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Author : Kuen-wei Lu Sundararajan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Buddhism in literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039714170
Author : William H. Nienhauser
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 025333456X
""A vertitable feast of concise, useful, reliable, and up-to-dateinformation (all prepared by top scholars in the field), Nienhauser's now two-volumetitle stands alone as THE standard reference work for the study of traditionalChinese literature. Nothing like it has ever been published."" --Choice The second volume to The Indiana Companion to TraditionalChinese Literature is both a supplement and an update to the original volume. VolumeII includes over 60 new entries on famous writers, works, and genres of traditionalChinese literature, followed by an extensive bibliographic update (1985-1997) ofeditions, translations, and studies (primarily in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German) for the 500+ entries of Volume I.
Author : Zhenjun Zhang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004277847
This book examines the literary thematic changes, Buddhist imagery, and new motifs in the fantastic dreamworld as seen in the tales of the supernatural in early medieval China.
Author : Stephen F. Teiser
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691222172
Largely unstudied until now, the religious festivals that attracted Chinese people from all walks of life provide the most instructive examples of the interaction between Chinese forms of social life and the Indian tradition of Buddhism. Stephen Teiser examines one of the most important of such annual celebrations. He provides a comprehensive interpretation of the festivities of the seventh lunar month, in which laypeople presented offerings to Buddhist monks to gain salvation for their ancestors. Teiser uncovers a wide range of sources, many translated or analyzed for the first time in any language, to demonstrate how the symbolism, rituals, and mythology of the ghost festival pervaded the social landscape of medieval China.
Author : Ann Waltner
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824879952
The need for heirs in any traditional society is a compelling one. In traditional China, where inheritance and notions of filiality depended on the production of progeny, the need was nearly absolute. As Ann Waltner makes clear in this broadly researched study of adoption in the late Ming and early Ch'ing periods, the getting of an heir was a complex, even paradoxical undertaking. Although adoption involving persons of the same surname was the only arrangement ritually and legally sanctioned in Chinese society, adoption of persons of a different surname was a relatively common practice. Using medical and ritual texts, legal codes, local gazetteers, biography, and fiction, Waltner examines the multiple dimensions of the practice of adoption and identifies not only the dominant ideology prohibiting adoption across surname lines, but also a parallel discourse justifying the practice.
Author : Barbara Y. Martin,Dimitri Moraitis
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781954944039
“We have lived an extraordinary series of lives that has led us to our present experience. And the life we are living now will prepare us for lives yet to be lived.” There is life after death, and Barbara Martin has seen it. Now for the first time comes her inspired, firsthand account of the intricate world of spiritual rebirth. The award-winning authors of Change Your Aura, Change Your Life reveal the afterlife in a work based directly on Martin's personal explorations of the world to come and awe-inspiring clairvoyant experience with the spiritual worlds. Both a fully practical handbook to the ins and outs of the karmic cycle and a field guide to the spiritual plane and how reincarnation works. Dive deeper into the mystery of your soul's potential and how to understand your past, present, and future lives from a higher perspective. Uncover your own destiny and what you can do to unravel the mystery of your soul's journey. •Brings together the design of the world beyond and the mechanics of karma •Gives practical guidelines and tools to deal effectively with karmic situations and avoid generating adverse karma •Helps align readers with their spiritual purpose •Shows readers how to face and resolve their karmic troubles •Provides essential keys to spiritual development A true spiritual wonder in a single, fully accessible volume, Karma and Reincarnation is perfect for both those taking their first steps down a spiritual path and longtime spiritual students.
Author : Harley Farnsworth MacNair
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520376618
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1946.
Author : Naomi Appleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Buddhist literature
ISBN : 1139910507
Explores how multi-life stories served to construct, communicate, and challenge ideas about karma and rebirth within early South Asia.
Author : Nagapriya
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781907314728
Exploring Karma & Rebirth helps us to unravel the complexities of these two important but often misunderstood Buddhist doctrines. This thought-provoking book clarifies these traditional Buddhist teachings, examines them in relation to their cultural origins, considers how they are still relevant today, and offers an imaginative reading of what the teachings could mean for us now. Above all, Exploring Karma & Rebirth insists that, to be of enduring value, these doctrines must continue to serve the overriding aim of Buddhism: spiritual awakening.
