Download or read book Catalogue of Palm Leaf Manuscripts in the Library of the Colombo Museum written by Colombo Museum. Library and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of Palm leaf Selected Paper Mss Belonging to the Durbar Library Nepal written by Haraprasada Sastri, Mahamahopadhyaya and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Palm leaf and Paper written by John Guy and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Palm Leaf Manuscripts of Sri Lanka written by Sirancee Gunawardana and published by S.N. Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buddhist Manuscript Cultures written by Stephen C. Berkwitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Buddhist texts focuses on the significance of their material forms rather than their doctrinal contents, and examines how and why they were made. Contributions are by reputed scholars in Buddhist Studies and represent diverse disciplinary approaches from religious studies, art history, anthropology, and history.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture written by Ivan Gaskell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen, made, and used. This book examines how material culture can enhance historians' understanding of the past, both worldwide and across time. The successful use of material culture in history depends on treating material things of many kinds not as illustrations, but as primary evidence. Each kind of material thing-and there are many-requires the application of interpretive skills appropriate to it. These skills overlap with those acquired by scholars in disciplines that may abut history but are often relatively unfamiliar to historians, including anthropology, archaeology, and art history. Creative historians can adapt and apply the same skills they honed while studying more traditional text-based documents even as they borrow methods from these fields. They can think through familiar historical problems in new ways. They can also deploy material culture to discover the pasts of constituencies who have left few or no traces in written records. The authors of this volume contribute case studies arranged thematically in six sections that respectively address the relationship of history and material culture to cognition, technology, the symbolic, social distinction, and memory. They range across time and space, from Paleolithic to Punk.
Download or read book A Handbook of P li Literature written by Oskar von Hinüber and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2000 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook surveys the whole of Pali Theravada Buddhist literature (Ceylon, South East Asia). It reviews previous research in the field, and then concentrates on new methodological approaches and a treatment of later Pali literature (after the twelfth century).
Download or read book An Analysis of the Pali Canon and a Reference Table of Pali Literature written by Russell Webb and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Analysis of the Pali Canon is a comprehensive overview of the contents of the works that make up the Tipitaka, the Canon of the Theravada school of Buddhism. It also contains an index of the suttas and sections of the Tipitaka, as well as an extensive bibliography of the translations of canonical works and secondary literature. The second part of this book, A Reference Table of Pali Literature, is an extensive list of all the works composed in the Indic language known as Pali. It lists all the works of the Tipitaka, the commentaries and subcommentaries, historical chronicles, works on medicine, cosmology, grammar, law, astrology, Bible translations, etc. It also gives data on the authors, time of composition, country of origin and includes references to secondary literature that provide more information on the works listed. This book is an essential resource for students and researchers of the Tipitaka and other Pali literature.
Download or read book Buddhist History in the Vernacular written by Stephen C. Berkwitz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on vernacular Buddhist histories written in late medieval Sri Lanka demonstrates that narrative representations of the past were designed to effectively constructing new moral communities in translocal spaces.
Download or read book Tri Sinhala written by P. E. Pieris and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2001 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit Series A Vol 1 2 written by David Pingree and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1970 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Catalogus Catalogorum written by University of Madras. Sanskrit Department and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of Books Brought from Abroad by the Reverend Shimbashira Nakayama 1951 1963 written by Tenri Toshokan and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mountain at a Center of the World written by Alexander McKinley and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the pilgrimage site of Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka, a footprint is embedded atop the mountain summit. Buddhists hold that it was left by the Buddha, Hindus say Lord Siva, and Muslims and Christians identify it with Adam, the first man. The Sri Lankan state, for its part, often uses the Peak as a prop to convey a harmonious image of religious pluralism, despite increasing Buddhist hegemony. How should the diversity of this place be understood historically and managed practically? Considering the varied heritage of this sacred site, Alexander McKinley develops a new account of pluralism based in political ecology, representing the full array of actors and issues on the mountain. From its diverse people to rare species to deep geology, the Peak exemplifies a planetary pluralism that recognizes a multiplicity of beings while accepting competition and disorder. Taking a place-based approach, McKinley casts the mountain as an actor, exploring how its rocks, forests, and waters promote pilgrimage, inspire storytelling, and make ethical demands on human communities. Combining history and ethnography while furnishing original translations of sources from Pali, Sinhala, and Tamil, this multidisciplinary and stylistically innovative book shows how religious traditions share literal common ground in their reverence for the mountain.
Download or read book Papers Presented at the Regional Seminar on Reference Sources on South Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
