"This book demonstrates how popular ritual texts and story narratives have shaped the religious life and culture of the only surviving South Asian Mahayana Buddhist society, the Newars of Kathmandu…
Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy during the first millennium CE. He aims to offer the reader …
Tathagatagarbha -- Buddha Nature -- is a central concept of Mahayana Buddhism crucial to all the living practice traditions of Tibetan and Zen Buddhism. Its relationship to the concept of emptiness…
In this book the author considers data from both early and later schools of Buddhism in an attempt to provide an overall characterization of the structure of Buddhist ethics. Includes bibliogr…
Therigatha is a poetry anthology in the Pali language by and about the first Buddhist women. The poems they left behind are arguably among the most ancient examples of women's writing in the world …
The Catalogue gives details of over 780 palm-leaf manuscripts and 5 parabaiks that will be made available as PDFs on a website being prepared by the staff of the Robarts Library, University of To…
"... the first modern edition of the Manorathapūraṇīpurāṇaṭīka (Mp-pṭ) (= Līnatthapakāsinī IV) of Dhammapāla"--Introduction, page xxi. "The Burmese manuscript of Mp-pṭ us…
The Lotus Sutra is one of the central texts of Mahayana Buddhism, both studied and used as a devotional text in virtually all sects and schools of Buddhism throughout East Asia. Its teachings provi…
Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland / im Einvernehmen mit der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft begr. von Wolfgang Voigt. Weitergeführt von Dieter George. Im Auftrag…
The work is intended especially as a Supplement to the author`s Sanskrit Grammar giving a fulness of detail that was not there practicable, nor admissible as part of the grammar itself, all the quo…
The IPA is an important tool for singers and for the use of proper diction in the singing of many languages. This little reference book includes information on the appropriate use of every symbol i…
The present book collects research papers by Bhikkhu Analayo related to Vinaya. Recurrent topics are the nature of Vinaya narrative and the overlap between discourse and Vinaya material, both of wh…
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the di…
Vinaya, the Vibhaiiga1. The Patimokkha the meaning of the name will be dis cussed later on seems to have owed its existence to the ancient Indian custom of holding sacred two periods in each month,…
Vinaya, the Vibhaiiga1. The Patimokkha the meaning of the name will be dis cussed later on seems to have owed its existence to the ancient Indian custom of holding sacred two periods in each month,…
Vinaya, the Vibhaiiga1. The Patimokkha the meaning of the name will be dis cussed later on seems to have owed its existence to the ancient Indian custom of holding sacred two periods in each month,…
Important technical terms used in the Mahayana textual tradition, whose exact understanding is imperative for the study of Mahayana Buddhism, are skillfully presented, making the book indispensable…