The 14th Dalai Lama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and spiritual leader of Tibetans in exile, is well known in the West, but the 600-year tradition to which he is heir is less familiar. In this book...
Modernizing and colonizing forces brought nineteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhists both challenges and opportunities. How did Buddhists deal with social and economic change; new forms of political, rel...
With an estimated 350 million adherents, Buddhism is the fifth largest belief system in the world. This book explores the roots of this faith, from the life of the Buddha through to the early forms of...
"Secrets of the Sacred" illuminates the role of icons and relics in Buddhist writing and practice, with particular attention to the transformation of inanimate material images into potent icons animat...
Buddhism is rich in fascinating practices and rituals. From well known rituals such as chanting sutras or painting mandalas to lesser known rites associated with death or stupa consecration, or derive...
Novel from the Mormon teacher, editor and writer, considered one of the most prominent fiction writers of the "Home Literature" period of Mormon Literature.
Between 300 BCE and 200 CE, concepts and practices of dharma attained literary prominence throughout India. Both Buddhist and Brahmanical authors sought to clarify and classify their central concerns,...
"Master Tang Hoi explores the life and teachings of Tang Hoi. The earliest known Buddhist meditation master of Vietnam, Tang Hoi's teachings are as insightful and valuable today as in the third centur...
"Life is a drama of encounters," writes Daisaku Ikeda at the beginning of this dialogue: "Beautiful encounters. Momentary encounters. Each person's drama is unique." This particular encounter, between...
A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support of a supposedly peaceful religion for Jap...
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