Setting Out on the Great Way brings together different perspectives on the origins and early history of Mahayana Buddhism and delves into selected aspects of its formative period.
"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…
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…
This publication is a collection of papers presented at the four-day International conference on Mahayana Buddhism history and culture organized by Tibet House at India international centre of New …
Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. The object of this book is twofold: (1) To refute the many wrong opinions which are entertained by Western critics concerning the fundamenta…
Figments and Fragments of Mahayana Buddhism in India: More Collected Papers is the third in a series of collected essays by one of today's most distinguished scholars of Indian Buddhism. In the art…
Originating in India, Mahayana Buddhism spread across Asia, becoming the prevalent form of Buddhism in Tibet and East Asia. Over the last twenty-five years Western interest in Mahayana has increase…
This book is both exegetical and analytic and as such it should appeal to the decerning reader, having some background information about the great Mahayana philosophy.
Buddhist theories of existents : the systems of two truths / Elvin W. Jones --rnŚamathavipaśyanāyuganaddha : the two leading principles of Buddhist meditation / Geshe Sopa --rnWhat remains" i…
Title on spine: Hinayāna & Mahāyāna.rnReprint of the 1927 ed., published by University of Calcutta.rnIncludes index
In This Book The Author Has Extensively Used All The Literary Philosophical And Epigraphic Sources Available On Mahayana Buddhism And Analysed Them With Much Througness. The Book Is An Excellent Pi…
Facsimile reproduction of Srinagar fragment of Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra, with its transcript in romanized form and annotation.
The Salistamba Sutra a Mahayana text of great antiquity, has perished in its original Sanskrit form. It is however extensively quoted in Sanskrit commentarial literature which does survive in the o…
The Buddhist scripture containing teachings that bestow heroic progress on the path to Enlightement The Suramgamsamadhisutra is an early Mahayana Buddhist scripture. Within a narrative framework pr…
Born in A.D. 1575, Lama Taranatha wrote this book in 1608. V. Vasil'ev of St. Petersburg translated it from Tibetan into Russian in April 1869 followed by the German translation of the text by Schi…
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…