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University of Hawai'i Press Pruning the Bodhi Tree
Book SynopsisIntroduces and analyses the ideas of critical Buddhism in relation to the targets of its critique and situates those ideas in the context of current discussions of postmodern academic scholarship, the separation of the disinterested scholar and committed religious practitioner, and the place of social activism within the academy.
£21.68
University of Hawai'i Press The Fox and the Jewel Shared and Private Meanings
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the rich complexity of the worship of the deity Inari in contemporary Japan. The work covers institutional and popular power in religion, the personal meaningfulness of religious figures and the communicative styles that preserve homogeneity in the face of factionalism.
£25.56
University of Hawai'i Press Letters of the Nun Eshinni Images of Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval Japan
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£61.88
University of Hawai'i Press Dieu estil violent
Book SynopsisAn exploration of Buddhism during the Sung Dynasty (960-1279). It asserts, that, far from signalling a decline, the Sung was a period of great efflorescence in Buddhism. The studies presented focus largely on elite figures, elite traditions, and interactions among Buddhists and literati.Trade ReviewI know of no edited volume of as consistently excellent scholarship as this one.... Every contribution to this volume is of significant value. - Journal of Asian Studies
£16.96
University of Hawai'i Press Making Pilgrimages Meaning and Practice in Shikoku
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£24.76
University of Hawai'i Press A Few Good Men The Bodhisativa Path According to
Book SynopsisOffers a study and translation of The Inquiry of Ugra (Ugraparipcchâ), one of the most influential Mahâyâna sutras on the bodhisattva path, but also one of the most neglected texts in Western treatments of Buddhism.
£23.16
University of Hawai'i Press Imagining the Course of Life
Book SynopsisMoving beyond the entrenched categories that can hamper our understanding of other views, this book demonstrates the real-life connections between the ""religious"" and the ""psychological."" It shows how such beliefs and practices are used, sometimes strategically, in people's constructions of themselves, and in their attempts at social positioning.
£23.96
University of Hawai'i Press Currents and Countercurrents Korean Influences on
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University of Hawai'i Press Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art 16002005
Book SynopsisExplores the transformation of Buddhism from the premodern to the contemporary era in Japan and the central role its visual culture has played in this transformation. Although Buddhism is generally regarded as peripheral to modern Japanese society, this book demonstrates otherwise.Trade ReviewThis book is densely written and copiously illustrated, rich with evidence that Buddhist art has thrived over the last four hundred years and continues to do so. One of the book's many contributions is how it traces the widening patronage of Buddhist art, which helped to create and support a new class of Buddhist artists and appreciation for their art beyond the walls of the Buddhist temples. - Buddhadharma
£26.36
University of Hawai'i Press The Seven Tengu Scrolls Evil and the Rhetoric of
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£37.46
University of Hawai'i Press Dharma Dimensions of Asian Spirituality
Book SynopsisThis introductory work proposes a fresh take on the ancient Indian concept dharma. By unfolding how, even in its developments as law and custom, dharma participates in nuanced and multifarious understandings of the term that play out in Indiaâs great spiritual traditions, the book offers insights into the innovative character of both Hindu and Buddhist usages of the concept. Alf Hiltebeitel, in an original approach to early Buddhist usages, explores how the Buddhist canon brought out different meanings of dharma. This is followed by an exposition of the hypothesis that most, if not all, of the Hindu law books flowered after the third-century BC emperor Asoka, a Buddhist, made dharma the guiding principle of an entire realm and culture. A discussion built around the authorâs expertise on the Sanskrit epics shows how their narratives amplified the new Brahmanical norms and brought out the ethical dilemmas and spiritual teachings that arose from inquiry into dharma. A chapter on the tal
£15.26
University of Hawaii Press The Face of Jizo
Book SynopsisâœFarther on, I find other figures of Jizo, single reliefs, sculptured upon tombs. But one of these is a work of art so charming that I feel a pain at being obliged to pass it by. More sweet, assuredly, than any imaged Christ, this dream in white stone of the playfellow of dead children, like a beautiful young boy, with gracious eyelids half closed, and face made heavenly by such a smile as only Buddhist art could have imagined, the smile of infinite lovingness and supremest gentleness. Indeed, so charming the ideal of Jizo is that in the speech of the people a beautiful face is always likened to hisââJizo-kao,â as the face of Jizo.â âLafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan (1894)Stone images of the Buddhist deity Jizoâbedecked in a red cloth bib and presiding over offerings of flowers, coins, candles, and incenseâare a familiar sight throughout Japan. Known in China as a savior from hellâs torment, Jizo in Japan came to be utterly transformed through fusion with the local trad
£19.96
University of Hawai'i Press How To Behave
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£21.56
University of Hawai'i Press Buddhist Nuns Monks and Other Worldly Matters
Book SynopsisThis is the fourth in a series of collected essays by one of today’s most distinguished scholars of Indian Buddhism. In these articles Gregory Schopen once again displays the erudition and originality that have contributed to a major shift in the way that Indian Buddhism is perceived, understood, and studied.
