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The Buddha and the Sahibs

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1473617936
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The Buddha and the Sahibs written by Charles Allen and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today there are many Buddhists in the West, but for 2000 years the Buddha's teachings were unknown outside Asia. It was not until the late 18th century, when Sir William Oriental Jones, a British judge in India, broke through the Brahmin's prohibition on learning their sacred language. Sanskrit, that clues about the origins of a religion quite distinct from Hinduism began to be deciphered from inscriptions on pillars and rocks. This study tells the story of the search that followed, as evidence mounted that countries as diverse as Ceylon, Japan and Tibet shared a religion which had its origins in India yet was unknown there. British rule brought to India, Burma and Ceylon a whole band of enthusiastic Orientalist amateurs - soldiers, administrators and adventurers - intent on investigating the subcontinent's lost past. Unwittingly, these men helped lay the foundations for the revival of Buddhism in Asia during the 19th century and its spread to the West in the 20th. Charles Allen's book is a mixture of detective work and story-telling, as this acknowledged master of British Indian history pieces together early Buddhist history to bring a handful of extraoridinary characters to life.

The Buddha and Dr. Führer

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0143415743
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Buddha and Dr. Führer written by Charles Allen and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ashoka

Author : Charles L. Allen
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781468300710
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Ashoka written by Charles L. Allen and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his third century BCE quest to govern the Indian subcontinent by moral force alone, Ashoka transformed Buddhism from a minor sect into a major world religion. His bold experiment ended in tragedy, and in the tumult that followed the historical record was cleansed so effectively that his name was largely forgotten for almost two thousand years. Yet, a few mysterious stone monuments and inscriptions miraculously survived the purge. In Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor, historian Charles Allen tells the incredible story of how a few enterprising archaeologists deciphered the mysterious lettering on keystones and recovered India's ancient past. Drawing from rich sources, Allen crafts a clearer picture of this enigmatic figure than ever before.

The Search for the Buddha

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780786713745
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The Search for the Buddha written by Charles Allen and published by Carroll & Graf Publishers. This book was released on 2004-05-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historian-author of Soldier Sahibs illuminates the role of British soldiers who unlocked the secrets of Sanskrit and introduced the teachings of Buddhism to the Western world in the late eighteenth century. Reprint.

Sacred Traces

Author : Janice Leoshko
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351550306
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Traces written by Janice Leoshko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his novel Kim, in which a Tibetan pilgrim seeks to visit important Buddhist sites in India, Rudyard Kipling reveals the nineteenth-century fascination with the discovery of the importance of Buddhism in India's past. Janice Leoshko, a scholar of South Asian Buddhist art uses Kipling's account and those of other western writers to offer new insight into the priorities underlying nineteenth-century studies of Buddhist art in India. In the absence of written records, the first explorations of Buddhist sites were often guided by accounts of Chinese pilgrims. They had journeyed to India more than a thousand years earlier in search of sacred traces of the Buddha, the places where he lived, obtained enlightenment, taught and finally passed into nirvana. The British explorers, however, had other interests besides the religion itself. They were motivated by concerns tied to the growing British control of the subcontinent. Building on earlier interventions, Janice Leoshko examines this history of nineteenth-century exploration in order to illuminate how early concerns shaped the way Buddhist art has been studied in the West and presented in its museums.

The Buddha and His Disciples

Author : Shravasti Dhammika
Publisher : Buddhist Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 9552402808
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Buddha and His Disciples written by Shravasti Dhammika and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the life the Buddha is explored through the perspective of his interactions with his disciples and contemporaries, using society of the time as background. An accessible work especially suited for young people and newcomers to Buddhism.

The Buddha and the Terrorist

Author :
Publisher : Green
ISBN 13 : 1903998638
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Buddha and the Terrorist written by and published by Green. This book was released on 2005 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among all the experiences of the Buddha, perhaps his eye-to-eye encounter with an actual terrorist is the one most relevant and vital for those of us caught in the binds of the early 21st century. By telling the tale of the pitiless blood-splattered Angulimala, Satish Kumar reminds us that when the Buddha deliberately and compassionately faced real fear, the fear in that real face evaporated. This revised edition includes a new Prologue, ‘Talking to Terrorists’, in which Satish Kumar discusses how we can best deal with the phenomenon of international terrorism.

