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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 faces of Buddhism in America Author: Prebish, Charles S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | American Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Buddhism is the fastest growing religion in the United States, with adherents estimated in the several millions. But what exactly defines a "Buddhist"? This has been a much-debated question in recent years, particularly in regard to the religion's bifurcation into two camps: the so-called "imported" . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 6. |  | 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 |
| 7. |  | 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 |
| 8. |  | 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 |
| 9. |  | Title: Practicing virtues: moral traditions at Quaker and military boarding schools Author: Hays, Kim Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | Philosophy | Education Publisher's Description: Practicing Virtues is about learning to be good in the distinct moral worlds of Quaker and military boarding schools. Both types of schools bind their communities with shared codes of conduct, the military schools' conservative tradition emphasizing discipline and hard work, the Quaker schools' libe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Learning to go to school in Japan: the transition from home to preschool life Author: Peak, Lois Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Japan | Education Publisher's Description: Japanese two-year-olds are indulged, dependent, and undisciplined toddlers, but by the age of six they have become obedient, self-reliant, and cooperative students. When Lois Peak traveled to Japan in search of the "magical childrearing technique" behind this transformation, she discovered that the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | 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 |
| 12. |  | Title: The spiritual quest: transcendence in myth, religion, and science Author: Torrance, Robert M. (Robert Mitchell) 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion | Indigenous Religions | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Language and Linguistics | Philosophy | History and Philosophy of Science | Literature Publisher's Description: Robert Torrance's wide-ranging, innovative study argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic, and social nature. The quest is not, as most have believed, a rare mystical experience, but a frequent expression of our most basic human impulses. Shaman and scie . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Busing and backlash: white against white in a California school district Lillian B. Rubin Author: Rubin, Lillian B Published: University of California Press, 1973 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | American Studies | African American Studies Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Crossing the line: a year in the land of apartheid Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | Social Problems | Autobiography | Education | African History Publisher's Description: William Finnegan's compelling account of a year spent teaching in a colored high school, "across the line," in Cape Town, South Africa brings the irrationality and injustice of apartheid into focus for the American reader. A new preface, written after the author's observation of the historic 1994 el . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: From revolutionary cadres to party technocrats in socialist China Author: Lee, Hong Yung 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | China Publisher's Description: Using a wide variety of sources previously unavailable, Hong Yung Lee offers for the first time a theoretical and historical perspective on China's ruling elite, examining their politics and the bureaucratic system in which they participate. He traces the evolution of these cadres from the guerrilla . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | 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 |
| 17. |  | Title: Seeing double: intercultural poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria Author: Stephens, Susan A Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry | Classical Politics Publisher's Description: When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | 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 |
| 19. |  | Title: From friend to comrade: the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927 Author: Van de Ven, Hans J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | China | Politics Publisher's Description: Scholars have long held that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was a centralized organization from its founding in 1921. In a departure from that view, From Friend to Comrade demonstrates how the CCP began as a group of study societies, only evolving into a mass Marxist-Leninist party by 1927.Hans J . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: The school of history: Athens in the age of Socrates Author: Munn, Mark Henderson Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient History | Classical Politics Publisher's Description: History, political philosophy, and constitutional law were born in Athens in the space of a single generation--the generation that lived through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 b.c.e.). This remarkable age produced such luminaries as Socrates, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes . . . [more] Similar Items |