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New & Published Titles:
Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet
This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature, and what this reveals about its medicine and religion....
ISBN: 978-0-415-44115-5 | Published April 25th 2008 by Routledge.
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The Cultural Practices of Modern Chinese Buddhism
Attuning the Dharma
Buddhism in China during the late Qing and Republican period remained a powerful cultural and religious force. Francesca Tarocco is a rising star in this...
ISBN: 978-0-415-37503-0 | Published December 21st 2007 by Routledge.
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New Approaches through Psychology and Textual Analysis of Pali, Chinese and Sanskrit Sources
This book identifies what is meant by sati (smrti), usually translated as ‘mindfulness’, in early Buddhism, and examines its soteriological functions and its central role...
ISBN: 978-0-415-43737-0 | Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge.
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Environmental Ethics in Buddhism
A Virtues Approach
Environmental Ethics in Buddhism presents a logical and thorough examination of the metaphysical and ethical dimensions of early Buddhist literature. The author determines the meaning...
ISBN: 978-0-415-39679-0 | Published August 17th 2007 by Routledge.
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Buddhist Rituals of Death and Rebirth
Contemporary Sri Lankan Practice and Its Origins
In Buddhist thought and practice, death has always been a central concept. This book provides a careful and thorough analysis of the rituals and social...
ISBN: 978-0-415-39496-3 | Published July 16th 2007 by Routledge.
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Buddhism, Power and Political Order
Weber's claim that Buddhism is an otherworldly religion is only partially true. Early sources indicate that the Buddha was sometimes diverted from supramundane interests to...
ISBN: 978-0-415-41018-2 | Published May 30th 2007 by Routledge.
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The Origin of Buddhist Meditation
Having identified early material that goes back to the Buddha himself, the author argues that the two teachers of the Buddha were historical figures. Based...
ISBN: 978-0-415-42387-8 | Published April 19th 2007 by Routledge.
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The Biographies of Rechungpa
The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography
This book traces the lifestory of Rechungpa (1084-1161) - the student of the famous teacher Milarepa - using rare and little-known manuscripts, and discovers how...
ISBN: 978-0-415-76995-2 | Published February 23rd 2007 by Routledge.
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Towards an Understanding of Wat Phra Dhammakaya and Santi Asoke
Vastly different in belief and practice, two new Buddhist religious movements in Thailand, namely the Wat Phra Dhammakaya and Santi Asoke emerged in Thailand in...
ISBN: 978-0-415-40869-1 | Published December 18th 2006 by Routledge.
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Buddhist Nuns in Taiwan and Sri Lanka
A Critique of the Feminist Perspective
Taking a comparative approach, this fieldwork-based study explores the lives and thoughts of Buddhist nuns in present-day Taiwan and Sri Lanka. The author examines the...
ISBN: 978-0-415-39042-2 | Published October 18th 2006 by Routledge.
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Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism
The Doctrinal History of Nirvana
Soonil Hwang studies the doctrinal development of nirvana in the Pali Nikaaya and subsequent tradition and compares it with the Chinese aagama and its traditional...
ISBN: 978-0-415-35550-6 | Published August 9th 2006 by Routledge.
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Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal
The Fifteenth-Century Reformation of Newar Buddhism
Will Tuladhar-Douglas sheds new light on an important branch of Mahayana Buddhism and establishes the existence, character and causes of a renaissance of Buddhism in the...ISBN: 978-0-415-35919-1 | Published August 3rd 2006 by Routledge.
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Buddhism in the Public Sphere
Reorienting Global Interdependence
The core teachings and practices of Buddhism are systematically directed toward developing keen and caring insight into the relational or interdependent nature of all things....
ISBN: 978-0-415-77052-1 | Published June 30th 2006 by Routledge.
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Beyond Enlightenment
Buddhism, Religion, Modernity
The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally...
ISBN: 978-0-415-37294-7 | Published May 3rd 2006 by Routledge.
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Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
The medieval period of Japanese religious history is commonly known as one in which there was a radical transformation of the religious culture. This book...
ISBN: 978-0-415-35917-7 | Published March 21st 2006 by Routledge.
