In his book Concepts in Buddhism and Buddhist Philosophy: On Human Existence, Consciousness, Psychic Phenomena and Rebirth ...
THROUGHOUT Asia, some 500 million people—including the Dalai Lama—practice Buddhism. An outgrowth of Hinduism, Buddhism accepts the central Hindu idea of reincarnation: every soul turns on a wheel ...
More than two thousand years ago, in a village in North India, Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment while sitting under what became known as the Bodhi tree. This multilayered historical ethnography ...