Buddhism

The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, which was unknown to the Western world until its first publication in 1954, speaks to the quintessence of the Supreme Path, or Mahayana, and fully reveals the yogic method of attaining Enlightenment.

We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning.

As a religion concerned with universal liberation, Zen grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism.

A great deal of Buddhist literature and scholarly writing about Buddhism of the past 150 years reflects, and indeed constructs, a historically unique modern Buddhism, even while purporting to represent ancient tradition, timeless teaching, or the "e;essentials"e; of Buddhism.

Western esotericism has now emerged as an academic study in its own right, combining spirituality with an empirical observation of the natural world while also relating the humanity to the universe through a harmonious celestial order.

The Buddhist philosophical tradition is vast, internally diverse, and comprises texts written in a variety of canonical languages.

Enlightenment in Dispute is the first comprehensive study of the revival of Chan Buddhism in seventeenth-century China.

In Travels in the Netherworld, Bryan J.

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.

Extending their successful series of collections on Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright present a fifth volume, on what may be the most important topic of all - Zen Masters.

This rendering of the Sugata Saurabha, in a long line of accounts of the Buddha's life dating back almost 2,000 years, may be the last ever to be produced that conforms to the traditions of Indic classic poetry.

Fourteen years ago, a corpus of bamboo-strip texts was found in a late-fourth-century-BCE tomb at Jingmen, Hubei province in central China.

Many Western visitors to Japan have been struck by the numerous cemeteries for aborted fetuses, which are characterized by throngs of images of the Bodhisattva Jizo, usually dressed in red baby aprons or other baby garments, and each dedicated to an individual fetus.

To many Westerners, the most appealing teachings of the Buddhist tradition pertain to ethics.

The Indian philosopher Acharya Nagarjuna (c.

Here is the first full-length study of Ippolito Desideri, a Jesuit explorer and missionary who traveled in Tibet from 1715 to 1721.

This volume collects essays by philosophers and scholars working at the interface of Western philosophy and Buddhist Studies.

This book provides an in-depth textual and literary analysis of the Blue Cliff Record (Chinese Biyanlu, Japanese Hekiganroku), a seminal Chan/Zen Buddhist collection of commentaries on one hundred gongan/koan cases, considered in light of historical, cultural, and intellectual trends from the Song dynasty (960-1279).

The path of practice as taught in ancient India by Gotama Buddha was open to both women and men.

In 1654 Zen Master Yinyuan traveled from China to Japan.

The Training Anthology--or Siksa-samuccaya--is a collection of quotations from Buddhist sutras with illuminating and insightful commentary by the eighth-century North Indian master Santideva.

The Training Anthology--or Siksa-samuccaya--is a collection of quotations from Buddhist sutras with illuminating and insightful commentary by the eighth-century North Indian master Santideva.

Throughout the past millennium, certain Tibetan Buddhist yogins have taken on profoundly norm-overturning modes of dress and behavior, including draping themselves in human remains, consuming filth, provoking others to violence, and even performing sacrilege.

Thirty years ago, "e;mindfulness"e; was a Buddhist principle mostly obscure to the west.

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.

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives.

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives.

Buddhist studies is a rapidly changing field of research, constantly transforming and adapting to new scholarship.

By the early twenty-first century, a phenomenon that once was inconceivable had become nearly commonplace in American society: the public spiritual teacher who neither belongs to, nor is authorized by a major religious tradition.

As an incredibly diverse religious system, Buddhism is constantly changing.

Envisioning a Tibetan Luminary examines the religious biography of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), the most significant modern figure representing the Tibetan Bon religion-a vital minority tradition that is underrepresented in Tibetan studies.

In this wide-ranging exploration of the creation and use of Buddhist art in Andhra Pradesh, India, Catherine Becker examines how material remains and visual experiences shape and reveal essential human concerns.

The Buddha Party tells the story of how the People's Republic of China employs propaganda to define Tibetan Buddhist belief and sway opinion within the country and abroad.

The Buddha Party tells the story of how the People's Republic of China employs propaganda to define Tibetan Buddhist belief and sway opinion within the country and abroad.

Yogacara is one of the most influential philosophical systems of Indian Buddhism.

Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history.

Buddhist violence is not a well-known concept.

Winner of the Association of Asian Studies's Southeast Conference Book Prize (2014)Does imagery help or hinder the enlightenment experience?

Scholars have long been intrigued by the Buddha's defining action (karma) as intention.

The path of practice as taught in ancient India by Gotama Buddha was open to both women and men.

This book provides a detailed history of Hindu goddess traditions with a special focus on the local goddesses of Andhra Pradesh, past and present.

Dogen and Soto Zen builds upon and further refines a continuing wave of enthusiastic popular interest and scholarly developments in Western appropriations of Zen.

Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America explores the challenges that Asian immigrants face when their religion--and consequently culture--is "e;remade in the U.

The Linji lu, or Record of Linji, ranks among the most famous and influential texts of the Chan and Zen traditions.

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Geschichte und spirituelle Tiefe einer der ältesten religiösen Traditionen der Welt: die Bön-Religion.

The paradigmatic Buddhist is the monk.

Since Zen Buddhism first captivated the attention of Western seekers the dominant discourse about this sect has been romantic, idealistic, and utopian.

This is a comprehensive study of Hongzhou school, which under the leadership of Mazu Daoyi (709-788) and his disciples emerged as the dominant tradition of Chan (Zen) Buddhism in China during the middle part of the Tang dynasty (618-907).

Dogen (1200-1253), the founder of the Soto Zen sect in Japan, is especially known for introducing to Japanese Buddhism many of the texts and practices that he discovered in China.

Virtuous Bodies breaks new ground in the field of Buddhist ethics by investigating the diverse roles bodies play in ethical development.