Buddhism in Central Asia is a saga of peaceful pursuit by Buddhist scholars from Kashmir and Kabul to propagate the message of the Buddha. This vast region between the Tien-Shan and the Kunlun ranges was the center of activities of...

Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Reader is a collection of selections from the Mahavastu, Mahaparinirvana Sutra, Udanavarga and Lalitavistara which have been edited according to the principles to be adopted for Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. The purpose behind this work is to facilities...

In the Commentaries on the vedic and sanskrit text the principal purpose of the sanskrit text the principal purpose of the author is often to interpret and explain the words of the text. The Dhammapada Commentary is one of the...

In the Commentaries on the vedic and sanskrit text the principal purpose of the sanskrit text the principal purpose of the author is often to interpret and explain the words of the text. The Dhammapada Commentary is one of the...

Buddhist logic reveals itself as the culminating point of a long course of Indian philosophic history. Its birth, its growth and its decline run parallel with the birth, the growth and the decline of Indian civilisation. The time has come...

Though India is no longer a Buddhist country, Buddhism held its place among Indian faiths for nearly seventeen centuries (500 B.C.-A.D. 1200). During this long stretch of time the Buddhist monks were organized in Sanghas in most parts of the...

A systematic and clear presentation of the philosophy of critical Realism as expounded by Dignaga and his school. The work is divided into two parts arranged into 26 chapters. Part I discusses the nature of existence, logical difficulties, theory of...

About The Book: The Lotus Sutra is one of the Buddhist texts which can give a real idea of the force, originality, influence, and value of the Buddhist Positiveness. This essay on Buddhist Positiveness was originally written (in 1994) by...

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

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

The Johan Moger Collection (PB) | By Karow, Otto (Author) | White Lotus. \n \nThis 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...

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...