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Author : Rebecca Harrison
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780648706625
Author : Rebecca Harrison
Publisher : Rebecca Harrison
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0648706605
Travel with the author on a fascinating journey to explore samsara, the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, along with the religions of Buddhism and Hinduism in the rich cultures of Nepal, Bali, Cambodia and India. Could the idea of samsara offer understanding of suffering, life, death and what happens after death?Does spirituality have any value in a twenty-first century world and can it exist apart from religion? Might quantum physics, parapsychology, mysticism or psychedelics give clues about samsara, consciousness, reality and ourselves?This book will get you thinking about your own beliefs, life and death, and where they might fit in to the bigger picture as you travel with the writer in extraordinary cultures of astonishing variety.
Author : Rebecca Harrison
Publisher : Rebecca Harrison
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780648706618
Along comes a global pandemic coronavirus, COVID-19, and our world is turned upside down. Can the idea of samsara shed any light on all this terrible suffering, turmoil and change? Are we all travelling around the ever-turning cycle of samsara, being born, dying, then reborn - again, and again, and again? Does our life, the things that happen to us, and our death, have any meaning? What do Hinduism, Buddhism, and samsara tell us about suffering, life and death? Could spiritual dimensions exist or do we live in a purely material universe? What is consciousness and does it die when our bodies die? Are rebirth or reincarnation even possible? Can we have spirituality without religion? What, if anything, might spirituality or religion mean in a turbulent and unpredictable twenty-first century? Do mysticism, psychedelics, science and quantum physics offer clues to any of these questions? Take a journey with the author through the fascinating cultures of Nepal, India, Bali and Cambodia and explore their rich traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism and samsara. Part exploration of spirituality and religion, part travel adventure to places of astonishing diversity, this book will get you thinking about your own beliefs, life and death, and where those might fit in to a bigger picture.
Author : Yevgeniya Marmer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783346242136
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Theology - Hinduism, grade: 2,1, University of Hildesheim, language: English, abstract: The following paper will deal with the concept of the cycle of birth, death and rebirth in the Hindu religion, as Hindus, in contrary to the Western cultures and monotheistic religions, believe that there is life after death, and before the present life, there was a beforelife because they believe that it does not make sense that people suddenly appear from nowhere, meaning not the biological body, but the “soul” or the “spirit”. First, a definition of the different concepts of afterlife in different metaphysical models and of the term reincarnation from its semantic point of view and, how it is defined in other religions, will be given. Furthermore, Hinduism, itself, will be introduced, as it is important to understand the essence of this religion to be able to understand the concept of reincarnation. Additionally, the concept of reincarnation will be described. That includes the processes of birth, death and rebirth. Finally, the arguments in favor and against the theory of reincarnation will be discussed. The question, about what happens after death, is a philosophical one, which has been worrying humanity for centuries. By trying to categorize the different concepts, regarding what happens after death, three concepts, varying among cultures and religions, can be differentiated. First, there is the concept of denial which states that the existence of the individual ends with their death, as it is widely believed in the Western world. The second one is the concept of completion - in many religions, as, for example, in Christianity, the human life is seen as a preparation for a life after, somewhere else, in a different state of existence, like Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, Limbus, etc. And the third concept is the concept of rebirth, meaning that the mental part of the person, may it be called the “soul” or the “spirit”, is reborn many times in new bodies on earth.
Author : Steven Kossak,Edith Whitney Watts
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art, South Asian
ISBN : 9780870999925
Presents works of art selected from the South and Southeast Asian and Islamic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, lessons plans, and classroom activities.
Author : R. Soekmono
Publisher : Assen : Van Gorcum ; Paris : The Unesco Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Borobudur
ISBN : UCSC:32106001441143
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie to the deck of the Titanic to find the mysterious gift that will free a small dog from a magic spell.
