William M Mcgovern: 2 books
An Introduction to Mahāyāna Buddhism
With especial Reference to Chinese and Japanese Phases
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
William Montgomery McGovern’s Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism was one of the first books on Mahayana Buddhism written for a Western audience. It predates influential English language overviews of Buddhism by D. T. Suzuki, A. Watts, and W. Rahula. The author was born in New York City in 1897 and...
Nilpotent Orbits In Semisimple Lie Algebra
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Through the 1990s, a circle of ideas emerged relating three very different kinds of objects associated to a complex semisimple Lie algebra: nilpotent orbits, representations of a Weyl group, and primitive ideals in an enveloping algebra. The principal aim of this book is to collect together the important...