Buddhist Heritage of Northern Nepal
Author : Surendra Man Bajracharya
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Buddhism and culture
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Author : Surendra Man Bajracharya
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Buddhism and culture
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Author : Niels Gutschow
Publisher : Dom Publishers
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
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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.
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Buddhism
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Contributed articles.
Author : G K Lama
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 2023-08-05
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ISBN : 9789383221509
Society of Nepal is also discussed in a chapter and finally the contribution of Nepali peoples to the Indian territory is also described with well supported facts.Hope, this book will get love from not only the Nepali people but also by the nature lovers, anthropologists, art-historians and indologists.
Author : Naresh Man Bajracharya
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
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Author : Alice Getty
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Buddha (The concept)
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Author : Rajendra Ram
Publisher : Patna : Janabharati Prakashana ; Delhi : sole distributors Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Buddhism
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Author : Karuṇākara Vaidya
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Buddhism
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Author : Todd T. Lewis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 2000-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791492435
This book demonstrates how popular ritual texts and story narratives have shaped the religious life and culture of the only surviving South Asian Mahayana Buddhist society, the Newars of Kathmandu. It begins with an account of the Newar Buddhist community's history and its place within the religious environment of Nepal and proceeds to build around five popular translations, several of which were known across Asia: the Srngabheri Avadana, the Simhalasarthabahu Avadana, the Tara, the Mahakala Vratas, and the Pancaraksa. Lewis documents how the respective texts have been domesticated in Nepal's art and architecture, healing traditions, and rituals. He shows how they provide paradigmatic case studies that transcend the Nepalese context, illustrating universal practices or issues in all Buddhist communities, such as gender relations and stupa veneration, the role of merchants, ethnicity, violence, devotions to celestial bodhisattvas by kings and women, and the role of mantra recitations and healing rituals in the lives of Buddhists.
Author : Ramesh Dhungel
Publisher :
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789937524131