Download or read book The Five Silver Buddhas written by Harry Stephen Keeler and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1935 comes this thrilling novel about five odd people who happen to buy tiny jade figurines of a non-smiling Buddha. Only Harry Stephen Keeler could have come up with this plot!

Download or read book The Gilded Buddha written by Alex R. Furger and published by Librum Publishers & Editors LLC. This book was released on 2017 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates in words and images the traditional metal crafts practised for over a thousand years by the creators of religious Buddhist statues in Nepal. The skills of these artisans are nurtured with deep respect for tradition, regarding religion, iconography and technology. Wax modellers, mould makers, casters, fire-gilders and chasers are among the specialists of the Newar ethnic group, whose work is characterised to this day by a melding of age-old technology, great skill, religious observance and contemplation. There are numerous books and exhibition catalogues dedicated to Buddhist art and iconography but little was available about the craft of the artists who turn the religious imagery into metal casts. This book fills this gap, with a thoroughly documented and historical account of the development of this "archaic" technology. The well-informed text and comprehensive photographic coverage constitute the only up-to-date account and full documentation of an art that is 1300 years old but dying out: the "ritual" production of Buddhist statues in the lost wax casting technique. The author, Dr. Alex Furger, is an archaeologist who has studied ancient metallurgy and metalworking techniques over the past four decades. He spent twenty-five years at the head of the Roman site of Augusta Raurica and lives in Basel (Switzerland). He is the author of over 130 articles in scientific journals and twelve books in the field of culture history. The fieldwork for this book led him repeatedly to Nepal, where he met and interviewed dozens of craftsmen in their workshops. This book is addressed to readers interested in culture history, travellers to Asia, collectors of statues of Buddha, (avocational) metalworkers, historians of technology, Buddhists, ethnologists, archaeologists, art historians, scholars of Asia and to libraries and museums.

Download or read book Silver Screen Buddha written by Sharon A. Suh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do contemporary films depict Buddhists and Buddhism? What aspects of the Buddhist tradition are these films keeping from our view? By repeatedly romanticizing the meditating monk, what kinds of Buddhisms and Buddhists are missing in these films and why? Silver Screen Buddha is the first book to explore the intersecting representations of Buddhism, race, and gender in contemporary films. Sharon A. Suh examines the cinematic encounter with Buddhism that has flourished in Asia and in the West in the past century – from images of Shangri-La in Frank Capra's 1937 Lost Horizon to Kim Ki-Duk's 2003 international box office success Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring. The book helps readers see that representations of Buddhism in Asia and in the West are fraught with political, gendered, and racist undertones. Silver Screen Buddha draws significant attention to ordinary lay Buddhism, a form of the tradition given little play in popular film. By uncovering the differences between a fictionalized, commodified, and exoticized Buddhism, Silver Screen Buddha brings to light expressions of the tradition that highlight laity and women, on the one hand, and Asian and Asian Americans, on the other. Suh engages in a re-visioning of Buddhism that expands the popular understanding of the tradition, moving from the dominance of meditating monks to the everyday world of raced, gendered, and embodied lay Buddhists.

Download or read book The Case of the Little Green Men written by Mack Reynolds and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Case of the Little Green Men is the first book published by Mack Reynolds. Since its 1951 debut it has become highly prized as a collectible. It reveals what goes on behind the scenes at a 50's science fiction convention when murder beams down.

Download or read book Policeman s Holiday written by Rupert Penny and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Beast Or Man written by Sean M'Guire and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sean M'Guire wrote this lost race novel in 1930 when such stories were mired in racism and formula. But BEAST OR MAN? is more in the mold of H. Rider Haggard and addresses deeper themes, and at the same time, providing a rousing romp through Africa. This is the first book under the Dancing Tuatura Press imprint (DTP) which promises to include more novels of Sean M'Guire.

Download or read book West Texas War and Other Western Stories written by Gary Lovisi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Six from Nowhere written by Harry Stephen Keeler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Invaders from the Dark written by Greye La Spina and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Case of the Transparent Nude written by Harry Stephen Keeler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Tales of the Macabre and Ordinary written by Chris Mikul and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Straw Hat Murders written by Harry Stephen Keeler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The One After Snelling written by Richard O'Brien and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade Paperback. Richard O'Brien is the author of 35 books, including 9 novels. This is the first publication of his 'lost' mystery. It's a modern noir about a private dick who gets into something that just might be tougher than his previous case, the Snelling Affair.