Scholars of Buddhism, themselves Buddhist, here seek to apply the critical tools of the academy to reassess the truth and transformative value of their tradition in its relevance to the contemporary world.
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Anyone at all familiar with the tenets of Buddhism will undoubtedly find it strange that a group of specialists in the field, after many years of attempting to purge the study of Buddhism of Western theistic terminology and presuppositions, should now be claiming that the time is ripe for the emergence of Buddhist theology as a discipline. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Anyone at all familiar with the tenets of Buddhism will undoubtedly find it strange that a group of specialists in the field, after many years of attempting to purge the study of Buddhism of Western theistic terminology and presuppositions, should now be claiming that the time is ripe for the emergence of Buddhist theology as a discipline. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
constructive bricolage, religious studies academy, lugs order, bzang chos kyi rgyal mtshan, ethical middle, critical synergy, meditative quiescence, karmic limitations, conservative retreat, pragmatic efficacy, ontological guilt, lay precepts, skillful means, discursive consciousness, contemplative knowledge, hermeneutical model, conventional reality, rdo rje, primary readers, formless realm Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pure Land, Sri Lanka, Sákyamuni Buddha, Western Buddhist, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist, Dalai Lama, Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, East Asian, University of Hawaii Press, David Tracy, Mahayana Buddhism, Asian Buddhism, José Ignacio, San Francisco, American Academy of Religion, New Testament, Beacon Press, Paul Griffiths, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Alan Wallace, Fortress Press, Notre Dame New!
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- The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James on page 67, page 76, and Back Matter
- Inner Peace, World Peace: Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence (Suny Series, Buddhist Studies) by Kenneth Kraft on page 92, page 94, and page 201
- Choosing Reality, : A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind by Alan B. Wallace on page 45, page 52, and page 77
- The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism by Bernard Faure on page 349, page 362, and page 385
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- Buddhist Inclusivism: Attitudes Towards Religious Others (Ashgate World Philosophies Series) (Ashgate World Philosophies Series) by Kristin Beise Kiblinger on 5 pages
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- Buddhism and Science by B. Alan Wallace in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Identity and the Politics of Scholarship in the Study of Religion by Jose Cabezon on page 75, and page 131
- Buddhism and Science by B. Alan Wallace on page 28, and page 29
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