Download or read book Embodying the Dharma written by David Germano and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2004-10-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the practice of relic veneration in a variety of forms of Buddhism.

Download or read book The Buddha and His Religion written by Jules Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2000 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Download or read book The Buddha written by John Strong and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the man behind the icon. From his many births to his deathbed deeds, this authoritative biography unites the Buddha of history with the Buddha of legend in a bid to reveal the lasting spiritual relevance at the heart of the Buddhist tradition. Acclaimed scholar John Strong examines not only the historical texts, but also the supernatural accounts that surround this great religious figure, uncovering the roots of many Buddhist beliefs and practices. Accompanied by helpful charts and tables, and drawing on a vast array of primary sources, the text also features such key topics as: biographical accounts from all the Buddhist schools, an analysis of the Buddha’s enlightenment, the life of the Buddha as depicted by Buddhist art and rituals, and the relics of Siddhartha Gautama, and how they continue his story, even after his lifetime.

Download or read book A Bull of a Man written by John Powers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-19 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The androgynous, asexual Buddha of contemporary popular imagination stands in stark contrast to the muscular, virile, and sensual figure presented in Indian Buddhist texts. In early Buddhist literature and art, the Buddha’s perfect physique and sexual prowess are important components of his legend as the world’s “ultimate man.” He is both the scholarly, religiously inclined brahman and the warrior ruler who excels in martial arts, athletic pursuits, and sexual exploits. The Buddha effortlessly performs these dual roles, combining his society’s norms for ideal manhood and creating a powerful image taken up by later followers in promoting their tradition in a hotly contested religious marketplace. In this groundbreaking study of previously unexplored aspects of the early Buddhist tradition, John Powers skillfully adapts methodological approaches from European and North American historiography to the study of early Buddhist literature, art, and iconography, highlighting aspects of the tradition that have been surprisingly invisible in earlier scholarship. The book focuses on the figure of the Buddha and his monastic followers to show how they were constructed as paragons of masculinity, whose powerful bodies and compelling sexuality attracted women, elicited admiration from men, and convinced skeptics of their spiritual attainments.

Download or read book Journal and Proceedings written by Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sutipatthana Sutta written by Sylvain Chamberlain-Nyudo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: early teachings on correct methods of meditation for Buddhist practice. This book should only be read in the light of the ultimate of Buddha's teachings in the Lotus Sutra.A very good resource to accompany the teachings under supervision of a monk or master.The most important concept being the "calming of the body formation". A widely misunderstood concept of arresting the 12 linked causal chain from enacting its craving mechanisms.

Download or read book Gautama Buddha written by Vishvapani Blomfield and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many accounts of the Buddha's life that mix legend and history. This compelling new biography discriminates between fact and fiction to reveal Gautama, the remarkable human being behind the legends, and shed new light on his teachings. Plunging us into the noise, smells and jostling streets of Gautama's world, Vishvapani Blomfield brings the Buddha to life as a passionate and determined individual — a strikingly modern figure who rejected contemporary beliefs and found his own answers by mastering his mind. Even after he gained Enlightenment and became the Buddha ('the Awakened One') Gautama experienced struggles as well as triumphs as he trod India's dusty paths. Vishvapani shows how he sought to establish a community of practitioners amid his society's divided culture and perilous politics and how the ideas that became the Buddhist teachings grew from Gautama's efforts to address the needs and beliefs of his listeners. Drawing on years of meticulous research into original sources, Gautama Buddha takes us within touching distance of one of history's greatest figures.

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Download or read book Jainism and Early Buddhism written by Olle Qvarnström and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers presented at an international conference on Jainism and early Buddhism in honor of Prof. Padmanabh S. Jaini, organized and hosted by the Department of History of Religions at the University of Lund, Sweden in 1998. Prof. Jaini is professor emeritus of Buddhist Studies at University of California, Berkeley, California, USA and one of the foremost contemporary scholars of Buddhism and Jainism. The two part festschrift contains papers presented by thirty seven prominent scholars, covering a wide range of topics in both religions.

Download or read book Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Buddha and His Message written by Nagendranath Gangulee and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 1957 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh written by Edinburgh University Library and published by Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable. This book was released on 1918 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Constituting Communities written by John Clifford Holt and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constituting Communities explores how community functions within Theravāda Buddhist culture. Although the dominant focus of Buddhist studies for the past century has been on doctrinal and philosophical issues, this volume concentrates on discourses that produced them, and why and how these discourses and practices shaped Theravāda communities in South and Southeast Asia. From a variety of perspectives, including historical, literary, doctrinal and philosophical, and social and anthropological, the contributors explore the issues that have proven important and definitive for identifying what it has meant, individually and socially, to be Buddhist in this particular region. The book focuses on textual discourse, how communities are formed and maintained within pluralistic contexts, and the formation of community both within and between the monastic and lay settings.

Download or read book Publications written by Pali Text Society and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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