Human experience is not confined to waking life. Do experiences in dreams matter? Humans are not the only living beings who have experiences. Does nonhuman experience matter? The Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu, writing during the late fourth and early fifth centuries C.E., argues in his work The Twenty Verses that these alternative contexts ought to inform our understanding of...(展开全部)

Studies Buddhism of India on the basis of the comparison of all the available original sources in various languages. It uses primarily the established methods of textual criticism. A classic.

This volume explores the interaction between text and image in Indian Buddhist contexts, including not only the complex relationship between verbal stories and visual representations at Indian sites, but also the ways in which visual imagery is used within textual narratives. The chapters are authored by a mixture of textual scholars and art historians, bringing together differ...(展开全部)

Joseph Walser provides the first examination of Nagarjuna's life and writings in the context of the religious and monastic debates of the second century CE. Walser explores how Nagarjuna secured the canonical authority of Mahayana teachings and considers his use of rhetoric to ensure the transmission of his writings by Buddhist monks. Drawing on close textual analysis of Nagarj...(展开全部)

"Among the most provocative and compelling feminist political visions since The Second Sex. Wittig's theoretical insights are both precise and far-reaching, and her theoretical style is bold, incisive, even shattering." --Judith Butler, author of Gender Trouble Beacon Press Web Site, Aug., 2001 These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of the...(展开全部)

n Archaeological History of Indian Buddhism is a comprehensive survey of Indian Buddhism from its origins in the 6th century BCE, through its ascendance in the 1st millennium CE, and its eventual decline in mainland South Asia by the mid-2nd millennium CE. Weaving together studies of archaeological remains, architecture, iconography, inscriptions, and Buddhist historical source...(展开全部)

科尔姆•托宾 爱尔兰小说家、剧作家。毕业于都柏林大学，主修历史和英文。毕业后前往巴塞罗那，居住了三年，这段经历成了他首部小说《南方》的素材。曾投身新闻业，后游历非洲和南美洲。托宾的著作丰厚：《黑水灯塔船》获得英国布克奖，并获得IMPAC都柏林国际文学奖提名；《大师》获得IMPAC都柏林国际文学奖、法国最佳小说奖等奖项；另有短篇小说集《母与子》《空荡荡的家》、论文集《出走的人：作家与家人》等。

在线阅读本书 Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most striking figures: a woman who ventured into the male spheres of politics, science, philosophy and literature. The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empr...(展开全部)