As far back as we can see in the historical record, Buddhist monks and nuns have offered services including healing, divination, rain making, aggressive magic, and love magic to local clients..,,

Esler sheds light on this recent development in Sino-Tibetan Buddhism that is gaining increasing momentum in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan...

Saxena draws on her personal religious experiences and devotion to the Goddess Kali as a starting point to reflect on the absence of a Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism...

A radical and vivid rendering of poetry from the first Buddhist nuns that brings a new immediacy to their voices...

Heine gives us a comprehensive introduction to this essential Zen text, offering a textual, historical, literary, and philosophical examination of Dōgen’s treatise...

This is the story of U Dhammaloka, an Irishman who “went native” and became a Buddhist monk in British Burma at the turn of the twentieth century...

Nathan offers a history of P’ogyo (Buddhist Propagation) on the Korean peninsula from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 21st that switches its focus to South Korea beginning with the Post-Korean War period...

The ancient Indian philosophers conceptualized the universe as comprising 5 elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space), corresponding to the five human senses...

Yang examines the resurgence of religious and ritual life after decades of enforced secularization in the coastal area of Wenzhou,..

Chiu offers the first in-depth historical study of the Thai tradition of donation of Buddha statues...

Bronkhorst makes the case through an extensive introduction and select translations of important Indian texts that language has a crucial role in Indian thought...

Smith’s book centers intimacy in the consideration of geopolitics which is otherwise only seen as a game between nation states...

How did Buddhist women access religious experience and transcendence in a Confucian patriarchal system in imperial China?

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Elverskog challenges the popular image of Buddhism as a religion intrinsically concerned with the environment...

McBride offers a comprehensive study of the Koryŏ (918-1392) Buddhist exegete, Ŭichŏn, that convey’s his life and work through letters, speeches, memorials, addresses, and poetry, from three epigraphical accounts...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Scott focuses on reconstructions of Buddhist monasteries in modern China that took place in the period from 1866 to 1966,..

The Jātaka tales, or stories of the Buddha’s previous lives as a bodhisatta, are included in the Pāli Canon and have for centuries been a rich source of inspiration in Theravada Buddhism...

Park offers an account of the Korean Buddhist nun, Kim Iryŏp’s life and philosophy, which takes place from 1896-1971...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

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If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?