Approaching the Dhamma: Buddhist Texts and Practices in South and Southeast Asia - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1928706193 ISBN 13: 9781928706199

Publisher: Pariyatti Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

Eleven eminent Buddhist studies scholars have contributed essays to this collection, assembled to celebrate the life of the late Sri Lankan scholar, social worker, and meditation master Godwin Samararatne.

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Blackburn, PhD, is an assistant professor in Asian studies at Cornell University and the author of Buddhist Learning and Textual Practice in Eighteenth Century Lankan Monastic Culture. She lives in Ithaca, New York. Jeffrey Samuels, PhD, is an assistant professor at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he has taught Asian Religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Buddhist-Christian Monasticism as well as courses in Pali and Sanskrit.

Review:

"These fine essays by some of the best scholars in the field meaningfully enhance our collective understanding of Sri Lankan Buddhism."  —Ananda Wickremeratne, PhD, theology professor, Loyola University-Chicago

About this edition

• Publisher: Pariyatti Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1928706193
• ISBN 13: 9781928706199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282
• Editor: Blackburn PhD Anne M., Samuels PhD Jeffrey