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Introducing Buddhism

Af: Damien Keown, Charles S. Prebish Engelsk Paperback

Introducing Buddhism

Af: Damien Keown, Charles S. Prebish Engelsk Paperback
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Introducing Buddhism is the ideal resource for all students beginning the study of this fascinating religious tradition. It explains the religion’s key teachings and traces its historical development and geographical spread of from its foundations up to present day. Charles S. Prebish and Damien Keown, two of today’s leading Buddhist scholars, devote a chapter each to the major regions where Buddhism has flourished - India, South-east Asia, East Asia and Tibet. In addition, contemporary concerns are discussed, including important and relevant topics such as Engaged Buddhism, Buddhist Ethics, Buddhism and the Western World and Meditation.

This new edition includes more material on the different schools of Buddhism including explanations in graphic form, monastic life, popular religion, Buddhist ethics, ritual, the Bodhisattva Path, the Jatakas, the transmission of Buddhism, and class, gender and race.

Introducing Buddhism includes illustrations, extracts from original sources, summary boxes, questions for discussion, suggestions for further reading and a companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415550017

Charles S. Prebish is Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies at Utah State University. Damien Keown is Professor of Buddhist Ethics at Goldsmith''s College, University of London. They are the editors of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism (Routledge, 2007).

 

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Introducing Buddhism is the ideal resource for all students beginning the study of this fascinating religious tradition. It explains the religion’s key teachings and traces its historical development and geographical spread of from its foundations up to present day. Charles S. Prebish and Damien Keown, two of today’s leading Buddhist scholars, devote a chapter each to the major regions where Buddhism has flourished - India, South-east Asia, East Asia and Tibet. In addition, contemporary concerns are discussed, including important and relevant topics such as Engaged Buddhism, Buddhist Ethics, Buddhism and the Western World and Meditation.

This new edition includes more material on the different schools of Buddhism including explanations in graphic form, monastic life, popular religion, Buddhist ethics, ritual, the Bodhisattva Path, the Jatakas, the transmission of Buddhism, and class, gender and race.

Introducing Buddhism includes illustrations, extracts from original sources, summary boxes, questions for discussion, suggestions for further reading and a companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415550017

Charles S. Prebish is Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies at Utah State University. Damien Keown is Professor of Buddhist Ethics at Goldsmith''s College, University of London. They are the editors of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism (Routledge, 2007).

 

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 344
ISBN-13: 9780415550017
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave: 2
ISBN-10: 0415550017
Kategori: Buddhisme
Udg. Dato: 2 dec 2009
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 175mm
Højde: 244mm
Forlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato: 2 dec 2009
Forfatter(e) Damien Keown, Charles S. Prebish


Kategori Buddhisme


ISBN-13 9780415550017


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 344


Udgave 2


Længde 20mm


Bredde 175mm


Højde 244mm


Udg. Dato 2 dec 2009


Oplagsdato 2 dec 2009


Forlag Taylor & Francis Ltd

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