Placing the Origins of the Buddha

Author : Bhadrajee S. Hewage
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527584712
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Placing the Origins of the Buddha written by Bhadrajee S. Hewage and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding that the Buddha emerged from the Middle Gangetic region of the Indian subcontinent has been largely unchallenged for the past 200 years. However, can we truly trust our existing knowledge regarding the geographical locations associated with early Buddhism? Could the Buddha’s origins, in fact, lie elsewhere? Tracking the general theory explaining the Buddha’s emergence from the Middle Ganges, this book explores the lesser-known story of colonial Sri Lanka’s connections to the wider nineteenth-century orientalist quest of placing the Buddha across the northern expanses of the subcontinent. By doing so, this book highlights the many flaws and inconsistencies that continue to inform our current understanding of the Buddha’s geographical origins and urges us to rethink the very foundation on which our knowledge of early Buddhism is based.

Buddhist India

Author : Thomas William Rhys Davids
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120804241
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Buddhist India written by Thomas William Rhys Davids and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1971 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1903. In this volume Rhys, the celebrated Buddhist scholar, attempts to describe ancient India, during the period of Buddhist ascendancy, from the point of view, not so much of the brahmin, as of the rajput. The two points of view naturally differ very much. Priest and noble in India have always worked very well together so long as the question at issue did not touch their own rival claims as against one another. When it did-and it did so especially during the period referred to-the harmony, as will be evident from the following pages, was not so great.

Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World

Author : Iselin Frydenlund
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9813298847
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Book Synopsis Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World by : Iselin Frydenlund

Download or read book Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World written by Iselin Frydenlund and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to critically analyze Buddhist-Muslim relations in Theravada Buddhist majority states in South and Southeast Asia. Asia is home to the largest population of Buddhists and Muslims. In recent years, this interfaith communal living has incurred conflicts, such as the ethnic-religious conflicts in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Experts from around the world collaborate to provide a comprehensive look into religious pluralism and religious violence. The book is divided into two sections. The first section provides historical background to the three countries with the largest Buddhist-Muslim relations. The second section has chapters that focus on specific encounters between Buddhists and Muslims, which includes anti-Buddhist sentiments in Bangladesh, the role of gender in Muslim-Buddhist relations and the rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Rohingya sentiments in Myanmar. By exploring historical fluctuations over time—paying particular attention to how state-formations condition Muslim-Buddhist entanglements—the book shows the processual and relational aspects of religious identity constructions and Buddhist-Muslim interactions in Theravada Buddhist majority states.

Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India

Author : Vincent Arthur Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India written by Vincent Arthur Smith and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the biography of the legendary ruler of India Asoka. Combines the king's histories with authenticity from selected sources of Asoka's backgrounds.

Buddha: His Life, His Teachings, His Order

Author : Manmatha Nath Dutt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Buddha: His Life, His Teachings, His Order written by Manmatha Nath Dutt and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Buddha or Bust

