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Buddhism

Nothing Three Inquiries in Buddhism

Boon Marcus, Cazdyn Eric, Morton Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780226233260, ISBN: HB: 9780226233123, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
296 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism – a surprising lack, given Buddhism's global reach and obvious affinities with much of...

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Buddhism

Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism

Burnouf Eugene

ISBN: PB: 9780226269689, ISBN: HB: 9780226081236, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The most influential work on Buddhism to be published in the nineteenth century, "Introduction a l'histoire du Buddhisme indien", by the great French scholar of Sanskrit Eugene Burnouf, set the course for the academic study of Buddhism – and Indian B...

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Buddhism

Rescued from the Nation Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World

Kemper Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780226199078, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Anagarika Dharmapala is one of the most galvanizing figures in Sri Lanka's recent turbulent history. He is widely regarded as the nationalist hero who saved the Sinhala people from cultural collapse and whose "protestant" reformation of Buddhism drov...

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Buddhism

Monastery in Time The Making of Mongolian Buddhism

Humphrey Caroline, Ujeed Hurelbaatar

ISBN: PB: 9780226031903, ISBN: HB: 9780226031873, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 6 halftones

"A Monastery in Time" is the first book to describe the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery – the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia – from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural...

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Buddhism

Invention of Religion in Japan

Josephson Jason Ananda

ISBN: PB: 9780226412344, ISBN: HB: 9780226412337, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
408 pp., 23x15 cm

Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion". There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese gove...

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Religious Question in Modern China

Goossaert Vincent, Palmer David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226005331, ISBN: HB: 9780226304168, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
480 pp., 25x15 cm

Recent events – from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe – vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without atten...

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Buddhism

Shots in the Dark Japan, Zen, and the West

Yamada Shoji

ISBN: PB: 9780226947655, ISBN: HB: 9780226947648, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 6 line illus.

In the years after World War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan. Pursuing the sources of Zen as a Japanese ideal, Shoji Yamada uncovers the surprising role of two cultural touchstones: Eugen He...

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Bonds of the Dead Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Rowe Mark Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226730158, ISBN: HB: 9780226730134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 10 halftones, 2 line illus.

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism's social and economic base has long been in mortuary services – a base now...

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Buddhism and Science A Guide for the Perplexed

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226493190, ISBN: HB: 9780226493121, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
278 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to the present day, both practitioners and admirers of Buddhism have proclaimed its compatibility with science. In "Buddhism and Science", Donald S. Lopez Jr. explores how and why these two seemingly...

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Locations of Buddhism Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka

Blackburn Anne M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226055077, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 3 halftones

Modernizing and colonizing forces brought nineteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhists both challenges and opportunities. How did Buddhists deal with social and economic change; new forms of political, religious, and educational discourse; and Christianit...

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