The Pilgrimage of Buddhism and a Buddhist Pilgrimage

The Pilgrimage of Buddhism and a Buddhist Pilgrimage
Title The Pilgrimage of Buddhism and a Buddhist Pilgrimage PDF eBook
Author James Bissett Pratt
Publisher Asian Educational Services
Pages 782
Release 1996
Genre Buddhism
ISBN 9788120611962

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Japanese Buddhist Pilgrimage

Japanese Buddhist Pilgrimage
Title Japanese Buddhist Pilgrimage PDF eBook
Author Michael Pye
Publisher Equinox Publishing (UK)
Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN 9781845539177

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This is the first comprehensive study of all the major and many of the minor routes, The book also examines how the practice of circulatory pilgrimage developed among the shrines and temples for the Seven Gods of Good Fortune, and beyond them to the rather different world of Shintō.

Middle Land, Middle Way

Middle Land, Middle Way
Title Middle Land, Middle Way PDF eBook
Author Shravasti Dhammika
Publisher Buddhist Publication Society
Pages 246
Release 2008-12-01
Genre Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN 9552401976

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A comprehensive guidebook to the places in India made sacred by the Buddha’s presence. Beginning with an inspiring account of Buddhist pilgrimage, the author then covers sixteen places in detail. With maps and colour photos, an essential companion for pilgrim and traveler.

Xuanzang

Xuanzang
Title Xuanzang PDF eBook
Author Sally Wriggins
Publisher Routledge
Pages 308
Release 2020-06-11
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1000011097

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The saga of the seventh-century Chinese monk Xuanzang, who completed an epic sixteen-year journey to discover the heart of Buddhism at its source in India, is a splendid story of human struggle and triumph. One of China's great heroes, Xuanzang is introduced here for the first time to Western readers in this richly illustrated book.

Best Foot Forward

Best Foot Forward
Title Best Foot Forward PDF eBook
Author Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Publisher Shambhala Publications
Pages 165
Release 2018-08-14
Genre Religion
ISBN 0834841479

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A pithy guidebook for Buddhist pilgrims to the four holy sites of India. “The aim of all Buddhist practice is to catch a glimpse of the awakened state. Going on pilgrimage, soaking up the sacred atmosphere of holy places, and mingling with other pilgrims are simply different ways of trying to achieve that glimpse.”—from chapter 1, “Holy Buddhist Sites” Pilgrimage is a powerful method for remembering the Buddha’s teachings and putting them into practice. For Buddhists, the most important holy places are the four sites associated with the Buddha’s life: • Lumbini, where Siddhartha was born as an ordinary human being • Bodhgaya, where Siddhartha became enlightened • Varanasi (Sarnath), where the Buddha taught the path to enlightenment • Kushinagar, where the Buddha passed into parinirvana While it may be an inconvenient, chaotic, and even dangerous journey, traveling to these places can be profoundly affecting and transformative for a practitioner. In his fourth book, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse skillfully lays out how we can make the most of our experience as pilgrims. He explains what makes a person or place “holy,” what pilgrimage is all about, and what we can do when visiting the four holy sites of India and Nepal—or any holy place. This manual shows us how to partake in one of the most potent practices available to remind ourselves of the entirety of the Buddha’s teachings.

Walking with the Buddha

Walking with the Buddha
Title Walking with the Buddha PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 192
Release 2004
Genre Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN 9788187780243

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Buddhism and Jainism

Buddhism and Jainism
Title Buddhism and Jainism PDF eBook
Author K.T.S Sarao
Publisher Springer
Pages 1423
Release 2017-03-31
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9789402408539

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This volume focuses on Buddhism and Jainism, two religions which, together with Hinduism, constitute the three pillars of Indic religious tradition in its classical formulation. It explores their history and relates how the Vedic period in the history of Hinduism drew to a close around the sixth century BCE and how its gradual etiolation gave rise to a number of religious movements. While some of these remained within the fold of the Vedic traditions, others arose in a context of a more ambiguous relationship between the two. Two of these have survived to the present day as Buddhism and Jainism. The volume describes the major role Buddhism played in the history not only of India but of Asia, and now the world as well, and the more confined role of Jainism in India until relatively recent times. It examines the followers of these religions and their influence on the Indian religious landscape. In addition, it depicts the transformative effect on existing traditions of the encounter of Hinduism with these two religions, as well as the fertile interaction between the three. The book shows how Buddhism and Jainism share the basic concepts of karma, rebirth, and liberation with Hinduism while giving them their own hue, and how they differ from the Hindu tradition in their understanding of the role of the Vedas, the “caste system,” and ritualism in religious life. The volume contributes to the debate on whether the proper way of describing the relationship between the three major components of the classical Indic tradition is to treat them as siblings (sometimes as even exhibiting sibling rivalry), or as friends (sometimes even exhibiting schadenfreude), or as radical alternatives to one another, or all of these at different points in time.