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Author: Salomon Richard Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1614291853 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 479
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Discover the fascinating history of a long-hidden Buddhist culture at a historic crossroads. In the years following Alexander the Great’s conquest of the East, a series of empires rose up along the Silk Road. In what is now northern Pakistan, the civilizations in the region called Gandhara became increasingly important centers for the development of Buddhism, reaching their apex under King Kaniska of the Kusanas in the second century CE. Gandhara has long been known for its Greek-Indian synthesis in architecture and statuary, but until about twenty years ago, almost nothing was known about its literature. The insights provided by manuscripts unearthed over the last few decades show that Gandhara was indeed a vital link in the early development of Buddhism, instrumental in both the transmission of Buddhism to China and the rise of the Mahayana tradition. The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara surveys what we know about Gandhara and its Buddhism, and it also provides translations of a dozen different short texts, from similes and stories to treatises on time and reality.
Author: E. Gene Smith Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0861711793 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 402
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For three decades, E. Gene Smith ran the Library of Congress's Tibetan Text Publication Project of the United States Public Law 480 (PL480) - an effort to salvage and reprint the Tibetan literature that had been collected by the exile community or by members of the Bhotia communities of Sikkim, Bhutan, India, and Nepal. Smith wrote prefaces to these reprinted books to help clarify and contextualize the particular Tibetan texts: the prefaces served as rough orientations to a poorly understood body of foreign literature. Originally produced in print quantities of twenty, these prefaces quickly became legendary, and soon photocopied collections were handed from scholar to scholar, achieving an almost cult status. These essays are collected here for the first time. The impact of Smith's research on the academic study of Tibetan literature has been tremendous, both for his remarkable ability to synthesize diverse materials into coherent accounts of Tibetan literature, history, and religious thought, and for the exemplary critical scholarship he brought to this field.
Author: Johannes Bronkhorst Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0861718119 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 266
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The earliest records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death, and the body of teachings attributed to him continued to evolve in India for centuries afterward across a shifting cultural and political landscape. As one tradition within a diverse religious milieu that included even the Greek kingdoms of northwestern India, Buddhism had many opportunities to both influence and be influenced by competing schools of thought. Even within Buddhism, a proliferation of interpretive traditions produced a dynamic intellectual climate. Johannes Bronkhorst here tracks the development of Buddhist teachings both within the larger Indian context and among Buddhism's many schools, shedding light on the sources and trajectory of such ideas as dharma theory, emptiness, the bodhisattva ideal, buddha nature, formal logic, and idealism. In these pages, we discover the roots of the doctrinal debates that have animated the Buddhist tradition up until the present day.
Author: Akira Hirakawa Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ. ISBN: 9788120809550 Category : Buddhism Languages : en Pages : 436
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This comprehensive and detailed survey of the first six centuries of Indian Buddhism sums up the results of a lifetime of research and reflection by one of Japan's most renowned scholars of Buddhism.
Author: Maurice Winternitz Publisher: ISBN: 9788121501019 Category : Languages : en Pages : 693
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Description: History of Indian Literature is a classic work covering the entire gamut of Indian secular and religious literature including epic, lyric, dramatic and didactic poetry, as well as narrative and scientific prose. It includes not only the large number of works of religious literature hymns, sacrificial songs, incantations, myths and legends, sermons, theological treatises, polemical writings, manuals of instruction on ritual and religious discipline but also the lyrical and dramatic works, including the two great epics, the fairy-tales, fables, prose-narratives. The inclusion of this vast material, covering almost three thousand years of literary activity, could not be compressed into a single volume. Hence this was divided into two volumes by the author. Volume I includes, besides an introductory chapter, the Vedas, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the Puranas and the Tantras, while volume II Deals with the Buddhist and the Jaina literature with an index at the end of each volume.
Author: Thomas William Rhys Davids Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ. ISBN: 9788120804241 Category : Buddhism Languages : en Pages : 368
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1903. In this volume Rhys, the celebrated Buddhist scholar, attempts to describe ancient India, during the period of Buddhist ascendancy, from the point of view, not so much of the brahmin, as of the rajput. The two points of view naturally differ very much. Priest and noble in India have always worked very well together so long as the question at issue did not touch their own rival claims as against one another. When it did-and it did so especially during the period referred to-the harmony, as will be evident from the following pages, was not so great.
Author: David Seyfort Ruegg Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag ISBN: 9783447022040 Category : Buddhist literature, Sanskrit Languages : en Pages : 146
Author: Narendra Kumar Dash
Author: Narendra Kumar Dash
Author: Salomon Richard
Author: E. Gene Smith
Author: Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro Nariman
Author: Johannes Bronkhorst
Author: Akira Hirakawa
Author: Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro Nariman
Author: Maurice Winternitz
Author: Thomas William Rhys Davids
Author: David Seyfort Ruegg