Comparing non-Prasangika and Prasangika Indian logic for gaining valid inferential cognition of a conclusion about an object.

All of Buddha’s teachings are intended to help us overcome difficulties in life.

Buddhist psychology and science have a great deal of relevance for Westerners. The religious aspects of Buddhism can supplement, but not substitute them.

The general principle regarding sexual ethics is to try to minimize any problematic and compulsive aspects of our sexual behavior, motivated by disturbing emotions.

The main issue in Buddhist sexual ethics is to avoid being obsessive about and glorifying sex.

Guidelines for dealing with the challenges of life.

Buddhism welcomes the large variety of world religions and is open to sharing and learning from them useful methods to benefit mankind.

A comparative overview of the Buddhist point of view of time, referring to the interval that can be measured on a continuum between a cause and an effect, and the relativistic point of view in current Western science.

During the first millennium CE, Muslims were interested to learn of the beliefs of the peoples they had conquered and now ruled, including Buddhism, while Buddhists were interested in other beliefs only when they were vying with them in debate for royal patronage and that...

This bibliography, compiled in 1996, contains materials for supplementing "The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire" from the previous Berzin Archives website with further parts on the Mongol and Post-Mongol Periods.]...