Book Series
Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
New & Published Titles:
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… read more1999 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-1203-8 (Routledge)
American Buddhism
Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship
This is the first scholarly treatment of the emergence of American Buddhist Studies as a significant research field. Until now, few investigators have turned their… read more1999 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-1204-5 (Routledge)
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… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1121-5 (Routledge)
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… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1066-9 (Routledge)
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… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1065-2 (Routledge)
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… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1083-6 (Routledge)
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.… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-0962-5 (Routledge)
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… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-0954-0 (Routledge)
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… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1030-0 (Routledge)
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.… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1031-7 (Routledge)
Series Details:
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:
Buddhism in Australia: Traditions in Change
Edited by Cristina Rocha, Michelle Barker
To be published March 15th 2010
Tibetan Rituals of Death: Buddhist Funerary Practices
By Margaret Gouin
To be published May 31st 2010