A collection of stories about women from the thirteenth-century Buddhist work that reveals much about women's status in their society and within Buddhism.

Recounts the struggles of a young Thai woman to become a Buddhist nun and the challenges and rewards of that life.

A study of Japan's powerful teachers' unions, including an in-depth look at the schism of the largest union in 1989.

Explores the identity of the Hindu Great Goddess and how it relates to the many goddesses worshipped in India.

A first-hand description of the Mani Rimdu festival of Tibet and Nepal, an event which encapsulates the Himalayan Buddhist experience.

Presents an indispensable survey of contemporary Korean politics.

Considers the questions of free will in the great India epic, the Mahabharata.

Argues that a syncretic worldview encouraged the remarkable growth of Christianity in Korea.

Explores the relationship between health and religion based on the model offered by the Hindu traditions of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra.

Using Buddhist thought, explores and challenges the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre.

Explores the work of spiritual leader and writer Bede Griffiths, who envisioned a union of Eastern and Western spirituality.

Explores ancient Sanskrit texts.

An accessible translation of the songs of the saints from the Adi Granth, the Sikh holy book.

Drawing on textual and anthropological research, this book demonstrates how popular ritual texts and stories have shaped the religion and culture of the only surviving Mahayana Buddhist society, the Newars of Kathmandu.

An examination of bodhicitta, a key concept in Mahauyauna Buddhism.

A comparative philosophical consideration of the extremes of humanism, or "Titanism," this book critiques trends in Eastern and Western philosophy and examines solutions to them.

The first book-length study in English of an important but neglected school of dissident Chinese writers active around the time of the war against Japan (1937–45).

Provides both a biography of the pivotal T'ang Dynasty figure Lu Chih and an intellectual history of his era, which is instrumental in the revival and transformation of Confucianism.

Examines the cultural construction of senility in Japan and the moral implications of dependent behavior for older Japanese.

Explores religious experience in the South Asian immigrant communities of Britain, Canada, and the United States.

A systematic study of Wang Bi's (226-249) commentary on the Laozi, this book provides the first systematic study of a Chinese commentator's scholarly craft and introduces a highly sophisticated Chinese way of reading the Taoist classic, one that differs greatly from Western interpretations.

Examines the ambiguous constructions of the Orient in the works of four major twentieth-century French writers.

The first English translation of a selection of legal documents from Sung Dynasty China, this work provides a fascinating look at the legal, social, and economic history of that era.

Traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and authority in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the basis of imperial authority.

Leading scholars examine religious and philosophical dimensions of the Chinese classic known as the Daodejing or Laozi.