£26.96
University of Hawai'i Press From Comrades to Bodhisattvas Moral Dimensions of Lay Buddhist Practice in Contemporary China Topics in Contemporary Buddhism
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£37.46
University of Hawai'i Press Efficacious Underworld
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£54.00
University of Hawai'i Press Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia
Book SynopsisIntroduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. The editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Educating Monks Minority Buddhism on Chinas
Book SynopsisBuddhist monastics are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and participate in both national and transnational Buddhist networks. Educating Monks makes visible the ways Buddhist communities are shaped by all of the above - collectively and often simultaneously.Trade ReviewFor some time now, Thomas Borchert’s sophisticated perspective on Buddhism has been working its way into the province of Buddhist studies through his papers. His long-awaited book—Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s South- west Border—brings to light the ethnographic background on which he has built this perspective. . . . With his agility in crossing through the various strata of Theravada social life, Borchert reminds us that Theravadin formations everywhere involve a much more complex set up than the local/universal binary. Educating Monks is an important book. Solidly grounded in empirical research, it presents us with a unique ethnography of the lives of ethnic minority monks and novices living in a less well-known corner of China and practicing a minority form of Buddhism. At the same time, it provides a convincing analysis of one way of being a Buddhist in the modern world by showing how such an existence is both anchored in the local as well as it is linked up in multiple different ways with translocal networks. . . . This book is highly recommended to students, researchers, and general readers with an interest in local minority cultures in China and Southeast Asia, in modern Theravāda Buddhism, as well as in Buddhism in general.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Engaging Japanese Philosophy
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£57.00
University of Hawai'i Press The Fractal Self
Book SynopsisJohn Culliney and David Jones uncover intersections between science and philosophy. Connecting evidence from evolutionary science with early insights of Daoist and Buddhist thinkers, they maintain that sagely behaviour, envisioned in these ancient traditions, represents a pinnacle of human achievement emerging out of our evolutionary heritage.
£16.96
University of Hawai'i Press The Halo of Golden Light
Book SynopsisIn this pioneering study of the shifting status of the emperor within court society and the relationship between the state and the Buddhist community during the Heian period (794-1185), Asuka Sango details the complex ways in which the emperor and other elite ruling groups employed Buddhist ritual to legitimate their authority.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Moments of Silence
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£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how dynastic founders like Wu Zhao (Wu Zetian, r. 690-705), the only woman to rule China under her own name, and Yang Jian (Emperor Wen, r. 581-604), the first ruler of the Sui dynasty, closely identified with Buddhist worldly saviors and Wheel-Turning Kings to legitimate their rule.
£51.00
University of Hawai'i Press Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how dynastic founders like Wu Zhao (Wu Zetian, r. 690-705), the only woman to rule China under her own name, and Yang Jian (Emperor Wen, r. 581-604), the first ruler of the Sui dynasty, closely identified with Buddhist worldly saviors and Wheel-Turning Kings to legitimate their rule.Trade ReviewThe importance of apocalyptic thought in medieval China has long been downplayed in Anglophone scholarship, so it is a great pleasure to have at last a book based firmly on the key surviving sources to redress this imbalance. April Hughes’ work is the first study to pull all of the materials together and put them and the political regimes and rebel movements that took cognizance of such beliefs in a helpful chronological sequence. It is original, sound, and important." —T. H. Barrett, SOAS, University of London
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Tales of Idolized Boys
Book SynopsisStories of acolytes (chigo monogatari) from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries form the basis of this book, an original and detailed literary analysis of six tales coupled with a thorough examination of the sociopolitical, religious, and cultural matrices that produced these texts.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Jewels Jewelry and Other Shiny Things in the
Book SynopsisFollowing an introduction that relates the colourful story of the Emerald Buddha, this book explores the function of jewels as personal identifiers in Buddhist tradition; Buddhaghosa's commentary on the Jewel Sutta; the paradox of the Buddha's bejeweled status; and the connection in early Buddhism between jewels, magnificence, and virtue.
£25.56
University of Hawai'i Press Buddhism and Business
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£23.96
University of Hawai'i Press Koreas Great BuddhistConfucian Debate
Book SynopsisMakes available in English the seminal treatises in Korea’s greatest interreligious debate of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. ‘On Mind, Material Force, and Principle’, ‘An Array of Critiques of Buddhism’ and ‘Exposition of Orthodoxy’ are presented here with extensive annotation.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World
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University of Hawaii Press The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan
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£21.84
Seagull Books London Ltd The Fate of Rural Hell
Book SynopsisIn 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world's most bizarre tourist attractions, Wat Phai Rong Wua was designed as a cautionary museum of sorts; its gruesome statues depict violent and torturous scenes that showcase what hell may be like. Over the next few decades, Anderson, who is best known for his work, Imagined Communities, found himself transfixed by this unusual amalgamation of objects, returning several times to see attractions like the largest metal-cast Buddha figure in the world and the Palace of a Hundred Spires. The concrete statuaries and perverse art in Luang Phor's personal museum of hell included, \u201cside by side, an upright human skeleton in a glass cabinet and a life-size replica of Michelangelo's gigantic nude David, wearing fashionable red underpants from the top of which poked part of a swollen, un-Florentine penis,\u201d alongside dozens of statues of evildoers being ferociously punished in their afterlife. In The Fate of Rural Hell, Anderson unravels the intrigue of this strange setting, endeavoring to discover what compels so many Thai visitors to travel to this popular spectacle and what order, if any, inspired its creation. At the same time, he notes in Wat Phai Rong Wua the unexpected effects of the gradual advance of capitalism into the far reaches of rural Asia. Both a one-of-a-kind travelogue and a penetrating look at the community that sustains it, The Fate of Rural Hell is sure to intrigue and inspire conversation as much as Wat Phai Rong Wua itself.
