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Author : Amṛtānanda (Bhikkhu)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (838 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Theravada Buddhism in Modern Nepal written by Amṛtānanda (Bhikkhu) and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amr̥tānanda (Bhikshu)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Theravada Buddhism in Modern Nepal written by Amr̥tānanda (Bhikshu) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah LeVine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674040120
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Rebuilding Buddhism written by Sarah LeVine and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebuilding Buddhism describes in evocative detail the experiences and achievements of Nepalis who have adopted Theravada Buddhism. This form of Buddhism was introduced into Nepal from Burma and Sri Lanka in the 1930s, and its adherents have struggled for recognition and acceptance ever since. With its focus on the austere figure of the monk and the biography of the historical Buddha, and more recently with its emphasis on individualizing meditation and on gender equality, Theravada Buddhism contrasts sharply with the highly ritualized Tantric Buddhism traditionally practiced in the Kathmandu Valley. Based on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and historical reconstruction, the book provides a rich portrait of the different ways of being a Nepali Buddhist over the past seventy years. At the same time it explores the impact of the Theravada movement and what its gradual success has meant for Buddhism, for society, and for men and women in Nepal.
Author : Harischandra Lal Singh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Buddhism in Nepal written by Harischandra Lal Singh and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harischandra Lal Singh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book A Brief Encyclopaedia of Buddhism in Nepal written by Harischandra Lal Singh and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Min Bahadur Shakya
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (695 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Buddhism in Nepal written by Min Bahadur Shakya and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah LeVine and David N. Gellner
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ISBN 13 : 9788187358398
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (583 download)
Download or read book REBUILDING BUDDHISM The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal written by Sarah LeVine and David N. Gellner and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebuilding Buddhism Describes In Evocative Detail The Experiences And Achievements Of Nepalis Who Have Adopted Theravada Buddhism. This Form Of Buddhism Was Introduced Into Nepal From Burma And Sri Lanka In The 1930S, And Its Adherents Have Struggled For Recognition And Acceptance Ever Since. With Its Focus On The Austere Figure Of The Monk And The Biography Of The Historical Buddha, And More Recently With Its Emphasis On Individualizing Meditation And On Gender Equality, Theravada Buddhism Contrasts Sharply With The Highly Ritualized Tantric Buddhism Traditionally Practiced In The Kathmandu Valley.
Author : Mīnabahādura Śākya
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (218 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Buddhism in Nepal written by Mīnabahādura Śākya and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David N. Gellner
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ISBN 13 : 9788185618135
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest written by David N. Gellner and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Learman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824828103
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Missionaries in the Era of Globalization written by Linda Learman and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful volume dispels the common notion that Buddhism is not a missionary religion by revealing Asian Buddhists as active agents in the propagation of their faith. It presents at the same time a new framework with which to study missionary activity in both Buddhist and other religious traditions. Included are case studies of Theravada, Chinese, and Tibetan Buddhist teachers and congregations, as well as the Pure Land, Shingon, Zen, and Soka Gakkai traditions of Japan. Contributors examine both foreign and domestic missions and the activities of emigrant communities, showing the resources and strategies garnered by late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century Buddhists who worked to uphold and further their respective traditions, often under difficult circumstances. Based on anthropological fieldwork and historical research, the essays break new ground and provide better analytical tools for studying mission activity than previously available. They provide instructive comparisons with Anglo-American Protestant missionary thinking and offer insights into the internal dynamics of Sri Lankan and Japanese missions as they make their way in Protestant and Catholic societies. Also included are nuanced studies of two major missionary figures in late twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism and a fascinating look at the present Dalai Lama’s relationships with his devotees and the American government, viewed through an exposition of the abiding tradition within Tibetan Buddhism that combines mission activity with the political goals of exiled lamas. Contributors: Stuart Chandler; Peter B. Clarke; C. Julia Huang; Steven Kemper; Linda Learman; Sarah LeVine; Richard K. Payne; Cristina Rocha; George J. Tanabe, Jr.; Gray Tuttle.
Author : Tomomi Ito
Publisher : National University of Singapore Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Modern Thai Buddhism and Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu written by Tomomi Ito and published by National University of Singapore Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buddhist monk Buddhasdasa Bhikku (1906-1993) injected fresh life into Thai Buddhism by exploring and teaching little known transcendent aspects of the religion. His investigations excited both monks and lay people, and gave rise to the vigourous discussion in shops, temple yards and newly founded Buddhist associations. Moreover, he was a prolific author, who produced a rich array of publications that are indicative of his popularity and the impact of his teachings. While these discussions included serious exchanges on doctrine and practice, they also included jokes and light humor, criticisms of weak evidence for certain positions, and a defamation campaign arising from rumors that Buddhadasa was a communist sympathizer. Buddhadasa's thoughts and historical context coincide with the general picture of "modern Buddhism" and he may be seen as an agent of "Buddhist modernity," but he worked predominantly in Thailand through the medium of the Thai language, and he contributed much more significantly to Thai Buddhists than to Buddhist practice outside the country. An enormous amount of material relating to Buddhadasa Bhikkhu has been captured in religious journals and in numerous "pocket books" aimed at a general audience. Departing from the classical method of studying Buddhism through philology, Tomomi Ito's account of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu draws on this popular literature and on conversations with a broad spectrum of the people involved in these discussions to develop an account of Buddhism as it is experienced by Thai people. The result is a lively intellectual and social history of contemporary Thai religion and society built around the life of an exceptional monk who captured the interest of Buddhists pursuing spiritual depth in the context of the ideological conflicts of the Cold War.
