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  • American Buddhism

    Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship

    by Christopher Queen, Duncan Ryuken Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    This is the first scholarly treatment of the emergence of American Buddhist Studies as a significant research field. Until now, few investigators have turned their attention to the interpretive challenge posed by the presence of all the traditional lineages of Asian Buddhism in a consciously multicultural society. Nor have scholars considered the place of their own contributions as writers, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Action Dharma

    New Studies in Engaged Buddhism

    Edited by Damien Keown, Charles S. Prebish, Christopher Queen ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    Action Dharma charts the emergence of a new chapter in an ancient faith - the rise of social service and political activism in Buddhist Asia and the West. Fourteen new essays treat the historical origins, global range, teachings and practices, and leaders and organizations that make up the latest turning of the Dharma. Environmentalism and peace wa ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Hinduism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kim Knott ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott offers a succinct and authoritative overview of this major religion, and analyses the challenges facing it in the twenty-first century. She discusses key preoccupations of Hinduism such as the centrality of the Veda as religious texts, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Japanese Culture

    The Religious and Philosophical Foundations

    by Roger J. Davies ...
    Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history.This much-anticipated sequel to Roger Davies's best-selling The Japanese Mind provides a comprehensive overview of the religion and philosophy of Japan. This cultural history of Japan explains the diverse cultural traditions that ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Trauma of Caste

    A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition

    by Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Cornel West ...
    **Instant Amazon Best Seller and Hot New ReleaseFor readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism.**“Dalit” is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us “untouchable.” Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken by caste: the world’s oldest, longest-running dominator system. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Great Awakening

    A Buddhist Social Theory

    by David R. Loy ...
    The most essential insight that Buddhism offers is that all our individual suffering arises from three and only three sources, known in Buddhism as the three poisons: greed, ill-will, and delusion. In The Great Awakening, scholar and Zen teacher David Loy examines how these three poisons, embodied in society's institutions, lie at the root of all social maladies as well. The teachings of Buddhism ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Engaged Buddhism in the West

    Edited by Christopher S. Queen ...
    Engaged Buddhism is founded on the belief that genuine spiritual practice requires an active involvement in society. Engaged Buddhism in the West illuminates the evolution of this new chapter in the Buddhist tradition - including its history, leadership, and teachings - and addresses issues such as violence and peace, race and gender, homelessness, prisons, and the environment.Eighteen new studies ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Dalits in India, Manusmriti and Samkhya Philosophy

    by Ratan Lal Basu ...
    The term dalit means downtrodden and trampled. In fact the dalits in India, the lowest of the lower castes and the poorest of the poor, are being trampled (socially, politically and economically) by the rich, especially those belonging to the upper castes.Roughly the dalits in India comprise about 16.6 per cent of India's population. But their share of ownership of land and property, and access to ... Read more

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  • Brahmin and Non-Brahmin

    Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present

    by M.S.S.Pandian ...
    In South India, the categories ‘Brahmin’ and ‘non-Brahmin’ are frequently treated as self-evident, both within contemporary Tamil politics and in mainstream academic discourses. Departing from this political and academic ‘common sense’, the present book historicizes the complex processes by which these categories came into being and acquired political power over the past century. Using archival, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Power of Tantra

    Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies

    by Hugh B. Urban ...
    In the West, the varied body of texts and traditions known as Tantra for more than two centuries has had the capacity to scandalize and shock. For European colonizers, Orientalist scholars and Christian missionaries of the Victorian era, Tantra was generally seen as the most degenerate and depraved example of the worst tendencies of the so-called 'Indian mind': a pathological mixture of sensuality ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • 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

    $60.99 USD

  • Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition

    The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation

    by Rima Vesely-Flad ...
    An exploration of how Black Buddhist teachers and practitioners interpret Western Buddhism in unique spiritual and communal ways.In Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition, Rima Vesely-Flad examines the distinctive features of Black-identifying Buddhist practitioners, arguing that Black Buddhists interpret Buddhist teachings in ways that are congruent with Black radical thought. Indeed, ... Read more

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