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In this book the core of the Buddha's teaching is comprehensively
cast in modern models of thought - borrowed from science and
philosophy - and informed by contemporary concerns. It sets out the
basic instructions for the life-changing way of the Buddha (the
so-called 'Noble Eightfold Path') wholly in the context of
contemporary and everyday life, personal experience, human
relationships, work, environmental concern and the human wish for
peace. The reader, who may be completely new to Buddhism, is
accompanied along the Path with practical exercises that are fully
explained. The Path begins with an introductory overview and then
proceeds through Right Speech, Right Acting, Right Livelihood,
Right Effort, Right Concentration, Right Mindfulness, Right
Understanding and Right Resolve, and concludes with a short chapter
on the relevance of the Path to the current global crisis. The
reader is mentored throughout by practical meditational and
contemplative exercises, with tables, diagrams, analogies and
stories. Gradually the reader who has followed this handbook with
commitment will feel the benefits of growing peacefulness, wisdom
and compassion.
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La Vida del Buda
(Spanish, Hardcover)
Edith Holland; Revised by Pedro Jose Barrios Rodriguez; Translated by Carolina Haro Guerrero
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This well-written, well-researched reference source brings together monastic life with particular attention to three traditions: Buddhist, Eastern Christian, and Western Christian."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001.
In this volume of memoirs we find Sangharakshita after twenty years
in the East arriving back in England at the invitation of the
English Sangha Trust. He expects to stay no more than a few months,
but the months become years and, as he comes to know the then small
world of British Buddhism, he realizes that after all it is here
that he may best be able to work for the good of Buddhism , as one
of his teachers had once exhorted him. After a farewell tour of his
friends and teachers in India, he goes on to found a new Buddhist
movement and to ordain twelve men and women into a new Buddhist
Order. The answer to the question Why did Sangharakshita found a
new Buddhist movement and Order? is in these pages. 'Moving Against
the Stream' has for its backdrop 1960s Britain, with figures as
diverse as Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and David Cooper, the
anti-psychiatry psychiatrist. In the world of British Buddhism
there is Christmas Humphreys, founder of the London Buddhist
Society, and Maurice Walshe, translator of the Digha Nikaya, and
many others. Here also is the story of a friendship that was to be
deeply significant for Sangharakshita. As he and Terry Delamare
drive across Europe visiting the sites of ancient Greece and the
churches, museums and great works of art of Renaissance Italy,
Sangharakshita makes vivid the role that higher culture can play in
spiritual life. This volume includes '1970 - A Retrospect' in which
Sangharakshita tells of a year that begins with lectures in Paris,
continues with three months at Yale University as a visiting
lecturer, and concludes back in Britain as he resumes his work for
the Buddhist movement. A new phase is beginning.
This book is the first to critically analyze Buddhist-Muslim
relations in Theravada Buddhist majority states in South and
Southeast Asia. Asia is home to the largest population of Buddhists
and Muslims. In recent years, this interfaith communal living has
incurred conflicts, such as the ethnic-religious conflicts in
Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Experts from around the world
collaborate to provide a comprehensive look into religious
pluralism and religious violence. The book is divided into two
sections. The first section provides historical background to the
three countries with the largest Buddhist-Muslim relations. The
second section has chapters that focus on specific encounters
between Buddhists and Muslims, which includes anti-Buddhist
sentiments in Bangladesh, the role of gender in Muslim-Buddhist
relations and the rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Rohingya sentiments
in Myanmar. By exploring historical fluctuations over time-paying
particular attention to how state-formations condition
Muslim-Buddhist entanglements-the book shows the processual and
relational aspects of religious identity constructions and
Buddhist-Muslim interactions in Theravada Buddhist majority states.
Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization
was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was
published at a formative time within the social sciences, and
during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the
general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date
findings and theories of historians, anthropologists,
archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is
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Historical Ethnography Set of 12: 0-415-15611-4: GBP800.00 * Greek
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This work features compelling and informative teachings by the most
influential female Buddhist teachers on a wide range of topics.
Buddhism, like all world religions, has been largely shaped and
defined by men. Yet despite the challenges, women have diligently
practiced since the days of the Buddha. A hallmark of Western
Buddhism is the prominent role that women teachers play. This book
showcases women teachers who have been pivotal in shaping Western
Buddhism and reveals the incredible diversity of their teachings.
The ancient Indian text of Kautilya's Arthasastra comes forth as a
valuable non-Western resource for understanding contemporary
International Relations (IR). However, Kautilya's Arthasastra
largely suffers from the problem of 'presentism', whereby
present-day assumptions of the dominant theoretical models of
Classical Realism and Neorealism are read back into it, thereby
disrupting open reflections on Kautilya's Arthasastra which could
retrieve its 'alternative assumptions' and 'unconventional traits'.
This book attempts to enable Kautilya's Arthasastra to break free
from the problem of presentism - it does so by juxtaposing the
elements of continuity and change that showed up at different
junctures of the life-history of both 'Kautilya's Arthasastra' and
'Eurocentric IR'. The overall exploratory venture leads to a
Kautilyan non-Western eclectic theory of IR - a theory which
moderately assimilates miscellaneous research traditions of
Eurocentric IR, and, in addition, delivers a few innovative
features that could potentially uplift not only Indian IR, but also
Global IR.
