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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 : Mahanama Thera
Publisher :
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 : Mahānāma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788180902451
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Mahavamsa written by Mahānāma and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mahavamsa is a famous historical treatise in Buddhism, written by Mahanama in Pali language. It deserves a special notice on aacount of its being so highly important for the religious history of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) . The literary questions connected with Mahavamsa & the development of the historical tradition in Sri Lanka have been thoroughly discussed in this text. However, the great importance of Mahavamsa as an historical work, which helped to settle the conflicting & confusing dates of Indian history, is so well established that a dissertation on the subject would seem superfluous. The specific feature of this edition is that it contains original Pali text with revised English translation. Besides, the work is also appendices. Hope, this new edition of its kind will duly help the young researches as well as readers of pali and buddhism to understand the real importance of this old historical text.
Author : Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (27 download)
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 : Wilhelm Geiger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa and Their Historical Development in Ceylon written by Wilhelm Geiger and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria Heim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199331030
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 2013-11 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.
Author : John S. Strong
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780745060
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Buddhisms written by John S. Strong and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhism or Buddhisms? By the time they move on to Buddhism in Japan, many students who have studied its origins in India ask whether this is in fact the same religion, so different can they appear. In Buddhisms: An Introduction, Professor John S. Strong provides an overview of the Buddhist tradition in all its different forms around the world. Beginning at the modern day temples of Lumbini, where the Buddha was born, Strong takes us through the life of the Buddha and a study of Buddhist Doctrine, revealing how Buddhism has changed just as it has stayed the same. Finally, Strong examines the nature of Buddhist community life and its development today in the very different environments of Thailand, Japan, and Tibet. Enriched by the author’s own insights gathered over forty years, Buddhisms never loses sight of the personal experience amidst the wide-scope of its subject. Clear in its explanations, replete with tables and suggestions for further reading, this is an essential new work that makes original contributions to the study of this 2,500 year-old religion.
Author : Dominick LaCapra
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801498862
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Intellectual History written by Dominick LaCapra and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominick LaCapra calls for a new view of intellectual history--one that will revitalize the importance of reading and interpreting significant texts. In ten essays, he reformulates the problem of the relation between the "great" texts of the Western tradition and their contexts. Seeking to refine "context" into a concept useful to historical research, LaCapra urges intellectual historians to learn from lessons and developments in contemporary literary criticism and philosophy, fields that have undertaken a radical reassessment of the reading of texts.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (251 download)
Download or read book The Dîpavaṃsa written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226789500
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Buddhism Betrayed? written by Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-07-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to answer the question of how the Buddhist monks in today's Sri Lanka—given Buddhism's traditionally nonviolent philosophy—are able to participate in the fierce political violence of the Sinhalese against the Tamils.
Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351592254
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The Buddha in Sri Lanka written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines culture, religion and polity in the context of Buddhism. Gananath Obeyesekere, one of the foremost analytical voices from South Asia develops Freud’s notion of ‘dream work’, the ‘work of culture’ and ideas of no-self (anatta) to understand Buddhism in contemporary Sri Lanka. This work offers a restorative interpretation of Buddhist myths in contrast to the perspective involving deconstruction. The book deals with a range of themes connected with Buddhism, including oral traditions and stories, the religious pantheon, philosophy, emotions, reform movements, questions of identity and culture, and issues of modernity. This fascinating volume will greatly interest students, teachers and researchers of religion and philosophy, especially Buddhism, ethics, cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, Sri Lanka and modern South Asian history.
Author : Lucien De Zoysa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Stories from the Mahavamsa written by Lucien De Zoysa and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mahavamsa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mahavamsa written by Mahavamsa and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne M. Blackburn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226055094
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Locations of Buddhism written by Anne M. Blackburn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernizing and colonizing forces brought nineteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhists both challenges and opportunities. How did Buddhists deal with social and economic change; new forms of political, religious, and educational discourse; and Christianity? And how did Sri Lankan Buddhists, collaborating with other Asian Buddhists, respond to colonial rule? To answer these questions, Anne M. Blackburn focuses on the life of leading monk and educator Hikkaduve Sumangala (1827–1911) to examine more broadly Buddhist life under foreign rule. In Locations of Buddhism, Blackburn reveals that during Sri Lanka’s crucial decades of deepening colonial control and modernization, there was a surprising stability in the central religious activities of Hikkaduve and the Buddhists among whom he worked. At the same time, they developed new institutions and forms of association, drawing on pre-colonial intellectual heritage as well as colonial-period technologies and discourse. Advocating a new way of studying the impact of colonialism on colonized societies, Blackburn is particularly attuned here to human experience, paying attention to the habits of thought and modes of affiliation that characterized individuals and smaller scale groups. Locations of Buddhism is a wholly original contribution to the study of Sri Lanka and the history of Buddhism more generally.
Author : Maureen Seneviratne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tales of Courage and Chivalry Re-told from the Mahavamsa and Chulavamsa written by Maureen Seneviratne and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mahānāma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)
Download or read book The Mahávaṇsa written by Mahānāma and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilhelm Geiger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Mahāvaṁsa written by Wilhelm Geiger and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
