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Author : Bela Bhattacharya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Facets of Early Buddhism written by Bela Bhattacharya and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shotaro Iida
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136156518
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Facets Of Buddhism written by Shotaro Iida and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents a selection of papers written over the last twenty or so years, spanning the period from early research into the then nearly unknown Madhyamika writer Bhavaviveka or Bhavya, amongst Tibetan refugees in India, up to the recent past where there interests have, perhaps, somewhat broadened to include comparative religion. The author has moe or less left the essays in their original form and has introduced some consistency in the citing of the names of Japanese scholars in order to aid the English speaking reader unfamiliar with Japanese.
Author : K.N. Jayatilleke
Publisher : Buddhist Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 9552403359
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Facets of Buddhist Thought written by K.N. Jayatilleke and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a brilliant account of of Theravada Buddhism and embraces a wide variety of themes ranging from the birth of Buddhism to the Buddha’s prophetic teachings regarding the future of mankind. Topics covered include, among many others, the background of early Buddhism; the significance of the Buddha’s birthday; the Buddhist doctrines of karma and reincarnation; the Buddhist conception of truth, good and evil, Nirvana, the individual, the universe and the material world; the Buddhist view of nature and destiny; Buddhism and the caste system; Buddhism and international law; and the contemporary relevance of the Buddha’s teachings to the modern world. Professor Jayatilleke always writes with both the scholar and the lay reader in mind. As a result, this is a highly readable and extremely penetrating book—and one that explores the roots and nature of the Buddha’s teachings and examines them in the light of contemporary knowledge. The present collection contains all essays earlier published in the book The Message of the Buddha, edited by Ninian Smart, as well as essays that were published the Wheel Publication series. Contents 1. Buddhism and the Scientific Revolution 2. The Historical Context of the Rise of Buddhism 3. The Buddhist Conception of Truth 4. The Buddhist Attitude to Revelation 5. The Buddhist Conception of Matter and the Material World 6. The Buddhist Analysis of Mind 7. The Buddhist Conception of the Universe 8. The Buddhist Attitude to God 9. Nibbana 10. The Buddhist View of Survival 11. The Buddhist Doctrine of Kamma 12. The Case for the Buddhist Theory of Karma and Survival 13. The Conditioned Genesis of the Individual 14. The Buddhist Ethical Ideal of the Ultimate Good 15. The Basis of Buddhist Ethics 16. The Buddhist Conception of Evil 17. The Criteria of Right and Wrong 18. The Ethical Theory of Buddhism 19. Some Aspects of the Bhagavad Gita and Buddhist Ethics 20. Toynbee’s Criticism of Buddhism 21. The Buddhist Attitude to Other Religions 22. Buddhism and Peace 23. The Significance of Vesakha 24. Buddhism and the Race Question 25. The Principles of International Law in Buddhist Doctrine
Author : Olle Qvarnström
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0895819562
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Jainism and Early Buddhism written by Olle Qvarnström and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers presented at an international conference on Jainism and early Buddhism in honor of Prof. Padmanabh S. Jaini, organized and hosted by the Department of History of Religions at the University of Lund, Sweden in 1998. Prof. Jaini is professor emeritus of Buddhist Studies at University of California, Berkeley, California, USA and one of the foremost contemporary scholars of Buddhism and Jainism. The two part festschrift contains papers presented by thirty seven prominent scholars, covering a wide range of topics in both religions.
Author : Analayo
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
ISBN 13 : 1909314625
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation written by Analayo and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analayo investigates the meditative practices of compassion and emptiness by examining and interpreting material from the early Buddhist discourses. Similar to his previous study of satipaa'-a'-hana, he brings a new dimension to our understanding by comparing Pali texts with versions that have survived in Chinese, Sanskrit and Tibetan. The result is a wide-ranging exploration of what these practices meant in early Buddhism.
