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Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book Archiv Für Zentralasiatische Geschichtsforschung written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dieter Schuh
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Download or read book Archiv für Zentralasiatische Geschichtsforschung written by Dieter Schuh and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dieter Schuh
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Download or read book Archiv für Zentralasiatische Geschichtsforschung written by Dieter Schuh and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard van der Kuijp
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1559390441
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)
Download or read book Tibetan Literature written by Leonard van der Kuijp and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tibetan Literature addresses the immense variety of Tibet's literary heritage. An introductory essay by the editors attempts to assess the overall nature of 'literature' in Tibet and to understand some of the ways in which it may be analyzed into genres. The remainder of the book contains articles by nearly thirty scholars from America, Europe, and Asia—each of whom addresses an important genre of Tibetan literature. These articles are distributed among eight major rubrics: two on history and biography, six on canonical and quasi-canonical texts, four on philosophical literature, four on literature on the paths, four on ritual, four on literary arts, four on non-literary arts and sciences, and two on guidebooks and reference works.
Author : T. Skorupski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113575182X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Buddhist Forum written by T. Skorupski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Petra H. Maurer
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Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Tibetstudien written by Petra H. Maurer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Martin
Publisher : Serindia Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780906026434
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Tibetan Histories written by Dan Martin and published by Serindia Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 700 items are featured in this bibliography which attempts to provide a comprehensive listing in chronological sequence of Tibetan-language works belonging to the typical historical genres that have evolved between the 11th century and the present. As well as dates and details of composition or publication, authorship and title, there are also references to the secondary literature in other languages.
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Total Pages : 254 pages
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Download or read book Zentralasiatische Studien written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900425241X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Tibetan Inscriptions written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inscriptions are a rather neglected field within Tibetan Studies, because they are often located in places that are not easily accessible for both geographical and political reasons. It is thus especially welcome that two of the contributions to this volume deal with inscriptions documented on recent field trips to Tibet: Benjamin Wood discusses an inscription in Zha lu that relates an enigmatic conflict in the history of the monastery, and Kurt Tropper looks into an epigraphic cycle on the life of the Buddha in Tsaparang. Moreover, Nathan Hill provides a new interpretation of the beginning of the famous Rkong po inscription, and Kunsang Namgyal Lama surveys the various kinds of texts found on tsha tshas. An extra level of reflection is added to the volume by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub’s methodological considerations on the classification and interpretation of inscriptions.
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Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120820487
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Bodhisattva Path written by and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2007 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inquiry of Ugra (Ugrapariprccha) is one of the most influential Mahayana sutras, preserved and transmitted in both India and China over many centuries and actively quoted in treatises on the bodhisattva path. It is, nevertheless, one of the most neglected texts in Western treatments of Buddhism. The Ugra appers to be one of the earliest bodhisattva scriptures to come down to us, and as such it offers a particularly valuable window on the process by which the bodhisattva path came to be seen as a distinct vocational alternative within certain Indian Buddhist communities. The Bodhisattva Path is a study and translation of the Ugra that will fundamentally alter previous perceptions of the way in which Mahayana was viewed and practiced by its earliest adherents. To achieve a better understanding of the universe of ideas, activities, and institutional structures within which early self-proclaimed bodhisattvas lived, the author first considers the Ugra as a literary document, employing new methodological tools to examine the genre to which it belong, the age of its extant versions, and their relationships to one another. She goes on to challenge the dominant notions that the Mahayana emerged as a reform of earlier Buddhism and offered lay people an easier option. On the contrary, the picture that emerges is of the early Mahayana as a more difficult and demanding vocation, initially limited to a small contingent of monastic males. Combining a detailed critical study and translation of an important Buddhist scripture with a sweeping re-examination of the relationship between the Buddha and the practitioners alike and other interested in the history of Indian Buddhism and the formation of Mahayana.
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Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Archiv orientální written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included section "Book reviews"
Author : Kim Gutschow
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038088
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Being a Buddhist Nun written by Kim Gutschow and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They may shave their heads, don simple robes, and renounce materialism and worldly desires. But the women seeking enlightenment in a Buddhist nunnery high in the folds of Himalayan Kashmir invariably find themselves subject to the tyrannies of subsistence, subordination, and sexuality. Ultimately, Buddhist monasticism reflects the very world it is supposed to renounce. Butter and barley prove to be as critical to monastic life as merit and meditation. Kim Gutschow lived for more than three years among these women, collecting their stories, observing their ways, studying their lives. Her book offers the first ethnography of Tibetan Buddhist society from the perspective of its nuns. Gutschow depicts a gender hierarchy where nuns serve and monks direct, where monks bless the fields and kitchens while nuns toil in them. Monasteries may retain historical endowments and significant political and social power, yet global flows of capitalism, tourism, and feminism have begun to erode the balance of power between monks and nuns. Despite the obstacles of being considered impure and inferior, nuns engage in everyday forms of resistance to pursue their ascetic and personal goals. A richly textured picture of the little known culture of a Buddhist nunnery, the book offers moving narratives of nuns struggling with the Buddhist discipline of detachment. Its analysis of the way in which gender and sexuality construct ritual and social power provides valuable insight into the relationship between women and religion in South Asia today.
