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Review of Bruce Reichenbach, The Law of KarmaInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 35. 1994.
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“Contemporary Buddhist Philosophy”In Brian Carr and Indira Mahalingam (ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, Routledge. 1997.
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4“Karma in Buddhism and Jainism: Karma, Rebirth, and the Question of Transferability of Karma”Indian Philosophical Annual 23. 2001-2002.
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68Dao and ProcessAsian Philosophy 12 (3). 2002.This paper is about different types of silence, and about differing processes of philosophical investigation and sagely illumination. It is argued that the sagely Dao of wu wei leads to silence in the sense of no spoken words, and the philosophical way of proof leads to silence in the sense of no spoken words. So both proof and wu wei both lead to silence in the sense of no spoken words. Accordingly there is a type of silence that results from the explosive process of philosophical argumentation…Read more
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“Satisfactions and Obstacles in Philosophizing Across Cultures”In D. P. Chattopadaya and C. Gupta (ed.), Cultural Otherness and Beyond, E.j. Brill. 1998.
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“Buddhology”In William M. Johnston (ed.), Encyclopedia of Monasticism: A-L, Fitzroy Dearborn. 2000.
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Rethinking Experience in Early BuddhismIn Frank Hoffman & Deegalle Mahinda (eds.), Pali Buddhism, Curzon Press. 1996.
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8Introduction to Early Buddhism: Philosophical Texts, Concepts, and QuestionsResearch Centre for Buddhist Studies. 2013.SUMMARY OF INTRODUCTION TO EARLY BUDDHISM Introduction to Early Buddhism by Frank J. Hoffman is a work designed for introducing students to the central philosophical themes and issues in early Buddhism. The book is divided topically into chapters that give an overview of the life of the Buddha, Buddhism and Buddhist texts, Logic, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics. Each of the chapters focus on a selection of Pali sutta (discourses) that explain the Buddhist position on the topic of that chap…Read more
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“Unskillful Karma: Environmental Pollution as Ignorance in Action”.“Unskillful Karma: EnviroInternational Journal for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism, Chinese University of Hong Kong 1 (1). 2011.
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“Buddhism: Overview”In William M. Johnston (ed.), Encyclopedia of Monasticism: A-L, Fitzroy Dearborn. 2000.
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“Mind and Mental States in Buddhist Philosophy” in Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Macmillan, 2006).In Donald M. Borchert (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Macmillan Reference. 2005.
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“Process Concepts of Text, Practice, and No Self in Buddhism” in William Sweet (ed.), Migrating Texts and TraditionsIn William Sweet (ed.), Migrating Texts and Traditions, University of Ottawa Press. 2012.
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“Miracles and Conversion Experiences in Early Buddhism”In Conference Committee (ed.), Proceedings of the Won Buddhism Conference, Iksan, South Korea, Youngsan Won Buddhist Seminary. 2003.
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20Editorial: Meanings and applications of daoAsian Philosophy 12 (3): 155. 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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22Buddhist Belief ‘In’Religious Studies 21 (3): 381-387. 1985.Recent articles in Religious Studies have underscored the questions of whether Buddhism presents any empirical doctrines, and whether, if it does, such doctrines are false or vacuous. In what follows I want to sketch an interpretation of Buddhism according to which it does not offer doctrines which are empirically false, on the one hand, or trivially true on the other. In doing so I take my cue from an earlier, and by now classic, paper by H. H. Price. For the exposition of Buddhism I take the P…Read more
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38Rationality in early buddhist four fold logicJournal of Indian Philosophy 10 (4): 309-337. 1982.
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“Is Won Buddhism, Buddhism?”In Bokin Kim (ed.), Won Buddhism in the U.S.: Issues and Visions for the Future, . 2008.
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“Zasto se budizam ne moze opovrgnuti?”“Zasto Se budizKulture Istoka (Beograd, Yugoslavia) (Broj. 23). 1990.
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“Before ‘Post Zen’: A Discussion of Buddhist Ethics”In D. Z. Phillips (ed.), Religion and Morality (London: Macmillan 1996; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996)., Macmillan and St. Martin's. 1996.
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11Review of Researches in Indian and Buddhist Philosophy by Ram Karan Sharma (review)Philosophy East and West 47 (1): 90-91. 1997.
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Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |
Aesthetics |
Asian Philosophy |
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Philosophy of Religion |
Aesthetics |
Asian Philosophy |