Author: W. Woodville RockhillPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317853709
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Udanavarga
Author: W. Woodville RockhillPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317853695
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This is Volume XIV of sixteen in a collection on Buddhism. Originally published in 1892, This book presents a collection of verses from the Buddhist Canon compiled by Dharmatrata, and is the northern Buddhist version of Dhammapada, translated from Tibetan. It includes notes and extracts from the commentary of Pradinavarman.
The Gāndhārī Dharmapada
Author: John BroughPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120817401
Category : Gandhari Prakrit language
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The famous brich-bark manuscript in the Kharosthi script, which contains a recension of the Dharmapada in a Prakrit dialect, has long been familiar to students of early Buddhist literature under the name of `Ms. Dutreuil de Rhins`. The manuscript, written in the first or second century A.D., is generally considered to be the oldest surviving manuscript of an Indian text. It was discovered near Khotan in Central Asia in 1892, and reached Europe in two parts, one of which went to Russia and the other to France. In 1897 S. Oldenburg published one leaf of the Russian portion; and in 1898 E. Senart edited the French material in the Journal Asiatiqque, together with facsimiles of the larger leaves, but not of the fragments. Now, almost seventy years after the discovery of the manuscript, it is possible for the first time to place before scholars an edition of the whole of the extant material, together with complete facsimiles.
The Tibetan Dhammapada
Author: Gareth SparhamPublisher: Wisdom Publications (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Udânavarga
Author: DharmatrātaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A New Version of the Gāndhārī Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous-birth Stories
Author: Timothy LenzPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295983080
Category : Purvayogas
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This volume continues the detailed examination of the British Library Kharosthi scrolls--extremely fragile and brittle fragments of manuscript on birch-bark rolls. Although their provenance is uncertain, there are strong indications that they came from Hadda in eastern Afghanistan and were most likely written in the early first century A.D. during the reign of the Saka rulers, making them the oldest known Buddhist manuscripts. Fragments 16 and 25 are two long, relatively narrow fragments that obviously belong to the same scroll. Two texts were written on the scroll, each by a different scribe. The first text, referred to as the Gandhari London Dharmapada, represents an anthology of verses well known in the Buddhist tradition. The second text is a series of stories concerning previous births of the Buddha and of some of his disciples. For more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web site at http://www.ebmp.org/
Encyclopaedia of Buddhism
Author: Gunapala Piyasena MalalasekeraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Truth and Freedom
Author: Thomas HebblewhiteBuddha's Words for Tough Times
Author: Peter SkillingPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1614298890
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Twenty translations from the vast corpus of Buddhist literature come alive in this full-color anthology of ancient wisdom for turbulent times, as a master scholar uncovers their sources and significance. Change and loss have always been part of the human condition, but in today’s world, the pace and intensity of uncertainty has reached new extremes. The Buddha observed the truth of impermanence more than 2,500 years ago and diagnosed the source of the anxiety it engenders so incisively that his prescription still resonates and heals here and now. In Buddha’s Words for Tough Times, Peter Skilling, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Buddhist scripture, brings the reader face to face with the wealth of Buddhist literature, from a teaching in a single word, to a seminal collection of verses on impermanence, to narrations of the Buddha’s teaching journeys across the Gangetic Plain. Translating from sources in Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Pali, he uncovers the complex history of the vast writings of the Buddhist canons, and his skill in revealing the meaning of twenty gems from within those riches brings them alive for English readers. We could have no better guide for this exploration, an exploration whose value is more urgent than ever.
Stages of the Buddha's Teachings
Author: DolpaPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0861717988
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Stages of the Buddha's Teachings is an extraordinary and systematized representation of the complete path to enlightenment. From the acclaimed Library of Tibetan Classics. The “stages of the teachings” or tenrim genre of Tibetan spiritual writing expounds the Mahayana teachings as a graded series of topics, from the practices required at the start of the bodhisattva’s career to the final perfect awakening of buddhahood. The three texts in the present volume all exerted seminal influence in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The first text, The Blue Compendium, presents the instructions of the Kadam teacher Potowa (1031–1106) as recorded by his student Dölpa (1059–1131). This text is followed by Gampopa’s (1079–1153) revered Ornament of Precious Liberation, which remains the most authoritative text on the path to enlightenment within the Kagyü school. The final text is Clarifying the Sage’s Intent, a masterwork by the preeiment sage of the Sakya tradition, Sakya Pandita (1182–1251).
Author: Charles Force Deems