Learn a language from the comfort of your own home <li>With Teach Yourself Sanskrit Complete Course, the series brings to life this ancient language, allowing you not only to learn the literary and classical tongue of India but also to be able to decipher Sanskrit text. It also presents numerous passages of original Sanskrit writing. Includes: <ul>
<li>Extensive exercises so readers can review what they have learned </li>
<li>An overview of the culture surrounding the language, giving travelers and students an understanding of how it is used in context </li>
<li>Expertise from authors with strong scholarship in each language </li>
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Teach Yourself Sanskrit Complete Course (Teach Yourself Language)

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Coulson, Michael

Richard, Gombrich

Benson, James

Foreign Language Study & Reference

McGraw=Hill

It's easy to teach yourself Sanskrit! Complete Sanskrit: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Sanskrit, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding and writing Sanskrit with confidence. 
Within each of the 24 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues. You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning.
Features: <li>One and five-minute introductions to key principles to get you started </li>
<li>Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience </li>
<li>Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress </li>
<li>Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the basics of the language</li>

Complete Sanskrit: A Teach Yourself Guide (Teach Yourself Language)

Functional and fun, each course offers full pronunciation guides, grammar summaries, dialogues, cultural notes, vocabulary charts, and irregular verb tables. Ideal for complete language study from comprehension, to speaking and writing skills, to understanding the culture.

Sanskrit: A Complete Course for Beginners (Teach Yourself Books)

Michael Coulson

James Benson

NTC Pub. Group

Chinese Buddhism Today: Conservatism, Modernism, Syncretism and Enjoying Life on the Buddha's Light Mountain (Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs)

Religion & Spirituality

Yu-Shuang

Buddhism

Equinox Publishing

What the Buddha Thought (Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs)

In What the Buddha Thought, Richard Gombrich argues that the Buddha was one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of all time. Intended to serve as an introduction to the Buddhas thought, and hence even to Buddhism itself, the book also has larger aims: it argues that we can know far more about the Buddha than it is fashionable among scholars to admit, and that his thought has a greater coherence than is usually recognised. It contains much new material. Interpreters both ancient and modern have taken little account of the historical context of the Buddhas teachings; but by relating them to early brahminical texts, and also to ancient Jainism, Gombrich gives a much richer picture of the Buddhas meaning, especially when his satire and irony are appreciated. Incidentally, since many of the Buddhas allusions can only be traced in the Pali versions of surviving texts, the book establishes the importance of the Pali Canon as evidence. The book contains much new material. The author stresses the Buddhas capacity for abstraction: though he made extensive use of metaphor, he did not found his arguments upon it, as earlier thinkers had done. He ethicized and radically reinterpreted older ideas of karma (human action) and rebirth. Similarly, building on older texts, he argued for the fundamental importance of love and compassion, and analysed fire as a process which could stand as a model for every component of conscious experience. Morally, the Buddhas theory of karma provided a principle of individuation and asserted each individuals responsibility for his own destiny. To make the book completely accessible to the general reader, the author provides an introductory section of Background Information, for easy reference.

What the Buddha Thought provides an introduction to the Buddha’s thought, and Buddhism itself. It argues that we can know far more about the Buddha than is generally acknowledged, and that his thought has a greater coherence than is usually recognized. Interpreters both ancient and modern have taken little account of the historical context of the Buddha’s teachings; but by relating them to early brahminical texts, and also to ancient Jainism, Gombrich gives a much richer picture of the Buddha’s meaning, especially when his satire and irony are appreciated. Since many of the Buddha’s allusions can only be traced in the Pali versions of surviving texts, the book establishes the importance of the Pali Canon as evidence. The author stresses the Buddha’s capacity for abstraction: though he made extensive use of metaphor, he did not found his arguments upon it, as earlier thinkers had done. He ethicized and radically reinterpreted older ideas of karma and rebirth. Similarly, building on older texts, he argued for the fundamental importance of love and compassion, and analysed fire as a process which could stand as a model for every component of conscious experience. Morally, the Buddha’s theory of karma provided a principle of individuation and asserted each individual’s responsibility for his own destiny.

What the Buddha Thought

Motilal Banarsidass Publishers

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