Illustrated Encyclopedia of Buddhism

Ian Harris (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2009
Lorenz Books (Verlag)
978-0-7548-1899-1 (ISBN)

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Buddhism is the fifth largest world belief system in the world today, with an estimated 350 million adherents. This richly illustrated book introduces and explains Buddhist history, philosophy and practice, from its very beginnings to the present time.

Ian Harris is Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Division of Religion and Philosophy. He was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Lancaster and is the author of The Continuity of Madhyamaka and Yogacara in Early Indian Mahayana Buddhism (1991), Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice (2005) and editor of Buddhism and Politics in Twentieth Century Asia (1999)and Buddhism, Politics and Power (2006). He is co-founder of the UK Association for Buddhist Studies and has written widely on aspects of Buddhist ethics and politics. He was Senior Scholar at the Becket Institute, St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford (2001-04) and is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Documentation Centre of Cambodia, Phnom Penh.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.7.2009
Zusatzinfo	500 photographs
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	0-7548-1899-3 / 0754818993
ISBN-13	978-0-7548-1899-1 / 9780754818991
Zustand	Neuware