On Understanding Buddhists: Essays on the Theravāda Tradition in Sri Lanka

by John Ross Carter

Book Overview

John Ross Carter is Professor of Philosophy and Religion and the Director of Chapel House at Colgate University. He is the author of Dhamma: Western Academic and Sinhalese Buddhist Interpretations; editor of Religiousness in Sri Lanka; co-editor of Religiousness in Yoga: Lectures on Theory and Practice; editor of The Threefold Refuge; and co-author of The Dhammapada: A New English Translation with the Pali Text...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791414140
• ISBN13: 9780791414149
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.