Author: R. E. EmmerickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhist literature, Khotanese
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A Guide to the Literature of Khotan
Author: R. E. EmmerickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhist literature, Khotanese
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Author: The Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran
Author: Ronald E. EmmerickPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857736531
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves."A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject. This 18-volume, authoritative survey reflects the stature and significance of Persian literature as the single most important accomplishment of the Iranian experience.The main object of this companion volume is to provide an overview of the most important extant literary sources in Old and Middle Iranian languages - the languages of the Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian periods culminating in the rich resource of Pahlavi Persian which fed so directly into the language of the later great Persian poets. It will be an indispensable source for the literary traditions of pre-Islamic Iran and an invaluable guide to the subject.
The Origins of Oṃ Maṇipadme Hūṃ
Author: Alexander StudholmePublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791488489
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Oṃ Maṇipadme Hūṃ, perhaps the most well-known of all Buddhist mantras, lies at the heart of the Tibetan system and is cherished by both layman and lama alike. This book documents the origins of the mantra, and presents a new interpretation of the meaning of Oṃ Maṇipadme Hūṃ, and includes a detailed, annotated precis of the Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra, opening up this important Mahayana Buddhist work to a wider audience. The Kāraṇḍavyūha— the earliest textual source for Oṃ Maṇipadme Hūṃ—which describes both the compassionate activity of Avalokiteśvara, the bodhisattva whose power the mantra invokes, and the mythical tale of the search for and discovery of the mantra. Through a detailed analysis of this sutra, Studholme explores the historical and doctrinal forces behind the appearance of Oṃ Maṇipadme Hūṃ in India at around the middle of the first millennium C.E. He argues that the Kāraṇḍavyūha has close affinities to non-Buddhist puranic literature, and that the conception of Avalokiteśvara and his six-syllable mantra is informed by the conception of the Hindu deity Śiva and his five-syllable mantra Namaḥ Śivāya. The sutra reflects an historical situation in which the Buddhist monastic establishment was coming into contact with Buddhist tantric practitioners, themselves influenced by Saivite practitioners.
History of civilizations of Central Asia
Author: Asimov, Muhammad SeyfeydinovichPublisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231036548
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 685
Book Description
This second part of volume IV deals with the cultural achievements of the various peoples of this immense region: arts and crafts, literature, architecture, music, science, medicine and technology.
History of Civilizations of Central Asia
Author: M.S.AsimovPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120815964
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Figments and Fragments of Mahayana Buddhism in India
Author: Gregory SchopenPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824825485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
In these articles, Gregory Schopen once again displays the erudition and originality that have contributed to a major shift in the way that Indian Buddhism is perceived, understood, and studied.
The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity
Author: Scott Fitzgerald JohnsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019027753X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These events are set in the context of widespread literary, artistic, cultural, and religious change during the period. The geographical scope of this Handbook is unparalleled among comparable surveys of Late Antiquity; Arabia, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Balkans all receive dedicated treatments, while the scope extends to the western kingdoms, and North Africa in the West. Furthermore, from economic theory and slavery to Greek and Latin poetry, Syriac and Coptic literature, sites of religious devotion, and many others, this Handbook covers a wide range of topics that will appeal to scholars from a diverse array of disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity engages the perennially valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval, while providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself.
Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India
Author: Kenneth G. ZyskPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120815285
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The rich Indian medical tradition is usually traced back to Sanskrit sources, the earliest of which cannot much antedate the common era. In this book Kenneth Zysk shows that Buddhist scriptures some centuries older than this contain abundant information about medical practice, and are our earliest evidence for a rational approach to medicine in India. He argues that Buddhism and the medical tradition were mutually supportive: that Buddhist monks and people associated with them contributed to the development of medicine, while their skills as physical as well as spiritual healers enhanced their reputation and popular support. Drawing on a wide range of textual, archaeological, and secondary sources, Zysk first presents an overview of the history of Indian Medicine in its religious context. He then examines primary literature from the Pali Buddhist Canon and from the Sanskrit treatises of Bhela, Caraka, and susruta. By close comparison of these two bodies of literature Zysk convincingly shows how the theories delineated in the medical classics actually became practice.
The Encyclopaedia of Islam
Author: Clifford Edmund BosworthPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004092396
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description