£13.00
MB - Cornell University Press The WheelTurner and His House Kingship in a Buddhist Ecumene
Book SynopsisTraces the archeological and historical record of King Anawrahta (1044-1077) and his seminal position in forming modern Myanmar, based on the few sources that have been recovered.Trade ReviewIn exploring how Anawrahta's reign has been presented or understood over the past several centuries, the author shows the range of historical sources that are available in this kind of endeavor and how they may be read and used in different ways... Recommended. * Choice *Goh has made contributions to the study of Burmese history and, by extension, Burma Studies more widely. * New Mandala *Drawing upon a close critical analysis of extant Burmese sources as well as Chinese-language sources, this work is a significant accomplishment that will be of interest not only to Southeast Asia specialists, but also to historians of any field who are interested in the complex connections between history and memory. * American Historical Review *A must-read for those interested not only in pre-modern Southeast Asia, but also in understanding how the past is reinvented in our time. * Journal of the Siam Society *
£26.40
Ohio University Press The Tale of Prince Samuttakote A Buddhist Epic
Book SynopsisDuring the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Thai poets produced epics depicting elaborate myths and legends which intermingled the human, natural, and supernatural worlds.
£23.39
Numata Center for Buddhist Translation & Research. The Interpretation of the Buddha Land BDK English Tripitaka Translation 46 BDK English Tripitaka Series
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£35.96
Numata Center for Buddhist Translation & Research. The Essentials of the Vinaya Tradition BDK English Tripitaka Translation 97 BDK English Tripitaka Series
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£27.96
Rubin Museum of Art Painting Traditions of the Drigung Kagyu School
Book SynopsisThough the Drigung Kagyu was one of the most prominent and powerful schools of Tibetan Buddhism during its early period (12th - 14th century), its art is still relatively poorly known, even among Tibetans. With its mother monastery destroyed twice, once in the late 13th century and again during the Great Cultural Revolution, much of the art was lost or dispersed. The iconography of the Drigung School is examined with regard to its three main periods - early, middle, and late - in combination with the distinctive influences of the Sharri, Khyenri, and Driri styles. The book aims elucidate to the painting traditions of the Drigung Kagyu School and investigate lineage depictions and methods of dating, while referring to previously overlooked Tibetan sources, both ancient and modern. The publication and related exhibition also explores the beneficial quality ascribed to the works of art and the elements they contain.Trade Review"In this fifth volume of his landmark "Masterworks of Tibetan Painting" series, Jackson continues patiently and systematically to lay the groundwork for a new art history of Tibetan painting—one more firmly supported by specifics of provenance, subject, and style." * Choice *Table of ContentsDirector's Statement Foreword Preface Introduction: The Drigung Kagyu Maps 1. Drigung Thel's Branches and Main Surviving Mural Sites 2. Early Research on Drigung Kagyu Art 3. Recent Research on Drigung Kagyu Painting 4. Written Sources 5. Early Drigung Kagyu Painting 6. Paintings from the Middle Period of Drigung Kagyu Art 7. Full-color Paintings of Peaceful Dieties in the Drigung Style 8. Paintings of Semiwrathful and Wrathful Deities in the Drigung Style 9. Recent Mural Sites in Lamayuru and Phyang 10. Three Artists in Drigung Thel Monasteries of Ladakh in the Twentieth Century 11. Beneficial to See: Early Drigung Painting / Christian Luczanits 12. The Elusive Lady to Nanam: An Introduction to the Protectress Achi Chokyi Drolma / Kristen Muldowney Roberts Appendix A. The Main Lineage of Drigung Appendix B. The Hierarchs of Drigung with Contemporary Head Lamas of Kailash and Ladakh, and Kings of Ladakh Appendix C. Monasteries of the Drigung Kagyu Notes Bibliography Index
£78.14
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Buddhist Philosophy A Comparative Approach
Book SynopsisBuddhist Philosophy: A Comparative Approach presents a series of readings that examine the prominent thinkers and texts of the Buddhist tradition in the round, introducing contemporary readers to major theories and debates at the intersection of Buddhist and Western thought.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii Editor’s Introduction 1Steven M. Emmanuel 1 Buddhist Philosophy as a Way of Life: The Spiritual Exercises of Tsongkhapa 11Christopher W. Gowans 2 The Other Side of Realism: Panpsychism and Yog¨¡c¨¡ra 29Douglas Duckworth 3 Emergentist Naturalism in Early Buddhism and Deweyan Pragmatism 45John J. Holder 4 Metaphysical Dependence, East and West 63Ricki Bliss and Graham Priest 5 Metaphysics and Metametaphysics with Buddhism: The Lay of the Land 87Tom J.F. Tillemans 6 Are Reasons Causally Relevant for Action? Dharmak¨©rti and the Embodied Cognition Paradigm 109Christian Coseru 7 Zen’s Nonegocentric Perspectivism 123Bret W. Davis 8 Rhetoric of Uncertainty in Zen Buddhism and Western Literary Modernism 145Steven Heine 9 From the Five Aggregates to Phenomenal Consciousness: Toward a Cross©\Cultural Cognitive Science 165Jake H. Davis and Evan Thompson 10 Embodying Change: Buddhism and Feminist Philosophy 189Erin A. McCarthy 11 Buddhist Modernism and Kant on Enlightenment 205David Cummiskey 12 Compassion and Rebirth: Some Ethical Implications 221John Powers Further Reading 239 Index 243
£80.96
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Buddhist Philosophy
