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Category Archives: Buddhism
New Titles in Religion from UHP!
The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan
Asuka Sango
304 pages
Cloth | 978-0-8248-3986-4 | $54.00
Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma
Alicia Turner
240 pages | Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory
Cloth | 978-0-8248-3937-6 | $54.00
Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea
Albert L. Park
320 pages
Cloth | 978-0-8248-3965-9 | $56.00
Practicing Scripture: A Lay Buddhist Movement in Later Imperial China
Author Steven Heine talks about his title, Zen Koans
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Zen Koans
written by Steven Heine
2014 | 206 pages
Cloth | ISBN 978-0-8248-3973-4 | $48.00
Paper | ISBN 978-0-8248-3974-1 | $17.00
Dimensions of Asian Spirituality
Buddhist networks amid political transition
NEW RELEASE
From Comrades to Bodhisattvas: Moral Dimensions of Lay Buddhist Practice in Contemporary China
written by Gareth Fisher
2014 | 301 pages | 13 illustrations
Cloth | ISBN 978-0-8248-3966-6 | $50.00
Topics in Contemporary Buddhism
“From Comrades to Bodhisattvas reveals for the first time an important and rapidly developing aspect of Chinese religiosity—the rise of lay Buddhism, which takes place in the cracks of China’s strict system of religious control. Nothing in the current literature on Buddhism or on religion in China is comparable to Fisher’s important contribution. His fascinating findings include, for example, showing how a ‘karmic’ morality offers an alternative for people unhappy with the more utilitarian morality of connection-building that characterizes much of life in Beijing. Other sections show counter-intuitively how a nostalgia for some of the ideals of the Maoist period—a sense of community, a commitment to a kind of egalitarian fairness for all, a broadly shared sense of thrift and poverty—can combine with Buddhist ideals to create a critique of the current system.” —Robert P. Weller, Boston University
Enlightened phrasing in Zen Buddhist learning
NEW RELEASE
Zen Koans
written by Steven Heine
2014 | 206 pages
Paper | ISBN 978-0-8248-3974-1 | $17.00
Cloth (Print on Demand) | ISBN 978-0-8248-3973-4 | $48.00
Dimensions of Asian Spirituality
In this compact volume, Steven Heine, who has written extensively on Zen Buddhism and koans, introduces and analyzes the classic background of texts and rites and explores the contemporary significance of koans to illuminate the full implications of this ongoing tradition. He delves deeply into the inner structure of koan literature to uncover and interpret profound levels of metaphorical significance. At the same time, he takes the reader beyond the veil of vagueness and inscrutability to an understanding of how koan writings have been used in pre-modern East Asia and are coming to be evoked and implemented in modern American practice of Zen.
Contemporary thoughts on Monastic Buddhism
NEW RELEASE
Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters: Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India
written by Gregory Schopen
2014 | 480 pages
Cloth | ISBN 978-0-8248-3880-5 | $70.00
Paper | ISBN 978-0-8248-3882-2 | $36.00
Studies in the Buddhist Traditions
“Gregory Schopen is undeniably one of the most important contributors to the evolving understanding of Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism. His challenging and rigorous scholarship is accomplished not only by means of canonical textual analysis, but by studies of art, inscriptions, and other material culture as well.” —Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses
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