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  • Unmasking Buddhism

    by Bernard Faure ...
    UNMASKING BUDDHISMCan we talk of Buddhism as a unified religion or are there many Buddhisms? Is Buddhism a religion of tolerance and pacifism as many people think? Is Buddhism a religion without god(s)? Or is it more of a philosophy than a religion? Renowned Buddhist scholar Bernard Faure answers these and other questions about the basic history, beliefs and nature of Buddhism in easy-to ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • The Red Thread

    Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality

    by Bernard Faure ...
    Series series Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series
    Is there a Buddhist discourse on sex? In this innovative study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His remarkably broad range covers the entire geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the time of its founder, Xvkyamuni, to the premodern age. The author's anthropological approach uncovers the inherent discrepancies between the normative ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Thousand and One Lives of the Buddha

    by Bernard Faure ...
    Translated by Bernard Faure ...
    Praise for the French edition“This is a book that should be read by all those who are interested, whether near or far, in Buddhism, its history and its interpretations. . . . [Faure] proposes considering the ‘Life of the Buddha’ as a kind of treasure that never ceases to be reinvented and experienced, from story to story, from language to language, from culture to culture.” —Roger-Pol Droit, Le ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context

    Edited by Bernard Faure ...
    The essays in this volume attempt to place the Chan and Zen tradition in their ritual and cultural contexts, looking at various aspects heretofore largely (and unduly) ignored. In particular, they show the extent to which these traditions, despite their claim to uniqueness, were indebted to larger trends in East Asian Buddhism, such as the cults of icons, relics and the monastic robe. The book ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Rhetoric of Immediacy

    A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism

    by Bernard Faure ...
    Through a highly sensitive exploration of key concepts and metaphors, Bernard Faure guides Western readers in appreciating some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. He focuses on Chan's insistence on "immediacy"--its denial of all traditional mediations, including scripture, ritual, good works--and yet shows how these mediations ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Chan Insights and Oversights

    An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition

    by Bernard Faure ...
    For many people attracted to Eastern religions (particularly Zen Buddhism), Asia seems the source of all wisdom. As Bernard Faure examines the study of Chan/Zen from the standpoint of postmodern human sciences and literary criticism, he challenges this inversion of traditional "Orientalist" discourse: whether the Other is caricatured or idealized, ethnocentric premises marginalize important parts ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Visions of Power

    Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism

    by Bernard Faure ...
    Translated by Phyllis Brooks ...
    Bernard Faure's previous works are well known as guides to some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. Continuing his efforts to look at Chan/Zen with a full array of postmodernist critical techniques, Faure now probes the imaginaire, or mental universe, of the Buddhist Soto Zen master Keizan Jokin (1268-1325). Although Faure's new ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Power of Denial

    Buddhism, Purity, and Gender

    by Bernard Faure ...
    Series series Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series
    Innumerable studies have appeared in recent decades about practically every aspect of women's lives in Western societies. The few such works on Buddhism have been quite limited in scope. In The Power of Denial, Bernard Faure takes an important step toward redressing this situation by boldly asking: does Buddhism offer women liberation or limitation? Continuing the innovative exploration of ... Read more

    $52.59 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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  • Mahayana Buddhism

    The Doctrinal Foundations

    by Paul Williams ...
    Series series The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices
    Originating in India, Mahayana Buddhism spread across Asia, becoming the prevalent form of Buddhism in Tibet and East Asia. Over the last twenty-five years Western interest in Mahayana has increased considerably, reflected both in the quantity of scholarly material produced and in the attraction of Westerners towards Tibetan Buddhism and Zen.Paul Williams’ Mahayana Buddhism is widely regarded as ... Read more

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  • Taoism

    The Enduring Tradition

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