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3Book reviews (review)Asian Philosophy 7 (3): 235-252. 1997.Enlightenment East and West Leonard Angel, 1994 Albany, State University of New York Press 388 pp. Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism Bernard Faure, trans, by Phyius Brooks, 1996 Princeton, Princeton University Press 329 pp. Pāli Buddhism. Curzon Studies in Asian Philosophy Frank J. Hoffman & Deegaixe Mahinda, 1996 Richmond, Curzon Press xiii + 233 pp., ISBN 0 7007 0359 4, hb £40 Friendship East and West: philosophical perspectives Oliver Leaman, 1996 Richmond UK, Curzon Pres…Read more
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6Contemporary buddhist philosophy: A bibliographical essayAsian Philosophy 2 (1). 1992.No abstract
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Review of Zen Keys by Thich Nhat Hanh, Albert Low, and Jean Low; and of The Golden Age of Zen by John C. Wu (review)Philosophy East and West 48 (1): 165-167. 1998.
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38Rationality and Mind in Early BuddhismMotilal Banarsidass. 1987, 1992, 2002.Chapter 4 MIND AND REBIRTH I The argument of the first three chapters is essentially that the study of early Buddhism is neither methodologically, logically, nor emotively flawed. These chapters argue for the rationality of
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1“Meanings of 'The Meaning of Life' in Buddhism”In Ramakrishna Puligandla David Lee Miller (ed.), Buddhism and the Emerging World Civilization, Southern Illinois University Press,. 1996.
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“Gandhi”In Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Genealogy to Iqbal, Routledge. 1998.
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“The Concept of Focal Point in Models for Inter-religious Understanding”In James Kellenberger (ed.), Inter-religious Models and Criteria, St. Martin's and Macmillan. 1993.
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Buddhism in the Developing WorldIn Thomas M. Leonard (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Developing World, . 2006.
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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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9Dao 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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Rethinking Experience in Early BuddhismIn Frank J. Hoffman Mahinda Deegalle (ed.), Pali Buddhism, Jain Publishing Co.. 2003.
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7Introduction 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, Fitzroy Dearborn. 2000.
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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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University of PennsylvaniaResearcher
West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |
Aesthetics |
Asian Philosophy |
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Philosophy of Religion |
Aesthetics |
Asian Philosophy |