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These essays from the fin de siecle Japanese Zen priest Uchiyama Gud?, provides entry into an aspect of Buddhist history that is otherwise little known, the relations that can be constructed between the buddhadharma and radical political critique and action.

The Buddhist thinkers of medieval India addressed many of the issues that are still central to Buddhist praxis now. One of the most important of those thinkers is Bhviveka, author of the Prajnpradpa. William Ames has translated, carefully and precisely, the first twelve chapters of that work, which he presents in this volume.

Comparing Abhidharma and Chinese Buddhist conceptions of the Buddha's word, Eun-su Cho's study addresses the transmission and reinterpretation of theories of language and opens a doorway to Buddhist philosophical thought in East Asia. This is important because technical Buddhist philosophical thought in East Asia has long been neglected.