Book Description
This volume is a detailed study of Rin-chen-bzan-po,the key figure in the Later Spread of Dharma after its persecution by Gla?-dar-ma in AD 901.
Author : Giuseppe Tucci
Publisher : South Asia Books
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788185179216
This volume is a detailed study of Rin-chen-bzan-po,the key figure in the Later Spread of Dharma after its persecution by Gla?-dar-ma in AD 901.
Author : Giuseppe Tucci
Publisher :
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 1988
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ISBN : 9788185179193
Author : Giuseppe Tucci
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9788185179193
Author : Giuseppe Tucci
Publisher :
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 18,46 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN : 9788185179193
Author : Giuseppe Tucci
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Page : 142 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Buddhism
ISBN :
Author : Giuseppe Tucci
Publisher :
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN : 9788185179193
Author : Giuseppe Tucci
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
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Category : Buddhism
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Author : Xiping Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9811679363
This book presents an extensive literary survey of the influence of ancient Chinese cultural classics around the globe, highlighting a mammoth research project involving over forty countries or regions and more than twenty languages. As the book reveals, ancient Chinese culture was introduced to East Asian countries or regions very early on; furthermore, after the late Ming Dynasty, Chinese “knowhow” and ideas increasingly made inroads into the West. In particular, the translation of and research on Chinese classics around the world have enabled Chinese culture to take root and blossom on an unprecedented scale. In addition to offering a valuable resource for readers interested in culture, the social sciences, and philosophy, the book blazes new trails for the study of ancient Chinese culture.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1222 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 2010-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004204016
This volume, the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars, provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era to the present.
Author : Bryan J. Cuevas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 2008-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199712379
In Travels in the Netherworld, Bryan J. Cuevas examines a fascinating but little-known genre of Tibetan narrative literature about the délok, ordinary men and women who claim to have died, traveled through hell, and then returned from the afterlife. These narratives enjoy audiences ranging from the most sophisticated monastic scholars to pious townsfolk, villagers, and nomads. Their accounts emphasize the universal Buddhist principles of impermanence and worldly suffering, the fluctuations of karma, and the feasibility of obtaining a favorable rebirth through virtue and merit. Providing a clear, detailed analysis of four vivid return-from-death tales, including the stories of a Tibetan housewife, a lama, a young noble woman, and a Buddhist monk, Cuevas argues that these narratives express ideas about death and the afterlife that held wide currency among all classes of faithful Buddhists in Tibet. Relying on a diversity of traditional Tibetan sources, Buddhist canonical scriptures, scholastic textbooks, ritual and meditation manuals, and medical treatises, in addition to the délok works themselves, Cuevas surveys a broad range of popular Tibetan Buddhist ideas about death and dying. He explores beliefs about the vulnerability of the soul and its journey beyond death, karmic retribution and the terrors of hell, the nature of demons and demonic possession, ghosts, and reanimated corpses. Cuevas argues that these extraordinary accounts exhibit flexibility between social and religious categories that are conventionally polarized and concludes that, contrary to the accepted wisdom, such rigid divisions as elite and folk, monastic and lay religion are not sufficiently representative of traditional Tibetan Buddhism on the ground. This study offers innovative perspectives on popular religion in Tibet and fills a gap in an important field of Tibetan literature.