The study of apocryphal texts is probably the single most important task facing Chinese Buddhist studies today. This volume has done much to get it off on the right foot. --Journal of Asian Studies…
The present book embodies selective in depth research papers of Dr. Krishna Murthy diversifying various aspects of the subject, written with wonted scholarship and sensitivity. Dr. Krishna Murthy h…
Meditative practice lies at the heart of the Buddhist tradition. This introductory anthology gives a representative sample of the various kinds of meditations described in the earliest body of Budd…
Now available in paperback, this grammar offers a completely new approach to the study of Sanskrit, aimed at students with no previous specialist knowledge. It is a stimulating and infectious appro…
The Dictionary of Buddhist Iconography is an endeavour of half a century to identify, classify, describe and delineate the bewildering variation in Buddhist icons.
v. 1. [without special title] -- v. 2. Amoghavikrāmin--Bzod.par.smra.ba.can -- v. 3. C︣ayan Acala--Dhūpā -- v. 4. Dhyāna-pāramitā--Gzuṅsḷas.byuṅ.baḥi lha.mo Norṛgyunṃa -- …
This modern translation of the Abhidhammattha Sangaha (Manual of Abhidhamma) offers an introduction to Buddhism's fundamental philosophical psychology. Originally written in the 11th or 12th centur…
V. 1. A-Ch --rnv. 2. Co-In --rnv. 3. In-Na --rnv. 4. Na-S --rnv. 5. T-Z, appendices.
The author of The Battle for God and other works on religion focuses her attention on the Buddha, retracing his life from prince to savior of humankind, in a philosophical portrait that offers an i…
FLirst pub. in UK, 1937, just rep. deluxe edition. basic reference on Buddhism, Pali
Soonil Hwang studies the doctrinal development of nirvana in the Pali Nikaaya and subsequent tradition and compares it with the Chinese aagama and its traditional interpretation. He clarifies early…
Throughout the centuries, moral philosophers, both Eastern and Western, considered a permanent and eternal law a necessary requirement for the formulation of a moral principle. If such a law was n…
The Madhyamika or middle way, a school of Buddhist thought that originated in India in the second century, was a decisive influence on the subsequent development of Mahayana Buddhism. In a new appr…