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Buddhist Manuscripts
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Author : Jens Braarvig
language : bo
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Buddhist Manuscripts written by Jens Braarvig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Buddhism categories.
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures
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Author : Stephen C. Berkwitz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-01-13
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures written by Stephen C. Berkwitz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-13 with History categories.
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Buddhist texts focuses on the significance of their material forms rather than their doctrinal contents, and examines how and why they were made. Contributions are by reputed scholars in Buddhist Studies and represent diverse disciplinary approaches from religious studies, art history, anthropology, and history.
Buddhist Manuscripts
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Author : Mark Allon
language : bo
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Buddhist Manuscripts written by Mark Allon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Buddhism categories.
A New Version Of The G Ndh R Dharmapada And A Collection Of Previous Birth Stories
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Author : Timothy Lenz
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2003
A New Version Of The G Ndh R Dharmapada And A Collection Of Previous Birth Stories written by Timothy Lenz and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
This volume continues the detailed examination of the British Library Kharosthi scrolls--extremely fragile and brittle fragments of manuscript on birch-bark rolls. Although their provenance is uncertain, there are strong indications that they came from Hadda in eastern Afghanistan and were most likely written in the early first century A.D. during the reign of the Saka rulers, making them the oldest known Buddhist manuscripts. Fragments 16 and 25 are two long, relatively narrow fragments that obviously belong to the same scroll. Two texts were written on the scroll, each by a different scribe. The first text, referred to as the Gandhari London Dharmapada, represents an anthology of verses well known in the Buddhist tradition. The second text is a series of stories concerning previous births of the Buddha and of some of his disciples. For more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web site at http://www.ebmp.org/
Spreading The Dhamma
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Author : Daniel Veidlinger
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2006-08-31
Spreading The Dhamma written by Daniel Veidlinger and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-31 with Religion categories.
How did early Buddhists actually encounter the seminal texts of their religion? What were the attitudes held by monks and laypeople toward the written and oral Pali traditions? In this pioneering work, Daniel Veidlinger explores these questions in the context of the northern Thai kingdom of Lan Na. Drawing on a vast array of sources, including indigenous chronicles, reports by foreign visitors, inscriptions, and palm-leaf manuscripts, he traces the role of written Buddhist texts in the predominantly oral milieu of northern Thailand from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Veidlinger examines how the written word was assimilated into existing Buddhist and monastic practice in the region, considering the use of manuscripts for textual study and recitation as well as the place of writing in the cultic and ritual life of the faithful. He shows how manuscripts fit into the economy, describes how they were made and stored, and highlights the understudied issue of the "cult of the book" in Theravâda Buddhism. Looking at the wider Theravâda world, Veidlinger argues that manuscripts in Burma and Sri Lanka played a more central role in the preservation and dissemination of Buddhist texts. By offering a detailed examination of the motivations driving those who sponsored manuscript production, this study draws attention to the vital role played by forest-dwelling monastic orders introduced from Sri Lanka in the development of Lan Na’s written Pali heritage. It also considers the rivalry between those monks who wished to preserve the older oral tradition and monks, rulers, and laypeople who supported the expansion of the new medium of writing.
Manuscripts And Travellers
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Author : Sam van Schaik
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Manuscripts And Travellers written by Sam van Schaik and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Philosophy categories.
This study is based on a manuscript which was carried by a Chinese monk through the monasteries of the Hexi corridor, as part of his pilgrimage from Wutaishan to India. The manuscript has been created as a composite object from three separate documents, with Chinese and Tibetan texts on them. Included is a series of Tibetan letters of introduction addressed to the heads of monasteries along the route, functioning as a passport when passing through the region. The manuscript dates to the late 960s, coinciding with the large pilgrimage movement during the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Northern Song recorded in transmitted sources. Therefore, it is very likely that this is a unique contemporary testimony of the movement, of which our pilgrim was also part. Complementing extant historical sources, the manuscript provides evidence for the high degree of ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity in Western China during this period.
Receptacle Of The Sacred
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Author : Jinah Kim
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-04-12
Receptacle Of The Sacred written by Jinah Kim and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-12 with Social Science categories.
In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacred explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book "manuscript" should be understood as a form of sacred space: a temple in microcosm, not only imbued with divine presence but also layered with the memories of many generations of users. Jinah Kim argues that illustrating a manuscript with Buddhist imagery not only empowered it as a three-dimensional sacred object, but also made it a suitable tool for the spiritual transformation of medieval Indian practitioners. Through a detailed historical analysis of Sanskrit colophons on patronage, production, and use of illustrated manuscripts, she suggests that while Buddhism’s disappearance in eastern India was a slow and gradual process, the Buddhist book-cult played an important role in sustaining its identity. In addition, by examining the physical traces left by later Nepalese users and the contemporary ritual use of the book in Nepal, Kim shows how human agency was critical in perpetuating and intensifying the potency of a manuscript as a sacred object throughout time.
Four G Ndh R Sa Yukt Gama Sutras
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Author : Andrew Glass
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2007
Four G Ndh R Sa Yukt Gama Sutras written by Andrew Glass and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Religion categories.
Four Gandhari Samyuktagama Sutras continues the study of Gandharan Buddhist texts and is the first investigation of a scroll from the Senior Collection of Kharosthi manuscripts. Senior scroll number 5, one of the best preserved of all Kharosthi manuscripts, contains four short sutras that give a first-hand account of meditation practice in Gandhara in the middle of the second century A.D. Andrew Glass is the lead researcher on the Gandhari Dictionary Project and a member of the British Library/University of Washington early Buddhist Manuscripts Project (www.ebmp.org).
Catalogue Of Digitized Rare Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscripts 1 1 200
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Author : Miroj Shakya
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Catalogue Of Digitized Rare Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscripts 1 1 200 written by Miroj Shakya and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Buddhism categories.
Buddhist Sanskrit Literature Of Nepal
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Author : Shanker Thapa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Buddhist Sanskrit Literature Of Nepal written by Shanker Thapa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Buddhism categories.