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Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter
Religious, Missionary and Colonial Experience in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka
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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-37125-4 | Published March 15th 2006 by Routledge.
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Buddhism in Canada
Buddhism has become a major religion in Canada over the last half-century. The 'ethnic Buddhism' associated with immigrant Asian people is the most important aspect,...ISBN: 978-0-415-32279-9 | Published March 9th 2006 by Routledge.
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Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka
Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book explores the dilemmas that Buddhism faces in relation to the continuing ethnic conflict and violence in modern Sri Lanka. Prominent...
ISBN: 978-0-415-35920-7 | Published March 7th 2006 by Routledge.
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Buddhist Thought and Applied Psychological Research
Transcending the Boundaries
Written by leading scholars and including a foreword by the Dalai Lama, this book explores the interface between Buddhist studies and the uses of Buddhist...
ISBN: 978-0-415-37431-6 | Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge.
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Moral Theory in Santideva's Siksasamuccaya
Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue
This important text analyzes the moral theory of the seventh century Indian Mahayana master, Santideva, author of the well-known religious poem, the Bodhicaryavatara (Entering the Path...
ISBN: 978-0-415-34696-2 | Published December 8th 2005 by Routledge.
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How Buddhism Began
The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings
Written by one of the world's top scholars in the field of Pali Buddhism, this new and updated edition of How Buddhism Began, discusses various important...
ISBN: 978-0-415-37123-0 | Published December 1st 2005 by Routledge.
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Buddhist Studies from India to America
Essays in Honor of Charles S. Prebish
Buddhist Studies from India to America covers four important areas of Buddhist Studies: Vinaya Studies and Ethics, the history of Buddhist schools, Western Buddhism, and...
ISBN: 978-0-415-37124-7 | Published November 4th 2005 by Routledge.
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The Buddhist Theory of Self-Cognition
This highly original work explores the concept of self-awareness or self-consciousness in Buddhist thought. Its central thesis is that the Buddhist theory of self-cognition originated...ISBN: 978-0-415-34431-9 | Published October 24th 2005 by Routledge.
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Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness
To Be, Not to Be or Neither
This is an introduction to the Buddhist philosophy of Emptiness which explores a number of themes in connection with the concept of Emptiness, a highly technical but...ISBN: 978-0-415-35252-9 | Published March 21st 2005 by Routledge.
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The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon
David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby...ISBN: 978-0-415-34652-8 | Published February 22nd 2005 by Routledge.
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The Making of a Philosophical Tradition
Early Buddhist Metaphysics provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the earliest...ISBN: 978-0-415-34519-4 | Published February 11th 2005 by Routledge.
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The Notion of Ditthi in Theravada Buddhism
The Point of View
The notion of 'view' or 'opinion' (ditthi) as an obstacle to 'seeing things as they are' is a central concept in Buddhist thought. This book...ISBN: 978-0-415-34293-3 | Published December 23rd 2004 by Routledge.
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Its Evolution from Early Buddhism to the Trikaya Theory
Guang Xing gives an analysis of one of the fundamental Mahayana Buddhist teachings, namely the three bodies of the Buddha (the trikaya Theory), which is considered the...ISBN: 978-0-415-33344-3 | Published November 25th 2004 by Routledge.
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Tibetan and Zen Buddhism in Britain
Transplantation, Development and Adaptation
This book analyses the transplantation, development and adaptation of the two largest Tibetan and Zen Buddhist organizations currently active on the British religious landscape: the...ISBN: 978-0-415-29765-3 | Published December 11th 2003 by Routledge.
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Developments in Australian Buddhism
Facets of the Diamond
This book examines the adaptation of Buddhism to the Australian sociocultural context. To gain insight into this process of cross-cultural adaptation, issues arising in the...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1582-4 | Published September 19th 2002 by Routledge.
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Empty Vision
Metaphor and Visionary Imagery in Mahayana Buddhism
Visual metaphors in a number of Mahayana sutras construct a discourse in which visual perception serves as a model for knowledge and enlightenment. In the...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1489-6 | Published June 13th 2002 by Routledge.
