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The Way of the Bodhisattva, composed by the monk and scholar Santideva in eighth-century India, is a Buddhist treatise in verse that beautifully and succinctly lays out the theory and practice of the Mahayana path of a bodhisattva. Over one thousand years after...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-03-01
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Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature offers an engaging philosophical overview ofTibetan Buddhist thought. Integrating competing and complementary perspectives on the nature of mind and reality, Douglas Duckworth reveals the way that Buddhist theory informs...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-12-18
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What would a Buddhist theory of texts look like through the lens of the 5th-century thinker Buddhaghosa? In Voice of the Buddha, Maria Heim reads from the principal commentator, editor, and translator of the Theravada intellectual tradition, yielding fresh insight into...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-09-12
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Buddhist philosophy is fundamentally ambivalent toward language. Language is paradoxically seen as both obstructive and necessary for liberation. In this book, Roy Tzohar delves into the ingenious response to this tension from the Yogacara school of Indian Buddhism:...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-04-09
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Many forms of Buddhism, divergent in philosophy and style, emerged as Buddhism filtered out of India into other parts of Asia. Nonetheless, all of them embodied an ethical core that is remarkably consistent. Articulated by the historical Buddha in his first sermon, this...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-20
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Many forms of Buddhism, divergent in philosophy and style, emerged as Buddhism filtered out of India into other parts of Asia. Nonetheless, all of them embodied an ethical core that is remarkably consistent. Articulated by the historical Buddha in his first sermon, this...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-08
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As seen in the MAIL ON SUNDAY, THE DAILY MAIL, THE TELEGRAPH and as heard BBC RADIO 2 with Chris Evans.'A lovely book. Offers a little lesson every day on how to be more mindful, to slow time down or stop time.' Chris Evans, BBC Radio...
Editeur :
Michael Joseph
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2017-10-24
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The scientific study of Buddhist forms of meditation has surged in recent years, capturing the popular imagination and reshaping conceptions of what meditation is and what it can do. For perhaps the first time in history, meditation has shifted from Buddhist monasteries...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-09-20
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From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen investigates the remarkable century that lasted from 1225 to 1325, during which the transformation of the Chinese Chan school of Buddhism into the Japanese Zen sect was successfully completed. Steven Heine reveals how this school of...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-09-06
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Dieses Buch untersucht den schwierigen Prozess, den der Buddhismus in Indonesien bis zu seiner staatlichen Anerkennung als Religion (Agama) durchlaufen hat. Dabei illustriert die Autorin die Verknüpfungen von Religions- und Minderheitenpolitik am Anpassungsprozess des...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-08-03
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The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue offers a complete annotated translation, the first into English, of a Chan Buddhist classic, the collected letters of the Southern Song Linji Chan teacher Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163). Addressed to forty scholar-officials, members of...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-07-03
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Buddhist Philosophy: A Comparative Approach presents a series of readings that examine the prominent thinkers and texts of theBuddhist tradition in the round, introducing contemporary readers to major theories and debates at the intersection ofBuddhist and Western...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-05-19
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Unfortunate Destiny focuses on the roles played by nonhuman animals within the imaginative thought-world of Indian Buddhism, as reflected in pre-modern South Asian Buddhist literature. These roles are multifaceted, diverse, and often contradictory: In Buddhist doctrine...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-05-01
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Seeing, really seeing, is like meditation. In a world filled with distraction, seeing mindfully is a way to pay attention, to hit pause and find calm by focusing on what’s directly in front of us. See Your Way to Mindfulness is a gift book of inspiration and...
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Workman Publishing Company
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2016-11-29
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As an incredibly diverse religious system, Buddhism is constantly changing. The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism offers a comprehensive collection of work by leading scholars in the field that tracks these changes up to the present day. Taken together, the book...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-11-01
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This book explores the resonances between Deleuze’s philosophy and a range of philosophical concepts in Buddhism. Focusing on this rarely examined relationship, this book gathers perspectives from scholars around the globe to explore the continuities and discontinuities...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-31
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Buddhist studies is a rapidly changing field of research, constantly transforming and adapting to new scholarship. This creates a problem for instructors, both in a university setting and in monastic schools, as they try to develop a curriculum based on a body of...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-09-01
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What kind of person should I strive to be?What ideals should I pursue in my life? These basic human questions and others like them are components of the overall question that guides this book:What is enlightenment?
As Dale Wright argues, any serious practitioner of...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-09-01
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Echoes of Enlightenment explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the recently discovered "liberation story" of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Sönam Peldren.
Born in 1328, Sönam Peldren spent most of her adult life as a nomad...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-29
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WINNER OF THE GOLD PRIZE FOR RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY OF EASTERN THOUGHT AT THE 2016 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS.Can meditation and mindfulness exercise make us sharper, smarter, healthier, happier? In Siddhartha's Brain, James Kingsland reveals that a complete scientific...
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Robinson
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2016-06-02
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