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Buddhism
This book to give an integrated understanding of the rich and multifaceted Buddhist tradition through the exploration of a number of key thernes: sacred writings, human nature, pontrayals of the ultimate and the divine, devotional practices, rites of passage, ethics, gender, attitudes to nature, cosmology, myth and symbolism and sacred space. These themes have been selected to be interest to the general reader as well as to students of religious studies. Buddhist studies and anthropology, and they are dealt with from a broadly phenomenological perspective by a team of scholars, both Buddhist and non-Buddhist. They provide a detailed picture od Buddhist vision og reality, myths and symbols, and emphasize the way in which these are lived out in practice. The book ilustrates the constant interplay and continuity found within the different Buddhist communities. The introduction gives an historical overview of the traditions of Buddhism and relates the themes dealt with to Ninian Smart's system of seven dimensions of religion.
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