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Donald Lopez
While Buddhism has no central text such as the Bible or the Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the teachings…
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Tsongkhapa's seminal contributions to Buddhist thought and practice, and to the course of history, are illuminated and celebrated by some of his foremost modern interpreters. Few figures have impacted the…
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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…
The most comprehensive work available on the life and writings of Tibet’s most famous modern cultural hero.
Poet, prolific writer, Buddhist philosopher, adventurer, madman, and saint can all be used…
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The inside story of the American military’s transition into the jet age, as told by a flyer whose life depended on its success. With anecdotes about fellow pilots as well…
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Into the Teeth of the Tiger provides a vivid, pilot’s-eye view of one of the most extended projections of American air power in World War II Asia. Lopez chronicles every…
Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
The description for this book, The Lotus S tra : A Biography, will be forthcoming.
An analysis of issues and positions central to Indian philosophy during the final development of Buddhist thought in India.
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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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…
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…
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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How Western notions of the Buddha have come to misrepresent his teachings and the traditional goals of Buddhist practice
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Leading Buddhist scholar Donald Lopez offers an engaging introduction to the essential elements of Buddhism while revealing the differences between the major traditions. Combining scholarship with fascinating stories, this absorbing…
The Heart Sutra is perhaps the most famous Buddhist text, traditionally regarded as a potent expression of emptiness and of the Buddha’s perfect wisdom. This work explores the elaborate philosophical…
Offers overviews of the religions of Asia, providing both historical context and insightful analysis of Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, and Bon, as well as many local…
Demonstrates that the three religions of China - Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism are not mutually exclusive: they overlap and interact with each other in a rich variety of ways. This…
Brings together the work of thirty scholars of the religions of India in an anthology designed to reshape the ways in which the religious traditions of India are understood. This…
Brings together the important selections from the volumes on Buddhism, India, China, Tibet, and Japan to give an overview of how religions have been lived by both ordinary and extraordinary…
Illustrates the vast scope of Buddhist practice in Asia. This work presents a selection of thirty-five translated texts - each preceded by a substantial introduction by its translator. It demonstrates…
Presents an array of works that together offer a view of the Tibetan religious landscape over the centuries. Organized thematically, the twenty-eight chapters in this work are testimony to the…
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous Buddhist text in the West, having sold more than a million copies since it was first published in English in…
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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…
Changkya Rolpai Dorje,Donald Lopez
The most lucid and penetrating survey of classical Indian philosophy in the Tibetan language. Beautiful Adornment of Mount Meru by Changkya Roelpai Dorje (1717-86) is a work of doxography, presenting…
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
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.
Donald S. Lopez,Jacqueline I. Stone
An essential companion to a timeless spiritual classic The Lotus Sutra is among the most venerated scriptures of Buddhism. Composed in India some two millennia ago, it affirms the potential…
An essential companion to a timeless spiritual classicThe Lotus Sutra is among the most venerated scriptures of Buddhism. Composed in India some two millennia ago, it affirms the potential for…
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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…
Gendun Chopel
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…
Donald E. Lspez,Donald E. Lopez,Donald E. L. Pez
Set against the backdrop of a tumultuously changing world, the story of Donald Lopez’s life takes us from the Civil War in Spain to England, only to find the Second…
With a new foreword and afterword by Donald S. Lopez, this translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead includes a new suggested further reading list and highlights the book’s…
This volume is devoted solely to the topic of moral relativism. The 19 contemporary selections are nontechnical and fall under five main headings which include general issues of moral relativism…
Traditionally used as a mortuary text, to be read or recited in the presence of the dead or dying, this sacred text - which relates the experience of death and…
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…
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…
This text speaks of the quintessence of the Supreme Path, or Mahayana, and reveals the yogic method of attaining Enlightenment. Such attainment can happen, as shown here, by means of…
In this companion to the Tibetan Book of the Dead , seven Tibetan yoga texts, offer meditations used by Hindu and Tibetan gurus and philosophers to attain Enlightenment. Commentaries precede…