Book SynopsisBuddhist Philosophy: A Comparative Approach presents a series of readings that examine the prominent thinkers and texts of the Buddhist tradition in the round, introducing contemporary readers to major theories and debates at the intersection of Buddhist and Western thought. Takes a comparative, rather than oppositional, approach to Buddhist philosophy, exploring key theories and debates at the intersection of Eastern and Western thought Addresses a variety of topics that represent important points of convergence between the Buddhist and Western philosophical traditions Features contributions from a wide array of acclaimed international scholars in the discipline Provides a much-needed cross-cultural treatment of Buddhist philosophy appropriate for undergraduate students and specialists alike Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii Editor’s Introduction 1Steven M. Emmanuel 1 Buddhist Philosophy as a Way of Life: The Spiritual Exercises of Tsongkhapa 11Christopher W. Gowans 2 The Other Side of Realism: Panpsychism and Yog¨¡c¨¡ra 29Douglas Duckworth 3 Emergentist Naturalism in Early Buddhism and Deweyan Pragmatism 45John J. Holder 4 Metaphysical Dependence, East and West 63Ricki Bliss and Graham Priest 5 Metaphysics and Metametaphysics with Buddhism: The Lay of the Land 87Tom J.F. Tillemans 6 Are Reasons Causally Relevant for Action? Dharmak¨©rti and the Embodied Cognition Paradigm 109Christian Coseru 7 Zen’s Nonegocentric Perspectivism 123Bret W. Davis 8 Rhetoric of Uncertainty in Zen Buddhism and Western Literary Modernism 145Steven Heine 9 From the Five Aggregates to Phenomenal Consciousness: Toward a Cross©\Cultural Cognitive Science 165Jake H. Davis and Evan Thompson 10 Embodying Change: Buddhism and Feminist Philosophy 189Erin A. McCarthy 11 Buddhist Modernism and Kant on Enlightenment 205David Cummiskey 12 Compassion and Rebirth: Some Ethical Implications 221John Powers Further Reading 239 Index 243
£29.40
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism
Book SynopsisA Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism offers a comprehensive, nuanced, and chronological account of the evolution of Buddhist religion in Japan from the sixth century to the present day.Trade Review“In short, this study is a welcome contribution to the field and will make an excellent textbook for the classroom.” (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1 October 2015)"The great value of the book is to direct readers to approaches and theories perhaps overlooked by more general histories of Buddhism. Each chapter includes its own bibliography and notes, making the book useful for study of narrow sections of Japan’s history." (Buddhist Art News 2016)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Early Historical Contexts (Protohistory to 645) 13 2 Ancient Buddhism (645–950) 45 3 Early Medieval Buddhism (950–1300): The Dawn of Medieval Society and Related Changes in Japanese Buddhist Culture 87 4 Late Medieval Buddhism (1300–1467): New Buddhisms, Buddhist Learning, Dissemination and the Fall into Chaos 135 5 Buddhism and the Transition to the Modern Era (1467–1800) 171 6 Modern Buddhism (1800–1945) 209 7 Buddhism Since 1945 231 Character Glossary 255 Index 000
£67.40
New York University Press Women in Buddhist Traditions
Book SynopsisA new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the worldBuddhist traditions have developed over a period of twenty-five centuries in Asia, and recent decades have seen an unprecedented spread of Buddhism globally. From India to Japan, Sri Lanka to Russia, Buddhist traditions around the world have their own rich and diverse histories, cultures, religious lives, and roles for women.Wherever Buddhism has taken root, it has interacted with indigenous cultures and existing religious traditions. These traditions have inevitably influenced the ways in which Buddhist ideas and practices have been understood and adapted. Tracing the branches and fruits of these culturally specific transmissions and adaptations is as challenging as it is fascinating.Women in Buddhist Traditions chronicles pivotal moments in the story of Buddhist women, from the beginning of Buddhist history until toTrade ReviewThe Venerable Karma Lekshe Tsomo, the founder and a prominent leader of Sakyadhita—the only international organization for Buddhist women—and a major force of the movement for the restoration of the full ordination lineage for nuns in traditions where it had lapsed— has done more than anyone in the contemporary world to advance the role of women in Buddhism. In this volume she discusses the role that women play in that religious tradition, providing illuminating historical and doctrinal context, careful attention to the cultural and doctrinal variety within the Buddhist world and the diversity of experience of Buddhist women, and an insider’s understanding of the contemporary context of globalized Buddhism in which women are taking an increasing leadership role. Required reading for anyone interested in women in Buddhism. -- Jay Garfield, author of Engaging Buddhism: Why it Matters to PhilosophyWomen in Buddhist Traditions is a clear, substantiated, and nuanced account of the historical developments of women’s activities and contributions to the tradition. It lays a carefully articulated and highly-readable foundation and contextualization of the earliest activities relevant to women across vast geographical and cultural contexts. The significance of the volume is enhanced by contextualizing women’s concerns with Buddhist ethics. This informative volume is a deep resource for those wanting to understand the dynamics and issues Buddhist women navigate in cross-cultural perspective. It is perfect for classroom use, whether at undergraduate or graduate level. -- Paula K. R. Arai, author of Women Living Zen, Brining Zen Home, and Painting EnlightenmentSweeping in its historical and geographical breadth, presenting the essential primary texts and latest research, and beautifully written in clear and accessible prose, this book is destined to become the standard introduction to the topic of women in Buddhism. -- José Ignacio Cabezón, President, American Academy of ReligionThis is a wonderful book, by one of the premier scholars of women in Buddhism. It presents a comprehensive overview of the history of women’s contributions to Buddhist traditions in a clearly written and authoritative style, along with a nuanced and thought-provoking discussion of contemporary issues. A must read for anyone interested in women’s religious lives. -- John Powers, Deakin universityA sweeping and well-informed primer on a number of key social and doctrinal issues affecting women in Buddhism, past and present, across Asia and beyond. Karma Lekshe Tsomo’s many years of tireless advocacy for Buddhist nuns shines through each chapter with special attention to the vexing issue of nun’s full ordination. -- Holly Gayley, author of Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern TibetBuddhist women are active all over the world in changing their tradition to make it more inclusive, therefore more useful. Karma Lekshe Tsomo is a noted authority who not only chronicles the progress but has been instrumental in it. An excellent book for classes, discussion groups, and/or research. * Water Women's Alliance *With this extensive historical study, Tsomo provides a fundamental and comprehensive study of Buddhist traditions, showing a profound understanding of gender aspects and their contemporary relevance. * Religious Studies Review *
£62.90
New York University Press Women in Buddhist Traditions
