International encyclopaedia of Buddhism. 58. Sri Lanka
Author: Nagendra Kr Singh
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 276
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Author: Nagendra Kr Singh
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 276
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nagendra Kr Singh
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nagendra Kr Singh
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 244
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 292
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Malcolm Voyce
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-01
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1317133773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book suggests that previous critiques of the rules of Buddhist monks (Vinaya) may now be reconsidered in order to deal with some of the assumptions concerning the legal nature of these rules and to provide a focus on how Vinaya texts may have actually operated in practice. Malcolm Voyce utilizes the work of Foucault and his notions of 'power' and 'subjectivity' in three ways. First, he examines The Buddha's role as a lawmaker to show how Buddhist texts were a form of lawmaking that had a diffused and lateral conception of authority. While lawmakers in some religious groups may be seen as authoritative, in the sense that leaders or founders were coercive or charismatic, the Buddhist concept of authority allows for a degree of freedom for the individual to shape or form themselves. Second, he shows that the confession ritual acted as a disciplinary measure to develop a unique sense of collective governance based on self regulation, self-governance and self-discipline. Third, he argues that while the Vinaya has been seen by some as a code or form of regulation that required obedience, the Vinaya had a double nature in that its rules could be transgressed and that offenders could be dealt with appropriately in particular situations. Voyce shows that the Vinaya was not an independent legal system, but that it was dependent on the Dharmaśāstra for some of its jurisprudential needs, and that it was not a form of customary law in the strict sense, but a wider system of jurisprudence linked to Dharmaśāstra principles and precepts.
Author: Stephen C. Berkwitz
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9004139109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book on vernacular Buddhist histories written in late medieval Sri Lanka demonstrates that narrative representations of the past were designed to effectively constructing new moral communities in translocal spaces.
Author: Alice Collett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0199395853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe path of practice as taught in ancient India by Gotama Buddha was open to both women and men. The texts of early Indian Buddhism show that women were lay followers of the Buddha and were also granted the right to ordain and become nuns. Certain women were known as influential teachers of men and women alike and considered experts in certain aspects of Gotama's dhamma. For this to occur in an ancient religion practiced within traditional societies is really quite extraordinary. This is apparent especially in light of the continued problems experienced by practitioners of many religions today involved in challenging instilled norms and practices and conferring the status of any high office upon women. In this collection, Alice Collett brings together a sampling of the plethora of Buddhist texts from early Indian Buddhism in which women figure centrally. It is true that there are negative conceptualizations of and attitudes towards women expressed in early Buddhist texts, but for so many texts concerning women to have been composed, collated and preserved is worthy of note. The simple fact that the Buddhist textual record names so many nuns and laywomen, and preserves biographies of them, attests to a relatively positive situation for women at that time. With the possible exception of the reverence accorded Egyptian queens, there is no textual record of named women from an ancient civilization that comes close to that of early Indian Buddhism. This volume offers comparative study of texts in five different languages - Gandhari, Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese and Sinhala. Each chapter is a study and translation, with some chapters focusing more on translation and some more on comparisons between parallel and similar texts, whilst others are more discursive and thematic.
Author: Nagendra Kr Singh
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 824
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