James Mark Shields

Critical Buddhism

Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the relative calm world of Japanese Buddhist scholarship was thrown into chaos with the publication of several work...

Against Harmony

Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan

Against Harmony traces the history of progressive and radical experiments in Japanese Buddhist thought and practice, from the mid-Meiji period through...

The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics

Many forms of Buddhism, divergent in philosophy and style, emerged as Buddhism filtered out of India into other parts of Asia. Nonetheless, all of the...