Lotus Of The Wonderful Law
The Lotus of the Wonderful, or Mystic, Law is one of the most important religious books of the Far East and is also the chief scripture of Buddhism in China. This text is a translation for Western stu...
Buddhist Thought: A Complete Introduction To The Indian Tradition
"Buddhist Thought" guides the reader toward an understanding and appreciation of the central concepts of classical Indian Buddhist thought, tracing their development from the time of Buddha to the lat...
Miniatures Of A Zen Master
For more than four decades, Robert Aitken Roshi has taught thousands of people the Buddhist practice of Zen meditation, and has led hundreds through their practice of the study of traditional koans. H...
Women Under The Bo Tree: Buddhist Nuns In Sri Lanka
Women under the bo tree examines the tradition of female world-renunciation in Buddhist Sri Lanka. The study is textual, historical, and anthropological, and links ancient tradition with contemporary ...
A Manual Of Buddhism: In Its Modern Development; Translated From Singhalesse Mss
This is one of the earliest works on Buddhism and a pioneer attempt to analyse the deeds and doctrines attributed to Gotama. It also gives a compendium on the ontology and ethics of Buddhism with an a...
Buddhist Goddesses Of India
The Indian Buddhist world abounds with goddesses--voluptuous tree spirits, maternal nurturers, potent healers and protectors, transcendent wisdom figures, cosmic mothers of liberation, and dancing fem...
Buddhism In Practice
This anthology illustrates the vast scope of Buddhist practice in Asia, past and present, by presenting a selection of forty-eight translated texts including hagiographies, monastic rules, pilgrimage ...
Encyclopedia Of Buddhism
The Routledge "Encyclopedia of Buddhism" is a complete, careful, accurate and up-to-date one-volume desk reference, documenting the history, doctrines, schools, rituals, sacred places, basic ideas and...
Buddhism After Patriarch: A Feminist History, Analysis, And Reconstruction Of Buddhism
Surveys both the part women have played in Buddhism historically and what Buddhism might become in its post-patriarchal future.
Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith In Early Indian Buddhism
This book offers a new approach to understanding Buddhist lay and monastic practice by recognizing the crucial role that visual practices played in Indian Buddhism in the early centuries of the Common...
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