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The Bodhicaryavatara
(Paperback)
Santideva; Translated by Kate Crosby, Andrew Skilton; Edited by Paul Williams
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Written in India in the early eighth century AD, Santideva's
Bodhicaryavatara became one of the most popular accounts of the
Buddhist's spiritual path. The Bodhicaryavatara takes as its
subject the profound desire to become a Buddha and save all beings
from suffering. The person who enacts such a desire is a
Bodhisattva. Santideva not only sets out what the Bodhisattva must
do and become, he also invokes the intense feelings of aspiration
which underlie such a commitment, using language which has inspired
Buddhists in their religious life from his time to the present.
Important as a manual of training among Mahayana Buddhists,
especially in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the Bodhicaryavatara
continues to be used as the basis for teaching by modern Buddhist
teachers. This is a new translation from the original language,
with detailed annotations explaining allusions and technical
references. The Introduction sets Santideva's work in context, and
for the first time explain its structure. ABOUT THE SERIES: For
over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the
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volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,
including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful
notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further
study, and much more.
This book is intended to encourage the use of comparative theology
in contemporary Buddhist-Christian dialogue as a new approach that
would truly respect each religious tradition's uniqueness and make
dialogue beneficial for all participants interested in a real
theological exchange. As a result of the impasse reached by the
current theologies of religions (exclusivism, inclusivism, and
pluralism) in formulating a constructive approach in dialogue, this
volume assesses the thought of the founding fathers of an academic
Buddhist-Christian dialogue in search of clues that would encourage
a comparativist approach. These founding fathers are considered to
be three important representatives of the Kyoto School - Kitaro
Nishida, Keiji Nishitani, and Masao Abe - and John Cobb, an
American process theologian. The guiding line for assessing their
views of dialogue is the concept of human perfection, as it is
expressed by the original traditions in Mahayana Buddhism and
Orthodox Christianity. Following Abe's methodology in dialogue, an
Orthodox contribution to comparative theology proposes a reciprocal
enrichment of traditions, not by syncretistic means, but by
providing a better understanding and even correction of one's own
tradition when considering it in the light of the other, while
using internal resources for making the necessary corrections.
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Be Happy
(Paperback)
Dalai Lama
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Both Buddhism and dance invite the practitioner into present-moment
embodiment. The rise of Western Buddhism, sacred dance and
dance/movement therapy, along with the mindfulness meditation boom,
has created opportunities for Buddhism to inform dance aesthetics
and for Buddhist practice to be shaped by dance. This collection of
new essays documents the innovative work being done at the
intersection of Buddhism and dance. The contributors-scholars,
choreographers and Buddhist masters-discuss movement, performance,
ritual and theory, among other topics. The final section provides a
variety of guided practices.
This volume examines several theoretical concerns of embodiment in
the context of Asian religious practice. Looking at both subtle and
spatial bodies, it explores how both types of embodiment are
engaged as sites for transformation, transaction and transgression.
Collectively bridging ancient and modern conceptualizations of
embodiment in religious practice, the book offers a complex mapping
of how body is defined. It revisits more traditional, mystical
religious systems, including Hindu Tantra and Yoga, Tibetan
Buddhism, Bon, Chinese Daoism and Persian Sufism and distinctively
juxtaposes these inquiries alongside analyses of racial, gendered,
and colonized bodies. Such a multifaceted subject requires a
diverse approach, and so perspectives from phenomenology and
neuroscience as well as critical race theory and feminist theology
are utilised to create more precise analytical tools for the
scholarly engagement of embodied religious epistemologies. This a
nuanced and interdisciplinary exploration of the myriad issues
around bodies within religion. As such it will be a key resource
for any scholar of Religious Studies, Asian Studies, Anthropology,
Sociology, Philosophy, and Gender Studies.
The Gandharan birch-bark scrolls preserve the earliest remains of
Buddhist literature known today and provide unprecedented insights
into the history of Buddhism. This volume presents three
manuscripts from the Bajaur Collection (BC), a group of nineteen
scrolls discovered at the end of the twentieth century and named
after their findspot in northwestern Pakistan. The manuscripts,
written in the Gandhari language and Kharosthi script, date to the
second century CE. The three scrolls-BC 4, BC 6, and BC 11-contain
treatises that focus on the Buddhist concept of non-attachment.
This volume is the first in the Gandharan Buddhist Texts series
that is devoted to texts belonging to the Mahayana tradition. There
are no known versions of these texts in other Buddhist traditions,
and it is assumed that they are autographs. Andrea Schlosser
provides an overview of the contents of the manuscripts and
discusses their context, genre, possible authorship, physical
layout, paleography, orthography, phonology, and morphology.
Transliteration and translation of the texts are accompanied by
notes on difficult terminology, photographs of the reconstructed
scrolls, an index of Gandhari words with Sanskrit and Pali
equivalents, and a preliminary transliteration of the scroll BC 19.
The ebook edition of Three Early Mahayana Treatises of Gandhara is
openly available at DOI 10.6069/9780295750750.
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