Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series – serie
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Other Side of Zen
A Social History of Sōtō Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan
Häftad, 2009
342 kr
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Popular understanding of Zen Buddhism typically involves a stereotyped image of isolated individuals in meditation, contemplating nothingness. This book presents the "other side of Zen," by examining the movement's explosive growth during the Tokugawa period (1600-1867) in Japan and by shedding …
Red Thread
Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality
Häftad, 1998
625 kr
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Is there a Buddhist discourse on sex? In this innovative study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His remarkably broad range covers the entire geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the time of its founder, Xvkyamuni, to the premodern age. The …
Buddhist Learning and Textual Practice in Eighteenth-Century Lankan Monastic Culture
Inbunden, 2001
1843 kr
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Anne Blackburn explores the emergence of a predominant Buddhist monastic culture in eighteenth-century Sri Lanka, while asking larger questions about the place of monasticism and education in the creation of religious and national traditions. Her historical analysis of the Siyam Nikaya, a monastic …
Power of Denial
Buddhism, Purity, and Gender
Häftad, 2003
1157 kr
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Innumerable studies have appeared in recent decades about practically every aspect of women's lives in Western societies. The few such works on Buddhism have been quite limited in scope. In The Power of Denial, Bernard Faure takes an important step toward redressing this situation by boldly asking: …
Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture
Häftad, 2003
608 kr
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From the first century, when Buddhism entered China, the foreign religion shaped Chinese philosophy, beliefs, and ritual. At the same time, Buddhism had a profound effect on the material world of the Chinese. This wide-ranging study shows that Buddhism brought with it a vast array of objects big …
Becoming the Buddha
The Ritual of Image Consecration in Thailand
Inbunden, 2004
1583 kr
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Becoming the Buddha is the first book-length study of a key ritual of Buddhist practice in Asia: the consecration of a Buddha image or "new Buddha," a ceremony by which the Buddha becomes present or alive. Through a richly detailed, accessible exploration of this ritual in northern Thailand, an …
Relics of the Buddha
Inbunden, 2004
1583 kr
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Buddhism is popularly seen as a religion stressing the truth of impermanence. How, then, to account for the long-standing veneration, in Asian Buddhist communities, of bone fragments, hair, teeth, and other bodily bits said to come from the historic Buddha? Early European and American scholars of …
