This essential book critically examines the various ways in which Eastern spiritual traditions have been typically stripped of their spiritual roots, content and context, to be more readily assimilated into secular Western frames of Psychology.
This book aims to be the first comprehensive exposition of "e;mindful journalism"e;-drawn from core Buddhist ethical principles-as a fresh approach to journalism ethics.
Dgen (1200-1253), the founder of the St Zen sect in Japan, is especially known for introducing to Japanese Buddhism many of the texts and practices that he discovered in China.
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.
The Buddhist field of knowledge is now so vast that few can master all of it, and the study and application of its principles must be a matter of choice.
This is a cross-cultural study of the multifaceted relations between Buddhism, its materiality, and instances of religious violence and destruction in East Asia, which remains a vast and still largely unexplored field of inquiry.
The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore drinks and styles of drinking, as well as rationales for abstinence from the earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millennium CE.
Sie war die erste westliche Frau, die tibetisch-buddhistische Nonne wurde, doch diese Ordination war nur eine Etappe in einem Leben voller revolutionärer Taten.
Buddhism, the Internet and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus explores Buddhist practice and teachings in an increasingly networked and digital era.
In this final volume on emptiness, the Dalai Lama skillfully reveals the Prasangikas' view of the ultimate nature of reality so that we will gain the correct view of emptiness, the selflessness of both persons and phenomena, and have the means to eliminate our own and others' duhkha.
This book presents an original exploration of philosophical questions pertaining to the ways we grasp the Absolute by bringing together the Buddhist notion of interpermeation of all phenomena into contemporary strains of thought in continental philosophy.
This unique volume of original essays presents in-depth analyses of representative periods, problems, and debates within the long and rich history of Korean philosophy.
Although Buddhism is often depicted as a religion of meditators and philosophers, some of the earliest writings extant in India offer a very different portrait of the Buddhist practitioner.
This title was first published in 2002: Religion and Social Transformations examines the reciprocal relationship between religion, modernity and social change.
Thousands of readers--from prisoners to priests--have embraced Jerry Braza's insights in this book, adopting and integrating the mindful practices and habits it presents.
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This is the first book-length study in any language of J kei (1155-1213), a prominent Buddhist cleric of the Hoss (Yogcra) school, whose life bridged the momentous transition from Heian (794-1185) to Kamakura (1185-1333) Japan.
When Buddhism came to the West in the 1960s, many were eager to adapt it straightaway to the prevailing social and intellectual currents of its new home.
Japanese Buddhism was introduced to a wide Western audience when a delegation of Buddhist priests attended the World's Parliament of Religions, part of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
How do contemporary Westerners and Tibetans understand not only what it means to be 'Buddhist', but what it means to be hailed as one from 'the West' or from 'Tibet'?
