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Teardrops of Time
(December 2020)
Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkhan Kalayanaphong
Arnika Fuhrmann - Author
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Investigates how the Thai poet Angkhan Kalayanaphong adapts Buddhist concepts of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary.
Focusing on one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, Angkhan Kalayanaphong (1926–2012), this book makes a unique contribution to understandings of non-Western literary modernity. Arnika Fuhrmann investigates how the Thai poet adapts...(Read More) |
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Buddhist Literature as Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy as Literature
(November 2020)
Rafal K. Stepien - Editor
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Explores the relationship between literature and philosophy in classical and contemporary Buddhist texts.
Can literature reveal reality? Is philosophical truth a literary artifice? How does the way we think affect what we can know? Buddhism has been grappling with these questions for centuries, and this book attempts to answer them by exploring the relationship between literature ...(Read More) |
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The Other Emptiness
(December 2019)
Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet
Michael R. Sheehy - Editor
Klaus-Dieter Mathes - Editor
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Presents a new vision of the Buddhist history and philosophy of emptiness in Tibet.
This book brings together perspectives of leading international Tibetan studies scholars on the subject of zhentong or “other-emptiness.” Defined as the emptiness of everything other than the continuous luminous awareness that is one’s own enlightened nature, this distinctive philosophical and contemplative presentation o...(Read More) |
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Buddhisms in Asia
(September 2019)
Traditions, Transmissions, and Transformations
Nicholas S. Brasovan - Editor
Micheline M. Soong - Editor
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A guide to Buddhism’s rich variety of traditions and cultural expressions for educators who would like to include Buddhism in their undergraduate courses.
Over its long history, Buddhism has never been a simple monolithic phenomenon, but rather a complex living tradition—or better, a family of traditions—continually shaped by and shaping a vast array of social, economic, political, literary, and aesthetic cont...(Read More) |
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Word, Chant, and Song
(September 2019)
Spiritual Transformation in Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Sikhism
Harold Coward - Author
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An accessible introduction to the centrality of word, chant, and song in the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Sikh traditions.
In academic religious studies and musicology, little attention has been given to chanted word, hymns, and songs, yet these are often the key spiritual practices for lay devotees. To address this gap in knowledge, Harold Coward presents a thematic study of sacred sound as it functions in word, chant, and so...(Read More) |
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Malleable Mara
(March 2019)
Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil
Michael D. Nichols - Author
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2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Analyzes the breadth of representations of the mythic figure of Māra in Buddhism to reveal how closely tied such narratives are to the social and historical concerns of Buddhist communities.
This is the first book to examine the development of the figure of Māra, who appears across Buddhist traditions as a personification of death and desire. Portrayed as ...(Read More) |
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Inoue Enryo
(February 2019)
A Philosophical Portrait
Rainer Schulzer - Author
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The first comprehensive treatment of Inoue Enryō, a pioneer of modern Buddhism and a key figure in the reception of Western philosophy in East Asia.
Rainer Schulzer provides the first comprehensive study, in English, of the modern Japanese philosopher Inoue Enryō (1858–1919). Enryō was a key figure in several important intellectual trends in Meiji Japan, including the establishment of academic philosophy, th...(Read More) |
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Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities
(January 2019)
Karma Lekshe Tsomo - Editor
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Adds new voices to the feminist conversation and brings a rich variety of diverse approaches to Buddhist women’s identities, “the feminine,” and Buddhist feminism.
This groundbreaking book explores Buddhist thought and culture, from multiple Buddhist perspectives, as sources for feminist reflection and social action. Too often, when writers apply terms such as “woman,” “femininity,” and ...(Read More) |
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Religious Journeys in India
(September 2018)
Pilgrims, Tourists, and Travelers
Andrea Marion Pinkney - Editor
John Whalen-Bridge - Editor
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Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions.
In an increasingly global world where convenient modes of travel have opened the door to international and intraregional tourism and brought together people from different religious and ethnic communities, religious journeying in India has become the site of evolving and often parad...(Read More) |
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Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis
(May 2018)
Eurasian Explorations
Johann P. Arnason - Editor
Chris Hann - Editor
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Brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology and illustrates the continued potential of the concept of civilization for all participants.
The concept of civilization has a long but checkered history in anthropology, and anthropological materials have been of great importance for the development of civilizational analysis in historical sociology. Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis<...(Read More) |
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