Author: Akhtar MalikPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhist monasteries
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A Survey of Buddhist Temples and Monasteries
Author: Akhtar MalikPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhist monasteries
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Monastery Rules
Author: Berthe JansenPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520297008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Monastery Rules discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies and how that position was informed by the far-reaching relationship of monastic Buddhism with Tibetan society, economy, law, and culture. Jansen focuses her study on monastic guidelines, or bca’ yig. The first study of its kind to examine the genre in detail, the book contains an exploration of its parallels in other Buddhist cultures, its connection to the Vinaya, and its value as socio-historical source-material. The guidelines are witness to certain socio-economic changes, while also containing rules that aim to change the monastery in order to preserve it. Jansen argues that the monastic institutions’ influence on society was maintained not merely due to prevailing power-relations, but also because of certain deep-rooted Buddhist beliefs.
The Great Discourse on Causation
Author: Bhikku BodhiPublisher: Buddhist Publication Society
ISBN: 9552401178
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
he Mahanidana Sutta is the Buddha’s longest discourse on dependent arising, often taken to be the key to his entire teaching. The commentary treats this doctrine according to the Abhidhamma method, explained in an appendix. A penetrative introduction lays bare the sutta’s structure and the philosophical significance of dependent arising.
Ancient Indian Education
Author: The Shaolin Monastery
Author: Meir ShaharPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824831101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This meticulously researched and eminently readable study considers the economic, political, and religious factors that led Shaolin monks to disregard the Buddhist prohibition against violence and instead create fighting techniques that by the 21st century have spread throughout the world.
The Buddhist Monastery
Author: Pierre PichardPublisher: Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Buddhist
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This volume is a comparative survey of the Buddhist monastery throughout Asia. It includes field surveys, historical aspects and the compilation of bibliographies.
A Survey of Bonpo Monasteries and Temples in Tibet and the Himalaya
Author: Samten Gyaltsen KarmayPublisher: Saujanya Books
ISBN:
Category : Bon monasteries
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Phra Farang
Author: Phra Peter PannapadipoPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409036804
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
At forty-five, successful businessman Peter Robinson gave up his comfortable life in London to ordain as a Buddhist monk in Bangkok. But the new path he had chosen was not always as easy or as straightforward as he hoped it would be. In this truly extraordinary memoir, Phra Peter Pannapadipo describes his ten-year metamorphosis into a practicing Buddhist monk, while being initiated into the intricacies of an unfamiliar Southeast Asian culture. Phra Peter tells his story with compassion, humour and unflinching honesty. It's the story of a 'Phra Farang' - a foreign monk - living and practicing his faith in an exotic and intriguing land.
A Survey of Bonpo Monasteries and Temples in Tibet and the Himalaya
Author: Samten Gyaltsen KarmayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bon (Tibetan religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Labrang Monastery
Author: Paul Kocot NietupskiPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739164457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The Labrang Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Amdo and its extended support community are one of the largest and most famous in Tibetan history. This crucially important and little-studied community is on the northeast corner of the Tibetan Plateau in modern Gansu Province, in close proximity to Chinese, Mongol, and Muslim communities. It is Tibetan but located in China; it was founded by Mongols, and associated with Muslims. Its wide-ranging Tibetan religious institutions are well established and serve as the foundations for the community's social and political infrastructures. The Labrang community's borderlands location, the prominence of its religious institutions, and the resilience and identity of its nomadic and semi-nomadic cultures were factors in the growth and survival of the monastery and its enormous estate. This book tells the story of the status and function of the Tibetan Buddhist religion in its fully developed monastic and public dimensions. It is an interdisciplinary project that examines the history of social and political conflict and compromise between the different local ethnic groups. The book presents new perspectives on Qing Dynasty and Republican-era Chinese politics, with far-reaching implications for contemporary China. It brings a new understanding of Sino-Tibetan-Mongol-Muslim histories and societies. This volume will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate student majors in Tibetan and Buddhist studies, in Chinese and Mongol studies, and to scholars of Asian social and political studies.