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Author : Petra Kieffer-Pülz
Publisher : Indica Et Tibetica Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bauddhavidyāsudhākaraḥ written by Petra Kieffer-Pülz and published by Indica Et Tibetica Verlag. This book was released on 1997 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael K. Jerryson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199362386
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism written by Michael K. Jerryson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an incredibly diverse religious system, Buddhism is constantly changing. The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism offers a comprehensive collection of work by leading scholars in the field that tracks these changes up to the present day. Taken together, the book provides a blueprint to understanding Buddhism's past and uses it to explore the ways in which Buddhism has transformed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume contains 41 essays, divided into two sections. The essays in the first section examine the historical development of Buddhist traditions throughout the world. These chapters cover familiar settings like India, Japan, and Tibet as well as the less well-known countries of Vietnam, Bhutan, and the regions of Latin America, Africa, and Oceania. Focusing on changes within countries and transnationally, this section also contains chapters that focus explicitly on globalization, such as Buddhist international organizations and diasporic communities. The second section tracks the relationship between Buddhist traditions and particular themes. These chapters review Buddhist interactions with contemporary topics such as violence and peacebuilding, and ecology, as well as Buddhist influences in areas such as medicine and science. Offering coverage that is both expansive and detailed, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism delves into some of the most debated and contested areas within Buddhist Studies today.
Author : Sunil Khilnani
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 9385990950
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Incarnations written by Sunil Khilnani and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all of India’s myths, stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world’s largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars and corporate titans—some famous, some unjustly forgotten—bring feeling, wry humour and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own.
Author : Lama Jabb
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498503349
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature written by Lama Jabb and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals that the roots of modern Tibetan literature grow in the rich and fertile soil of Tibet’s oral and literary traditions, rather than in the 1980s as current scholarship presents.
Author : Jan Assmann
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004379088
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Transformations of the Inner Self in Ancient Religions written by Jan Assmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers from two workshops - held in Heidelberg, Germany, in July 1996 and Jerusalem, Israel, in October 1997 - is concerned with anthropological rather than theological aspects of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean religions, ranging from the 'primary' religions of the archaic period and their complex developments in Egypt and Mesopotamia to the 'soteriological' movements and 'secondary' religions that emerged in Late Antiquity. The first part of the book focuses on "Confession and Conversion", while the second part is devoted to the topic of "Guilt, Sin and Rituals of Purification". The primary purpose of this volume is to convey a sense of the dynamics and dialectical relationships between the various Near Eastern and Mediterranean religions from the archaic period to Late Antiquity.
Author : Joseph Walser
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231506236
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Nagarjuna in Context written by Joseph Walser and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Walser provides the first examination of Nagarjuna's life and writings in the context of the religious and monastic debates of the second century CE. Walser explores how Nagarjuna secured the canonical authority of Mahayana teachings and considers his use of rhetoric to ensure the transmission of his writings by Buddhist monks. Drawing on close textual analysis of Nagarjuna's writings and other Buddhist and non-Buddhist sources, Walser offers an original contribution to the understanding of Nagarjuna and the early history of Buddhism.
Author : Lauran R. Hartley
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822381435
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change written by Lauran R. Hartley and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-16 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change is the first systematic and detailed overview of modern Tibetan literature, which has burgeoned only in the last thirty years. This comprehensive collection brings together fourteen pioneering scholars in the nascent field of Tibetan literary studies, including authors who are active in the Tibetan literary world itself. These scholars examine the literary output of Tibetan authors writing in Tibetan, Chinese, and English, both in Tibet and in the Tibetan diaspora. The contributors explore the circumstances that led to the development of modern Tibetan literature, its continuities and breaks with classical Tibetan literary forms, and the ways that writers use forms such as magical realism, satire, and humor to negotiate literary freedom within the People’s Republic of China. They provide crucial information about Tibetan writers’ lives in China and abroad, the social and political contexts in which they write, and the literary merits of their oeuvre. Along with deep social, cultural, and political analysis, this wealth of information clarifies the complex circumstances that Tibetan writers face in the PRC and the diaspora. The contributors consider not only poetry, short stories, and novels but also other forms of cultural production—such as literary magazines, films, and Web sites—that provide a public forum in the Tibetan areas of the PRC, where censorship and restrictions on public gatherings remain the norm. Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change includes a previously unavailable list of modern Tibetan works translated into Western languages and a comprehensive English-language index of names, subjects, and terms. Contributors: Pema Bhum, Howard Y. F. Choy, Yangdon Dhondup, Lauran R. Hartley, Hortsang Jigme, Matthew T. Kapstein, Nancy G. Lin, Lara Maconi, Françoise Robin, Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani, Ronald D. Schwartz, Tsering Shakya, Sangye Gyatso (aka Gangzhün), Steven J. Venturino, Riika Virtanen
Author : Oliver Freiberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199719013
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Asceticism and Its Critics written by Oliver Freiberger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of religion have always been fascinated by asceticism. Some have even regarded this radical way of life-- the withdrawal from the world, combined with practices that seriously affect basic bodily needs, up to extreme forms of self-mortification --as the ultimate form of a true religious quest. This view is rooted in hagiographic descriptions of prominent ascetics and in other literary accounts that praise the ascetic life-style. Scholars have often overlooked, however, that in the history of religions ascetic beliefs and practices have also been strongly criticized, by followers of the same religious tradition as well as by outsiders. The respective sources provide sufficient evidence of such critical strands but surprisingly as yet no attempt has been made to analyze this criticism of asceticism systematically. This book is a first attempt of filling this gap. Ten studies present cases from both Asian and European traditions: classical and medieval Hinduism, early and contemporary Buddhism in South and East Asia, European antiquity, early and medieval Christianity, and 19th/20th century Aryan religion. Focusing on the critics of asceticism, their motives, their arguments, and the targets of their critique, these studies provide a broad range of issues for comparison. They suggest that the critique of asceticism is based on a worldview differing from and competing with the ascetic worldview, often in one and the same historical context. The book demonstrates that examining the critics of asceticism helps understand better the complexity of religious traditions and their cultural contexts. The comparative analysis, moreover, shows that the criticism of asceticism reflects a religious worldview as significant and widespread in the history of religions as asceticism itself is.
Author : Bhatta Jayanta
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814719791
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Much Ado about Religion written by Bhatta Jayanta and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play satirizes various religions in Kashmir and their place in the politics of King Shankara-varman (883-902 CE). Jayanta's strategy is to take a characteristic figure of the target religion and unmask him as a fraud. By turning his victim's own religious doctrines against him, Jayanta makes a laughingstock of both the philosophy and its adherents. The leading character, Sankarshana, is a young and dynamic orthodox graduate of Vedic studies, whose career starts as a glorious campaign against the heretic Buddhists, Jains and other antisocial sects. By the end of the play the realizes that the interests of the monarch do not encourage such inquisitional rigor, and the story ends in a great festival of tolerance and compromise.
Author : Hartmut Scharfe
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004125568
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Oriental Studies written by Hartmut Scharfe and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lauran R. Hartley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contextually Speaking written by Lauran R. Hartley and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Central Asiatic Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Buddhism written by Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yasuhiro Sueki
Publisher : International Institute for Buddhist Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bibliographical Sources for Buddhist Studies written by Yasuhiro Sueki and published by International Institute for Buddhist Studies. This book was released on 2008 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Maxwell Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sūryacandrāya written by Paul Maxwell Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
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Download or read book Buddhist and Indian Studies in Honour of Professor Sodō Mori written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Religion written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
