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Tantra Across the Buddhist Cosmopolis examines key aspects of the tantric Buddhist movement from its beginnings in early medieval India to the present day. Across its centuries-long history, tantric Buddhism has spread throughout the global community of Buddhist...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-18
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Buddhists in Vietnam are meeting humanitarian needs by popularizing charity. Vietnam's rapid urbanization has intensified social service demands while straining public infrastructure. In response, charity volunteers are building roads, subsidizing medicine, and giving...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-01
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Contemplative practices are increasingly mainstream in the United States. From meditation, mindfulness, and yoga, to writing, walking, and gardening, contemplative practices aim to cultivate embodied awareness, attunement, and attention. What is the political value of...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-12-18
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Scholars of religion have mostly abandoned the concept of "syncretism" in which certain apparent deviations from "standard" practice are believed to be the result of a mixture of religions. This is particularly relevant to Thailand, in which ordinary religious practice...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-07-26
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First brought to the United States in the nineteenth century by Chinese and Japanese immigrants, Buddhism has become a major feature of the North American religious, cultural, and social landscape. Nearly every form of Asian Buddhism has some presence in North America...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-04-23
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Discover the history, teachings and practices of one of the world's oldest religions with this pocket-sized introduction to BuddhismWho was the Buddha? What's the difference between enlightenment and awakening? Do Buddhists believe in God?Discover all this and more with...
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Summersdale
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2023-05-11
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With over 520 million followers, Buddhism is now the world's fourth largest religion. Over the last seventy years or so there has been a growing interest in Buddhism, and it continues to capture the imagination of many in the West, who see it as either an alternative or...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-25
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With over 520 million followers, Buddhism is now the world's fourth largest religion. Over the last seventy years or so there has been a growing interest in Buddhism, and it continues to capture the imagination of many in the West, who see it as either an alternative or...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-25
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Throughout the past millennium, certain Tibetan Buddhist yogins have taken on profoundly norm-overturning modes of dress and behavior, including draping themselves in human remains, consuming filth, provoking others to violence, and even performing sacrilege. They...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-06-04
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Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka and interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's groundbreaking study urges a rethinking of female renunciation. How are scholarly accounts complicit in reinscribing imperialist stories about the...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-09-17
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Buddhist violence is not a well-known concept. In fact, it is generally considered an oxymoron. An image of aBuddhist monk holding a handgun or the idea of a militarizedBuddhist monastery tends to stretch the imagination; yet these sights exist throughout southern...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-06-01
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Knowing Body, Moving Mind investigates ritualizing and learning in introductory meditation classes at two Buddhist centers in Toronto, Canada. The centers, Friends of the Heart and Chandrakirti, are led and attended by Western (sometimes called "convert') Buddhists:...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-09-02
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Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism encourages the belief that, through its faith and practices, spiritual and material blessings and benefits can be available to everyone in this life. Needs can be met, and success achieved, not merely for oneself but for others (and the...
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Ebury Digital
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2011-07-31
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Western esotericism has now emerged as an academic study in its own right, combining spirituality with an empirical observation of the natural world while also relating the humanity to the universe through a harmonious celestial order. This introduction to theWestern...
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Oxford University Press
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2008-10-14
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Buddhist chronicles have long been had a central place in the study of Buddhism. Scholars, however, have relied almost exclusively on Pali works that were composed by elites for learned audiences, to the neglect of a large number ofBuddhist histories written in local...
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Oxford University Press
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2006-12-14
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