James P. McDermott

Rationality and Mind in Early Buddhism

The author makes a distintion between what can be said from within the context of the Buddhist texts themselves and what can be spoken of from the point of view of contemporary philosophy of religion. The author is at once sympathetic to Early Buddhism as a system of religious belief and attentive to its philosophical difficulties. The volume is primarily addressed to students of Buddhism. Scholars and researchers in the field of philosophical and religious studies will also find it interesting.

Untying the knots in Buddhism : selected essays

The present volume has numerous solutions of these problems by the senior author Alex Wayman. The entire collection of eassys is devoted to issues that concern present-day scholars of Buddhism in particular, but also specialist of Indian philosophy and religion in general.

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Buddhist Images of Human Perfection: The Arahant of the Sutta Piṭaka Compared with the Bodhisattva and the Mahāsiddha@@@Buddhist Images of Human Perfection: The Arahant of the Sutta Pitaka Compared with the Bodhisattva and the Mahasiddha

All forms of Buddhism affirm the perfectability of the person, and one finds this notion of perfection embodied in three images: the Arahant, the Bodhisattva and the Mahasiddha. Much of this book is a re-examination of the arahant image as found in Theravada literature.

A History of Religious Ideas: Volume 2.-From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religous ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religion, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity - all are encompassed in this volume.