A Critique of Western Buddhism : Ruins of the Buddhist Real

What are we to make of Western Buddhism? Glenn Wallis argues that in aligning their tradition with the contemporary wellness industry, Western Buddhists evade the consequences of Buddhist thought. This book shows that with concepts such as vanishing, nihility, extinction, contingency, and no-self, Buddhism, like all potent systems of thought, articulates a notion of the “real.” Raw, unflinc…

Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks Mobility and Exchange within …

This exploration of early paths for Buddhist transmission within and beyond South Asia retraces the footsteps of monks, merchants, and other agents of cross-cultural exchange. A reassessment of literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources reveals hisorical contexts for the growth of the Buddhist saṅgha from approximately the 5th century BCE to the end of the first millennium CE. Patterns …

Ratnakūṭa Studies

Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions produced hundreds of scriptures and treatises, only a small number of which have received serious scholarly attention. The present volume inaugurates the Buddhist Open Philology Project (BOPP) publication series, which aims to produce state-of-the-art critical editions, translations, and studies of individual works, thereby seeking to advance the comprehens…

The return of the Buddha : ancient symbols for a new nation

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The Embodied Mind : Cognitive Science and Human Experience

A new edition of a classic work that originated the "embodied cognition" movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The Bodhisattva's Brain :Buddhism Naturalized

"A Bradford Book."Can there be a Buddhism without karma, nirvana, and reincarnation that is compatible with the rest of knowledge?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Notebooks of a wandering Monk

"Originally published as Carnets d'un moine errant. Allary ?Editions, 2021.""The memoirs of Matthieu Ricard, one of the the world's most famous Buddhist monks who has captured the minds and hearts of people around the globe"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

A Fine Blend Of Mahāmudrā And Madhyamaka

The collection of 26 texts on non-imaginary realization is the result of a synthesis of the essence and tantric Mahāmudrā teachings of Saraha, Nāgārjuna and Śavaripa with a special form of the Madhyamaka philosophy called Not-Founded (apratiṣṭhāna), which addresses the fundamental overcoming of any conceptual determination of reality. This is accomplished by subtracting attention from…

A Fine Blend Of Mahāmudrā And Madhyamaka

The collection of 26 texts on non-imaginary realization is the result of a synthesis of the essence and tantric Mahāmudrā teachings of Saraha, Nāgārjuna and Śavaripa with a special form of the Madhyamaka philosophy called Not-Founded (apratiṣṭhāna), which addresses the fundamental overcoming of any conceptual determination of reality. This is accomplished by subtracting attention from…