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| 1. |  | Title: Westward dharma: Buddhism beyond Asia Author: Prebish, Charles S Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | Buddhism Publisher's Description: The first authoritative volume on the totality of Buddhism in the West, Westward Dharma establishes a comparative and theoretical perspective for considering the amazing variety of Buddhist traditions, schools, centers, and teachers that have developed outside of Asia. Leading scholars from North Am . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: The life of Buddhism Author: Reynolds, Frank 1930- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | Buddhism Publisher's Description: Bringing together fifteen essays by outstanding Buddhist scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America, this book offers a distinctive portrayal of the "life of Buddhism." The contributors focus on a number of religious practices across the Buddhist world, from Sri Lanka to New York, Japan to Tibet. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Seeing through Zen: encounter, transformation, and genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism Author: McRae, John R 1947- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Religion | China | Buddhism Publisher's Description: The tradition of Chan Buddhism - more popularly known as Zen - has been romanticized throughout its history. In this book, John R. McRae shows how modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, make possible a more skeptical, accurate, and - ultimately - productive assessmen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Buddhism in contemporary Tibet: religious revival and cultural identity Author: Goldstein, Melvyn C Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet | Buddhism Publisher's Description: Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans, whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of 1978 to be . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: The sound of two hands clapping: the education of a Tibetan Buddhist monk Author: Dreyfus, Georges B. J Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | Tibet | Autobiographies and Biographies | Buddhism Publisher's Description: A unique insider's account of day-to-day life inside a Tibetan monastery, The Sound of Two Hands Clapping reveals to Western audiences the fascinating details of monastic education. Georges B. J. Dreyfus, the first Westerner to complete the famous Ge-luk curriculum and achieve the distinguished titl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Sensory biographies: lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists Author: Desjarlais, Robert R Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Buddhism | Aging Publisher's Description: Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: The Bodhidharma anthology: the earliest records of Zen Author: Bodhidharma 6th cent Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In the early part of this century, the discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Ch'an (Zen) literature of the T'ang dynasty (618-907). One of the recovered Zen texts was a seven-piece collection, the Bodhidharma Anthology . Of the numerous texts attribute . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Imagining karma: ethical transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek rebirth Author: Obeyesekere, Gananath Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Buddhism | Classics | Indigenous Religions | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: With Imagining Karma, Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of West Africa, Melanesia, traditional Siberia, Canada, and the northwest coast of North America, Obeyese . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Dōgen's manuals of Zen meditation Author: Bielefeldt, Carl Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | Philosophy | Japan Publisher's Description: Zen Buddhism is perhaps best known for its emphasis on meditation, and probably no figure in the history of Zen is more closely associated with meditation practice than the thirteenth-century Japanese master Dogen, founder of the Soto school. This study examines the historical and religious characte . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: The protocol of the gods: a study of the Kasuga cult in Japanese history Author: Grapard, Allan G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Religion | Asian History | Japan Publisher's Description: The Protocol of the Gods is a pioneering study of the history of relations between Japanese native institutions (Shinto shrines) and imported Buddhist institutions (Buddhist temples). Using the Kasuga Shinto shrine and the Kofukuji Buddhist temple, one of the oldest and largest of the shrine-temple . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Tantra: sex, secrecy politics, and power in the study of religions Author: Urban, Hugh B Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | South Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life - Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Marketing the menacing fetus in Japan Author: Hardacre, Helen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Women's Studies | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: Helen Hardacre provides new insights into the spiritual and cultural dimensions of abortion debates around the world in this careful examination of mizuko kuyo - a Japanese religious ritual for aborted fetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious entrepreneurs published frightening accounts . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Losing face: status politics in Japan  Author: Pharr, Susan J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Asian History | Japan | Politics Publisher's Description: How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status. Three rich and revealing case studies explore crucial asymmetries of a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Paths to Asian medical knowledge Author: Leslie, Charles M 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: Like its classic predecessor, Asian Medical Systems , Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge significantly expands the study of Asian medicine. These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: To live as long as heaven and earth: a translation and study of Ge Hong's traditions of divine transcendents Author: Campany, Robert Ford 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | China | Taoism | Buddhism Publisher's Description: In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The rice economies: technology and development in Asian societies Author: Bray, Francesca Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Asian Studies | European History | Social Theory | Political Theory | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The contrast in the rate of growth between Western and Eastern societies since 1800 has caused Asian societies to be characterized as backward and resistant to change, though until 1600 or so certain Asian states were technologically far in advance of Europe. The Rice Economies , drawing on original . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Gender and salvation: Jaina debates on the spiritual liberation of women Author: Jaini, Padmanabh S Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | South Asia | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Is a total renunciation of clothing a prerequisite to attaining salvation? In Gender and Salvation , P. S. Jaini brings to light heretofore untranslated texts centering on a centuries-old debate between the two principal Jaina sects, the Digambaras and the Svetambaras. At the core of the debate is t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: The sinister way: the divine and the demonic in Chinese religious culture Author: Von Glahn, Richard Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | Religion | Asian History | China | Anthropology Publisher's Description: The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who pre . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Absent lord: ascetics and kings in a Jain ritual culture Author: Babb, Lawrence A Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? How would such a relationship with sacred beings affect the religious life of a community? Using these questions as his point of departure, Lawrence . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Public faces, private voices: community and individuality in South India Author: Mines, Mattison 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: Individuality is often viewed as an exclusively Western value. In non-Western societies, collective identities seem to eclipse those of individuals. These generalities, however, have overlooked the importance of personal uniqueness, volition, and achievement in these cultures. As an anthropologist i . . . [more] Similar Items |