Manifestations Of Buddhas


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Manifestations Of Buddhas


Manifestations Of Buddhas
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Author : Dr Shashibala
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Manifestations Of Buddhas written by Dr Shashibala and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Buddhas categories.


When Shakyamuni, the Historical Buddha, became silent and entered the unshackled state of existence or the final nirvana, the devotees wanted to adore and remember the enlightened being and this served as an inspiration for the creation of Buddha images. The followers could not accept that their teacher had completed his earthly sojourn and had departed forever. The devotee s yearning was always for something evocative and visual of the Supreme Lord. And thus began a journey of representing Buddha from enshrined stupas to images of the Lord in human likeness. Buddhism started becoming a tradition of the visual, wherein the message of the sutras was translated through images and murals. With the passage of time, devotion combined with needs and aspirations of people gave way to creation of a variety of Buddhas manifested in various forms, attributes and characteristic features in different countries across the world.



Manifestation Of The Tath Gata


Manifestation Of The Tath Gata
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Author : Cheng Chien
language : en
Publisher: Wisdom Publications (MA)
Release Date : 1993

Manifestation Of The Tath Gata written by Cheng Chien and has been published by Wisdom Publications (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Religion categories.


What does it mean to be a Buddha? Here is a rare glimpse of the sublime realm of Buddhahood.



Buddha The Manifestation Of Silence


Buddha The Manifestation Of Silence
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Author : Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
language : en
Publisher: Aslan Business Solutions
Release Date : 2018-12-05

Buddha The Manifestation Of Silence written by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and has been published by Aslan Business Solutions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-05 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.


The Manifestation of Silence Buddha is the manifestation of silence. His silence came from saturation, not from lack. Lack creates complaints and noise. Saturation brings silence An ultimate talk given by H. H. Sri Sri Ravishankar on Buddha



The Book Of Buddhas


The Book Of Buddhas
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Author : Eva Rudy Jansen
language : en
Publisher: Red Wheel
Release Date : 1990

The Book Of Buddhas written by Eva Rudy Jansen and has been published by Red Wheel this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Health & Fitness categories.


This book surveys the most common figures and symbols used in Buddhist ritual objects, and is illustrated with many line drawings.



Buddhist Art And Thought


Buddhist Art And Thought
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Author : Śaśibālā
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Buddhist Art And Thought written by Śaśibālā and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Buddhism categories.


Buddhist Art and Thought encompasses a number of themes related to the study of cultural interflow among Asian countries, sharing philosophy, literature, arts and architecture, systems of polity and ways of living and thinking. It is a journey through the history of dissemination of Buddhism by monk-scholars to Central, East, Fareast and Southeast Asia. It brings forth the manifestations of divine forms of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, other deities of the Buddhist pantheon, colossal images, luminous mandalas and meditation. It throws light on the spread of the Buddhist Sanskrit literature, Indian scripts, inscriptions and Sanskrit manuscripts, and Buddhist ceremonies and rituals, beyond the boundaries of India. Contribution of the Indologists as pilgrims in the world of vision and intellection is another area touched upon by the scholar through her research.Contents: Preface, 1. Buddhist Art : From the Northwest to the Far East; 2. Amitabha: The Buddha of Immesurable Light in Japanese Art; 3. Yoga: The Basis of the Taima Mandala; 4. Bodhisattvas of Debate and Defence; 5. Buddhist Colossi in Japan; 6. Mandala and Meditation in Japanese Esoteric Art; 7. India and East Asia : A Cultural Symbiosis; 8. Bodhisattvas in Buddhist Art and Thought; 9. From Ajanta to HoryuÊji; 10. A Sanskrit Manuscript of the Gupta Period at the HoryuÊji Monastery In Japan; 11. Zen Bearings on Japanese Arts; 12. Four Divine Guardians in Japanese Art; 13. India and Japan: Academic Relations in Early 20th Century; 14. Structure of Gobu-shingan and the Graphic Vajradhatu-Mandala in the Light of the Sarva-tathagata-tattva-saÆgraha; 15. Iconography of Vaisravana in Japanese Art Compared with Sanskrit Literary Sources; 16. Cultural Interflow Between India and Central Asia; 17. Monasteries of Khotan in Tibetan Literary Sources; 18. Apotheosis of an Indonesian King of the Singasari Dynasty; 19. Fire Altar for Asvamedha Ceremony in Indonesia; 20. The Earliest Sanskrit Documents from Indonesia; 21. Sanskrit Texts in Chinese and Tibetan Translations; 22. Sanskrit in Japan; 23. Sanskrit in Southeast Asia; 24. Search for Shambhala and Kalacakra by Yuri and Nicholas Roerichs; 25. Hevajra in Buddhist Literature, Imperial Ceremonies and Art; 26. Banner of Peace; 27. Role of Suvarnaprabhasa-sutra in the Polity of East Asia; Index.PROF. SHASHIBALA is a research scientist specialises in art and culture of Asian countries. She is a researcher at the International Academy of Indian Culture, New Delhi for the last thirty years, and has also worked as an adjunct faculty at the National Museum Institute, New Delhi for the last fifteen years. She has to her credit eight research projects and sixty articles presented at various conferences or seminars held in India and abroad besides books published in English and Dutch languages.



Cultural Intersections In Later Chinese Buddhism


Cultural Intersections In Later Chinese Buddhism
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Author : Marsha Smith Weidner
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2001-01-01

Cultural Intersections In Later Chinese Buddhism written by Marsha Smith Weidner 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 2001-01-01 with Religion categories.


