Classical Samkhya and Yoga

An Indian Metaphysics of Experience

By Mikel Burley

Samkhya and Yoga are two of the oldest and most influential systems of classical Indian philosophy. This book provides a thorough analysis of the systems...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39448-2 (Routledge)

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Buddhist Nuns in Taiwan and Sri Lanka

A Critique of the Feminist Perspective

By Wei-Yi Cheng

Taking a comparative approach, this fieldwork-based study explores the lives and thoughts of Buddhist nuns in present-day Taiwan and Sri Lanka. The author examines the...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39042-2 (Routledge)

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Globalization and Religious Nationalism in India

The Search for Ontological Security

By Catarina Kinnvall

Exploring the effects of globalization in India and the problem of identity formation, this book contributes to the theoretical and empirical debate on identity, globalization,...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40547-8 (Routledge)

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The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion

Edited by Bernhard Scheid, Mark Teeuwen

The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection traces out the secret characteristics and practices in...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38713-2 (Routledge)

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Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism

The Doctrinal History of Nirvana

By Soonil Hwang

Soonil Hwang studies the doctrinal development of nirvana in the Pali Nikaaya and subsequent tradition and compares it with the Chinese aagama and its traditional...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35550-6 (Routledge)

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Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal

The Fifteenth-Century Reformation of Newar Buddhism

By Will Tuladhar-Douglas

Will Tuladhar-Douglas sheds new light on an important branch of Mahayana Buddhism and establishes the existence, character and causes of a renaissance of Buddhism in the...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35919-1 (Routledge)

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Beyond Enlightenment

Buddhism, Religion, Modernity

By Richard Cohen

The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37294-7 (Routledge)

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Attending Krishna's Image

Chaitanya Vaishnava Murti-seva as Devotional Truth

By Kenneth Russell Valpey

There is a steady and growing scholarly, as well as popular interest in Hindu religion – especially devotional (bhakti) traditions as forms of spiritual practice and...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38394-3 (Routledge)

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Muslim Society and the Western Indian Ocean

The Seafarers of Kachchh

By Edward Simpson

Based on substantial ethnographic, textual and archival research, this interesting book offers a new perspective on the anthropology of the western Indian Ocean. Writing in...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37610-5 (Routledge)

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Samkara's Advaita Vedanta

A Way of Teaching

By Jacqueline G Suthren Hirst

Samkara (c.700 CE) has been regarded by many as the most authoritative Hindu thinker of all time. A great Indian Vedantin brahmin, Samkara was primarily...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40601-7 (Routledge)

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