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Book Synopsis Stories of Ghosts from the Petavatthu by : Ven Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thera
Download or read book Stories of Ghosts from the Petavatthu written by Ven Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thera and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us are able to see beings who have been reborn in the human realm and many of the beings born in the animal realm. But it is very rare to have the opportunity to witness for ourselves the suffering experienced by those beings born in the ghost realm. Our great teacher, the Supreme Buddha, had an excellent knowledge and vision to be able to see these beings as well as the action that led to the suffering that they experience. In this book, "Stories of Ghosts," we can learn about many kinds of ghosts and the bad actions they did to be reborn in the ghost world. Some ghosts had done bad actions with their body, such as the former deer hunter who, in the ghost world, was torn to shreds by dogs day after day. Other ghosts had done bad things with their speech, such as the ghost who had the mouth of a pig. Even our mental actions can lead to rebirth as a ghost. In this book you will learn about the ghost who held many wrong views and because of that was eventually going to be born in hell for many eons. Some ghosts experience suffering because of not doing things such as practicing generosity. Because it is not easy to see the results of our own actions immediately, the information in this book will help us to make wise choices about what we do and don't do.
Book Synopsis Petavatthu, Stories of Hungry Ghost by : Noble Silence
Download or read book Petavatthu, Stories of Hungry Ghost written by Noble Silence and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Petavatthu ( "Stories of Hungry Ghost") is a Theravada Buddhist scripture, included in the Minor Collection (Khuddaka Nikaya) of the Pali Canon's Sutta Pitaka. It ostensibly reports stories about and conversations among the Buddha and his disciples.The path of Buddha is the path of compassion and harmony for all beings. It strives to make human consciousness evolve higher, however it does not forget those who have met the wrong end i.e. ghost(peta/peti). Buddha offers a way to harmonize with the realm of ghosts by helping them, since all creatures are related to each other, who have been one's ancestors/relatives in some previous lives. Buddha teaches to donate in the name of ghosts/ancestors, which would surely benefit them, as well as help the needy of the world, generating goodwill for all, and in turn help earn merit for the donor too, hence, it is three way beneficent. Petavatthu contains 51 stories, each explaining how unwholesome deeds led to the rebirth of a being into the miserable realm of the "hungry ghosts" (peta/peti) and how they were helped.
Book Synopsis Petavatthu. by : Ivan Pavlovich 1840-1890 Mineav
Download or read book Petavatthu. written by Ivan Pavlovich 1840-1890 Mineav and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a translation of the Petavatthu, one of the texts of the Pali Canon, which is the primary scripture of Theravada Buddhism. The Petavatthu is a collection of stories about ghosts and their past lives, which were told by the Buddha to illustrate the principles of karma and rebirth. This translation of the text is accompanied by extensive notes and commentary by the editor, making it an excellent resource for scholars of Buddhism or those interested in the history of religion. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Petavatthu by : Ivan Pavlovich Minayeff
Download or read book Petavatthu written by Ivan Pavlovich Minayeff and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Book Synopsis Of Ancestors and Ghosts by : Adeana McNicholl
Download or read book Of Ancestors and Ghosts written by Adeana McNicholl and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Part I of this book, I argued that preta narratives participated in a larger world-building process that negotiated the contours of the Buddhist cosmos and, with it, the place of the departed. Through stories about encounters between humans and pretas, Buddhist authors explored the place of the departed in a karmic cosmological system, worked out how to best assist them, and advocated for the importance of the sangha in facilitating these offerings. These tales do not merely reflect the process through which the preta as a specific entity and rebirth category became distinguished from the ancestral departed, but also participated in this process. This illustrates the importance of viewing narratives, in Rob Campany's terms, as argumentative. Stories are not merely the distillation of more abstract doctrine but are sites for the construction of religious worldviews. This illustrates that religious cosmologies are not laid down fully formed in doctrinal treatises. They are cumulatively built over time, and "popular culture" can do important work in the aggregative construction of cosmologies"--
Download or read book Hungry Ghosts written by Andy Rotman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface -- Introduction: Mātsarya and the Malignancy of Meanness -- Hungry Ghosts through Images -- Technical Notes -- Translation: Avadānaśataka, Stories 41-50: 1. Sugar Mill: 41. Guḍaśālā -- 2. Food: 42. Bhaktam -- 3. Drinking Water: 43. Pānīyam -- 4. A Pot of Shit: 44. Varcaghaṭaḥ -- 5. Maudgalyāyana: 45. Maudgalyāyanaḥ -- 6. Uttara: 46. Uttaraḥ -- 7. Blind from Birth: 47. Jātyandhā -- 8. The Merchant: 48. Śreṣṭhī -- 9. Sons: 49. Putrāḥ -- 10. Jāmbāla: 50. Jāmbālaḥ -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Book Synopsis The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk by : Justin Thomas McDaniel
Download or read book The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk written by Justin Thomas McDaniel and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on representations of a famous ghost and monk from the late eighteenth century to today, Justin Thomas McDaniel builds a case for interpreting modern Thai Buddhist practice through the movements of these transformative figures. He follows embodiments of the ghost and monk in a variety of genres and media, including biography, drama, ritual, art, liturgy, film, television, and the Internet. Sourcing nuns, monks, laypeople, and royalty, McDaniel shows how relations with these figures have been instrumental in crafting histories and modernities, particularly local conceptions of being "Buddhist," and the formation and transmission of such identities across different venues and technologies.
Download or read book Indian Ghost Stories written by S Mukerji and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Buddhism and Jainism by : K.T.S Sarao
Download or read book Buddhism and Jainism written by K.T.S Sarao and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 1423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on Buddhism and Jainism, two religions which, together with Hinduism, constitute the three pillars of Indic religious tradition in its classical formulation. It explores their history and relates how the Vedic period in the history of Hinduism drew to a close around the sixth century BCE and how its gradual etiolation gave rise to a number of religious movements. While some of these remained within the fold of the Vedic traditions, others arose in a context of a more ambiguous relationship between the two. Two of these have survived to the present day as Buddhism and Jainism. The volume describes the major role Buddhism played in the history not only of India but of Asia, and now the world as well, and the more confined role of Jainism in India until relatively recent times. It examines the followers of these religions and their influence on the Indian religious landscape. In addition, it depicts the transformative effect on existing traditions of the encounter of Hinduism with these two religions, as well as the fertile interaction between the three. The book shows how Buddhism and Jainism share the basic concepts of karma, rebirth, and liberation with Hinduism while giving them their own hue, and how they differ from the Hindu tradition in their understanding of the role of the Vedas, the “caste system,” and ritualism in religious life. The volume contributes to the debate on whether the proper way of describing the relationship between the three major components of the classical Indic tradition is to treat them as siblings (sometimes as even exhibiting sibling rivalry), or as friends (sometimes even exhibiting schadenfreude), or as radical alternatives to one another, or all of these at different points in time.
Book Synopsis Chindian Myth of Mulian Rescuing His Mother – On Indic Origins of the Yulanpen Sūtra by : Xiaohuan Zhao
Download or read book Chindian Myth of Mulian Rescuing His Mother – On Indic Origins of the Yulanpen Sūtra written by Xiaohuan Zhao and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the thorny issue regarding the authenticity of the Yulanpen Sūtra, the scriptural source for the Yulanpen Festival or Hungry Ghost Festival in East Asia. The sūtra, which features Mulian (Skr. Maudgalyāyana) adventuring into the Preta realm to rescue his mother, is catalogued in the Chinese Buddhist bibliography with the Indo-Scythian Dharmarakṣa (Ch. Zhu Fahu, ca. 266–308) given as the translator. However, in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Western scholarship, the sūtra is more often than not regarded as a Chinese Buddhist apocryphal scripture and the Mulian myth as an apocryphal story created by Chinese Buddhists to foster the sinicisation and transformation of Indian Buddhism mainly on the grounds that there is no extant Yulanpen Sūtra in Indic sources and that the sūtra stresses Confucian filial piety and ancestor worship. This book challenges these widely held beliefs by demonstrating that filial piety and ancestor worship are not peculiar to Confucian China but also inherent in Indic traditions and that the sūtra is a Chinese creative translation rather than an indigenous Chinese composition.
Book Synopsis The Ghost Stories by : Ravi Ranjan Goswami
Download or read book The Ghost Stories written by Ravi Ranjan Goswami and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains four interesting and thrilling ghost stories. These stories are entirely fictional. All ghosts are imaginary and the human characters and incidents are also fictional. So children and adults can equally enjoy these stories. I hope you like this small book.
Book Synopsis Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism by : James Egge
Download or read book Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism written by James Egge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates that Buddhists appropriated the practice, vocabulary, and ideology of sacrifice from Vedic religion, and discusses the relationship of this sacrificial discourse to ideas of karma in the Pali canon and in early Buddhism.
Book Synopsis Ghost Stories by : Ganga Prasad Sharma
Download or read book Ghost Stories written by Ganga Prasad Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery by : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Download or read book Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis True Ghost Stories by : Paul Dowswell
Download or read book True Ghost Stories written by Paul Dowswell and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts famous ghostly visitations and stories of haunted places.
Book Synopsis Epitome of the Pali Canon by : Chroniker Press Book
Download or read book Epitome of the Pali Canon written by Chroniker Press Book and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an authorized reprint of Wikipedia articles pertaining to the Pali Canon, the oldest collection of Buddhist scriptures. Included are articles on Pali, the Early Buddhist Schools, and many suttas and other parts of the Vinaya, Sutta, and Abhidhamma Pitakas. This book presents a comprehensive and in depth overview of the Pali Canon in a convenient collection.
Book Synopsis Ghost Stories from the American South by : W. K. MacNeil
Download or read book Ghost Stories from the American South written by W. K. MacNeil and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
