Book of the Discipline: Vinaya Pitaka
Title | Book of the Discipline: Vinaya Pitaka PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Buddhism |
ISBN |
The Tipitaka and Buddhism
Title | The Tipitaka and Buddhism PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Ganeri |
Publisher | Black Rabbit Books |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781583402467 |
A discussion of Buddhism and some of its sacred texts.
Receptacle of the Sacred
Title | Receptacle of the Sacred PDF eBook |
Author | Jinah Kim |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2013-04-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520273869 |
In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacred explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book “manuscript” should be understood as a form of sacred space: a temple in microcosm, not only imbued with divine presence but also layered with the memories of many generations of users. Jinah Kim argues that illustrating a manuscript with Buddhist imagery not only empowered it as a three-dimensional sacred object, but also made it a suitable tool for the spiritual transformation of medieval Indian practitioners. Through a detailed historical analysis of Sanskrit colophons on patronage, production, and use of illustrated manuscripts, she suggests that while Buddhism’s disappearance in eastern India was a slow and gradual process, the Buddhist book-cult played an important role in sustaining its identity. In addition, by examining the physical traces left by later Nepalese users and the contemporary ritual use of the book in Nepal, Kim shows how human agency was critical in perpetuating and intensifying the potency of a manuscript as a sacred object throughout time.
Sacred Books of the Buddhists
Title | Sacred Books of the Buddhists PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Buddhism |
ISBN |
Sacred Books of the Buddhists
Title | Sacred Books of the Buddhists PDF eBook |
Author | Āryaśūra |
Publisher | |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Buddha (The concept) |
ISBN |
The Sacred Books of the Buddhists Compared with History and Modern Science
Title | The Sacred Books of the Buddhists Compared with History and Modern Science PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Spence Hardy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1863 |
Genre | Buddhism |
ISBN |
The Dhammapada
Title | The Dhammapada PDF eBook |
Author | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
Publisher | Pilgrims |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 2007-06-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9788177695458 |
The Dhammapada is perhaps the only Buddhist scripture which contains the actual words of the Buddha. Divided into twenty six chapters, the Dhammapada is a collection of 423 verses of Buddhas wisdom and moral philosophy.