada en las tres pes: la pasión, la paciencia y la perseverancia, que nos permitirán no sólo llegar a nuestra cima, sino aprovecharla y disfrutarla. ¿Estás dispuesto a convertirte en buen hijo de p...?
El buen Jesús y Cristo el malvado
by Philip PullmanEl autor de La materia oscura reinterpreta la historia más influyente de todos los tiempos y construye una versión ingeniosa y polémica de la vida de Jesús. «Esta es la historia de Jesús y su hermano Cristo, de cómo nacieron, de cómo vivieron y de cómo murió uno de ellos. La muerte del otro no forma parte de esta historia.» Así comienza esta novela ingeniosa y polémica que revisita la historia más influyente de todos los tiempos: la vida de Jesús. Todo comienza cuando la virgen María da a luz a gemelos a los que llama Jesús y Cristo. Los hermanos son muy diferentes entre sí. Mientras que Jesús es carismático, predica la compasión incondicional y condena la hipocresía religiosa, Cristo es un intelectual apocado pero con una determinación: hacer que la palabra de su hermano pase a la historia. El buen Jesús y Cristo el malvado plantea interrogantes al lector que siguen resonando mucho después de su lectura y reflexiona acerca de cómo la verdad se convierte en historia. La crítica ha dicho...«Narrado en una prosa sencilla y sin artificios y, sin embargo, hermosamente eficaz.»Sunday Times «Uno de los mejores escritores británicos de su generación.»Newsweek «A partir de estos dos personajes en conflicto -una especie de Jekyll y Hyde galileos-, Pullman reinterpreta y reconstruye provocativamente (los cristianos ya hablan de blasfemia) el más importante texto de referencia de la cristiandad.»Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, El País
Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences
by Ursula K. Le GuinShort fiction about animals, incorporating the relationships between humans and animals in society and folklore.
Buffalo Mountain (Ike Schwartz Series #3)
by Frederick Ramsay"Ramsay demonstrates once again that he is a superb storyteller, adroitly mixing the spy and small-town mystery genres and shocking us with one walloping big surprise midway through the book." —BooklistIt's midwinter and the Shenandoah Valley is poised on the brink of an unusually icy and snowy season. Alexei Kamarov's body is discovered in a forest within the Picketsville town limits. His driver's license identifies him as Randall Harris. The last Sheriff Ike Schwartz heard of Kamarov, he was reported missing—presumed dead in Russia—the victim of intelligence game-playing.Ike is not happy this piece of his past has resurfaced. Especially when Ike's former CIA colleague and friend Charlie Garland asks Ike to keep a lid on the investigation.Slowly, interagency rivalries emerge as local petty criminals vie with international assassins and plotters for attention. All the while, Buffalo Mountain looms in the background....
Buffalo Soldier
by Maurice BroaddusHaving stumbled onto a plot within his homeland of Jamaica, former espionage agent, Desmond Coke, finds himself caught between warring religious and political factions, all vying for control of a mysterious boy named Lij Tafari.Wanting the boy to have a chance to live a free life, Desmond assumes responsibility for him and they flee. But a dogged enemy agent remains ever on their heels, desperate to obtain the secrets held within Lij for her employer alone.Assassins, intrigue, and steammen stand between Desmond and Lij as they search for a place to call home in a North America that could have been.Buffalo Soldier is a steampunk adventure from Maurice Broaddus.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: One Thing or Your Mother
by Kirsten BeyerIt's tough being a teenage Slayer. On the verge of failing her junior year -- thanks to annoying Principal Snyder, who seems to be acting even stranger than usual lately -- Buffy agrees to meet with a tutor. Not helping her studies is the fact that lately she's been exhausted, waking up each morning feeling more tired than she did the night before. To make matters even worse, she's tasked with investigating the disappearance of a child. . . a little girl who happens to have gone missing mere hours before a child vampire surfaced in Sunnydale, accompanied by a wheelchair-bound male who fits Spike's description perfectly. Fighting off exhaustion and uneasy at the prospect of staking a child vamp, Buffy learns that Principal Snyder is the target of a sleep-deprivation spell that has taken over Sunnydale. Putting aside her fear that her tutor is out to get her, and hoping that the sleeping spell is affecting both humans and demons, Buffy investigates Snyder's odd behavior. She follows him to his childhood home to discover that he has arranged to have his abusive mother banished to the demon dimension. Meanwhile, Drusilla, who has been playing mother figure to the child vampire, is learning how difficult it is to be a parent. As sleep takes hold of the citizens of Sunnydale, Buffy begins to realize that unless she breaks the spell soon, the nightmare is just beginning.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Blackout
by Keith R. DeCandidoTHE DARK IS COMING. . . . New York City in 1977 is vampire heaven. Serial killer Son of Sam is often blamed for their hits, and a citywide blackout gives them free reign of the streets, allowing them to get away with murder. Spike and his beloved Drusilla are in the Big Apple taking advantage of the situation, as is Vampire Slayer Nikki Wood, who has hunkered down with her son, Robin, in a Times Square apartment where she thinks they'll be safe. But no matter where she goes, Nikki has to watch her back. Spike has only one thing on his mind: to slay a slayer. Adding to Spike's list of challenges is a corrupt local vampire community that catches wind of his presence, and when they start messing with him, things get bloody interesting.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
by Diana Gallagher"Off the rack gives me hives. "-- Cordelia, "Out of Mind, Out of Sight"The Scoobies are used to being personally affected when demonic nasties come to Sunnydale. And they're used to strange things happening at Sunnydale High -- after all, the place is built over the Hellmouth. But they've sealed the Hellmouth, so they don't think anything's out of the ordinary when items to be sold at the first annual band fund-raising rummage sale are stored in the school basement. . . which, one might recall, is directly above that Hellmouth. Once the rummage sale begins, it's clear the stuff for sale is far from ordinary. People seem to be strangely affected by the items they're buying -- things from undemonic homes, donated by undemonic people. So the reactions these items are producing are, to say the least, unexpected. Willow's acting weird. So's Xander. And even Buffy's mom bought something. . . . The situation quickly spins out of control, and the school has to be quarantined. . . leaving Buffy and Giles to sort things out before whatever demon this is sells them down the river.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Blooded (Buffy the Vampire Slayer #2)
by Christopher Golden Nancy HolderTo catch the spirit of a vampire of Chinese lore who has been unloosed on Sunnydale and is searching for a body to occupy, Buffy has to destroy the love triangle among her, Xander, and Willow.