Lama Govinda provides an exciting overview of contemporary Buddhist Philosophy for the modern student. He shares his insights into Indian and Tibetan Buddhist traditions concerning the nature of reality, the development of consciousness, death and rebirth, faith and tolerance, and...

This work is primarily an interpretation of Indian logic preserved in China. The material is mainly taken from K'uei Chi's great commentary on the Nyayapravesa. It is not design to be a comprehensive study of Indian Logic in general, nor...

The present work portrays ancient India, during the period of Buddhist ascendancy, from the non-Brahmin point of view. Based on the literary, numismatic and inscriptional records, it throws light on points hitherto dark and even unsuspected. It presents a detailed...

This book comprises fifteen research articles primarily based on the discipline of Indian and Buddhist Studies. The collection is designed to propose a Buddhist philosophy of religion--that the insight of Prajna and Sunyata nitiates a future religion which is freed...

Here is a work that aims at presenting 'different ideas and conceptions' which are 'found in Pali writings'. In the words of henry Clarke Warren, the author of the volume: 'Translation has been the means employed as being the most...

In its teachings, practices and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been and continues to be centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers...

Given its vast literature and its practice of teaching, what is appropriate for a particular disciple, the Buddhist tradition has long had to wrestle with the question of which of his many scriptures represented the Buddha's highest view. In response...

This volume is comparative study of Buddhism and Christianity which, despite their differences, have striking similarities. Chapters are devoted to probing religious consciousness far below the surface of dogma and traditions. Light is thrown on what Buddhism and Christianity and...

Until recently, east-west comparative philosophy has been at best sporadic gestures marked by an imbalance in the way the eastern and western ideas were presented. A rather unsuccessful pattern in comparison was partly due to the socio-political and historical relationship...

The Buddha from Dolpo examines the life and thought of the Tibetan Buddhist master, Dolpopa Sherba Gyaltsen (1292-1361). Known as "The Buddha from Dolpo," he was one of the most important and original thinkers in Tibetan history and perhaps the...

Buddha's Teachings contains a metrical English rendering of an important Buddhist work in Pali named 'Sutta-Nipata' with the original text in Romanized version on the opposite page. The Pali Canon, as it has come down to us, is divided into...

This is translation of a German work by Prof. Hermann Oldenberg. The original had attracted the attention of European scholars and the name of Oldenberg is a sufficient guarantee of the value of its contents. The distinguished author has in...