Discusses the origins and cultural history of the Theravada Buddhist ideals behind the Thai institution of monarchy.

Describes how religious tradition is established as available within a text, free from ritual and observance, in Buddhism and Christianity.

Discusses the journey of Buddhist ideas on awareness and personhood from India to China.

Explores facets of North American Buddhism while taking into account the impact of globalization and increasing interconnectivity.

Discusses both depictions of Buddhism in film and Buddhist takes on a variety of films.

Continues the author’s inquiry into the development of the Chinese philosophical concept Li, concluding in Song and Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianism.

A wide-ranging exploration of Buddhism and family in Asia--from biological families to families created in monasteries.

Uses Buddhist philosophy to discuss diversity as a value, one that can contribute to equity in a globalizing world.

Discusses the notion of a spiritual master and looks at examples in a variety of world religions.

Robert Baker Aitken’s correspondence with Buddhist sympathizers and solo practitioners reveals a significant, little-understood aspect of American Buddhism.

Buddhist-Christian reflection that uses friendship as a model for interreligious understanding.

Explores the development of Chinese thought, highlighting its concern with questions of coherence.

A firsthand look at the Thai Buddhist environmental movement and its activist monks.

An accessible discussion of the thought of key figures of the Kyoto School of Japanese philosophy.

Four Shin Buddhist thinkers reflect on their tradition’s encounter with modernity.

Considers the contributions and contemporary significance of Alan Watts.

The first English translations of the writings of Chŏngsan (1900-62), who codified the central doctrines of Won Buddhism.

Presents the thought of a controversial Tibetan Buddhist thinker on the Yogācāra and Madhyamaka systems.

A Buddhist feminist social ethics for contemporary times.

Explores the roles of Korean Buddhist nuns and laywomen from the Koryo period to the present.

An annotated translation of an essential work of twentieth-century Tibetan Buddhist thought, one that explicates teachings on the Middle Way.

Explores the prevalence of Buddhist ideas in American literature since the 1970s.

A ground-breaking book on using meditation in education and how it can enhance teaching and learning.

Explores the milieu of Taiwan’s Buddhist nuns, who have the greatest numbers in the Buddhist world and a prominent place in their own country.

Explores a range of Buddhist perspectives in a distinctly American context.