Theravāda Buddhist civilizations and their modern formations / Juliane Schober and Steven Collins -- Periodizing Theravāda history : where to start? / Steven Collins -- the impact of the scie…
With its descriptions of cosmic events and characters, the Saddharmapundarika-sutra unfolds like a magnificent drama. It offers a combination of doctrine, teachings, stories, and parables, devotion…
Garfield translates Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika and provides a philosophical commentary. Mulamadhyamakakarika is the foundational text for all Mahayana Buddhism and is one of the most influent…
The Chan ahan jingis is a translation of the Dirgha Agama from the fifth century, and was intended to bridge the early Buddhist teachings with the Mahayana Buddhist teachings and scriptures. This i…
This study focuses on the development of the concept of unconscious mind within Indian Buddhist thought, presents issues of conception of mind and examines the doctrinal and philosophical arguments…
Gananath Obeyesekere is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, USA where he has taught for 20 years. His recent publications include The Awakened Ones: An Essay on the Phenomen…
Vamsa is a dynamic genre of Buddhist history filled with otherworldly characters and the exploits of real-life heroes. These narratives collapse the temporal distance between Buddha and the reader,…
Translated by Li Rongxi, this biographical text relates how King Asoka unified India for the first time in the third century BCE and, after his conversion, sent emissaries throughout his kingdom to…
This presents the rare first and the oldest surviving MSS, written on birch-bark in Kharoshi script and Prakrit dialect, of Dharmapada, a narration of Buddha's actual utterance that constitute his …
Part 1 : being a guide to pages 1-12 of 'Conditional relations Patthāna' : an explanation of the conditions and of the methods for working out the answers in the 6 chapters of the faultless tripl…
Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts pt. 1. The Buddha-karita of Asvaghosha, translated from the Sanskrit by E. B. Cowell. pt. 2. The larger Sukhâvatî-vyûha, the smaller Sukhâvatî-vyûha, the Vagrakked…
This Grammar of Pali Language represents the research work done during ten years (1955-65) It is based on the Language of the Dhamma and Vinaya Pitakas. It was composed for pali students, but resea…
For those who seek to follow the early teachings of the Buddha in the earliest of the suttas and those who follow the modern commentary of John Peacock and Stephen Batchelor, it is only fitting to …