Buddha-Nature
by Frederic P Miller, Agnes F Vandome, and John McBrewster
Siddhartha Gautama, destined to become the Buddha, a historical character, born in a century of great ferment and in a country where spiritual searching had been a priority for a long time. The reconstruction of his real profile is not easy, since the popular pity well soon took him, transfiguring the events of his human existence. The salient episodes of the life of the Buddha are introduced in the first part of the book, drawing information from various literary sources, such as the Buddhist C...
Die Duṣkaracaryā Des Bodhisattva in Der Buddhistischen Tradition
by Julius Dutoit
The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ and the Greatest Fraud in History
by Nicolas Notovitch
Kann man uber Religion entscheiden? Obwohl Religion in der Vormoderne haufig jenseits des Bereichs menschlicher Wahlentscheidungen verortet wurde, war sie in verschiedenen historischen Konstellationen immer wieder Gegenstand individueller sowie kollektiver Entscheidungen. Doch welche Formen des Entscheidens uber religioese Fragen gab es uberhaupt? Wie veranderten sie sich zwischen Mittelalter und Fruher Neuzeit? Was folgt aus der Fokussierung auf das Problem des Entscheidens fur eine Geschichte...
Early Buddhist Metaphysics provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the earliest stratum of Buddhist thought to the systematic and allegedly scholastic philosophy of the Pali Abhidhamma movement. Entwining comparative philosophy and Buddhology, the author probes the Abhidhamma's metaphysical transition in terms of the Aristotelian tradition and vis-à-vis modern philosophy, exploits Western philosophica...
Early Tibetan Documents on Phur Pa Frun Dunhuang
by Cathy Cantwell and Professor Emeritus of English Robert Mayer
A monumental academic study of the monastic complex of Tshal Gung-thang and sKyid-shod, the Lhasa valley, offering an extensive contribution to the historical study of early and late medieval Tibet. Part One of the book is a translation of a basic text concerning the history of Tshal Gung Thang. Part Two comprises lenthy appendices on various aspects of the history and cultic tradition of Tshal-pa and the Lhasa Valley. It includes the compelling story of the Tibetan Lama Zhang g.Yu-brag-pa, als...
An Early Text on the History of Rwa sgreng Monastery (Harvard Oriental (HUP)) (Harvard Oriental)
This monograph is a study of the Rgyal ba'i dben gnas rwa sgreng gi bshad pa nyi ma'i 'od zer (Rays of the Sun: A Statement about Rwa sgreng Monastery, Hermitage of the Victor), which is a newly discovered hand-written manuscript from the Fifth Dalai Lama's private library at 'Bras spungs monastery, Lhasa. It is the first known work devoted solely to Rwa sgreng monastery, the mother monastery of the Bka' gdams school founded by 'Brom ston Rgyal ba'i 'byung gnas (1005-1064) in 1057 after the deat...
Eshinni (1182-1268?), a Buddhist nun and the wife of Shinran (1173-1262), the celebrated founder of the True Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhism, was largely unknown until the discovery of a collection of her letters in 1921. In this study, James C. Dobbins, a leading scholar of Pure Land Buddhism, has made creative use of these letters to shed new light on life and religion in medieval Japan. He provides a complete translation of the letters and an explication of them that reveals the charac...
Authorized Lives (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, #18)
by Elijah Ary
History,Buddhism,and New Religious Movements in Cambodia
This volume showcases some of the most current and exciting research being done on Cambodian religious ideas and practices by a new generation of scholars from a variety of disciplines. The different contributors examine in some manner the relationship between religion and the ideas and institutions that have given shape to Cambodia as a social and political body, or nation. Although they do not share the same approach to the idea of ""nation,"" all are concerned with the processes of religion t...
Prophecy and Hellenism (Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe, #129)
This volume contains papers read at the seventh meeting of the Aberdeen Prophecy Network, an interdisciplinary symposium held in June 2018 in Jena. From the points of view of Classical and Old Testament/Hebrew Bible studies, the contributions ask how phenomena of divination and concepts of prophecy were understood in the Mediterranean oecumene after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
Animism in Laos
by Frederic P Miller, Agnes F Vandome, and John McBrewster
Concept of the Buddha, The: Its Evolution from Early Buddhism to the Trikaya Theory (Routledgecurzon Critical Studies in Buddhism)
by Guang Xing
Massekhet Menahot (A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud, V/2)
by Dvora Weisberg
Tractate Menahkot in the Babylonian Talmud considers the proper composition, formation, and presentation of offerings of grain and flour brought to the Jerusalem Temple. Redacted centuries after the destruction of the Temple and the cessation of the sacrificial cult, the tractate focuses on the work of the priests and the centrality of intent in validating or invalidating offerings. There is minimal consideration of the role or experience of the men and women who brought offerings. The tractate...
The Power of the Buddhas (Harvard East Asian Monographs, #303) (Harvard East Asian Monographs (HUP))
by Sem Vermeersch
Buddhism in medieval Korea is characterized as "State Protection Buddhism," a religion whose primary purpose was to rally support (supernatural and popular) for and legitimate the state. In this view, the state used Buddhism to engender compliance with its goals. A closer look, however, reveals that Buddhism was a canvas on which people projected many religious and secular concerns and desires. This study is an attempt to specify Buddhism's place in Koryo and to ascertain to what extent and in w...
Reading Heresy
Heresy studies is a new interdisciplinary, supra-religious, and humanist field of study that focuses on borderlands of dogma, probes the intersections between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and explores the realms of dissent in religion, art, and literature. Free from confessional agendas and tolerant of both religious and non-religious perspectives, heresy studies fulfill an important gap in scholarly inquiry and artistic production. Divided into four parts, the volume explores intersections betw...
The Renewal of Buddhism in China (The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies) (Neo-Confucian Studies S.)
by Chun-fang Yu
First published in 1981, The Renewal of Buddhism in China broke new ground in the study of Chinese Buddhism. An interdisciplinary study of a Buddhist master and reformer in late Ming China, it challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height under the Tang dynasty (618-907) and steadily declined afterward. Chun-fang Yu details how in sixteenth-century China, Buddhism entered a period of revitalization due in large part to a cohort of innovative monks who sought to transcend...