Buddhism category: 3907 books
by Meshel Laurie
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
"Dear Reader – This is not a book about coping with unbelievable busyness. It’s a book about making it stop.
What if I told you that a lot of what keeps you unbelievably busy is not only pointless, but avoidable, nonsensical and entirely driven by your own fears, insecurities and ego?...
Buddhism and Law
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
As the first comprehensive study of Buddhism and law in Asia, this interdisciplinary volume challenges the concept of Buddhism as an apolitical religion without implications for law. Buddhism and Law draws on the expertise of the foremost scholars in Buddhist studies and in law to trace the legal...
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism
History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism fundamentally rethinks the nature of the transgressive theories and practices of the Buddhist Tantric traditions, challenging the notion that the Tantras were "marginal" or primitive and situating them instead—both ideologically and institutionally—within...
by Christmas Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
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. One may choose the magnificent moral philosophy of Theravada, the oldest school, or the Zen training of Japan; or special themes such as the doctrine...
Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter
Religious, Missionary and Colonial Experience in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
This major new work explores the British encounter with Buddhism in nineteenth century Sri Lanka, examining the way Buddhism was represented and constructed in the eyes of the British scholars, officials, travellers and religious seekers who first encountered it.
Tracing the three main historical...
Buddhism in the Modern World
Adaptations of an Ancient Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2003
The history of Buddhism has been characterized by an ongoing tension between attempts to preserve traditional ideals and modes of practice and the need to adapt to changing cultural conditions. Many developments in Buddhist history, such as the infusion of esoteric rituals, the rise of devotionalism...
by Jayeeta Ganguly
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Buddhism, one of the greatest world religions, spans 2500 years of Asian history. It is a diverse complexity of not only doctrines and institutions, but also ritual, moral, devotional and meditative practices. Since the Awakening of Gautama Buddha in the fifth century B.C.E., Buddhism has focused...
Birth in Buddhism
The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Recent decades have seen a groundswell in the Buddhist world, a transnational agitation for better opportunities for Buddhist women. Many of the main players in the transnational nuns movement self-identify as feminists but other participants in this movement may not know or use the language of feminism....
Flowers on the Rock
Global and Local Buddhisms in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
When Sasaki Sōkei-an founded his First Zen Institute of North America in 1930 he suggested that bringing Zen Buddhism to America was like "holding a lotus against a rock and waiting for it to set down roots." Today, Buddhism is part of the cultural and religious mainstream. Flowers on the Rock examines...
After Buddhism
A Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Each time the teachings of the Buddha have entered a new culture outside their Indian birthplace, they have to undergo renewal and reinterpretation so as to gain traction in the new host society. Stephen Batchelor’s work represents a landmark in Buddhism’s sinking roots in the modern west, and...
Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media
The Pixel in the Lotus
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Buddhism, the Internet and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus explores Buddhist practice and teachings in an increasingly networked and digital era. Contributors consider the ways Buddhism plays a role and is present in digital media through a variety of methods including concrete case studies,...
The Faith to Doubt
Glimpses of Buddhist Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Kierkegaard said that faith without doubt is simply credulity, the will to believe too readily, especially without adequate evidence, and that in Doubt can Faith begin.” All people involved in spiritual practice, of whatever persuasion, must confront doubt at one time or another, and find a way...
American Dharma
Buddhism Beyond Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
The past couple of decades have witnessed Buddhist communities both continuing the modernization of Buddhism and questioning some of its limitations. In this fascinating portrait of a rapidly changing religious landscape, Ann Gleig illuminates the aspirations and struggles of younger North American...
The Quantum and the Lotus
A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Matthieu Ricard trained as a molecular biologist, working in the lab of a Nobel prize—winning scientist, but when he read some Buddhist philosophy, he became drawn to Buddhism. Eventually he left his life in science to study with Tibetan teachers, and he is now a Buddhist monk and translator for...