Book Series in Asian Studies
Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism - Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies
New & Published Titles:
The Origin of Buddhist Meditation
Having identified early material that goes back to the Buddha himself, the author argues that the two teachers of the Buddha were historical figures. Based…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54467-2 (Routledge)
Buddhist Meditation
An Anthology of Texts from the Pali Canon
Meditative practice lies at the heart of the Buddhist tradition. This introductory anthology gives a representative sample of the various kinds of meditations described in…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48568-5 (Routledge)
Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism
The Doctrinal History of Nirvana
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…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35550-6 (Routledge)
Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal
The Fifteenth-Century Reformation of Newar Buddhism
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… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35919-1 (Routledge)
How Buddhism Began
The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings
Written by one of the world's top scholars in the field of Pali Buddhism, this new and updated edition of How Buddhism Began, discusses various…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37123-0 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness: To Be, Not to Be or Neither
By Karma Phuntsho
To be published September 17th 2010
Early Buddhist Metaphysics: The Making of a Philosophical Tradition
By Noa Ronkin
To be published September 17th 2010
The Biographies of Rechungpa: The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography
By Peter Alan Roberts
To be published August 15th 2010