Book Description
The Book Analyses The Social And Cultural Transformation Of The People Of Asia, Particularly In Sri Lanka, China And Tibet Brought About By Buddhist Monks, Missionaries And Royal Personages In A Matter Of Centuries.
Author : Bhupender Heera
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Asia
ISBN :
The Book Analyses The Social And Cultural Transformation Of The People Of Asia, Particularly In Sri Lanka, China And Tibet Brought About By Buddhist Monks, Missionaries And Royal Personages In A Matter Of Centuries.
Author : Amitav Acharya
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801466342
Developing a framework to study "what makes a region," Amitav Acharya investigates the origins and evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism and international relations. He views the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) "from the bottom up" as not only a U.S.-inspired ally in the Cold War struggle against communism but also an organization that reflects indigenous traditions. Although Acharya deploys the notion of "imagined community" to examine the changes, especially since the Cold War, in the significance of ASEAN dealings for a regional identity, he insists that "imagination" is itself not a neutral but rather a culturally variable concept. The regional imagination in Southeast Asia imagines a community of nations different from NAFTA or NATO, the OAU, or the European Union. In this new edition of a book first published as The Quest for Identity in 2000, Acharya updates developments in the region through the first decade of the new century: the aftermath of the financial crisis of 1997, security affairs after September 2001, the long-term impact of the 2004 tsunami, and the substantial changes wrought by the rise of China as a regional and global actor. Acharya argues in this important book for the crucial importance of regionalism in a different part of the world.
Author : John Kieschnick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 2003-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691096766
Buddhism had a profound effect not only on Chinese philosophy and ritual, but also on the material culture of China. Examining the impact of books, bridges, sugar, tea and the chair, amongst other things, this text looks at how attitudes to such novelties affected the history of Chinese Buddhism.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004232001
Asian religious traditions have always been deeply concerned with "sins" and what to do about them. As the essays in this volume illustrate, what Buddhists in Tibet, India, China or Japan, what Jains, Daoists, Hindus or Sikhs considered to be a "sin" was neither one thing, nor exactly what the Abrahamic traditions meant by the term. "Sins"could be both undesireable behavior and unacceptable thoughts. In different contexts, at different times and places, a sin might be a ritual infraction or a violation of a rule of law; it could be a moral failing or a wrong belief. However defined, sins were considered so grave a hindrance to spiritual perfection, so profound a threat to the social order, that the search for their remedies through rituals of expiation, pilgrimage, confession, recitation of spells, or philosophical reflection, was one of the central quests of the religions studied here.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9047443535
This volume marks an important milestone in the growing literature on North American Buddhists—the first multi-author collection of social scientific scholarship on the topic. Chapters examine the current state of research and key aspects of Buddhist life and experience in social context, including group identity and status, religious practices, organizational structures, generational dynamics, relations with non-Buddhist groups and the larger society, and migratory and adaptive processes. Case studies feature Southeast Asian, Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean, meditation-oriented, and socially engaged Buddhists. For social scientists, this volume provides a convenient overview of scholarship heretofore available only piecemeal. All readers will discover how social scientific perspectives and approaches helpfully inform the study of North American Buddhists.
Author : Ian Christopher Harris
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
"It has become customary for Westerners to view Buddhism as an otherworldly and introspective religion. By examining the important issues of left-right divisions in the monastic order, the rise of organized lay movements and Buddhist social activism, as well as explicitly Buddhist-inspired political activity, this volume seeks to demonstrate that the emphasis on meditation and mental training is only one strand in this richly complex world-historical tradition."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Peter Frankopan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1101946334
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. "A rare book that makes you question your assumptions about the world.” —The Wall Street Journal From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent years. Frankopan teaches us that to understand what is at stake for the cities and nations built on these intricate trade routes, we must first understand their astounding pasts. Frankopan realigns our understanding of the world, pointing us eastward. It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. From the rise and fall of empires to the spread of Buddhism and the advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to the great wars of the twentieth century—this book shows how the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East. Also available: The New Silk Roads, a timely exploration of the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now—as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East.
Author : Rupert Gethin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 1998-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0192892231
In this introduction to the foundations of Buddhism, Rupert Gethin concentrates on the ideas and practices which constitute the common heritage of the different traditions of Buddhism (Thervada, Tibetan and Eastern) which exist in the world today.
Author : Donald K. Swearer
Publisher : Anima Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Jacques Gernet
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231114110
Translated and revised by respected scholar of Chinese religions Franciscus Verellen, who has worked closely with Gernet, this edition includes new references, an extensive, up-to-date bibliography, and a comprehensive index.