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“perry schmidt leukel”

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  • Santideva and the Dynamics of Tradition

    Doctrinal, Social, and Interreligious Contexts

    Edited by Stephen Harris, Perry Schmidt-Leukel ...
    This collection analyses the dynamic role of tradition in understanding the thought and impact of the 8th century Mahayana Buddhist thinker Santideva.Organised into three interconnected sections, it highlights Santideva's Guide to the way of life of a Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryavatara) as a product of and major contributor to the 7th and 8th-century Mahayana Buddhist intellectual tradition.Across a ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Myanmar

    Contested Identities

    Edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Hans-Peter Grosshans, Madlen Krueger ...
    One of the most comprehensive volumes on Myanmar's identity politics to date, this book discusses the entanglement of ethnic and religious identities in Myanmar and the challenges presented by its extensive ethnic-religious diversity.Religious and ethnic conjunctions are treated from historical, political, religious and ethnic minority perspectives through both case studies and overview chapters. ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology

    Comparison Revisited

    Edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Andreas Nehring ...
    Can religions be compared? For decades the discipline of religious studies was based on the assumption that they can. Postmodern and postcolonial reflections, however, raised significant doubts. In social and cultural studies the investigation of the particular often took precedence over a comparative perspective. Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology questions whether ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Buddhism, Christianity and the Question of Creation

    Karmic or Divine?

    Edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel ...
    Is the world created by a divine creator? Or is it the constant product of karmic forces? The issue of creation was at the heart of the classic controversies between Buddhism and Hindu Theism. In modern times it can be found at the centre of many polemical debates between Buddhism and Christianity. Is this the principal barrier that separates Buddhism from Christianity and other theistic religions ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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    by Jan Westerhoff ...
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    Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy in the first millennium CE. He starts from the composition of the Abhidharma works before the beginning of the common era and continues up to the time of Dharmakirti in the sixth century. This period was characterized by the development of a variety of ... Read more

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  • Unifying Hinduism

    Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History

    by Andrew Nicholson ...
    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has its roots in innovations within South Asian philosophy from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. During this ... Read more

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  • Hindu Images and their Worship with special reference to Vaisnavism

    A philosophical-theological inquiry

    by Julius J. Lipner ...
    Series series Routledge Hindu Studies Series
    Hinduism comprises perhaps the major cluster of religio-cultural traditions of India, and it can play a valuable role in helping us understand the nature of religion and human responses to life. Hindu image-worship lies at the core of what counts for Hinduism – up-front and subject to much curiosity and misunderstanding, yet it is a defining feature of this phenomenon.This book focuses on Hindu ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • After Buddhism

    Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age

    by Stephen Batchelor ...
    Some twenty-five centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire people across the globe, including those living in predominantly secular societies. What does it mean to adapt religious practices to secular contexts?   Stephen Batchelor, an internationally known author and teacher, is committed to a secularized version of the Buddha’s teachings. The time has come, he ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

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  • China in the 21st Century:What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga

    Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932

    by C. G. Jung ...
    Series series Jung Extracts
    "Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model of something that was almost completely lacking in Western psychology--an account of the development phases of higher consciousness.... Jung's insistence on the psychogenic and symbolic significance of such states is even more timely now than then. As R. D. Laing stated... 'It was Jung who broke the ground here, but few followed him.'"--From the ... Read more

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  • Yoga: Discipline of Freedom

    The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali

    by Barbara Stoler Miller ...
    Dating from about the third century A.D., the Yoga Sutra distills the essence of the physical and spiritual discipline of yoga into fewer than two hundred brief aphorisms. It is the core text for any study of meditative practice, revered for centuries for its brilliant analysis of mental states and of the process by which inner liberation is achieved. Yet its difficulties are legendary, and until ... Read more

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  • China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know

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    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand China has never been more pressing. Within one generation, the global giant has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse; yet conflicting impressions of the country and its leaders abound. In the fully revised and updated second edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, China expert Jeffrey ... Read more

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