Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal
Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal

Author: Todd T. Lewis

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2000-09-07

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0791492435

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This book demonstrates how popular ritual texts and story narratives have shaped the religious life and culture of the only surviving South Asian Mahayana Buddhist society, the Newars of Kathmandu. It begins with an account of the Newar Buddhist community's history and its place within the religious environment of Nepal and proceeds to build around five popular translations, several of which were known across Asia: the Srngabheri Avadana, the Simhalasarthabahu Avadana, the Tara, the Mahakala Vratas, and the Pancaraksa. Lewis documents how the respective texts have been domesticated in Nepal's art and architecture, healing traditions, and rituals. He shows how they provide paradigmatic case studies that transcend the Nepalese context, illustrating universal practices or issues in all Buddhist communities, such as gender relations and stupa veneration, the role of merchants, ethnicity, violence, devotions to celestial bodhisattvas by kings and women, and the role of mantra recitations and healing rituals in the lives of Buddhists.

Buddhism of Nepal
Buddhism of Nepal

Author: Badrīratna Bajrācārya

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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On the Mahayana/Vajrayana Buddhism of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.

Rebuilding Buddhism
Rebuilding Buddhism

Author: Sarah LeVine

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2007-09-30

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780674040120

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Rebuilding Buddhism describes in evocative detail the experiences and achievements of Nepalis who have adopted Theravada Buddhism. This form of Buddhism was introduced into Nepal from Burma and Sri Lanka in the 1930s, and its adherents have struggled for recognition and acceptance ever since. With its focus on the austere figure of the monk and the biography of the historical Buddha, and more recently with its emphasis on individualizing meditation and on gender equality, Theravada Buddhism contrasts sharply with the highly ritualized Tantric Buddhism traditionally practiced in the Kathmandu Valley. Based on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and historical reconstruction, the book provides a rich portrait of the different ways of being a Nepali Buddhist over the past seventy years. At the same time it explores the impact of the Theravada movement and what its gradual success has meant for Buddhism, for society, and for men and women in Nepal.

Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal
Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal

Author: Will Tuladhar-Douglas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-01-24

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 113424195X

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Will Tuladhar-Douglas sheds new light on an important branch of Mahayana Buddhism and establishes the existence, character and causes of a renaissance of Buddhism in the fifteenth century in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. He provides the basis for the historical study of Newar Buddhism as one distinct tradition among the many that comprise Indic Buddhism. Through a thorough study of the relevant texts in the classical Himalayan languages (Sanskrit, Newari, Tibetan and Nepali), the book puts forward a new thesis about how the Newars legitimated and reinvented their tradition by devising new concepts of canonicity, as such it will appeal to scholars of the history and philology of Buddhism.

The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal
The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal

Author: Mitra Rajendralala

Publisher:

Published: 1882

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13:

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A catalog of the manuscripts presented by Brian Houghton Hodgson to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, preceded by an account of the donor, with lists of his works.

Dharma and Puṇya
Dharma and Puṇya

Author: Jinah Kim

Publisher: Brill Hotei

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004416413

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Dharma and Puṇya explores the centrality of ritual practices and the agency of people in creating and amplifying the efficacy of Buddhist art. It presents paintings, illuminated texts, statues, and ritual implements from the Newar tradition in the Kathmandu Valley.

Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal
Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal

Author: Will Tuladhar-Douglas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-01-24

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1134241968

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Will Tuladhar-Douglas sheds new light on an important branch of Mahayana Buddhism and establishes the existence, character and causes of a renaissance of Buddhism in the fifteenth century in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. He provides the basis for the historical study of Newar Buddhism as one distinct tradition among the many that comprise Indic Buddhism. Through a thorough study of the relevant texts in the classical Himalayan languages (Sanskrit, Newari, Tibetan and Nepali), the book puts forward a new thesis about how the Newars legitimated and reinvented their tradition by devising new concepts of canonicity, as such it will appeal to scholars of the history and philology of Buddhism.

The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal
The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal

Author: Asiatic Society of Bengal

Publisher:

Published: 1882

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13:

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A catalog of the manuscripts presented by Brian Houghton Hodgson to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, preceded by an account of the donor, with lists of his works.