Buddhist Tales

Author : Alexandra Kohn
Publisher : Barefoot Books
ISBN 13 : 1782856684
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barefoot Book of Buddhist Tales written by Alexandra Kohn and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet a generous merchant's son, an outlaw-turned-monk and more in 13 thought-provoking stories from India, China, Japan and Tibet. Gentle illustrations and an insightful foreword provide context to help young readers grasp the warmth, wisdom and compassion of Buddhist tradition.

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231146582
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wondrous Brutal Fictions written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As works of Buddhist fiction, these texts relate the histories and miracles of particular buddhas, bodhisattvas, and local deities. Many of their protagonists have become recognizable cultural icons through their representation in later works of Japanese drama, fiction, and film. The collection includes such sekkyo "sermon-ballad" classics as Sansho Dayu, Karukaya, and Oguri, as well as the "old joruri" plays Goo-no-hime and Amida's Riven Breast. R. Keller Kimbrough provides a critical introduction to each vibrant performance genre, emphasizing the role of seventeenth-century publishing.

Author : Sherab Chodzin
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613707367
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of the Crows and Other Buddhist Tales written by Sherab Chodzin and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from short Zen parables to longer folktales with dragons, goddesses, and talking animals, these tales explore Buddhist themes of compassion, humor, enlightenment, and life after death. This beautifully illustrated book is perfect for anyone interested in Buddhist ideas--and anyone who enjoys a good story. Full color.

Author : Sachi Schmidt-Hori
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824888936
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Idolized Boys written by Sachi Schmidt-Hori and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval Japan (14th–16th centuries), it was customary for elite families to entrust their young sons to the care of renowned Buddhist priests from whom they received a premier education in Buddhist scriptures, poetry, music, and dance. When the boys reached adolescence, some underwent coming-of-age rites, others entered the priesthood, and several extended their education, becoming chigo, or Buddhist acolytes. Chigo served their masters as personal attendants and as sexual partners. During religious ceremonies—adorned in colorful robes, their faces made up and hair styled in long ponytails—they entertained local donors and pilgrims with music and dance. Stories of acolytes (chigo monogatari) from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries form the basis of the present volume, an original and detailed literary analysis of six tales coupled with a thorough examination of the sociopolitical, religious, and cultural matrices that produced these texts. Sachi Schmidt-Hori begins by delineating various dimensions of chigo (the chigo “title,” personal names, gender, sexuality, class, politics, and religiosity) to show the complexity of this cultural construct—the chigo as a triply liminal figure who is neither male nor female, child nor adult, human nor deity. A modern reception history of chigo monogatari follows, revealing, not surprisingly, that the tales have often been interpreted through cultural paradigms rooted in historical moments and worldviews far removed from the original. From the 1950s to 1980s, research on chigo was hindered by widespread homophobic prejudice. More recently, aversion to the age gap in historical master-acolyte relations has prevented scholars from analyzing the religious and political messages underlying the genre. Schmidt-Hori’s work calls for a shift in the hermeneutic strategies applied to chigo and chigo monogatari and puts forth both a nuanced historicization of social constructs such as gender, sexuality, age, and agency, and a mode of reading propelled by curiosity and introspection.

Author : Ken and Visakha Kawasaki
Publisher : Pariyatti Publishing
ISBN 13 : 168172104X
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jataka Tales of the Buddha (Volume I) written by Ken and Visakha Kawasaki and published by Pariyatti Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas Western intellectuals seek the essence of Buddhism in its doctrines and meditation practices, the traditional Buddhists of Asia absorb the ideas and values of their spiritual heritage through its rich narrative literature about the Buddha and his disciples. The most popular collection of Buddhist stories is, without doubt, the Jatakas. These are the stories of the Buddha's past births, relating his experiences as he passed from life to life on the way to becoming a Buddha. At times he takes the form of a bird, at times he is born as a hare, a monkey, a prince, a merchant, or an ascetic, but in each case he uses the challenges he meets to grow in generosity, virtue, patience, wisdom, and compassion.This anthology of Jatakas, ably told by Ken and Visakha Kawasaki, remains faithful to the original yet presents the stories in clear and simple language. It thereby makes the Jatakas accessible even to young readers and to those for whom English is not their first language.

Author : Bhikshu Gyomyo Nakamura
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 8120790707
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BUDDHIST TALES FOR THE SOUL written by Bhikshu Gyomyo Nakamura and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist Tales for the Soul is a collection of stories inspired from the life of the author blending real-life experiences with touches of fantasy. The stories are set in different time frames and are from various parts of the world like India, Japan and Tibet. It offers glimpses of everyday life, mingling the modern with the ancient, the material with the spiritual and the human with the divine. In this book animals enjoy a place of honour along with the humans as equally capable of attaining enlightenment. Themes such as karma, dharma, compassion, non-violence, reincarnation and moderation which are central to Buddhism are rendered in a simple and amusing manner that would appeal to people of all ages looking for illuminating stories set in everyday life.

Author : Yeshi Dorjee
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824865111
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Three Boys written by Yeshi Dorjee and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A virtuous young woman journeys to the Land of the Dead to retrieve the still-beating heart of a king; a wily corpse-monster tricks his young captor into setting him free; a king falls under a curse that turns him into a cannibal; a shepherd who understands the speech of animals saves a princess from certain death. These are just a few of the wondrous tales that await readers of this collection of Tibetan Buddhist folktales. Fifteen stories are told for modern readers in a vivid, accessible style that reflects a centuries-old tradition of storytelling in the monasteries and marketplaces of Tibet. As a child growing up in a Buddhist monastery, Yeshi Dorjee would often coax the elderly lamas into telling him folktales. By turns thrilling, mysterious, clever, and often hilariously funny, the stories he narrates here also teach important lessons about mindfulness, compassion, and other key Buddhist principles. They will delight readers of all ages, scholars and students, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.

Author : Edward Byles Cowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jātaka written by Edward Byles Cowell and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Viggo Fausbøll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhist Birth Stories : Or, Jātaka Tales written by Viggo Fausbøll and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Thomas Francis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jātaka Tales written by Henry Thomas Francis and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: