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American Progressive History - An Experiment In Modernization

by Ernst Breisach

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 A study of Progressive history from its emergence in the early 1900s to the 1940s. Focusing on the movement's most important representatives, Breisach demonstrates that Progressive history is distinguished by its unique combination of beliefs in the objective reality of historical facts and in the inevitable progress of the human race.
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Seeking Sakyamuni - South Asia In The Formation Of Modern Japanese Buddhism

by Richard M. Jaffe

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 <div>Though fascinated with the land of their tradition’s birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated <i>Seeking kyamuni</i>, Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the first Japanese Buddhists who traveled to South Asia in search of Buddhist knowledge beginning in 1873. Analyzing the impact of these voyages on Japanese conceptions of Buddhism, he argues that South Asia developed into a pivotal nexus for the development of twentieth-century Japanese Buddhism. Jaffe shows that Japan’s growing economic ties to the subcontinent following World War I fostered even more Japanese pilgrimage and study at Buddhism’s foundational sites. Tracking the Japanese travelers who returned home, as well as South Asians who visited Japan, Jaffe describes how the resulting flows of knowledge, personal connections, linguistic expertise, and material artifacts of South and Southeast Asian Buddhism instantiated the growing popular consciousness of Buddhism as a pan-Asian tradition—in the heart of Japan.</div>
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Buddhism And Science - A Guide For The Perplexed

by Donald S. Lopez Jr.

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 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, quantum physics and the big bang more than two millennia ago. In Buddhism and Science, Donald S. Lopez Jr. is less interested in evaluating the accuracy of such claims than in exploring how and why these two seemingly disparate modes of understanding the inner and outer universe have been so persistently linked. Lopez opens with an account of the rise and fall of Mount Meru, the great peak that stands at the center of the flat earth of Buddhist cosmography-and which was interpreted anew once it proved incompatible with modern geography. From there, he analyzes the way in which Buddhist concepts of spiritual nobility were enlisted to support the notorious science of race in the nineteenth century. Bringing the story to the present, Lopez explores the Dalai Lama's interest in scientific discoveries, as well as the implications of research on meditation for neuroscience. Lopez argues that by presenting an ancient Asian tradition as compatible with-and even anticipating-scientific discoveries, European enthusiasts and Asian elites have sidestepped the debates on the relevance of religion in the modern world that began in the nineteenth century and still flare today. As new discoveries continue to reshape our understanding of mind and matter, Buddhism and Science will be indispensable reading for those fascinated by religion, science, and their often vexed relation.
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Madman'S Middle Way - Reflections On Reality Of The Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel

by Donald S. Lopez Jr.

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 Gendun Chopel is considered the most important Tibetan intellectual of the twentieth century. This title presents the English translation of the work, "Adornment for Nagarjuna's Thought", accompanied by an essay on Gendun Chopel's life liberally interspersed with passages from his writings.
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Holy Land Reborn - Pilgrimage And The Tibetan Reinvention Of Buddhist India

by Toni Huber

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 The Dalai Lama has said that Tibetans consider themselves "the child of Indian civilization" and that India is the "holy land" from whose sources the Tibetans have built their own civilization. What explains this powerful allegiance to India? In The Holy Land Reborn Toni Huber investigates how Tibetans have maintained a ritual relationship to India, particularly by way of pilgrimage, and what it means for them to consider India as their holy land. Focusing on the Tibetan creation and recreation of India as a destination, a landscape, and a kind of other, in both real and idealized terms, Huber explores how Tibetans have used the idea of India as a religious territory and a sacred geography in the development of their own religion and society. In a timely closing chapter, Huber also takes up the meaning of India for the Tibetans who live in exile in their Buddhist holy land. A major contribution to the study of Buddhism, The Holy Land Reborn describes changes in Tibetan constructs of India over the centuries, ultimately challenging largely static views of the sacred geography of Buddhism in India.
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In The Forest Of Faded Wisdom - 104 Poems By Gendun Chopel, A Bilingual Edition