This collection of essays on later Chinese Buddhism takes us beyond the bedrock subjects of traditional Buddhist historiography - scriptures and commentaries, sectarian developments, lives of notable monks - to examine a wide range of extracanonical materials that illuminate cultural manifestations of Buddhism from the Song dynasty (960-1279) through the modern period. Straying from well-trodden paths, the authors often transgress the boundaries of their own disciplines: historians address architecture; art historians look to politics; a specialist in literature treats poetry that offers gendered insights into Buddhist lives. The broad-based cultural orientation of this volume is predicated on the recognition that art and religion are not closed systems requiring only minimal cross-indexing with other social or aesthetic phenomena but constituent elements in interlocking networks of practice and belief.



The New Heart Of Wisdom


The New Heart Of Wisdom
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Author : Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
language : en
Publisher: Tharpa Publications
Release Date : 2012-07-26

The New Heart Of Wisdom written by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and has been published by Tharpa Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-26 with Religion categories.


This special presentation of Buddha's teachings by the author of Modern Buddhism, offers truly liberating insights and advice for the contemporary reader. It reveals the profound meaning of the very heart of Buddha’s teachings - the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras. The author shows how all our problems and suffering come from our ignorance of the ultimate nature of things, and how we can abandon this ignorance and come to enjoy pure, lasting happiness by developing a special wisdom associated with compassion for all living beings. 'Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position, reputation, wealth and success in business are deceptive. If we die tomorrow, they will disappear tomorrow, and nothing will be left for our future. Wisdom, however, will never deceive us. It is our inner Spiritual Guide, who leads us to the correct path. It is the divine eye through which we can see what we should know, what we should abandon, what we should practise and what we should attain.' -Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche



The Buddha Image


The Buddha Image
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Author : Yuvraj Krishan
language : en
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Release Date : 1996

The Buddha Image written by Yuvraj Krishan and has been published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Art categories.


Illustrations: 247 b/w illustrations Description: This book deals with crucial though controversial questions in Buddhist art: the origin of the Buddha image and the iconography of the Buddha images. The earliest Buddhist art of Sanchi and Bharhut is aniconic : The Buddha is represented in symbols only. In the later Buddhist art of Gandhara and Mathura, the Buddha is represented in human form: he is the principal subject of sculptural art. The book seeks to explore the geographical area in which the image of the Buddha first emerged and whether the Buddhist doctrines-Hinayana or Mahayana-had anything to do with this transformation. The Buddha image, as developed eventually at Sarnath, became the model for the Buddha images in whole of Asia, south-east, central and eastern Asia. The iconographic features of the Buddha image are superficially an aberration, being in apparent conflict with the doctrine. The Buddha had cut off his hair at the time of his renunciation; the rules of the order enjoin that a monk must be tonsured and must discard and eschew all riches. However, in his images, the Buddha has hair on his head; later he is also endowed with a crown and jewels. After an exhaustive examination of the views of various scholars, the book answers these questions and resolves the controversies on the basis of literary, numismatic and epigraphic sources. More importantly it makes use of the valuable evidence from the contemporaneous Jaina art : Aniconism of early Jaina art and the iconographic features of Jaina images. The implications of this study are also important : Does India owe idolatry to Buddhism? Was this of foreign inspiration? Was the Buddha image fashioned after the Vedic Brahma and whether the Buddha's usnisa and Buddhist art motifs are rooted in the Vedic tradition? The book is profusely illustrated and provides rich and stimulating fare to students of Indian art in general and of Buddhist art in particular.



The Healing Buddha


The Healing Buddha
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Author : Raoul Birnbaum
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 1979

The Healing Buddha written by Raoul Birnbaum and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Religion categories.


This book presents important discourses that deal with the Healing Buddha in his various manifestations and discusses the many symbols, colors, and deities that are used as objects of meditation. The accompanying photographs of sculptures, paintings, and mandalas demonstrate the importance of art and aesthetic experience in Buddhist healing practices. Also included is a history of healing in the development of Buddhism from the earliest texts and the famous "Lotus Sutra " to the Buddhism of Tibet, where elaborate ritual is used in the healing of body and mind. Some of the many herbs and medicines used to treat disease in the Buddhist cultures of Asia are described in an appendix. A new preface and a new essay on the search for long life in Chinese Buddhism have been added to this revised edition.



Dignaga On The Interpretation Of Signs


Dignaga On The Interpretation Of Signs
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Author : R.P. Hayes
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06

Dignaga On The Interpretation Of Signs written by R.P. Hayes and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Philosophy categories.


Buddhist philosophy in India in the early sixth century C. E. took an important tum away from the traditional methods of explaining and systematizing the teachings in Siitra literature that were attributed to the Buddha. The new direction in which several Indian Buddhist philosophers began to move was that of following reasoning to its natural conclusions, regardless whether the conclusions conflicted with traditional teachings. The central figure in this new movement was DiIinaga, a native of South India who found his way to the centre of Buddhist education at Nalanda, studied the treatises that were learned by the Buddhist intellectuals of his day, and eventually wrote works of his own that formed the core of a distinctly new school of Buddhist thought. Inasmuch as virtually every Indian philosopher after the sixth century had either to reject Dirinaga's methods or build upon the foundations provided by his investigations into logic, epistemology and language, his influence on the evolution of Indian philosophy was considerable, and indeed some familiarity with Dirinaga's arguments and conclusions is indispensable for anyone who wishes to understand the historical development of Indian thought. Moreover, since the approach to Buddhism that grew out of Dirinaga's meditations on language and the limits of knowledge dominated the minds of many of the scholars who took Buddhism to Tibet, some familiarity with Dirinaga is also essential to those who wish to understand the intellectual infrastructure of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and practice.