Download or read book Buddhist Festivals Through the Year written by Anita Ganeri and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Festivals introduced as far as possible in date order.
Download or read book Buddhist Festivals Through the Year written by Anita Ganeri and published by Black Rabbit Books. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist Festivals throughout the Year tells the story behind each festival and describes how it is celebrated around the world today.
Download or read book Celebrating Buddhist Festivals written by Nick Hunter and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Buddhists believe? How do they celebrate what is important to them? What food do they eat during festival time? How do Buddhists in the UK celebrate? Read this book to find out the answers to these questions and more. Celebrating Buddhist Festivals looks at important religious and family days in the Buddhist calendar, and gets readers to take part by cooking some of the food central to Buddhist celebrations. The book looks at both international and UK examples of Buddhist celebrations Infosearch asks the questions you want answered.
Download or read book My Buddhist Year written by Cath Senker and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly discusses Buddhism and its teachings and describes a variety of Buddhist festivals, including New Year, Parinirvana, Hana Matsuri, and Kathina.
Download or read book A Year of Buddhist Festivals written by Rita Storey and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and activity-packed look at the main festivals throughout the year. Tracing the festivals from their origins we see how these festivals have been celebrated today and in the past.
Download or read book Buddhist Festivals and Traditions written by Sarah Shey and published by Pebble Books. This book was released on 2025 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers curious about world religions can explore the meaning and customs behind major Buddhist holidays and festivals, including Vesakh, Asalha Puja, and Buddhist New Year.
Download or read book Feasts and Festivals Around the World From Lunar New Year to Christmas written by Alice B. McGinty and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the celebrations and feasts of twelve countries and cultures from around the world! From South Korea to Nigeria to the USA, come celebrate festivals throughout the year! People around the world are celebrating. In Australia, it's Christmas in summer with barbecues on the beach. In Thailand, they're celebrating Songkran, the famous Buddhist water festival. Rhyming text and graphic illustrations pair perfectly and invite young readers to explore the world through mesmerizing festivals. A stunning companion to Pancakes to Parathas: Breakfast Around the World!
Download or read book Religious Celebrations 2 volumes written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 1077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume work presents a comprehensive survey of all the ways people celebrate religious life around the globe. Religious Celebrations is an alphabetically organized encyclopedia that covers more than 800 celebratory occasions from all of the world's major religious communities as well as many of the minor faith traditions. The encyclopedia provides a complete reference tool for examining the myriad ways people worldwide celebrate their religious lives across religious boundaries, providing information on numerous celebratory activities never before covered in a reference work. Offering the most comprehensive coverage of religious holidays ever assembled, this two-volume book covers festivals, commemorations, holidays, and annual religious gatherings all over the world, with special attention paid to the celebrations in larger countries. Entries written by distinguished researchers and specialists on different religious communities capture the unique intensity of each event, be it fasting or feasting, frenzied activity or the universal cessation of work, a huge gathering of the faithful en masse or a small family-centered event. The work spotlights celebrations that currently exist without overlooking now-abandoned celebrations that still impact the modern world.
Download or read book Asian Holidays written by Faith Winchester and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes festivals celebrated by Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese, including various New Year's festivals, Ch'ing Ming, and Buddha's birthday.
Download or read book Buddhist Festivals written by John Snelling and published by Rourke Publishing Group. This book was released on 1987 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Buddhist festivals in various countries in which Buddhism is a major religion.
Download or read book Buddhist Festivals written by Clive Erricker and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate introduces intermediate and middle school learners to major religions around the world with a focus on key festivals and observances. Each title offers the stories of real children, who tell about their lives, what their religion means to them, and how they observe their holy days. Colorful photographs, informative illustrations, and interesting fact boxes bring each festival to life.
Download or read book Celebrate Buddhist Festivals written by Clive Erricker and published by Heinemann Library. This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively introduction to the main festivals of the world's major religions - in each book, real children talk about their lives and what happens at festival time.
Download or read book The Great Ullambana Festival written by Christine H. Huynh and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the true meanings of the Ullambana festivity, along with the story of Moggallana, both of which commemorate the Buddha's joyous celebration on the teaching of love for our parents, gratitude, and the making of offerings. This 32-page children's picture book presents the many meanings and practices of the Ullambana celebration for kids to fully experience this meaningful Buddhist yearly celebration! It retells the renowned story about Moggallana, one of the Buddha's chief disciples, and his acts of love and gratitude for his mother. The history and traditions of the Ullumbana Festival, the Buddha's teachings on gratitude, and ways of making offerings are explained with descriptive illustrations.
Download or read book Buddhism Illuminated written by San San May and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist temples in Southeast Asia are centers for the preservation of local artistic traditions. Chief among these are manuscripts, a vital source for our understanding of Buddhist ideas and practices in the region. They are also a beautiful art form, too little understood in the West. The British Library has one of the richest collections of Southeast Asian manuscripts, principally from Thailand and Burma, anywhere in the world. It includes finely painted copies of Buddhist scriptures, literary works, historical narratives, and works on traditional medicine, law, cosmology, and fortune-telling. Buddhism Illuminated includes over one hundred examples of Buddhist art from the Library’s collection, relating each manuscript to Theravada tradition and beliefs, and introducing the historical, artistic, and religious contexts of their production. It is the first book in English to showcase the beauty and variety of Buddhist manuscript art and reproduces many works that have never before been photographed.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Buddhism written by Damien Keown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflects the current state of scholarship in Buddhist Studies, its entries being written by specialists in many areas, presenting an accurate overview of Buddhist history, thought and practices, most entries having cross-referencing to others and bibliographical references. Contain around 1000 pages and 500,000 words, totalling around 1200 entries.
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Download or read book Buddhism written by Sue Penney and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2008 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the origins, evolution, teachings, and celebrations of the Buddhist religion.
