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Alex Wayman, George Elder |
Buddhist Insight |
$59.49 $44.62 |
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| The present volume selcts twenty-four of Prof. Wayman's published research papers around the topic of Buddhist Insight, and includes only strong, well developed papers consistent with the topic. Students of Buddhism and general Indian religion will find here a rich offering of genuine research with the best of sources and Wayman's own thoughtful presentations and original organization of the information. The papers begin with "Buddha as Savior" among the latest and end with the... |
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Alex Wayman |
Calming the Mind and Discerning the Real |
$23.95 $17.96 |
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| In 1402 Tson-kha-pa, the founder of the Gelupa sect of
Tibetan Buddhism, completed ' Lam Rim Chenmo.'
Lama Tson-kha-pa's famous Lam Rim Chenmo is perhaps the most elaborate and elegant presentation of the Buddhist path and is one of the most renowned Tibetan Buddhist classics. The work falls into the Lam-rim genre which stemmed from the Kadampa school of Tibetan Buddhism. Its main structure is based on the division of three levels of spiritual beings, which Atisha puts forth in The Lamp for... |
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Alex Wayman |
The Buddhist Tantras |
$20.49 $15.37 |
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| The book, volume 9 of the Buddhist Tradition series, places the position of the Buddhist Tantras within Mahayana Buddhism and recalls their early literary history. It discusses the foundations of Buddhist Tantras and rarely available Special Studies; female energy and symbolism a correlation between the tantric portions of the Kanjur and the Tanjur. This book has been divided into four sections. Part One: The Introduction places the position of the Buddhist Tantras within Mahayana... |
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Alex Wayman |
Yoga of the Guhyasamajatantra |
$28.95 $21.71 |
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| This work opens up the subject of perhaps the most profound of Buddhist Tantras, The Guhyasamajatantra by shedding light on its relation with previous literature including the Brahmanical tradition and by revealing the elevated type of Yoga. It goes for toward replacing the previous supposition that this Tantra can be understood by mere reading by one oblivious of the extensive commentarial tradition that incorporates the precepts of the Gurus.
Attempts to connect the Guhyasamajatantra with... |
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F.D. Lessing |
Introduction to the Buddhist Tantric Systems |
$24.49 $18.37 |
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| The Survey of the Buddhist Tantras by Mkhas-grub-rje (1385-1438) is a sample of the rich literature on this topic in the Tibetan language. In accordance with Tsonkha-pa`s tantric reform after the theory about how Gautama Buddha became enlightened the author present the non-tantric materials stipulated as preliminary for tantric study and practice.The translation was collaborated in the 1950s between F.D. Lessing and Alex Wayman at Berkeley, California. After Lessing`s death, Wayman annotated... |
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Alex Wayman (Tr. with Annot. & Introd.) |
Chanting the Names of Manjusri |
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| This is the first English translation of one of the most revered and often-used tantric texts in Tibetan Buddhism--the Manjusri-namasamgiti. While consisting of only 160 verses and some mantra sentences, the work condenses an enormous tantric lore, so much that it garnered exalted mention in the Vimalaprabha--the great commentary on the Kalacakra--and is cited a number of times in the celebrated tantrist Naropa's Hevajratantra commentary. It is the complete original Sanskrit, with its Tibetan... |
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Alex Wayman |
A Millennium of Buddhist Logic (Vol.I) |
$21.94 $16.46 |
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| This is volume One of texts (from sanskrit and Tibetan sources) of the two planned volumes on Buddhist Ligic (the second volume to be on topics and opponents). This first volumes is in two parts. Part 1 has Asanga`s rules of Debate, Dharmakirti Nyayabindu with Kamalasila commentary and Santi-pa`s treatise on inner pervasion.Part II devoted to the Dignage-Dharmakirti system has five sets of eleven verses then a stydy if Bu-Ston`s commentary ib Dharmakirti`s Pramanaviniscaya and finally... |
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Alex Wayman |
Untying the Knots in Buddhism |
$27.50 $20.63 |
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| The field of non-Tantric Buddhism still has many problems and debated issues. The present volumes included numerous solutions of these problems by the senior author Alex Wayman. The categories of the Twenty-four essays are Heroes of the system, Theory of the Heroes, Buddhist Doctrine, Buddhist Practice and hindu Buddhist Studies. Among these essays are one of his earliest from the late 1950`s.
