New Delhi etc: New Age International, 1998. — 255 p. Religion as Emancipatory Identity is a sociological study of a socio-religious movement among the Tamils during the colonial period. It investigates and brings to light for the first time the forgotten movement of Buddhist revivalism — the life and writings of Pandit lyothee Thass, the organisation and activities of...
London, New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. — 184 p. — ISBN 0–415–32245–6 Hagiographies or idealized biographies which recount the lives of saints, bodhisattvas and other charismatic figures have been the meeting place for myth and experience. In medieval Europe, the 'lives of saints' were read during liturgical celebrations and the texts themselves were treated as sacred objects....
New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. — 475 p. — ISBN: 0-231-12619-0 Despite the rapid spread of Buddhism — especially the esoteric system of Tantra, one of its most popular yet most misunderstood forms — the historical origins of Buddhist thought and practice remain obscure. This groundbreaking work describes the genesis of the Tantric movement in early medieval India,...
Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1996. — 93 p. — ISBN: 81-86470-04-2. A Handful of Flowers is a condensed biography of the 14th-century Buddhist scholar and master, Boton Rinchen Drub. In translation it offers a valuable addition to the body of works, rendered into English, of outstanding historical figures in the Buddhist world. Born in the year 1290, Boton...
2nd edition. — Routledge, 2006. — 180 p. This book, the second edition of How Buddhism Began, takes a fresh look at the earliest Buddhist texts and offers various suggestions how the teachings in them had developed. Two themes predominate. Firstly, it argues that we cannot understand the Buddha unless we understand that he was debating with other religious teachers, notably...
Gurgaon: Random House India, 2015. — 388 p. — ISBN: 9781336183971. Shortly before midnight on March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of his summer residence with only four aides at his side. At that moment, he became the symbolic head of the Tibetan government in exile, and Gyalo Thondup, the only one of the...
Brill, 2007. - 485 p. This book unravels some of the complex factors that allowed or hampered the presence of (certain aspects of) Buddhism in the regions to the north and the east of India, such as Asia, China, Tibet, Mongolia, or Korea.
Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. — 424 p. — ISBN10: 0824812034 ISBN13: 9780824812034. Translated and edited by Paul Groner. The book, the summation of a lifetime of research on Indian Buddhism, is an exceptionally comprehensive discussion of Indian Buddhism. The text presents the debates of Indian Buddhism that have occurred in the Japanese academic community and...
Japan: Ryukoku University, 2012. — 195 p. Irisawa T., Tsime P. et al. Buddhism and the art of Turfan in the perspective of Uyghur Buddhism (in English and Japanese) Some Notes on Old Uigur Art and Texts. Origin, Development and Meaning of the Praidhi Paintings on the Northern Silk Road. The formation of Uygur Buddhist Art: Some Remarks on Work in Progress. Historical...
She is the embodiment of selfless love, the supreme symbol of radical compassion, and, for more than a millennium throughout Asia, she has been revered as “The One Who Hearkens to the Cries of the World.” Kuan Yin is both a Buddhist symbol and a beloved deity of Chinese folk religion. John Blofeld’s classic study traces the history of this most famous of all the bodhisattvas...
New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1982. — 226 p. Lal Hazra Kanai. History of Theravada Buddhism in the countries of Southeast Asia, with materials on India and Ceylon (In English) Introduction and Sources. India: Introduction, Development and Decline of Buddhism in India. History of Theravada Buddhism in Ceylon and South-East Asia Prior to the Eleventh Century AD....
Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1999. — 370 p. Buddhists believe that the wrathful spirits represent inherent qualities of our own, and that meditating on them can transmute the otherwise malevolent sides of our own natures into positive qualities and actions. The wrathful deities also provide precious clues as to the early development of esoteric Buddhism in India, about...
Folkestone: Global Oriental, 2007. — 278 p. This first major study in English on Japanese Buddhism by one of Japan's most distinguished scholars in the field of Religious Studies is to be widely welcomed. The main focus of the work is on the tradition of the monk (o-bo-san) as the main agent of Buddhism, together with the historical processes by which monks have developed...
New Delhi etc: Sage, 2003. Introduction: Reconstructing the World. The Background to Buddhism. The Dhamma: The Basic Teachings of Buddhism. Transitoriness and Transformations. Buddhist Civilisation. The Defeat of Buddhism in India. After Buddhism: The Bhakti Movements. Colonial Challenges, Indian Responses and Buddhist Revival. Navayana Buddhism and the Modern Age.
Brill, 2011. — 1200 p. Forty scholars, provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era to the present.
2nd edition. — M.D. Gunasena, 1966. — 412 p. The book deals in great detail with introduction of Buddhism to Sri Lanka, its subsequent development and its influence in the evolution of the culture and society of Sri Lanka.
Brill, 1990. — 120 p. — ISBN: 90-04-09246-3 Recovering the Buddha's message Aspects of early Buddhism Some remarks on older parts of the Suttanipata Buddhism and the equality of the four castes On the authorship of some works ascribed to Bhavaviveka/Bhavya Is Dharmakirti a Madhyamika? On some non-formal aspects of the proofs of the Madhyamakakarikas
Honolulu: A Kuroda Institute book; University of Hawai‘i Press, 2002. — xiii, 400 p. — ISBN: 0824824431. The modern study of medieval Chinese religion has been divided broadly between two camps: the sinologists and the buddhologists. While the former often ignored Buddhism, the latter tended to ignore everything but. Such proclivities are not difficult to fathom. Sinologists...
Element Books, 1993. — 352 p. — ISBN: 1-85230-332-8 Foreword VI Preface Vlll Acknowledgements Xlll Illustrations between pp. 176 and 177 1. The Buryats 1 2. Early Life 1854-1873 11 3. Tibet and Wu T'ai Shan 1873-1888 22 4. The Thirteenth Dalai Lama 1888-1898 32 5. Ukhtomsky's Summons 1898 43 6. Mission to Europe 1898-1899 53 7. The Mfair of the Steel Bowls 1899-1901 66 8. The...
Dehli: Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1999. — 242 p. Parsonalism was a remarkable and durable aspect of an important part of early Buddhism. For more than ten centuries it was taught and defended by several schools and had numerous followers but was strongly criticised by other Buddhist schools.The Literature of the Personalists of Early Buddhism attempts to present an historical...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 352 p. Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy in the first millennium CE. He starts from the composition of the Abhidharma works before the beginning of the common era and continues up to the time of Dharmakirti in the sixth century. This period was...
Third edition with a foreword by Stephen F. Teiser. — Leiden: Brill, 2008. — 472 p. At the repeated request of many scholars and students here is a new edition of E. Zürcher's groundbreaking The Buddhist Conquest of China. In his extensive introduction Stephen F. Teiser (D.T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies, Princeton University) explains why the book is still the standard...
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