Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism (Buddhism and Modernity)

by Donald S Lopez (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $33.06

  Through incisive discussions of topics ranging from practice, power, and pedagogy to ritual, history, sex, and death, the authors offer new directions for the understanding of Buddhism, taking constructive and sometimes polemical positions in an effort both to demonstrate the shortcomings of assumptions about the religion and the potential.