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Author : Robert Benjamin Kritzer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Pratītyasamutpāda in the Abhidharmasamuccaya written by Robert Benjamin Kritzer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Asaṅga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Abhidharmasamuccaya written by Asaṅga and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two systems of Abhidharma, according to Tibetan tradition, lower and higher. The lower system is taught in the Abhidharmakosa, while the higher system is taught in the Abhidharmasamuccaya. Thus the two books form a complementary pair. Asanga, author of the Abhidharmasamuccaya, is founder of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism. His younger brother Vasubandhu wrote the Abhidharmakosa before Asanga converted him to Mahayana Buddhism. Yet the Kosa is written in verse, usual for Mahayana treatises, while the Samuccaya follows the traditional prose and answer style of the older Pali Abhidharma texts. Walpola Rahula, in preparing his 1971 French translation of this Mahayana text from the Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan, has brought to bear on its many technical terms his extensive background and great expertise in the Pali canon.
Author : Christopher Queen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136830332
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book American Buddhism written by Christopher Queen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly treatment of the emergence of American Buddhist Studies as a significant research field. Until now, few investigators have turned their attention to the interpretive challenge posed by the presence of all the traditional lineages of Asian Buddhism in a consciously multicultural society. Nor have scholars considered the place of their own contributions as writers, teachers, and practising Buddhists in this unfolding saga. In thirteen chapters and a critical introduction to the field, the book treats issues such as Asian American Buddhist identity, the new Buddhism, Buddhism and American culture, and the scholar's place in American Buddhist Studies. The volume offers complete lists of dissertations and theses on American Buddhism and North American dissertations and theses on topics related to Buddhism since 1892.
Author : Robert Kritzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rebirth and Causation in Yogācāra Abhidharma written by Robert Kritzer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P.V. Bapat
Publisher : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
ISBN 13 : 8123023049
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)
Download or read book 2500 Years of Buddhism written by P.V. Bapat and published by Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. This book was released on with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the life of Buddha
Author : David J. Kalupahana
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Causality--the Central Philosophy of Buddhism written by David J. Kalupahana and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Ross Komito
Publisher : Snow Lion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas written by David Ross Komito and published by Snow Lion. This book was released on 1987 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost two thousand years Nagarjuna's teachings have occupied a central position in Mahayana Buddhism.
Author : Noa Ronkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134283121
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Early Buddhist Metaphysics written by Noa Ronkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-02-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the earliest stratum of Buddhist thought to the systematic of the Pali Abhidhamma movement.
Author : Ian Charles Harris
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004094482
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (944 download)
Download or read book The Continuity of Madhyamaka and Yogācāra in Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism written by Ian Charles Harris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1991 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past European scholars have tended to treat both Madhyamaka and Yog?c?ra as separate and fundamentally opposed trends in Mah?y?na Buddhist thought. Drawing heavily on early textual evidence this work questions the validity of such a "Mah?y?na schools" hypothesis. By down-playing the late commentorial traditions, the author attempts a general reappraisal of the epistemological and ontological writings of Nagarjuna, Asanga and Vasubandhu. He concludes that the overlap in all areas of doctrine is significant, but particularly with respect to the teachings on the levels of truth, the enlightened and unenlightened states, the status of language and the nature of reality. It is hoped that such investigations may provide the basis for a new theory on the proliferation of Indian Mah?y?na Buddhism as an organic process of assimilation to new audiences, and specific contemporary problems, rather than in the more schismatic manner favoured by past researchers.
Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134623259
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Thought written by Paul Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist Thought guides the reader towards a richer understanding of the central concepts of classical Indian Buddhist thought, from the time of Buddha, to the latest scholarly perspectives and controversies. Abstract and complex ideas are made understandable by the authors' lucid style. Of particular interest is the up-to-date survey of Buddhist Tantra in India, a branch of Buddhism where strictly controlled sexual activity can play a part in the religious path. Williams' discussion of this controversial practice as well as of many other subjects makes Buddhist Thought crucial reading for all interested in Buddhism.
Author : Tsong-kha-pa
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1559398698
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)
Download or read book The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Volume 1) written by Tsong-kha-pa and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of the 15th-century spiritual classic that condenses Buddhist teachings into one easy-to-follow meditation manual The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Tib. Lam rim chen mo) is one of the brightest jewels in the world’s treasury of sacred literature. The author, Tsong-kha-pa, completed it in 1402, and it soon became one of the most renowned works of spiritual practice and philosophy in the world of Tibetan Buddhism. Because it condenses all the exoteric sūtra scriptures into a meditation manual that is easy to understand, scholars and practitioners rely on its authoritative presentation as a gateway that leads to a full understanding of the Buddha’s teachings. Tsong-kha-pa took great pains to base his insights on classical Indian Buddhist literature, illustrating his points with classical citations as well as with sayings of the masters of the earlier Kadampa tradition. In this way the text demonstrates clearly how Tibetan Buddhism carefully preserved and developed the Indian Buddhist traditions. This first of three volumes covers all the practices that are prerequisite for developing the spirit of enlightenment (bodhicitta).
