The Resistance Of The Monks

Author : Bertil Lintner,Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Buddhism and politics
ISBN : 9781564325440

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The Resistance of the Monks by Bertil Lintner,Human Rights Watch (Organization) Pdf

This 99-page report written by longtime Burma watcher Bertil Lintner, describes the repression Burma's monks experienced after they led demonstrations against the government in September 2007. The report tells the stories of individual monks who were arrested, beaten and detained. Two years after Buddhist monks marched down the street of the detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, hundreds of monks are in prison and thousands remain fearful of military repression. Many have left their monasteries and returned to their villages or sought refuge abroad, while those who remained in their monasteries live under constant surveillance--Human Rights Watch web site.

Author : Gelong Thubten
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781250266835

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A Monk's Guide to Happiness by Gelong Thubten Pdf

A Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness for the Modern Day In our never-ending search for happiness we often find ourselves looking to external things for fulfillment, thinking that happiness can be unlocked by buying a bigger house, getting the next promotion, or building a perfect family. In this profound and inspiring book, Gelong Thubten shares a practical and sustainable approach to happiness. Thubten, a Buddhist monk and meditation expert who has worked with everyone from school kids to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Benedict Cumberbatch, explains how meditation and mindfulness can create a direct path to happiness. A Monk’s Guide to Happiness explores the nature of happiness and helps bust the myth that our lives and minds are too busy for meditation. The book can show you how to: - Learn practical methods to help you choose happiness - Develop greater compassion for yourself and others - Learn to meditate in micro-moments during a busy day - Discover that you are naturally ‘hard-wired’ for happiness Reading A Monk’s Guide to Happiness could revolutionize your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, and help you create a life of true happiness and contentment.

Author : Ian Harris
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824835613

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Buddhism in a Dark Age by Ian Harris Pdf

This pioneering study of the fate of Buddhism during the communist period in Cambodia puts a human face on a dark period in Cambodia’s history. It is the first sustained analysis of the widely held assumption that the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot had a centralized plan to liquidate the entire monastic order. Based on a thorough analysis of interview transcripts and a large body of contemporary manuscript material, it offers a nuanced view that attempts to move beyond the horrific monastic death toll and fully evaluate the damage to the Buddhist sangha under Democratic Kampuchea. Compelling evidence exists to suggest that Khmer Rouge leaders were determined to hunt down senior members of the pre-1975 ecclesiastical hierarchy, but other factors also worked against the Buddhist order. Buddhism in a Dark Age outlines a three-phase process in the Khmer Rouge treatment of Buddhism: bureaucratic interference and obstruction, explicit harassment, and finally the elimination of the obdurate and those close to the previous Lon Nol regime. The establishment of a separate revolutionary form of sangha administration constituted the bureaucratic phase. The harassment of monks, both individually and en masse, was partially due to the uprooting of the traditional monastic economy in which lay people were discouraged from feeding economically unproductive monks. Younger members of the order were disrobed and forced into marriage or military service. The final act in the tragedy of Buddhism under the Khmer Rouge was the execution of those monks and senior ecclesiastics who resisted. It was difficult for institutional Buddhism to survive the conditions encountered during the decade under study here. Prince Sihanouk’s overthrow in 1970 marked the end of Buddhism as the central axis around which all other aspects of Cambodian existence revolved and made sense. And under Pol Pot the lay population was strongly discouraged from providing its necessary material support. The book concludes with a discussion of the slow re-establishment and official supervision of the Buddhist order during the People’s Republic of Kampuchea period.

