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An Evolutionary Theory of Commons Management 2002 Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, and Brian Paciotti Society 2023-07-08 17:55 40 Pages 1
Ethnicity and identity: Northern nomads as Buddhist art patrons during the period of Northern and Southern dynasties 2003 Dorothy C. Wong The History of Buddhism 2023-10-25 12:35 39 Pages 1
Love, Unknowing, and Female Filth: The Buddhist Discourse of Birth as a Vector of Social Change for Monastic Women in Premodern South Asia 2021 Amy Langenberg Buddhism and Nature 2023-05-26 11:39 33 Pages 11
The Vinaya: Legal System or Performance-Enhancing Drug? 1996 Andrew Huxley Vinaya Studies 2023-03-02 16:22 22 Pages 30
A Study and Translation of the Yakṣa-saṃyukta in the Shorter Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama 2020 Marcus Bingenheimer Saṃsāra 2023-11-06 14:13 81 Pages 3
Forbidden from the Heart: Flexible Food Taboos, Ambiguous Culinary Transgressions, and Cultural Intimacy in Hoi An, Vietnam 2019 Nir Avieli Asia 2023-10-18 17:24 27 Pages 4
The Mātikās: Memorization, Mindfulness and the List 1992 Rupert Gethin Early Indian Buddhism 2021-04-27 13:05 24 Pages 138
Buddhism and Secular Subjectivities: Individualism and Fragmentation in the Mirror of Secularism 2021 David L. McMahan Buddhism Comes West 2021-09-22 09:51 22 Pages 31
Standing out from the narrative in Theravādin art 2022 Ashley Thompson Medieval Buddhism 2024-06-17 09:07 22 Pages 4
Caring for the Social (in Museums) 2022 Haidy Geismar Culture 2022-09-26 21:28 21 Pages 4
What Does Mindfulness Really Mean?: A Canonical Perspective 2013 Bhikkhu Bodhi Mindfulness 2023-11-10 14:41 20 Pages 50
Pāṃśukūlika as a Standard Practice in the Vinaya 2017 Nicholas Witkowski Early Sects 2023-05-31 06:37 47 Pages 7
In the Footprints of the Buddha: Ceylon and the Japanese Quest for the Origin of Buddhism 2019 Fabio Rambelli Maps 2022-04-19 17:59 18 Pages 9
Buddhist Theories of Existents: The System of Two Truths 1978 Elvin W. Jones Buddhist Philosophy in Dialogue 2023-10-23 14:25 43 Pages 8
Fa-sheng’s Observations on the Four Stations of Mindfulness 1978 Leon Hurvitz Vipassanā 2023-10-23 14:25 42 Pages 6
Atonement of Pārājika Transgressions in Fifth-Century Chinese Buddhism 2017 Eric Greene History of the Mahāyāna 2023-06-01 12:28 40 Pages 1
Cosmography in Southeast Asia 1994 Joseph E. Schwartzberg History of the Theravāda 2024-04-08 07:20 40 Pages 6
‘Mūlasarvāstivādin and Sarvāstivādin’: Oral Transmission Lineages of Āgama Texts 2020 Bhikkhu Anālayo Early Sects 2020-10-12 14:51 40 Pages 56
Translation, Transcription, and What Else?: Some Basic Characteristics of Chinese Buddhist Translation as a Cultural Contact between India and China, with Special Reference to Sanskrit ārya and Chinese shèng 2019 Toru Funayama Chinese Buddhist Writing 2022-04-18 07:38 16 Pages 59
On realizing the possibilities of emancipatory meta-theory: Beyond the cognitive maturity fallacy, toward an education revolution 2015 Zachary Stein Buddhist Economics 2021-05-22 16:35 37 Pages 10
Venerated Objects and Symbols of Early Buddhism 1990 Peter Harvey Buddhism as a Religion 2020-03-08 16:58 35 Pages 49
Aśoka and the Use of Writing in Ancient India 2024 Ingo Strauch Buddha's India 2024-03-13 19:32 34 Pages 10
The ‘Five Points’ and the Origins of the Buddhist Schools 1992 L. S. Cousins Early Sects 2023-04-02 20:26 34 Pages 22
Buddhadasa’s Contribution as a Human Being, as a Thai, as a Buddhist 1994 Louis Gaboude Modern Buddhism 2024-05-21 12:49 33 Pages 6
Reflections on Truth and Experience in Early Buddhist Epistemology 2021 Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā Pramāṇa 2024-01-28 17:20 33 Pages 7
The Dynamics of Theravāda Insight Meditation 2012 Bhikkhu Anālayo Vipassanā 2022-06-20 21:35 32 Pages 48
Wander Alone Like the Rhinoceros: The Solitary, Itinerant Renouncer in Ancient Indian Gāthā-Poetry 2021 Kristoffer af Edholm Buddha's India 2022-02-20 13:47 32 Pages 8
