Discipline: The Canonical Buddhism of the Vinayapitaka is a penetrating analysis of a heretofore neglected, yet centrally important portion of the Pali Canon. In identifying the pivotal role of discipline in the bhikkhu quest for nibbana Professor Holt finds that...

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...

Throughout the centuries, moral philosophers, both Eastern and Western, considered a permanent and eternal law a necessary requirement for the formulation of a moral principle. If such a law was not empirically given, it had to be determined through reason....

Wisdom Beyond Words: The Buddhist Vision of Ultimate Reality (HB) | Author - Sangharakshita (Author) | MLBD Publications \n \nIt is all very well to expect Buddhism to be meaningful to where we are here and now but where is...

A History of Buddhist Philosophy: Continuties and Discontinuties. <br /> \nThe present work has, since its original publication in 1976, offered an unequaled introduction to the philosophical principles and historical development of Buddhism. Now, representing the culmination of Dr. Kalupahana's...

The Chinese Madhyama Agama and the Pali Majjhima Nikaya: A Comparative Study (HB) | Author - Bhiksu Thich Minh Chau (Author) | MLBD Publications \n \nIn A comparative study of the Chinese Madhyama agama and the Pali Majjhima Nikaya efforts...

Nagarjuna In Context: Mahayana Buddhism And Early Indian Culture (HB) | Author - Joseph Walser (Author) | MLBD Publications \n \nReading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of...

Concise Pali-English Dictionary has been prepared mainly for use by students in schools and colleges. The author is not only an eminent elder of the Buddhist order but one of the leading Pali scholars recognized both in the East and...

No man has had a greater inflience on the spiritual development of his people than Siddartha Gautama. Born in India in the sixth century BC into a nation hungry for spiritual experience, he developed a religious and moral teaching that,...

The Vimalakirti Sutra, one of the most influential works of the Mahayana Buddhist canon, is of particular importance in the Ch'an or Zen sect. Originally written in sanskrit, probably in the first century C.E., it claims to record events of...

This Sinhala recension of the Anagatavamsa, here translated into English for the first time, is but one of several texts forming a genre of Buddhist apocalyptic literature generated by the cult of Maitreya in South and South-east Asia. It is...

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...