Author : Alex Wayman
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120806757
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Insight written by Alex Wayman and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume selcts twenty-four of Prof. Wayman`s published research papers around the topic of Buddhist Insight, and includes only strong, well developed papers consistent with the topic. Students of Buddhism and general Indian religion will find here a rich offering of genuine research with the best of sources and Wayman`s own thoughtful presentations and original organization of the information. The papers begin with Buddha as Savior among the latest and end with the earliest in this volume, Twenty one Praises of Tara.The Hindu and Buddhist Studies illustrate Wayman`s comparative approach by showing both sides in their strong independence, and sensitively revealing their relation.
Author : John Powers
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674033299
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book A Bull of a Man written by John Powers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-19 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The androgynous, asexual Buddha of contemporary popular imagination stands in stark contrast to the muscular, virile, and sensual figure presented in Indian Buddhist texts. In early Buddhist literature and art, the Buddha’s perfect physique and sexual prowess are important components of his legend as the world’s “ultimate man.” He is both the scholarly, religiously inclined brahman and the warrior ruler who excels in martial arts, athletic pursuits, and sexual exploits. The Buddha effortlessly performs these dual roles, combining his society’s norms for ideal manhood and creating a powerful image taken up by later followers in promoting their tradition in a hotly contested religious marketplace. In this groundbreaking study of previously unexplored aspects of the early Buddhist tradition, John Powers skillfully adapts methodological approaches from European and North American historiography to the study of early Buddhist literature, art, and iconography, highlighting aspects of the tradition that have been surprisingly invisible in earlier scholarship. The book focuses on the figure of the Buddha and his monastic followers to show how they were constructed as paragons of masculinity, whose powerful bodies and compelling sexuality attracted women, elicited admiration from men, and convinced skeptics of their spiritual attainments.
Author : William S Waldron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134428855
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Buddhist Unconscious written by William S Waldron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of fifth century CE India, when the Yogacarin Buddhists tested the awareness of unawareness, and became aware of human unawareness to an extraordinary degree. They not only explicitly differentiated this dimension of mental processes from conscious cognitive processes, but also offered reasoned arguments on behalf of this dimension of mind. This is the concept of the 'Buddhist unconscious', which arose just as philosophical discourse in other circles was fiercely debating the limits of conscious awareness, and these ideas in turn had developed as a systematisation of teachings from the Buddha himself. For us in the twenty-first century, these teachings connect in fascinating ways to the Western conceptions of the 'cognitive unconscious' which have been elaborated in the work of Jung and Freud. This important study reveals how the Buddhist unconscious illuminates and draws out aspects of current western thinking on the unconscious mind. One of the most intriguing connections is the idea that there is in fact no substantial 'self' underlying all mental activity; 'the thoughts themselves are the thinker'. William S. Waldron considers the implications of this radical notion, which, despite only recently gaining plausibility, was in fact first posited 2,500 years ago.
Author : Eugéne Obermiller
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0895819406
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Analysis of the Abhisamayālaṃkāra written by Eugéne Obermiller and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After first publishing a summary of it, here he undertook a full explanation of it according to the commentarial tradition. Unfortunately, he died before it could be finished, and the present book covers about three fifths of the whole. Despite the growth of Tibetan Buddhist studies in the west since his time, this work remains unparalleled. It is indespensible for the serious student."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Anne C. Klein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195178500
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Unbounded Wholeness written by Anne C. Klein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining Dzogchen teachings for the Western audience, this text provides a study and translation of the 'Authenticity of Open Awareness', a foundational text of the Bon Dzogchen tradition. This book provides an introductory and explanatory material that situates it in the context of Tibetan thought.
Author : Richard King
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438409044
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Early Advaita Vedānta and Buddhism written by Richard King and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1995-08-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth analysis of the doctrines of early Advaita and Buddhism that has important implications for the question of the relationship between Hindu and Buddhist thought. The author examines the central doctrines of the Gaudapadiya-karikain a series of chapters that discuss early Advaita in relation to the Abhidharma, Madhyamaka, and Yogacara schools of Buddhism. The question of the doctrinal diversity of Indian Buddhism is also discussed through an analysis of the concept of 'Buddha-Nature' and its relationship with Vedantic thought.
