Buddhist Monks and Monasteries of India
Author: Sukumar Dutt
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 432
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Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India
Author: Kenneth G. Zysk
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9788120815285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rich Indian medical tradition is usually traced back to Sanskrit sources, the earliest of which cannot much antedate the common era. In this book Kenneth Zysk shows that Buddhist scriptures some centuries older than this contain abundant information about medical practice, and are our earliest evidence for a rational approach to medicine in India. He argues that Buddhism and the medical tradition were mutually supportive: that Buddhist monks and people associated with them contributed to the development of medicine, while their skills as physical as well as spiritual healers enhanced their reputation and popular support. Drawing on a wide range of textual, archaeological, and secondary sources, Zysk first presents an overview of the history of Indian Medicine in its religious context. He then examines primary literature from the Pali Buddhist Canon and from the Sanskrit treatises of Bhela, Caraka, and susruta. By close comparison of these two bodies of literature Zysk convincingly shows how the theories delineated in the medical classics actually became practice.
Buddhist Monasteries and Monastic Life in Ancient India
Author: Rekha Daswani
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 352
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Author: Sukumar Dutt
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9788120804982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough India is no longer a Buddhist country, Buddhism held its place among Indian faiths for nearly seventeen centuries (500 B.C.--A.D. 1200). During this long stretch of time the Buddhist monks were organized in Sanghas in most parts of the country and their activities and achievements have profoundly influenced India`s traditional culture. There are monumental remains of Buddhist monastic life scattered all over India: in the south there are about a thousand cave-monasteries, among them Ajanta, world-famous for its exquisite mural paintings; in the north, less spectacular, the ruins of monastic edifices from Taxila in the west to Paharpur in the east. A connected history of the Buddhist monks of ancient India, their activities, their monastic establishments and their contributions to Indian culture, is available for the first time in this work, which is remarkable also for its pervading human interest. In reconstructing the history of the emperors and kings who were patrons of Buddhism, the early missionaries and the illustrious monk-scholars of later times, the author has used sources in four languages--Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan. Contents The primitive sangha, The asoka-satavahana age 250 BC-AD 100 and its legacy, In the Gupta age (AD 300-550) and after, Eminent monk-Scholars of India, Monastic Universities, (AD 500-1200), Bib., Index.
Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia
Author: Ann Heirman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-05-07
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9004366156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEncounters, networks, identities and diversity are at the core of the history of Buddhism. They are also the focus of Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia, edited by Ann Heirman, Carmen Meinert and Christoph Anderl. While long-distance networks allowed Buddhist ideas to travel to all parts of East Asia, it was through local and trans-local networks and encounters, and a diversity of people and societies, that identities were made and negotiated. This book undertakes a detailed examination of discrete Buddhist identities rooted in unique cultural practices, beliefs and indigenous socio-political conditions. Moreover, it presents a fascinating picture of the intricacies of the regional and cross-regional networks that connected South and East Asia.
The Monastery Rules
Author: Berthe Jansen
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2018-09-25
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0520297008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt 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.
Buddhist Monastic Life
Author: Môhan Wijayaratna
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-11-30
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780521367080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1991 book provides a brief yet detailed account of the ideal way of life prescribed for Buddhist monks and nuns in the Pali texts of the Theravada school of Buddhism. The author describes the way in which the Buddha's disciples institutionalized his teachings about such things as food, dress, money, chastity, solitude and discipleship. This tradition represents an ideal of religious life that has been followed in South and Southeast Asia for over two thousand years. In previous writing on the early period of Buddhist monasticism, scholars have usually tried to give an historical account of the evolution of the monastic order, and so have seen the extant Vinaya texts as coming from distinct historical periods. This book takes a different approach by presenting a synchronic account, which allows the author to show that sources are in fact predominantly consistent and coherent.
Thank You and OK!
Author: David Chadwick
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2007-05-08
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 0834826860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Chadwick, a Texas-raised wanderer, college dropout, bumbling social activist, and hobbyhorse musician, began his study under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial Zen education. In Thank You and OK! he recounts his experiences both inside and beyond the monastery walls and offers insightful portraits of the characters he knew in that world—the bickering monks, the patient abbot, the trotting housewives, the ominous insects, the bewildered bureaucrats, and the frustrating English-language students—as they worked inexorably toward initiating him into the mysterious ways of Japan. Whether you're interested in Japan, Buddhism, or exotic travel writing, this book is great fun. To learn more about the author, David Chadwick, visit www.cuke.com.
Buddhist Education in Ancient India
Author: Rachita Chaudhuri
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 302
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the present book entitled Buddhist Education in Ancient India, Dr. Rachita Chaudhri has discussed elaborately and critically various aspects of Buddhist education such as forman of Bhikkha-Bhikkhuni Sangha, its democratic rules of administration, daily life and education method training and spiritual attainments of monks and nuns, crimes and punishment, Origin and Development of residential monasteries some which later on turned to be well reputed Universities like Nalanda, Vikramasila,etc and also secular education in ancient India. Thus Dr.Chaudhri has opened before us a new horizon of knowledge which cah guide even an ordinary man to perfection.
Tibet and India
Author: Kurt Behrendt
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2014-02-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 1588395499
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