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33 produkter
Birth of Insight
Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw
Av Erik Braun
Häftad, 2016
287 kr
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Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see it as the Buddha's most important gift to …
Birth of Insight
Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw
Av Erik Braun
Inbunden, 2013
851 kr
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Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see it as the Buddha's most important gift to …
Religious Bodies Politic
Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
Inbunden, 2013
851 kr
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Religious Bodies Politic examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with a large Buddhist population. Looking at religious transformation among …
Religious Bodies Politic
Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
Häftad, 2013
314 kr
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Religious Bodies Politic examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with a large Buddhist population. Looking at religious transformation among …
In the Forest of Faded Wisdom
104 Poems by Gendun Chopel, a Bilingual Edition
Inbunden, 2009
283 kr
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In a culture where poetry is considered the highest form of human language, Gendun Chopel is revered as Tibet's greatest modern poet. Born in 1903 as British troops were preparing to invade his homeland, he was identified at any early age as the incarnation of a famous lama and became a Buddhist …
Museum on the Roof of the World
Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet
Häftad, 2014
306 kr
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For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition; the Dalai Lama, spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that …
Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism
Häftad, 2015
476 kr
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The most influential work on Buddhism to be published in the nineteenth century, Introduction a l'historie du Buddhisme indien, by the great French scholar of Sanskrit Eugene Burnouf, set the course for the academic study of Buddhism - and Indian Buddhism in particular - for the next hundred years. …
Museum on the Roof of the World
Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet
Inbunden, 2012
876 kr
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For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that …
From Stone to Flesh
A Short History of the Buddha
Häftad, 2016
195 kr
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We have come to admire Buddhism for being profound but accessible, as much a lifestyle as a religion. The credit for creating Buddhism goes to the Buddha, a figure widely respected across the Western world for his philosophical insight, his teachings of nonviolence, and his practice of meditation. …
Seeking Sakyamuni
South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism
Inbunden, 2019
1073 kr
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Though fascinated with the land of their tradition's birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated Seeking Sakyamuni, Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the first Japanese Buddhists who traveled to South Asia …
Seeking Sakyamuni
South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism
Häftad, 2019
348 kr
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Though fascinated with the land of their tradition's birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated Seeking Sakyamuni, Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the first Japanese Buddhists who traveled to South Asia …
Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol
An Anthology of Early European Portrayals of the Buddha
Häftad, 2016
263 kr
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We tend to think that the Buddha has always been seen as the compassionate sage admired around the world today, but until the nineteenth century, Europeans often regarded him as a nefarious figure, an idol worshipped by the pagans of the Orient. Donald S. Lopez Jr. offers here a rich sourcebook of …
Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism
Av Donald S. Lopez Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr
Häftad, 2005
288 kr
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Over the past century Buddhism has come to be seen as a world religion, exceeding Christianity in longevity and, according to many, philosophical wisdom. Buddhism has also increasingly been described as strongly ethical, devoted to nonviolence, and dedicated to bringing an end to human suffering. …
Madman's Middle Way
Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel
Inbunden, 2005
710 kr
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Gendun Chopel is considered the most important Tibetan intellectual of the twentieth century. His life spanned the two defining moments in modern Tibetan history: the entries into Lhasa by British troops in 1904 and by Chinese troops in 1951. Chopel excelled in the traditional monastic curriculum …
Madman's Middle Way
Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel
Häftad, 2007
229 kr
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Gendun Chopel is considered the most important Tibetan intellectual of the twentieth century. His life spanned the two defining moments in modern Tibetan history: the entries into Lhasa by British troops in 1904 and by Chinese troops in 1951. Recognized as an incarnate lama while he was a child, …
Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol
An Anthology of Early European Portrayals of the Buddha
Inbunden, 2016
851 kr
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We tend to think that the Buddha has always been seen as the compassionate sage admired around the world today, but until the nineteenth century, Europeans often regarded him as a nefarious figure, an idol worshipped by the pagans of the Orient. Donald S. Lopez Jr. offers here a rich sourcebook of …
