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This volume collects Jay Garfield's essays on Madhyamaka, Yog-ac-ara, Buddhist ethics and cross-cultural hermeneutics. The first part addresses Madhyamaka, supplementing Garfield's translation of Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way (OUP, 1995), a foundational...
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Oxford University Press
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2001-12-06
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Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give about the life and teaching of the Buddha. He discusses the social and political background of India in the Buddha's time, and traces the development of his...
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OUP Oxford
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2001-02-22
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Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give about the life and teaching of the Buddha. He discusses the social and political background of India in the Buddha's time, and traces the development of his...
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OUP Oxford
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2001-02-22
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The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, which was unknown to the Western world until its first publication in 1954, speaks to the quintessence of the Supreme Path, or Mahayana, and fully reveals the yogic method of attaining Enlightenment. Such attainment can happen,...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-09-28
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Books, audiotapes, and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread, but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years, in fact. In the early part of the 20th century, it was...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-09-28
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The Dhammapada, the Pali version of one of the most popular texts of the Buddhist canon, ranks among the classics of the world's great religious literature.
Like all religious texts in Pali, the Dhammapada belongs to the Therevâda school of the Buddhist tradition,...
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OUP Oxford
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2000-09-07
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Koans are enigmatic spiritual formulas used for religious training in the Zen Buddhist tradition. Arguing that our understanding of the koan tradition has been severely limited, contributors to this collection examine previously unrecognized factors in the formation of...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-04-20
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The issue of saints is a difficult and complicated problem in Buddhology. In this magisterial work, Ray offers the first comprehensive examination of the figure of the Buddhist saint in a wide range of Indian Buddhist evidence. Drawing on an extensive variety of...
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Oxford University Press
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1999-09-30
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In this study, based on both historical evidence and ethnographic data, Paula Arai shows that nuns were central agents in the foundation of Buddhism in Japan in the sixth century. They were active participants in the Soto Zen sect, and have continued to contribute to...
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Oxford University Press
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1999-08-26
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Buddhism is a vast and complex religious and philosophical tradition with a history that stretches over 2,500 years, and which is now followed by around 115 million people. In this introduction to the foundations of Buddhism, Rupert Gethin concentrates on the ideas and...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-07-16
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Buddhism is a vast and complex religious and philosophical tradition with a history that stretches over 2,500 years, and which is now followed by around 115 million people. In this introduction to the foundations of Buddhism, Rupert Gethin concentrates on the ideas and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1998-07-15
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Buddhism is deeply attractive to many in the West. Its ideals of serenity and compassion seem to supply a dimension of personal spirituality that they don't find in their own traditions. For those raised in the Christian Church,Buddhism can appear to exemplify the best...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-04-04
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In this interdisciplinary inquiry, John Clifford Holt seeks to uncover how Buddhism was understood and expressed during the waning years of indigenous political power in Asia's oldest continuing Buddhist culture. Holt focusses on King Kirti Sri Rajasinha and how,...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-03-28
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This collection reflects the confluence of two contemporary developments: the Buddhist-Christian dialogue and the deconstruction theory of Jacques Derrida. The five essays both explore and demonstrate the relationship between postmodernism and Buddhist-Christian...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-01-02
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Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines the various ways in which Avalokitesvara, the most well known and proliferated bodhisattva of Mahayana Buddhism throughout...
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Oxford University Press
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1991-01-31
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The Dhammapada, the Pali version of one of the most popular texts of the Buddhist canon, also ranks among the classics of the world's religious literature. This critical edition presents to the English reader for the first time the Dhammapada as it has been known...
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Oxford University Press
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1987-10-29
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The karma blueprint reveals the hidden laws that govern life and destiny. It explains how your thoughts, actions, and inner intentions silently shape your present circumstances and future path. This book takes you beyond surface-level spirituality and helps you...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2026-01-08
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You will see how energy patterns created by the imbalance in your chakras have invaded your belief system and corrupted your free will, leading you into a karmic matrix of your own making.
It will become clear to you, how this karmic matrix has predetermined the path of...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
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2025-12-29
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Tradizionalmente attribuito al "Vecchio Maestro", Lao Tzu, contemporaneo anziano di Confucio, il Tao Tê Ching è il testo fondamentale del taoismo. Questo libricino antico di duemilacinquecento anni contiene in forma poetica e concisa insegnamenti che si collocano ai...
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Cactus
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2024-08-02
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