In 1956, Theravada Buddhists in Sri Lanka and throughout Southeast Asia celebrated the 2500th anniversary of the Buddha's entry into Nirvana and of the establishment of the Buddhist tradition. This book examines this revival of Theravada Buddhism among the laity...

The field of Buddhist studies is a truly international and interdisciplinary one. By its nature, the study of Buddhism must take into account phenomena that cross national and cultural boundaries, as well as the more artificial boundaries of modern academic...

The impressive growth of Buddhist Studies in recent years is the result of several factors. Important collections of manuscripts have been found and monuments unearthed, in nearly all parts of Asia where Buddhism existed; political and social events bringing East...

Buddhist Stupa (Phra Chedi) Architecture of Thailand (PB) | By Doehring, Karl (Author) | White Lotus Karl Döhring has carried out the most exhaustive study ever done by a Western researcher on the Buddhist edifices known in Thailand as phra...

Buddhist Temples of Thailand: An Architectonic Introduction (PB) | By Doehring, Karl (Author) | White Lotus This is the first English translation of Karl Döhring’s seminal three-volume photographic study Buddhistische Tempelanlagen in Siam, published in German in 1920. This in-depth...

Buddhist thought and ritual will appeal to anyone interested in acquiring an authentic grasp of Buddhism as it lives and functions in today's world. The wide spectrum of Buddhist practice is represented here by the men and women who contributed...

John Holt's groundbreaking study examines the assimilation, transformation and subordination of the Hindu deity Visnu within the contexts of Sri Lankan history and Sinhala Buddhist religious culture. Holt argues that political agendas and social forces, as much as doctrinal concerns,...

The author devotes a good part of his book to the elaboration of the anatta doctrine, he states that the Buddha sought for the atta in the indirect way, by taking away from the atta everything that is not the...

The Johan Moger Collection (PB) | By Karow, Otto (Author) | White Lotus. This offers the reader an admirable survey and description of a sacral art that is yet too little studied, the rich Burmese tradition. Of particular importance in...

The seers and sages of Ancient India revealed fundamental principles of perennial philosophy. The Upanishads contain the essential principles of this perennial-this ageless philosophy. They contain a large number of inspiring and instructive passages and verses. It has not been...

Lam Rim Chen Mo (roughly, the great book on stages of the path (to enlightenment) is the abbreviated title of a massive encyclopedic manual written by Tson-kha-pa, the founder of the Gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Calming the Mind and...

Cambodia Silenced (PB) | By Mehta, Harish C (Author) | White Lotus. This is the first book on the history of the Khmer press and its struggle for existence under six regimes since the 1930s. The press survived colonial rule,...