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Author : Mahānāma
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Total Pages : 1148 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Mahāvaṃsa, the Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka written by Mahānāma and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hermann Oldenberg
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Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book The Dîpavaṃsa written by Hermann Oldenberg and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thera Mahanama-sthavira
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0895819066
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (958 download)
Download or read book The Mahavamsa written by Thera Mahanama-sthavira and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0394726251
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)
Download or read book The Discoverers written by Daniel J. Boorstin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1985-02-12 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.
Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415332286
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Buddhism: The early Buddhist schools and doctrinal history ; Theravāda doctrine written by Paul Williams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eight-volume set brings together seminal papers in Buddhist studies from a vast range of academic disciplines published over the last forty years. With a new introduction by the editor, this collection is a unique and unrivalled research resource for both student and scholar. Coverage includes: - Buddhist origins; early history of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia - early Buddhist Schools and Doctrinal History; Theravada Doctrine - the Origins and nature of Mahayana Buddhism; some Mahayana religious topics - Abhidharma and Madhyamaka - Yogacara, the Epistemological tradition, and Tathagatagarbha - Tantric Buddhism (Including China and Japan); Buddhism in Nepal and Tibet - Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, and - Buddhism in China, East Asia, and Japan.
Author : Mahanama Thera
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ISBN 13 : 9781983960444
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Mahavamsa written by Mahanama Thera and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mahavamsa ("Great Chronicle" )(5th century CE) is an epic poem written in the Pali language of the ancient Kings of Sri Lanka. It relates the history of Sri Lanka from its legendary beginnings up to the reign of Mahasena of Anuradhapura (A.D. 302) covering the period between the arrival of Prince Vijaya from India in 543 BCE to his reign (277-304 CE). It was composed by a Buddhist bhikku at the Mahavihara temple in Anuradhapura about the sixth century A.D.
Author : Mark Altaweel
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1911576712
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present written by Mark Altaweel and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today our societies face great challenges with water, in terms of both quantity and quality, but many of these challenges have already existed in the past. Focusing on Asia, Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present seeks to highlight the issues that emerge or re-emerge across different societies and periods, and asks what they can tell us about water sustainability. Incorporating cutting-edge research and pioneering field surveys on past and present water management practices, the interdisciplinary contributors together identify how societies managed water resource challenges and utilised water in ways that allowed them to evolve, persist, or drastically alter their environment. The case studies, from different periods, ancient and modern, and from different regions, including Egypt, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Southwest United States, the Indus Basin, the Yangtze River, the Mesopotamian floodplain, the early Islamic city of Sultan Kala in Turkmenistan, and ancient Korea, offer crucial empirical data to readers interested in comparing the dynamics of water management practices across time and space, and to those who wish to understand water-related issues through conceptual and quantitative models of water use. The case studies also challenge classical theories on water management and social evolution, examine and establish the deep historical roots and ecological foundations of water sustainability issues, and contribute new grounds for innovations in sustainable urban planning and ecological resilience.
Author : Sylvia Fraser-Lu
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300209452
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Art of Myanmar written by Sylvia Fraser-Lu and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning showcase of exceptional and rare works of Buddhist art, presented to the international community for the first time The practice of Buddhism in Myanmar (Burma) has resulted in the production of dazzling objects since the 5th century. This landmark publication presents the first overview of these magnificent works of art from major museums in Myanmar and collections in the United States, including sculptures, paintings, textiles, and religious implements created for temples and monasteries, or for personal devotion. Many of these pieces have never before been seen outside of Myanmar. Accompanied by brilliant color photography, essays by Sylvia Fraser-Lu, Donald M. Stadtner, and scholars from around the world synthesize the history of Myanmar from the ancient through colonial periods and discuss the critical links between religion, geography, governance, historiography, and artistic production. The authors examine the multiplicity of styles and techniques throughout the country, the ways Buddhist narratives have been conveyed through works of art, and the context in which the diverse objects were used. Certain to be the essential resource on the subject, Buddhist Art of Myanmar illuminates two millennia of rarely seen masterpieces.
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Total Pages : 1616 pages
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Download or read book International Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Holt
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822349825
Total Pages : 791 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Sri Lanka Reader written by John Holt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-four images and more than ninety classic and contemporary texts introduce Sri Lankas recorded history of more than two and a half millennia.
Author : Darab Dastur Peshotan Sanjana
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789353603816
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Zarathushtra in the Gathas, and in the Greek and Roman Classics / Translated from the German of Drs. Geiger and Windischmann, with Notes on M. Darmesteter's Theory Regarding the Date of the Avesta, and an Appendix written by Darab Dastur Peshotan Sanjana and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
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Total Pages : 206 pages
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Download or read book The Glass Palace Chronicle of the Kings of Burma written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1829 King Bagyidaw of Burma appointed a committee of scholars to write a chronicle of the Burmese kings. The name of the chronicle was taken from the Palace of glass, in which the compilation was made. The present translation is based on the Mandalay edition of 1907. It begins with the third part which opens with history of the three Burmese kingdoms of Tagaung, Tharehkittara, and Pagan. The fourth and fifth parts continue the history of Pagan until the time of its fail.
Author : D. C. Ahir
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Total Pages : 370 pages
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Download or read book Heritage of Buddhism written by D. C. Ahir and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Clifford Holt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195362462
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Buddha in the Crown written by John Clifford Holt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines the various ways in which Avalokitesvara, the most well known and proliferated bodhisattva of Mahayana Buddhism throughout south, southeast, and east Asia, was assimilated into the transforming religious culture of Sri Lanka, one of the most pluralistic in Asia. Exploring the expressions of the bodhisattva's cult in Sanskrit and Sinhala literature, in iconography, epigraphy, ritual, symbol, and myth, the author develops a provocative thesis regarding the dynamics of religious change. Interdisciplinary in scope, addressing a wide variety of issues relating to Buddhist thought and practice, and providing new and original information on the rich cultural history of Sri Lanka, this book will interest students of Buddhism and South Asia.
Author : C.H. Fernando
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400965451
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Ecology and Biogeography in Sri Lanka written by C.H. Fernando and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the late Professor Joachim Illies suggested in 1980 that I edit a volume of the Monographiae Biologicae on Sri Lanka, I was glad to accept the challenge. Although I had spent only six years of my research and teaching career in Sri Lanka, I had made personal contact or corresponded with many scientists who had worked in, still work in, or who have studied material from Sri Lanka. The present domicile of the authors of the chapters in this volume shows the wide geographic spread of interest in Sri Lanka, and indicates also the dispersion of Sri Lankan scientists like myself. Sri Lanka has had a relatively long history of indigenous scientific research in the natural sciences. From the early work of Kelaart (1852, Prodromous Fauna Zeylanicae, Ceylon Govt. Press, 250 pp.) to the present time, there has been a more or less sustained research effort in the natural sciences. The Colombo Museum, which celebrated its centenary only a few years ago, and the world famous Peradeniya Botanical Gardens, served as repositories and bases for continued research on the fauna and flora. There are a number of land marks in these studies.
Author : Fijjik
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Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ceylon and Her People written by Fijjik and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria Heim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199331057
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Forerunner of All Things written by Maria Heim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long been intrigued by the Buddha's defining action (karma) as intention. This book explores systematically how intention, agency, and moral psychology were interpreted in all branches of early Theravada thought, paying special attention to the thought of the 5th-century commentator Buddhaghosa.
