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 -- …
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…
Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred tex…
By providing an annotated translation of, and applying the methods of literary criticism to, a first-century account of the life of the saint Purna, this study introduces the reader to the richness…