Why They Say Zen Is Not Buddhism: Recent Japanese Critiques of Buddha-Nature 1997 Paul L. Swanson The Abhidharmas 2024-02-17 19:55 29 Pages 10
2444 AN 2014 Donald S. Lopez Jr. The History of Buddhism 2024-03-01 21:57 12 Pages 3
Urban Gardening and Rural-Urban Supply Chains: Reassessing Images of the Urban and the Rural in Northern Vietnam 2019 Sandra Kurfürst Cities 2023-02-24 14:46 28 Pages 2
Nāgārjuna’s Scepticism about Philosophy 2020 Ethan Mills Right View 2023-06-09 13:17 27 Pages 6
Altruism in Classical Buddhism 2005 Todd Lewis Buddhism as a Religion 2020-03-08 16:58 26 Pages 31
Evolving Portrayals of Sāriputta and Moggallāna: Psychic Potency vis-à-vis Wisdom and Concentration 2021 Tse-fu Kuan Early Indian Buddhism 2021-04-24 10:38 26 Pages 20
With the World, or Bound to Face the Sky: The Postures of the Wolf-Child of Hesse 2012 Karl Steel The (Human) World 2023-06-14 10:57 26 Pages 3
Bhavaṅga and Rebirth According to the Abhidhamma 1994 Rupert Gethin Abhidhamma 2023-12-07 15:41 25 Pages 23
Giving as Sacrifice, Sacrifice as Giving: The Definition of Right View as the Antithesis of Wrong View in the Early Buddhist Discourses 2023 Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā Generosity 2023-09-24 11:34 25 Pages 4
Zen Internationalism, Zen Revolution: Inoue Shūten, Uchiyama Gudō and the Crisis of (Zen) Buddhist Modernity in Late Meiji Japan 2022 James Mark Shields Buddhist Economics 2023-05-02 15:34 25 Pages 5
How Environments Can Threaten Academic Performance, Self-Knowledge, and Sense of Belonging 2005 Michael Inzlicht and Catherine Good The Social World 2022-11-30 21:28 22 Pages 4
Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu’s Contribution to the World 1994 Santikaro Bhikkhu Buddhist Ethics 2024-05-21 12:49 36 Pages 1
Happiness and Invulnerability From Chance: Western and Eastern Perspectives 2016 J.M.M.H. Thijssen and David R. Loy Interfaith Dialogue 2024-02-17 19:55 19 Pages 3
From Aśoka to Jayavarman VII: Some Reflections on the Relationship between Buddhism and the State in India and Southeast Asia 2014 Hermann Kulke Medieval Buddhism 2021-04-25 06:55 19 Pages 8
Encountering impermanence, making change: a case study of attachment and alcoholism in Thailand 2022 Julia Cassaniti Thai Buddhism 2022-09-22 11:24 18 Pages 13
Local Traditions and World Religions 2017 Michel Picard Buddhism Comes West 2022-09-29 13:45 18 Pages 9
Stone Hymn: The Buddhist Colophon of 579 Engraved on Mount Tie, Shandong 2019 Lothar Ledderose Medieval Buddhism 2024-07-07 19:23 18 Pages 1
What Kamma Is? 1983 Ven. U. Thittila Karma 2022-01-14 13:15 18 Pages 9
Against Ordinary Language: The Language of the Body 1993 Kathy Acker The Human Body 2024-03-10 11:42 8 Pages 12
Theravāda Buddhism and Brahmanical Hinduism: Brahmanical Terms in a Buddhist Guise 1992 K. R. Norman The Pāli Language 2022-12-09 15:20 8 Pages 101
Beautifully moral: cosmopolitan issues in medieval Pāli literary theory 2017 Alastair Gornall and Justin Henry History of the Theravāda 2024-04-08 07:19 17 Pages 1
Beyond Reasonable Doubt?: A Note on Dharmakīrti and Scepticism 2020 Vincent Eltschinger Pramāṇa 2024-01-16 14:16 17 Pages 4
How the Steps of Mindfulness of Breathing Decreased from Sixteen to Two 2021 Bhikkhu Anālayo Mindfulness 2023-08-26 19:56 17 Pages 24
What Is This Religion? 1983 Ven K. Sri Dhammananda Modern Buddhism 2022-01-14 13:15 17 Pages 19
Introduction to From Birch Bark to Digital Data 2009 Paul Harrison and Jens-Uwe Hartmann Āgama Studies 2020-03-08 16:58 16 Pages 14
Councils as Ideas and Events in the Theravāda 1992 Charles Hallisey History of the Theravāda 2023-01-05 14:25 16 Pages 28
Can Monks Practice Astrology?: Astrology and the Vinaya in China 2017 Jeffrey Kotyk Medieval Buddhism 2024-06-11 17:20 15 Pages 2
The Four Noble Truths 1982 K. R. Norman Early Indian Buddhism 2021-04-26 19:18 15 Pages 142
“Looking Over at the Mountains”: Sense of Place in the Third Karmapa’s “Songs of Experience” 2011 Ruth Gamble Buddhism and Nature 2023-05-26 20:19 15 Pages 6
Buddhism’s Maritime Route to China 2009 Charles Willemen Medieval Buddhism 2021-04-22 12:48 15 Pages 20
