Buddhist Schools

  1. World religions: Buddhism

    Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, 30 June 2011

    Buddhism, Fourth Edition tells the story of Buddhism’s origins and its development into three major schools of thought—and presents the particular beliefs and practices of those schools of Buddhism that still flourish today. This fascinating title explores the concept of the “socially engaged Buddhist,” the growth and practice of Buddhism in America, and the recent revival of Buddhism in Asia.

    Coverage includes:
    - Introduction to the modern Buddhist world
    - The life of the Buddha
    - The spread of Buddhism throughout Asia, and the world

  2. Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophy (Volume I)

    Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Friday, 7 January 2011

    This constitutes the first volume of the series. It indicates the scope of the project and provides a list of sources which will be surveyed in the subsequent volumes, as well as provide a guide to secondary literature for further study of Indian Philosophy. It lists in relative chronological order, Sanskrit and Tamil works. All known editions and translations into European languages are cited; where published versions of the text are not known a guide to the location of manuscripts of the work is provided.

  4. Text, History, and Philosophy: Abhidharma across Buddhist Scholastic Traditions

    Posted by admin on Sunday, 18 November 2018
    Dessein, Bart and Weijen Teng. ed. Text, History, and Philosophy: Abhidharma across Buddhist Scholastic Traditions. Boston : Brill, 2016.

     

    Abhidharmic Elements in Gandhāran Mahāyāna Buddhism: Groups of Four and the abhedyaprasādas in the Bajaur Mahāyāna Sūtra 47 by Andrea Schlosser and Ingo

    The Contribution of Saṃghabhadra to Our Understanding ofAbhidharma Doctrines 223 by KL Dhammajoti

    Pratītyasamutpāda in the Translations of An Shigao and the Writings of His Chinese Followers 248 by Eric M. Greene

  6. The Buddhist Theory of Self-Cognition

    Posted by webmaster on Thursday, 8 December 2011

    This highly original work explores the concept of self-awareness or self-consciousness in Buddhist thought. Its central thesis is that the Buddhist theory of self-cognition originated in a soteriological discussion of omniscience among the Mahasamghikas, and then evolved into a topic of epistemological inquiry among the Yogacarins. To illustrate this central theme, this book explores a large body of primary sources in Chinese, Pali, Sanskrit and Tibetan, most of which are presented to an English readership for the first time. It makes available important resources for the study of the Buddhist philosophy of mind.

  7. Buddhist Sects in India

    Posted by admin on Monday, 30 March 2009

    This extraordinary book is the only authentic document of its kind. Beginning with a detailed and lucid exposition of the political background of India from Ajatasatru to Mahapadma nanda, it goes on to trace the sources of the Second Buddhist Council, to locate with unerring exactitude the disruptive forces in the Sangha and, in the fourth chapter, to classify the Sects. In the chapters that follow, the learned author deals with the Mahasanghikas, doctrines of Group II-V Schools.