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      Buddhism

      Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

      One of the world's leading scholars of Buddhism presents the story of its dramatic journey across the globe, from 2,500 years ago to the present day

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      Buddhism and the Senses

      Across Buddhist traditions, the five senses--sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch--are perceived both positively and negatively. Share our eminent scholars' fascination and deep insight into what makes a sensuous experience…

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      From Stone to Flesh

      Donald S. Lopez Jr.,Donald S Lopez Jr

      The credit for creating Buddhism goes to the Buddha. But who was this Buddha, and how did he become the Buddha we know and love today? This book follows the…

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      The Heart Sutra Explained: Indian and Tibetan Commentaries

      Donald S. Lopez Jr.

      Renowned for its terse declaration of the perfection of wisdom, the Heart Sutra is the most famous of Buddhist scriptures. The author draws on previously unexamined commentaries, preserved only in…

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      Seeing the Sacred in Samsara: An Illustrated Guide to the Eighty-Four Mahasiddhas

      Donald S. Lopez, Jr

      Rare paintings set aside life stories of each of the eighty-four wild Buddhist saints of ancient India.

      This fresh and beautiful presentation of the lives of the eighty-four mahasiddhas, or…

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      From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha

      Donald S. Lopez Jr.

      The credit for creating Buddhism goes to the Buddha. But who was this Buddha, and how did he become the Buddha we know and love today? This book follows the…

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      Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol: An Anthology of Early European Portrayals of the Buddha

      How did word of the Buddha first reach Western ears? Over the centuries, until the first reliable introduction to Buddhism was published in France in 1844, rumors and reports of…

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      Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West

      Donald S. Lopez Jr

      Prisoners of Shangri-La is a provocative analysis of how the West cultivated the romance of Tibet, and how that romance gradually came to imprison those who sought Tibetan independence from…

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      Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism

      Through incisive discussions of topics ranging from practice, power, and pedagogy to ritual, history, sex, and death, the authors offer new directions for the understanding of Buddhism, taking constructive and…

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      Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism

      Through incisive discussions of topics ranging from practice, power, and pedagogy to ritual, history, sex, and death, the authors offer new directions for the understanding of Buddhism, taking constructive and…

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      Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol: An Anthology of Early European Portrayals of the Buddha

      How did word of the Buddha first reach Western ears? Over the centuries, until the first reliable introduction to Buddhism was published in France in 1844, rumors and reports of…

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      Hyecho’s Journey: The World of Buddhism

      Donald S. Lopez Jr.

      This book is an introduction to Buddhism told as the story of the Korean pilgrim Hyecho, who traveled through the Buddhist world during its eighth-century golden age. Lopez tells the…

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      A Study of Svatantrika

      Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

      An analysis of issues and positions central to Indian philosophy during the final development of Buddhist thought in India.

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      The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life

      Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

      How Western notions of the Buddha have come to misrepresent his teachings and the traditional goals of Buddhist practice

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      The Lotus Sutra: A Biography

      Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

      The description for this book, The Lotus S tra : A Biography, will be forthcoming.

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      Curators of the Buddha: Study of Buddhism Under Colonialism

      Donald S. Lopez

      A critical history of the study of Buddhism in the West, incorporating insights of colonial and post-colonial cultural studies. Social, political and cultural conditions that have shaped the course of…

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      The Madman’s Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Modernist Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel

      Donald S. Lopez

      Ultimately, Lopez examines the long-standing debate over whether Chopel in fact wrote the Adornment ; the heated critical response to the work by Tibetan monks of the Dalai Lama’s sect…

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      The Madman’s Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel

      Donald S. Lopez

      Gendun Chopel is considered the most important Tibetan intellectual of the twentieth century. This title presents the English translation of the work, Adornment for Nagarjuna’s Thought , accompanied by an…

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      Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed

      Donald S. Lopez

      Both practitioners and admirers of Buddhism have proclaimed its compatibility with science. This book explores how and why these two seemingly disparate modes of understanding the inner and outer universe…

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      From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha

      Donald S Lopez, Jr. (University of Michigan)

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      The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism

      Robert E. Buswell,Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

      With more than 5,000 entries totalling over a million words, this dictionary of Buddhism in English covers terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan…

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      Dispelling the Darkness: A Jesuit’s Quest for the Soul of Tibet

      Donald S. Lopez, Jr.,Thupten Jinpa

      In a remote Himalayan village in 1721, the Jesuit priest Ippolito Desideri wrote a treatise in classical Tibetan intended to refute key Buddhist doctrines and dispel the darkness of idolatry…

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      In the Forest of Faded Wisdom: 104 Poems by Gendun Chopel, a Bilingual Edition

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      A comprehensive collection of poems in both the original Tibetan and in English translation. It composes hymns to the Buddha, pithy instructions for the practice of the dharma, stirring tributes…

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      In Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint

      Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (University of Michigan),Peggy McCracken

      The fascinating account of how the story of the Buddha was transformed into the legend of a Christian saint.

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      Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler

      Gendun Chopel

      In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-51) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet…

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      Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism

      Eugene Burnouf

      First published in 1844, and it was read by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in Germany and Emerson and Thoreau in America. Reintroducing Burnouf to a new generation of Buddhologists, Buffetrille and…

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      Assembly of the Exalted: The Tibetan Shrine Room from the Alice S. Kandell Collection

      Donald S. Lopez Jr,Rebecca Bloom

      Assembly of the Exalted presents some 50 pieces from the remarkable collection of Alice S. Kandell. The works, dating from the late 13th century to the early 20th, include great…

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      Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol. 3: Philosophical Schools

      Deepen your understanding of meaning and truth with the third volume of the Dalai Lama’s esteemed series Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics. Science and Philosophy in the…

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