This book explores dilemmas that Buddhism faces in relation to the continuing ethnic conflict and violence in contemporary Sri Lanka. Using an interdisciplinary approach, prominent scholars in the fie...
This pioneering study, still the most comprehensive to date, chronicles the history of Theravada Buddhism in Burma, based on epigraphic, archaeological and literary sources, in particular through exam...
Toronto Sustains A Remarkable Diversity Of Distinct Buddhist Communities. Over 60 Buddhist temples and associations represent a plurality of ethnic, national, and linguistic identities. Here, for the ...
Shifting Shape, Shaping Text examines the fox koan in relation to philosophical and institutional issues facing the Ch'an/Zen tradition in both Sung China and medieval and contemporary Japan.
Some say that the Buddha was a man--a good, holy, or wise man, but just a man. Others may think that he is the Buddhist version of God. But the Buddha is neither man nor God. Born just as we are born,...
This book analyses the moral theory of the seventh century Indian Mahayana master, Santideva. Santideva is the author of the well-known religious poem the "Bodhicaryavatara (Entering the Path of Enlig...
World Conqueror and World Renouncer is the first comprehensive and authoritative work on the relationship between Buddhism and the polity (political organization) in Thailand. The book conveys the his...
Socially Engaged Buddhism is an introduction to the contemporary movement of Buddhists, East and West, who actively engage with the problems of the world--social, political, economic, and environmenta...
"The Politics of Buddhist Organizations in Taiwan" looks at a relatively unexplored aspect of modern Taiwan: the influence of religion on politics. Although much has been written on the contribution o...
"What was it about Ruth that drew me back, year after year, for almost three decades?" Sandy Boucher asks herself early in Dancing in the Dharma. Delving into Denison's dramatic and sometimes tragic p...
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