Author: Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: practice, china, religions
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 1996-03-18
List price: $39.50
ISBN-10: 0691021430
ISBN-13: 9780691021430

This third volume of Princeton Readings in Religions demonstrates that the "three religions" of China--Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (with a fourth, folk religion, sometimes added)--are not mutually exclusive: they overlap and interact with each other in a rich variety of ways. The volume also illustrates some of the many interactions between Han culture and the cultures designated by the current government as "minorities." Selections from minority cultures here, for instance, are the folktale of Ny Dan the Manchu Shamaness and a funeral chant of the Yi nationality collected by local rese

Author: Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: buddhism, modernity, perplexed, guide, science
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226493121
ISBN-13: 9780226493121

Beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to the present day, both Buddhists and admirers of Buddhism have proclaimed the compatibility of Buddhism and science. Their assertions have ranged from modest claims about the efficacy of meditation for mental health to grander declarations that the Buddha himself anticipated the theories of relativity, quantum physics and the big bang more than two millennia ago.In Buddhism and Science, Donald S. Lopez Jr. is less interested in evaluating the accuracy of such claims than in exploring how and why these two seemingly disparate modes of underst

Author: Donald Lopez
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, scriptures, buddhist
Number of Pages: 556
Published: 2004-08-31
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 014044758X
ISBN-13: 9780140447583

While Buddhism has no central text comparable to the Bible or Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the teachings of the Buddha. In this rich anthology, eminent scholar Donald S. Lopez, Jr., brings together works from a broad historical and geographical range, and from such languages as Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese. There are tales of the Buddha’s past lives, a discussion of qualities and qualifications for a monk, and an exploration of the many meanings of enlightenment. Together they provide a vivid p

Author: Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: colonialism, buddhism, study, buddha, curators
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 1995-08-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0226493091
ISBN-13: 9780226493091

Curators of the Buddha is the first critical history of the study of Buddhism in the West and the first work to bring the insights of colonial and postcolonial cultural studies to bear on this field.After an overview of the origins of Buddhist studies in the early nineteenth century, the essays focus on important "curators of the Buddha," such as Aurel Stein, D. T. Suzuki, and Carl Jung, who, as they created and maintained the discipline, played a significant role in disseminating knowledge about Buddhism in the West. The essays bring to life many of the important but unexamined social, politi

Author: Donald S. Lopez
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass,
Keywords: hermeneutics, buddhist
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 1993-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8120808401
ISBN-13: 9788120808409

Given its vast literature and its practice of teaching what is appropriate for a particular disciple, the Buddhist tradition has long had to wrestle with the question of which of his many scriptures represented the Buddha’s highest view. In response to that problem, Buddhist commentators developed sophisticated systems of interpretation, Buddhist hermeneutics. The present volume of essays by leading western Buddhologists surveys the rich variety of strategies employed by Buddhist thinkers of India, Tibet, China, and Japan to interpret their sacred texts.

Author: Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: west, buddhism, tibetan, shangri, prisoners
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0226493113
ISBN-13: 9780226493114

Prisoners of Shangri-La is a provocative analysis of the romance of Tibet, a romance that, even as it is invoked by Tibetan lamas living in exile, ultimately imprisons those who seek the goal of Tibetan independence from Chinese occupation."Lopez lifts the veil on America’s romantic vision of Tibet to reveal a country and a spiritual history more complex and less ideal than popular perceptions allow. . . . Lively and engaging, Lopez’s book raises important questions about how Eastern religions are often co-opted, assimilated and misunderstood by Western culture."—Publishers Weekl

Author: Donald, Jr. Lopez
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications
Keywords: svantantrika, study
Number of Pages: 486
Published: 1987-01-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 093793819X
ISBN-13: 9780937938195

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