Buddhism And Socio Economic Life Of Eastern India

Author : Bimal Chandra Mohapatra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhism and Socio-economic Life of Eastern India written by Bimal Chandra Mohapatra and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is The First-Ever Effort To Gauge Buddhism S Impact On Socio-Economic Life Under The Palas In Bengal And The Bhaumakaras Of Orissa.

Author : Richard Fick
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267989454
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Organisation in North-East India, in Buddha's Time (Classic Reprint) written by Richard Fick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Social Organisation in North-East India, in Buddha's Time That I have placed the culture which the Jatakas exhibit in north-eastern India, will, I hope, not provoke any opposition. For although most of the stories contained in our sources are, so far as their contents are con cerned, the common property of the Indian people and were known all over India, yet in the form in which they appear in the Jatakas, they belong to a particular part of India, namely, the north-east, the home of Buddhism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Amitav Acharya
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801466342
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Southeast Asia written by Amitav Acharya and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing a framework to study "what makes a region," Amitav Acharya investigates the origins and evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism and international relations. He views the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) "from the bottom up" as not only a U.S.-inspired ally in the Cold War struggle against communism but also an organization that reflects indigenous traditions. Although Acharya deploys the notion of "imagined community" to examine the changes, especially since the Cold War, in the significance of ASEAN dealings for a regional identity, he insists that "imagination" is itself not a neutral but rather a culturally variable concept. The regional imagination in Southeast Asia imagines a community of nations different from NAFTA or NATO, the OAU, or the European Union. In this new edition of a book first published as The Quest for Identity in 2000, Acharya updates developments in the region through the first decade of the new century: the aftermath of the financial crisis of 1997, security affairs after September 2001, the long-term impact of the 2004 tsunami, and the substantial changes wrought by the rise of China as a regional and global actor. Acharya argues in this important book for the crucial importance of regionalism in a different part of the world.

Author : Aparna Chatterjee
Publisher : Shhalaj Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9350184427
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barua Buddhists written by Aparna Chatterjee and published by Shhalaj Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do the Baruas stand in Buddhist religious universe? Could they be categorized as Bengali Buddhists? Such intriguing questions are addressed headlong here and answers are ferreted out of the troves of history. A large swathe of these frankly devout people is now found settled in and around Siliguri town, a gateway to the North-Eastern hinterland. But their antecedents are immensely spectacular, yet problematic. As settlers, how far their religious moorings carry them through the alienated environs of a majoritarian Hindu society? How proficient they are in border maintenance and syncretism? This ethnographic study of Bengali Barua Buddhists gives the reader a critical insight into everyday sociological practices of these struggling survivors of an ancient religion.

Author : Madan Mohan Singh
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in North-eastern India in Pre-Mauryan Times written by Madan Mohan Singh and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1967 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ajeya Jha
Publisher : Shhalaj Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9350184419
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethno-herpetology of Sikkim written by Ajeya Jha and published by Shhalaj Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethno-herpetology studies the relationship between people and reptiles and amphibians and is derived from “ethnic-” - relating to people and culture - and “herpetology” - the study of reptiles and amphibians. Sikkim being a melting pot of ethnic cultures as well as astounding biodiversity, provides exceptional motivation for the exploration of its ethno-herpetology. Since biological and ethnic diversity is often geography-specific, studying this in small geographical regions makes sense, as knowledge of ethno-herpetology varies extraordinarily across geographic boundaries. This book has been envisaged to capture Sikkim’s immense and vibrant ethno-herpetology. It is expected to bring a new understanding of this state’s rich bio-cultural heritage and provide new details and directions to researchers of ethnobiology, zoology, ecology, anthropology, human ecology, and culture. It sincerely hopes to generate greater interest in Sikkim, Ethno-herpetology, and herpetofauna. It has the potential to reward integration with tourism and traditional knowledge.

Author : Johan Elverskog
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205316
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road written by Johan Elverskog and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also to reaffirm the stereotypes of Buddhism as a peaceful, rational philosophy and Islam as an inherently violent and irrational religion. But if Buddhist-Muslim history was simply repeated instances of Muslim militants attacking representations of the Buddha, how had the Bamiyan Buddha statues survived thirteen hundred years of Muslim rule? Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road demonstrates that the history of Buddhist-Muslim interaction is much richer and more complex than many assume. This groundbreaking book covers Inner Asia from the eighth century through the Mongol empire and to the end of the Qing dynasty in the late nineteenth century. By exploring the meetings between Buddhists and Muslims along the Silk Road from Iran to China over more than a millennium, Johan Elverskog reveals that this long encounter was actually one of profound cross-cultural exchange in which two religious traditions were not only enriched but transformed in many ways.

Author : Jonathan A. Silk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198043812
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Monks written by Jonathan A. Silk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paradigmatic Buddhist is the monk. It is well known that ideally Buddhist monks are expected to meditate and study -- to engage in religious practice. The institutional structure which makes this concentration on spiritual cultivation possible is the monastery. But as a bureaucratic institution, the monastery requires administrators to organize and manage its functions, to prepare quiet spots for meditation, to arrange audiences for sermons, or simply to make sure food, rooms, and bedding are provided. The valuations placed on such organizational roles were, however, a subject of considerable controversy among Indian Buddhist writers, with some considering them significantly less praiseworthy than meditative concentration or teaching and study, while others more highly appreciated their importance. Managing Monks, as the first major study of the administrative offices of Indian Buddhist monasticism and of those who hold them, explores literary sources, inscriptions and other materials in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese in order to explore this tension and paint a picture of the internal workings of the Buddhist monastic institution in India, highlighting the ambivalent and sometimes contradictory attitudes toward administrators revealed in various sources.

Author : Shrinivas Tilak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 8187420200
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Karma written by Shrinivas Tilak and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of theory of Karma with reference to Mahābhārata and works of Paul Ricoeur.

Author : amit jha
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329175379
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Viharas In Early Medieval Eastern India written by amit jha and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the introduction the importance of the study of the socio-economic condition of vih