NEW PATHS IN BUDDHIST RESEARCH
Edited by A.K. Warder

x, 137 pages.
ISBN: 0-89386-009-3. Pb. $13.95. ISBN: 0-89386-008-5. Hardcover $24.95

This volume traces the presence of Buddhism in the human experience and its significant contributions to civilization through philosophy, ethics and science. The unifying thread of worldly renuncian and the attainment of nirvana is visible in these scholarly treatments of Buddhist poetry, the history of science, and theology. They bring fresh perspectives to the concepts of dharmakaya, “the body of doctrine” and nirvana, Pali nibbana (the question of consciousness) as well as to the literary parallels between the schools of differing historical traditions.