Increasingly, adolescents and young adults in the United States are racially and socioeconomically diverse, while the teaching population remains predominantly white and middle class.
This fourth and final Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics volume provides, through extensive passages, a window into the works of the great thinkers from the flowering of philosophy in classical India.
In 1631, at the epicenter of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the Cautio Criminalis, a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths.
The present series of 75 volumes is compiled, edited and arranged encounter wise alphabetical order dealing with various aspects of Buddha, Buddhists, and Buddhism viz.
Navigating between society's moral panics about the influence of violent videogames and philosophical texts about self-cultivation in the martial arts, The Virtual Ninja Manifesto asks whether the figure of the 'virtual ninja' can emerge as an aspirational figure in the twenty-first century.
This unique book brings a fresh interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of ancient Chinese history, creating a historical model for the emergence of cultural mainstays by applying recent dramatic findings in the fields of neuroscience and cultural evolution.
As art therapy rapidly makes its mark across Asia, this book documents how the field of art therapy is taking shape as both a profession and a discipline in this region.
The present series of 75 volumes is compiled, edited and arranged encounter wise alphabetical order dealing with various aspects of Buddha, Buddhists, and Buddhism viz.
Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusionand why giving it up can free us from sufferingFrom self-realization and self-promotion to self-help and the selfie, the modern world encourages us to be self-obsessed.
In this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina), author of over a hundred works on theology, logic, medicine, and mathematics.
The present series of 75 volumes is compiled, edited and arranged encounter wise alphabetical order dealing with various aspects of Buddha, Buddhists, and Buddhism viz.
Theistic Vedanta originated with Ramanuja (1077-1157), who was one of the foremost theologians of Visistadvaita Vedanta and also an initiate of the Srivaisnava sectarian tradition in South India.
Die Huayan-Lehre stellt einen Höhepunkt in der Ausformung des vornehmlich buddhistisch geprägten Denkens Chinas im ersten Jahrtausend unserer Zeitrechnung dar.
The Sanskrit narrative text Devi Mahatmya, "e;The Greatness of The Goddess,"e; extols the triumphs of an all-powerful Goddess, Durga, over universe-imperiling demons.
Tibetan Buddhism derives from the confluence of Buddhism and yoga which started to arrive in Tibet from India briefly around the late eighth century and then more steadily from the thirteenth century onwards.
Having masterfully translated a wide range of ancient Chinese poets and philosophers, David Hinton is uniquely qualified to offer the definitive contemporary English version of Lao Tzu''s Tao Te Ching.
