Reference

The Buddhist Teaching of Totality: The Philosophy of Hwa Yen Buddhism

by Garma C C Chang

Originally published in 1971.

Long regarded as a classic, this volume is one of the most systematic treatments of Hwa Yen to have appeared in the English language. With excellently translated selections of Hwa...

The Footprint of the Buddha

by E F C Ludowyk

Originally published in 1958, this volume discusses the Buddhist monuments of Sri Lanka, which represent a distinctive and valuable portion of the art of the ancient and medieval world. It traces the development...

The Wheel of Death: Writings from Zen Buddhist and Other Sources

by Philip Kapleau

Originally published in 1972, this anthology examines death through the eyes of great Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu and Western masters. Instructions and specific rites are set forth to enable people to guide the...

The Central Philosophy of Buddhism: A Study of the Madhyamika System

by T R V Murti

Originally published in 1955.

The Madhyamika philosophy is, in the author's view, the philosophy which created a revolution in Buddhism and through that in the whole range of Indian philosophy. This volume is...

The Meaning of Life in Hinduism and Buddhism

by Floyd H Ross

Originally published in 1952.

This volume, by discussing significant insights of Hinduism and Buddhism, answers the question "What is the meaning of life?" It illustrates the importance of Buddhist and Hindu...

Pathways of Buddhist Thought: Essays from The Wheel

by Ven Nyanaponika

Originally published in 1971.

The essays in this volume cover some of the most important aspects of Buddhism and include discussion of such themes as the nature of Buddhism, Buddhist ethics and philosophical...

Philosophies of India

by Heinrich Zimmer

Originally published in 1973.

The volume is divided into four sections:

1. The introduction places the position of the Buddhist Tantras within Mahayana Buddhism and recalls their early literary history, especially...

The Social Novel in England 1830-1850 (RLE Dickens): Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 2

by Louis Cazamian

This is the first English translation of Le Roman social en Angleterre by Louis Cazamian, which is widely recognized as the classic survey of Victorian social fiction.

Starting from the eighteenth century, Cazamian...

The Imagination of Charles Dickens (RLE Dickens): Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 3

by A. O. J. Cockshut

This book describes Charles Dickens as an ordinary man who by being perfectly tuned to the public taste developed into a master of his art. The clue to this paradox lies, in the author's opinion, in Dickens'...

The Companion to Our Mutual Friend (RLE Dickens): Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 4

by Michael Cotsell

Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) Dickens' last completed novel, has been critically praised as a profound and troubled masterpiece, and yet is has received far less scholarly attention than his other major works....

The Social Science Encyclopedia

by Adam Kuper

The Social Science Encyclopedia, first published in 1985 to acclaim from social scientists, librarians and students, was thoroughly revised in 1996, when reviewers began to describe it as a classic. This third...

Writings of Henry Barrow, 1587-1590

by Henry Barrow

Henry Barrow and John Greenwood are the fathers of Elizabethan Separatism. Unlike Robert Browne, they refused to compromise their beliefs or conform to Anglicanism and as a consequence they died in 1593 - as...

The 20th Century A-GI: Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 7

by Frank N. Magill

Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry...

Calculating the Weather: Meteorology in the 20th Century

by Frederik Nebeker

During the course of this century, meteorology has become unified, physics-based, and highly computational. Calculating the Weather: Meteorology in the 20th Century explains this transformation by examining...

An Incomplete Education

by Judy Jones & William Wilson

When it was originally published in 1987, An Incomplete Education became a surprise bestseller. Now this instant classic has been completely updated, outfitted with a whole new arsenal of indispensable knowledge...

Banking and Finance in West Germany (RLE Banking & Finance)

by Hans Hermann Francke & Michael Hudson

This is a clear guide to the German financial system. It begins by outlining its historical development, emphasising the growth of close ties between the banking system and industry, and goes on to describe...

Banking in an Unregulated Environment

by Lynne Pierson Doti

The study of financial history has never been more important. This volume focuses on theories about the relationship of financial markets to the rest of the economy. Searching out information on financial institutions...

Women in Europe since 1750

by Patricia Branca

In dealing with the common experience of women in modern society, this book provides a deeper insight into European women at work, at home, at leisure and in their political and educational functions. Particular...

Natural Religion and the Nature of Religion: The Legacy of Deism

by Peter Byrne

This study offers students of religion and philosophy introductory chapters concerning the concept of natural religion. It holds that we can't engage in useful discussion about the present concept of religion...

Mind and Deity: Being the Second Series of a Course of Gifford Lectures on the General Subject of Metaphysics and Theism given in the University of Gl

by John Laird

Complementary to Theism and Cosmology, this book begins with a discussion of philosophical and theological idea-ism, and our common beliefs concerning nature, man, and God. It is principally concerned with idealism...