Buddhist India Rediscovered

Author : Aruna Deshpande
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 8184952473
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhist India Rediscovered written by Aruna Deshpande and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOSE YOURSELF IN THE BUDDHIST EXPERIENCE INDIA IS THE GUARDIAN OF a rich and ancient culture, and the seat of Buddhism. Mystic monasteries on Himalayan slopes, richly carved stupas amid lush gardens, cavernous dwellings with exquisite paintings –India is home to all these and more. In this, her seventh book, respected historian Aruna Deshpande travels the length and breadth of the country to track down the imprints of Buddhism. Never before has any historian presented every major Buddhist site located in India in one book. Here are the architectural gems of Lumbini, the lesser known Tawang Monastery of Arunachal Pradesh, the unparalleled Bodh Gaya and a reliable guide to visiting all these places. A boon to pilgrims, travelers and armchair explorers alike, Buddhist India Rediscovered will fire the imagination and carry you on a memorable journey. “A remarkably thorough catalogue of India’s Buddhist sites. Whether their interest is in history and culture or Buddhist pilgrimage, I am sure many readers will find this work of great value.” From the foreword by HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA

Author : D. C. Ahir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788190821261
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhism in India written by D. C. Ahir and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mahesh Vikram Singh
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
ISBN 13 : 9788172112097
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India Rediscovered written by Mahesh Vikram Singh and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India Rediscovered in not just another title. India always needed to be rediscovered for the future making of the nation. It needed to be rediscovered in the context of interplay of its inherent spirit and changing material conditions althrough the past. It needed to be rediscovered in the cycles of rise and fall, revival and rejuvenation of all its civilizational and cultural ethos. It needed to be rediscovered for a better understanding of the causes of a number of misgivings and misconceptions with a view to find a more positive and rational path of its rebuilding and finally it needed to be rediscovered to listen to the call of the age. Salient Features: • The book falls in the line of some exceptional writings on India’s past to its present in a surveying manner and style. • Analyses the direction of Indian history on the basis of the inter-relationship of spirit and matter with regard to general will of the people. • Evaluates the progress of civilization and culture, state and society in India in terms of maximum and total efficiency during different eras of Indian history which is altogether a new vision of looking at India’s past. • Very well studded with references and an exhaustive theme-index at the end for the benefit of readers and researchers with a view to open new vistas of research in the field and hence a big contribution to the knowledge.

Author : Thomas William Rhys Davids
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120804241
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhist India written by Thomas William Rhys Davids and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1971 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1903. In this volume Rhys, the celebrated Buddhist scholar, attempts to describe ancient India, during the period of Buddhist ascendancy, from the point of view, not so much of the brahmin, as of the rajput. The two points of view naturally differ very much. Priest and noble in India have always worked very well together so long as the question at issue did not touch their own rival claims as against one another. When it did-and it did so especially during the period referred to-the harmony, as will be evident from the following pages, was not so great.

Author : Garima Kaushik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317329392
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia written by Garima Kaushik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the socio-cultural foundations of Buddhism. Moving away from dominant discourses that discuss women as a single monolithic, homogenous category—thus rendering them invisible within the broader religious discourse—this monograph examines their sustained role in the larger context of South Asian Buddhism and reaffirms their agency. It highlights the multiple roles played by women as patrons, practitioners, lay and monastic members, etc. within Buddhism. The volume also investigates the individual experiences of the members, and their equations and relationships at different levels—with the Samgha at large, with their own respective Bhikşu or Bhikşunī Sangha, with the laity, and with members of the same gender (both lay and monastic). It rereads, reconfigures and reassesses historical data in order to arrive at a new understanding of Buddhism and the social matrix within which it developed and flourished. Bringing together archaeological, epigraphic, art historical, literary as well as ethnographic data, this volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars of Buddhism, gender studies, ancient Indian history, religion, and South Asian studies.

Author : Thomas William Rhys Davids
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhist India written by Thomas William Rhys Davids and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120811140
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India written by Johannes Bronkhorst and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book elucidates the early Buddhist teachings and beliefs concerning meditaions and its role in the process to liberation. In a number of cases, the Buddhist canonical texts reject practices which they accept elsewhere. When these practices-sometimes rejected, sometimes accepted-correspond to what is known about non-Buddhist practices, the conculsion in then proposed that they are non-Buddhist practices which have somehow found their way into the Buddhist texts. A similar procedure enables one to choose between conflicting beliefs.

Author : T W Rhys (Thomas William Rh Davids
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020520785
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhist India / Y T.W. Rhys Davids written by T W Rhys (Thomas William Rh Davids and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic work on Buddhism and Indian history, T. W. Rhys Davids provides readers with a detailed look at the origins and development of Buddhist thought and philosophy in India. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Indian history, religion, and culture, Davids takes readers on a journey through the centuries as he explores the key figures and ideas that shaped the Buddhist tradition. With its insightful analysis and engaging writing style, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in Buddhism or Indian history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Toni Huber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226356507
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Holy Land Reborn written by Toni Huber and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dalai Lama has said that Tibetans consider themselves “the child of Indian civilization” and that India is the “holy land” from whose sources the Tibetans have built their own civilization. What explains this powerful allegiance to India? In The Holy Land Reborn ̧ Toni Huber investigates how Tibetans have maintained a ritual relationship to India, particularly by way of pilgrimage, and what it means for them to consider India as their holy land. Focusing on the Tibetan creation and recreation of India as a destination, a landscape, and a kind of other, in both real and idealized terms, Huber explores how Tibetans have used the idea of India as a religious territory and a sacred geography in the development of their own religion and society. In a timely closing chapter, Huber also takes up the meaning of India for the Tibetans who live in exile in their Buddhist holy land. A major contribution to the study of Buddhism, The Holy Land Reborn describes changes in Tibetan constructs of India over the centuries, ultimately challenging largely static views of the sacred geography of Buddhism in India.

Author : A. K. Warder
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120808185
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Buddhism written by A. K. Warder and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the Buddhism of India on the basis of the comparison of all the available original sources in various languages. It falls into three approximately equal parts. The first is a reconstruction of the original Buddhism presupposed by the traditions of the different schools known to us. It uses primarily the established methods of textual criticism, drawing out of the oldest extant texts of the different schools their common kernel. This kernel of doctrine is presumably common Buddhism of the period before the great schisms of the fourth and third centuries BC. It may be substantially the Buddhism of the Buddha himself, though this cannot be proved: at any rate, it is a Buddhism presupposed by the schools as existing about a hundred years after the Parinirvana of the Buddha, and there is no evidence to suggest that it was formulated by anyone other than the Buddha and his immediate followers. The second part traces the development of the 'Eighteen Schools' of early Buddhism, showing how they elaborated their doctrines out of the common kernel. Here we can see to what extent the Sthaviravada, or 'Theravada' of the Pali tradition, among others, added to or modified the original doctrine. The third part describes the Mahayana movement and the Mantrayana, the way of the bodhisattva and the way of ritual. The relationship of the Mahayana to the early schools is traced in detail, with its probable affiliation to one of them, the Purva Saila, as suggested by the consensus of the evidence. Particular attention is paid in this book to the social teaching of Buddhism, the part which relates to the 'world' rather than to nirvana and which has been generally neglected in modern writings of Buddhism.