Buddhist Manuscripts

Author : Jens Braarvig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UOM:39015073594650

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Buddhist Manuscripts by Jens Braarvig Pdf

Author : San San May,Jana Igunma
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780295744490

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Buddhism Illuminated by San San May,Jana Igunma Pdf

Buddhist temples in Southeast Asia are centers for the preservation of local artistic traditions. Chief among these are manuscripts, a vital source for our understanding of Buddhist ideas and practices in the region. They are also a beautiful art form, too little understood in the West. The British Library has one of the richest collections of Southeast Asian manuscripts, principally from Thailand and Burma, anywhere in the world. It includes finely painted copies of Buddhist scriptures, literary works, historical narratives, and works on traditional medicine, law, cosmology, and fortune-telling. Buddhism Illuminated includes over one hundred examples of Buddhist art from the Library’s collection, relating each manuscript to Theravada tradition and beliefs, and introducing the historical, artistic, and religious contexts of their production. It is the first book in English to showcase the beauty and variety of Buddhist manuscript art and reproduces many works that have never before been photographed.

Author : Stephen C. Berkwitz,Juliane Schober,Claudia Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134002429

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Buddhist Manuscript Cultures by Stephen C. Berkwitz,Juliane Schober,Claudia Brown Pdf

Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Buddhist texts focuses on the significance of their material forms rather than their doctrinal contents, and examines how and why they were made. Collectively, the book offers cross-cultural and comparative insights into the transmission of Buddhist knowledge and the use of texts and images as ritual objects in the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Buddhist cultures. Drawing on case studies from India, Gandhara, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Mongolia, China and Nepal, the chapters included investigate the range of interests and values associated with producing and using written texts, and the roles manuscripts and images play in the transmission of Buddhist texts and in fostering devotion among Buddhist communities. Contributions are by reputed scholars in Buddhist Studies and represent diverse disciplinary approaches from religious studies, art history, anthropology, and history. This book will be of interest to scholars and students working in these fields.

Author : Jinah Kim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520273863

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Receptacle of the Sacred by Jinah Kim Pdf

In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacred explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book “manuscript” should be understood as a form of sacred space: a temple in microcosm, not only imbued with divine presence but also layered with the memories of many generations of users. Jinah Kim argues that illustrating a manuscript with Buddhist imagery not only empowered it as a three-dimensional sacred object, but also made it a suitable tool for the spiritual transformation of medieval Indian practitioners. Through a detailed historical analysis of Sanskrit colophons on patronage, production, and use of illustrated manuscripts, she suggests that while Buddhism’s disappearance in eastern India was a slow and gradual process, the Buddhist book-cult played an important role in sustaining its identity. In addition, by examining the physical traces left by later Nepalese users and the contemporary ritual use of the book in Nepal, Kim shows how human agency was critical in perpetuating and intensifying the potency of a manuscript as a sacred object throughout time.

Author : B. J. Terwiel,Chāichư̄n Khamdǣngyō̜ttai
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9783515079730

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Shan Manuscripts by B. J. Terwiel,Chāichư̄n Khamdǣngyō̜ttai Pdf

Shan people can be found in a belt stretching from Assam (Northeastern India) over Myanmar (Burma) to the Chinese province Yunnan. In this volume Shan manuscripts from collections in Berlin, Munich and Hamburg are described. In this catalogue a total of 335 manuscripts and inscribed pieces of cloth are introduced. For each document there is mentioned its title, the date, the author, its appearance as well as a summary of the contents. In the introduction many topics are raised, such as a short history of the Shan, the Shan script, famous authors, material writing culture, a typology of written documents, and the principles of prosody. "In compiling this catalogue of Shan manuscript, Terwiel and Chaichuen have done valuable work which will be appreciated by everyone who is doing research on Shan or Tai culture or cultural history and related themes by using original indigenous sources. [�] The completion of this work marks a new milestone in Shan studies and Tai studies as a whole." Tai culture.

Author : Sam van Schaik,Imre Galambos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110225655

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Manuscripts and Travellers by Sam van Schaik,Imre Galambos Pdf

This study is based on a manuscript which was carried by a Chinese monk through the monasteries of the Hexi corridor, as part of his pilgrimage from Wutaishan to India. The manuscript has been created as a composite object from three separate documents, with Chinese and Tibetan texts on them. Included is a series of Tibetan letters of introduction addressed to the heads of monasteries along the route, functioning as a passport when passing through the region. The manuscript dates to the late 960s, coinciding with the large pilgrimage movement during the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Northern Song recorded in transmitted sources. Therefore, it is very likely that this is a unique contemporary testimony of the movement, of which our pilgrim was also part. Complementing extant historical sources, the manuscript provides evidence for the high degree of ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity in Western China during this period.

