By Herbert A. Davidson

ISBN-10: 0195049535

ISBN-13: 9780195049534

The crucial debate of usual theology between medieval Muslims and Jews involved even if the area was once everlasting. evaluations divided sharply in this factor as the final result bore at once on God's dating with the area: eternity implies a deity bereft of will, whereas a global with a starting ends up in the contrasting photograph of a deity possessed of will. during this exhaustive examine of medieval Islamic and Jewish arguments for eternity, construction, and the life of God, Herbert Davidson presents a scientific category of the proofs, analyzes and explains them, and strains their assets in Greek philosophy. during the learn, Davidson attempts take into consideration each argument of a philosophical personality, brushing off purely these arguments that relaxation fullyyt on spiritual religion or which fall lower than a minimum point of plausibility.

By John Damascene, G. R. Woodward, Harold Mattingly, David M. Lang

ISBN-10: 0674990382

ISBN-13: 9780674990388

The most effective identified examples of the hagiographic novel, this can be the story of an Indian prince who turns into conscious of the world's miseries and is switched over to Christianity through the monk Barlaam. Barlaam and Josaphat (Ioasaph) have been believed to have re-converted India after her lapse from conversion to Christianity, they usually have been numbered one of the Christian saints. Centuries in the past likenesses have been spotted among the lifetime of Josaphat and the lifetime of the Buddha; the resemblances are in incidents, doctrine, and philosophy, and Barlaam's ideas of abstinence resemble the Buddhist monk's. yet now not until eventually the mid-nineteenth century was once it known that, in Josaphat, the Buddha were honored as a Christian saint for roughly one thousand years. The foundation of the tale of Barlaam and Ioasaph—which in itself has little bizarre to Buddhism—appears to be a Manichaean tract produced in imperative Asia. It used to be welcomed by means of the Arabs and via the Georgians. The Greek romance of Barlaam seems individually first within the eleventh century. many of the Greek manuscripts characteristic the tale to John the Monk, and it is just a few later scribes who establish this John with John Damascene (ca. 676–749). there's powerful facts in Latin and Georgian in addition to Greek that it used to be the Georgian Euthymius (who died in 1028) who brought on the tale to be translated from Georgian into Greek, the full being reshaped and supplemented. The Greek romance quickly unfold all through Christendom, and used to be translated into Latin, previous Slavonic, Armenian, and Arabic. An English model (from Latin) was once utilized by Shakespeare in his caskets scene within the service provider of Venice. David M. Lang's creation lines parallels among the Buddhist and Christian legends, discusses the significance of Arabic types, and notes affects of the Manichaean creed.

By Benoytosh Bhattacharyya

Inspite of the regular view opposed to Tantricism and Tantric literature, Hindus often are within the grip of this very Tantra of their way of life, customs and usages with all of the attendant strong and evil. the current paintings investigates and areas earlier than the students a dispassionate account of the Tantras usually and Buddhist Tantras specifically. the writer strains its beginning to primitive magic and its improvement. Narrating the increase of Vajrayana and its native land, in addition to the Tantras and Mantras Buddhism has given to the area, he documents the money owed of trendy authors. goals and items, the prime tenets, the strategy for worship are elaborated including an outline of the Buddhist deities and its Pantheon. The impact of Buddhist Tantraicism on Hinduism is logically evaluated. comprises Index and illustrations.

By Tao Jiang

ISBN-10: 0824831063

ISBN-13: 9780824831066

ISBN-10: 0824861981

ISBN-13: 9780824861988

ISBN-10: 1435666445

ISBN-13: 9781435666443

Are there Buddhist conceptions of the subconscious? if that is so, are they extra Freudian, Jungian, or anything else? If no longer, can Buddhist conceptions be reconciled with the Freudian, Jungian, or different versions? those are a few of the questions that experience prompted sleek scholarship to method alayavijnana, the storehouse awareness, formulated in Yogacara Buddhism as a subliminal reservoir of developments, conduct, and destiny chances. Tao Jiang argues convincingly that such questions are inherently complex simply because they body their interpretations of the Buddhist concept mostly when it comes to responses to fashionable psychology. He proposes that, if we're to appreciate alayavijnana competently and examine it with the subconscious responsibly, we have to switch the way in which the questions are posed in order that alayavijnana and the subconscious can first be understood inside of their very own contexts after which recontextualized inside a dialogical atmosphere. In so doing, convinced paradigmatic assumptions embedded within the unique frameworks of Buddhist and sleek mental theories are uncovered. Jiang brings jointly Xuan Zang's alayavijnana and Freud's and Jung's subconscious to target what the variations are within the thematic matters of the 3 theories, why such alterations exist when it comes to their goals, and the way their equipment of theorization give a contribution to those variations. "Contexts and discussion" places forth a desirable, erudite, and punctiliously argued presentation of the subliminal brain. It proposes a brand new paradigm in comparative philosophy that examines the what, why, and the way in navigating the similarities and alterations of philosophical structures via contextualization and recontextualization