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Buddhism eBooks
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Seeing Through Zen
By: McRae, John R.
Published by: University of California Press
The tradition of Chan Buddhism--more popularly known as Zen--has been romanticized throughout its history. In this book, John R. McRae shows how modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, make possible a more skeptical, accurate, and--ultimately--productive assessment of Chan lineages, teaching, fundraising practices, and social organization.
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Sensory Biographies
By: Desjarlais, Robert R.
Published by: University of California Press
Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest in his mid-eighties known as Ghang Lama, members of an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people whose ancestors have lived for three centuries or so along the upper ridges of the Yolmo Valley in north central Nepal.
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Skilful Means
By: Pye, Michael
Published by: Routledge
Skilful means' is the key principle of Mahayana, one of the great Buddhist traditions. I illuminates a core working philosophy essential for any complete understanding of Buddhism.
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Price: $43.95
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The Sound of Two Hands Clapping
By: Dreyfus, Georges B. J.
Published by: University of California Press
A unique insider's account of day-to-day life inside a Tibetan monastery, The Sound of Two Hands Clapping reveals to Western audiences the fascinating details of monastic education. Georges B. J. Dreyfus, the first Westerner to complete the famous Ge-luk curriculum and achieve the distinguished title of geshe, weaves together eloquent and moving autobiographical reflections with a historical overview of Tibetan Buddhism and insights into its teachings.
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Tales and Teachings of the Buddha
By: Jones, John
Published by: Cybereditions
This book reveals the vast fund of folkloric material embedded in popular Buddhism, beliefs and ideas which sometimes depart alarmingly from the orthodox tradition. In this compact study, both sources, Jtaka and Canon, each vast in extent, have been thoroughly explored and compared, making them more accessible than they have ever been before.
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Tantra
By: Urban, Hugh B.
Published by: University of California Press
A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life--Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within the Western imagination ever since the first "discovery" of Indian religions by European scholars.
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The Tender Heart
By: Yifa, Venerable
Published by: Lantern Books
Venerable Yifa looks at how and why suffering occurs and reveals the Buddhist perspective on the nature of suffering, the meaning of justice, what is evil and what is good, and why some people die and others live.
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Theories of the Gift in Medieval South Asia
By: Heim, Maria
Published by: Routledge
This book explores the ethical and social implications of unilateral gifts of esteem, offering a perceptive guide to the uniquely South Asian contributors to theoretical work on the gift.
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Price: $90.00
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Theravada Buddhism
By: Gombrich, Richard
Published by: Routledge
In this book, Richard Gombrich shows how Theravada Buddism has affected and been afected by its social surroundings. He explains what the Buddha owed to his predecessors and what he was arguing against. Many issues are raised and discussed.
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Price: $36.95
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Tibetan and Zen Buddhism in Britain
By: Kay, David N
Published by: Routledge
This book analyses the transplantation, development and adaptation of the two largest Tibetan and Zen Buddhist organisations currently active on the British religious landscape.
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Price: $170.00
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