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1 online resource (701 pages) |
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Routledge Worlds |
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Routledge worlds.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Chronology of Buddhism; Introduction; PART I: THE HISTORICAL AND GEO-POLITICAL BUDDHIST WORLD; 1 Buddhas and Buddhisms; 2 Indian Buddhist Narratives about the Buddha, his Community, and his Teachings; 3 Buddhism in Southeast Asia; 4 Sinitic Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan; 5 Himalayan Buddhism: Traditions Among the Newars and Other Tibeto-Burman Peoples; 6 Time Travel in Tibet: Tantra, Terma, and Tulku; 7 The Emergence of American Buddhism; PART II: THE RELIGIO-PHILOSOPHICAL BUDDHIST WORLD |
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8 Abhidharma9 Ethics; 10 Orthodoxy, Canon, and Heresy; 11 Language; 12 The Pure Land in the History of Chinese Buddhism; 13 Buddha-Nature and the Logic of Pantheism; 14 Body; 15 Buddhist Art for the World; 16 Death and Afterlife; 17 Buddhism and Modernity; PART III: THE BUDDHIST SOCIAL WORLD; 18 Buddhism and Gender; 19 A History of Buddhist Ritual; 20 Magic and Buddhism; 21 Merit; 22 Buddhist Sectarianism; 23 Community; 24 The Buddhist Sangha: Buddhism's Monastic and Lay Communities; 25 Contemporary Chinese Buddhist Practice; 26 Buddhist Environmental Imaginaries |
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27 Renouncing the World, Renouncing the Family28 Towards a Buddhist Theory of the 'Just War'; PART IV: BIOGRAPHIES; 29 The Buddha; 30 Nāgārjuna; 31 Vasubandhu: Constructing a Buddhist Mainstream; 32 Dignāga and Dharmakīrti on Perception and Self-awareness; 33 Wonhyo; 34 Dōgen; 35 Milarepa; 36 Tsongkhapa; 37 Nichiren; 38 Thich Nhat Hanh; 39 Master Yinshun; 40 Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama; 41 Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315688114 |
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1315688115 |
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