The first English translation of the Bhadrakalpika Sutra, in which the Buddha recounts how the thousand Buddhas of this era will reach enlightenment. An extraordinary glimpse of the vastness and compa...
Although it is generally believed that the Manchus controlled the Mongols through their patronage of Tibetan Buddhism, scant attention has been paid to the Mongol view of the Qing imperial project. In...
The historical foundations of this important world religion, including the life and teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, are explored. The authors examine the spread of Buddhism int...
Mediating the Power of Buddhas offers a fascinating analysis of the seventh-century ritual manual, the Manjusrimulakalpa. This medieval text is intended to reveal the path into a ritual universe where...
Buddha's Teachings is a collection of writings on the essence of Buddhism, selected and edited from the vast Buddhist canon, and presented in a concise, easy-to-read, and nonsectarian format. It also ...
This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory. In a study that is textual, historical and anthropological,...
Naxos AudioBooks launches a new 1 CD introductory series "In a Nutshell" beginning with "Karma and Rebirth". Buddhist teacher and writer Jinananda considers the history, the tradition and the more con...
A great deal of Buddhist literature and scholarly writing about Buddhism of the past 150 years reflects, and indeed constructs, a historically unique modern Buddhism, even while purporting to represen...
"The soundness of the scholarship is superb and wonderfully exemplary. Strong's firm command of the relevant sources, some very old and some very contemporary, is evident at every level and in every c...
Rich in primary "sources" and featuring contributions from scholars on both sides of the Pacific, "Issei Buddhism in the Americas" upends boundaries and categories that have tied Buddhism to Asia and ...
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