The Golden Yoke
The Golden Yoke

Author: Rebecca Redwood French

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-06-07

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1501735349

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The Golden Yoke is a remarkable achievement. It is the first elaboration of the legal, cultural, and ideological dimensions of precommunist Tibetan jurisprudence, a unique legal system that maintains its secularism within a thoroughly Buddhist setting. Layer by layer, Rebecca Redwood French reconstructs the daily operation of law in Tibet before the Chinese invasion in 1959. In the Tibetans' own words, French identifies their courts, symbols, and personnel and traces the procedures for petitioning and filing documents. There are stories here from judges, legal conciliators, and lay people about murder, property disputes, and divorce. French shows that Tibetan law is deeply embedded in its Buddhist culture and that the system evolved not from the rules and judgments but from what people actually do and say. In what amounts to a fully developed cosmology, she describes the cultural foundation that informs the system: myths, notions of time and conflux, inner morality, language patterns, rituals, use of space, symbols, and concepts. Based on extensive readings of Tibetan legal documents and codes, interviews with Tibetan scholars, and the reminiscences of Tibetans at home and in exile, this generously illustrated, elegantly written work is a model of outstanding research. French combines the talents of a legal anthropologist with those of a former law practitioner to develop a new field of study that has implications for other judicial systems, including our own.

The Monastery Rules
The Monastery Rules

Author: Berthe Jansen

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0520297008

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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Monastery Rules discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies and how that position was informed by the far-reaching relationship of monastic Buddhism with Tibetan society, economy, law, and culture. Jansen focuses her study on monastic guidelines, or bca’ yig. The first study of its kind to examine the genre in detail, the book contains an exploration of its parallels in other Buddhist cultures, its connection to the Vinaya, and its value as socio-historical source-material. The guidelines are witness to certain socio-economic changes, while also containing rules that aim to change the monastery in order to preserve it. Jansen argues that the monastic institutions’ influence on society was maintained not merely due to prevailing power-relations, but also because of certain deep-rooted Buddhist beliefs.

Buddhism For Dummies
Buddhism For Dummies

Author: Jonathan Landaw

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-03-08

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1118053753

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From the outside, Buddhism seems like a bundle of contradictions wrapped inside a paradox. It is a religion without a god, a belief system without rules, and a faith that encourages its adherents to question everything, including its own teachings. You could spend a lifetime studying Buddhist texts and following its observances and still feel like you’ve only just barely scratched the surface. Yet, over the past 2500 years, this lovely religion that preaches compassion, generosity, tolerance, selflessness and self-awareness has commanded the fervent devotion of hundreds of millions of people around the world who believe it to be the true path to enlightenment. If you’re curious about Buddhism but feel intimidated by all the exotic jargon and strange trappings, this book is for you. Written by two leading American Buddhist teachers and scholars, it offers you a uniquely friendly way to explore the fascinating history of Buddhism and discover: Who Buddha was and his significance in world history and spirituality How the practice of Buddhism can enrich your everyday life How Buddha’s teachings combine to create a path to enlightenment Daily observances and meditation practices How to fulfill your highest potential through Buddhism In plain English, experts Jonathan Landaw and Stephan Bodian define the important terms, explain the key concepts and explore, in-depth a wide range of topics, including: Buddha’s life and teachings and the evolution of the major Buddhist traditions How Buddhism works as a religion, philosophy of life and a practical approach to dealing with life’s problems, all rolled into one The idea that the mind is the source of all happiness and suffering How the practices of wisdom and compassion can connect you with your inner spiritual resources Meditation and other core Buddhist practices and how they can affect your everyday life How to apply Buddhist teachings at each stage along the spiritual path Whether you’re a searcher of truth, a student of religions, or just curious about what’s got Richard Gere and all the rest of those celebrity Buddhists so excited, Buddhism For Dummies is your intro to Buddhism basics.

The Iliad
The Iliad

Author: Homer

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2011-09-08

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 0199235481

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New translation of Homer's epic poem.

Mahamudra
Mahamudra

Author: the Twelfth Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1614295875

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"In his first major book, His Eminence Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche, the head of the Zurmang Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, unpacks the marrow of a crucial teaching. The Ocean of Definitive Meaning by the 9th Karmapa is considered to be the most definitive Mahamudra text ever written. Bokar Rinpoche, a close student of Kalu Rinpoche and the chief retreat master for the Karma Kagyu lineage under the 16th Karmapa, wrote a remarkable distillation of the 9th Karmapa's detailed and comprehensive book: A Concise Commentary on the Ocean of Definitive Meaning: Easy-to-Implement Root Verses for Unlocking the Door to the Definitive Meaning. This essentialized text is the go-to manual for advanced Mahamudra practitioners; the 16th Karmapa recommended that experienced students use it while in retreat. Now, His Eminence Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche offers illuminating commentary on Bokar Rinpoche's pithy teaching, expanding and unlocking it for the reader, showing us the way to understand the very nature of our own minds"--

The Art of the Scythians
The Art of the Scythians

Author: Esther Jacobson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-11-14

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9004491511

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This volume offers a detailed consideration of the style, technology, and iconographic implications of the art of the Scythians, organized by object typology and chronology, and considered against a broader historical, expressive, and technical background; that of the Scythians' Eurasian sources, of earlier and contemporary West Asian cultures, and of the Hellenic culture which emerged beside that of the Scythians in the northern littoral of the Black Sea.

Apocalypse. Interpretation of the XXI century
Apocalypse. Interpretation of the XXI century

Author: Valeriy Sterkh

Publisher: Litres

Published: 2021-12-03

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 504165168X

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Explication of John’s Revelation, the most mysterious book of the New Testament, containing prophetic eschatalogical visions of the future preceding the end of the word. This interpretation is a combination of the ancient patristic tradition with a more contemporary approach which is based on the prophecies already fulfilled.