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Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Contributed artcles.

Author: Pintu Kumar
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498554938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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This interdisciplinary study is the first book to provide a complete survey of Śrī Nālandā Mahāvihāra from the perspective of its educational curricula as well as its religious influence. It provides detailed descriptions of the origin, growth, management, and academic and cultural life of Nālandā, with particular attention to its pedagogy, curriculum, teachers, and students. It also presents an alternative interpretation of nationalist and popular notions about Śrī Nālandā as an international university and proves that it was, at its core, a Buddhist monastery and an institution of Buddhist learning focused on the study and promotion of Buddhism.

Author: Rabindra Panth
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Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Contributed articles presented at the Seminar and Exhibition, Nalanda: Interface of Buddhism and Environment held on Nov. 25th, 2003 at Royal Banquet Hall, Thimphu.

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Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Contributed articles.

Author: Diwakar Kumar Singh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic India
ISBN: 9356408491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book encapsulates the various historical contexts within which Nalanda assumed its significance and attained its mahavihara (mega-monastery) status. By examining sources ranging from textual to archaeological it reveals the history of Nalanda and its remarkable continuity with perceptible intellectual paraphernalia for which it became famous over the period. Contrary to the exposition of a pan-Indian decline of Buddhism, evidence gleaned from the various quarters from Nalanda amply demonstrate that monasteries were in a flourishing state in the entire region (i.e. Nalanda and its wider geographical landscape) and render any simple and conventional explanations of the decline of Buddhism in this period problematic. Thus, the book attempts to understand the dynamics of a complex religious process with the focus on this monastery and its religious domain. The interpretation is largely based upon the material records generated in the course of the excavations at Nalanda. Nalanda as a site in archaeological and historical parlance connotes a Buddhist monastic establishment which grew up under the patronage of both royal as well as non-royal categories. The incomplete excavation of this site has revealed a range of artifacts such as seals, inscriptions, and images attesting a larger monastic set up which underwent varied religious experiences. Primarily a Buddhist site, Nalanda bears a remarkable presence of other religious traditions such as Brahmanism and Jainism. The evidence of Brahmanical pantheons, symbols and other ritual entities presents a fascinating case study to understand and extrapolate the diversity of religious space of this monastic site. There is sufficient archaeological data which suggests that the monastery witnessed a conjugation of different religious and ideological streams. The book will make an important intervention in existing theoretical model that explains the decline of Buddhism.

Author: Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429802854
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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This volume cross-examines the stability of heritage as a concept. It interrogates the past which materialises through multi-layered narratives on monuments and other objects that sustain cultural diversity. It seeks to understand how interpretations of “monuments” as “texts” are affected at the local level of experience, even as institutions such as UNESCO work to globalise and fix constructs of stable and universal heritage. Shifting away from a largely Eurocentric concept associated with architecture and monumental archaeology, this book reassesses how local and regional heritage needs to be balanced with the global and transnational. It argues that material objects and monuments are not static embodiments of culture but are, rather, a medium through which identity, power and society are produced and reproduced. This is especially relevant in South and Southeast Asian contexts, where debates over heritage often have local, regional and national political implications and consequences. Reevaluating how traditional valuation of monuments and cultural landscapes could help aid sustainability and long-term preservation of the heritage, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of South and Southeast Asian history, heritage studies, archaeology, cultural studies, tourism studies and political history as well.

Author: Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture
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Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: Rabindra Panth
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Category : Buddhism and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Contributed articles presented at the International Seminar on "Buddhism and Literature" organised by Nava Nalanda Mahavihara from February 12 to 14, 2002.

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Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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This Volume Encompasses In Its Fold Different Aspects Of Buddhism And Their Propounders And Great Acharyas Of Nalanda, Highlighting The Contributions Of Nalanda Mahavira, The Old And The New.

Author: Anjana Sharma
Publisher: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
ISBN: 9814786411
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural Heritage has its conceptual core the inter-regional networks of Nalanda Mahavihara and its unique place in the Asian imaginary. The revival of Nalanda university in 2010 as a symbol of a shared inter-Asian heritage is this collection’s core narrative. The multidisciplinary essays interrogate ways in which ideas, objects, texts, and travellers have shaped — and in turn have been shaped by — changing global politics and the historical imperative that underpins them. The question of what constitutes cultural authenticity and heritage valuation is inscribed from positions that support, negate, or reframe existing discourses with reference to Southeast and East Asia. The essays in this collection offer critical, scholarly, and nuanced views on the vexed questions of regional and inter-regional dynamics, of racial politics and their flattening hegemonic discourses in relation to the rich tangible and intangible heritage that defines an interconnected Asia.