Ancient Indian Asceticism
Author: M. G. Bhagat
Publisher: New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 394
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Author: M. G. Bhagat
Publisher: New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 394
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9788121502818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Haripada Chakraborti
Publisher: Calcutta : Punthi Pustak
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 562
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9788120815513
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Author: Gail Hinich Sutherland
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdvocating vegetarianism according to Buddhism and Jainism.
Author: Kenneth G. Zysk
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9788120815285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rich Indian medical tradition is usually traced back to Sanskrit sources, the earliest of which cannot much antedate the common era. In this book Kenneth Zysk shows that Buddhist scriptures some centuries older than this contain abundant information about medical practice, and are our earliest evidence for a rational approach to medicine in India. He argues that Buddhism and the medical tradition were mutually supportive: that Buddhist monks and people associated with them contributed to the development of medicine, while their skills as physical as well as spiritual healers enhanced their reputation and popular support. Drawing on a wide range of textual, archaeological, and secondary sources, Zysk first presents an overview of the history of Indian Medicine in its religious context. He then examines primary literature from the Pali Buddhist Canon and from the Sanskrit treatises of Bhela, Caraka, and susruta. By close comparison of these two bodies of literature Zysk convincingly shows how the theories delineated in the medical classics actually became practice.
Author: Carl Olson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0190225327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing religio-philosophical discourses and narratives from epic, puranic, and hagiographical literature, Indian Asceticism focuses on the powers exhibited by ascetics of India from ancient to modern time.
Author: Ratanalāla Miśra
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9788190821292
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Author: Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9788120811140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book elucidates the early Buddhist teachings and beliefs concerning meditaions and its role in the process to liberation. In a number of cases, the Buddhist canonical texts reject practices which they accept elsewhere. When these practices-sometimes rejected, sometimes accepted-correspond to what is known about non-Buddhist practices, the conculsion in then proposed that they are non-Buddhist practices which have somehow found their way into the Buddhist texts. A similar procedure enables one to choose between conflicting beliefs.
Author: Patrick Olivelle
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2011-12-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1843318024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years. Asceticism represents a major strand in the religious and cultural history of India, providing some of the most creative elements within Indian religions and philosophies. Most of the major religions, such as Buddhism and Jainism, and religious philosophies both within these new religions and in the Brahmanical tradition, were created by world-renouncing ascetics. Yet ascetical institutions and ideologies developed in a creative tension with other religious institutions that stressed the centrality of family, procreation and society. It is this tension that has articulated many of the central features of Indian religion and culture. The papers collected in this volume seek to locate Indian ascetical traditions within their historical, political and ideological contexts.