"A provocative essay challenging the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism, from one of the world's most widely respected philosophers and writers on Buddhism and science. Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from business to romance. There are conferences, courses, and celebrities promoting the notion that Buddhism is spirituality for the rational; compatible with cutting-edge science; indeed, "a science of the mind." In this provocative book, Evan Thompson argues that this representation of Buddhism is false. In lucid and entertaining prose, Thompson dives deep into both Western and Buddhist philosophy to explain how the goals of science and religion are fundamentally different. Efforts to seek their unification are wrongheaded and promote mistaken ideas of both. He suggests cosmopolitanism instead, a worldview with deep roots in both Eastern and Western traditions. Smart, sympathetic, and intellectually ambitious, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in Buddhism's place in our world today."--Provided by publisher.

本书以敦煌这一中西交通的咽喉要冲为标本，借以管窥中国古代和西方交通的概貌。对古代中国和西方的文化、科技、经贸、人员的交流都多有论说，使千载之下的我们对当时中西古道的繁盛景象，有了较为生动、具体的了解。全书分为丝绸之路的命名及内涵，丝绸之路的开通，“四主”之说，象王国印度，唐和印度属国的友谊，唐与马主突厥的关系，唐蕃古道，丝绸之路上的行人，中印文化、科技的交流等九部分。

Between 1850 and 1966, tens of thousands of Buddhist sacred sites in China were destroyed, victims of targeted destruction, accidental damage, or simply neglect. During the same period, however, many of these sites were reconstructed, a process that involved both rebuilding material structures and reviving religious communities. The conventionally accepted narrative of Chinese Buddhism during the modern era is that it underwent a revival initiated by innovative monastics and laypersons, leaders who reinvented Buddhist traditions to meet the challenges of modernity. Gregory Adam Scott shows, however, that over time it became increasingly difficult for reconstruction leaders to resist the interests of state actors, who sought to refashion monastery sites as cultural monuments rather than as living religious communities. These sites were then intended to serve as symbols of Chinese history and cultural heritage, while their function as a frame for religious life was increasingly pushed aside. As a result, the power to determine whether and how a monastery would be reconstructed, and the types of activities that would be reinstated or newly introduced, began to shift from religious leaders and communities to state agencies that had a radically different set of motivations and values.
Building the Buddhist Revival explores the history of Chinese Buddhist monastery reconstruction from the end of the Imperial period through the first seventeen years of the People's Republic. Over this century of history, the nature and significance of reconstructing Buddhist monasteries changes drastically, mirroring broader changes in Chinese society. Yet this book argues that change has always been in the nature of religious communities such as Buddhist monasteries, and that reconstruction, rather than a return to the past, represents innovative and adaptive change. In this way, it helps us understand the broader significance of the Buddhist "revival" in China during this era, as a creative reconstruction of religion upon longstanding foundations.

"Greek Buddha" shows how Buddhism shaped the philosophy of Pyrrho, the famous founder of Pyrrhonian scepticism in ancient Greece. Identifying Pyrrho's basic teachings with those of Early Buddhism, Christopher I. Beckwith traces the origins of a major tradition in Greek philosophy to Gandh?ra, a country in Central Asia and northwestern India.
Pyrrho of Elis accompanied Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Graeco-Macedonian invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334-324 BC, and while there met with teachers of Early Buddhism, a philosophy that Beckwith analyzes in depth. Using a range of primary sources, he systematically looks at the teachings and practices of Pyrrho and of Early Buddhism, including those preserved in testimonies by and about Pyrrho, in the report on Indian philosophy two decades later by the Seleucid ambassador Megasthenes, in the first-person edicts by the Indian king Dev?n priya Priyadar?i referring to a popular variety of the Dharma in the early third century BC, and in Taoist echoes of Gautama's Dharma in Warring States China. Beckwith demonstrates how the teachings of Pyrrho agree closely with those of the Buddha kyamuni, "the Scythian Sage." In the process, he identifies eight distinct attested philosophical schools in ancient northwestern India and Central Asia, including Early Zoroastrianism, Early Brahmanism, and several forms of Early Buddhism. Beckwith then shows the influence that Pyrrho's brand of scepticism had on the evolution of Western thought, first in Antiquity, and later, during the Enlightenment, on the great philosopher and self-proclaimed "Pyrrhonian," David Hume.

"Greek Buddha" demonstrates that through Pyrrho, Early Buddhist thought had a significant impact on Western philosophy.

此书曾于1995年获得由金石与美文学学院颁发的法国汉学之最高奖【儒莲奖】

本書是対敦煌市博物館蔵077号禅籍的整理校録，包含五種文献：菩提達摩南宗定是非論、南陽和上頓教解脱禅門直了“見”性壇語、南宗定邪正五更転、南宗頓教最上大乘壇経、注般若波羅蜜多心経。録文以敦博本為底本，以原文照録為原則，毎種文献均取所能找到的敦煌其他抄本作校本，在校記中詳細記録与底本之異同。毎篇録文前有簡要説明。影印本。

《吐蕃僧诤记》主要内容简介：学习他人之长，包括一切方面。专就敦煌吐鲁番学研究而论，同样有向别的国家学习的任务。当然，在这里，同在其他方面一样，发明创造仍然居第一位。学习他人之长与发明创造，这二者并不互相排斥，而是相辅相成。

本书撰成于距今四十九年之前，依然历久常新，除了昭和八年高野山大学出版部为之单行出版，昭和三十九年又被收载于东京隆文馆出版的丛书《现代佛教名著全集》第九册。原题为《秘密佛教史》，共分印度、中国、日本等三章。译者因为多忙，日本密教对我们也较疏远，所以仅译出其中的前两章；纵然中国密教章的第七、第八两节，是介绍喇嘛教及朝鲜密教，由于译者曾经写过《西藏佛教史》，及《日韩佛教史略》，故将此两节省略了。
密教在佛教之中，别出一歧，有许多观念及行事，均非习惯于显教者所能理解。密教本身的人，对于自家的历史背景及其源头，又多以坚固的信心，服从传说而少探究史实；唯恐在历史背景的探讨上丧失了传承的信心。日本已将学术与信仰，彼此调和，所以，密教本身创办的高野山大学，既是培养自宗传承信仰的弘化人才，也培养学术研究的教育人才。所以，译出本书的目的，固然是站在佛教史的立场，向国人介绍密教的历史，也望借以鼓励中国现代密教的教师与教徒们，能正确地认识他们自己的历史。若有因缘，我还会介绍密教的教理与密教的行事。

Review
In this insightful book, Ron Purser has evaluated the strengths and weakness of the mindfulness movement, while clearly showing the way to cultivate authentic mindfulness that liberates us from the true causes of individual and collective suffering.”
- B. Alan Wallace, President, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies
“Far from being either a harmless form of New Age self-indulgence or meditation dressed up as a medicalized antidote to the ubiquitous stresses of modern life, Ron Purser sees the mindfulness movement as epitomizing a malignant trend of contemporary Western individualism, one that is blinding us to the social problems of inherent in neoliberalism and capitalism, providing an anodyne where what is needed is rigorous analysis and political action.”
- Barry Magid, author of What’s Wrong With Mindfulness
“McMindfulness makes an important critique of self-centered mindfulness and points us towards a new vision for real social change.”
- Christopher Titmuss, author of The Political Buddha
“Ron Purser cuts through the comforting New Age jargon used to promote mindfulness, enabling us to distinguish between the practice and its marketing.”
- Richard Payne, Institute of Buddhist Studies
"Timely and incisive... Purser reveals how mindfulness became a vast industry, promising to cure us of a growing range of psychological ailments, and simultaneously propping up the political and economic system that generates them.”
— William Davies, author of Nervous States and The Happiness Industry
“If you are wondering about whether mindfulness is really a panacea for all our problems, this is the book to read.” — David Loy, author of Money, Sex, War and Karma
"Provocatively illustrates how mindfulness has been hijacked by corporate interests, turned into an opiate of the masses, and how we can radically rethink the meaning of mindfulness in contemporary life.”
— Dr. Steven Stanley, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
"Spiky, witty, meticulously researched and thoroughly engaging, McMindfulness is the best assessment of ‘Mindfulness’ to date."
— Manu Bazzano, author of Zen and Therapy: Heretical Perspectives and editor of After Mindfulness: new Perspectives on Psychology and Meditation
"A much needed wake-up call to the dark side of mindfulness-based practices... a must-read.”
– Richard King, Professor of Buddhist and Asian Studies, University of Kent.
"Just the right book at just the right time... May it help turn the tide of western ‘spirituality’ toward a genuine model of personal and social health.”
— Glenn Wallis, author of A Critique of Western Buddhism and Director of Insight Seminars

《佛经汉译之路》为汉语大藏经长阿含第一卷大本经与巴利文文本比对研究，佛经汉译研究中尚属首次。作者从事佛经研究和翻译，以佛经汉译为例，从跨文化研究的角度，探讨中古時期的中国对他者的期待视野。书分四部分：佛經汉译之路 ：汉译佛经的四個阶段；汉巴阿含经结构比较 ；大本经汉译巴利文本逐句比对； 大本经汉译文本研究：中国的期待视野与对中古文言的影响。

本书主要内容包括：《无量寿经优婆提舍愿生偈注》、《略论安乐净土义》、《赞阿弥陀佛偈》、《安乐集》等。

释非浊编的《三宝感应要略录》是一部發現于日 本的珍貴遼代典籍，其編纂者為僧人非濁。該書共輯 錄164則有關佛寶、法寶、僧寶感應的故事，所引用 的70餘種文獻典籍有過半業已亡佚，故具有重要的文 獻價值與史料價值，是探討佛教思想與信徒信仰的一 部重要遼代典籍。本著作以《大正藏》排印本為底本 ，參校日本典籍和國內文獻，對非濁《三寶感應要略 錄》予以標點校勘、注疏詮釋、文獻考辨，以此提供 一個準確、詳備的注本，並通過梳理每則故事的溯源 流變、傳抄承襲等現象以求還原版本原貌，進而引發 對遼代宗教傳播情況的思索。

本书所说的敦煌图像研究，含两层意思：一是敦煌石窟中绘塑些什么题材？二是为什么要绘塑这些题材？
本书第一、二章本可以合二为一，但考虑到北凉石窟的独创性，最终还是决定分开写。这两章的第一节都是写窟产生的历史背景，但在写法上不是从泛论经济、政治、文化背景着手，而是通过摘录河西走廊大量禅僧习禅的文献记载，对照现存禅窟贵例，来证明“凿仙窟以居禅”，或“入定窟以澄神”的历史必然性。第二章以大量的文字论述“入塔观像”。“塔”即窟内的中心塔柱，“像”指中心塔柱龛内的造像。第三章许千佛图像，研究对象由中心塔柱转向四壁。千佛图像系中国僧人的独创新，现存实物景最见于靖炳灵寺第169窟，西秦绘，然后向东见于天水麦积山、大同云冈、洛阳龙门等石窟，向西见于武威天梯山、张掖金塔寺、酒泉文殊山、族煌莫高窟以及新疆地区诸石窟，最后又反馈到古代印度。第四章讲三世十方堵佛，这是对千佛图像的进一步分类研究。现在已经在十六国、北朝时期的石窟内找到三世十方诸佛的造像题名，足以证明这些图像对于僧尼而言，主要是坐禅观像用的。第五章讲各种本生图，这在禅经中属于法身观。第六章讲佛传图。第七章讲因缘故事图。这两章在禅经中都属于生身观。加之北魏未西魏初主政敦煌的东阳王元荣，又十分迷帝释天与梵天，于是建于西魏的莫高窟第249窟窟顶北、南坡出现了帝释天与梵天巡游太空的图像。这种图像，一直延续到隋代。第八章就是专讲这个问题的。西魏时期，在儒、释、道三教融合思想的影响下，莫高窟出现一些新图像，形象是中国传统的神话人物或者禽灵兽，而反映的思想内容却是佛教的，例如供用伏羲、女娲形象表现佛教的宝应身菩萨与宝吉祥菩萨。第九章专门探讨了这个问题。

《说一切有部之禅定论研究:以梵文 及其梵汉注释为基础》是整个佛教理论体系的重要支柱之一，而印度说一切有部的禅定论则对大乘佛教的发展，特别是对我国佛教禅学理论的发展具有重大而深远的影响。《说一切有部之禅定论研究:以梵文 及其梵汉注释为基础》以梵文原典《俱舍论》第八定品为基础，参考其梵汉注释以及汉、法、英等各种译本，并辅以巴利文经典，对四禅、四无色、等持、等至，以及四无量、八解脱、八胜处、十遍处等理论作了系统的分析和论述，并对一些重要的术语从翻译和历史演化等角度作了考证和辨析。

The “Twenty Verses on Manifestation-Only” of the Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu (c. 350–430?), his Viṁśíkā, is one of the most important treatises of the Yogācāra school. Accompanied by the author’s own commentary, the text lays out a vision of a “Buddhist Idealism” in which even one’s experience of the sufferings of hell is revealed to be nothing other than the results of working out one’s karma. Later scholars commented on the work a number of times, in its original Sanskrit, in Tibetan translation, and in three Chinese versions.
This book presents an edition and translation of the Sanskrit text of the core verses, alongside the original author’s commentary, based directly on the manuscript evidence. This is accompanied by an edition of the canonical translations of these texts found in the Tibetan Tanjurs, as well as a “draft translation” of the verses in Tibetan, found in a manuscript from Dunhuang. This publication therefore provides the most reliable and comprehensive philological accounting to date for this fundamental work.