Buddhism
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Teaching Awareness In The Buddhist Tradition: Essays In Honour Of Professor Corrado Pensa
Chiara Neri, Francesco Sferra, Joseph Goldstein, Bhikkhu Analayo, Giuliano Giustarini, Chiara Letizia, Bruno Lo Turco, Filippo Marsili, Marta Sernesi, Christina Feldman, Larry Rosenberg, Andreas Schnoller
This book provides important contributions to understanding the teaching of awareness or mindfulness (Pāli sati, Sanskrit smr̥ti) in Buddhism and in related traditions, examined in original ways in a collection of articles that approach this theme from different perspectives: philosophical, philo...
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The Gathering
Sasson's new book is a retelling of the story of the women's request for ordination. Inspired in particular by the Therigatha and building on years of research and experience in the field, Sasson follows Vimala, Patachara, Bhadda Kundalakesa, and many others as they walk through the forest to reques...
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Buddhist Violence and Religious Authority
Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts, Stephen Jenkins, John M. Thompson, Ben Schonthal, Matthew King, Nathan McGovern, Blaze Marpet, Grisel d'Elena, Matthew Walton, Julie Ingersoll, Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Jamel Velji, Abby Kulisz, Andrew Atwell
Margo Kitts, Mark Juergensmeyer
This volume is a tribute to the work of Michael Jerryson, one of the initiators of the academic discourse on Buddhism and violence whose intellectual pursuits have resulted in a trailblazing shift in the academic study of Buddhism. Preconceived in the modern west as a pacific, chiefly meditative pra...
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Absolutization
Robert M. Ellis, Iain McGilchrist
What do dogma, repression and conflict have in common? They all result from human judgement blocked from wider understanding by a false assumption of completeness. This book puts forward a theory of absolutization, bringing together a multi-disciplinary understanding of this central flaw in human ju...
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Chinese Buddhism Today
Yu-Shuang Yao, Richard Gombrich
Fo Guang Shan, "Buddha's Light Mountain", is a Buddhist movement founded in Taiwan in 1967 and led by the Ven Hsing Yun (b.1927), who had fled to Taiwan from mainland China in 1949. It stands in the Chinese tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism and more specifically is a form of Buddhism which in English i...
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Narrative Visions and Visual Narratives in Indian Buddhism
This volume explores the interaction between text and image in Indian Buddhist contexts, including not only the complex relationship between verbal stories and visual representations at Indian sites, but also the ways in which visual imagery is used within textual narratives. The chapters are author...
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Buddhism in Five Minutes
Cathy Cantwell, Elizabeth J. Harris, Denise Cush, Asanga Tilakaratne, Kevin Trainor, Sarah Shaw, Brian Black, Peter Harvey, Dhivan Thomas Jones, Christopher V. Jones, Ronit Wang, Paulina Kolata, Ven Jianchengshi, Rupert Gethin, Arjuna Ranatunga, Tse-fu Kuan, Ven Renru Tang, Ann Heirman, Alice Collett, Mahinda Deegalle, Hiroko Kawanami, Wendy Dossett, Nick Swann, Christian Luczanits, Tim Stephens, Sophie Baker, Pyi Phyo Kyaw, Amy Lagenberg, Sal Campbell, Damien Vincent Keown, Alex Owens, Ralph Quinlan
In Buddhism in Five Minutes, academic specialists offer answers to over 80 questions about Buddhism that people curious about Buddhism might ask. The questions cover the Buddha, what the Buddha taught, Buddhist monasticism and the role of lay people, the historical development of Buddhism, Buddhist...
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Red Book, Middle Way
Jung's Red Book, finally published only in 2009, is a highly ambiguous text describing a succession of extraordinary visions, together with Jung's interpretation of them. Red Book, Middle Way offers a new interpretation of Jung's Red Book, in terms of the Middle Way, as a universal principle and emb...
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Buddhist Responses to Religious Diversity
Douglas Duckworth, Abraham Velez de Cea, Elizabeth J. Harris, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Perry Schmidt-Leuikel, Carola Roloff, Rachel H Pang, John Makransky, Christopher Ives, Asanga Tilakaratne, Rita Gross
Douglas Duckworth, Abraham Velez de Cea, Elizabeth J. Harris
This volume discusses contemporary Buddhist responses to religious diversity from Theravādin and Tibetan Buddhist perspectives. Buddhist attitudes toward other religious traditions (and its own) are unquestionably diverse, and have undergone changes throughout historical eras and geographic spaces,...
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The Buddha's Path of Peace
In this book the core of the Buddha's teaching is comprehensively cast in modern models of thought - borrowed from science and philosophy - and informed by contemporary concerns. It sets out the basic instructions for the life-changing way of the Buddha (the so-called 'Noble Eightfold Path') wholly...