Popular Buddhist Texts From Nepal

Author : Todd T. Lewis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791492437

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Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal by Todd T. Lewis Pdf

This book demonstrates how popular ritual texts and story narratives have shaped the religious life and culture of the only surviving South Asian Mahayana Buddhist society, the Newars of Kathmandu. It begins with an account of the Newar Buddhist community's history and its place within the religious environment of Nepal and proceeds to build around five popular translations, several of which were known across Asia: the Srngabheri Avadana, the Simhalasarthabahu Avadana, the Tara, the Mahakala Vratas, and the Pancaraksa. Lewis documents how the respective texts have been domesticated in Nepal's art and architecture, healing traditions, and rituals. He shows how they provide paradigmatic case studies that transcend the Nepalese context, illustrating universal practices or issues in all Buddhist communities, such as gender relations and stupa veneration, the role of merchants, ethnicity, violence, devotions to celestial bodhisattvas by kings and women, and the role of mantra recitations and healing rituals in the lives of Buddhists.

Author : Todd T. Lewis,Murray Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Todd T Lewis
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791446115

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Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal by Todd T. Lewis,Murray Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Todd T Lewis Pdf

Drawing on textual and anthropological research, this book demonstrates how popular ritual texts and stories have shaped the religion and culture of the only surviving Mahayana Buddhist society, the Newars of Kathmandu.

Author : Harischandra Lal Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UVA:X030247719

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A Brief Encyclopaedia of Buddhism in Nepal by Harischandra Lal Singh Pdf

Author : Shanker Thapa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121819895

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Buddhist Sanskrit Literature of Nepal by Shanker Thapa Pdf

Author : Shanker Thapa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UVA:X030247743

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Newār Buddhism by Shanker Thapa Pdf

Author : Vanessa R. Sasson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199945610

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Little Buddhas by Vanessa R. Sasson Pdf

Edited by Vanessa R. Sasson, Little Buddhas brings together a wide range of scholarship and expertise to address the question of what role children have played in Buddhist literature, in particular historical contexts, and their role in specific Buddhist contexts today.

Author : Will Tuladhar-Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134241965

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Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal by Will Tuladhar-Douglas Pdf

Will Tuladhar-Douglas sheds new light on an important branch of Mahayana Buddhism and establishes the existence, character and causes of a renaissance of Buddhism in the fifteenth century in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. He provides the basis for the historical study of Newar Buddhism as one distinct tradition among the many that comprise Indic Buddhism. Through a thorough study of the relevant texts in the classical Himalayan languages (Sanskrit, Newari, Tibetan and Nepali), the book puts forward a new thesis about how the Newars legitimated and reinvented their tradition by devising new concepts of canonicity, as such it will appeal to scholars of the history and philology of Buddhism.

Author : Stephen C. Berkwitz,Juliane Schober,Claudia Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134002412

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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 : Harischandra Lal Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UVA:X004568788

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Buddhism in Nepal by Harischandra Lal Singh Pdf

Author : International Association of Buddhist Studies. Conference,Hui Ho Chiew,Philip Pierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UOM:39015070116820

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Buddhism and Violence by International Association of Buddhist Studies. Conference,Hui Ho Chiew,Philip Pierce Pdf

Contributed articles presented at the 13th Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies held in Bangkok, Dec. 2002.

Author : K. Krishna Murthy
Publisher : Sundeep Prakashan
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9788185067162

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Buddhism in Tibet by K. Krishna Murthy Pdf

Author : Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro Nariman,Moriz Winternitz,Sylvain Lévi,Eduard Huber
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8120807952

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Literary History of Sanskrit Buddhism (from Winternitz, Sylvain Levi, Huber) by Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro Nariman,Moriz Winternitz,Sylvain Lévi,Eduard Huber Pdf

Author : Gadjin M. Nagao
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791401871

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Mādhyamika and Yogācāra by Gadjin M. Nagao Pdf

Nagao invariably focuses on the core of Mahāyāna Buddhism--the path of the Bodhisattva, the doctrine of śūnyatā, and the system of Trisvabhāva are explained. Important technical terms used in the Mahayana textual tradition, whose exact understanding is imperative for the study of Mahāyāna Buddhism, are skillfully presented, making the book indispensable to scholars of Buddhist studies.

Author : H.H. The Dalai Lama,First Panchen Lama,Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche,Kalu Rinpoche
Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Four Essential Buddhist Texts by H.H. The Dalai Lama,First Panchen Lama,Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche,Kalu Rinpoche Pdf

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Author : Shanker Thapa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Mahayana Buddhism
ISBN : UOM:39015080549069

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Northern Buddhism in History by Shanker Thapa Pdf

Contributed articles on the history of Mahayana Buddhism.