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The scientific Buddha
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Lopez, Donald S. |
"This book tells the story of the Scientific Buddha, "born" in Europe in the 1800s but commonly confused with the Buddha born in India 2,500 years ago. The Scientific Buddha was sent into battle agai… |
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After buddhism
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Stephen Batchelor |
"This original and provocative book presents a new framework for understanding the remarkable spread of Buddhism in today's globalized world. It also reminds us of what was so startling about the Bud… |
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Buddhist economics
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Clair Brown |
"Traditional economics measures the ways in which we spend our income, but doesn't attribute worth to the crucial human interactions that give our lives meaning. Clair Brown, an economics professor a… |
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Challenging paradigms, Buddhism and nativism
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Henk Blezer,Mark Teeuwen |
Buddhism is often portrayed as a universalising religion that transcends the local and directs attention toward a transcendent dharma. Yet, wherever Buddhism spreads, it also sparks local identity di… |
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Buddhism and American cinema
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Gary Storhoff,John Whalen-Bridge |
In 1989, the same year the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a decade-long boom of films dedicated to Buddhist people, history, and culture began. Offering the first scholarly treatment o… |
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The path of the Buddha
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Kenneth W. Morgan |
The history and doctrines of Buddhism presented in 8 essays by 12 Buddhist scholars. |
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The Universe in a Single Atom
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His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama |
"After forty years of study with some of the greatest scientific minds, as well as a lifetime of meditative, spiritual, and philosophical study, the Dalai Lama presents an analysis of why all avenues… |
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Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal
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Todd Thornton Lewis |
"This book demonstrates how popular ritual texts and story narratives have shaped the religious life and culture of the only surviving South Asian Mahayana Buddhist society, the Newars of Kathmandu.
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Buddhism (Religions of the World)
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Bradley K. Hawkins |
Buddhism is a concise and readable survey of the history of Buddhism, from its roots in India to its spread across South and East Asia and its present day manifestation in Europe and America. Focusin… |
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The World in the Buddhist Sense
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Nina van Gorkom |
The purpose of this book is to show that the Buddhas Path to true understanding has to be developed in daily life. It explains the pitfalls one will come across while developing this path and the way… |
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