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Author : Madan Gopal Chitkara
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ISBN 13 : 9788176481977
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Bodhicharyavatara: Governing The Bodhisattvas-Way Of Life written by Madan Gopal Chitkara and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Madan G. Chitkara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788176481977
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Bodhicharyavatara: Governing The Bodhisattvas-Way Of Life (vol.18) written by Madan G. Chitkara and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bsod-nams-grags-pa (Paṇ-chen)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Overview of Buddhist Tantra written by Bsod-nams-grags-pa (Paṇ-chen) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overview of Buddhists Tantra, subtitled General Presentation of the Classes of Tantra, Captivating the Minds of the Fortunate Ones, is a scholarly exposition of the framework of Tantric practice presented by its author, Panchen Sonam Dragpa, in a methodical and accessible manner. Detailed explanations within this book include: the historical emergence of Buddhism in our world as interpreted by various Buddhists traditions; the differing tenets of the sects, and the differences between the vehicles(yanas); the doors to the path to liberation; and the classes of Tantric practice leading to that state of liberation.
Author : Edward A. Irons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816054596
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Buddhism written by Edward A. Irons and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents nearly seven hundred A-to-Z entries relating to Buddhism, including theological concepts, important figures, historical events, institutions, and movements; and includes entries on other religious practices such as Daoism and Confucianism.
Author : Har Dayal
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120812574
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (125 download)
Download or read book The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature written by Har Dayal and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1970 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work consists of seven chapters that deal with the Bodhisattva doctrine as expounded in the principal Buddhist Sanskrit Literature. Chapter 1 describes the nature of the Bodhisattva doctrine with particular stress on the distinct chatacteristics of arhat, Bodhisattva and sravaka. Chapter II recounts the different factors including the influence Persian religio-cult, Greek art and Christian ethics that contributed to the rise and growth of the Boddhisattva doctrine. Chapter III expounds the production of the thought of Enlightenment for the welfare and liberation of all creatures. Chapters IV describes thirty-seven practices and principles conducive to the attainment of Enlightenment. Chapter V expalins the ten perfections that lead to welfare, rebirth, serenity, spiritual cultivation, and supreme knowledge. Chapter VI states different stages of spiritual progress in the aspirant`s long journey to the goal of final emancipation and Chapter VII relates the events of the Gautama Buddha`s past lives as Bodhisattva. The book contains comprehensive notes and references besides a general index appended at the end. It is written in a very lucid style that speaks of the writer`s scholarly acumen and mastry of literary art.
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Milinda's Questions written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
ISBN 13 : 8185102155
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish written by and published by Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great treasures of Buddhist literature, is mDo-mdzangs-blun or the Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish as it is known to the Mongols. The text was translated to Mongolian from Tibetan as the Üliger-ün Dalai or Ocean of Narratives. It is one of the most interesting, enjoyable and readable Buddhist scriptures. For centuries, it has been an inexhaustible source of inspiration, instruction and pleasure for all who have been able to read it. The history of this unusual scripture is still uncertain. Legend has it that the tales were heard in Khotan by Chinese monks, who translated them (but from what language?) into Chinese, from which it was translated into Tibetan, then into Mongolian and Oirat. The Narratives are Jatakas, or rebirth stories, tracing the causes of present tragedy in human lives to events which took place in former lifetimes. The theme of each narrative is the same: the tragedy of the human condition, the reason for this tragedy and the possibility of transcending it. But unlike Greek tragedy, Buddhist tragedy is never an end in itself, i.e. a catharsis, but a call to transcend that which can be transcended and need not be endlessly endured. The people we meet in the Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish, although supposedly living in the India of the Buddha’s time, might also be living at present in New York City, a small rural town or Leningrad, and the problems they face are the same problems that men have had to face always and everywhere. Herein lies the timeless appeal of this profound Buddhist scripture.
Author : Divyāvadāna
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Divyâvadâna written by Divyāvadāna and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Smyer Yu
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ISBN 13 : 9781138024892
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China written by Dan Smyer Yu and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China. In turn, the author explores the broader socio-cultural implications of such revivals. Based on detailed cross-regional ethnographic work, the book demonstrates that the revival of Tibetan Buddhism in contemporary China is intimately bound with both the affirming and negating forces of globalization, modernity, and politics of religion, indigenous identity reclamation, and the market economy. The analysis highlights the multidimensionality of Tibetan Buddhism in relation to different religious, cultural, and political constituencies of China. By recognizing the greater contexts of China's politics of religion and of the global status of Tibetan Buddhism, this book presents an argument that the revival of Tibetan Buddhism is not an isolated event limited merely to Tibetan regions; instead, it is a result of the intersection of both local and global transformative changes. The book is a useful contribution to students and scholars of Asian religion and Chinese studies.
Author : Bu-ston Rin-chen-grub
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book History of Buddhism (Chos-ḥbyung) written by Bu-ston Rin-chen-grub and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sukumar Dutt
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120804982
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Monks and Monasteries of India written by Sukumar Dutt and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1988 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though India is no longer a Buddhist country, Buddhism held its place among Indian faiths for nearly seventeen centuries (500 B.C.--A.D. 1200). During this long stretch of time the Buddhist monks were organized in Sanghas in most parts of the country and their activities and achievements have profoundly influenced India`s traditional culture. There are monumental remains of Buddhist monastic life scattered all over India: in the south there are about a thousand cave-monasteries, among them Ajanta, world-famous for its exquisite mural paintings; in the north, less spectacular, the ruins of monastic edifices from Taxila in the west to Paharpur in the east. A connected history of the Buddhist monks of ancient India, their activities, their monastic establishments and their contributions to Indian culture, is available for the first time in this work, which is remarkable also for its pervading human interest. In reconstructing the history of the emperors and kings who were patrons of Buddhism, the early missionaries and the illustrious monk-scholars of later times, the author has used sources in four languages--Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan. Contents The primitive sangha, The asoka-satavahana age 250 BC-AD 100 and its legacy, In the Gupta age (AD 300-550) and after, Eminent monk-Scholars of India, Monastic Universities, (AD 500-1200), Bib., Index.
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Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120807389
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Parables written by and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Seyfort Ruegg
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447022040
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India written by David Seyfort Ruegg and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1981 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Masefield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134543786
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Divine Revelation in Pali Buddhism written by Peter Masefield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986. In this study of initiation in the Nikayas (Discourses of the Buddha), the author presents evidence which makes it clear that salvation in early Buddhism depended upon the intervention of the Buddha’s grace. Contrary to the view of Buddhism as a philosophy of self-endeavour, the picture that emerges from examination of the canonical texts is one of Buddhism as a revealed religion in every sense of the term.
Author : Āryaśūra
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226782158
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Once the Buddha Was a Monkey written by Āryaśūra and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is one of the most entertaining masterpieces of Sanskrit literature rendered in an English translation that fully captures the original's artistry and charm. Written most probably in the fourth century A.D., the Jatakamala is generally considered the masterpiece of Buddhist literature in Sanskrit. In elegant, courtly style, Arya Sura retells thirty-four traditional stories about the Buddha in his previous incarnations, human and animal. Whether as a king, a brahmin, a monkey, or a hare, the Great One is shown in assiduous pursuit of virtue and compassion. Though primarily intended as exemplary tales illustrating the Buddhist virtues, these stories also provide a vivid picture of life at a high point in ancient Indian culture—city life in ordinary households or at the royal court, and country life against a backdrop of mountain, desert, and jungle. Fresh study of the Sanskrit manuscripts, now scattered in libraries all over the world, has enabled Peter Khoroche to make this new translation faithful to the original in both style and content. His explanatory notes will assist student and general reader alike in appreciating this classic from an ancient and exotic civilization. “The general reader will be highly grateful for this new translation which, besides being beautifully printed, is rounded off with a very informative and reliable introduction.”—Renate Söhnen-Thieme, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies “One would be a fool not to welcome the chance to read this book.”—Richard Gombrich, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author : James William Coleman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195152418
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The New Buddhism written by James William Coleman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text outlines the development and spread of ancient Buddhism. It describes its journey west and its evolution here, sketching the lives and teachings of some of Western Buddhism's most important figures.
Author : Michael Carrithers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521277570
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (775 download)
Download or read book The Category of the Person written by Michael Carrithers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-12-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept that people have of themselves as a 'person' is one of the most intimate notions that they hold. Yet the way in which the category of the person is conceived varies over time and space. In this volume, anthropologists, philosophers, and historians examine the notion of the person in different cultures, past and present. Taking as their starting point a lecture on the person as a category of the human mind, given by Marcel Mauss in 1938, the contributors critically assess Mauss's speculation that notions of the person, rather than being primarily philosophical or psychological, have a complex social and ideological origin. Discussing societies ranging from ancient Greece, India, and China to modern Africa and Papua New Guinea, they provide fascinating descriptions of how these different cultures define the person. But they also raise deeper theoretical issues: What is universally constant and what is culturally variable in people's thinking about the person? How can these variations be explained? Has there been a general progressive development toward the modern Western view of the person? What is distinctive about this? How do one's notions of the person inform one's ability to comprehend alternative formulations? These questions are of compelling interest for a wide range of anthropologists, philosophers, historians, psychologists, sociologists, orientalists, and classicists. The book will appeal to any reader concerned with understanding one of the most fundamental aspects of human existence.
