The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon

David Webster

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby we... Lees meer

Women in British Buddhism

Caroline Starkey

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• Based on detailed ethnographic research, this book explores the varied experiences of women who have converted to Buddhism in contemporary Britain and... Lees meer

Action Dharma

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• Action Dharma charts the emergence of a new chapter in an ancient faith - the rise of social service and political activism in Buddhist Asia and the W... Lees meer

Early Buddhist Meditation

Keren Arbel

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• This book offers a new interpretation of the relationship between 'insight practice' ( satipatthana ) and the attainment of the four jhànas (i.e., rig... Lees meer

The Reflexive Nature of Awareness

Paul Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• Places the controversy initiated by the Tibetan Tsong kha pa - who elaborated on one of the eight difficult points in understanding Madhyamaka philoso... Lees meer

Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet

Frances Garrett

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature, and what this reveals about its medicine and... Lees meer

Mindfulness in Early Buddhism

Tse-Fu Kuan

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• This book identifies what is meant by sati ( smrti ), usually translated as 'mindfulness', in early Buddhism, and examines its soteriological function... Lees meer

Empty Vision

David McMahan

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• Visual metaphors in a number of Mahayana sutras construct a discourse in which visual perception serves as a model for knowledge and enlightenment. In... Lees meer

British Buddhism

Robert Bluck

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• British Buddhism presents a useful insight into contemporary British Buddhist practice. It provides a survey of the seven largest Buddhist traditions ... Lees meer

Reason and Experience in Tibetan Buddhism

Thomas Doctor

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• Based on newly discovered texts, this book explores the barely known but tremendously influential thought of the Tibetan Buddhist teacher, Mabja Jangc... Lees meer

Buddhism, Cognitive Science, and the Doctrine of Selflessness

Hugh Nicholson

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• This book examines the relationship between Buddhist philosophy and scientific psychology by focusing on the doctrine of No-self. The hypothesis is th... Lees meer

Emptiness Appraised

David F Burton

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowled... Lees meer

Buddhist Phenomenology

Dan Lusthaus

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• A richly complex study of the Yogacara tradition of Buddhism, divided into five parts: the first on Buddhism and phenomenology, the second on the four... Lees meer

Buddhist Manuscript Cultures

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well a... Lees meer

The Refutation of the Self in Indian Buddhism

James (University of Iowa, US) Duerlinger

• Paperback | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• Since the Buddha did not fully explain the theory of persons that underlies his teaching, in later centuries a number of different interpretations wer... Lees meer

Buddhist Phenomenology

Dan Lusthaus

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• A richly complex study of the Yogacara tradition of Buddhism, divided into five parts: the first on Buddhism and phenomenology, the second on the four... Lees meer

Buddhist Thought and Applied Psychological Research

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• Written by leading scholars and including a foreword by the Dalai Lama, this book explores the interface between Buddhist studies and the uses of Budd... Lees meer

Empty Vision

David McMahan

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• Visual metaphors in a number of Mahayana sutras construct a discourse in which visual perception serves as a model for knowledge and enlightenment. In... Lees meer

Beyond Enlightenment

Richard Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becomi... Lees meer

The Reflexive Nature of Awareness

Paul Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• Places the controversy initiated by the Tibetan Tsong kha pa - who elaborated on one of the eight difficult points in understanding Madhyamaka philoso... Lees meer

Buddhist Theology

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• Scholars of Buddhism, themselves Buddhist, here seek to apply the critical tools of the academy to reassess the truth and transformative value of thei... Lees meer

Buddhism in Australia

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• The number of Buddhists in Australia has grown dramatically in recent years. In 2006, Buddhists accounted for 2.1 per cent of Australia's population, ... Lees meer

Theravada Buddhism in Colonial Contexts

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• Over the course of the nineteenth century, most of the Theravada world of Southeast Asia came under the colonial domination of European powers. While ... Lees meer

The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China

Dan Smyer Yu

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intric... Lees meer