Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Evolutionary transmigration of material particles in nature
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
The Lotus and the Lion
Author: J. Jeffrey FranklinPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801457351
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Buddhism is indisputably gaining prominence in the West, as is evidenced by the growth of Buddhist practice within many traditions and keen interest in meditation and mindfulness. In The Lotus and the Lion, J. Jeffrey Franklin traces the historical and cultural origins of Western Buddhism, showing that the British Empire was a primary engine for curiosity about and then engagement with the Buddhisms that the British encountered in India and elsewhere in Asia. As a result, Victorian and Edwardian England witnessed the emergence of comparative religious scholarship with a focus on Buddhism, the appearance of Buddhist characters and concepts in literary works, the publication of hundreds of articles on Buddhism in popular and intellectual periodicals, and the dawning of syncretic religions that incorporated elements derived from Buddhism. In this fascinating book, Franklin analyzes responses to and constructions of Buddhism by popular novelists and poets, early scholars of religion, inventors of new religions, social theorists and philosophers, and a host of social and religious commentators. Examining the work of figures ranging from Rudyard Kipling and D. H. Lawrence to H. P. Blavatsky, Thomas Henry Huxley, and F. Max Müller, Franklin provides insight into cultural upheavals that continue to reverberate into our own time. Those include the violent intermixing of cultures brought about by imperialism and colonial occupation, the trauma and self-reflection that occur when a Christian culture comes face-to-face with another religion, and the debate between spiritualism and materialism. The Lotus and the Lion demonstrates that the nineteenth-century encounter with Buddhism subtly but profoundly changed Western civilization forever.
Catalogue of the General Assembly Library of New Zealand
Author: New Zealand. Parliament. LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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First Editions of the 19th & 20th Centuries
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books: v. [1]. 1835-1863
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Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
The Americana
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Ten Great Religions: A comparison of all religions. 1898, c1883
Author: James Freeman ClarkePublisher:
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Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A comparison of all religions. [22d impression, c1883
Author: James Freeman ClarkePublisher:
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Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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