Author: Joanna x Marcy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781872142203
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Joanna Macy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Makarand R. Paranjape
Publisher: Spotlight Poets
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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This Book Is Inspired By Two Contrary Trends: The Failure Of The Development Project, On The One Hand And, On The Other, Of The Remarkable Material Improvement Wrought By Spiritual Agencies, Especially In India. The Book Attempts To Answer Why Have Religions Organizations Succeed Where Government And Non-Governmental Bodies Failed.

Author: Joanna Macy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780783775739
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 119

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Author: Simon Haas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957518506
Category : Dharma
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Author: Richard Madsen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520252284
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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This title explores the remarkable religious renaissance that has reformed, revitalized and renewed the practices of Buddhism and Daoism in Taiwan. Madsen connects these developments to Taiwan's transition to democracy and the burgeoning needs of its new middle classes.

Author: Dharma Publishing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780898001341
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: Ira Helderman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469648539
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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Interest in the psychotherapeutic capacity of Buddhist teachings and practices is widely evident in the popular imagination. News media routinely report on the neuropsychological study of Buddhist meditation and applications of mindfulness practices in settings including corporate offices, the U.S. military, and university health centers. However, as Ira Helderman shows, curious investigators have studied the psychological dimensions of Buddhist doctrine for well over a century, stretching back to William James and Carl Jung. These activities have shaped both the mental health field and Buddhist practice throughout the United States. This is the first comprehensive study of the surprisingly diverse ways that psychotherapists have related to Buddhist traditions. Through extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews with clinicians, many of whom have been formative to the therapeutic use of Buddhist practices, Helderman gives voice to the psychotherapists themselves. He focuses on how they understand key categories such as religion and science. Some are invested in maintaining a hard border between religion and psychotherapy as a biomedical discipline. Others speak of a religious-secular binary that they mean to disrupt. Helderman finds that psychotherapists' approaches to Buddhist traditions are molded by how they define what is and is not religious, demonstrating how central these concepts are in contemporary American culture.

Author: David R. Loy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0861718275
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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In order to live, we need air, water, food, shelter…and stories. This book is about Buddhist stories: not about stories to be found in Buddhism, but about the “Buddhism” to be found in some of the classics of contemporary fantasy including the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, Hayao Miyazaki, Michael Ende, Philip Pullman, and Ursula K. LeGuin. Many books are called groundbreaking, but this one is truly unique and sure to appeal to anyone with an interest in fantasy literature. It employs a Buddhist perspective to appreciate some of the major works of modern fantasy--and uses modern fantasy fiction to elucidate Buddhist teachings. In the tradition of David Loy's cutting-edge presentation of a Buddhist social theory in The Great Awakening, this pioneering work of Buddhist literary analysis, renown scholar David Loy and Linda Goodhew offer ways of reading modern fantasy-genre fiction that illuminate both the stories themselves, and the universal qualities of Buddhist teachings. Authors examined include J.R.R. Tolkien, Philip Pullman (of The Amber Spyglass trilogy, from whose works the word "daemon" is borrowed in the title), Ursula K. LeGuin, and the anime movie Princess Mononoke.

Author: Patrick Olivelle
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231542151
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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Whether defined by family, lineage, caste, professional or religious association, village, or region, India's diverse groups did settle on a concept of law in classical times. How did they reach this consensus? Was it based on religious grounds or a transcendent source of knowledge? Did it depend on time and place? And what apparatus did communities develop to ensure justice was done, verdicts were fair, and the guilty were punished? Addressing these questions and more, A Dharma Reader traces the definition, epistemology, procedure, and process of Indian law from the third century B.C.E. to the middle ages. Its breadth captures the centuries-long struggle by Indian thinkers to theorize law in a multiethnic and pluralist society. The volume includes new and accessible translations of key texts, notes that explain the significance and chronology of selections, and a comprehensive introduction that summarizes the development of various disciplines in intellectual-historical terms. It reconstructs the principal disputes of a given discipline, which not only clarifies the arguments but also relays the dynamism of the fight. For those seeking a richer understanding of the political and intellectual origins of a major twenty-first-century power, along with unique insight into the legal interactions among its many groups, this book offers exceptional detail, historical precision, and expository illumination.