Book Description
This comprehensive and detailed survey of the first six centuries of Indian Buddhism sums up the results of a lifetime of research and reflection by one of Japan's most renowned scholars of Buddhism.
Author : Akira Hirakawa
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9788120809550
This comprehensive and detailed survey of the first six centuries of Indian Buddhism sums up the results of a lifetime of research and reflection by one of Japan's most renowned scholars of Buddhism.
Author : Douglas Osto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134018797
This book examines the concepts of power, wealth and women in the important Mahayana Buddhist scripture known as the Gandavyuha-sutra, and relates these to the text’s social context in ancient Indian during the Buddhist Middle Period (0–500 CE). Employing contemporary textual theory, worldview analysis and structural narrative theory, the author puts forward a new approach to the study of Mahayana Buddhist sources, the ‘systems approach’, by which literature is viewed as embedded in a social system. Consequently, he analyses the Gandavyuha in the contexts of reality, society and the individual, and applies these notions to the key themes of power, wealth and women. The study reveals that the spiritual hierarchy represented within the Gandavyuha replicates the political hierarchies in India during Buddhism’s Middle Period, that the role of wealth mirrors its significance as a sign of spiritual status in Indian Buddhist society, and that the substantial number of female spiritual guides in the narrative reflects the importance of royal women patrons of Indian Buddhism at the time. This book will appeal to higher-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars of religious studies, Buddhist studies, Asian studies, South Asian studies and Indology.
Author : Joseph Walser
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2005-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0231506236
Joseph Walser provides the first examination of Nagarjuna's life and writings in the context of the religious and monastic debates of the second century CE. Walser explores how Nagarjuna secured the canonical authority of Mahayana teachings and considers his use of rhetoric to ensure the transmission of his writings by Buddhist monks. Drawing on close textual analysis of Nagarjuna's writings and other Buddhist and non-Buddhist sources, Walser offers an original contribution to the understanding of Nagarjuna and the early history of Buddhism.
Author : Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Gaṇḍavyūha
ISBN :
Author : Gregory Schopen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824825485
In these articles, Gregory Schopen once again displays the erudition and originality that have contributed to a major shift in the way that Indian Buddhism is perceived, understood, and studied.
Author : Gregory Schopen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 2005-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0824874625
In these articles, Gregory Schopen once again displays the erudition and originality that have contributed to a major shift in the way that Indian Buddhism is perceived, understood, and studied.
Author : Ian Charles Harris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004094482
In the past European scholars have tended to treat both Madhyamaka and Yog?c?ra as separate and fundamentally opposed trends in Mah?y?na Buddhist thought. Drawing heavily on early textual evidence this work questions the validity of such a "Mah?y?na schools" hypothesis. By down-playing the late commentorial traditions, the author attempts a general reappraisal of the epistemological and ontological writings of Nagarjuna, Asanga and Vasubandhu. He concludes that the overlap in all areas of doctrine is significant, but particularly with respect to the teachings on the levels of truth, the enlightened and unenlightened states, the status of language and the nature of reality. It is hoped that such investigations may provide the basis for a new theory on the proliferation of Indian Mah?y?na Buddhism as an organic process of assimilation to new audiences, and specific contemporary problems, rather than in the more schismatic manner favoured by past researchers.
Author : Edward Conze
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780472061297
Discusses Indian Buddhist philosophy in three phases of its development
Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2008-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1134250576
Originating in India, Mahayana Buddhism spread across Asia, becoming the prevalent form of Buddhism in Tibet and East Asia. Over the last twenty-five years Western interest in Mahayana has increased considerably, reflected both in the quantity of scholarly material produced and in the attraction of Westerners towards Tibetan Buddhism and Zen. Paul Williams’ Mahayana Buddhism is widely regarded as the standard introduction to the field, used internationally for teaching and research and has been translated into several European and Asian languages. This new edition has been fully revised throughout in the light of the wealth of new studies and focuses on the religion’s diversity and richness. It includes much more material on China and Japan, with appropriate reference to Nepal, and for students who wish to carry their study further there is a much-expanded bibliography and extensive footnotes and cross-referencing. Everyone studying this important tradition will find Williams’ book the ideal companion to their studies.
Author : Anthony Kennedy Warder
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2000
Category :
ISBN : 9788120835733