The Eastern Buddhist

The Eastern Buddhist
Title The Eastern Buddhist PDF eBook
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Pages 66
Release 1921
Genre Mahayana Buddhism
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Smile of the Buddha

Smile of the Buddha
Title Smile of the Buddha PDF eBook
Author Jacquelynn Baas
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 312
Release 2005
Genre Art
ISBN 0520242084

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"The relations between eastern and western cultures have long been a neglected topic, and this careful and intelligent look at a small but significant part of those relations is most welcome."--Thomas McEvilley, author of The Shape of Ancient Thought "How wonderful that Jacquelynn Baas has seen the light of the Buddha's smile shining from faraway Asia into the realm of the art of modern times in what we think of as the West! . . . Her work reveals how some of our most influential artists explored and expressed the sophisticated perceptions and joyful energy emanating from the realm of Buddhist Asia."--Robert A. F. Thurman "As a Buddhist scholar and artist I welcome this thoughtful and richly detailed study of how many aspects of Buddhism have stimulated, invigorated, and enriched Western arts over the past 150 years."--Stephen Addiss, author of The Art of Zen "A crucial contribution to modern art studies, this high-spirited text surveys Western artists awakened by the wisdom of the East, from Monet and Duchamp to O'Keeffe to Martin. It is a thoughtful book about thoughtful artists, their values and their visions, with a lot to offer general readers and specialists alike."--Charles Stuckey, Associate Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Buddhist Temples of Kyōto and Kamakura

Buddhist Temples of Kyōto and Kamakura
Title Buddhist Temples of Kyōto and Kamakura PDF eBook
Author Beatrice Lane Suzuki
Publisher Equinox Publishing (UK)
Pages 0
Release 2013
Genre Religion
ISBN 9781845539214

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Beatrice Lane Suzuki (1878-1939) was an extremely well informed and sensitive expositor of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Buddhist Temples of Kyōto and Kamakura brings together some of her writings from The Eastern Buddhist.

Buddhist Biology

Buddhist Biology
Title Buddhist Biology PDF eBook
Author David P. Barash
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 217
Release 2014
Genre Religion
ISBN 0199985561

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Compares teachings of Buddhism with principles of modern biology, revealing many significant points of compatibility.

The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion

The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion
Title The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion PDF eBook
Author Gert Woerner
Publisher Shambhala Publications
Pages 489
Release 1994-05-10
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0877739803

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With more than four thousand entries and over one hundred illustrations, this encyclopedia offers a complete survey of the four major religious traditions of Asia. It is designed not only for students and scholars but also to help general readers find their way through the thicket of unfamiliar words and concepts that are often encountered today in various fields such as the health professions, psychotherapy, the sciences, and the media. Among the subjects covered are: • Important terms such as chakra, karma, koan, nirvana, tantra, Tao, and yin-yang • The lives and teachings of mystics, philosophers, and masters of meditation • Basic texts and scriptures • Sects and schools of thought • Mythological figures and events In addition, pronunciation tables, a comprehensive bibliography, and a Ch'an/Zen Lineage Chart are provided.

Shinra Myōjin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian “Mediterranean”

Shinra Myōjin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian “Mediterranean”
Title Shinra Myōjin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian “Mediterranean” PDF eBook
Author Sujung Kim
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 201
Release 2019-11-30
Genre Religion
ISBN 0824881737

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This ambitious work offers a transnational account of the deity Shinra Myōjin, the “god of Silla” worshipped in medieval Japanese Buddhism from the eleventh to sixteenth centuries. Sujung Kim challenges the long-held understanding of Shinra Myōjin as a protective deity of the Tendai Jimon school, showing how its worship emerged and developed in the complex networks of the East Asian “Mediterranean”—a “quality” rather than a physical space defined by Kim as the primary conduit for cross-cultural influence in a region that includes the Yellow Sea, the Sea of Japan (East Sea), the East China Sea, and neighboring coastal areas. While focusing on the transcultural worship of the deity, Kim engages the different maritime arrangements in which Shinra Myōjin circulated: first, the network of Korean immigrants, Chinese merchants, and Japanese Buddhist monks in China’s Shandong peninsula and Japan’s Ōmi Province; and second, that of gods found in the East Asian Mediterranean. Both of these networks became nodal points of exchange of both goods and gods. Kim’s examination of temple chronicles, literary writings, and iconography reveals Shinra Myōjin’s evolution from a seafaring god to a multifaceted one whose roles included the god of pestilence and of poetry, the insurer of painless childbirth, and the protector of performing arts. Shinra Myōjin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian “Mediterranean” is not only the first monograph in any language on the Tendai Jimon school in Japanese Buddhism, but also the first book-length study in English to examine Korean connections in medieval Japanese religion. Unlike other recent studies on individual Buddhist deities, it foregrounds the need to approach them within a broader East Asian context. By shifting the paradigm from a land-centered vision to a sea-centered one, the work underlines the importance of a transcultural and interdisciplinary approach to the study of Buddhist deities.

Wisdom of The East - Buddhist Psalms

Wisdom of The East - Buddhist Psalms
Title Wisdom of The East - Buddhist Psalms PDF eBook
Author Shinran Shonin
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 75
Release
Genre
ISBN 1291103031

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