Author : Palden Gyatso
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802190000

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The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk by Palden Gyatso Pdf

“With this memoir by a ‘simple monk’ who spent 33 years in prisons and labor camps for resisting the Chinese, a rare Tibetan voice is heard.” —The New York Times Book Review Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at eighteen—just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of “reform” that would eventually affect all of Tibet’s citizens and nearly decimate its ancient culture. In 1967, the Chinese destroyed monasteries across Tibet and forced thousands of monks into labor camps and prisons. Gyatso spent the next twenty-five years of his life enduring interrogation and torture simply for the strength of his beliefs. Palden Gyatso’s story bears witness to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the strength of Tibet’s proud civilization, faced with cultural genocide. “To readers of this memoir, however untraveled, Tibet will never again seem remote or unfamiliar. . . . Gyatso reminds us that the language of suffering is universal.” —Library Journal “Has the ring of undeniable truth. . . . Palden Gyatso’s clear-sighted eloquence (in Tsering Shakya’s fluent translation) makes his tale even more engrossing.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Suren Raghavan
Publisher : Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781795746

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Buddhist Monks and the Politics of Lanka's Civil War by Suren Raghavan Pdf

The war in Sri Lanka was violent and costly in human and material terms. This was one of the longest wars in modern South Asia. Often referred to as an 'ethnic' conflict between the majority Sinhalas and the minority Tamils, the war had a profound religious dimension. The majority of Sinhala Buddhist monks (the Sangha) not only opposed any meaningful powersharing but latterly advocated an all-out military solution. Such a nexus between Buddhism and violence is paradoxical; nevertheless it has a historical continuity. In 2009 when the war ended amid serious questions of war crimes and crimes against humanity, monks defended the military and its Buddhist leadership. Taking the lives of three key Sangha activists as the modern framework of a Sinhala Buddhist worldview, this book examines the limitations of Western theories of peacebuilding and such solutions as federalism and multinationalism. It analyzes Sinhala Buddhist ethnoreligious nationalism and argues for the urgent need to engage Buddhist politics - in Lanka and elsewhere - with approaches and mechanisms that accommodate the Sangha as key actors in political reform. Sinhala Buddhism is often studied from a sociological or anthropological standpoint. This book fills a gap by examining the faith and practice of the Sinhala Sangha and their followers from a political science perspective.

Author : The Count de Montalembert
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368162184

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The Monks of the West by The Count de Montalembert Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

Author : Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Monasticism and religious orders
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018798780

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The Monks of the West from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert Pdf

Author : Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024354869

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The Conversion of England, Being a Sequel to The Monks of the West, Etc by Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert Pdf

Author : Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Monasticism and religious orders
ISBN : MINN:31951D005880791

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The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard: book XI. The Celtic monks and the Anglo-Saxons. book XII. St. Wilfrid establishes Roman unity and the Benedictine order, 634-709. book XIII. Contemporaries and successors of St. Wilfrid, 650-735. Appendix: Lindisfarne. Peterborough. Hexham. 1867 by Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert Pdf

Author : Charles Forbes R. comte de Montalembert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600088857

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The monks of the West from st. Benedict to st. Bernard by Charles Forbes R. comte de Montalembert Pdf

Author : Guizot (M., François)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Civilization
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2D2W

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“The” History of Civilization by Guizot (M., François) Pdf

Author : F. Guizot
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375176488

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The History of Civilization by F. Guizot Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

Author : James Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 019977997X

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Heart of Buddha, Heart of China by James Carter Pdf

The Buddhist monk Tanxu surmounted extraordinary obstacles--poverty, wars, famine, and foreign occupation--to become one of the most prominent monks in China, founding numerous temples and schools and attracting crowds of students and disciples wherever he went. Heart of Buddha, Heart of China traces Tanxu's journey from his birth in 1875 to his death in 1963. Through Tanxu's life we come to know one of the most turbulent periods in Chinese history as it moved from empire to republic. James Carter draws on archives and interviews to provide a book that is part travelogue, part history, and part biography.

Author : Ronald David Schwartz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0231100957

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Circle of Protest by Ronald David Schwartz Pdf

Examines the non-violent protests by monks and nuns in Tibet for independence from China. The movement began in 1987 partly as a result of official Chinese encouragement for cultural and religious revival during the 1980s. The ongoing struggle and response is a case study of the control methods and weaknesses in China as a whole. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : François Guizot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MSU:31293008842514

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Monks by François Guizot Pdf