<div>What does it mean to be a Western Buddhist? For the predominantly Anglo-Australian<br/>affiliates of two Western Buddhist centres in Australia, the author proposes an<br/>answer to this question, and finds support for it from interviews and her own<br/>participant-observation experience.Practitioners''<br/>prior experiences of experimentation with spiritual groups and practices-and<br/>their experiences of participation, practice and self-transformation-are<br/>examined with respect to their roles in practitioners'' appropriation of the<br/>Buddhist worldview, and their subsequent commitment to the path to<br/>enlightenment.Religious commitment is<br/>experienced as a decision-point, itself the effect of the individual''s<br/>experimental immersion in the Centre''s activities.During this time the claims of the Buddhist<br/>worldview are tested against personal experience and convictions.<br/></div><div>¿</div><div>Using rich ethnographic data and Lofland and<br/>Skonovd''s experim
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Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy in the first millennium CE. He starts from the composition of the Abhidharma works before the beginning of the common...
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A coming of age story, a love story, an earthquake story and a story of finding your way back from grief. Shortlisted, New Zealand Young Adult Book of the Year.
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Concentrates on the ideas and practices which constitute the common heritage of the different traditions of Buddhism. From the narrative of the story of the Buddha, through discussions of aspects such as textual traditions, the framework of the Four Noble...
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