Author: S. SasananandaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assam (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
History of Buddhism in Assam, C. 300 B.C.-1200 A.D.
Author: S. SasananandaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assam (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Buddhism in North-East India
Author: Sristidhar DuttaPublisher: Indus Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Arts, Buddhist
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Contributed seminar articles.
The Decline of Buddhism in India
Author: K. T. S. SaraoPublisher:
ISBN: 9788121512411
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Holy Land Reborn
Author: Toni HuberPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226356507
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Dalai Lama has said that Tibetans consider themselves “the child of Indian civilization” and that India is the “holy land” from whose sources the Tibetans have built their own civilization. What explains this powerful allegiance to India? In The Holy Land Reborn ̧ Toni Huber investigates how Tibetans have maintained a ritual relationship to India, particularly by way of pilgrimage, and what it means for them to consider India as their holy land. Focusing on the Tibetan creation and recreation of India as a destination, a landscape, and a kind of other, in both real and idealized terms, Huber explores how Tibetans have used the idea of India as a religious territory and a sacred geography in the development of their own religion and society. In a timely closing chapter, Huber also takes up the meaning of India for the Tibetans who live in exile in their Buddhist holy land. A major contribution to the study of Buddhism, The Holy Land Reborn describes changes in Tibetan constructs of India over the centuries, ultimately challenging largely static views of the sacred geography of Buddhism in India.
Religion in Early Assam
Author: Rena LaisramPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527533468
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This volume offers a fresh approach to the existing literature on religion in Early Assam, bringing together perspectives from the fields of archaeology, religion, history and heritage. For decades, the Naraka legend has been incorporated into history without due critical attention and analysis of the historical context, while archaeological studies in religion have been largely descriptive. The sacred landscape of the erstwhile Prāgjyotiṣa and Kāmarūpa kingdoms had linkages with the history of other parts of India, and beyond. This book offers a comprehensive reconstruction of religion in Early Assam based on an exhaustive use of archaeological sources. It opens with a useful overview of the conceptual and methodological foundations of religion, archaeology and history. Heritage conservation of sacred sites such as Kāmākhyā which face the impact of rapid urbanization illustrates implications for Assam’s history and identity.
EARLY ASSAM SHAPING OF THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
Author: NILKAMAL SINGHAPublisher: Clever Fox Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Landscape being the rarely studied of the subjects. The book is about the ever changing cultural landscape of Assam due to human intervention beginning from prehistoric to the dawn of medieval period. It deals with the changes in the landscape chronologically through various cultural and archaeological phases. The book highlights the effects of prehistoric, megalithic, historic, architectural and various socio-religious activities on the shaping and reshaping of cultural landscape of early Assam. It also emphasize on the sacred geography depicted in Yogini Tantra, Kalika Puran and inscriptions and the role of rice cultivation in fashioning cultural landscape construct of Assam.
Buddhism and Culture of North-East India
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts, Buddhist
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Contributed articles presented at the Symposium on Buddhist Art & Culture of North-East India held on 27th March, 2003 at Nava Nalanda Mahavihara, Nalanda.
The Routledge Handbook of Tribe and Religions in India
Author: Maguni Charan BeheraPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040114334
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
This handbook explores the diversity of religious practice in tribal cultures in India. It looks at the interactive spaces where the religious practices of tribes and other communities have changed and adapted through the years in contemporary India. Tribe as a social category emerged in India during the colonial period; this handbook departs from the conventional approaches to studying ‘tribal religion’ and analyses the intersections of spirituality, rituals, gender and identities within tribal religion through a crosscultural and pan-Indian perspective. Tribes in India follow various religious denominations including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and traditional indigenous faiths. The chapters in this volume provide insights into the cross-cultural religiosity of tribes via ethnographic accounts and the study of animism, life cycle rituals, ancestor worship, shrines and religious institutions, revivalism, religious identities, religious conversion, transcendental religious spaces and the space for gender, identity and politics within religious traditions. It also discusses conflicts, contestations, anxieties within and the politics of religious traditions and identities in India and how tribal communities and the state negotiate with these issues. This and its companion handbook, The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Readings on Tribe and Religions in India: Emerging Negotiations, provide a comprehensive look into the religious life and practices of a very diverse group of tribes in India. This book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the fields of religion, anthropology, indigenous and tribal studies, social and cultural anthropology, sociology of culture, sociology of religion, development studies, history, political science, folkloristic, and colonialism.
Buddhism
Author: SangharakshitaPublisher: Windhorse Publications
ISBN: 1911407406
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
In the Sign of the Golden Wheel tells the story of the 'middle period' of the fourteen years Sangharakshita was based in the Indian hill station, Kalimpong. It is a crucial time for Buddhism as the whole Asian world is preparing to celebrate 2,500 years of Buddhism, and Sangharakshita's abundant energies are brought into play in diverse ways.Precious Teachers covers the last period of Sangharakshita's time in Kalimpong.
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