Buddhism Books

New and Published Books

1. Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West

   Between Mind and Body

   Edited by Geoffrey Samuel, Jay Johnston

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy

   Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them. This book explores subtle-body practices from a...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. A Study of Shinto

   The Religion of the Japanese Nation

   By Genchi Katu

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   This volume investigates and present the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present. It is a historical study of Shinto from a scientific point of view, illustrating the higher aspects of the religion, compile on strict lines of religious...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
6. Japanese Religions and Globalization

   By Ugo Dessì

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy

   This book analyzes the variety of ways through which Japanese religions (Buddhism, Shinto, and new religious movements) contribute to the dynamics of accelerated globalization in recent decades. It looks at how Japanese religions provide material to cultural global flows, thus acting as carriers of...

   Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Life of Buddha

   By Edward J. Thomas

   Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
8. Mindfulness

   Diverse Perspectives on its Meaning, Origins and Applications

   Edited by J. Mark Williams, Jon Kabat-Zinn

   Mindfulness-based approaches to medicine, psychology, neuroscience, healthcare, education, business leadership, and other major societal institutions have become increasingly common. New paradigms are emerging from a confluence of two powerful and potentially synergistic epistemologies: one arising...

   Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. 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
10. 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