by Gendun Chopel

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 In a culture where poetry is considered the highest form of human language, Gendun Chopel is revered as Tibet's greatest modern poet. Born in 1903 as British troops were preparing to invade his homeland, Gendun Chopel was identified at any early age as the incarnation of a famous lama and became a Buddhist monk, excelling in the debating courtyards of the great monasteries of Tibet. At the age of thirty-one, he gave up his monk's vows and set off for India, where he would wander, often alone and impoverished, for over a decade. Returning to Tibet, he was arrested by the government of the young Dalai Lama on trumped-up charges of treason, emerging from prison three years later a broken man. He died in 1951 as troops of the People's Liberation Army marched into Lhasa. Throughout his life, from his childhood to his time in prison, Gendun Chopel wrote poetry that conveyed the events of his remarkable life. In the Forest of Faded Wisdom is the first comprehensive collection of his oeuvre in any language, assembling poems in both the original Tibetan and in English translation. A master of many forms of Tibetan verse, Gendun Chopel composed heartfelt hymns to the Buddha, pithy instructions for the practice of the dharma, stirring tributes to the Tibetan warrior-kings, cynical reflections on the ways of the world, and laments of a wanderer, forgotten in a foreign land. These poems exhibit the technical skill-wordplay, puns, the ability to evoke moods of pathos and irony-for which Gendun Chopel was known and reveal the poet to be a consummate craftsman, skilled in both Tibetan and Indian poetics. With a directness and force often at odds with the conventions of belles lettres, this is a poetry that is at once elegant and earthy. In the Forest of Faded Wisdom is a remarkable introduction to Tibet's sophisticated poetic tradition and its most intriguing twentieth-century writer.
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Introduction To The History Of Indian Buddhism

by Eugene Burnouf

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 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 Buddhism in particular-for the next hundred years. First published in 1844, the masterwork was read by some of the most important thinkers of the time, including Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in Germany and Emerson and Thoreau in America. Katia Buffetrille and Donald S. Lopez Jr.'s expert English translation, Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism, provides a clear view of how the religion was understood in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Burnouf was an impeccable scholar, and his vision, especially of the Buddha, continues to profoundly shape our modern understanding of Buddhism. In reintroducing Burnouf to a new generation of Buddhologists, Buffetrille and Lopez have revived a seminal text in the history of Orientalism.
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Bonds Of The Dead - Temples, Burial And Thetransformation Of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism - Temples, Burial, And The Transformation Of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

by Mark Michael Rowe

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 Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. This title investigates what changing burial forms reveal about the ways temple Buddhism is perceived and propagated in contemporary Japan.
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Making A Canon - Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Sri Lanka, And The Place Of Buddhist Art

by Janice Leoshko

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Renunciation And Longing - The Life Of A Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint

by Annabella Pitkin

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The Scarith Of Scornello - A Tale Of Renaissance Forgery

by Ingrid D. Rowland

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 Traces the career of the young scam artist Curzio Inghirami whose "findings" reached the Vatican shortly after Galileo was condemned by the inquisition, inspiring participants on both sides of the affair to clash again - this time over Etruscan history. Written with humor and energy the author tells about Curzio's far-reaching pranks.
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Experimental Leukemia And Mammary Cancer - Induction, Prevention, Cure

by Charles Brenton Huggins

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American Progressive History - An Experiment In Modernization

by Ernst Breisach

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 A study of Progressive history from its emergence in the early 1900s to the 1940s. Focusing on the movement's most important representatives, Breisach demonstrates that Progressive history is distinguished by its unique combination of beliefs in the objective reality of historical facts and in the inevitable progress of the human race.
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The Gardener'S Guide To Prairie Plants

by Hilary Cox e Neil Diboll

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The Buddha'S Tooth - Western Tales Of A Sri Lankan Relic

by Professor John S. Strong

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The Book Of Barely Imagined Beings - A 21st Century Bestiary

by Caspar Henderson

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From Lived Experience To The Written Word - Reconstructing Practical Knowledge In The Early Modern World

by Pamela H. Smith

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Renunciation And Longing - The Life Of A Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint

by Annabella Pitkin

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The Buddha'S Tooth - Western Tales Of A Sri Lankan Relic

by Professor John S. Strong

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Seeking Sakyamuni - South Asia In The Formation Of Modern Japanese Buddhism

by Richard M Jaffe

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Seeking Sakyamuni - South Asia In The Formation Of Modern Japanese Buddhism

by Richard M Jaffe

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Cigarettes, Inc. - An Intimate History Of Corporate Imperialism

by Professor Nan Enstad

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Backing Into Forward - A Memoir

by Jules Feiffer

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 The award-winning cartoonist, playwright, and author delivers a witty, illustrated rendition of his life, from his childhood as a wimpy kid in the Bronx to his legendary career in the arts.
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The Passion Book - A Tibetan Guide To Love And Sex

by Gendun Chopel

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 The Passion Book is the most famous work of erotica in the vast literature of Tibetan Buddhism, written by the legendary scholar and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-1951).
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