Tibetan Buddhism was virtually unknown outside of its Himalayan stronghold before the Chinese occupation of Tibet, which precipitated an exodus eventually numbering more than 100,000, including most of its prominent lamas....
For more information on the published version, visit Oxford University Press's Website., Daniel Cozort is a professor of Religion at Dickinson College., Many forms of Buddhism, divergent in philosophy and style, emerged as...
Ted Merwin is a professor of Religion and Judaic Studies at Dickinson College., Published as:Merwin, Ted. Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli. New York: New York University Press, 2015. For more...
Cozort, Daniel. "The Perfection of Patience." In The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, edited by Joshua W. C. Cutler and Guy Newland, Vol. 2, 151-79. Boston: Snow Lion, 2014., From The Great Treatise on...
Religion cuts across every layer of human experience. Whether conceived as an expression of ultimate meaning, a binding social force, a physiological impulse, or a set of beliefs and practices, the study of religion engages...
It is the First Noble Truth: suffering is the problem, the enemy. Life should be joy, not anguish.Yet on the path to the end of suffering, enemies can be friends. In fact, without suffering, there is no path because there is no...
Daniel Cozort is a professor of Religion at Dickinson College., Few Americans were more than dimly aware of Tibet until the early 1950s, when cinema newsreels showed its high plateaus being forcibly occupied by the Communist...