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  • Minding the Buddha's Business

    Essays in Honor of Gregory Schopen

    Edited by Daniel Boucher, Shayne Clarke ...
    Series series Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
    Colleagues and former students of Gregory Schopen honor his path-breaking contributions to Buddhist studies with these articles on the early Mahayana, the monastic codes, and Buddhism’s art-historical and epigraphical remains.This volume honors the profoundly transformative influence of Gregory Schopen’s many contributions to Buddhist studies. Eighteen articles by former students and colleagues ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    A Biography

    by David Gordon White ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    The rise, fall, and modern resurgence of an enigmatic book revered by yoga enthusiasts around the worldConsisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice. As David Gordon White demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mahayana Buddhism

    The Doctrinal Foundations

    by Paul Williams ...
    Series series The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices
    Originating in India, Mahayana Buddhism spread across Asia, becoming the prevalent form of Buddhism in Tibet and East Asia. Over the last twenty-five years Western interest in Mahayana has increased considerably, reflected both in the quantity of scholarly material produced and in the attraction of Westerners towards Tibetan Buddhism and Zen.Paul Williams’ Mahayana Buddhism is widely regarded as ... Read more

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  • The Birth of Insight

    Meditation, Modern Buddhism & the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw

    by Erik Braun ...
    Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see it as the Buddha's most important gift to humanity. In the first book to examine how this practice came to play such a dominant—and relatively ... Read more

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  • Prisoners of Shangri-La

    Tibetan Buddhism and the West

    by Donald S. Lopez ...
    "Lively and engaging . . . raises important questions about how Eastern religions are often co-opted, assimilated and misunderstood by Western culture." — Publishers WeeklyDonald Lopez provides the first cultural history of the strange encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Charting the flights of Western fantasies of Tibet and its Buddhist legacy, Lopez presents fanciful visions of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Superiority Conceit in Buddhist Traditions

    A Historical Perspective

    by Bhikkhu Analayo ...
    Renowned scholar-monk writes accessibly on some of the most contentious topics in Buddhism—guaranteed to ruffle some feathers.Armed with his rigorous examination of the canonical records, respected scholar-monk Bhikkhu Analayo explores—and sharply criticizes—four examples of what he terms “superiority conceit” in Buddhism:the androcentric tendency to prevent women from occupying leadership roles, ... Read more

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  • Hungry Ghosts

    by Andy Rotman ...
    Classical stories and depictions of hungry ghosts not only tell us a great deal about Buddhism in the ancient world—they also speak to the modern human condition.The realm of hungry ghosts is one of the unfortunate realms of rebirth in the Buddhist cycle of existence, and those reborn there are said to have led lives consumed by greed and spite. Hungry ghosts are often described as having enormous ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Tibetan Zen

    Discovering a Lost Tradition

    by Sam van Schaik ...
    Until the early twentieth century, hardly any traces of the Tibetan tradition of Chinese Chan Buddhism, or Zen, remained. Then the discovery of a sealed cave in Dunhuang, full of manuscripts in various languages dating from the first millennium CE, transformed our understanding of early Zen. This book translates some of the earliest surviving Tibetan Zen manuscripts preserved in Dunhuang. The ... Read more

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  • Meditations of the Pali Tradition

    Illuminating Buddhist Doctrine, History, and Practice

    by L. S. Cousins ...
    A groundbreaking and detailed presentation of the rich system of meditation traditions that have come to us through the Pali tradition of Buddhism.Meditations of the Pali Tradition, from consummate scholar of Pali Buddhism L. S. Cousins, explores the history of meditation practice in early or Pali Buddhism, which was established in various parts of South and Central Asia from the time of the ... Read more

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  • Passionate Enlightenment

    Women in Tantric Buddhism

    by Miranda Shaw ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    The now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist TantraThe crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for the sexual practices of its adherents, who strive to transform erotic passion into spiritual bliss. Historians of religion have long held that this attempted enlightenment was for men only, and that women in the ... Read more

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  • Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism

    A Social-Psychological Exploration of the Origins of a World Religion

    by Torkel Brekke ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community. It also addresses the more general and theoretically controversial question of how world religions come into ... Read more

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  • Studies in Jaina History and Culture

    Disputes and Dialogues

    Edited by Peter Flügel ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies
    The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known Indian religion assuming a significant place in religious studies.Studies in Jaina History and Culture breaks new ground by investigating the doctrinal differences and debates amongst the Jains rather than presenting Jainism as a seamless whole whose doctrinal core has remained virtually unchanged ... Read more

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