Book SynopsisA new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the worldBuddhist traditions have developed over a period of twenty-five centuries in Asia, and recent decades have seen an unprecedented spread of Buddhism globally. From India to Japan, Sri Lanka to Russia, Buddhist traditions around the world have their own rich and diverse histories, cultures, religious lives, and roles for women.Wherever Buddhism has taken root, it has interacted with indigenous cultures and existing religious traditions. These traditions have inevitably influenced the ways in which Buddhist ideas and practices have been understood and adapted. Tracing the branches and fruits of these culturally specific transmissions and adaptations is as challenging as it is fascinating.Women in Buddhist Traditions chronicles pivotal moments in the story of Buddhist women, from the beginning of Buddhist history until toTrade ReviewThe Venerable Karma Lekshe Tsomo, the founder and a prominent leader of Sakyadhita—the only international organization for Buddhist women—and a major force of the movement for the restoration of the full ordination lineage for nuns in traditions where it had lapsed— has done more than anyone in the contemporary world to advance the role of women in Buddhism. In this volume she discusses the role that women play in that religious tradition, providing illuminating historical and doctrinal context, careful attention to the cultural and doctrinal variety within the Buddhist world and the diversity of experience of Buddhist women, and an insider’s understanding of the contemporary context of globalized Buddhism in which women are taking an increasing leadership role. Required reading for anyone interested in women in Buddhism. -- Jay Garfield, author of Engaging Buddhism: Why it Matters to PhilosophyWomen in Buddhist Traditions is a clear, substantiated, and nuanced account of the historical developments of women’s activities and contributions to the tradition. It lays a carefully articulated and highly-readable foundation and contextualization of the earliest activities relevant to women across vast geographical and cultural contexts. The significance of the volume is enhanced by contextualizing women’s concerns with Buddhist ethics. This informative volume is a deep resource for those wanting to understand the dynamics and issues Buddhist women navigate in cross-cultural perspective. It is perfect for classroom use, whether at undergraduate or graduate level. -- Paula K. R. Arai, author of Women Living Zen, Brining Zen Home, and Painting EnlightenmentSweeping in its historical and geographical breadth, presenting the essential primary texts and latest research, and beautifully written in clear and accessible prose, this book is destined to become the standard introduction to the topic of women in Buddhism. -- José Ignacio Cabezón, President, American Academy of ReligionThis is a wonderful book, by one of the premier scholars of women in Buddhism. It presents a comprehensive overview of the history of women’s contributions to Buddhist traditions in a clearly written and authoritative style, along with a nuanced and thought-provoking discussion of contemporary issues. A must read for anyone interested in women’s religious lives. -- John Powers, Deakin universityA sweeping and well-informed primer on a number of key social and doctrinal issues affecting women in Buddhism, past and present, across Asia and beyond. Karma Lekshe Tsomo’s many years of tireless advocacy for Buddhist nuns shines through each chapter with special attention to the vexing issue of nun’s full ordination. -- Holly Gayley, author of Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern TibetBuddhist women are active all over the world in changing their tradition to make it more inclusive, therefore more useful. Karma Lekshe Tsomo is a noted authority who not only chronicles the progress but has been instrumental in it. An excellent book for classes, discussion groups, and/or research. * Water Women's Alliance *With this extensive historical study, Tsomo provides a fundamental and comprehensive study of Buddhist traditions, showing a profound understanding of gender aspects and their contemporary relevance. * Religious Studies Review *
£18.04
Cornell University Press Enlightenment and the Gasping City
Book SynopsisWith air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko seeks to understand how, as a physical constant throughout the winter months, the murky and obscuring nature of air pollution has become an active part of Mongolian religious and ritual life. Enlightenment and the Gasping City identifies air pollution as a boundary between the physical and the immaterial, showing how air pollution impresses itself on the urban environment as stagnation and blur. She explores how air pollution and related phenomena exist in dynamic tension with Buddhist ideas and practices concerning purification, revitalisation and enlightenment. By focusing on light, its intersections and its oppositions, she illuminates Buddhist practices and beliefs as they interact with the pressing urban issues of air pollution, post-socialist economic vacillations, urban development, nationalism, and climate change.Trade ReviewThis illuminating book will appeal mostly to professional scholars and graduate students in Mongolian and Buddhist studies. * Choice *Author Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko follows lay Mongolian Buddhists and invites us to reflect both on their discourses of "light," which are explicitly linked to purification and religious. * Lion's Roar: Buddhist Wisdom for Our Time *The pages of this book bring to life vivid scenes of the functioning of Mongolian society, culture, customs, day-to-day life, and the environmental landscape of Ulaanbaatar in such a way that the lonely capital city of Mongolia dances to life in front of the reader's eyes. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Terms Introduction 1. Dust and Obscuration in a New Economy 2. A History of Enlightenment in Mongolia 3. Buddhism, Purification, and the Nation 4. Ignorance and Blur 5. Networks and Visibility 6. Karma and Purification 7. Removing Blockages, Increasing Energy 8. Temple Critiques 9. White Foods, Purification, and Enlightenment Conclusion: Stillness and Movement Glossary Notes References Index
£97.20
Cornell University Press Enlightenment and the Gasping City
