Dr Tambiah describes the religious practices and beliefs of the people of a remote village in north-east Thailand, relating them to the wider context of the civilization in which they are embedded, and examining the relationship of the religious practices of the villagers to the classical Buddhist tradition. Because they have based their studies on the Sanskrit and Pali literat...(展开全部)

This volume is the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars and provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era right up to the present.--Publisher.

This volume is the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars and provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era right up to the present.--Publisher.

The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in the face of clashing ethical frameworks, from a rapidly developing universal medical system, to national and global human-rights politics, to contemporary movements in Buddhist metaphysics. Scott Stonington’s gripping ethnography...(展开全部)

盖尔•伦德斯塔德（Geir Lundestad），挪威最有影响力的历史学家之一，挪威奥斯陆大学国际关系史教授。主要研究领域为国际关系史、美欧关系、美国对外政策等。伦德斯塔德笔耕不辍、著述颇丰，就国际政治及美欧关系发表了海量的著述，是这一领域具有全球影响的主要学者。主要作 品有《20世纪的战争与和平》、《二战以来的美国与西欧》、《美帝国的崛起与衰落》、《冷战后的国际关系》、《大国的衰落》等。 吴征宇，历史学博士，中国人民大学国际关系学院教授，博士生导师。主要从事国际关系思想与理论、战略研究等方面的教学与研究，先后在英国杜伦大学政治学系、美国伊利诺伊大学（厄巴纳-香槟）东亚与太平洋研究中心、英国伦敦经济学院从事访学和博士后研究工作。已出版个人学术专著三部、译著 两部（合译），并在各类核心期刊及海外学术杂志上发表学术论文四十余篇。

盖尔•伦德斯塔德（Geir Lundestad），挪威最有影响力的历史学家之一，挪威奥斯陆大学国际关系史教授。主要研究领域为国际关系史、美欧关系、美国对外政策等。伦德斯塔德笔耕不辍、著述颇丰，就国际政治及美欧关系发表了海量的著述，是这一领域具有全球影响的主要学者。主要作 品有《20世纪的战争与和平》、《二战以来的美国与西欧》、《美帝国的崛起与衰落》、《冷战后的国际关系》、《大国的衰落》等。 吴征宇，历史学博士，中国人民大学国际关系学院教授，博士生导师。主要从事国际关系思想与理论、战略研究等方面的教学与研究，先后在英国杜伦大学政治学系、美国伊利诺伊大学（厄巴纳-香槟）东亚与太平洋研究中心、英国伦敦经济学院从事访学和博士后研究工作。已出版个人学术专著三部、译著 两部（合译），并在各类核心期刊及海外学术杂志上发表学术论文四十余篇。

The Buddha prophesied that his teachings would vanish a few hundred years after his passing, creating an existential dilemma for Chinese Buddhists on the brink of Buddhism’s disappearance. This book examines the origins of this prophecy and the famie 法灭 (‘end of Buddhism’) belief in Indian and Central Asian Buddhism, and the centuries-long struggle of Chinese Buddhists to inter...(展开全部)

The Buddha prophesied that his teachings would vanish a few hundred years after his passing, creating an existential dilemma for Chinese Buddhists on the brink of Buddhism’s disappearance. This book examines the origins of this prophecy and the famie 法灭 (‘end of Buddhism’) belief in Indian and Central Asian Buddhism, and the centuries-long struggle of Chinese Buddhists to inter...(展开全部)