Author : Purushottam Vishvanath Bapat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8123002947
Author : Dallas Museum of Art,Anne R. Bromberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300149883
In recent years, the Dallas Museum of Art has expanded its collection of South Asian art from a small number of Indian temple sculptures to nearly 500 works, including Indian Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, Himalayan Buddhist bronze sculptures and ritual objects, artwork from Southeast Asia, and decorative arts from India's Mughal period. Artworks in the collection have origins from the former Ottoman empire to Java, and architectural pieces suggest the grandeur of buildings in the Indian tradition. This volume details the cultural and artistic significance of more than 140 featured works, which range from Tibetan thangkas and Indian miniature paintings to stone sculptures and bronzes. Relating these works to one another through interconnecting narratives and cross-references, scholars and curators provide a broad cultural history of the region. Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art
Author : Kim Gutschow
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674038080
They may shave their heads, don simple robes, and renounce materialism and worldly desires. But the women seeking enlightenment in a Buddhist nunnery high in the folds of Himalayan Kashmir invariably find themselves subject to the tyrannies of subsistence, subordination, and sexuality. Ultimately, Buddhist monasticism reflects the very world it is supposed to renounce. Butter and barley prove to be as critical to monastic life as merit and meditation. Kim Gutschow lived for more than three years among these women, collecting their stories, observing their ways, studying their lives. Her book offers the first ethnography of Tibetan Buddhist society from the perspective of its nuns. Gutschow depicts a gender hierarchy where nuns serve and monks direct, where monks bless the fields and kitchens while nuns toil in them. Monasteries may retain historical endowments and significant political and social power, yet global flows of capitalism, tourism, and feminism have begun to erode the balance of power between monks and nuns. Despite the obstacles of being considered impure and inferior, nuns engage in everyday forms of resistance to pursue their ascetic and personal goals. A richly textured picture of the little known culture of a Buddhist nunnery, the book offers moving narratives of nuns struggling with the Buddhist discipline of detachment. Its analysis of the way in which gender and sexuality construct ritual and social power provides valuable insight into the relationship between women and religion in South Asia today.
Author : Varadaraja V. Raman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1462883648
Indic Visions is the tenth book by the acclaimed scientist and humanist Varadaraja V. Raman. In it he provides a detailed introduction to Indic religions and contemporary interpretations thereof consistent with modern science. In a world of rapid changes, dangerous fundamentalism, parochial chauvinisms, culture wars, and clashing civilizations, this book provides both a soothing balm and potent antidote. By delving more deeply into Indic civilization, Raman shows us the way to transform our emerging global civilization in wholesome and healthy ways consistent with science and the great challenges of the 21st century.
Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0691017646
In this landmark book the renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga, exploring how its guiding principle, that of freedom, involves remaining in the world without letting oneself be exhausted by such "conditionings" as time and history. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest foreshadowings in the Vedas through the twentieth century. The subjects discussed include Patañjali, author of the Yoga-sutras; yogic techniques, such as concentration "on a Single Point," postures, and respiratory discipline; and Yoga in relation to Brahmanism, Buddhism, Tantrism, Oriental alchemy, mystical erotism, and shamanism.
Author : John Clifford Holt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195362466
Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines the various ways in which Avalokitesvara, the most well known and proliferated bodhisattva of Mahayana Buddhism throughout south, southeast, and east Asia, was assimilated into the transforming religious culture of Sri Lanka, one of the most pluralistic in Asia. Exploring the expressions of the bodhisattva's cult in Sanskrit and Sinhala literature, in iconography, epigraphy, ritual, symbol, and myth, the author develops a provocative thesis regarding the dynamics of religious change. Interdisciplinary in scope, addressing a wide variety of issues relating to Buddhist thought and practice, and providing new and original information on the rich cultural history of Sri Lanka, this book will interest students of Buddhism and South Asia.
Author : Dr. Hiro G. Badlani
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781663238115
This book is like a map of Hinduism, which showa from where once should start his or her spiritual journey and the journey ends. - RARA HARI DASS, Mount Madonna Center, Santa Vruz, California Your book is definitely written in a way that provides abundant of information about Hinduism in an easily readable format and style that would clearly appeal to the Hindu youth Diaspora - SATGURU BODHINATHA VEYLANSWAMI, Hinduism Today magazine, Kauai's Hindu Monastery, USA
Author : Ron Duncan Hart,Ronald J. Duncan-Hart
Publisher : World Arts Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124102331
This timely book examines the resurgence of the major civilizations of the Middle East, India, and China as they claim their historic places of power and prestige. This book explores the history, culture, religion, ethnic composition, and experience with the West of each of these world regions.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004644779
The present volume is the outcome of a seminar on the Ideology and Status of Sanskrit held in Leiden under the auspices of the International Institute for Asian Studies. The book contains studies of crucial periods and important areas in the history of the Sanskrit language, from the earliest, Vedic and pre-Vedic periods, through the period in which the (restricted) use of Sanskrit spread over practically all of South (including part of Central) and Southeast Asia (sometimes referred to as the period of "Greater India"), up to the recent history of Sanskrit in India. The contributions of this volume are divided into three sections: (1) Origins and Creation of the "Eternal Language"; (2) Transculturation, Vernacularization, Sanskritization; (3) The Sanskrit Tradition: Continuity from the past or Construction from the present?