Author : Colette Caillat
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004094260
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (942 download)
Download or read book Middle Indo-Aryan and Jaina Studies written by Colette Caillat and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1991 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The VIIth World Sanskrit Conference was held in August 1987, at the Kern Institute in Leiden. Panels constituted one of its special features. More than half of these panels will be published in the present series. The titles of the first ten volumes are: "The Sanskrit Tradition and Tantrism", "Earliest Buddhism and Madhyamaka", "The History of Sacred Places in India as Reflected in Traditional Literature", "Sense and Syntax in Vedic", "Pāṇini and the Veda", "Middle Indo-Aryan and Jaina Studies", "Sanskrit Outside India", "Medical Literature from India, Sri Lanka and Tibet", "Indian Art and Archaeology", "Rules and Remedies in Classical Indian Law". Each volume contains contributions by several specialists, and has one or more editors of international reputation in the field concerned.
Author : E. K. Neumaier-Dargyay
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438414463
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Sovereign All-Creating Mind - The Motherly Buddha written by E. K. Neumaier-Dargyay and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What distinguishes this Buddhist text from so many others is the timelessness of its ideas. It constitutes a radical attempt toward deconstructing Buddhist philosophy, and presents a feminist perspective on Buddhist spirituality. The text holds that being is the center and depth of existence, and is therefore accessible in everyday experience. The fleeting existence (samsara) is in its depth being, i.e. a state of complete integration (nirvana) which may well be described as divine reality of a feminine dimension This book presents the first English translation of an eighth century Tibetan Buddhist text. Despite its centuries-old origin, the kun byed rgyal po'i mdo addresses themes of great concern to the present, including how to achieve a holistic world-view that integrates the peripheral nature of existence with the ground of being; and the interrelatedness of periphery and center, of individual and universe. From a contemporary viewpoint this can be seen to engender a feminist understanding of the ground of being. Unlike other Buddhist texts, the kun byed rgyal po'i mdo invites the reader to rejoice in this world as beautified and intelligible, and thus the innate purity of the intelligent potency, the motherly Buddha, will be experienced. In addition to the translation, the book also includes a discussion of the conceptual and historical contexts of the text, an examination of its leading ideas, and an assessment of the challenges related to the translation.
Author : Jan Nattier
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824826079
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (26 download)
Download or read book A Few Good Men written by Jan Nattier and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Few Good Men is a study and translation of The Inquiry of Ugra (Ugrapariprccha), one of the most influential Mahayana sutras on the bodhisattva path, but also one of the most neglected texts in Western treatments of Buddhism. To achieve a better understanding of the universe of ideas, activities, and institutional structures within which early self-proclaimed bodhisattvas lived, the author first considers the Ugra as a literary document, employing new methodological tools to examine the genre to which it belongs, the age of its extant versions, and their relationships to one another. She goes on to challenge the dominant notions that the Mahayana emerged as a "reform" of earlier Buddhism and offered lay people an "easier option." A Few Good Men will be compelling reading for scholars and practitioners alike and others interested in the history of Indian Buddhism and the formation of Mahayana.
Author : Peter Schwieger
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023153860X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China written by Peter Schwieger and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new work in modern Tibetan history, this book follows the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism's trülku (reincarnation) tradition from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, along with the Emperor of China's efforts to control its development. By illuminating the political aspects of the trülku institution, Schwieger shapes a broader history of the relationship between the Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China, as well as a richer understanding of the Qing Dynasty as an Inner Asian empire, the modern fate of the Mongols, and current Sino-Tibetan relations. Unlike other pre-twentieth-century Tibetan histories, this volume rejects hagiographic texts in favor of diplomatic, legal, and social sources held in the private, monastic, and bureaucratic archives of old Tibet. This approach draws a unique portrait of Tibet's rule by reincarnation while shading in peripheral tensions in the Himalayas, eastern Tibet, and China. Its perspective fully captures the extent to which the emperors of China controlled the institution of the Dalai Lamas, making a groundbreaking contribution to the past and present history of East Asia.
Author : Michael Walter
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047429281
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Buddhism and Empire written by Michael Walter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-06-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book convincingly reassesses the role of political institutions in the introduction of Buddhism under the Tibetan Empire (c. 620-842), showing how relationships formed in the Imperial period underlie many of the unique characteristics of traditional Tibetan Buddhism. Taking original sources as a point of departure, the author persuasively argues that later sources hitherto used for the history of early Tibetan Buddhism in fact project later ideas backward, thus distorting our view of its enculturation. Following the pattern of Buddhism’s spread elsewhere in Asia, the early Tibetan imperial court realized how useful normative Buddhist concepts were. This work clearly shows that, while some beliefs and practices per se changed after the Tibetan Empire, the model of socio-political-religious leadership developed in that earlier period survived its demise and still constitutes a significant element in contemporary Tibetan Buddhist religious culture.
