Buddhism Books

New and Published Books

1. Emptiness Appraised

   A Critical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy

   By David F. Burton

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence - entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowledge are shown...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal

   The Fifteenth-Century Reformation of Newar Buddhism

   By Will Tuladhar-Douglas

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism - Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies

   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 fifteenth century in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. He provides the basis for the historical study of Newar Buddhism as...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Buddhism Observed

   Travellers, Exiles and Tibetan Dharma in Kathmandu

   By Peter Moran

   Series: Anthropology of Asia

   How do contemporary Westerners and Tibetans understand not only what it means to be 'Buddhist', but what it means to be hailed as one from 'the West' or from 'Tibet'? This anthropological study examines the encounter between Western travellers and Tibetan exiles in Bodhanath, on the outskirts of...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Buddha and Religious Diversity

   By J. Abraham Velez de Cea

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy

   Providing a rigorous analysis of Buddhist ways of understanding religious diversity, this book develops a new foundation for cross-cultural understanding of religious diversity in our time. Examining the complexity and uniqueness of Buddha’s approach to religious pluralism using four main...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. Eating Disorders and Mindfulness

   Exploring Alternative Approaches to Treatment

   Edited by Leah DeSole

   This book presents an overview of the latest psychological knowledge about the application of mindfulness-based interventions in the field of eating disorders. Increasingly, these interventions are used in therapeutic practice. They encourage clients to process their experience fully, as it arises,...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Refutation of the Self in Indian Buddhism

   Candrakirti on the Selflessness of Persons

   By James Duerlinger

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   Since the Buddha did not fully explain the theory of persons that underlies his teaching, in later centuries a number of different interpretations were developed. This book presents the interpretation by the celebrated Indian Buddhist philosopher, Candrakirti (ca. 570–650 C.E.). Candrakirti’s...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Notion of Ditthi in Theravada Buddhism

   The Point of View

   By Paul Fuller

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   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 considers the two ways in which the notion of views are usually understood. Are we to understand right-view as a correction of wrong-views (the opposition...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Buddhism and Religious Diversity

   Edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   In today’s globalized world, religious diversity has become one of the strongest challenges to the self-understanding of any major religious tradition, provoking two interdependent questions. How does it see itself in the light of others? And, how does it see others in the light of its own...

   Published September 27th 2012 by Routledge
9. New Buddhist Movements in Thailand

   Towards an Understanding of Wat Phra Dhammakaya and Santi Asoke

   By Rory Mackenzie

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   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 the 1970s at a time of political uncertainty, social change and increasing dissatisfaction with the Thai Sangha and its leadership....

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism

    The Doctrinal History of Nirvana

    By Soonil Hwang

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism - Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies

    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 interpretation. He clarifies early doctrinal developments of Nirvana and traces the word and related terms back to their original...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge