The Buddhist World (Routledge Worlds) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415610443 ISBN 13: 9780415610445

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

The Buddhist World joins a series of books on the world’s great religions and cultures, offering a lively and up-to-date survey of Buddhist studies for students and scholars alike. It explores regional varieties of Buddhism and core topics including buddha-nature, ritual, and pilgrimage. In addition to historical and geo-political views of Buddhism, the volume features thematic chapters on philosophical concepts such as ethics, as well as social constructs and categories such as community and family. The book also addresses lived Buddhism in its many forms, examining the ways in which modernity is reshaping traditional structures, ancient doctrines, and cosmological beliefs.

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About the Author

John Powers is Professor of Asian Studies in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He is the author of fourteen books and more than seventy articles and book chapters. His publications include A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism (2015) and Historical Dictionary of Tibet (with David Templeman, 2012).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415610443
• ISBN 13: 9780415610445
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 678
• Editor: Powers John