Buddhism and Science
A Guide for the Perplexed
Häftad, 2010
195 kr
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Beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to the present day, both practitioners and admirers of Buddhism have proclaimed its compatibility with science. In "Buddhism and Science", Donald S. Lopez Jr. explores how and why these two seemingly disparate modes of understanding the inner and …
From Stone to Flesh
A Short History of the Buddha
Inbunden, 2013
246 kr
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We have come to admire Buddhism for being profound but accessible, as much a lifestyle as a religion. The credit for creating Buddhism goes to the Buddha, a figure widely respected across the Western world for his philosophical insight, his teachings of nonviolence, and his practice of meditation. …
Passion Book
A Tibetan Guide to Love and Sex
Häftad, 2018
203 kr
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The Passion Book is the most famous work of erotica in the vast literature of Tibetan Buddhism, written by the legendary scholar and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-1951). Soon after arriving in India in 1934, he discovered the Kama Sutra. Realizing that this genre of the erotic was unknown in Tibet, he …
BONDS OF THE DEAD - TEMPLES, BURIAL AND THETRANSFORMATION OF CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE BUDDHISM
Inbunden, 2011
1073 kr
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Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism's social and economic base has long been in mortuary services - a base now threatened by public debate over the status, …
Bonds of the Dead
Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
Häftad, 2011
331 kr
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Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism's social and economic base has long been in mortuary services - a base now threatened by public debate over the status, …
Buddha's Tooth
Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic
Inbunden, 2021
1073 kr
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John S. Strong unravels the storm of influences shaping the received narratives of two iconic sacred objects.Bodily relics such as hairs, teeth, fingernails, pieces of bone—supposedly from the Buddha himself—have long served as objects of veneration for many Buddhists. Unsurprisingly, when Western …
Renunciation and Longing
The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint
Inbunden, 2022
838 kr
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Through the eventful life of a Himalayan Buddhist teacher, Khunu Lama, this study reimagines cultural continuity beyond the binary of traditional and modern. In the early twentieth century, Khunu Lama journeyed across Tibet and India, meeting Buddhist masters while sometimes living, so his students …
Buddha's Tooth
Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic
Häftad, 2021
331 kr
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John S. Strong unravels the storm of influences shaping the received narratives of two iconic sacred objects.Bodily relics such as hairs, teeth, fingernails, pieces of bone—supposedly from the Buddha himself—have long served as objects of veneration for many Buddhists. Unsurprisingly, when Western …
Renunciation and Longing
The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint
Häftad, 2022
284 kr
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Through the eventful life of a Himalayan Buddhist teacher, Khunu Lama, this study reimagines cultural continuity beyond the binary of traditional and modern. In the early twentieth century, Khunu Lama journeyed across Tibet and India, meeting Buddhist masters while sometimes living, so his students …
Making a Canon
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Sri Lanka, and the Place of Buddhist Art
Inbunden, 2024
391 kr
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The story of how one scholar’s experiences in Sri Lanka shaped the contours of the Buddhist visual canon. An early interpreter of Buddhist art to the West, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy laid the foundation of what would become the South Asian visual canon, particularly through his efforts to …
Shots in the Dark
Japan, Zen, and the West
Av Shoji Yamada
Häftad, 2011
280 kr
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In the years after Wrold War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan. Pursuing the sources of Zen as a Japanese ideal, Shoji Yamada uncovers the surprising role of two cultural touchstones: Eugen Herrigel's "Zen in the Art of Archery" and the …
Locations of Buddhism
Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka
Inbunden, 2010
536 kr
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Modernizing and colonizing forces brought nineteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhists both challenges and opportunities. How did Buddhists deal with social and economic change; new forms of political, religious, and educational discourse; and, Christianity? And how did Sri Lankan Buddhists, …
Grains of Gold
Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler
Inbunden, 2014
450 kr
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In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-51) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native land after twelve years in India and Sri Lanka. But he …
Rescued from the Nation
Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World
Inbunden, 2015
416 kr
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Anagarika Dharmapala is one of the most galvanizing figures in Sri Lanka's recent turbulent history. He is widely regarded as the nationalist hero who saved the Sinhala people from cultural collapse and whose "protestant" reformation of Buddhism drove monks toward increased political involvement …