Author : Cecil Bendall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UOM:39015005093581

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Catalogue of the Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge by Cecil Bendall Pdf

Author : Mark Allon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8280340017

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Buddhist Manuscripts by Mark Allon Pdf

Author : Michaela Mross
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824892876

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Memory, Music, Manuscripts by Michaela Mross Pdf

Kōshiki (Buddhist ceremonials) belong to a shared ritual repertoire of Japanese Buddhism that began with Tendai Pure Land belief in the late tenth century and spread to all Buddhist schools, including Sōtō Zen in the thirteenth century. In Memory, Music, Manuscripts, Michaela Mross elegantly combines the study of premodern manuscripts and woodblock prints with ethnographic fieldwork to illuminate the historical development of the highly musical kōshiki rituals performed by Sōtō Zen clerics. She demonstrates how ritual change is often shaped by factors outside the ritual context per se—by, for example, institutional interests, evolving biographic images of eminent monks, or changes in the cultural memory of a particular lineage. Her close study of the fascinating world of kōshiki in Sōtō Zen sheds light on Buddhism as a lived religion and the interplay of ritual, doctrine, literature, collective memory, material culture, and music. Mross highlights in particular the sonic dimension in rituals. Scholars of Buddhist and ritual studies have largely overlooked the soundscapes of rituals despite the importance of music for many ritual specialists and the close connection between the acquisition of ritual expertise and learning to vocalize sacred texts or play musical instruments. Indeed, Sōtō clerics strive to perfect their vocal skills and view kōshiki and the singing of liturgical texts as vital Zen practices and an expression of buddhahood—similar to seated meditation. Innovative and groundbreaking, Memory, Music, Manuscripts is the first in-depth study of kōshiki in Zen Buddhism and the first monograph in English on this influential liturgical genre. A companion website featuring video recordings of selected kōshiki performances is available at https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/dq109wp7548.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : NYPL:33433081886909

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Catalogue of the Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge by Anonim Pdf

Author : Salomon Richard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614291855

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Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara by Salomon Richard Pdf

Discover the fascinating history of a long-hidden Buddhist culture at a historic crossroads. In the years following Alexander the Great’s conquest of the East, a series of empires rose up along the Silk Road. In what is now northern Pakistan, the civilizations in the region called Gandhara became increasingly important centers for the development of Buddhism, reaching their apex under King Kaniska of the Kusanas in the second century CE. Gandhara has long been known for its Greek-Indian synthesis in architecture and statuary, but until about twenty years ago, almost nothing was known about its literature. The insights provided by manuscripts unearthed over the last few decades show that Gandhara was indeed a vital link in the early development of Buddhism, instrumental in both the transmission of Buddhism to China and the rise of the Mahayana tradition. The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara surveys what we know about Gandhara and its Buddhism, and it also provides translations of a dozen different short texts, from similes and stories to treatises on time and reality.

Author : Richard Salomon,Frank Raymond Allchin,Mark Barnard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Buddhist antiquities
ISBN : 0712346104

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Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhāra by Richard Salomon,Frank Raymond Allchin,Mark Barnard Pdf

As the Dead Sea Scrolls have changed our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, so a set of 29 scroll fragments acquired in 1994 by The British Library promise to improve our knowledge of the history of Buddhism in India.

Author : Andrea Schlosser
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780295750750

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Three Early Mahāyāna Treatises from Gandhāra by Andrea Schlosser Pdf

Buddhist texts on the path to liberation The Gandhāran birch-bark scrolls preserve the earliest remains of Buddhist literature known today and provide unprecedented insights into the history of Buddhism. This volume presents three manuscripts from the Bajaur Collection (BC), a group of nineteen scrolls discovered at the end of the twentieth century and named after their findspot in northwestern Pakistan. The manuscripts, written in the Gāndhārī language and Kharoṣṭhī script, date to the second century CE. The three scrolls—BC 4, BC 6, and BC 11—contain treatises that focus on the Buddhist concept of non-attachment. This volume is the first in the Gandhāran Buddhist Texts series that is devoted to texts belonging to the Mahāyāna tradition. There are no known versions of these texts in other Buddhist traditions, and it is assumed that they are autographs. Andrea Schlosser provides an overview of the contents of the manuscripts and discusses their context, genre, possible authorship, physical layout, paleography, orthography, phonology, and morphology. Transliteration and translation of the texts are accompanied by notes on difficult terminology, photographs of the reconstructed scrolls, an index of Gāndhārī words with Sanskrit and Pali equivalents, and a preliminary transliteration of the scroll BC 19.

Author : Timothy Lenz,Andrew Glass
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Purvayogas
ISBN : 0295983086

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A New Version of the Gāndhārī Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous-birth Stories by Timothy Lenz,Andrew Glass Pdf

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/

Author : Mark Elliott,Cambridge University. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Hildegard Diemberger,Michela Clemente
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Archaeology and history
ISBN : 0947595201

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Buddha's Word by Mark Elliott,Cambridge University. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Hildegard Diemberger,Michela Clemente Pdf