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Author : Eli Franco and Monika Zin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book From Turfan to Ajanta written by Eli Franco and Monika Zin and published by . This book was released on with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eli Franco
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ISBN 13 : 9789937553025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (53 download)
Download or read book From Turfan to Ajanta written by Eli Franco and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
Author : Eli Franco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789937553025
Total Pages : 1103 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (53 download)
Download or read book From Turfan to Ajanta: In search of the Perfection of wisdom. A short note on the third narrative depicted in the Tabo Main Temple written by Eli Franco and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 1103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eli Franco
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Total Pages : 1103 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (21 download)
Download or read book From Turfan to Ajanta: Descent of the Buddha from the Heaven of the Trayastriṃśa gods - one of the eight great events in the life of Buddha written by Eli Franco and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 1103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book From Turfan to Ajanta written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rajesh Kumar Singh
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803277181
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Ajanta’s Evolution: From Sāvakayāna to Bodhisatvayāna amid Hunnic Turmoil written by Rajesh Kumar Singh and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new scholarly exploration of the rock-cut Ajanta Caves located in the modern-day Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India, their sculpture and paintings. The book meticulously traces the rise, transformation, and legacy of these architectural marvels from the late third century BC to around AD 480.
Author : Dieter Schlingloff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Ajanta: Supplement written by Dieter Schlingloff and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald S. Lopez
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022651806X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Hyecho's Journey written by Donald S. Lopez and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 721, a young Buddhist monk named Hyecho set out from the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula, on what would become one of the most extraordinary journeys in history. Sailing first to China, Hyecho continued to what is today Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, before taking the Silk Road and heading back east, where he ended his days on the sacred mountain of Wutaishan in China. With Hyecho’s Journey, eminent scholar of Buddhism Donald S. Lopez Jr. re-creates Hyecho’s trek. Using the surviving fragments of Hyecho’s travel memoir, along with numerous other textual and visual sources, Lopez imagines the thriving Buddhist world the monk explored. Along the way, Lopez introduces key elements of Buddhism, including its basic doctrines, monastic institutions, works of art, and the many stories that have inspired Buddhist pilgrimage. Through the eyes of one remarkable Korean monk, we discover a vibrant tradition flourishing across a vast stretch of Asia. Hyecho’s Journey is simultaneously a rediscovery of a forgotten pilgrim, an accessible primer on Buddhist history and doctrine, and a gripping, beautifully illustrated account of travel in a world long lost.
Author : Alice Collett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199326045
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Women in Early Indian Buddhism written by Alice Collett and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a broad-ranging comparative study with translations of texts, sections of texts and textual fragments that are concerned with women in early Indian Buddhism, including study of texts in Gandhari, Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, Tibetan and Sinhala.
Author : Benjamin Fleming
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113501373X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Material Culture and Asian Religions written by Benjamin Fleming and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging canonical texts penned in ‘classical’ languages. Not only has a focus on literary evidence shaped the dominant narratives about the religious histories of Asia, in both scholarship and popular culture, but it has contributed to the tendency to study different religious traditions in relative isolation from one another. Today, moreover, historical work is often based on modern textual editions and, increasingly, on electronic databases. What may be lost, in the process, is the visceral sense of the text as artifact – as a material object that formed part of a broader material culture, in which the boundaries between religious traditions were sometimes more fluid than canonical literature might suggest. This volume brings together specialists in a variety of Asian cultures to discuss the methodological challenges involved in integrating material evidence for the reconstruction of the religious histories of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. By means of specific ‘test cases,’ the volume explores the importance of considering material and literary evidence in concert. What untold stories do these sources help us to recover? How might they push us to reevaluate historical narratives traditionally told from literary sources? By addressing these questions from the perspectives of different subfields and religious traditions, contributors map out the challenges involved in interpreting different types of data, assessing the problems of interpretation distinct to specific types of material evidence (e.g., coins, temple art, manuscripts, donative inscriptions) and considering the issues raised by the different patterns in the preservation of such evidence in different locales. Special attention is paid to newly-discovered and neglected sources; to our evidence for trade, migration, and inter-regional cultural exchange; and to geographical locales that served as "contact zones" connecting cultures. In addition, the chapters in this volume represent the rich range of religious traditions across Asia – including Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, and Chinese religions, as well as Islam and eastern Christianities.
