Mr Appleton's most sensitive and sympathetic approach to Buddhism, to Buddhists, illuminates this difference, but it may confidently be claimed that he does so with a compassion that the Buddhist w…
Buddhism and Christianity are openly and intentionally encountering each other today, and in many lands. This encounter comes in a time of change and even crisis. Technology is forcing man to envis…
Here are the famous sutras or sermons of the Buddha; the gathas or hymns; the intriguing philosophical puzzles known as koan; and the dharanis, or invocations to expel evil spirits. And here also a…
This book adopts the format of the editorsÆ previous book, Buddhists Talk about Jesus, Christians Talk about the Buddha. In that book eight scholar-practitioners--four of them Buddhist and four Ch…
Comprehensive introduction to Buddhism that examines present-day Buddhism in the context of its historical development. This historical outline of Buddhism brings an objective light to the most sub…
When the history of Christian monasticism is written for the twentieth century, it will include one surprising and revolutionary development that nothing in its previous history could have prepared…