Author: Haripada Chakraborti
Publisher: Calcutta : Punthi Pustak
ISBN:
Category : Asceticism
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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Author: M. G. Bhagat
Publisher: New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: Ratanalāla Miśra
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788190821292
Category : Asceticism
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Chiefly on Hinduism.

Author: Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120815513
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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how spiritual healing works and how colours, tones, crystals and massage

Author: Kenneth G. Zysk
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120815285
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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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.

Author: Gail Hinich Sutherland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Advocating vegetarianism according to Buddhism and Jainism.

Author: Carl Olson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190225319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. A by-product of the ascetic path, power is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water or through dense objects, read minds, discern the former lives of others, see into the future, harm others, or simply levitate one's body. These tales give rise to questions about how power and violence are related to the phenomenon of play. Indian Asceticism focuses on the powers exhibited by ascetics of India from ancient to modern time. Carl Olson discusses the erotic, the demonic, the comic, and the miraculous forms of play and their connections to power and violence. He focuses on Hinduism, but evidence is also presented from Buddhism and Jainism, suggesting that the subject matter of this book pervades India's major indigenous religious traditions. The book includes a look at the extent to which findings in cognitive science can add to our understanding of these various powers; Olson argues that violence is built into the practice of the ascetic. Indian Asceticism culminates with an attempt to rethink the nature of power in a way that does justice to the literary evidence from Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain sources.

Author: M.G. Bhagat
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788121502818
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: Carl Olson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190225327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Using religio-philosophical discourses and narratives from epic, puranic, and hagiographical literature, Indian Asceticism focuses on the powers exhibited by ascetics of India from ancient to modern time.

Author: Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120811140
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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This book elucidates the early Buddhist teachings and beliefs concerning meditaions and its role in the process to liberation. In a number of cases, the Buddhist canonical texts reject practices which they accept elsewhere. When these practices-sometimes rejected, sometimes accepted-correspond to what is known about non-Buddhist practices, the conculsion in then proposed that they are non-Buddhist practices which have somehow found their way into the Buddhist texts. A similar procedure enables one to choose between conflicting beliefs.