Buddhist Manuscripts
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Buddhist Manuscripts
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Author : Jens Braarvig
language : bo
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Buddhist Manuscripts written by Jens Braarvig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Buddhism categories.
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures
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Author : Stephen C. Berkwitz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-01-13
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures written by Stephen C. Berkwitz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-13 with History categories.
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Buddhist texts focuses on the significance of their material forms rather than their doctrinal contents, and examines how and why they were made. Contributions are by reputed scholars in Buddhist Studies and represent diverse disciplinary approaches from religious studies, art history, anthropology, and history.
Buddhist Manuscripts
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Author : Mark Allon
language : bo
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Buddhist Manuscripts written by Mark Allon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Buddhism categories.
Catalogue Of The Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts In The University Library Cambridge
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Author : Cecil Bendall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
Catalogue Of The Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts In The University Library Cambridge written by Cecil Bendall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Buddhism categories.
Receptacle Of The Sacred
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Author : Jinah Kim
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-04-12
Receptacle Of The Sacred written by Jinah Kim and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-12 with Social Science categories.
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.
Catalogue Of The Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts In The University Library Cambridge
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
Catalogue Of The Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts In The University Library Cambridge written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Buddhism categories.
Ancient Buddhist Scrolls From Gandh Ra
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Author : Richard Salomon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Ancient Buddhist Scrolls From Gandh Ra written by Richard Salomon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Buddhist antiquities categories.
As the Dead Sea Scrolls have changed our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, so a set of 29 scroll fragments acquired in 1994 by The British Library promise to improve our knowledge of the history of Buddhism in India.
Three G Ndh R Ekottarik Gama Type S Tras
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Author : Mark Allon
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2001
Three G Ndh R Ekottarik Gama Type S Tras written by Mark Allon and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Religion categories.
Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras continues the Gandharan Buddhist Texts studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection. It describes the text found on two fragments which constitute the lower part of a scroll and consists of the remnants of three sutras. All three sutras are relatively short and have an association with the number four, which suggests that they are from a Gandhar- Ekottarikagama, a collection of short discourses grouped according to numerical principles and one of the major collections of writings in the Buddhist canon. The first sutra records a discussion in which a brahman asks the Buddha four questions. The second su-tra, like the third, depicts the Buddha preaching to monks. The structure of this sutra is based on the four postures: walking, standing, sitting, and lying down. The Buddha's discourse in the third sutra concerns the four efforts (or abandonings). The book describes the condition of the scroll and its reconstruction; examines in detail the literary and textual background of the sutras, comparing them with other extant versions and parallels in other languages; and presents a transcription of the extant text, a reconstruction, and an English translation. It includes chapters on the paleography, orthography, phonology, and morphology of the text, and offers a detailed analytic commentary. For more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web site at http: //www.ebmp.org/
Buddhist Literature Of Ancient Gandhara
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Author : Salomon Richard
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-04-17
Buddhist Literature Of Ancient Gandhara written by Salomon Richard and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-17 with Religion categories.
Discover the fascinating history of a long-hidden Buddhist culture at a historic crossroads. In the years following Alexander the Great’s conquest of the East, a series of empires rose up along the Silk Road. In what is now northern Pakistan, the civilizations in the region called Gandhara became increasingly important centers for the development of Buddhism, reaching their apex under King Kaniska of the Kusanas in the second century CE. Gandhara has long been known for its Greek-Indian synthesis in architecture and statuary, but until about twenty years ago, almost nothing was known about its literature. The insights provided by manuscripts unearthed over the last few decades show that Gandhara was indeed a vital link in the early development of Buddhism, instrumental in both the transmission of Buddhism to China and the rise of the Mahayana tradition. The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara surveys what we know about Gandhara and its Buddhism, and it also provides translations of a dozen different short texts, from similes and stories to treatises on time and reality.
Spreading The Dhamma
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Author : Daniel Veidlinger
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2006-08-31
Spreading The Dhamma written by Daniel Veidlinger and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-31 with Religion categories.
How did early Buddhists actually encounter the seminal texts of their religion? What were the attitudes held by monks and laypeople toward the written and oral Pali traditions? In this pioneering work, Daniel Veidlinger explores these questions in the context of the northern Thai kingdom of Lan Na. Drawing on a vast array of sources, including indigenous chronicles, reports by foreign visitors, inscriptions, and palm-leaf manuscripts, he traces the role of written Buddhist texts in the predominantly oral milieu of northern Thailand from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Veidlinger examines how the written word was assimilated into existing Buddhist and monastic practice in the region, considering the use of manuscripts for textual study and recitation as well as the place of writing in the cultic and ritual life of the faithful. He shows how manuscripts fit into the economy, describes how they were made and stored, and highlights the understudied issue of the "cult of the book" in Theravâda Buddhism. Looking at the wider Theravâda world, Veidlinger argues that manuscripts in Burma and Sri Lanka played a more central role in the preservation and dissemination of Buddhist texts. By offering a detailed examination of the motivations driving those who sponsored manuscript production, this study draws attention to the vital role played by forest-dwelling monastic orders introduced from Sri Lanka in the development of Lan Na’s written Pali heritage. It also considers the rivalry between those monks who wished to preserve the older oral tradition and monks, rulers, and laypeople who supported the expansion of the new medium of writing.