Attracting the Heart(1st Edition) Social Relations and the Aesthetics of Emotion in Sri Lankan Monastic Culture (Topics in Contemporary Buddhism) by JeffreySamuels Hardcover, 167 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Hawaii Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-3385-5, ISBN: 0-8248-3385-6
"An idealized view of the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk might be described according to the doctrinal demand for emotional detachment and, ultimately, the cessation of all desire. Yet monks are also enjoined to practice compassion, a powerful emotion and equally lofty ideal, and live with every other human feeling―love, hate, jealousy, ambition―while relating to other monks and the lay community. In this important ethnography of Buddhism ..."
Approaching the Dhamma Buddhist Texts and Practices in South and Southeast Asia (Paperback) by JeffreySamuels, Anne M. Blackburn 306 Pages, Published 2020 by Bps Pariyatti Editions, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-68172-315-0, ISBN: 1-68172-315-8
"Eleven eminent Buddhist studies scholars have contributed essays to this collection, assembled to celebrate the life of the late Sri Lankan scholar, social worker, and meditation master Godwin Samararatne. (Note: This title was previously ..."
"This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profitee ..."
"H. Richard Niebuhr, Faith on Earth: An Inquiry into the Structure of Human Faith,
ed. Richard R. Niebuhr (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989): 24. H. Richard
Niebuhr, Radical Monotheism and Western Culture, with Supplementary ..."
Approaching the Dhamma Buddhist Texts and Practices in South and Southeast Asia by JeffreySamuels 305 Pages, Published 2016 by Pariyatti Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-68172-042-5, ISBN: 1-68172-042-6
"The older version by T.W Rhys Davids is in Dialogues of the Buddha (Digha
Nikāya), part ii, (Oxford: The Pāli Text Society, 1989): ... Digha Nikāya, (Boston:
Wisdom Publications, 1995): 231-77. ... See The Collection of the Middle-Length
Sayings, vol., i, trans., I.B. Horner (London: The Pāli Text Society, 1987): 109. ... a
kind of spiritual isolation from others rather than pity for the world, whereas “lamp”
or “light” suggest inw ..."
"Jeffrey Samuels, Justin Thomas McDaniel, Mark Michael Rowe. for laypeople,
nuns, and monks to reach distant audiences through Internet sermons, blogs,
and television specials. There are also regular exchanges of professors and
students ..."
Topics in Contemporary Buddhism Ser. Attracting the Heart : Social Relations and the Aesthetics of Emotion in Sri Lankan Monastic Culture by JeffreySamuels 192 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Hawaii Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-6062-2, ISBN: 0-8248-6062-4
"Jeffrey Samuels is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and
Religion at Western Kentucky University. He received a PhD in history of
religions from the University of Virginia in 2002. Along with co-editing a book (
with Anne ..."
"This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profitee ..."