Book SynopsisWith air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko seeks to understand how, as a physical constant throughout the winter months, the murky and obscuring nature of air pollution has become an active part of Mongolian religious and ritual life. Enlightenment and the Gasping City identifies air pollution as a boundary between the physical and the immaterial, showing how air pollution impresses itself on the urban environment as stagnation and blur. She explores how air pollution and related phenomena exist in dynamic tension with Buddhist ideas and practices concerning purification, revitalisation and enlightenment. By focusing on light, its intersections and its oppositions, she illuminates Buddhist practices and beliefs as they interact with the pressing urban issues of air pollution, post-socialist economic vacillations, urban development, nationalism, and climate change.Trade ReviewThis illuminating book will appeal mostly to professional scholars and graduate students in Mongolian and Buddhist studies. * Choice *Author Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko follows lay Mongolian Buddhists and invites us to reflect both on their discourses of "light," which are explicitly linked to purification and religious. * Lion's Roar: Buddhist Wisdom for Our Time *The pages of this book bring to life vivid scenes of the functioning of Mongolian society, culture, customs, day-to-day life, and the environmental landscape of Ulaanbaatar in such a way that the lonely capital city of Mongolia dances to life in front of the reader's eyes. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Terms Introduction 1. Dust and Obscuration in a New Economy 2. A History of Enlightenment in Mongolia 3. Buddhism, Purification, and the Nation 4. Ignorance and Blur 5. Networks and Visibility 6. Karma and Purification 7. Removing Blockages, Increasing Energy 8. Temple Critiques 9. White Foods, Purification, and Enlightenment Conclusion: Stillness and Movement Glossary Notes References Index
£21.59
Cornell University Press PoetMonks
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Stanford University Press Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in
Book SynopsisReceived wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the story goes, only occurred in 1956, when the Indian civil rights pioneer Dr. B.R. Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with half a million of his Dalit (formerly "untouchable") followers. This, however, is only part of the story. Dust on the Throne reframes discussions about the place of Buddhism in the subcontinent from the early nineteenth century onwards, uncovering the integral, yet unacknowledged, role that Indians played in the making of modern global Buddhism in the century prior to Ambedkar's conversion, and the numerous ways that Buddhism gave powerful shape to modern Indian history. Through an extensive examination of disparate materials held at archives and temples across South Asia, Douglas Ober explores Buddhist religious dynamics in an age of expanding colonial empires, intra-Asian connectivity, and the histories of Buddhism produced by nineteenth and twentieth century Indian thinkers. While Buddhism in contemporary India is often disparaged as being little more than tattered manuscripts and crumbling ruins, this book opens new avenues for understanding its substantial socio-political impact and intellectual legacy.Trade Review"This is the first comprehensive study in any language of the revival of interest in Buddhism in nineteenth and twentieth-century India. It transforms the way we view modern Indian religious and political life. Through careful archival investigation, Douglas Ober uncovers numerous sources and topics that have been ignored or dealt with in piecemeal fashion. He uses this array of materials to create a compelling argument for the vital of importance of Buddhism in modern Indian religious life, politics, intellectual history, and culture. By highlighting the contributions of Indian scholars, advocates, and practitioners to the revival of Buddhism in twentieth-century India, Ober gives us a much more accurate picture of modern global Buddhism. This is a major, foundational contribution to religious and Buddhist history."—Richard Jaffe, author of Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism"This is a book I've been waiting for—a powerful account of the contestations and challenges that marked the return of Buddhism to the public sphere. It forces us to think of the role of human agency in shaping the present and future in India—perhaps even in the world."—Uma Chakravarti, author of The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism"It is a fantastic read, almost like a detective novel in parts, and you turn the page wondering how Buddhism was discovered, how it fared in various contexts. Douglas Ober's mastery of sources, his adept linking of various geographies, ideas, and events are so effortlessly done that they belie the immense labor and reading and writing that have no doubt gone into the making of this book."—V Geetha, author of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India "This splendid book overturns the standard but faulty story of Buddhism's supposed disappearance from India by the thirteenth century. It completely recasts our understanding of modern Buddhism and its role in nineteenth and twentieth-century India. A marvelous combination of history, philosophy, and story-telling, Dust on the Throne is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand Buddhism in our world today."—Evan Thompson, author ofWaking, Dreaming, Being andWhy I Am Not a Buddhist"An engrossing and lively account of how modern India 'rediscovered' and re-engaged with Buddhism in the last two centuries, featuring a cast of compelling historical characters.Going far beyond standard assumptions and understandings about the decline and revival of Buddhism in India,Dust on the Throne is a must-read for all who are interested in south Asian history, both recent and ancient."—Tony Joseph, author of Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From"Dust on the Throne offers a new perspective on the history of Buddhism in India during the colonial period and early years of Independence. Marshalling an array of evidence that foregrounds the role of individuals and institutions (some known, some forgotten) in the context of subcontinental and global networks, it dispels many long-cherished notions about Buddhism's decline and revival in its homeland, offering a convincing alternative narrative."—Upinder Singh, author of History of Ancient and Early Medieval India"Douglas Ober's Dust on the Throne weaves a fascinating history of individuals, institutions, and events that animated modern Buddhism. The book provides rare insights into a range offorgotten Indianswhose contributions were as impressive as those of better-known colonials.Its exploration of the footprint of Buddhist discourses among the masses is equally captivating. This will remain a definitive study on the many streams that constituted the quest for Buddhism inModern India."