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11. Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism

    Edited by Richard K. Payne, Taigen Dan Leighton

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

    The medieval period of Japanese religious history is commonly known as one in which there was a radical transformation of the religious culture. This book suggests an alternate approach to understanding the dynamics of that transformation. One main topic of analysis focuses on what Buddhism - its...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
12. Beyond Enlightenment

    Buddhism, Religion, Modernity

    By Richard Cohen

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

    The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment. Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying...

    Published April 20th 2009 by Routledge
13. Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism

    The Doctrinal History of Nirvana

    By Soonil Hwang

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism - Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies

    Soonil Hwang studies the doctrinal development of nirvana in the Pali Nikaaya and subsequent tradition and compares it with the Chinese aagama and its traditional interpretation. He clarifies early doctrinal developments of Nirvana and traces the word and related terms back to their original...

    Published August 8th 2006 by Routledge
14. Introducing Buddhism

    By Damien Keown, Charles S. Prebish

    Introducing Buddhism is the ideal resource for all students beginning the study of this fascinating religion. Charles S. Prebish and Damien Keown, two of today’s leading Buddhist scholars, explain the key teachings of Buddhism, and trace the historical development and spread of the religion from...

    Published June 25th 2006 by Routledge
15. The Notion of Ditthi in Theravada Buddhism

    The Point of View

    By Paul Fuller

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

    The notion of 'view' or 'opinion' (ditthi) as an obstacle to 'seeing things as they are' is a central concept in Buddhist thought. This book considers the two ways in which the notion of views are usually understood. Are we to understand right-view as a correction of wrong-views (the opposition...

    Published December 22nd 2004 by Routledge
16. Metaphysics and Transcendence

    By Arthur Gibson

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

    Metaphysics and Transcendence takes up this story for the future. Arthur Gibson presents a new metaphysics with a genealogy based on counter-intuition and locates counter-intuition and complexity at the foundations of truth. Having devised fresh concepts on the basis of the new frontiers of science...

    Published July 23rd 2003 by Routledge
17. Contemporary Buddhist Ethics

    By Damien Keown

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

    This innovative volume brings together the views of leading scholars on a range of controversial subjects including human rights, animal rights, ecology, abortion, euthanasia, and contemporary business practice....

    Published June 21st 2000 by Routledge
18. Buddhist Theology

    Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars

    By Roger Jackson, John Makransky

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

    Scholars of Buddhism, themselves Buddhist, here seek to apply the critical tools of the academy to reassess the truth and transformative value of their tradition in its relevance to the contemporary world....

    Published November 4th 1999 by Routledge
19. Imaging Wisdom

    Seeing and Knowing in the Art of Indian Buddhism

    By Jacob N Kinnard

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

    This book contributes to the history of religions and Buddhist studies fields by focussing on what is a far too frequently ignored aspect of religious experience: visual images....

    Published June 3rd 1999 by Routledge