The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Ae…
Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword by Bhikkhu Bodhi; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Real Existents; 2 The Nominal and the Conceptual; 3 The Two Truths; 4 The Analysis of Mind; 5 C…
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 …
Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-159) "A Burmese Buddhist manuscript from the mid-nineteenth century is the catalyst for a study of the multifaceted Buddhist cosmos...[T]he author…
Introduction: The Buddhist-American encounter in philosophy --rnToward a Buddhist-Christian religion / Charles Hartshorne --rnThe width of civilized experiences / David L. Hall --rnA Buddhist analy…
One of Buddhism’s foundational texts, the Visuddhimagga is a systematic examination and condensation of Buddhist doctrine and meditation technique. The various teachings of the Buddha found throu…
This book argues that though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way between nihilism and eternalism, his philosophy of emptiness neverthless entails nihilism. Burton also refutes the interpretation tha…
It has been 2600 years since the Enlightenment of our Great rnTeacher, and we have gathered here from across the globe, from many nations, to again rnpay tribute to his birth, enlightenment, and de…