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...

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...

Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of...

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...

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...

Health cannot be limited to a physician's prescriptions or the gospels of the health books. It is not a commodity available free with branded health foods. Health is not achieved by curing the bodily diseases. health is a state of...

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...

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...

Brihajjatakam: Shri Bhattotpal Sanskrit Vyakhya tatha Kedardutt-Hindi Vyakhya.

This book examines the philosophy of Dharmakīrti through the lens of contemporary cognitive science and philosophy of mind. It explores the relationship between Buddhist thought, neuroscience, and physicalism, questioning whether Buddhist ideas about the self and consciousness truly align with...