Ten Jātakas

Author : Viggo Fausbøll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019402759

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Ten Jatakas by Viggo Fausbøll Pdf

Author : Jātaka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590535919

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Ten Jātakas. The orig. Pali text with a tr. and notes, by V. Fausbøll by Jātaka Pdf

Author : Helen Lewis
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789695069

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EurASEAA14 Volume I: Ancient and Living Traditions by Helen Lewis Pdf

This volume comprises papers originally presented at the EurASEAA14 conference in 2012, updated for publication. It focuses on topics under the broad themes of archaeology and art history, epigraphy, philology, historic archaeology, ethnography, ethnoarchaeology, ethnomusicology, materials studies, and long-distance trade and exchange.

Author : Naomi Appleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317111245

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Jataka Stories in Theravada Buddhism by Naomi Appleton Pdf

Jataka stories (stories about the previous births of the Buddha) are very popular in Theravada Buddhist countries, where they are found in both canonical texts and later compositions and collections, and are commonly used in sermons, children's books, plays, poetry, temple illustrations, rituals and festivals. Whilst at first glance many of the stories look like common fables or folktales, Buddhist tradition tells us that the stories illustrate the gradual path to perfection exemplified by the Buddha in his previous births, when he was a bodhisatta (buddha-to-be). Jataka stories have had a long and colourful history, closely intertwined with the development of doctrines about the Buddha, the path to buddhahood, and how Buddhists should behave now the Buddha is no more. This book explores the shifting role of the stories in Buddhist doctrine, practice, and creative expression, finally placing this integral Buddhist genre back in the centre of scholarly understandings of the religion.

Author : Fausbøll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015024340211

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The Jātaka Together with Its Commentary Being Tales of the Anterior Births of Gotama Buddha by Fausbøll Pdf

Author : Vanessa R. Sasson,Kristin Scheible
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197649466

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The Buddha: a Storied Life by Vanessa R. Sasson,Kristin Scheible Pdf

Retellings of the Buddha's life story have animated and sustained Buddhist thought and practice through some 2,500 years of history. To this day, Buddhist holidays and rituals are pinned to the arc of his biography, celebrating his birth, awakening, teaching, and final nirvana. His story is the model that exemplary Buddhists follow. Often, there is a moment of insight akin to the Buddha's experience with the Four Sights, followed by a great departure from home, and a period of searching that it is hoped will lead to final awakening. The Buddha's story is not just the Buddha's story; it is the story of Buddhism. In this book, twelve leading scholars of South Asian texts and traditions articulate the Buddha-life blueprint--the underlying and foundational pattern that holds the life story of a buddha together. They retell the episodes of Buddha Gautama's extended life story, while keeping in mind the cosmic, paradigmatic arc of his narrative. The contributors have dedicated their careers to exploring hagiographical materials, each applying their own methodological and theoretical interests to shed new light on the enduring story of Buddhism. Using multiple perspectives, voices, and sources, this volume underscores the multivalent centrality of this story. The book will be an invaluable resource to practicing Buddhists and students of Buddhist Studies to help them engage in the most foundational story of the tradition.

Author : P.V. Bapat
Publisher : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788123023045

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2500 Years of Buddhism by P.V. Bapat Pdf

About the life of Buddha

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015024340237

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The Jātaka Together with Its Comm by Anonim Pdf

Author : Reiko Ohnuma
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231510288

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Head, Eyes, Flesh, Blood by Reiko Ohnuma Pdf

Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood is the first comprehensive study of a central narrative theme in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature: the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice during his previous lives as a bodhisattva. Conducting close readings of stories from Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, and Tibetan literature written between the third century BCE and the late medieval period, Reiko Ohnuma argues that this theme has had a major impact on the development of Buddhist philosophy and culture. Whether he takes the form of king, prince, ascetic, elephant, hare, serpent, or god, the bodhisattva repeatedly gives his body or parts of his flesh to others. He leaps into fires, drowns himself in the ocean, rips out his tusks, gouges out his eyes, and lets mosquitoes drink from his blood, always out of selflessness and compassion and to achieve the highest state of Buddhahood. Ohnuma places these stories into a discrete subgenre of South Asian Buddhist literature and approaches them like case studies, analyzing their plots, characterizations, and rhetoric. She then relates the theme of the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice to major conceptual discourses in the history of Buddhism and South Asian religions, such as the categories of the gift, the body (both ordinary and extraordinary), kingship, sacrifice, ritual offering, and death. Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood reveals a very sophisticated and influential perception of the body in South Asian Buddhist literature and highlights the way in which these stories have provided an important cultural resource for Buddhists. Combined with her rich and careful translations of classic texts, Ohnuma introduces a whole new understanding of a vital concept in Buddhists studies.

