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In this book, David McMahan offers the first comprehensive attempt to chart the development of "modern Buddhism." His position is critical but empathetic: while he presents modern Buddhism as a construction of numerous parties with varying interests, he...

Meditation, Karma, Zen, Tantric and Nirvana are some of the many Buddhist ideas Westerners hear of frequently, even if their meaning has been lost in translation. This vast and complex non-theistic religion is woven into the fabric of Asian civilisations...

An Archaeological History of Indian Buddhism is a comprehensive survey of Indian Buddhism from its origins in the 6th century BCE, through its ascendance in the 1st millennium CE, and its eventual decline in mainland South Asia by the mid-2nd millennium...

Queens and old crones, Buddhas and goddesses, mothers and wild women. Female deities in Buddhism take many forms to inspire, beguile, rouse and protect us. Enter the magical realm of gently compassionate Kuan Yin from China, meet the elusive golden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808902Author Charles JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Japan's tradition of Shugendo has long been an object of fascination and intrigue among scholars and the general public, yet its historical development remains an enigma. A Path into the Mountains offers a provocative reexamination of the complex social,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808186Author Daniel StuartFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614293927Author Dalai Lama XIVFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Medicine, health, and healing have been central to Buddhism since its origins. Long before the global popularity of mindfulness and meditation, Buddhism provided cultures around the world with conceptual tools to understand illness as well as a range of...

Pyrrhonism is commonly confused with scepticism in Western philosophy. Unlike sceptics, who believe there are no true beliefs, Pyrrhonists suspend judgment about all beliefs, including the belief that there are no true beliefs. Pyrrhonism was developed...

The Lotus Sutra is arguably the most famous of all Buddhist scriptures. Composed in India in the first centuries of the Common Era, it is renowned for its inspiring message that all beings are destined for supreme enlightenment. Here, Donald Lopez...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809022Author Roger JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901032669Author Soko Morinaga RoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint The Buddhist SocietyPublisher The Buddhist SocietyWeight(grams)...

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Alongside Jesus and Muhammad, the Buddha is the most significant figure in the history of religion. Philip Almond's engaging new book is the first to combine a history of early traditions about Siddhartha Gautama's life with an authoritative account of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614295334Author His Holiness the Dalai LamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Is there gender equality in Buddhist traditions? What do Buddhist texts say about women? How have Buddhist women responded to misogyny? Collett is well placed to review both recent scholarship and original writing by and about women in Buddhism. She...

With an estimated 350 million adherents, Buddhism is the fifth largest belief system in the world today. This book explores the roots of this faith, from the life of the Buddha through to the early forms of Buddhism that developed into what is practised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774760048Author BuddhaFormat HardbackPage Count 60Imprint Engage BooksPublisher Engage BooksWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437186Author Hermann HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Black ClassicsPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805789Author Barbara O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Sunthorn Phu (1786-1855) is an unlikely figure through which to understand nineteenth-century Buddhism in Siam. Despite being described as a "drunken writer" by the court astrologer after his death, he is now the national poet of Thailand. Yet the...

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This book was published under the Hibbert Lecture Series, 1881. The volume talks about Buddhism, its origins, and its development as a mainstream religion. The first lecture talks about philosophy during its emerging stage, and it is discussed in...

Centered on the practice of seeking rebirth in the Pure Land paradise Sukhavati, the Amitabha cult has been the dominant form of Buddhism in Korea since the middle of the Silla period (ca. 300-935). In Aspiring to Enlightenment, Richard McBride combines...

Anagarika Dharmapala is one of the most galvanizing figures in Sri Lanka's recent turbulent history. He is widely regarded as the nationalist hero who saved the Sinhala people from cultural collapse and whose "protestant" reformation of Buddhism drove...

This collection of seventeen essays situates modern Shin Buddhist thinker Kiyozawa Manshi (1863-1903) and his new form of spirituality, Seishinshugi, in the broader context of Buddhism and religious thought in modern Japan. The work highlights several...

This ambitious work offers a transnational account of the deity Shinra Myojin, the "god of Silla" worshipped in medieval Japanese Buddhism from the eleventh to sixteenth centuries. Sujung Kim challenges the long-held understanding of Shinra Myojin as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461123586Author FaxianFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

For centuries in China, people beseeched deities to protect the draft animals on which they relied. Across social classes-from peasants plowing the fields to merchants transporting goods through soldiers riding into battle-animals were essential to daily...

For centuries in China, people beseeched deities to protect the draft animals on which they relied. Across social classes-from peasants plowing the fields to merchants transporting goods through soldiers riding into battle-animals were essential to daily...

History in the Soviet Union was a political project. From the Soviet perspective, Buryats, an indigenous Siberian ethnic group, were a "backwards" nationality that was carried along on the inexorable march towards the Communist utopian future. When the...

Hans Penner takes a new look at the classic stories of the life of the Buddha. In the first part of the book, he presents a full account of these stories, drawn from various texts of Theravada Buddhism, the Buddhism of South and Southeast Asia. Penner...

Echoes of Enlightenment: The Life and Legacy of Soenam Peldren explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the discovery of a previously unpublished "liberation story" of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Soenam...

Scholars have long debated the relationship between Buddhist monks and Confucian literati during the late Chos?n (1700-1850), when the Korean state adopted anti-Buddhist policies. On the one hand, it is understood that literati openly displayed hostility...

The popular name for Chan Buddhism, in the West, is Zen Buddhism, as it was Japanese scholars who first introduced Chan Buddhism to the West with this translation. Indeed, chan is a shortened form of the Chinese word channa, rendered from the Sanskrit...

In Song-period China (960-1279 CE), masters in the Chan (Japanese Zen) school of Buddhism were presented as sources of religious authority on par with the Buddha, an almost unthinkably lofty status before the rise of Chan. This claim carried great...

Today, most Uyghurs are Muslims. For centuries, however, Uyghurs were Buddhists. By around 1000 CE, they, like many of their neighbors, had decisively turned toward the Dharma, and a golden age of Uyghur Buddhism flourished under the Mongol empire...