—Nayanjot Lahiri, author of Ashoka in Ancient India"[Dust on the Throne] is vast and dense, shining light on many of the Indian historians, scholars, translators, ethnographers, and laborers whose engagement with ancient and modern Buddhism galvanized 19th- and 20th-century public discourse. Rather than fragmented, however, the confluence of geographies, perspectives, and demographics demonstrate how dynamic and complex local expertise and agency in the resurgence of Buddhism within India have been."—Liesl Schwabe, Los Angeles Review of Books"Ober's exhaustive survey assembles Buddhism's disparate histories from different regions of modern India and contextualizes the formation of its multiple stands. He effectively dismantles the idea of European discovery of Buddhism and challenges the overemphasis on the contribution of Dharmapala and Ambedkar's scholarship."—Abishek Singh Amar, Tricycle"Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India, an erudite study by the historian Douglas Ober, is an exception to the brahmin-centric trend, and an outstanding intervention for many reasons. Right from its thoughtful title – which captures the deep history and 'revival' of the region's Buddhist past – the book tells us a different story than the brahmin-centric narratives of so much other scholarship. Ober shows how the widespread notion that Buddhism in the Subcontinent had died by the thirteenth century or earlier, and showed no trace of life into the modern period, is at most a 'useful fiction', if not a foolish conclusion outright."—Gajendran Ayyathurai, Himal SouthasianTable of Contents0. Introduction 1. The Agony of Memory 2. Dispelling Darkness 3. Banyan Tree Buddhism 4. Brahmanizing Buddhism 5. The Snake and the Mongoose 6. When the Buddha met Marx 7. The Buddha Nation Conclusion: Conclusion
£68.00
New Village Press Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing
Book SynopsisAn insightful look at the historical damages early colonizers of America caused and how their descendants may recognize and heal the harm done to the earth and the native peoples Inherited Silence tells the story of beloved land in California’s Napa Valley—how the land fared during the onslaught of colonization and how it fares now in the drought, development, and wildfires that are the consequences of the colonial mind. Author Louise Dunlap’s ancestors were among the first Europeans to claim ownership of traditional lands of the Wappo people during a period of genocide. As settlers, her ancestors lived the dream of Manifest Destiny, their consciousness changing only gradually over the generations. When Dunlap’s generation inherited the land, she had already begun to wonder about its unspoken story. What had kept her ancestors from seeing and telling the truth of their history? What had they brought west with them from the very earliest colonial experience in New England? Dunlap looks back into California’s and America’s history for the key to their silences and a way to heal the wounds of the land, its original people, and the harmful mind of the colonizer. It’s a powerful story that will awaken others to consider their own ancestors’ role in colonization and encourage them to begin reparations for the harmful actions of those who came before. More broadly, it offers a way for every reader to evaluate their own current life actions and the lasting impact they can have on society and our planet.Trade Review"Louise Dunlap is not afraid to look at the truth and then tell the truth of her early California settler family, a reckoning that becomes an important history of Napa Valley’s wine country." -- Greg Sarris, Chairman, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria; author of Becoming Story"How can European descendants of enslavers and colonizers face with honesty the brutal pain and destruction our ancestors wrought? How can we grieve and then begin to heal? In this bold and moving love letter to the land, Louise Dunlap breaks twelve generations of silence. A keen learner from Indigenous peoples and from the land she loves, Dunlap charts out a path toward rehumanization and healing. A beautifully-written memoir that is hard to put down." -- Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, California State University Monterey Bay; author of Family History in Black and White"Louise Dunlap offers the reader a wonderful way of living as a part of the whole: the whole of ourselves, the whole of nature, and the whole of the cosmos. She is a wise Bodhisattva who has dedicated her practice to waking up for the benefit of us all, a courageous being who offers a pathway to decolonize our hearts and minds. And she lets us know that it is possible to do so." -- —Dr. Larry Ward, author of America's Racial Karma, and Dr. Peggy Rowe Ward, senior dharma teachers in the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition and directors of The Lotus Institute"What would Justice and Healing look like when the Land speaks and uncovers the Silence of centuries-old stories of theft and genocide? Now an Elder, Louise Dunlap tells the story of how the Land of the Wappo and Patwin spoke to her heart and soul and gave her the courage to uncover the Silence. I read this book with tears of grief and gratitude and a longing for a deeper sense of justice and healing." -- Leny Mendoza Strobel, Founding Elder, Center for Babaylan Studies"Confronting the wrongs of the past is a way of honouring our ancestors, both those who have come before and those who are yet to come. We need to be taught by the failures and mistakes we have inherited and continue to reproduce in order to enable the possibility that only new mistakes will be made in the future. We need to be able to say: the buck stops here! This book is a step in that direction." -- Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, University of British Columbia"Louise Dunlap, in Inherited Silence, performs work very like a traditional healer with roots and herbs. Deep in the silences, the forests of the past, she unearths painful stories, absorbing them to remove any toxins they may carry. Then with love and compassion, she restores in them the healing properties of the land where they are rooted." -- Bobby Marie, community educator and activist, South Africa"For those of us still living on the land our ancestors stole for us, Inherited Silence shows us some of the first steps we must take towards healing and repair. Louise demonstrates that this work isn't about disowning our ancestors, but becoming closer to them by telling the truth of their times, committing to transform and transmute the trauma they caused, and not letting racial violence or climate chaos be the final chapter of their legacy." -- Morgan Curtis, Ancestors & Money Coach
