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  • Goddess on the Frontier

    Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China

    by Megan Bryson ...
    Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia. Its main deity, Baijie, has assumed several gendered forms throughout the area's history: Buddhist goddess, the mother of Dali's founder, a widowed martyr, and a village divinity. What accounts for so many different incarnations of a local deity?Goddess on the Frontier argues that Dali's encounters with forces beyond region and nation ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Buddhist Masculinities

    by Stephen C. Berkwitz, Marcus Evans, Ward Keeler, Amy Paris Langenberg, Rebecca Mendelson, Bee Scherer, Joshua Brallier Shelton, Geng Song, Dessislava Vendova, Natawan Wongchalard ...
    While early Buddhists hailed their religion’s founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also exalted him as the paragon of masculinity. According to Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha’s body boasts thirty-two physical features, including lionlike jaws, thighs like a royal stag, broad shoulders, and a deep, resonant voice, that distinguish him from ordinary men. As Buddhism spread throughout ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Buddhist Masculinities

    by Stephen C. Berkwitz, Marcus Evans, Ward Keeler, Amy Paris Langenberg, Rebecca Mendelson, Bee Scherer, Joshua Brallier Shelton, Geng Song, Dessislava Vendova, Natawan Wongchalard ...
    While early Buddhists hailed their religion’s founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also exalted him as the paragon of masculinity. According to Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha’s body boasts thirty-two physical features, including lionlike jaws, thighs like a royal stag, broad shoulders, and a deep, resonant voice, that distinguish him from ordinary men. As Buddhism spread throughout ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Countless Sands

    Medieval Buddhists and Their Environments

    by Jeffrey Moser, Jason Protass, Ryuichi Abe, Dr. Phillip E. Bloom, Dr. Megan Bryson, Maria Heim, Dr. Eric Huntington, Professor Sonya S. Lee, D. Max Moerman0, Dr. Reiko Ohnuma1, James Robson2, Dr. Tamara Sears3 ...
    Countless Sands presents engaging analyses of the diverse relationships between Buddhism and the environment that existed in medieval Asia. Recent years have witnessed a surge in publications across the humanities that advance powerful ethical and political arguments to account for the human failure to respond effectively to global climate change. While the contributors to this volume are attuned ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Birth of Insight

    Meditation, Modern Buddhism & the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw

    by Erik Braun ...
    Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see it as the Buddha's most important gift to humanity. In the first book to examine how this practice came to play such a dominant—and relatively ... Read more

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  • Taoism

    The Enduring Tradition

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  • Studying Buddhism in Practice

    Edited by John S. Harding ...
    Series series Studying Religions in Practice
    This book introduces the rich realities of the Buddhist tradition and the academic approaches through which they are studied. Based on personal experiences of Buddhism on the ground, it provides a reflective context within which religious practices can be understood and appreciated. The engaging narratives cover a broad range of Buddhist countries and traditions, drawing on fieldwork to explore ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of Shamanism

    by Graham Harvey, Robert J. Wallis ...
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    A remarkable array of people have been called shamans, while the phenomena identified as shamanism continues to proliferate. This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Shamanism contains with examples from antiquity up to today, and from Siberia (where the term “shaman” originated) to Amazonia, South Africa, Chicago and many other places. Many claims about shamans and shamanism are ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism

    Edited by Michael Jerryson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    As an incredibly diverse religious system, Buddhism is constantly changing. The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism offers a comprehensive collection of work by leading scholars in the field that tracks these changes up to the present day. Taken together, the book provides a blueprint to understanding Buddhism's past and uses it to explore the ways in which Buddhism has transformed in the ... Read more

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  • 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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