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On Buddhist monastic life in ancient India.
Author : Sukumar Dutt
Publisher : Low Price Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9788188629442
On Buddhist monastic life in ancient India.
Author : Sukumar Dutt
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Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9788121501200
Description: 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
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,60 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Buddhist monasticism and religious orders
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Buddhism
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Author : University of Calcutta. Department of Letters
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Buddha (The concept)
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Contains contributions on various subjects, notably India, Buddhism, ancient chronology, etc.
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Page : 830 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 1925
Category : India
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Page : 542 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 1926
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Author : Mohan Wijeyaratna
Publisher : Buddhist Publication Society
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9552403456
The Community of Buddhist Nuns is one of the oldest women’s organizations in human history. In this book Dr. Wijayaratna explains how this community was started by the Buddha in the 5th century BCE, and how it developed gradually. To show the motivation and the way of life of these ordained women, the author uses the oldest texts of the Pali canon. Several chapters of this book discuss the position of Buddhist nuns in the field of the three famous monastic themes: poverty, chastity and obedience. This book describes in detail the structure of the organization of their Community, their day-to-day practices, and the virtues and mental discipline through which they strove to attain the sublime goal, Nibbana.
Author : Michael John Walsh
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 24,2 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 : Charles S. Prebish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136108181
The most important research tool for vinaya studies. Covers both primary and secondary sources in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese as well as modern sources in English, French, German and Japanese.