Early Buddhist Monachism. (Thesis.).
Author : Sukumar Dutt
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Page : 196 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : Sukumar Dutt
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : Sukumar Dutt
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Buddhist monasticism and religious orders
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Author : Sukumar Dutt
Publisher : Sanctum Books
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2023-06-17
Category : Religion
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This treatise on the growth and early development of the Sangha (Buddhist Monastic Order) has often been referred to by scholars as the most complete and masterly treatment of the subject and, as such, invaluable to students of Buddhism. It has besides a peculiar importance in relation to the history of Indian culture, As the author says, "Indian culture is composite and the Buddhist contribution to it during the two millennia and a half that Buddhism was a living religion in India is so much a part and parcel of it that no true view of Indian culture is possible by ignoring the Buddhist contribution". This contribution was made through the organisation of Buddhist monkhood. The author has shown with a wealth of masterly scholarship how this organisation was established and developed in India. His chapters on the Patimokkha and Vinaya regulations of the monk community, the growth of coenobium among them, their internal polity of communal life, written from a scientific and historical point of view, are interestingly presented and will hold the general reader. First submitted anonymously as a prize-thesis to the University of Calcutta, it won the Griffith Memorial Prize in 1919. The verdict of the university examiners has been confirmed by Buddhistic scholars the world over who hailed it on its first publication as a work of exceptional originality and of great value in the study of Buddhism and Buddhist history.
Author : Sukumar Dutt
Publisher : Low Price Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9788188629442
On Buddhist monastic life in ancient India.
Author : Michael John Walsh
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0231148321
Buddhist monasteries in medieval China employed a variety of practices to ensure their ascendancy and survival. Most successful was the exchange of material goods for salvation, as in the donation of land, which allowed monks to spread their teachings throughout China. By investigating a variety of socioeconomic spaces produced and perpetuated by Chinese monasteries, Michael J. Walsh reveals the "sacred economies" that shaped early Buddhism and its relationship with consumption and salvation. Centering his study on Tiantong, a Buddhist monastery that has thrived for close to seventeen centuries in southeast China, Walsh follows three main topics: the spaces monks produced, within and around which a community could pursue a meaningful existence; the social and economic avenues through which monasteries provided diverse sacred resources and secured the primacy of Buddhist teachings within an agrarian culture; and the nature of "transactive" participation within monastic spaces, which later became a fundamental component of a broader Chinese religiosity. Unpacking these sacred economies and repositioning them within the history of religion in China, Walsh encourages a different approach to the study of Chinese religion, emphasizing the critical link between religious exchange and the production of material culture.
Author : Alex Wayman
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9788120806757
The present volume selcts twenty-four of Prof. Wayman`s published research papers around the topic of Buddhist Insight, and includes only strong, well developed papers consistent with the topic. Students of Buddhism and general Indian religion will find here a rich offering of genuine research with the best of sources and Wayman`s own thoughtful presentations and original organization of the information. The papers begin with Buddha as Savior among the latest and end with the earliest in this volume, Twenty one Praises of Tara.The Hindu and Buddhist Studies illustrate Wayman`s comparative approach by showing both sides in their strong independence, and sensitively revealing their relation.
Author : Huaiyu Chen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 12,34 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780820486246
Original Scholarly Monograph
Author : William M. Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1136787151
The two-volume Encyclopedia of Monasticism describes the monastic traditions of both Christianity and Buddhism with more than 600 entries on important monastic figures of all periods and places, surveys of countries and localities, and topical essays covering a wide range of issues (e.g., art, behavior, economics, liturgy, politics, theology, and scholarship). Coverage encompasses not only geography and history worldwide but also the contemporary dilemmas of monastic life. Recent upheavals in certain countries are highlighted (Korea, Russia, Sri Lanka, etc.). Topical essays subtitled Christian Perspectives and Buddhist Perspectives explore in imaginative fashion comparisons and contrasts between Christian and Buddhist monasticism. Encyclopedia of Monasticism also includes more than 500 color and black and white illustrations covering all aspects of monastic life, art, and architecture.
Author : James Egge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136859225
Demonstrates that Buddhists appropriated the practice, vocabulary, and ideology of sacrifice from Vedic religion, and discusses the relationship of this sacrificial discourse to ideas of karma in the Pali canon and in early Buddhism.
Author : John Ross Carter
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791414132
Carter unfolds the cumulative traditions of Theravāda Buddhism by showing how one "looks at the world through Buddhist eyes." Presenting evidence from the Buddhist heritage in Sri Lanka, he develops a disciplined, inclusive approach to understanding notions of ethical living and "faith," or how individuals live life religiously. The author examines Buddhism as a worldview, reviewing the process of its origins and the development of its important concepts such as the pursuit of dhamma by Buddhists; the "Four Noble Truths;" the notion of refuge and the process of transcending; the role of the Buddhist monk (bhikkhu); and the role of music in ritual chant and song.