Author : Miguel Farias
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192536370
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Meditation written by Miguel Farias and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditation techniques, including mindfulness, have become popular wellbeing practices and the scientific study of their effects has recently turned 50 years old. But how much do we know about them: what were they developed for and by whom? How similar or different are they, how effective can they be in changing our minds and biology, what are their social and ethical implications? The Oxford Handbook of Meditation is the most comprehensive volume published on meditation, written in accessible language by world-leading experts on the science and history of these techniques. It covers the development of meditation across the world and the varieties of its practices and experiences. It includes approaches from various disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, history, anthropology, and sociology and it explores its potential for therapeutic and social change, as well as unusual or negative effects. Edited by practitioner-researchers, this book is the ultimate guide for all interested in meditation, including teachers, clinicians, therapists, researchers, or anyone who would like to learn more about this topic.
Author : Eric Huntington
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295744073
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Creating the Universe written by Eric Huntington and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-01-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that cosmology is a rich language for the expression of diverse religious ideas, with cosmological thinking at the center of Buddhist thought, art, and practice. In�Creating the Universe,�Eric Huntington presents examples of visual art and architecture, primary texts, ritual ideologies, and material practices�accompanied by extensive explanatory diagrams�to reveal the immense complexity of cosmological thinking in Himalayan Buddhism. Employing comparisons across function, medium, culture, and history, he exposes cosmology as a fundamental mode of engagement with numerous aspects of religion, from preliminary lessons to the highest rituals for enlightenment. This wide-ranging work will interest scholars and students of many fields, including Buddhist studies, religious studies, art history, and area studies.
Author : Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004315519
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book How the Brahmins Won written by Johannes Bronkhorst and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to systematically confront the question how Brahmanism, which was geographically limited and under threat during the final centuries BCE, transformed itself and spread all over South and Southeast Asia. Brahmanism spread over this vast area without the support of an empire, without the help of conquering armies, and without the intermediary of religious missionaries. This phenomenon has no parallel in world history, yet shaped a major portion of the surface of the earth for a number of centuries. This book focuses on the formative period of this phenomenon, roughly between Alexander and the Guptas.
Author : Gerard DC Kuiken
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 907862308X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (786 download)
Download or read book The Roots of the Bhagavadgita Volume II written by Gerard DC Kuiken and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Svabhavikasutra is the original text on which the Bhagavadgita has been interpolated. The additions include reference to caste and the system of four classes, with a religious devotion to the god Krishna, and a war as background. The roots of the Bhagavadgita, the Svabhavikasutra, focuses on a deep spiritual philosophy, without a reference to a caste system, or to Arjuna or Krishna, or to a war.
Author : James Hegarty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136645888
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Religion, Narrative and Public Imagination in South Asia written by James Hegarty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the greatest works of world literature and pivotal for the understanding of both Hindu traditions and wider society in ancient, medieval and modern South Asia. This book presents a new synthesis of philological, anthropological and cognitive-linguistic method and theory in relation to the study of narrative text by focusing on the form and function of the Mahabharata in the context of early South Asia. Arguing that the combination of structural and thematic features that have helped to establish the enduring cultural centrality of religious narrative in South Asia was first outlined in the text, the book highlights the Mahabharata’s complex orientation to the cosmic, social and textual past. The book shows the extent to which narrative is integral to human social life, and more generally the creation and maintenance of religious ideologies. It highlights the contexts of origin and transmission and the cultural function of the Mahabharata in first millennium South Asia and, by extension, in medieval and modern South Asiaby drawing on both textual and epigraphic sources. The book draws attention to what is culturally specific about the origination and transmission of early South Asian narrative and what can be used to enrich our orientation to narrative in human social life more globally.
Author : Richard K. Payne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199351589
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Homa Variations written by Richard K. Payne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout human history, and across many religious cultures, offerings are made into fire. The essays collected in Homa Variations provide detailed studies of this practice, known in the tantric world as the "homa," from its inception up to the present.
Author : Alison James
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000993361
Total Pages : 815 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief written by Alison James and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief offers a fresh reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and belief, surveying key debates and perspectives from a range of disciplines including narrative and cultural studies, science, religion, and politics. This volume draws on global, cutting edge research and theory to investigate the historically variable understandings of fictionality, and allows readers to grasp the role of fictions in our understanding of the world. This interdisciplinary approach provides a thorough introduction to the fundamental themes of: Theoretical and Philosophical Perspectives on Fiction Fiction, Fact, and Science Social Effects and Uses of Fiction Fiction and Politics Fiction and Religion Questioning how fictions in fact shape, mediate or distort our beliefs about the real world, essays in this volume outline the state of theoretical debates from the perspectives of literary theory, philosophy, sociology, religious studies, history, and the cognitive sciences. It aims to take stock of the real or supposed effects that fiction has on the world, and to offer a wide-reaching reflection on the implications of belief in fictions in the so-called “post-truth” era.
