Book Description
Drawing on textual and anthropological research, this book demonstrates how popular ritual texts and stories have shaped the religion and culture of the only surviving Mahayana Buddhist society, the Newars of Kathmandu.
Author : Todd T. Lewis
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2000-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791446119
Drawing on textual and anthropological research, this book demonstrates how popular ritual texts and stories have shaped the religion and culture of the only surviving Mahayana Buddhist society, the Newars of Kathmandu.
Author : Harischandra Lal Singh
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Buddhism
ISBN :
Author : Sarah LeVine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674040120
Rebuilding Buddhism describes in evocative detail the experiences and achievements of Nepalis who have adopted Theravada Buddhism. This form of Buddhism was introduced into Nepal from Burma and Sri Lanka in the 1930s, and its adherents have struggled for recognition and acceptance ever since. With its focus on the austere figure of the monk and the biography of the historical Buddha, and more recently with its emphasis on individualizing meditation and on gender equality, Theravada Buddhism contrasts sharply with the highly ritualized Tantric Buddhism traditionally practiced in the Kathmandu Valley. Based on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and historical reconstruction, the book provides a rich portrait of the different ways of being a Nepali Buddhist over the past seventy years. At the same time it explores the impact of the Theravada movement and what its gradual success has meant for Buddhism, for society, and for men and women in Nepal.
Author : Naresh Man Bajracharya
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Badrīratna Bajrācārya
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Buddhism
ISBN :
On the Mahayana/Vajrayana Buddhism of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.
Author : Mitra Rajendralala
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 25,50 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Buddha (The concept)
ISBN :
A catalog of the manuscripts presented by Brian Houghton Hodgson to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, preceded by an account of the donor, with lists of his works.
Author : Will Tuladhar-Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 113424195X
Will Tuladhar-Douglas sheds new light on an important branch of Mahayana Buddhism and establishes the existence, character and causes of a renaissance of Buddhism in the fifteenth century in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. He provides the basis for the historical study of Newar Buddhism as one distinct tradition among the many that comprise Indic Buddhism. Through a thorough study of the relevant texts in the classical Himalayan languages (Sanskrit, Newari, Tibetan and Nepali), the book puts forward a new thesis about how the Newars legitimated and reinvented their tradition by devising new concepts of canonicity, as such it will appeal to scholars of the history and philology of Buddhism.
Author : Niels Gutschow
Publisher : Dom Publishers
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category :
ISBN : 9783869227429
For more than two millennia Buddhism shaped the cultures of Central, South, Southeast, and East Asia. Each territory had its own peculiar way of developing representations of the Buddha, the Bodhisattvas, and a variety of guardian deities and saints. Of particular importance is the representation of the Buddha and his teachings in an iconic form in the shape of an impassable building. Called Stupa in Sanskrit, and Chörten in Tibetan, these structures not only characterize the urban space of the Newars in the Kathmandu Valley. They also mark the access to Tibetan villages in northern Nepal, line the trails across high passes, and stud topographically prominent places. By their thousands, they transform wilderness into a landscape that promises shelter, protection, and well-being. 584 maps, architectural drawings, and photographs, produced from 1970 to 2008, document the rich cultural heritage of the Tibetan and Tamang enclaves along the range of the high Himalaya.
Author : Will Tuladhar-Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1134241968
Will Tuladhar-Douglas sheds new light on an important branch of Mahayana Buddhism and establishes the existence, character and causes of a renaissance of Buddhism in the fifteenth century in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. He provides the basis for the historical study of Newar Buddhism as one distinct tradition among the many that comprise Indic Buddhism. Through a thorough study of the relevant texts in the classical Himalayan languages (Sanskrit, Newari, Tibetan and Nepali), the book puts forward a new thesis about how the Newars legitimated and reinvented their tradition by devising new concepts of canonicity, as such it will appeal to scholars of the history and philology of Buddhism.
Author : Jinah Kim
Publisher : Brill Hotei
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9789004416413
Dharma and Puṇya explores the centrality of ritual practices and the agency of people in creating and amplifying the efficacy of Buddhist art. It presents paintings, illuminated texts, statues, and ritual implements from the Newar tradition in the Kathmandu Valley.