Author : Perry Garfinkel
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 1400082188
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddha or Bust written by Perry Garfinkel and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does an idea that’s 2,500 years old seem more relevant today than ever before? How can the Buddha’s teachings help us solve many of the world’s problems? Journalist Perry Garfinkel circumnavigated the globe to discover the heart of Buddhism and the reasons for its growing popularity—and ended up discovering himself in the process. The assignment from National Geographic couldn’t have come at a better time for Garfinkel. Burned out, laid up with back problems, disillusioned by relationships and religion itself, he was still hoping for that big journalistic break—and the answers to life’s biggest riddles as well. So he set out on a geographic, historical and personal expedition that would lead him around the world in search of those answers, and then some. First, to better understand the man who was born Prince Siddhartha Gautama, he followed the time-honored pilgrimage “in the footsteps of the Buddha” in India. From there, he tracked the historical course of Buddhism: to Sri Lanka, Thailand, China, Tibet, Japan and on to San Francisco and Europe. He found that the Buddha’s teachings have spawned a worldwide movement of “engaged Buddhism,” the application of Buddhist principles to resolve social, environmental, health, political and other contemporary problems. From East to West and back to the East again, this movement has caused a Buddhism Boom. Along the way he met a diverse array of Buddhist practitioners—Thai artists, Indian nuns, Sri Lankan school children, Zen archers in Japan, kung fu monks in China and the world’s first Buddhist comic (only in America). Among dozens of Buddhist scholars and leaders, Garfinkel interviewed His Holiness the Dalai Lama, an experience that left him speechless—almost. As just reward for his efforts, toward the end of his journey Garfinkel fell in love in the south of France at the retreat center of a leader of the engaged movement, the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh—a romance that taught him as much about Buddhism as all the masters combined. In this original, entertaining book, Garfinkel separates Buddhist fact from fiction, sharing his humorous insights and keen perceptions about everything from spiritual tourism to Asian traffic jams to the endless road to enlightenment.

The Authenticity of the Early Buddhist Texts

Author : Bhikkhu Sujato
Publisher : Buddhist Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 955240410X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Authenticity of the Early Buddhist Texts written by Bhikkhu Sujato and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there any authentic Buddhist texts? If so, what are they? These are questions of tremendous spiritual and historical interest, about which there is a range of opinions that often appear to be irreconcilable. Traditionalists insist that the texts were “spoken by the Buddha” in the most literal of senses, while sceptics assert that we cannot know anything about the Buddha for certain, and further, that the notion of authenticity is irrelevant or pernicious. Most academic scholars of early Buddhism cautiously affirm that it is possible that the early Buddhist texts as contained in the Sutta and Vinaya Pitaka contain some authentic sayings of the Buddha. A sympathetic assessment of relevant evidence by the authors of this book shows that this is a drastic understatement and that it is very likely that the bulk of the sayings in the texts that are attributed to the Buddha were actually spoken by him. Rarely has the question of authenticity of the Buddhist texts been systematically investigated. Seeing the lack of an easily accessible summary of the evidence, the authors assembled this survey.

The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn

Author : Antony Goedhals
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004430334
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn written by Antony Goedhals and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the East by Antony Goedhals reveals the discourses of vastness, emptiness, and oneness – founded in Buddhism – hidden, for generations of critics and biographers, at the heart of this misunderstood Victorian writer’s work.

India: A Short History

Author : Andrew Robinson
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500771952
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book India: A Short History written by Andrew Robinson and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India’s unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present day India has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants – which eventually forced his army to retreat. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries, mainly spices and textiles, paid for in gold—hence the enormous numbers of Roman gold coins excavated in India. At the height of the Mughal empire in 1700, India boasted 24 percent of the world economy—a share virtually equal to Europe’s 25 percent. But then its economy declined. Colonial India was known for its extremes of wealth and poverty, epitomized by the Taj Mahal and famines, maharajas and untouchables, and also for its spirituality: many-armed Hindu gods and Buddhist philosophy, Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. India: A Short History places as much emphasis on individuals, ideas and cultures as on the rise and fall of kingdoms, political parties and economies. Anyone curious about a great civilization, and its future, will find this an ideal introduction, at times controversial, written by an author who has been strongly engaged with India for more than three decades.

The British Discovery of Buddhism

Author : Philip C. Almond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521033855
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book The British Discovery of Buddhism written by Philip C. Almond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine the British discovery of Buddhism during the Victorian period. It was only during the nineteenth century that Buddhism became, in the western mind, a religious tradition separate from Hinduism. As a result, Buddha emerge from a realm of myth and was addressed as a historical figure. Almond's exploration of British interpretations of Buddhism--of its founder, its doctrines, its ethics, its social practices, its truth and value--illuminates more than the various aspects of Buddhist culture: it sheds light on the Victorian society making these judgements.