Author: T. G. Dhongthog
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : bo
Pages : 523

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Author: Larry V. Clark
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447052405
Category : Manchu-Tungus language
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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"Based on three slightly differently organised manuscripts"--P. [7]

Author: Norbu Chophel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : bo
Pages : 230

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Author: Norbu Chophel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : bo
Pages : 206

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Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
Publisher:
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Category : South Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 844

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Records publications acquired from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, by the U.S. Library of Congress Offices in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan.

Author: Norbu Chophel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : bo
Pages : 232

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Author: Karl Debreczeny
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977213108
Category : Buddhist art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This catalog is published in conjunction with an exhibition organized and presented by the Rubin Museum of Art, New York, March 2 through July 30, 2012, and curated by Karl Debreczeny.

Author: Bryan J. Cuevas
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824860160
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 505

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In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers the first comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet, and Burma. Its individual essays, representing a range of methods, shed light on a rich array of traditional Buddhist practices for the dead and dying; the sophisticated but often paradoxical discourses about death and the dead in Buddhist texts; and the varied representations of the dead and the afterlife found in Buddhist funerary art and popular literature. This important collection moves beyond the largely text—and doctrine—centered approaches characterizing an earlier generation of Buddhist scholarship and expands its treatment of death to include ritual, devotional, and material culture. Contributors: James A. Benn, Raoul Birnbaum, Jason A. Carbine, Bryan J. Cuevas, Hank Glassman, John Clifford Holt, Matthew T. Kapstein, D. Max Moerman, Mark Rowe, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Gregory Schopen, Koichi Shinohara, Jacqueline I. Stone, John S. Strong.13 illus.

Author: Elisabeth A. Benard
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834844257
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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An exploration of an extraordinary group of female meditation masters from the Buddhist tradition in Tibet whose determination and accomplishments can serve as a great example for meditators the world over. Among Tibetan spiritual biographies there are many life stories of exceptional male wisdom-holders or vidyādharas. But biographies of religious women are few. This book focuses on the hidden world of the great female spiritual adepts who were born into a prominent lineage of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. For centuries, this family of wisdom holders has been committed to helping others alleviate their suffering and develop a strong dedication to spiritual practice.

Author: Reiko Ohnuma
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231137087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood is the first comprehensive study of a central narrative theme in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature: the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice during his previous lives as a bodhisattva. Conducting close readings of stories from Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, and Tibetan literature written between the third century BCE and the late medieval period, Reiko Ohnuma argues that this theme has had a major impact on the development of Buddhist philosophy and culture. Whether he takes the form of king, prince, ascetic, elephant, hare, serpent, or god, the bodhisattva repeatedly gives his body or parts of his flesh to others. He leaps into fires, drowns himself in the ocean, rips out his tusks, gouges out his eyes, and lets mosquitoes drink from his blood, always out of selflessness and compassion and to achieve the highest state of Buddhahood. Ohnuma places these stories into a discrete subgenre of South Asian Buddhist literature and approaches them like case studies, analyzing their plots, characterizations, and rhetoric. She then relates the theme of the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice to major conceptual discourses in the history of Buddhism and South Asian religions, such as the categories of the gift, the body (both ordinary and extraordinary), kingship, sacrifice, ritual offering, and death. Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood reveals a very sophisticated and influential perception of the body in South Asian Buddhist literature and highlights the way in which these stories have provided an important cultural resource for Buddhists. Combined with her rich and careful translations of classic texts, Ohnuma introduces a whole new understanding of a vital concept in Buddhists studies.