Download or read book A New Version of the G ndh r Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous birth Stories written by Timothy Lenz and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume continues the detailed examination of the British Library Kharosthi scrolls--extremely fragile and brittle fragments of manuscript on birch-bark rolls. Although their provenance is uncertain, there are strong indications that they came from Hadda in eastern Afghanistan and were most likely written in the early first century A.D. during the reign of the Saka rulers, making them the oldest known Buddhist manuscripts. Fragments 16 and 25 are two long, relatively narrow fragments that obviously belong to the same scroll. Two texts were written on the scroll, each by a different scribe. The first text, referred to as the Gandhari London Dharmapada, represents an anthology of verses well known in the Buddhist tradition. The second text is a series of stories concerning previous births of the Buddha and of some of his disciples. For more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web site at http://www.ebmp.org/
Download or read book Thinking Recording and Writing History in the Ancient World written by Kurt A. Raaflaub and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past and recorded their own histories. Written by an international group of scholars working in many disciplines Truly cross-cultural, covering historical thinking and writing in ancient or early cultures across in East, South, and West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas Includes historiography shaped by religious perspectives, including Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism
Download or read book The Saddharma pundar ka or The lotus of the true law tr by H Kern written by Saddharmapuṇḍarīka and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bibliography of Indian History Oriental Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index to the Abhidharmako abh ya Tibetan Sanskrit Peking edition written by Akira Hirakawa and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sacred Books of the East written by Friedrich Max Müller and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sacred Books of the East written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sacred Books of the East The Saddharma Pundarika or the Lotus of the true law written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Skilful Means written by Michael Pye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Skilful Means' is the key principle of Mahayana, one of the great Buddhist traditions. First described in the Lotus Sutra, it originates in myths of the Buddha's compassionate plans for raising life from the ceaseless round of birth and death. His strategies or interventions are 'skilful means' - morally wholesome tricks devised for the purpose of enabling nirvana or enlightenment. Michael Pye's clear and engaging introductory guide investigates the meaning and context of skilful means in Mayahana Buddhist teachings, whilst tracing its early origins in ancient Japanese and Theravada thought. First published in 1978, and still the best explanation of the concept, it illuminates a core working philosophy essential for any complete understanding of Buddhism.
Download or read book Sacred Books of the East written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saddharma Pundarika written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Chinese Buddhism Being Sanskrit Chinese Dictionary written by Ernest John Eitel and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1992 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Sanskrit Chinese Dictionary With Vocabularies Of Buddhist Terms In Pali, Singhalese, Siamese, Burmese, Tibetan, Mongolian And Japanese.
Download or read book Collected Papers on Buddhist Studies written by Padmanabh S. Jaini and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, a companion to the author`s Collected Papers on Jaina Studies, twenty-nine of his articles, encompassing some forty years of research on various facets of Buddhism, have been brought together for the first time. They cover a wide range of topics including comparative studies with Jainism, points of controversy within Abhidharma, the Bodhisattva career of Maitreya based on narratives from the Jatakas and Mahayana Sutras, and selections from Buddhist ritual texts.
Download or read book In the Mirror of Memory written by Janet Gyatso and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the diverse array of species of memory in Buddhism. Contributors focus on a particular school, group of texts, terms, or practices and identify a considerable range of types of mnemonic faculties in Buddhism. Included are discussions of Buddhist teaching, meditation, visualization, prayer, commemoration of the Buddha, dha?rani practice, the use of mnemonic lists to condense lengthy scriptures, and the purported recollection of infinite previous lives that immediately preceded Sakyamuni's attainment of Buddhahood. Even enlightened awareness itself is said by some Buddhist schools to consist in a "mnemic engagement" with reality as such. The authors explore Buddhist views on mundane acts of memory such as recognizing, reminding, memorizing, and storing data as well as special types of memory that are cultivated in religious practice.One of the most striking discoveries is that perception is intimately related to certain types of memory. Several essays investigate if, and if so, how, meditative mindfulness and recollection of the past--both of which can be designated by the term smrti--are connected within the Buddhist tradition. The question of whether recollection of the past can be explained without violating the foundational Buddhist notions of radical impermanence and no-self is addressed by several of the contributing scholars. Among the primary sources for the studies in this volume are the northern and southern Abhidharma literature, the Ma?tka?s, Pa?li and Maha?ya?na su?tras, works of the Buddhist logicians, Yoga?ca?ra materials, the Tibetan Great Perfection (Rdzogschen) tradition, and Indian and Tibetan commentarial works. Affinities of Buddhist views on memory with those found in Western phenomenology, semiology, psychology, and history of religions are considered as well.
Download or read book Memory as History written by Himanshu Prabha Ray and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed papers presented at a conference organised in February-March, 2006 in New Delhi.
