Powers of Protection
Powers of Protection

Author: Gergely Hidas

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-06-21

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 3110713365

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This sourcebook explores the most extensive tradition of Buddhist dhāraṇī literature and provides access to the earliest available materials for the first time: a unique palm-leaf bundle from the 12th–13th centuries and a paper manuscript of 1719 CE. The Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha collections have been present in South Asia, and especially in Nepal, for more than eight hundred years and served to supply protection, merit and auspiciousness for those who commissioned their compilation. For modern scholarship, these diverse compendiums are valuable sources of incantations and related texts, many of which survive in Sanskrit only in such manuscripts.

Jainism
Jainism

Author: Natubhai Shah

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1836240872

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This work covers the antiquity of Jainism, its history, popular support and spread in India. It also covers: Jain migration abroad; schisms within Jainist ranks; and the teachings of Mahavira, detailing the path of purification, austerities and meditation.

Collected Wheel Publications Volume XIII
Collected Wheel Publications Volume XIII

Author: Various authors

Publisher: Buddhist Publication Society

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9552403650

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182: The Philosophy of the Atthakavagga—P. D. Premasiri; 183–5: Samyutta Nikaya—An Anthology: Part II—Bhikkhu Nanananda; 186–7: The Three Basic Facts of Existence I: Impermanence (Anicca)—Various authors; 188: Ideal Solitude—Bhikkhu Nanananda; 189–90: The Buddha on Meditation and Higher States of Consciousness—Daniel Goleman; 191–3: The Three Basic Facts of Existence II: Suffering (Dukkha)—Various authors; 194: A Guide to the Perplexed—Donald K. Swearer; 195–6: Aspects of Buddhism in Indian History—L. M. Joshi; 197–8: Buddhist Broadcast Talks—V. F. Gunaratna;