A selection of Buddhist writings representing the full range of historical periods, geographical origins and literary styles. The text is organized into chapters on: the Buddhist universe; the Buddha; monastic life; meditation and other rituals; and enlightenment....more details Format:Paperback Pages:608
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Donald Lopez
ISBN:9780226493114
Donald Lopez provides in this book a cultural history of the strange encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and the West. He reveals fanciful misconceptions of Tibetan life and religion...more details Format:Paperback Pages:294
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Donald Lopez Jr;Donald S Lopez
ISBN:9780691043241
The inaugural volume of this series brings together the work of scholars of the religions of India in a new anthology designed to reshape the ways in which the religious traditions of India are understood. Many of the contributions highlight different types of discourse (especially ritual manuals...more details Format:Paperback Pages:648
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Jr Lopez Donald S
ISBN:9780807012437
The first book to bring together the key texts of modern Buddhism In the last hundred years, the world, especially the West, has increasingly embraced the teachings of Buddhism. A Modern Buddhist Bible is the first anthology to bring together the writings from Buddhists...more details Format:Paperback Pages:312
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Donald S Lopez Jr;Donald S Lopez
ISBN:9780691005133
Princeton Readings in Religions is a new series of anthologies on the religions of the world, representing the significant advances that have been made in the study of religions in the last thirty years. This volume brings together the introductions to the first five volumes of this acclaimed series: Religions of India in Practice (1995)...more details Format:Paperback Pages:175
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Donald S Lopez;Donald S Lopez Jr
ISBN:9780226493121
Beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to the present day, both Buddhists and admirers of Buddhism have proclaimed the compatibility of Buddhism and science. Their assertions have ranged from modest claims about the efficacy of meditation for mental health to grander declarations that the Buddha himself anticipated the theories of relativity...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:264
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Jr Lopez Donald S
ISBN:9780691129686
This anthology, first published in 1995, illustrates the vast scope of Buddhist practice in Asia, past and present. Re-released now in a slimmer but still extensive edition...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:464
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Donald S Lopez
ISBN:9780691044415
This anthology illustrates the scope of Buddhist practice in Asia, past and present, by presenting a selection of 48 translated texts including hagiographies...more details Format:paperback Pages:640
This introduction to Buddhism offers an account that demystifies the religion and explains its practices, teachings and schools. The book focuses on actual lived practice: in monasteries...more details Format:paperback (B format) Pages:304
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Donald S Lopez
ISBN:9780226493145
Over the past century Buddhism has come to be seen as a world religion, exceeding Christianity in longevity and, according to many, philosophical wisdom. Buddhism has also increasingly been described as strongly ethical...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:344
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Donald S Lopez
ISBN:9780226493152
Over the past century Buddhism has come to be seen as a world religion, exceeding Christianity in longevity and, according to many, philosophical wisdom. Buddhism has also increasingly been described as strongly ethical...more details Format:Paperback Pages:353
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Donald S Lopez
ISBN:9780226493084
This is a critical history of the study of Buddhism in the West, bringing the insights of colonial and post-colonial cultural studies to bear on this field.;After an overview of the origins of Buddhist studies in the early 19th century...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:304
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Donald S Lopez
ISBN:9780226493091
This is a critical history of the study of Buddhism in the West, bringing the insights of colonial and post-colonial cultural studies to bear on this field.;After an overview of the origins of Buddhist studies in the early 19th century...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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Donald S Lopez
ISBN:9780691001883
"The Heart Sutra" is one of the most famous Buddhist texts, traditionally regarded as a potent expression of emptiness and of Buddha's perfect wisdom. This book explores the elaborate philosophical and ritual uses of "The Heart Sutra" in India...more details Format:Paperback Pages:280
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Donald S Lopez;Frank Borman
ISBN:9781560989165
