Author: Hermann OldenbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Dîpavaṃsa
Author: Hermann OldenbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Dîpavaṃsa, an Ancient Buddhist Historical Record
Author: Hermann OldenbergPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120602175
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Anonymous 4th century Buddhist chronicle from Sri Lanka.
The Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa and Their Historical Development in Ceylon
Author: Wilhelm GeigerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Mahavamsa
Author: Mahanama TheraPublisher:
ISBN: 9781983960444
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Mahavamsa ("Great Chronicle" )(5th century CE) is an epic poem written in the Pali language of the ancient Kings of Sri Lanka. It relates the history of Sri Lanka from its legendary beginnings up to the reign of Mahasena of Anuradhapura (A.D. 302) covering the period between the arrival of Prince Vijaya from India in 543 BCE to his reign (277-304 CE). It was composed by a Buddhist bhikku at the Mahavihara temple in Anuradhapura about the sixth century A.D.
The Dîpavaṃsa
Author: On the Chronicles of Ceylon
Author: Bimala Churn LawPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120609075
Category : Pali literature
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Ashoka in Ancient India
Author: Nayanjot LahiriPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674915259
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian subcontinent, and future generations of Asians came to see him as the ideal Buddhist king. Disentangling the threads of Ashoka’s life from the knot of legend that surrounds it, Nayanjot Lahiri presents a vivid biography of this extraordinary Indian emperor and deepens our understanding of a legacy that extends beyond the bounds of Ashoka’s lifetime and dominion. At the center of Lahiri’s account is the complex personality of the Maurya dynasty’s third emperor—a strikingly contemplative monarch, at once ambitious and humane, who introduced a unique style of benevolent governance. Ashoka’s edicts, carved into rock faces and stone pillars, reveal an eloquent ruler who, unusually for the time, wished to communicate directly with his people. The voice he projected was personal, speaking candidly about the watershed events in his life and expressing his regrets as well as his wishes to his subjects. Ashoka’s humanity is conveyed most powerfully in his tale of the Battle of Kalinga. Against all conventions of statecraft, he depicts his victory as a tragedy rather than a triumph—a shattering experience that led him to embrace the Buddha’s teachings. Ashoka in Ancient India breathes new life into a towering figure of the ancient world, one who, in the words of Jawaharlal Nehru, “was greater than any king or emperor.”
State of Buddhism in Ceylon (Srilaṅkā) as Depicted in the Pali Chronicles
Author: Sandhya BhattacharyaPublisher: Pilgrims
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book is an attempt to trace the history of Buddhism in Sri Lanka as depicted in the Pali lanaguage chronicles which date from the 4th century BC onwards. Describes about Vamsa Literature, short history of the Pali chronicles, royal patronage of buddhism, monastic life in ceylon, buddhist festivals and ceremonies in ceylon.
Women Under the Bo Tree
Author: Tessa J. BartholomeuszPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521461290
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A lively examination of female world-renunciation on Buddhist Sri Lanka.
Relics, Ritual, and Representation in Buddhism
Author: Kevin TrainorPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521582803
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book is a serious study of relic veneration among South Asian Buddhists. Drawing on textual sources and archaeological evidence from India and Sri Lanka, including material rarely examined in the West, it looks specifically at the practice of relic veneration in the Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist tradition. The author portrays relic veneration as a technology of remembrance and representation which makes present the Buddha of the past for living Buddhists. By analysing the abstract ideas, emotional orientation and ritual behaviour centred on the Buddha's material remains, he contributes to the 'rematerializing' of Buddhism which is currently under way among Western scholars. This book is an excellent introduction to Buddhist relics. It is well written and accessible and will be read by scholars and serious students of Buddhism and religious studies for years to come.