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  • Immigrant Ambassadors

    Citizenship and Belonging in the Tibetan Diaspora

    by Julia Meredith Hess ...
    The Tibetan diaspora began fifty years ago when the current Dalai Lama fled Lhasa and established a government-in-exile in India. For those fifty years, the vast majority of Tibetans have kept their stateless refugee status in India and Nepal as a reminder to themselves and the world that Tibet is under Chinese occupation and that they are committed to returning someday.In the 1990s, the U.S. ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage

    Negotiating Dispossession

    by Franz Xaver Erhard, Julia Meredith Hess, Kamila Hladíková, Lama Jabb, Per Kvaerne, Thomas Kauffmann, Jigme Yeshe Lama, Yu-Shan Liu, Dawa T. Lokyitsang, Martin A. Mills, Frank J. Korom, Boston University ...
    Series series Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture
    Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage: Negotiating Dispossession explores the many ways Tibetans are reimagining their cultural identity since the communist takeover of Tibet in the 1950s. Focusing on developments taking place in Tibet and the diaspora, this collection of essays addresses a wide range of issues at the heart of Tibetan modernity. From the political dynamics of the exiled ... Read more

    $97.19 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

  • Playing With Fire

    Feminist Thought And Activism Through Seven Lives In India

    by Sangtin Writers, Richa Nagar ...
    Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is based on diaries, interviews, and conversations among them. Together their personal stories reveal larger themes and questions of sexism, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • 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

  • Caste and Democratic Politics in India

    by GHANSHYAM SHAH ...
    The Indian constitution seeks to prevent the perpetuation of caste and build a casteless social system. But this has not happened over the fifty-odd years since Indian independence, and shows little sign of happening in the near future. Therefore no understanding of Indian politics is possible without a thorough understanding of the complexities of caste. The aim of this book is to bring about ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • The God Market

    How Globalization is Making India More Hindu

    by Meera Nanda ...
    Conventional wisdom says that integration into the global marketplacetends to weaken the power of traditional faith in developingcountries. But, as Meera Nanda argues in this path-breaking book,this is hardly the case in todays India. Against expectations ofgrowing secularism, India has instead seen a remarkable intertwiningof Hinduism and neoliberal ideology, spurred on by a growingcapitalist ... Read more

    $18.59 USD

  • The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka

    Terrorism, ethnicity, political economy

    by Asoka Bandarage ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    The book provides a detailed historically-based analysis of the origin, evolution and potential resolution of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka over the struggle to establish a separate state in its Northern and Eastern provinces. This conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the secessionist LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) is one of the world’s most intractable contemporary armed ... Read more

    $61.99 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

    $57.99 USD

  • Daisaku Ikeda's Philosophy of Peace

    Dialogue, Transformation and Global Citizenship

    by Olivier Urbain ...
    Who is Daisaku Ikeda? At one level, he is the leader of a religious movement - Soka Gakkai - which began in Japan, where it still has its headquarters, but which now claims 12 million adherents around the world. At another level, he is a globetrotting figure whose formal conversations with diverse writers, thinkers and diplomats - including Arnold Toynbee, Joseph Rotblat and Mikhail Gorbachev - ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Buddhism in America

    by Richard Hughes Seager ...
    Over the past half century in America, Buddhism has grown from a transplanted philosophy to a full-fledged religious movement, rich in its own practices, leaders, adherents, and institutions. Long favored as an essential guide to this history, Buddhism in America covers the three major groups that shape the tradition—an emerging Asian immigrant population, native-born converts, and old-line Asian ... Read more

    $31.49 USD