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Black and white illustrations, lx + 421pp, index, dustjacket. This volume presents eighteen studies, the subjects of which range over India, Tibet, China, and Japan, and deal with an even broader range of subjects. It includes many essays on Buddhist philosophy, a number of which deal with the Madhyamaka tradition of Nagarjuna and his successors, while others examine the Yogacara tradition of Asaga, Vasubandhu, and their successors. These essays investigate areas of doctrinal interest such as the so-called "Two Truth" theory and the doctrine of the equivalence of nirvana and samsara, as well as such topics as the nature and practice of compassion and Indian Buddhist cosmology.…

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Hardcover. Condition: New. ix + 313 pages : 24 cm. Contents: What Language Was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex? / Alexander Lubotsky India's Past Reconsidered / Johannes Bronkhorst A Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Ananda's Lack of Understanding Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddha's Teachings / Jonathan A. Silk On the Early History of the Brahmanical Yugas / Vincent Eltschinger Size Matters: The Length of Korea's History and the Size of Its Historical Territory / Remco Breuker Polyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of Western Learning in Tokugawa Japan / Martin J. Heijdra Overcoming Distance / Richard Bowring Beyond Nativism: Reflections on Methodology and Ethics in the Study of Early China / Martin Kern Taking Horace to the Yellow Springs: Notes on Death and Alcohol in Chinese Poetry and Philosophy / Jan De Meyer On Some Verses of Li Bo / Paul W. Kroll An Early Medieval Chinese Poem on Leaving Office and Retiring to the Countryside / David R. Knechtges Lu Ji's Theory of Reading and Writing: Medieval Chinese Anxieties about Literary Creation / Wendy Swartz Terms of Friendship: Bylaws for Associations of Buddhist Laywomen in Medieval China / Stephen F. Teiser Women in the Religious and Publishing Worlds of Buddhist Master Miaokong (1826-1880) / Beata Grant Chinese Dualism Revisited / John Lagerwey An Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an Alternate History of Chinese Worldviews / Robert Ford Campany Self-Portrait of a Narcissist / Pierre-Etienne Will The Mask of Comedy in A Couple of Soles / Robert E. Hegel Making Up for a Loss: The Tragedy of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in Modern Zaju / Wilt L. Idema Transgression as Rule: Freebooters in Chinese Poetry / Maghiel van Crevel Horatius Sinensis / Michael Lackner The Hazards of the Use of English as a Default Language in Analytic Philosophy: An Essay on Conceptual Biodiversity / Christoph Harbsmeier.…

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