Champions Of Buddhism
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Author | : Kate Crosby |
Publisher | : NUS Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9971697807 |
Hidden at the margins of Burmese Buddhism and culture, the cults of the weikza shape Burmese culture by bringing together practices of supernatural power and a mission to protect Buddhism. This exciting new research on an often hidden aspect of Burmese religion places weikza in relation to the Vipassana insight meditation movement and conventional Buddhist practices, as well as the contemporary rise of Buddhist fundamentalism. Featuring research based on fieldwork only possible in recent years, paired with reflective essays by senior Buddhist studies scholars, this book situates the weikza cult in relation to broader Buddhist and Southeast Asian contexts, offering interpretations and investigations as rich and diverse as the Burmese expressions of the weikza cults themselves. Champions of Buddhism opens the field to new questions, new problems, and new connections with the study of religion and Southeast Asia in general.
Author | : Edward Joseph Thomas |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780486411323 |
This scholarly work offers a fascinating examination of the lore surrounding the life of Buddha. From his ancestry, birth, and youth to his final days, it chronicles Buddha's preaching, his 20 years' wandering, the establishment of rival schools of philosophy, and much more -- including thought-provoking perspectives on Buddhism as religion and philosophy.
Author | : Daisaku Ikeda |
Publisher | : Middleway Press |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1946635308 |
Champions of Hope brings together five lectures that Daisaku Ikeda dedicates to the young people who will carry on the Soka Gakkai's mission for creating happiness and peace. He covers five key topics:COURAGEINVINCIBLE SPIRITSUCCESSORSHUMANISMKOSEN-RUFUUsing passages from Nichiren's writings, he offers lessons for humanistic leadership and guidelines to help young people become champions of life and hope.
Author | : Hans H Penner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2009-10-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195385829 |
Hans Penner takes a new look at the classic stories of the life of the Buddha. In the first part of the book, he presents a full account of these stories, drawn from various texts of Theravada Buddhism, the Buddhism of South and Southeast Asia. Penner allots one chapter to each of the major milestones in Buddha's life, with titles such as: Birth and Early Life, Flight from the Palace, Enlightenment and Liberation, Last Watch and Funeral. In the process, he brings to the fore dimensions of the myth that have been largely ignored by western scholarship. In Part II, Penner offers his own original interpretations of the legends. He takes issue with Max Weber's assertion that "Buddhism is an other-worldly ascetic religion," a point of view that remains dominant in the received tradition and in most contemporary studies of Buddhism. His central thesis is that the "householder" is a necessary element in Buddhism and that the giving of gifts, which creates merit and presupposes the doctrine of karma, mediates the relation between the householder and the monk. Penner argues that the omission of the householder - in his view one-half of what constitutes Buddhism as a religion - is fatal for any understanding of Buddha's life or of the Buddhist tradition. This boldly revisionist and deeply learned work will be of interest to a wide range of scholarly and lay readers.
Author | : Venerable Nārada Mahāthera |
Publisher | : Fivestar |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2024-04-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Many valuable books have been written by Eastern and Western scholars, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, to present the life and teachings of the Buddha to those who are interested in Buddhism. Amongst them one of the most popular works is still The Light of Asia by Sir Edwin Arnold. Many Western truth-seekers were attracted to Buddhism by this world-famous poem. Congratulations of Eastern and Western Buddhists are due to the learned writers on their laudable efforts to enlighten the readers on the Buddha-Dhamma. This new treatise is another humble attempt made by a member of the Order of the Sangha, based on the Pāli Texts, commentaries, and traditions prevailing in Buddhist countries, especially in Ceylon.
Author | : Hans Wolfgang Schumann |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788120818170 |
No man has had a greater inflience on the spiritual development of his people than Siddartha Gautama. Born in India in the sixth century BC into a nation hungry for spiritual experience, he developed a religious and moral teaching that, to this day, brings comfort and peace to all who practise it. This comprehensive biography examines the social, religious and political conditions that gave rise to Buddhism as we now know it.
Author | : Robert Spence Hardy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1866 |
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Author | : Shravasti Dhammika |
Publisher | : Buddhist Publication Society |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2005-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9552402808 |
In this book the life the Buddha is explored through the perspective of his interactions with his disciples and contemporaries, using society of the time as background. An accessible work especially suited for young people and newcomers to Buddhism.
Author | : Jinananda |
Publisher | : Windhorse Publications |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2014-05-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1909314471 |
We have all seen images of the Buddha, legs crossed, eyes lowered. There is a decisive energy in his half smile. But who was the man who became the Buddha? What is his story, and how does it relate to us? Warrior of Peace is a poetic and rousing account of the Buddha's life story. Bringing together the strands of history, fact, traditional oral legend and symbolic myth, Jinananda shows us how the Buddha's dramatic story is a mirror of our own search for meaning.
Author | : Thomas Nathan Patton |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0231547374 |
Wizards with magical powers to heal the sick, possess the bodies of their followers, and defend their tradition against outside threats are far from the typical picture of Buddhism. Yet belief in wizard-saints who protect their devotees and intervene in the world is widespread among Burmese Buddhists. The Buddha’s Wizards is a historically informed ethnographic study that explores the supernatural landscape of Buddhism in Myanmar to explain the persistence of wizardry as a form of lived religion in the modern era. Thomas Nathan Patton explains the world of wizards, spells, and supernatural powers in terms of both the broader social, political, and religious context and the intimate roles that wizards play in people’s everyday lives. He draws on affect theory, material and visual culture, long-term participant observation, and the testimonies of the devout to show how devotees perceive the protective power of wizard-saints. Patton considers beliefs and practices associated with wizards to be forms of defending Buddhist traditions from colonial and state power and culturally sanctioned responses to restrictive gender roles. The book also offers a new lens on the political struggles and social transformations that have taken place in Myanmar in recent years. Featuring close attention to the voices of individual wizard devotees and the wizards themselves, The Buddha’s Wizards provides a striking new look at a little-known aspect of Buddhist belief that helps expand our ways of thinking about the daily experience of lived religious practices.