"Fighter Pilot's Heaven" presents the dramatic inside story of the American military's transition into the jet age, as told by a flyer whose life depended on its success. With colorful anecdotes about fellow pilots as well as precise technical information...more details Format:Paperback Pages:223
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Lopez (Consultin Donald
ISBN:9781865081656
How does a jumbo jet stay up in the air? Why is a dragonfly similar to a helicopter? How can a bird fly without flapping its wings? How can a Stealth Fighter avoid being detected by enemy radar?Flightis the story of all things that fly...more details Format:Paperback Pages:64
In this pilot's-eye view of one of the most extended projections of American air power in World War II Asia, Donald S. Lopez chronicles every aspect of fighter combat in that theater...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Dalai Lama;Ken Lopez Donald S JrMcLeod
ISBN:9781559275767
"Opening the Eye of New Awareness" is a thoroughly but succinct overview of Buddhist doctrines as they have been practiced in Tibet for a thousand years. Among the many topics the Dalai Lama discusses in this work are the need for religious practice...more details Format:Analog Audio Cassette
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Donald S Lopez
ISBN:9780226493107
Donald Lopez provides in this book a cultural history of the strange encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and the West. He reveals fanciful misconceptions of Tibetan life and religion and examines the movement for independence from China and the politics of the term "Lamaism"...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:294
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Jr Lopez Donald S
ISBN:9780691090610
The acclaimed volumes of "Princeton Readings in Religions" present the remarkable range of all that is encompassed in the practice of religions...more details Format:Paperback Pages:760
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Donald S Lopez
ISBN:9780691021430
This third volume of "Princeton Readings in Religions" demonstrates that the "three religions" of China - Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (with a fourth...more details Format:Paperback Pages:472
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Donald S Lopez;George J Tanabe
ISBN:9780691057897
This anthology reflects a range of Japanese religions in all their diversity. Within its three broad categories ("Ritual Practices", Ethical Practices" and Institutional Practices")...more details Format:Paperback Pages:550
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Jr Lopez Donald S
ISBN:9780691129723
Originally published in 1997, "Religions of Tibet in Practice" is a landmark work--the first major anthology on the topic ever produced. This new edition--abridged to further facilitate course use--presents a stunning array of works that together offer an unparalleled view of the Tibetan religious landscape over the centuries...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:421
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Donald S Lopez Jr;Donald S Lopez
ISBN:9780691011837
This anthology presents an array of works (hagiographies, pilgrimage guides, prayers, accounts of visits to hell, epics, consecration manuals...more details Format:paperback Pages:560
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Paul Carus;Martin Lopez Donald S JrVerhoven
ISBN:9780812695601
The Gospel of Buddha, the classic text on Buddhism that first introduced many Westerners to Buddha and his teachings, was first published in 1894 and immediately became a worldwide bestseller. Author Paul Carus (1852-1919) collected many accounts of Buddha's life...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:512
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Jr Lopez Donald S
ISBN:9780226493176
Gendun Chopel is considered the most important Tibetan intellectual of the twentieth century. His life spanned the two defining moments in modern Tibetan history: the entry into Lhasa by British troops in 1904 and by Chinese troops in 1951. Recognized as an incarnate lama while he was a child...more details Format:Paperback Pages:258
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Donald S Lopez Jr;Jr Lopez Donald S
ISBN:9780226493169
Gendun Chopel is considered the most important Tibetan intellectual of the twentieth century. His life spanned the two defining moments in modern Tibetan history: the entry into Lhasa by British troops in 1904 and by Chinese troops in 1951. Recognized as an incarnate lama while he was a child...more details Format:Hardback Pages:258
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JR Lopez Donald S
ISBN:9780691134352
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous Buddhist text in the West, having sold more than a million copies since it was first published in English in 1927. Carl Jung wrote a commentary on it...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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WY Evans-Wentz;Donald S Lopez
ISBN:9780195133127
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones...more details Format:Paperback Pages:354
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Chen-Chi Chang;WY Evans-Wentz;Donald S Lopez
ISBN:9780195133141
Books, audiotapes, and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread, but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East-only in the last 70 or 80 years...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464