LIBROS DEL AUTOR: richard gombrich

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  • Chinese Buddhism Today
    Richard Gombrich / Yu-Shuang Yao
    This book conveys the ethos of Fo Guang Shan, ’Buddha’s Light Mountain’, by focusing on the views and activities of its founder and leader, the Ven. Hsing Yun. Fo Guang Shan was founded in Taiwan in 1967 by Hsing Yun (b.1927), who had fled to Taiwan from mainland China in 1949. It stands in the Chinese tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism and, more specifically, is a form of Buddhism...
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    37,09 €

  • Buddhist Precept & Practice
    Gombrich / Richard F. Gombrich
    First published in 1995. This study is intended as a contribution to the empirical study of religion, and in particular to the study of religious change. Using empirical method of using documents, interviews and experiments the author tests his old hypotheses in order to formulate new ones that my lead him to the truth. He focusses on the distinctions used throughout this book,...
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    87,20 €

  • How Buddhism Began
    Richard F. Gombrich
    This accessible, well-written book - by one of the world’s top scholars in the field of Pali Buddhism - is mandatory reading on important doctrines and themes in early Buddhism for all serious students of Buddhism. ...
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    88,35 €

  • What the Buddha Thought
    Richard F. Gombrich / Richard FGombrich
    In What the Buddha Thought, Richard Gombrich argues that the Buddha was one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of all time.Intended to serve as an introduction to the Buddha’s thought, and hence even to Buddhism itself, the book also has larger aims: it argues that we can know far more about the Buddha than it is fashionable among scholars to admit, and that his though...
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    35,36 €

  • Theravada Buddhism
    Richard F. Gombrich
    Written by the leading authority on Theravada Buddhism, this up-dated edition takes into account recent research to include the controversies over the date of the Buddha and current social and political developments in Sri Lanka. Gombrich explores the legacy of the Buddha’s predecessors and the social and religious contexts against which Buddhism has developed and changed throu...
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    82,70 €

  • Buddhism Transformed
    Gananath Obeyesekere / Richard Gombrich
    In this study a social and cultural anthropologist and a specialist in the study of religion pool their talents to examine recent changes in popular religion in Sri Lanka. As the Sinhalas themselves perceive it, Buddhism proper has always shared the religious arena with a spirit religion. While Buddhism concerns salvation, the spirit religion focuses on worldly welfare. Buddhis...
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    61,60 €