Analytical Study of the Monks’ pācittiya 波逸提 Rules 2017 Sasaki Shizuka Vinaya Studies 2023-02-11 16:27 15 Pages 13
Aśoka: The Great Upāsaka 1994 Richard Gombrich Early Indian Buddhism 2024-05-23 12:32 14 Pages 5
The Buddha as Storyteller: The Dialogical Setting of Jātaka Stories 2016 Naomi Appleton The Jātaka Tales 2024-08-08 13:59 14 Pages 1
Making Merit Through Warfare and Torture According to the Ārya-Bodhisattva-Gocara-Upāyaviṣaya-Vikurvaṇa-Nirdeśa Sūtra 2010 Stephen Jenkins Medieval Buddhism 2024-05-30 11:26 14 Pages 1
Why Meditation? 1983 Bhante Walpola Piyananda Buddhist Practice 2022-01-02 15:02 22 Pages 18
Śamathavipaśyanāyuganaddha: The Two Leading Principles of Buddhist Meditation 1978 Geshe Sopa The Buddhist Path 2023-11-04 19:53 20 Pages 4
Devil’s Valley to Omega Point: Reflections on the Emergence of a Theme from the Nō 1992 T. H. Barrett Buddhism and Nature 2023-05-03 18:51 12 Pages 1
Exclusive Reliance on Reasoning as ‘Mere Belief’: The Buddha’s epistemic approach in the Saṅgārava-sutta and its Sanskrit parallel 2021 Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā Pramāṇa 2024-02-17 19:55 12 Pages 3
Whose Zen?: Zen Nationalism Revisited 1995 Robert H. Sharf Buddhism Comes West 2022-06-03 20:01 12 Pages 21
You are Responsible 1983 Ven K. Sri Dhammananda Buddhist Ethics 2021-12-27 14:08 18 Pages 11
A Pāli Cosmopolis: Sri Lanka and the Theravāda Buddhist ecumene c. 500–1500 2017 Tilman Frasch The History of Buddhism 2023-04-19 16:02 11 Pages 8
Pining Away for the Sight of the Handsome Cobra King: Ānanda as a Gay Ancestor and Role Model 2000 Michael Sweet Characters in the EBTs 2021-03-19 09:13 10 Pages 60
The Celestial Coral Tree and the Noble Disciple: Ekottarika-āgama Discourse 39.2 2021 Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā Samādhi 2023-09-16 20:10 8 Pages 2
Ecology and Morality 1983 Peter S. Wenz The Wider World 2023-06-11 22:22 7 Pages 3
The Fate of Buddhist Political Thought in China: The Rajah Dons a Disguise 1996 T. H. Barrett Medieval Buddhism 2024-05-02 12:00 7 Pages 2
Illocution, No-Theory and Practice in Nagarjuna’s Skepticism 1998 Douglas L. Berger History of the Mahāyāna 2024-06-04 14:02 7 Pages 1
Buddhism: A Balancing Factor for Current World Developments 2009 Ven Dhammavamso An Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy 2020-04-21 13:17 6 Pages 29
Śūnyatā 2007 Bhikkhu Anālayo Śūnyatā 2024-01-02 16:37 6 Pages 10
The First Ten Items of the Daśottarasūtra as cited in Śamathadeva’s Abhidharmakośa-upāyikā-ṭīkā 2023 Peter Skilling Dīrgha Āgama 2023-09-26 11:32 8 Pages 9
Sammādiṭṭhi 2006 Bhikkhu Anālayo Right View 2023-06-20 08:47 5 Pages 31
Sakkāyadiṭṭhi 2006 Bhikkhu Anālayo Right View 2023-06-20 08:47 4 Pages 18
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta 2007 Bhikkhu Anālayo Vipassanā 2022-06-21 09:44 4 Pages 61
Vimuttimagga 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo History of the Theravāda 2024-04-25 13:09 4 Pages 11
Vittaka 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo Right Thought 2023-07-15 21:23 4 Pages 10
Upakkilesa Sutta 2008 Bhikkhu Anālayo Samādhi 2023-09-11 16:55 3 Pages 16
Vibhava 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo Right View 2023-06-15 06:56 3 Pages 10
Vīmaṃsā 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo Right Thought 2023-07-15 21:23 3 Pages 7
Vimuttāyatana 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo Mindfulness 2023-08-06 09:39 3 Pages 9
Vohāra (Transactions) 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo Pramāṇa 2024-01-30 10:33 3 Pages 2
Why Are the Four Noble Truths Called “Noble”? 1990 K. R. Norman The Pāli Language 2022-12-13 13:47 3 Pages 69
Santuṭṭhi 2006 Bhikkhu Anālayo Right Thought 2023-07-25 09:47 2 Pages 9
Viññāṇañcāyatana: The Sphere of Boundless Consciousness 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo Samatha 2022-06-06 18:34 2 Pages 29
Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo Right Thought 2023-07-10 08:02 2 Pages 11