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Samkara's Advaita Vedanta
A Way of Teaching
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…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40601-7 (Routledge)
The Buddhist Unconscious
The Alaya-vijñana in the context of Indian Buddhist Thought
This is the story of fifth century CE India, when the Yogacarin Buddhists tested the awareness of unawareness, and became aware of human unawareness to… read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40607-9 (Routledge)
Moral Theory in Santideva's Siksasamuccaya
Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue
This important text analyzes the moral theory of the seventh century Indian Mahayana master, Santideva, author of the well-known religious poem, the Bodhicaryavatara (Entering the…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34696-2 (Routledge)
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The Twelver Shi'a as a Muslim Minority in India
Pulpit of Tears
One of the most important current debates within and about Islam concerns its relation with power. Can Muslims be fundamentally content without power or as… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36234-4 (Routledge)
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Interpreting the Qur'an
Towards a Contemporary Approach
How is the Qur'an - central to all Muslim societies - to be understood today in order to meet the needs of these societies? Abdullah…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36538-3 (Routledge)
Christianity, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia
Although over eighty percent of the country is Muslim, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life.…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35961-0 (Routledge)
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Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness
To Be, Not to Be or Neither
This is an introduction to the Buddhist philosophy of Emptiness which explores a number of themes in connection with the concept of Emptiness, a highly… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35252-9 (Routledge)
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The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon
David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34652-8 (Routledge)
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Early Buddhist Metaphysics
The Making of a Philosophical Tradition
Early Buddhist Metaphysics provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34519-4 (Routledge)
Buddhist Hagiography in Early Japan
Images of Compassion in the Gyoki Tradition
Hagiographies or idealized biographies which recount the lives of saints, bodhisattvas and other charismatic figures have been the meeting place for myth and experience. In… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32245-4 (Routledge)
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