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  • A History of Uyghur Buddhism

    by Johan Elverskog ...
    Winner, 2026 Joseph Levenson Prize (China, pre-1900), Association for Asian StudiesToday, 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. Dwelling along the Silk Road in what is now northwestern China, they ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road

    by Johan Elverskog ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also to reaffirm the stereotypes of Buddhism as a peaceful, rational philosophy and Islam as an inherently ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Buddha's Footprint

    An Environmental History of Asia

    by Johan Elverskog ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    A corrective to the contemporary idea that Buddhism has always been an environmentally friendly religionIn the current popular imagination, Buddhism is often understood to be a religion intrinsically concerned with the environment. The Dharma, the name given to Buddhist teachings by Buddhists, states that all things are interconnected. Therefore, Buddhists are perceived as extending compassion ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • The Buddha's Footprint

    An Environmental History of Asia

    by Johan Elverskog ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    A corrective to the contemporary idea that Buddhism has always been an environmentally friendly religionIn the current popular imagination, Buddhism is often understood to be a religion intrinsically concerned with the environment. The Dharma, the name given to Buddhist teachings by Buddhists, states that all things are interconnected. Therefore, Buddhists are perceived as extending compassion ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road

    by Johan Elverskog ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also to reaffirm the stereotypes of Buddhism as a peaceful, rational philosophy and Islam as an inherently ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom

    by Jack Weatherford ...
    A landmark biography by the New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World that reveals how Genghis harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known.Throughout history the world's greatest conquerors have made their mark not just on the battlefield, but in the societies they have transformed. Genghis Khan conquered by arms ... Read more

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  • The Tibetans

    by Matthew T. Kapstein ...
    Series series Peoples of Asia
    This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to Tibet, its culture and history.A clear and comprehensive overview of Tibet, its culture and history.Responds to current interest in Tibet due to continuing publicity about Chinese rule and growing interest in Tibetan Buddhism.Explains recent events within the context of Tibetan history.Situates Tibet in relation to other Asian ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • A Historical Atlas of Tibet

    by Karl E. Ryavec ...
    This pioneering work documents cultural and religious sites across the Tibetan Plateau and its bordering regions from the Paleolithic Era to today.Western fascination with Tibet has soared in recent decades, yet this historic and globally celebrated region has barely been mapped. With this groundbreaking atlas, Karl E. Ryavec sweeps aside the image of Tibet as Shangri-La, offering a comprehensive ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Buddhist Warfare

    by Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    Though traditionally regarded as a peaceful religion, Buddhism has a dark side. On multiple occasions over the past fifteen centuries, Buddhist leaders have sanctioned violence, and even war. The eight essays in this book focus on a variety of Buddhist traditions, from antiquity to the present, and show that Buddhist organizations have used religious images and rhetoric to support military ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD

  • Islam and Tibet – Interactions along the Musk Routes

    by Anna Akasoy ...
    The first encounters between the Islamic world and Tibet took place in the course of the expansion of the Abbasid Empire in the eighth century. Military and political contacts went along with an increasing interest in the other side. Cultural exchanges and the transmission of knowledge were facilitated by a trading network, with musk constituting one of the main trading goods from the Himalayas, ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • How Asia Found Herself

    A Story of Intercultural Understanding

    by Nile Green ...
    A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continentThe nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it saw Christian missionaries spread printing across Asia to bring Bibles to the colonized. The unintended consequence was an Asian communications revolution: ... Read more

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  • Antiquity Comes Full Circle

    by Easton Hamilton ...
    This unusual book is the second of a unique trilogy, which takes you down the corridors of the past, peaking through many windows, right from the beginning of civilisation, up to the present time. Easton Hamilton makes a series of interesting observations where he dares to suggest that the eastern contribution to our modern world has not been adequately acknowledged and as a consequence many of ... Read more

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