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Author : I. W. Staples
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Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Ceylon Anthology; with an Introductory Tale written by I. W. Staples and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022639123X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol written by Donald S. Lopez Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did word of the Buddha first reach Western ears? Over the centuries, until the first reliable introduction to Buddhism was published in France in 1844, rumors and reports of this oriental idol and his teachings reached the West in haphazard but fascinating ways. A Jesuit missionary traveling with a Thai delegation to the court of Louis XIV spent months at sea with a Buddhist monk and asked him many questions. A Russian ship captain was held captive for three years in Japan and learned about the Buddha from his jailors. A Catholic priest in China dressed like a Confucian gentleman and learned in this way to disparage the Buddha. British army officers on surveys of India struggled to decipher monuments, inscriptions, and statues. Western references to Buddhism extend back to the first years of the third century CE, and during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, European contact with, and writing about, Buddhism was extensive. Because much of this writing is considered wrong today, it is often forgotten or dismissed, but in this anthology Donald S. Lopez Jr. shows their great importance for understanding how our view of the Buddha evolved, from an idol worshipped by heathens to the revered founder of a religion. This fascinating compendium begins with Clement of Alexandria around 200 and ends with the great French scholar Eugene Burnouf in 1844. It can be read as a companion to Lopez s 2013 book From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha (forthcoming in paperback in the same season) or enjoyed on its own for its strange but instructive tales."
Author : Judith Saltman
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
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Total Pages : 1440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Riverside Anthology of Children's Literature written by Judith Saltman and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1985 with total page 1440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of nursery tales and rhymes, nonsense verse, poetry, folklore, mythology epics, fiction, and non-fiction from a variety of sources.
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Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Journal of History written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400885639
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Sorcerer's Apprentice written by Jack Zipes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diverse new anthology that traces the meaning and magic of the sorcerer's apprentice tale throughout history "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" might conjure up images of Mickey Mouse from the Disney film Fantasia, or of Harry Potter. As this anthology reveals, however, "sorcerer's apprentice" tales—in which a young person rebels against, or complies with, an authority who holds the keys to magical powers—have been told through the centuries, in many languages and cultures, from classical times to today. This unique and beautifully illustrated book brings together more than fifty sorcerer's apprentice stories by a plethora of writers, including Ovid, Sir Walter Scott, and the Brothers Grimm. From Goethe's "The Pupil in Magic" to A. K. Ramanujan's "The Guru and His Disciple," this expansive collection presents variations of a classic passed down through countries and eras. Readers enter worlds where household objects are brought to life and shape-shifting occurs from human to animal and back again. We meet two types of apprentice: "The Humiliated Apprentice," a foolish bumbler who wields magic ineffectively and promotes obedience to authority; and "The Rebellious Apprentice" who, through ambition and transformative skills, promotes empowerment and self-awareness. In an extensive introduction, esteemed fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes discusses the significance and meaning of the apprentice stories, the contradictions in popular retellings, and the importance of magic as a tool of resistance against figures who abuse their authority. Twenty specially commissioned black-and-white illustrations by noted artist Natalie Frank bring the stories to visual life. The Sorcerer's Apprentice enlightens and entertains readers with enduring, spellbinding tales of sorcery that have been with us through the ages.
Author : Ken and Visakha Kawasaki
Publisher : Pariyatti Publishing
ISBN 13 : 168172104X
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Jataka Tales of the Buddha (Volume I) written by Ken and Visakha Kawasaki and published by Pariyatti Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas Western intellectuals seek the essence of Buddhism in its doctrines and meditation practices, the traditional Buddhists of Asia absorb the ideas and values of their spiritual heritage through its rich narrative literature about the Buddha and his disciples. The most popular collection of Buddhist stories is, without doubt, the Jatakas. These are the stories of the Buddha's past births, relating his experiences as he passed from life to life on the way to becoming a Buddha. At times he takes the form of a bird, at times he is born as a hare, a monkey, a prince, a merchant, or an ascetic, but in each case he uses the challenges he meets to grow in generosity, virtue, patience, wisdom, and compassion.This anthology of Jatakas, ably told by Ken and Visakha Kawasaki, remains faithful to the original yet presents the stories in clear and simple language. It thereby makes the Jatakas accessible even to young readers and to those for whom English is not their first language.
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Total Pages : 850 pages
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Download or read book The Theosophist written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronit Ricci
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108570275
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Banishment and Belonging written by Ronit Ricci and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lanka, Ceylon, Sarandib: merely three disparate names for a single island? Perhaps. Yet the three diverge in the historical echoes, literary cultures, maps and memories they evoke. Names that have intersected and overlapped - in a treatise, a poem, a document - only to go their own ways. But despite different trajectories, all three are tied to narratives of banishment and exile. Ronit Ricci suggests that the island served as a concrete exilic site as well as a metaphor for imagining exile across religions, languages, space and time: Sarandib, where Adam was banished from Paradise; Lanka, where Sita languished in captivity; and Ceylon, faraway island of exile for Indonesian royalty under colonialism. Utilising Malay manuscripts and documents from Sri Lanka, Javanese chronicles, and Dutch and British sources, Ricci explores histories and imaginings of displacement related to the island through a study of the Sri Lankan Malays and their connections to an exilic past.
Author : Royal Commonwealth Society. Library
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Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Subject Catalogue of the Royal Commonwealth Society, London: Asia: other Asian areas. Africa: Africa in general, North Africa written by Royal Commonwealth Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Unesco
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Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Report of the Director General on the Activities of the Organisation in ... written by Unesco and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book Sri Lanka written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Haim Schwarzbaum
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110818116
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Studies in Jewish and World Folklore written by Haim Schwarzbaum and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1274 pages
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Total Pages : 828 pages
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Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Total Pages : 920 pages
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Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 888 pages
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Download or read book Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
