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Attention to lived religion has significantly shaped religious studies and has only recently impacted the field of Buddhism. Rather than asserting a separation between "real" religion happening within sacred scriptures and official organizations on the one hand, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-09-19
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The tantric Buddhist traditions emerged in India beginning in the seventh century CE and flourished there until the demise of Buddhism in India circa the fifteenth century. These traditions were disseminated to Central, East, and Southeast Asia, and continue to be...
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Oxford University Press
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2023-09-26
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The Way of the Bodhisattva, composed by the monk and scholar Śāntideva in eighth-century India, is a Buddhist treatise in verse that beautifully and succinctly lays out the theory and practice of the Mahayana path of a bodhisattva. Over one thousand years...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-03-01
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The path of practice as taught in ancient India by Gotama Buddha was open to both women and men.The texts of early Indian Buddhism show that women were lay followers of the Buddha and were also granted the right to ordain and become nuns. Certain women were known as...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-10-18
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Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani is an essential work of Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical literature. Written in an accessible question-and-answer style, it containsNagarjuna's replies to criticisms of his philosophy of the "Middle Way." The Vigrahavyavartani has been...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-04-07
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The result of a dialogue between poets and scholars on the meaning and making of the sacred, this book endeavours to determine how the sacred emerges in sacred script as well as in poetic discourse. It ranges through scholarship in areas as apparently disparate as...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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