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Preface Buddhism is one of the three major world religions, along with Christianity and Islam, and has a history that is several centuries longer than either of its counterparts. Starting in India some twenty-five hundred years ago, Buddhist monks and nuns almost immediately from the inception of the dispensation began to “to wander forth for…

Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877– 1912 Hwansoo Ilmee Kim A Study of the International Center for Korean Studies at the Research Institute of Korean Studies, Korea University Published by the Harvard University Asia Center and distributed by Harvard University Press Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London, 2012© 2012 by Th e President and Fellows of Harvard College…

By Reza Shah-Kazemi With an essay by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Introduced by H. H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama H. R. H. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad Professor Mohammad Hashim Kamali First published in 2010 by Fons Vitae 49 Mockingbird Valley Drive Louisville, KY 40207 http://www.fonsvitae.com Email: fonsvitaeky@aol.com© Copyright The Royal Aal-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Jordan…

Causality:The Central Philosophy of Buddhism D avid J. Kalupahana FOREW ORD BY ELIOT DEUTSCHTHE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF HAWAII Honolulu Contents Foreword ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii I. Pre-Buddhist Theories of Causation : The Vedic Tradition 1 II. Pre-Buddhist Theories of Causation : The Non-Vedic Tradition 23 III. Clarification of Terminology 54 IV. The Conception of…

By Johannes Bronkhorst LEIDEN – BOSTON Contents Preface vii Chapter One Introduction: Buddhism Before the New Brahmanism 1 1.1 The original context 1 1.2 Interactions 6 1.3 Imperial help 12 Chapter Two Brahmanism 27 2.1 The new Brahmanism 27 2.2 The spread of Sanskrit 42 2.3 The brahmanical colonization of the past 65 2.4 The…

THE STORY OF AGVAN DORZHIEV, LHASA’S EMISSARY TO THE TSAR John Snelling, world-renowned Buddhist scholar, died in 1991. He was General Secretary of the Buddhist Society and Editor of The Middle Way, He is the author of The Sacred Mountain, The Buddhist Handbook and The Elements of Buddhism. IN MEMORIAMKHAMBO LAMA AGVAN DORZHIEVAND FORTHE BUDDHISTS…

Buddhism and Intelligent Technology Toward a More Humane Future Contents vii Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 Personal Presence, Ethics, and Global Action 7 The Importance of Diversity for a Humanely Oriented Intelligence Revolution 12 The Plan of the Book 15 1 Buddhism: A Philosophical Repertoire 19 Buddhist Origins in Predicament Resolution 20 Buddhist Practice: The Teaching…

Contents List of Illustrations vi List of Maps viii Acknowledgements xii Note on Citations and Pronunciation xiii 1 Buddhism and Elephants 1 2 The Buddha 14 3 Karma and Rebirth 28 4 The Four Noble Truths 43 5 The Mahāyāna 56 6 Buddhism in Asia 69 7 Meditation 83 8 Ethics 96 9 Buddhism in…

What is enlightenment? For Buddhists it involves the discovery of the truth of duhkha—pain, suffering, and sorrow—followed by the realization that duhkha can be brought to an end. In like manner, Protestant Christians speak of enlightenment as a moment when, touched by God, one becomes aware of one’s own escape from eternal damnation. Likewise, European…