Buddhism and the Political
Organisation and Participation in the Theravada Moral Universe
ISBN: HB: 9781849048385,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2025
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Popular participation is one of the hallmarks of modern politics. So why have democracy and democratic norms generally failed to take root in the Theravada Buddhist countries of South and Southeast Asia? This book explores traditions of Buddhist po...
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35.00 GBP
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Little History of Religion
New Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300283228,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
256 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
256 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A rich and inclusive history of belief, from humanity's earliest days to our own times.
Religion is distinctly human. We can't help wondering about where we come from and why we are here. Did some all-powerful being make the universe? When we die,...
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10.99 GBP
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Buddhism
A Journey through History
ISBN: HB: 9780300234268,
Yale University Press,
February 2025
536 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
536 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
One of the world's leading scholars of Buddhism presents the story of its dramatic journey across the globe, from 2,500 years ago to the present day.
Over the course of twenty-five centuries, Buddhism spread from its place of origin in northern Ind...
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28.00 GBP
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Mandalas
Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet
ISBN: HB: 9781588397829,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
September 2024
256 pp., 27,3x24,1 cm, 175 colour illus.
256 pp., 27,3x24,1 cm, 175 colour illus.
Exploring the significance of Tibetan mandalas from their ancient origins to the present day, this gorgeously illustrated volume provides a contemporary perspective on a centuries-old Buddhist model of the universe.
A mandala is a diagram of the un...
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Why I Am Not a Buddhist
ISBN: PB: 9780300264678,
Yale University Press,
March 2022
240 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
240 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from business to romance. There are conferences, courses, an...
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12.99 GBP
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Art of Solitude
ISBN: PB: 9780300261523,
Yale University Press,
February 2022
200 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 1 black&white illus.
200 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 1 black&white illus.
When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his teaching and turned his attention to solitude, a practice integral to the meditative traditions he has long studied and taught. He aimed to venture more...
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Sarnath
A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began
ISBN: PB: 9781606066164,
Getty Publications,
February 2020
192 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
192 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds (...
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35.00 GBP
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How to Read Buddhist Art
ISBN: PB: 9781588396730,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
January 2020
176 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 200 colour illus.
176 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 200 colour illus.
For more than 2,000 years, sublime works of art have been created to embody essential aspects of Buddhist thought, which developed and evolved as its practice spread from India to East Asia and beyond. "How to Read Buddhist Art" introduces this compl...
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19.95 GBP
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Little Buddha
Looking for Love
ISBN: HB: 9781781453803,
GMC Group,
Ammonite Press,
September 2019
136 pp., 20,0x13,8 cm, full colour throughout
136 pp., 20,0x13,8 cm, full colour throughout
For sale in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan only!
The journey of the Little Buddha began when Claus Mikosch and his four-ye...
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Little Buddha
Finding Happiness
ISBN: HB: 9781781453797,
GMC Group,
Ammonite Press,
September 2019
128 pp., 20,0x13,8 cm, full colour throughout
128 pp., 20,0x13,8 cm, full colour throughout
For sale in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan only!
The journey of the Little Buddha began when Claus Mikosch and his four-ye...
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12.99 GBP
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