Author : John Snelling
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892813193
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Buddhist Handbook written by John Snelling and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1991 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first definitive guide to the complete panorama of Buddhist teaching, practice, schools, and history. One of the fastest growing religions in the world, Buddhism includes with its scope numerous traditions. The Buddhist Handbook provides a comprehensive and nonsectarian survey of these traditions and their contemporary exponents throughout the world, providing necessary information for those who wish to explore the various options thoroughly and find one that is suited to their needs. For those already practicing in a particular school of Buddhism, it offers illuminating insight into the teachings of other schools for a more holistic view.
Author : Jeffrey Samuels
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824858581
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia written by Jeffrey Samuels and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers—all whose lives reflect changes in modern Buddhism even as they themselves shape the course of these changes. The editors and contributors are fundamentally concerned with how individual Buddhists make meaning and display this understanding to others. Some practitioners profiled look to the past, lamenting the transformations Buddhism has undergone in recent times, while others embrace these. Some have adopted a “new asceticism,” while others are eager to explore different religious traditions as they think about their own ways of being Buddhist. Arranging the profiles according to these themes—looking backward, forward, inward, and outward—reveals the value of studying individual Buddhists and their idiosyncratic religious backgrounds and attitudes, thus highlighting the diversity of approaches to the practice and study of Buddhism in Asia today. Students and teachers will welcome sections on further readings and additional tables of contents that organize the profiles thematically, as well as by tradition (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana), region, and country.
Author : Eugène Burnouf
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226081257
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism written by Eugène Burnouf and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most influential work on Buddhism to be published in the nineteenth century, Introduction à l’histoire du Buddhisme indien, by the great French scholar of Sanskrit Eugène Burnouf, set the course for the academic study of Buddhism—and Indian Buddhism in particular—for the next hundred years. First published in 1844, the masterwork was read by some of the most important thinkers of the time, including Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in Germany and Emerson and Thoreau in America. Katia Buffetrille and Donald S. Lopez Jr.’s expert English translation, Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism, provides a clear view of how the religion was understood in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Burnouf was an impeccable scholar, and his vision, especially of the Buddha, continues to profoundly shape our modern understanding of Buddhism. In reintroducing Burnouf to a new generation of Buddhologists, Buffetrille and Lopez have revived a seminal text in the history of Orientalism.
Author : International Association of Buddhist Studies. Conference
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Buddhism and Violence written by International Association of Buddhist Studies. Conference and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles presented at the 13th Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies held in Bangkok, Dec. 2002.
Author : Bhikkhu Bodhi
Publisher : Buddhist Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 955240116X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Noble Eightfold Path written by Bhikkhu Bodhi and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buddha's teachings center around two basic principles. One is the Four Noble Truths, in which the Buddha diagnoses the problem of suffering and indicates the treatment necessary to remedy this problem. The other is the Noble Eightfold Path, the practical discipline he prescribes to uproot and eliminate the deep underlying causes of suffering. The present book offers, in simple and clear language, a concise yet thorough explanation of the Eightfold Path. Basing himself solidly upon the Buddha's own words, the author examines each factor of the path to determine exactly what it implies in the way of practical training. Finally, in the concluding chapter, he shows how all eight factors of the path function in unison to bring about the realization of the Buddhist goal: enlightenment and liberation.
Author : San San May
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295744499
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Buddhism Illuminated written by San San May and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist temples in Southeast Asia are centers for the preservation of local artistic traditions. Chief among these are manuscripts, a vital source for our understanding of Buddhist ideas and practices in the region. They are also a beautiful art form, too little understood in the West. The British Library has one of the richest collections of Southeast Asian manuscripts, principally from Thailand and Burma, anywhere in the world. It includes finely painted copies of Buddhist scriptures, literary works, historical narratives, and works on traditional medicine, law, cosmology, and fortune-telling. Buddhism Illuminated includes over one hundred examples of Buddhist art from the Library’s collection, relating each manuscript to Theravada tradition and beliefs, and introducing the historical, artistic, and religious contexts of their production. It is the first book in English to showcase the beauty and variety of Buddhist manuscript art and reproduces many works that have never before been photographed.