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The Glorious Deeds of Purna
A Translation and Study of the Purnavadana
By providing an annotated translation of, and applying the methods of literary criticism to, a first-century account of the life of the saint Purna, this...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1082-9 | Published November 22nd 1999 by Routledge.
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Buddhist Theology
Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars
Scholars of Buddhism, themselves Buddhist, here seek to apply the critical tools of the academy to reassess the truth and transformative value of their tradition...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1203-8 | Published November 5th 1999 by Routledge.
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The Sound of Liberating Truth
Buddhist-Christian Dialogues in Honor of Frederick J. Streng
Offers essays and dialogues by well-known Buddhist and Christian scholars on topics that were of primary interest to Frederick J. Streng, in whose honour the...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1121-5 | Published July 20th 1999 by Routledge.
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Emptiness Appraised
A Critical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy
Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence - entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1066-9 | Published June 22nd 1999 by Routledge.
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Pain and Its Ending
The Four Noble Truths in the Theravada Buddhist Canon
Demonstrates how the four noble truths are used thorughout the Pali canon as a symbol of Buddha's enlightenment and as a doctrine within a larger...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1065-2 | Published June 11th 1999 by Routledge.
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Imaging Wisdom
Seeing and Knowing in the Art of Indian Buddhism
This book contributes to the history of religions and Buddhist studies fields by focussing on what is a far too frequently ignored aspect of religious...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1083-6 | Published June 4th 1999 by Routledge.
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Women in the Footsteps of the Buddha
Struggle for Liberation in the Therigatha
A detailed exploration of the quest for liberation on the part of the early bhikkunis. Only text in the Buddhist tradition of known female authorship....ISBN: 978-0-7007-0962-5 | Published January 27th 1998 by Routledge.
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Buddhism and Human Rights
It is difficult to think of a more urgent question for Buddhism in the late twentieth century than human rights. The political, ethical and philosophical...ISBN: 978-0-7007-0954-0 | Published November 21st 1997 by Routledge.
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The Reflexive Nature of Awareness
A Tibetan Madhyamaka Defence
Places the controversy initiated by the Tibetan Tsong kha pa - who elaborated on one of the eight difficult points in understanding Madhyamaka philosophy...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1030-0 | Published October 29th 1997 by Routledge.
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Altruism and Reality
Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryavatara
Brings together Paul Williams' previously published papers on the Indian and Tibetan interpretations of selected verses from the eighth and ninth chapters of the Bodhicaryavatara....ISBN: 978-0-7007-1031-7 | Published October 29th 1997 by Routledge.
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A Survey of Vinaya Literature
The most important research tool for vinaya studies. Covers both primary and secondary sources in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese as well as modern sources...ISBN: 978-0-7007-0683-9 | Published December 6th 1996 by Routledge.
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Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism is a comprehensive study of the Buddhist tradition. The series explores this complex and extensive tradition from a variety of perspectives, using a range of different methodologies. The series is diverse in its focus, including historical, philological, cultural, and sociological investigations into the manifold features and expressions of Buddhism worldwide. It also presents works of constructive and reflective analysis, including the role of Buddhist thought and scholarship in a contemporary, critical context and in the light of current social issues. The series is expansive and imaginative in scope, spanning more than two and a half millennia of Buddhist history. It is receptive to all research works that are of significance and interest to the broader field of Buddhist Studies.
Some of the titles in the series are published in association with the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, which conducts and promotes rigorous teaching and research into all forms of the Buddhist tradition.
Editorial Advisory Board:
James A. Benn, McMaster University, Canada
Jinhua Chen, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Rupert Gethin, University of Bristol, UK
Peter Harvey, University of Sunderland, UK
Sallie King, James Madison University, USA
Anne Klein, Rice University, USA
Ulrich Pagel, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK
John Powers, Australian National University
Juliane Schober, Arizona State University, USA
Donald Swearer, Harvard University, USA
Vesna A. Wallace, University of California-Santa Barbara, USA
Paul Williams, University of Bristol, UK
Forthcoming Titles:
Power, Wealth and Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism: The Gandavyuha-sutra
By Douglas Osto
December 15th 2008
Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia: Places of Practice
By James Robson
February 1st 2009
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, ritual and art
Edited by Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, Claudia Brown
February 9th 2009