Buddhist Tradition
Personal Salvation and Filial Piety
Personal Salvation and Filial Piety offers a complete and fully annotated translation of The Precious Scroll of Incense Mountain, based on a nineteenth-century edition. The translation is preceded by substantial introduction that discusses the origin of the text and the genre to which it belongs and highlights the similarities and differences between the scroll and female saints' lives from medieval Europe.
Print and Power
Print and Power begins with an overview of Vietnam's lively public spheres, bringing debates from Europe and the rest of Asia to Vietnamese society as well as Vietnamese society as well as Vietnamese and East Asian understandings of public discourse and public space. Popular taste, rather than revolutionary or national ideology, determined to a large extent what was published, with limited intervention by the French authorities.
Recent Researches In Buddhist Studies
Riven by Lust
Riven by Lust explore the tale of a man accused of causing the fundamental schism in early Indian Buddhism, but not before he was sex with his mother and kills his father. In tracing this Indian Buddhist Oedipal tale, Jonathan Silk follows it through texts in all of the major canonical languages of Buddhism, Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese, along the way noting parallels and contrasts with classical and medieval European stories such as the legend of the Oedipal Judas.
Secrets of The Lotus
SI-YU-KI
The reader who looks into the pages of this book will find ample material for study on some important questions; the different manners and customs of separate people, the various products of the different soils and the diverse class divisions of the society; when Buddhism flourished and when Buddhism declined as also how the devoted pilgrims encountered the perils of travel in foreign and distant lands and endured sufferings by desert, mountain and sea.
Sons And Daughter of The Buddha
The Christ and The Bodhisattva
The Cult of Nothingness
The Dhammapada
Dhammapada means''the path of dharma,''the path of truth, harmony, and righteousness that anyone can follow to reach the highest good. Easwaran's translation of this classic Buddhist text is based on the oldest, best-known version in Pali. Dhammapada gives an overview of the Buddha's teachings that is reliable, penetrating, and clear-accessible for readers new to Buddhism, but also with fresh insights and practical applications for readers familiar with this text.