Author : Kyoko Motomuchi Nakamura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136792533
This is the first collection of Buddhist legends in Japan, and these stories form the repertoire of miraculous events and moral examples that later Buddhist priests used for preaching to the people. As Kyokai describes his own intentions, "By editing these stories of miraculous events I want to pull the people forward by the ears, offer my hand to lead them to good, and show them how to cleanse their feet of evil" (p.222). Nakamura's book is actually two works in one: first an introduction to the Nihon ryoiki, and then an annotated translation. The introduction analyzes the life of the author and the influence of earlier writings, and provides a valuable synthesis of the world view reflected in the work. The annotated translation renders the more than one hundred stories into English narrative, with copious notes. Difficult terms are identified in the text with the original Chinese characters, while historical matters and Buddhist technical terms are explained in the footnotes.
Author : David Barreto
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781644118146
Investigates the spiritual anatomy and evolution of animals • Examines the anatomy of the spiritual bodies of animals, including their aura, etheric fields, chakras, and mental, astral, and buddhic bodies • Details how reincarnation and karma work in the animal kingdom, including how the way that animals die can have different effects on their spiritual bodies in the astral realms • Explores the spiritual, energetic, and psychic abilities of many animals and insects Where do the spirits of animals go after they die? Do animals have chakras or auras? Why were animals worshipped in ancient religions? Exploring these questions and more, David Barreto presents a deep investigation into the spiritual evolution of the animal kingdom, from ants and cockroaches to cats, dogs, owls, pigeons, dolphins, and whales. He examines the spiritual anatomy of animals, including their aura, etheric fields, chakras, and mental, astral, and buddhic bodies. Detailing how reincarnation works among various species, Barreto explores their experiences between physical lives, how they accrue karma, and how the way that animals die can have different effects on their spiritual bodies in the astral realms. Drawing on both modern physics and metaphysics, he reveals, for example, how dogs can love unconditionally because of their large electromagnetic field, which nourishes the etheric bodies of those around them, and how cats can detect subtle energy shifts and disharmonies and conduct etheric filtration while they sleep. Examining esoteric schools as well as ancient spiritual traditions around the world, the author explores how animals are viewed and worshipped in different religions and how animal adoration and animal-connected gods arose in ancient Egypt, India, and China. He looks at animal totems, animal archetypes, animals in alchemy, and the astral connections between animals and elementals. The author also examines the spiritual and energetic repercussions of meat consumption and animal sacrifice, revealing the astral and etheric components of slaughterhouses. Detailing the role of the animal kingdom in the Age of Aquarius, the author shows how, with the awakening of this new astrological era, animals will have their earthly lives elevated with lasting worth and dignity, equal to the love and respect they have been transmitting for millennia.
Author : Norman C. McClelland
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0786456752
Featuring over 1,200 topical entries arranged alphabetically, this encyclopedia provides diverse and detailed coverage of the related subjects of reincarnation and karma. Its in-depth examination ranges from ancient beliefs to those of the present, incorporating all relevant world cultures. A series of broad thematic entries cover foundational aspects while over a thousand highly focused entries deal with various societies and organizations which support the concepts of reincarnation and karma; specific religious groups, sects, and associations; key individuals both historic and modern; and related beliefs, concepts, and practices.
Author : Sabina Knight
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195392067
This book tells the story of Chinese literature, from prehistory to the present, in terms of literary culture's key role in supporting social and political concerns. A welcome guide for teachers, students, and lay readers, Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction honours traditional Chinese understandings of literature as encompassing history and philosophy, as well as the evolution of poetry and poetics, storytelling, drama, and the novel.
Author : Takeuchi Yoshinori
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994-12-31
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8120812557
The present volume is part of a series entitled World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest, which seeks to present the spiritual wisdom of the human race in its historical unfolding. The volume presents the richness of the spiritual heritage of the human race and designed to reflect the autonomy of the traditional in its historical development.
Author : Bhakti Vikasa Swami
Publisher : Bhakti Vikas Trust
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Journey to the real India. Discover the wisdom and devotion at the heart of Indian life. Meet people brought up in an atmosphere of godliness. Find out how it shaped their character and enriched their lives. Explore also the effects of technological development, the downfall of hereditary culture, and other causes of India's present degradation. Find out about: Ideal Family Life Intercaste Harmony Uncommon Scholarship Simple Living, High Thinking Dependence on God and Nature Women: Subordinate Yet Respected ... and more