Three Worlds According to King Ruang
Author : Lithai (King of Sukhothai)
Publisher : Asian Humanities Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
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Author : Lithai (King of Sukhothai)
Publisher : Asian Humanities Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
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Page : 383 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Buddhism
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Page : 383 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Buddhist cosmology
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Author : Namphueng Padamalangula
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Buddhist cosmology
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Author : Kari Storstein Haug
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004210113
This book argues that an approach to Buddhist-Christian dialogue where biblical texts are analyzed by placing Christian and Buddhist perspectives side by side is a method which provides a good platform for further in-depth dialogue.
Author : Donald K. Swearer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438432526
An unparalleled portrait, Donald K. Swearer's Buddhist World of Southeast Asia has been a key source for all those interested in the Theravada homelands since the work's publication in 1995. Expanded and updated, the second edition offers this wide ranging account for readers at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Swearer shows Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia to be a dynamic, complex system of thought and practice embedded in the cultures, societies, and histories of Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka. The work focuses on three distinct yet interrelated aspects of this milieu. The first is the popular tradition of life models personified in myths and legends, rites of passage, festival celebrations, and ritual occasions. The second deals with Buddhism and the state, illustrating how King Asoka serves as the paradigmatic Buddhist monarch, discussing the relationship of cosmology and kingship, and detailing the rise of charismatic Buddhist political leaders in the postcolonial period. The third is the modern transformation of Buddhism: the changing roles of monks and laity, modern reform movements, the role of women, and Buddhism in the West.
Author : Chihiro Minato
Publisher : Fuyubi Nakamura
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 0731530675
Author : Charles D. Orzech
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271043288
Politics and Transcendent Wisdom presents a systematic theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between politics and religion in a variety of contexts. This book examines the formation of &"national protection&" Buddhism in China and translates the key text of this important movement. Showing that Buddhist notions of sovereignty were meant and were taken as more than mere metaphor, Orzech examines the profound link between Buddhist notions of transcendence and the deployment of political authority in East Asia. To this integration of philosophical tradition and political history is brought a new understanding of Buddhist cosmology. The contexts of Buddhism as state religion in fifth- and eighth-century China are examined in detail, through extended consideration of the Transcendent Wisdom Scripture for Humane Kings Who Wish to Protect Their States, the text that was the charter for Buddhist state cults in China, Korea, and Japan into the twentieth century. The text first appeared during the fifth century as Buddhists were struggling to understand how their &"foreign&" religion and the &"foreign&" rulers of north China might be adapted to Chinese religious and political culture. The Scripture for Humane Kings and the rites enjoined by it were one answer to these questions. Three centuries later, in the context of a fully sinified Buddhism, the T'ang dynasty Tantric master Pu-k'ung produced a new version of the text with new rites that served as the centerpiece of his vision of a Chinese Buddhist state modeled on esoteric lines. The final section of this volume presents for the first time a full, annotated translation of this important East Asian Buddhist text.
Author : Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3111386740
This volume aims to revitalize the exchange between sociological differentiation theory and the sociology of religion, which previously held center stage among the sociological classics. It brings together contributions from different disciplines, as well as various forms of regional and historical expertise, which are indispensable in forming a globally oriented sociological perspective today. Secularization is understood as a process of boundary demarcation, that is, as the enactment of semantic, practical, and institutional distinctions between religion and other spheres of activity and knowledge. These distinctions may emerge from within the religious field itself, or may be absorbed into the field having originally emerged elsewhere. They may even be directly imposed upon religion by external forces. The volume is therefore based on the premise that societal differentiation – and secularity as a specific expression of it – is a widespread structural feature that nonetheless takes on various forms, depending on its historical and cultural context. In order to make this diversity visible, the volume adopts a global comparative perspective, and examines historical distinctions and differentiations in the West and beyond. By examining different forms and modes of secularity in statu nascendi, the volume contributes to developing a better understanding of the diversity of secularities, even of those found in the present day, in terms of their historicity and their specific path dependencies. With this shift in perspective, this special volume initiates a global and historical turn in the theory of differentiation, as well as in the study of secularity.
Author : Anne Ruth Hansen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1501719203
Inspired by David Chandler's groundbreaking work on Cambodian attempts to find order in the aftermath of turmoil, these essays explore Cambodian history using a rich variety of sources that cast light on Khmer perceptions of violence, wildness, and order, examining the "forest" and cultured space, and the fraught "edge" where they meet.