Buddhism

Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten...

Today the world is confronted with many religious wars and the migrations of millions of persons due to these conflicts. There is a need for inform...

Tibetan biographers began writing Jetsun Milarepa's (1052-1135) life story shortly after his death, initiating a literary tradition that turned the...

A new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the world Buddhist t...

Noh drama has long fascinated Westerners by its poetic excellence and its dramatic power. To the student of medieval Japanese culture, however, noh...

How should Christians think about the relationship between the exercise of military power and the spread of Christianity? In Russian Orthodoxy and ...

Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism inherited many negative doctrines around women’s bodies, which in some early Buddhist texts were presented as an obstacle to ...

In this beautifully illustrated book, eminent art historian John Rosenfield explores the life and art of the Japanese Buddhist monk Hozan Tankai (1...

Today’s globalized society faces some of humanity’s most unprecedented social and environmental challenges. Presenting inspiring and effective appr...

This book is a microsociological study of religious practice, based on fieldwork with Conservative Jews, Bible Belt Muslims, white Baptists, black ...

Buddhist-Based Universities in the United States: Searching for a New Model in Higher Education investigates in depth four American Buddhist univer...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays highlights the relevance of Buddhist doctrine and practice to issues of globalization. From various phi...

For young women in early South Asia, marriage was probably the most important event in their lives, as it largely determined their socioeconomic an...

Today the world is confronted with many religious wars and the migrations of millions of persons due to these conflicts. There is a need for inform...

The Labrang Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Amdo and its extended support community are one of the largest and most famous in Tibetan history. This c...

This book explains a distinctive pluralist account of truth, jointly-rooted perspectivism (‘JRP’ for short). This explanation unifies various repre...

What is spirituality? Does it enable us to be better persons? Is spirituality related to religion? These days, is it even relevant? On college camp...

This book explores two influential intellectual and religious leaders in Christianity and Buddhism, Bonaventure (c. 1217–74) and Chinul (1158–1210)...

The present geopolitical rise of India and China evokes much interest in the comparative study of these two ancient Asian cultures. There are vario...

In this book, Herman argues that Herman Melville may have been aware of Buddhist thought far earlier than previously considered. Scholars have long...

Another Phenomenology of Humanity: A Reading of A Dream of Red Mansions is devoted to developing another version of phenomenology of humanity—human...