title: Religions of Asia in Practice: An Anthology (Princeton Readings in Religions)
author: Donald S. Lopez Jr.
description: "This volume serves as a complete introductory text to Asian religions (in theory as well as in practice), and should be used widely in college classrooms for decades to come."<b>---Frederick M. Smith, <i>Religious Studies Review</i></b>
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  _Anthony C. Yu _is the Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor
  Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Literature
  in the Divinity School; also in the Departments of Comparative Literature,
  East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and English Language and Literature,
  and the Committee on Social Thought. His scholarly work focuses on comparative
  study of both literary and religious traditions.
  
  
  
  
  
  Publication of this volume was made possible by a grant from the Chiang Ching-
  kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (USA).
  
  
  
  
  
  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
  
  
  
  
  
  The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
  
  
  
  
  
  © 2012 by The University of Chicago
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved. Published 2012.
  
  
  
  
  
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  ISBN-13: 978-0-226-97133-9 (cloth)
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN-13: 978-0-226-97134-6 (pape