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  • Theravada Buddhism

    Continuity, Diversity, and Identity

    by Kate Crosby ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Guides to Buddhism
    Theravada Buddhism provides a comprehensive introductory overview of the history, teachings, and current practice of an often misunderstood form of one of the world’s oldest religious traditions.Explores Theravada Buddhism’s origins, evolution, teachings, and practicesConsiders the practice of Theravada beyond Sri Lanka and Thailand, by exploring a wealth of material from countries including ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Esoteric Theravada

    The Story of the Forgotten Meditation Tradition of Southeast Asia

    by Kate Crosby ...
    A groundbreaking exploration of a practice tradition that was nearly lost to history.Theravada Buddhism, often understood as the school that most carefully preserved the practices taught by the Buddha, has undergone tremendous change over time. Prior to Western colonialism in Asia—which brought Western and modernist intellectual concerns, such as the separation of science and religion, to bear on ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Until Nirvana's Time

    Buddhist Poems from Cambodia

    Edited by Trent Walker ...
    **Winner of the 2024 Khyentse Foundation Prize for Outstanding TranslationA unique Buddhist tradition, accessible in English for the first time—translations of forty-five Cambodian Dharma songs, with contextualizing essays and a link to audio of stunning vocal performances.**Until Nirvana’s Time is the first collection of traditional Cambodian Buddhist literature available in English, presenting ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Secularizing Buddhism

    New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition

    by Sarah Shaw, Bhikku Bodhi, Kate Crosby, Roger L. Jackson ...
    A timely essay collection on the development and influence of secular expressions of Buddhism in the West and beyond.How do secular values impact Buddhism in the modern world? What versions of Buddhism are being transmitted to the West? Is it possible to know whether an interpretation of the Buddha’s words is correct?In this new essay collection, opposing ideas that often define Buddhist ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Buddhism and International Humanitarian Law

    Edited by Andrew Bartles-Smith, Kate Crosby, Peter Harvey, Asanga Tilakaratne, Daniel Ratheiser, Noel Maurer Trew, Stefania Travagnin, Elizabeth J. Harris, Mahinda Deegalle, Christina A. Kilby ...
    What guidance can Buddhism provide to those involved in armed conflict and to belligerents who must perhaps kill or be killed or defend their families, communities or countries from attack? How, moreover, does Buddhism compare with international humanitarian law (IHL) – otherwise known as the law of armed conflict – which protects non-combatants and restricts the means and methods of warfare to ... Read more

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    How Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Hinduism Affirm the Dignity of Queer Identities and Sexualities

    by Devdutt Pattanaik, Jerry Johnson ...
    In 2015, a historic panel discussion took place at the global Festival of Theology held in Sweden. Its objective was to examine what the sacred texts of the Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - had to say about human sexuality.By bringing in perspectives from the Karmic faiths of Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Hinduism, which together represent the beliefs of almost a third of the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies

    Edited by Pashaura Singh, Louis E. Fenech ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Buddhism in the Modern World

    by David L. McMahan ...
    Series series Religions in the Modern World
    Buddhism in the Modern World explores the challenges faced by Buddhism today, the distinctive forms that it has taken and the individuals and movements that have shaped it. Part One discusses the modern history of Buddhism in different geographical regions, from Southeast Asia to North America. Part Two examines key themes including globalization, gender issues, and the ways in which Buddhism has ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics

    Edited by Daniel Cozort, James Mark Shields ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Many forms of Buddhism, divergent in philosophy and style, emerged as Buddhism filtered out of India into other parts of Asia. Nonetheless, all of them embodied an ethical core that is remarkably consistent. Articulated by the historical Buddha in his first sermon, this moral core is founded on the concept of karma—that intentions and actions have future consequences for an individual—and is ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China

    Charisma, Money, Enlightenment

    by Dan Smyer Yu ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China. In turn, the author explores the broader socio-cultural implications of such revivals ... Read more

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  • Buddhism in America

    Global Religion, Local Contexts

    by Scott A. Mitchell ...
    Buddhism in America provides the most comprehensive and up to date survey of the diverse landscape of US Buddhist traditions, their history and development, and current methodological trends in the study of Buddhism in the West, located within the translocal flow of global Buddhist culture.Divided into three parts (Histories; Traditions; Frames), this introduction traces Buddhism's history and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Hindu Selves in a Modern World

    Guru Faith in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission

    by Maya Warrier ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian Religion Series
    This book explores devotional Hinduism in a modern context of high consumerism and revolutionised communications. It focuses on a fast-growing and high-profile contemporary Hindu guru faith originating in India and attracting a transnational following. The organisation is led by a vastly popular female guru, Mata Amritanandamayi, whom devotees worship as an avatar and a healer of the ills of the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD