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The Light of Asia

Author : Jairam Ramesh
Publisher : India Viking
ISBN 13 : 9780670094837
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book The Light of Asia written by Jairam Ramesh and published by India Viking. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Light of Asia' is an epic poem by Sir Edwin Arnold that was first published in 1879. It is a narrative of the life and message of the Buddha. It quickly became a huge sensation and has continued to resonate powerfully across the world over the last century and a half. The poem captivated an Indian monk who remains an iconic personality-Swami Vivekananda. At about the same time, it deeply moved a young man in Colombo who has become famous in history as Anagarika Dharmapala. It caught the attention of an aspiring Indian lawyer in London in 1889. This man later became immortal as Mahatma Gandhi. A few years hence it impacted a teenager in Allahabad who would, in 1947, become the first Prime Minister of India-Jawaharlal Nehru. Two copies of the book adorned the bookshelves of B.R. Ambedkar, the prime architect of the Indian constitution. Weaving together literary, cultural, political and social history, Jairam Ramesh uncovers and narrates the fascinating story of this deeply consequential and compelling poem that has shaped our thinking of an ancient sage and his teachings. Jairam Ramesh brings into this unusual narrative the life of the multi-faceted poet himself who, among other things, was steeped in Sanskrit literature. Sir Edwin Arnold's English rendering of the Bhagavad Gita was one of Mahatma Gandhi's abiding favourites. Sir Edwin was also in many ways the man who shaped Bodh Gaya as we know it today.

THE SONG CELESTIAL

Author : EDWIN ARNOLD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE SONG CELESTIAL written by EDWIN ARNOLD and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Light of Asia

Author : Suresh Chabria
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789383098026
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Light of Asia written by Suresh Chabria and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original (shorter) edition of this key historical reference to Indian silent cinema has been unavailable for years. This revised and expanded version has been edited by original author and former National Film Archive of India (NFAI) director Suresh Chabria. He has brilliantly and painstakingly pieced together a definitive historiography of Indian silent film that would have been all but lost were it not for his efforts.

Engaged Buddhism

Author : Christopher S. Queen
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791428436
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Engaged Buddhism written by Christopher S. Queen and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive coverage of socially and politically engaged Buddhism in Asia, presenting the historical development and institutional forms of engaged Buddhism in the light of traditional Buddhist conceptions of morality, interdependence, and liberation.

The Light of Asia

Author : Sir Edwin Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Light of Asia written by Sir Edwin Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Light of Asia

Author : Sir Edwin Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Light of Asia written by Sir Edwin Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Buddhist Tourism in Asia

Author : Courtney Bruntz
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824882822
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Buddhist Tourism in Asia written by Courtney Bruntz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collaborative work—the first to focus on Buddhist tourism—explores how Buddhists, government organizations, business corporations, and individuals in Asia participate in re-imaginings of Buddhism through tourism. Contributors from religious studies, anthropology, and art history examine sacred places and religious monuments as they have been shaped and reshaped by socioeconomic and cultural trends in the region. Following an introduction that offers the first theoretical understanding of tourism from a Buddhist studies’ perspective, early chapters discuss the ways Buddhists and non-Buddhists imagine concepts and places related to the religion. Case studies highlight Buddhist peace in India, Buddhist heavens and hells in Singapore, Thai temple space, and the future Buddha Maitreya in China. Buddhist tourism’s connections to the state, market, and new technologies are explored in chapters on Indian package tours for pilgrims, thematic Buddhist tourism in Cambodia, the technological innovations of Buddhist temples in China, and the promotion of pilgrimage sites in Japan. Contributors then situate the financial concerns of Chinese temples, speed dating in temples in Japan, and the diffuse and pervasive nature of Buddhism for tourism promotion in Ladakh, India. How have tourist routes, groups, sites, and practices associated with Buddhism come to be possible and what are the effects? In what ways do travelers derive meaning from Buddhist places? How do Buddhist sites fortify national, cultural, or religious identities? The comparative research in South, Southeast, and East Asia presented here draws attention to the intertwining of the sacred and the financial and how local and national sites are situated within global networks. Together these findings generate a compelling comparative investigation of Buddhist spaces, identities, and practices.

Heart of Asia

Author : Nicholas Roerich
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892813025
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Heart of Asia written by Nicholas Roerich and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1990-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roerich recounts his journeys to more than fifty monasteries and his meetings with lamas eager to share their spiritual insights and heritage with the Western world. His expeditions crossed thirty-five mountain passes, and included here are dramatic descriptions of snow blindness, mountain floods, and mysterious electrical phenomena, as well as intimate depictions of daily life in the rigorous yet beautiful Himalayan environment.

Light and Dark

Author : Sōseki Natsume
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231536186
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Light and Dark written by Sōseki Natsume and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light and Dark, Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the eve of World War I. It is also a psychological portrait of a new marriage that achieves a depth and exactitude of character revelation that had no precedent in Japan at the time of its publication and has not been equaled since. With Light and Dark, Soseki invented the modern Japanese novel. Recovering in a clinic following surgery, thirty-year-old Tsuda Yoshio receives visits from a procession of intimates: his coquettish young wife, O-Nobu; his unsparing younger sister, O-Hide, who blames O-Nobu's extravagance for her brother's financial difficulties; his self-deprecating friend, Kobayashi, a ne'er-do-well and troublemaker who might have stepped from the pages of a Dostoevsky novel; and his employer's wife, Madam Yoshikawa, a conniving meddler with a connection to Tsuda that is unknown to the others. Divergent interests create friction among this closely interrelated cast of characters that explodes into scenes of jealousy, rancor, and recrimination that will astonish Western readers conditioned to expect Japanese reticence. Released from the clinic, Tsuda leaves Tokyo to continue his convalescence at a hot-springs resort. For reasons of her own, Madam Yoshikawa informs him that a woman who inhabits his dreams, Kiyoko, is staying alone at the same inn, recovering from a miscarriage. Dissuading O-Nobu from accompanying him, Tsuda travels to the spa, a lengthy journey fraught with real and symbolic obstacles that feels like a passage from one world to another. He encounters Kiyoko, who attempts to avoid him, but finally manages a meeting alone with her in her room. Soseki's final scene is a sublime exercise in indirection that leaves Tsuda to "explain the meaning of her smile."

When Asia Was the World

Author : Stewart Gordon
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306815567
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book When Asia Was the World written by Stewart Gordon and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the important influence of Asia's great civilization on the West, as traveling merchants, scholars, philosophers, and religious figures brought the wisdom of China and the Middle East to medieval Europe during the Dark Ages.

Issei Buddhism in the Americas

Author : Duncan Ryuken Williams
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025203533X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Issei Buddhism in the Americas written by Duncan Ryuken Williams and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in primary sources and featuring contributions from scholars on both sides of the Pacific, Issei Buddhism in the Americas upends boundaries and categories that have tied Buddhism to Asia and illuminates the social and spiritual role that the religion has played in the Americas. While Buddhists in Japan had long described the migration of the religion as traveling from India, across Asia, and ending in Japan, this collection details the movement of Buddhism across the Pacific to the Americas. Leading the way were pioneering, first-generation Issei priests and their followers who established temples, shared Buddhist teachings, and converted non-Buddhists in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book explores these pioneering efforts in the context of Japanese diasporic communities and immigration history and the early history of Buddhism in the Americas. The result is a dramatic exploration of the history of Asian immigrant religion that encompasses such topics as Japanese language instruction in Hawaiian schools, the Japanese Canadian community in British Columbia, the roles of Buddhist song culture, Tenriyko ministers in America, and Zen Buddhism in Brazil. Contributors are Michihiro Ama, Noriko Asato, Masako Iino, Tomoe Moriya, Lori Pierce, Cristina Rocha, Keiko Wells, Duncan Ryûken Williams, and Akihiro Yamakura.

The Light of Asia

Author : Edwin Arnold
Publisher : Double 9 Booksllp
ISBN 13 : 9789356568471
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book The Light of Asia written by Edwin Arnold and published by Double 9 Booksllp. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Light of Asia was published in 1879. The book is renowned as a classic and has been published in various editions and different languages. In this poetic masterpiece, Sir Edwin Arnold tells the life and lessons of Buddha. The man who was to become known as Buddha to the world was born Prince Gautama of India. However, he rejected the wealthy and lavish lifestyle and abandoned all the powers he had gotten when he began his journey to find the importance of life. This poem uncovers Buddha's life according to the Buddhist point of view, so you don't need to be a Buddhist to see the value in this wonderful work. As soon as you read about Buddha, you will start discovering your own life. Not just the philosophical part, but because of its poetic form, the story of the dramatic incidents in Buddha's life is delightful to read.

Egypt and Western Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries

Author : Leonard William King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Egypt and Western Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries written by Leonard William King and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Light of Asia

Author : Sir Edwin Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Light of Asia written by Sir Edwin Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hindu-Buddhist Architecture in Southeast Asia

Author : Daigorō Chihara
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004105126
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Hindu-Buddhist Architecture in Southeast Asia written by Daigorō Chihara and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the technical, artistic and architectural aspects of the Hindu and Buddhist monuments from the beginning until today in Southeast Asia.

The Light of Asia

Author : Sir Edwin Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Light of Asia written by Sir Edwin Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West

Author : Geoffrey Samuel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136766472
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West written by Geoffrey Samuel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them. This book explores subtle-body practices from a variety of perspectives, and includes both studies of these practices in Asian and Western contexts. The book discusses how subtle-body practices assume a quasi-material level of human existence that is intermediate between conventional concepts of body and mind. Often, this level is conceived of in terms of an invisible structure of channels, associated with the human body, through which flows of quasi-material substance take place. Contributors look at how subtle-body concepts form the basic explanatory structure for a wide range of practices. These include forms of healing, modes of exercise and martial arts as well as religious practices aimed at the refinement and transformation of the human mindbody complex. By highlighting how subtle-body practices of many kinds have been introduced into Western societies in recent years, the book explores the possibilities for new models of understanding which these concepts open up. It is a useful contribution to studies on Asian Religion and Philosophy.