DHIH: Journal of Rare Buddhist Texts Research Project, Vol.36, ed. by Ngawang Samten and Janardan Pandey

Dialogues on universal responsibility and education with Dalai Lama, XIV

ISBN: 9788185102955, 8185102953

Offers a fascinating insight into the philosophical background of India and its transference to modern thought, as well as the practical wisdom of H.H. The Dalai Lama.

Dialogues of the Buddha, 3 vols. bound in 2, translated from the Pali of the Digha Nikaya by T.W. Rhys Davids

ISBN: 9788175362444, 8175362448

Dirgha-agama studies

Analayo

ISBN: 9789575987497, 9575987497

Rules of engagement: medieval traditions of Buddhist monastic regulation, ed. by Susan Andrews et al., series ed. by Michael Zimmermann

ISBN: 9783897334281, 3897334283

The contributors to this volume build on this trend while venturing beyond the established boundaries of discourse in specialised academic disciplines, presenting state of the art discipline on the vinaya in all of its breadth and depth. They do so not only by tracing Buddhist textual traditions but also by showcasing the vast variety of practices and throw a new light on the social implication...

Dispelling illusion: Gaudapada's Alatasanti with an introduction

Fox, Douglas A

This book sets a Gaudapada in historical context and develops a commentary that makes the meaning and significance of the Alatasanti text clear. In the Alatasani, Gaudapada uses terms made familiar by Buddhism in order to expound his Vedantic philosophy. It places him at the water-shed between Mahayana Buddhism and Vedanta.

The doctrine of Karma: its origin and development in Brahmanical, Buddhist and Jaina tradition

Krishan, Yuvraj (b.1922)

ISBN: 9788120812338, 8120812336

This work is the first of its kind which is the most comprehensive study of the doctrine of Karma in all its aspects, It traces to the Vedas the essential features of the doctrine: transmigration of the soul and accumulation of the potential of ritual Karma which matures and bears fruit in subsequent transmigrant existences

Genealogies of Mahayana Buddhism: emptiness, power and the question of origin

Walser, Joseph

ISBN: 9781138955561, 1138955566

The book offers a solution to a problem that some have called the holy grail of Buddhist studies: the problem of the origins of Mahayana Buddhism. In a work that contributes both to a general theory of religion and power for religious studies as well as to the problem of the origin of a Buddhist movement.