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What happens when the Dalai Lama meets with five leading physicists and a historian? This book documents their discussions about theoretical quantum physics and Buddhist philosophy. This book is a contribution to the science-religion interface, and a useful explanation of our basic understanding of quantum reality.

Physics --- Quantum theory --- Buddhism --- Buddhist doctrines --- Buddhist theology --- Lamaist doctrines --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Doctrines.

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"By uniquely using Buddhist teachings, Reinventing the Wheel assesses the personal and communal costs of our global economic and technological commitments. Hershock urges reinvention of the technological "wheel," and, at the same time acknowledges the need for new forms of practice suited to our rapidly evolving social, political, and economic circumstances. His persuasive presentation urges the skillful spinning of a new "wheel of the dharma.""--Jacket.

Information technology --- Buddhism --- Buddhist doctrines --- Buddhist theology --- Lamaist doctrines --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Social aspects. --- Doctrines.

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Action Dharma charts the emergence of a new chapter in an ancient faith - the rise of social service and political activism in Buddhist Asia and the West. Fourteen new essays treat the historical origins, global range, teachings and practices, and leaders and organizations that make up the latest turning of the Dharma. Environmentalism and peace walks through the minefields of Southeast Asia, the future of the 'untouchables' of Japan, and outreach to minorities and inmates of the criminal justice system in the West are some of the challenging topics considered.

Buddhism --- Buddhist doctrines --- Buddhist theology --- Lamaist doctrines --- Social aspects. --- Doctrines. --- Buddhism - Social aspects. --- Buddhism - Doctrines.

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Some twenty-five centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire people across the globe, including those living in predominantly secular societies. What does it mean to adapt religious practices to secular contexts?   Stephen Batchelor, an internationally known author and teacher, is committed to a secularized version of the Buddha's teachings. The time has come, he feels, to articulate a coherent ethical, contemplative, and philosophical vision of Buddhism for our age. After Buddhism, the culmination of four decades of study and practice in the Tibetan, Zen, and Theravada traditions, is his attempt to set the record straight about who the Buddha was and what he was trying to teach. Combining critical readings of the earliest canonical texts with narrative accounts of five members of the Buddha's inner circle, Batchelor depicts the Buddha as a pragmatic ethicist rather than a dogmatic metaphysician. He envisions Buddhism as a constantly evolving culture of awakening whose long survival is due to its capacity to reinvent itself and interact creatively with each society it encounters.   This original and provocative book presents a new framework for understanding the remarkable spread of Buddhism in today's globalized world. It also reminds us of what was so startling about the Buddha's vision of human flourishing.

Dharma (Buddhism) --- Buddhism --- Buddhist doctrines --- Buddhist theology --- Lamaist doctrines --- Buddhist teachings --- Dhamma (Buddhism) --- Doctrines. --- Doctrines --- Buddha,

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'Skilful Means' is the key principle of Mahayana, one of the great Buddhist traditions. First described in the Lotus Sutra, it originates in myths of the Buddha's compassionate plans for raising life from the ceaseless round of birth and death. His strategies or interventions are 'skilful means' - morally wholesome tricks devised for the purpose of enabling nirvana or enlightenment. Michael Pye's clear and engaging introductory guide investigates the meaning and context of skilful means in Mayahana Buddhist teachings, whilst tracing its early origins in ancient Japanese and Theravada though

Upāya (Buddhism) --- Buddhism --- Buddhist doctrines --- Buddhist theology --- Lamaist doctrines --- Means (Buddhism) --- Skilful means (Buddhism) --- Doctrines. --- Doctrines --- Upaya (Buddhism)