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Book The Taming of the Demons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jacob Paul Dalton
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2011-06-28
  • ISBN : 0300153953
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book The Taming of the Demons written by Jacob Paul Dalton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Taming of the Demons" examines mythic and ritual themes of violence, demon taming, and blood sacrifice in Tibetan Buddhism. Taking as its starting point Tibet's so-called age of fragmentation (842 to 986 C.E.), the book draws on previously unstudied manuscripts discovered in the "library cave" near Dunhuang, on the old Silk Road. These ancient documents, it argues, demonstrate how this purportedly inactive period in Tibetan history was in fact crucial to the Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism, and particularly to the spread of violent themes from tantric Buddhism into Tibet at the local and the popular levels. Having shed light on this "dark age" of Tibetan history, the second half of the book turns to how, from the late tenth century onward, the period came to play a vital symbolic role in Tibet, as a violent historical "other" against which the Tibetan Buddhist tradition defined itself.

Book A Sanskrit English Dictionary

Download or read book A Sanskrit English Dictionary written by Monier Monier-Williams and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Sanskrit English Dictionary

Download or read book A Sanskrit English Dictionary written by Monier Monier-Williams and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House. This book was released on 1899 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition includes numerous printed Sanskrit texts and works and three Indian journeys the author had undertaken. All the words are arranged etymologically and philologically with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages.

Book Sanskrit English dictionary

Download or read book Sanskrit English dictionary written by Monier Monier-Williams and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1963 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Sanskrit English Dictionary

Download or read book A Sanskrit English Dictionary written by Monier Williams and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scientific Basis for Ayurvedic Therapies

Download or read book Scientific Basis for Ayurvedic Therapies written by Lakshmi C. Mishra and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-09-29 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the oldest form of health care, Ayurveda is often referred to as the "Mother of All Healing." Although there has been considerable scientific research done in this area during the last 50 years, the results of that research have not been adequately disseminated. Meeting the need for an authoritative, evidence-based reference, Scientific Basis for Ayurvedic Therapies is the first book to analyze and synthesize current research supporting Ayurvedic medicine. This book reviews the latest scientific information, evaluates the research data, and presents it in an easy to use format. The editor has carefully selected topics based on the availability of scientific studies and the prevalence of a disease. With contributions from experts in their respective fields, topics include Ayurvedic disease management, panchkarma, Ayurvedic bhasmas, the current status of Ayurveda in India, clinical research design, and evaluation of typical clinical trials of certain diseases, to name just a few. While there are many books devoted to Ayurveda, very few have any in-depth basis in scientific studies. This book provides a critical evaluation of literature, clinical trials, and biochemical and pharmacological studies on major Ayurvedic therapies that demonstrates how they are supported by scientific data. Providing a natural bridge from Ayurveda to Western medicine, Scientific Basis for Ayurvedic Therapies facilitates the integration of these therapies by health care providers.

Book The Travancore State Manual

Download or read book The Travancore State Manual written by Travancore (Princely State) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sanskrit English dictionary

Download or read book Sanskrit English dictionary written by M. Monier and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A G

Download or read book A G written by Johann Samuel Ersch and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Sanskrit English Dictionary Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo European Languages

Download or read book A Sanskrit English Dictionary Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo European Languages written by Monier Monier-Williams and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Da  an  m   sa   ny  s  s

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  • Author : Matthew James Clark
  • Publisher : Brill's Indological Library
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book The Da an m sa ny s s written by Matthew James Clark and published by Brill's Indological Library. This book was released on 2006 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an account of the organisation, practices and history of the Daśanāmī-Saṃnyāsīs, one of the largest sects of sādhu-s ('holy men') in South Asia, founded, according to tradtion, by the legendary philosopher Śaṅkarācārya.

Book Lexicon Cornu Britannicum

Download or read book Lexicon Cornu Britannicum written by Robert Williams and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Sanskrit English Dictionary

Download or read book A Sanskrit English Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pali English Dictionary

Download or read book Pali English Dictionary written by T.W. Rhys Davids and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The merits and demerits of the work will be sufficiently plain even from the first fascicles. But one or two remarks are necessary to make the position of my colleague and myself clear. We have given throughout the Sanskrit roots corresponding to the Pali roots, and have omitted the latter. It may be objected that this is a strange method to use in a Pali dictionary, especially as the vernacular on which Pali is based had never passed through the stage of Sanskrit. That may be so; and it may not be possible, historically, that any Pali word in the canon could have been actually derived from the corresponding Sanskrit word. Nevertheless the Sanskrit form, though arisen quite independently, may throw light upon the Pali form; and as Pali roots have not yet been adequately studied in Europe, the plan adopted will probably, at least for the present, be more useful. Still, the work is essentially preliminary. There is a large number of words of which we do not know the derivation. There is a still larger number of which the derivation does not give the meaning, but rather the reverse. It is so in every living language. Who could guess, from the derivation, the complicated meaning of such words as ñconscienceî, ñemotionî, ñdispositionî? The derivation would be as likely to mislead as to guide. We have made much progress since then. As the Pali Text Society began issuing editions and translations of the Pali Canon and Commentaries in quick succession, Rhys Davids conceived the idea of the compilation of an exhaustive dictionary of Pali, based on the voluminous basic material that was being brought to light. the work took more than twenty years of devoted labor but before his death in 1922, Rhys Davids had the satisfaction of seeing its first volume published. In four volumes issued over 1921-25 the Dictionary contains every Pali word with its Sanskrit root identified and meanings given in English. Carrying over 1,50,000 textual references, the work holds the field, even today, as the best Pali-English Dictionary.

Book A New English Hindustani Dictionary

Download or read book A New English Hindustani Dictionary written by S. W. Fallon and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: