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Product Description: Wherever Buddhism spreads, it also sparks local identity discourses that frame the local in Buddhist discourse. Buddhism and Nativism offers a comparative study of localising responses to Buddhism in different Buddhist environments in Japan, Korea, Tibet, India and Bali.
By Henk Blezer (editor)

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9789004231078 | Brill Academic Pub, June 20, 2013, cover price $129.00 | About this edition: Wherever Buddhism spreads, it also sparks local identity discourses that frame the local in Buddhist discourse.

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9780415525343 | Routledge, October 11, 2012, cover price $1430.00

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A history of Buddhism's journey and entry into the western world explores such topics as the early exchanges between the classical Greeks and the Buddhists of India, the influence of Buddhism on western philosophers, and the current fascination with the Dalai Lama. 25,000 first printing.

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9780316741569 | Little Brown & Co, August 30, 2006, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: A history of Buddhism's journey and entry into the western world explores such topics as the early exchanges between the classical Greeks and the Buddhists of India, the influence of Buddhism on western philosophers, and the current fascination with the Dalai Lama.

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Product Description: Although Christians have well-developed responses to other religions, the counterpart scholarship from Buddhists has thus far lagged behind. Breaking new ground, Buddhist Inclusivism analyzes the currently favored position towards religious others, inclusivism, in Buddhist traditions...read more

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9780754651338 | Ashgate Pub Co, May 31, 2005, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Although Christians have well-developed responses to other religions, the counterpart scholarship from Buddhists has thus far lagged behind.

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Product Description: This book explores the possible relations between Western types of rationality and Buddhism. It also examines some clichés about Buddhism and questions the old antinomies of Western culture ("faith and reason," or "idealism and materialism")...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Bernard Faure and Janet Lloyd (trans)

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9780804743471 | Stanford Univ Pr, November 11, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This book explores the possible relations between Western types of rationality and Buddhism.

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Product Description: The first two parts of this book present four detailed historical studies, filled with Geertzian "thick description," of the encounters of Christianity and Buddhism (universal religions with a high quotient of "transcendence") with various primal religious traditions ("biocosmic" or "immanentist") of the Asian-Pacific region, namely, Aboriginal Australia and Melanesia (Christianity) and Sri Lanka and Japan (Buddhism)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780826415134 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 1, 2003, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The first two parts of this book present four detailed historical studies, filled with Geertzian "thick description," of the encounters of Christianity and Buddhism (universal religions with a high quotient of "transcendence") with various primal religious traditions ("biocosmic" or "immanentist") of the Asian-Pacific region, namely, Aboriginal Australia and Melanesia (Christianity) and Sri Lanka and Japan (Buddhism).

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9780968395110 | 3 revised edition (Buddhist Spectrum Study Group, December 1, 1999), cover price $19.95

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Product Description: Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka explores Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalist ideology and its power to shape the identities of Sri Lanka's ethnic and religious minorities. Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalists in contemporary Sri Lanka share an ideology that asserts a vital link between the island of Sri Lanka and the Sinhala people, especially in their role as curators of Buddhism, and often at the exclusion of the minorities...read more

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9780791438336 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $51.50 | About this edition: Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka explores Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalist ideology and its power to shape the identities of Sri Lanka's ethnic and religious minorities.

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9780791438343 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka explores Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalist ideology and its power to shape the identities of Sri Lanka's ethnic and religious minorities.

By Gary Seaman (editor), Laurence Thompson (trans) and Yao-Yu Wu

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9781878986115 | Ethnorgraphics Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: This book tries to clarify a Buddhist view of interfaith dialogue from various points of view. It discusses how the Buddhist notion of Sunyata (Emptiness) works dynamically for mutual understanding and transformation of world religions...read more

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9780824817510 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $29.00
9780333611975 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 6, 1995, cover price $179.00 | About this edition: The Buddhist view of inter-religious dialogue is significantly different from many other religions, because of the many incarnations of the Buddha and the concepts of dependent co-origination and emptiness.

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9781349134564 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $159.00 | About this edition: This book tries to clarify a Buddhist view of interfaith dialogue from various points of view.

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780521078252 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 2, 1970, cover price $41.65 | About this edition: 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.

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