Four Gandhari Samyuktagama Sutras

Author : Andrew Glass
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295987729
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Gāndhārī Saṃyuktāgama Sutras written by Andrew Glass and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Gandhari Samyuktagama Sutras continues the study of Gandharan Buddhist texts and is the first investigation of a scroll from the Senior Collection of Kharosthi manuscripts. Senior scroll number 5, one of the best preserved of all Kharosthi manuscripts, contains four short sutras that give a first-hand account of meditation practice in Gandhara in the middle of the second century A.D. Andrew Glass is the lead researcher on the Gandhari Dictionary Project and a member of the British Library/University of Washington early Buddhist Manuscripts Project (www.ebmp.org).

Author : Sam van Schaik
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300240511
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Zen written by Sam van Schaik and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging introduction to Zen Buddhism, featuring a new English translation of one of the earliest Zen texts Leading Buddhist scholar Sam van Schaik explores the history and essence of Zen, based on a new translation of one of the earliest surviving collections of teachings by Zen masters. These teachings, titled The Masters and Students of the Lanka, were discovered in a sealed cave on the old Silk Road, in modern Gansu, China, in the early twentieth century. All more than a thousand years old, the manuscripts have sometimes been called the Buddhist Dead Sea Scrolls, and their translation has opened a new window onto the history of Buddhism. Both accessible and illuminating, this book explores the continuities between the ways in which Zen was practiced in ancient times, and how it is practiced today in East Asian countries such as Japan, China, Korea, and Vietnam, as well as in the emerging Western Zen tradition.

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Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humanities written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Allon
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295981857
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Gāndhārī Ekottarikāgama-type Sūtras written by Mark Allon and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras continues the Gandharan Buddhist Texts studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection. It describes the text found on two fragments which constitute the lower part of a scroll and consists of the remnants of three sutras. All three sutras are relatively short and have an association with the number four, which suggests that they are from a Gandhar- Ekottarikagama, a collection of short discourses grouped according to numerical principles and one of the major collections of writings in the Buddhist canon. The first sutra records a discussion in which a brahman asks the Buddha four questions. The second su-tra, like the third, depicts the Buddha preaching to monks. The structure of this sutra is based on the four postures: walking, standing, sitting, and lying down. The Buddha's discourse in the third sutra concerns the four efforts (or abandonings). The book describes the condition of the scroll and its reconstruction; examines in detail the literary and textual background of the sutras, comparing them with other extant versions and parallels in other languages; and presents a transcription of the extant text, a reconstruction, and an English translation. It includes chapters on the paleography, orthography, phonology, and morphology of the text, and offers a detailed analytic commentary. For more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web site at http: //www.ebmp.org/

Author : Mark Allon
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ISBN 13 : 9780295994437
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras written by Mark Allon and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras" continues the Gandharan Buddhist Texts studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection. It describes the text found on two fragments which constitute the lower part of a scroll and consists of the remnants of three sutras. All three sutras are relatively short and have an association with the number four, which suggests that they are from a Gandhar- Ekottarikagama, a collection of short discourses grouped according to numerical principles and one of the major collections of writings in the Buddhist canon. The first sutra records a discussion in which a brahman asks the Buddha four questions. The second su-tra, like the third, depicts the Buddha preaching to monks. The structure of this sutra is based on the four postures: walking, standing, sitting, and lying down. The Buddha's discourse in the third sutra concerns the four efforts (or abandonings). The book describes the condition of the scroll and its reconstruction; examines in detail the literary and textual background of the sutras, comparing them with other extant versions and parallels in other languages; and presents a transcription of the extant text, a reconstruction, and an English translation. It includes chapters on the paleography, orthography, phonology, and morphology of the text, and offers a detailed analytic commentary. For more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web site at http: //www.ebmp.org/

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Total Pages : 920 pages
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Download or read book Bibliographic Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Brough
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book The Gāndhārī Dharmapada written by John Brough and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2000-12-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous brich-bark manuscript in the Kharosthi script, which contains a recension of the Dharmapada in a Prakrit dialect, has long been familiar to students of early Buddhist literature under the name of `Ms. Dutreuil de Rhins`. The manuscript, written in the first or second century A.D., is generally considered to be the oldest surviving manuscript of an Indian text. It was discovered near Khotan in Central Asia in 1892, and reached Europe in two parts, one of which went to Russia and the other to France. In 1897 S. Oldenburg published one leaf of the Russian portion; and in 1898 E. Senart edited the French material in the Journal Asiatiqque, together with facsimiles of the larger leaves, but not of the fragments. Now, almost seventy years after the discovery of the manuscript, it is possible for the first time to place before scholars an edition of the whole of the extant material, together with complete facsimiles.

Author : Richard Salomon
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295980355
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gāndhārī Version of the Rhinoceros Sūtra written by Richard Salomon and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launches the series of text editions and studies of the birth bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection, dating from about the first century AD. Most of the Gandhari fragments have yet to be identified, but the Rhinoceros Sutra is also known in Pali and Sanskrit versions. A 100-page introduction to the language and manuscript is followed by a transcribed text with translation and an annotated text with translation and commentary. Color photographs of the fragments themselves are also included. Ghandhari words are indexed, but not subjects. c. Book News Inc.

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Total Pages : 614 pages
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Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Salomon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
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Download or read book Two Gāndhārī Manuscripts of the Songs of Lake Anavatapta (Anavatapta-gāthā) written by Richard Salomon and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth volume in the Gandharan Buddhist Texts series (GBT) presents two fragmentary manuscripts of the poem "Songs of Lake Anavatapta." Previously known from versions in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese, the two recently discovered Gandhari-language versions confirm the poem's popularity in the ancient Buddhist world. The "Songs of Lake Anavatapta" consists of a series of narrations by the Buddha's foremost disciples (and finally by the Buddha himself) in which each reveals his own complex karmic history over many past lives and explains how, as a result of good deeds, he has come to be an enlightened disciple of the Buddha. An important theme is the complexity of karma, whereby not only the enlightened beings but even the Buddha himself suffer the effects of remnants of bad karma from evil deeds long-ago. For more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web site at http: //www.ebmp.org/