The Buddha's Encounters with Māra the Tempter
Author: Ananda W. P. Guruge
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789552401688
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Transformation and Healing
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2008-10-21
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1458711277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransformation and Healing presents one of the Buddha's most fundamental teachings and the foundation of all mindfulness practice. The Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness has been studied, practiced, and handed down with special care from generation to generation for 2,500 years. This sutra teaches us how to deal with anger and jealousy, to nurture the best qualities in our children, spouses, and friends, and to greet death with compassion and equanimity.
Middle Land, Middle Way
Author: Shravasti Dhammika
Publisher: Buddhist Publication Society
Published: 2008-12-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9552401976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive guidebook to the places in India made sacred by the Buddha’s presence. Beginning with an inspiring account of Buddhist pilgrimage, the author then covers sixteen places in detail. With maps and colour photos, an essential companion for pilgrim and traveler.
Buddha in the Crown
Author: John Clifford Holt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1991-01-31
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0195362462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines the various ways in which Avalokitesvara, the most well known and proliferated bodhisattva of Mahayana Buddhism throughout south, southeast, and east Asia, was assimilated into the transforming religious culture of Sri Lanka, one of the most pluralistic in Asia. Exploring the expressions of the bodhisattva's cult in Sanskrit and Sinhala literature, in iconography, epigraphy, ritual, symbol, and myth, the author develops a provocative thesis regarding the dynamics of religious change. Interdisciplinary in scope, addressing a wide variety of issues relating to Buddhist thought and practice, and providing new and original information on the rich cultural history of Sri Lanka, this book will interest students of Buddhism and South Asia.
Dependent Arising In Context
Author: Linda S. Blanchard
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-01-05
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1481259547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDependent arising is the backbone of the Buddha's doctrine -- all the other lessons he taught relate to it, or refer to it in some way -- yet it is the least understood. There is a confusion of theories as to its meaning: is it about three lives, or one? about rebirth or moment-to-moment creation of the ego? Yet when dependent arising is seen in the light of the central myth of the Buddha's day (the creation of First Man and how that relates to our creation of self) the whole structure becomes much clearer, and many of the points of confusion are straightened out. People have long asked, for example, how the 'actions' of the second step precede consciousness in the third, or why we seem to be being told that we would want to completely stop consciousness, and contact with the world, and feeling. All these questions are easily answered when we see where the structure came from, and what the lesson is really about.
Satan and Mara
Author: Boyd
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-13
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9004378456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sacred Garden of Lumbini
Author: Kai Weise
Publisher: UNESCO
Published: 2013-10-29
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9230012084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha, was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1997. It is situated in an area commonly referred to as the 'Sacred Garden'. Archaeological remains testify to the authenticity of the place, which has become a major pilgrimage site. Nevertheless over two and a half millennia, the understanding of Lumbini has changed and different perceptions exist of what Lumbini might have been like at the birth of Lord Buddha. For the long-term safeguarding of this World Heritage site, overall understanding of the property is essential. This publication will provide a means for the various stakeholders to come to an understanding of each other's historical, religious, environmental and touristic perspectives of Lumbini.
Spirit and Salvation
Author: Veli-Matti Karkkainen
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2016-12-09
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 1467445304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fourth installment in a wide and deep constructive theology for our time This fourth volume in Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s ambitious five-volume systematic theology develops a constructive Christian pneumatology and soteriology in dialogue with the diverse global Christian tradition and with other major living faiths — Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
Philosophical Approaches to Demonology
Author: Benjamin W. McCraw
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-31
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1315466759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn contradistinction to the many monographs and edited volumes devoted to historical, cultural, or theological treatments of demonology, this collection features newly written papers by philosophers and other scholars engaged specifically in philosophical argument, debate, and dialogue involving ideas and topics in demonology. The contributors to the volume approach the subject from the perspective of the broadest areas of Western philosophy, namely metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and moral philosophy. The collection also features a plurality of religious, cultural, and theological views on the nature of demons from both Eastern and Western thought, in addition to views that may diverge from these traditional roots. Philosophical Approaches to Demonology will be of interest to philosophers of religion, theologians, and scholars working in philosophical theology and demonology, as well as historians, cultural anthropologists, and sociologists interested more broadly in the concept of demons.
Doing the Work of Comparative Theology
Author: Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2020-01-28
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 1467458554
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a world that is more religiously diverse than ever before, our coworkers and neighbors may well be adherents of other faiths. But how many of us really grasp the similarities and differences between the major world religions? Comparative theology is one increasingly important way to bridge this gap, especially for Christian leaders and professors, but also for lay people and students. Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen introduces the nature and work of comparative theology, then delves into a detailed doctrine-by-doctrine comparison of Christian teachings with those of historical and contemporary Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. With every doctrine, he first presents a summary of consensual Christian belief and then orients the reader to the distinctive teachings of other faith traditions, highlighting parallels and differences. Ideal for students, ministers, instructors, and lay people interested in interfaith dialogue, Doing the Work of Comparative Theology distills the comparative-theological rigor of Kärkkäinen’s Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World series into an accessible and user-friendly textbook. Readers will not only learn basic methodology but also begin to undertake the actual work of comparative theology.