Author : Edward Byles Cowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Buddhas
ISBN : HARVARD:FL2D94

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The Jātaka by Edward Byles Cowell Pdf

Author : Patrick Jory
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438460895

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Thailand's Theory of Monarchy by Patrick Jory Pdf

2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Since the 2006 coup d'état, Thailand has been riven by two opposing political visions: one which aspires to a modern democracy and the rule of law, and another which holds to the traditional conception of a kingdom ruled by an exemplary Buddhist monarch. Thailand has one of the world's largest populations of observant Buddhists and one of its last politically active monarchies. This book examines the Theravada Buddhist foundations of Thailand's longstanding institution of monarchy. Patrick Jory states that the storehouse of monarchical ideology is to be found in the popular literary genre known as the Jātakas, tales of the Buddha's past lives. The best-known of these, the Vessantara Jātaka, disseminated an ideal of an infinitely generous prince as a bodhisatta or future Buddha—an ideal which remains influential in Thailand today. Using primary and secondary source materials largely unknown in Western scholarship, Jory traces the history of the Vessantara Jātaka and its political-cultural importance from the ancient to the modern period. Although pressures from European colonial powers and Buddhist reformers led eventually to a revised political conception of the monarchy, the older Buddhist ideal of kingship has yet endured.

Author : Viggo Fausbøll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10996649

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Ten Jātakas by Viggo Fausbøll Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 2393 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465573124

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The Jataka Tales (Complete) by Anonymous Pdf

This conclusion is confirmed by the fact that Jātaka scenes are found sculptured in the carvings on the railings round the relic shrines of Sanchi and Amaravati and especially those of Bharhut, where the titles of several Jātakas are clearly inscribed over some of the carvings. These bas-reliefs prove that the birth-legends were widely known in the third century B.C. and were then considered as part of the sacred history of the religion. Fah-hian, when he visited Ceylon, (400 A.D.), saw at Abhayagiri "representations of the 500 bodily forms which the Bodhisatta assumed during his successive births1," and he particularly mentions his births as Sou-to-nou, a bright flash of light, the king of the elephants, and an antelope. These legends were also continually introduced into the religious discourses which were delivered by the various teachers in the course of their wanderings, whether to magnify the glory of the Buddha or to illustrate Buddhist doctrines and precepts by appropriate examples, somewhat in the same way as mediæval preachers in Europe used to enliven their sermons by introducing fables and popular tales to rouse the flagging attention of their hearers. It is quite uncertain when these various birth-stories were put together in a systematic form such as we find in our present Jātaka collection. At first they were probably handed down orally, but their growing popularity would ensure that their kernel, at any rate, would ere long be committed to some more permanent form. In fact there is a singular parallel to this in the 'Gesta Romanorum', which was compiled by an uncertain author in the 14th century and contains nearly 200 fables and stories told to illustrate various virtues and vices, many of them winding up with a religious application. Some of the birth-stories are evidently Buddhistic and entirely depend for their point on some custom or idea peculiar to Buddhism; but many are pieces of folk-lore which have floated about the world for ages as the stray waifs of literature and are liable everywhere to be appropriated by any casual claimant. The same stories may thus, in the course of their long wanderings, come to be recognised under widely different aspects, as when they are used by Boccaccio or Poggio merely as merry tales, or by some Welsh bard to embellish king Arthur's legendary glories, or by some Buddhist samaṇa or mediæval friar to add point to his discourse. Chaucer unwittingly puts a Jātaka story into the mouth of his Pardonere when he tells his tale of 'the ryotoures three'; and another appears in Herodotus as the popular explanation of the sudden rise of the Alcmæonidæ through Megacles' marriage with Cleisthenes' daughter and the rejection of his rival Hippocleides.

Author : Russell Webb,Bhikkhu Nyanatusita
Publisher : Buddhist Publication Society
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789552403767

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An Analysis of the Pali Canon and a Reference Table of Pali Literature by Russell Webb,Bhikkhu Nyanatusita Pdf

An Analysis of the Pali Canon is a comprehensive overview of the contents of the works that make up the Tipitaka, the Canon of the Theravada school of Buddhism. It also contains an index of the suttas and sections of the Tipitaka, as well as an extensive bibliography of the translations of canonical works and secondary literature. The second part of this book, A Reference Table of Pali Literature, is an extensive list of all the works composed in the Indic language known as Pali. It lists all the works of the Tipitaka, the commentaries and subcommentaries, historical chronicles, works on medicine, cosmology, grammar, law, astrology, Bible translations, etc. It also gives data on the authors, time of composition, country of origin and includes references to secondary literature that provide more information on the works listed. This book is an essential resource for students and researchers of the Tipitaka and other Pali literature.

Author : Chris Baker,Pasuk Phongpaichit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107190764

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A History of Ayutthaya by Chris Baker,Pasuk Phongpaichit Pdf

The first full history of a great commercial and political center that rose in Asia over almost five centuries.