£17.99
New Village Press Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing
Book SynopsisAn insightful look at the historical damages early colonizers of America caused and how their descendants may recognize and heal the harm done to the earth and the native peoples Inherited Silence tells the story of beloved land in California’s Napa Valley—how the land fared during the onslaught of colonization and how it fares now in the drought, development, and wildfires that are the consequences of the colonial mind. Author Louise Dunlap’s ancestors were among the first Europeans to claim ownership of traditional lands of the Wappo people during a period of genocide. As settlers, her ancestors lived the dream of Manifest Destiny, their consciousness changing only gradually over the generations. When Dunlap’s generation inherited the land, she had already begun to wonder about its unspoken story. What had kept her ancestors from seeing and telling the truth of their history? What had they brought west with them from the very earliest colonial experience in New England? Dunlap looks back into California’s and America’s history for the key to their silences and a way to heal the wounds of the land, its original people, and the harmful mind of the colonizer. It’s a powerful story that will awaken others to consider their own ancestors’ role in colonization and encourage them to begin reparations for the harmful actions of those who came before. More broadly, it offers a way for every reader to evaluate their own current life actions and the lasting impact they can have on society and our planet.Trade Review"Louise Dunlap is not afraid to look at the truth and then tell the truth of her early California settler family, a reckoning that becomes an important history of Napa Valley’s wine country." -- Greg Sarris, Chairman, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria; author of Becoming Story"How can European descendants of enslavers and colonizers face with honesty the brutal pain and destruction our ancestors wrought? How can we grieve and then begin to heal? In this bold and moving love letter to the land, Louise Dunlap breaks twelve generations of silence. A keen learner from Indigenous peoples and from the land she loves, Dunlap charts out a path toward rehumanization and healing. A beautifully-written memoir that is hard to put down." -- Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, California State University Monterey Bay; author of Family History in Black and White"Louise Dunlap offers the reader a wonderful way of living as a part of the whole: the whole of ourselves, the whole of nature, and the whole of the cosmos. She is a wise Bodhisattva who has dedicated her practice to waking up for the benefit of us all, a courageous being who offers a pathway to decolonize our hearts and minds. And she lets us know that it is possible to do so." -- —Dr. Larry Ward, author of America's Racial Karma, and Dr. Peggy Rowe Ward, senior dharma teachers in the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition and directors of The Lotus Institute"What would Justice and Healing look like when the Land speaks and uncovers the Silence of centuries-old stories of theft and genocide? Now an Elder, Louise Dunlap tells the story of how the Land of the Wappo and Patwin spoke to her heart and soul and gave her the courage to uncover the Silence. I read this book with tears of grief and gratitude and a longing for a deeper sense of justice and healing." -- Leny Mendoza Strobel, Founding Elder, Center for Babaylan Studies"Confronting the wrongs of the past is a way of honouring our ancestors, both those who have come before and those who are yet to come. We need to be taught by the failures and mistakes we have inherited and continue to reproduce in order to enable the possibility that only new mistakes will be made in the future. We need to be able to say: the buck stops here! This book is a step in that direction." -- Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, University of British Columbia"Louise Dunlap, in Inherited Silence, performs work very like a traditional healer with roots and herbs. Deep in the silences, the forests of the past, she unearths painful stories, absorbing them to remove any toxins they may carry. Then with love and compassion, she restores in them the healing properties of the land where they are rooted." -- Bobby Marie, community educator and activist, South Africa"For those of us still living on the land our ancestors stole for us, Inherited Silence shows us some of the first steps we must take towards healing and repair. Louise demonstrates that this work isn't about disowning our ancestors, but becoming closer to them by telling the truth of their times, committing to transform and transmute the trauma they caused, and not letting racial violence or climate chaos be the final chapter of their legacy." -- Morgan Curtis, Ancestors & Money Coach
£64.00
Information Age Publishing Inner Peace- Global Impact: Tibetan Buddhism,
Book SynopsisA volume in Advances in Workplace Spirituality: Theory, Research, and Application Series Editor Louis W. (Jody) Fry, Texas A&M University - Central Texas INNER PEACE-GLOBAL IMPACT describes underlying principles of Tibetan wisdom traditions relevant for successful leadership in the 21st century as well as Tibetan teachers whose entrepreneurial actions were critical to the development of Tibetan Buddhism in the West. With first-person narratives, personal stories, scholarly research, and commentaries by noted social scientists, this book is written for everyone who wants ideas to revitalize leadership. It is rich with vivid pictures of deep personal experience. Long-time Western Tibetan Buddhist practitioners describe how their practice has influenced them in fields as diverse as scientific research, social work, art, dance, and university teaching. The Dalai Lama is seen through the eyes of his long-time friend, eminent author Huston Smith, as well as through the experiences of Thupten Jinpa, his 25-year English translator. Sogyal Rinpoche shares his vision for transforming traditional ways of studying, while Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, a 10th generation Tibetan yogi, reflects on the challenges of teaching in a Western culture where perspectives differ so vastly from those of Tibet. With insights from Tibetan lamas and Western thought leaders including Peter Senge, Bill George, and Margaret Wheatley, this book creates new visions for leadership and the workplace.
£87.79
