Politics and Transcendent Wisdom presents a systematic theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between Politics and religion in a variety of contexts.
Showing that Buddhist notions of sovereignty were meant and were taken as more than mere metaphor, Orzech examines the profound link between Buddhist notions of transcendence and the deployment of.
This book examines the formation of "national protection" Buddhism in China and translates the key text of this important movement.
Politics and Transcendent Wisdom presents a systematic theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between Politics and religion in a variety of contexts