Alex Wayman became Professor of Sanskrit at Columbia University in 1967 and has the title Professor... |
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F.D. Lessing |
Introduction to Buddhist Tantric System |
$21.94 $16.46 |
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| The survey of the Buddhist Tantras by Mkhas-Grub-Rje (a.d.1385-1438) is a rich literature on this topic in the Tibetan language. In accordance with Tsonkha-pa's tantric reform (the Gelugpa), after the theory about how Gautama Buddha became enlightened the author presents the non-tantric materials stipulated as preliminary for tantric study and practice. He sketches the Kriya, Carya, Yoga, and Anuttarayoga tantra divisions, showing the generation of self into deity and generation of deity in... |
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Alex Wayman |
The Enlightenment of Vairocana |
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| The Enlightenment of Vairocana is a covering for two books that study a famous Buddhist scripture with given Sanskrit titles of Vairocanabhisambodhitantra or Mahavairocanasutra. The first book, by Alex Wayman, translates the second chapter, which contains the body mandala of Vairocana's Compassion, copiously using Buddhaguhya's commentary, study of some other chapters such as the final one on fire lineage, and includes much introductory material, stressing the Indo-Tibetan approach, on such... |
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Alex Wayman & Hideko Wayman |
The Lion's Roar of Queen Srimala |
$9.72 $7.29 |
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Alex Wayman (Tr.) |
Ethics of Tibet-Boddhisattva Section of Tsong-Khapa's Lam Ri n Chin Mo |
$22.22 $16.67 |
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Dr. Ramkaran Sharma |
Caraka Samhita (7 vols): Text in Sanskrit with English translation |
$218.99 $164.24 |
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| Contents: Vol. I. Sutra Sthana: Introduction/Alex Wayman Foreword/Pandit Shiv Sharma Preface. Quest for longevity (Dirghanjivitiya) Dehusked seeds of Achyranthes Aspera Linn. (Apamargatanduliya) Cassia Fistula Linn. (Aragvadhiya) Six hundred purgatives (Sadvirecanasatasritiya) Quantitative dietetics (Matrasitiya) Qualitative dietetics (Tasyasitiya) Non-suppression of natural urges (Navegandharaniya) Description of sense organs (Indriyopakramaniya) Brief chapter on the... |
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George R. Elder |
Buddhist Insight |
$21.94 $16.46 |
Temporarily Out of Stock |
| The present volume selcts twenty-four of Prof. Wayman`s published research papers around the topic of Buddhist Insight, and includes only strong, well developed papers consistent with the topic. Students of Buddhism and general Indian religion will find here a rich offering of genuine research with the best of sources and Wayman`s own thoughtful presentations and original organization of the information. The papers begin with "Buddha as Savior" among the latest and end with the... |
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Gregory Joseph Darling |
An Evalution of the Vedantic Critique of Buddhism |
$31.99 $23.99 |
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| This book represents a comparison of the critique of Buddhism as set forth in the Interpretations of Sankara, Madhva, and Ramanuja to the sutras of the second section (adhyaya) of the Brahma-sutras concerned with the refutation of Buddhism, with the positions actually elaborated by the Buddhists in their own texts. An attempt is also made to compare the conflicting interpretations of the three commentators in accordance with the philsophical approach unique to each commentator. The book is... |
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Dr. Ramkaran Sharma |
Caraka Samhita Vol 1 : Text in Sanskrit with English translation |
$36.99 $27.74 |
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| Contents: Vol. I. Sutra Sthana: Introduction/Alex Wayman Foreword/Pandit Shiv Sharma Preface. Quest for longevity (Dirghanjivitiya) Dehusked seeds of Achyranthes Aspera Linn. (Apamargatanduliya) Cassia Fistula Linn. (Aragvadhiya) Six hundred purgatives (Sadvirecanasatasritiya) Quantitative dietetics (Matrasitiya) Qualitative dietetics (Tasyasitiya) Non-suppression of natural urges (Navegandharaniya) Description of sense organs (Indriyopakramaniya) Brief... |
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