Author : Shotaro Iida
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136156445
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Facets Of Buddhism written by Shotaro Iida and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents a selection of papers written over the last twenty or so years, spanning the period from early research into the then nearly unknown Madhyamika writer Bhavaviveka or Bhavya, amongst Tibetan refugees in India, up to the recent past where there interests have, perhaps, somewhat broadened to include comparative religion. The author has moe or less left the essays in their original form and has introduced some consistency in the citing of the names of Japanese scholars in order to aid the English speaking reader unfamiliar with Japanese.
Author : Martin G. Wiltshire
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110858568
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Ascetic Figures before and in Early Buddhism written by Martin G. Wiltshire and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
Author : K N Jayatilleke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134542879
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge written by K N Jayatilleke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this volume, an accomplished philologist, historian and philosopher, analyzes the relevant earlier and later texts and traces the epistemological foundations of Pali canonical thought from the Vedic period onwards. Originally published in 1963, it sheds new light on later developments and elucidates from the Indian point of view some of the basic problems of the conflict between metaphysics and logical and linguistic analysis.
Author : Rupert Gethin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192892231
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Foundations of Buddhism written by Rupert Gethin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this introduction to the foundations of Buddhism, Rupert Gethin concentrates on the ideas and practices which constitute the common heritage of the different traditions of Buddhism (Thervada, Tibetan and Eastern) which exist in the world today.
Author : K. R. Norman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135751544
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Forum Volume V written by K. R. Norman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Thomas William Rhys Davids
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Early Buddhism written by Thomas William Rhys Davids and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Padmasiri De Silva
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461636515
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology written by Padmasiri De Silva and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2001-02-14 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology is a lucid, intelligible, and authentic introduction to the foundations of Buddhist psychology. It provides comprehensive coverage of the basic concepts and issues in the psychology of Buddhism, and thus it deals with the nature of psychological inquiry, concepts of the mind, consciousness and behavior, motivation, emotions and percentile, and the therapeutic structure of Buddhist psychology. For the third edition, a new chapter on the mind-body relationship and Buddhist contextualism has been added.
Author : Bhikkhu Analayo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614298270
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Early Buddhist Oral Tradition written by Bhikkhu Analayo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- 1. The Recital of the Monastic Rules -- 2. Discourse and Verse Collections -- 3. Memory Errors -- 4. Systematization -- 5. Additions and Innovations -- 6. Implications of Orality -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
Author : Madura Venkata Ram Kumar Ratnam
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788171416530
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Dukkha written by Madura Venkata Ram Kumar Ratnam and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on Dukkha: Suffering in Early Buddhism gives an introduction to the concept of suffering, deals with the analysis of suffering in non-Buddhist system, examples the components of suffering in early Buddhism, identifies the origin of suffering and discusses about deliverance. Contents: Introduction, Duhkha in Indian Philosophy, Conception of Dukkha in Early Buddhism, Origin of Dukkha, Means of Deliverance from Dukkha, Nibbana, Conclusions.
Author : Anālayo
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781899579549
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (795 download)
Download or read book Satipaṭṭhāna written by Anālayo and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book helps to fill what has long been a glaring gap in the scholarship of early Buddhism, offering us a detailed textual study of the Satipatthāna Sutta, the foundational Buddhist discourse on meditation practice."--Back cover.
Author : E. Haldeman-Julius
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1877527351
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (775 download)
Download or read book The Essence of Buddhism written by E. Haldeman-Julius and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Buddhism has been an important cultural force in the East for thousands of years, the tenets of this religion and belief system were largely unknown throughout much the West until the twentieth century. In this volume, Haldeman-Julius presents a comprehensive overview of Buddhist belief, doctrine, and practice in an introductory format designed to appeal to Western readers.
Author : Tse-fu Kuan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134074522
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Mindfulness in Early Buddhism written by Tse-fu Kuan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines ‘mindfulness’ in early Buddhism, and explores its central role in early Buddhist practice and philosophy. Using textual analysis and criticism, it takes new approaches to the subject through a comparative study of Buddhist texts in Pali, Chinese and Sanskrit.
