Over the centuries, Buddhism has responded to sexuality in a variety of fascinating ways, sometimes suppressing the sexual urge, sometimes sublimating it, sometimes cultivating it, and, on the highest levels, transforming it. This book reveals how Buddhists, beginning with Shaky…
"The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang tells the saga of the seventh-century Chinese monk Xuanzang, one of China's great heroes, who completed an epic sixteen-year-long journey to discover the heart of Buddhism at its source in India. Eight centuries before Columbus, this intrepid…
Walk the Silk Road with the Buddhist monk who crisscrossed the Asian continent and prompted a great cultural exchange between India and China.
"The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang tells the saga of the seventh-century Chinese monk Xuanzang, one of China's great heroes, who completed an epic sixteen-year-long journey to discover the heart of Buddhism at its source in India. Eight centuries before Columbus, this intrepid…
"Twelfth-century Islamic philosopher Suhrawardi attempted to revive Platonism in an era of Avicennan Aristotelianism. Modern scholars have portrayed Suhrawardi as wishing to revive an "oriental" wisdom and associate him with ancient Persia. In this book, John Walbridge uses Suhr…
"An End to Suffering is a search to understand the Buddha's relevance in today' world, where religious violence, poverty, and terrorism prevail. Traveling extensively through the West as well as the East, Pankaj Mishra explores the myths and places of the Buddha's life, examines…
"An End to Suffering is a search to understand the Buddha's relevance in today' world, where religious violence, poverty, and terrorism prevail. Traveling extensively through the West as well as the East, Pankaj Mishra explores the myths and places of the Buddha's life, examines…
This book approaches the Dhamma, the Buddha's teaching, from a Buddhistic perspective, viewing various individual teachings presented in hundreds of early discourses of Pali canon, comprehending them under a single systemic thought of a single individual called the Buddha. It ex…