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Buddhism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 115

Buddhism

Gracefully blending scholarship and accessibility, Malcolm David Eckel’s Buddhism provides a succinct, authoritative introduction to one of the world’s great religious traditions. The text covers a wide range of subjects including buddhas and bodhisattvas, Zen meditation, Tantric scriptures, pilgrimage, temples, and festivals and rites.

To See the Buddha
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

To See the Buddha

Boston University Professor Malcolm David Eckel takes us on a contemporary quest to discover the essential meaning behind the Buddha's many representations. Eckel shows that the dimensions of early Indian Buddhism--popular art, conventional piety, and critical philosophy--all work together to express the same religious yearning for the fullness of emptiness that Buddha conveys.

Understanding Buddhism
  • Language: en

Understanding Buddhism

Buddhism today is one of the fastest-growing faiths in North America. The reasons can be found here, in this comprehensive introduction to the history, practices, and beliefs of a religion that seeks the "Middle Way” between self-denying spirituality and the demands of everyday life.

Dignāga's Investigation of the Percept
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

Dignāga's Investigation of the Percept

Dignāga's Investigation of the Percept is the first comprehensive study of a text and its history in Buddhist studies, from ancient India to the present day and across a range of countries and languages. The volume editors translate and study an influential epistemological work and its commentarial trajectory.

Jñānagarbha's Commentary on the Distinction Between the Two Truths
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Jñānagarbha's Commentary on the Distinction Between the Two Truths

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  • Published: 1987-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

The Mādhyamaka School of Indian Buddhist thought has had tremendous influence in the Buddhist world, particularly in Tibet, China and Japan: in the West it has become the subject of intense interest in the fields of comparative religion and philosophy. Many aspects of Mādhyamaka thought, however, remain obscure, especially during the period when Buddhist thought was first introduced to Tibet. Jñānagarbha's Commentary on the Distinction between the Two Truths is a concise and lucid introduction to the issues and personalities that dominated Indian Mādhyamaka thought on the eve of its introduction to Tibet. As an example of the influential but little-known Svātantrika branch of the Mādh...

Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief

In Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief, Dan Arnold examines how the Brahmanical tradition of Purva Mimamsa and the writings of the seventh-century Buddhist Madhyamika philosopher Candrakirti challenged dominant Indian Buddhist views of epistemology. Arnold retrieves these two very different but equally important voices of philosophical dissent, showing them to have developed highly sophisticated and cogent critiques of influential Buddhist epistemologists such as Dignaga and Dharmakirti. His analysis--developed in conversation with modern Western philosophers like William Alston and J. L. Austin--offers an innovative reinterpretation of the Indian philosophical tradition, while suggesting that p...

Ultimate Realities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396

Ultimate Realities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Explores ultimate realities in a range of world religions and discusses the issue and philosophical implications of comparison itself.

Religious Truth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Religious Truth

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Explores religious truth in a range of world religions and discusses the issue and philosophical implications of comparison itself.

Buddhism and Ecology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 524

Buddhism and Ecology

The authors explore theoretical and methodological issues and analyze the prospects and problems of using Buddhism as an environmental resource in both theory and practice.

The Illustrated Guide to World Religions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

The Illustrated Guide to World Religions

Graced with rich illustrations and written by a team of eminent scholars, this book presents a wealth of information on faiths around the world. Each chapter in this volume examines one of seven major world religions--from Judaism to Christianity and from Islam to Buddhism.