Collected Papers on Buddhist Studies
Title | Collected Papers on Buddhist Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Padmanabh S. Jaini |
Publisher | Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Buddhism |
ISBN | 9788120817760 |
In this volume, a companion to the author`s Collected Papers on Jaina Studies, twenty-nine of his articles, encompassing some forty years of research on various facets of Buddhism, have been brought together for the first time. They cover a wide range of topics including comparative studies with Jainism, points of controversy within Abhidharma, the Bodhisattva career of Maitreya based on narratives from the Jatakas and Mahayana Sutras, and selections from Buddhist ritual texts.
Figments and Fragments of Mahayana Buddhism in India
Title | Figments and Fragments of Mahayana Buddhism in India PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Schopen |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 403 |
Release | 2005-08-31 |
Genre | 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.
Collected Papers
Title | Collected Papers PDF eBook |
Author | K. R. Norman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Indic literature |
ISBN |
Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks
Title | Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Schopen |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2021-05-25 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0824851226 |
The present volume provides an essential foundation for a social history of Indian Buddhist monasticism. Challenging the popular stereotype that represented the accumulation of merit as the domain of the layperson while monks concerned themselves with more sophisticated realms of doctrine and meditation, Professor Schopen problematizes many assumptions about the lay-monastic distinction by demonstrating that monks and nuns, both the scholastic elites and the less learned, participated actively in a wide range of ritual practices and institutions that have heretofore been judged 'popular,' from the accumulation and transfer of merit; to the care of deceased relatives; to serving as sponsors and donors, rather than always the recipients, of gifts; to (possibly) the coining of counterfeit currency. Taken together, the studies contained in this volume represent the basis for a new historiography of Buddhism, not only for their critique of many the idées reçues of Buddhist Studies but for the compelling connections they draw between apparently disparate details.
Collected Papers
Title | Collected Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Lambert Schmithausen |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | |
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Buddhist Studies
Title | Buddhist Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Denwood |
Publisher | Rl Innactive Titles |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
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Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks
Title | Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Schopen |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Religion |
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