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Minor Majesties studies the small ancient kingdom of Paluvur, a town located on the northern bank of the Kaveri river, about 30 kilometers north of Tanjavur. Between the ninth and the eleventh centuries C.E., Paluvur was the capital of the dynasty of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2023-12-18
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The Huayan scholar-monk Fazang (643-712) formulated, with the ‘Ten Subtle and Unimpeded Dharma-Gates’ of Pratityasamutpada, or ‘Ten Dharma-Gates,’ a series of cognitive and affective paradigms that describe how the Enlightenment-Mind apprehends reality. These patterns,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2022-09-19
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Many forms of Buddhism, divergent in philosophy and style, emerged as Buddhism filtered out of India into other parts of Asia. Nonetheless, all of them embodied an ethical core that is remarkably consistent. Articulated by the historical Buddha in his first sermon, this...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-20
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Many forms of Buddhism, divergent in philosophy and style, emerged as Buddhism filtered out of India into other parts of Asia. Nonetheless, all of them embodied an ethical core that is remarkably consistent. Articulated by the historical Buddha in his first sermon, this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-08
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Echoes of Enlightenment explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the recently discovered "liberation story" of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Sönam Peldren.
Born in 1328, Sönam Peldren spent most of her adult life as a nomad...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-29
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Tantric traditions in both Buddhism and Hinduism are thriving throughout Asia and in Asian diasporic communities around the world, yet they have been largely ignored by Western scholars until now. This collection of original essays fills this gap by examining the ways...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-03-14
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An Archaeological History of Indian Buddhism is a comprehensive survey of Indian Buddhism from its origins in the 6th century BCE, through its ascendance in the 1st millennium CE, and its eventual decline in mainland South Asia by the mid-2nd millennium CE. Weaving...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-02
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Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction introduces the reader to the teachings of the Buddha and to the workings of Buddhism in daily life. Damien Keown looks at the distinctive features of Buddhism, examining who the Buddha was and what his teachings were. By considering...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-02-28
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Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction introduces the reader to the teachings of the Buddha and to the workings of Buddhism in daily life. Damien Keown looks at the distinctive features of Buddhism, examining who the Buddha was and what his teachings were. By considering...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-02-28
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Winner of the Association of Asian Studies's Southeast Conference Book Prize (2014)
Does imagery help or hinder the enlightenment experience? Does awakening involve the imagination or not? Can art ever fully represent the realization of buddahood? In this study, Pamela...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-02-20
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Many researchers have explored the impact of British and French Orientalism in the reinterpretations of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Less noticed, however, and infrequently discussed is the impact of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-01-21
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Consideration of children in the academic field of Religious Studies is taking root, but Buddhist Studies has yet to take notice. Little Buddhas brings together a wide range of scholarship and expertise to address the question of what role children have played in...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-11-19
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Reiko Ohnuma offers a wide-ranging exploration of the complex role of maternal imagery and discourse in pre-modern South Asian Buddhism. Motherhood was sometimes extolled as the most appropriate symbol for buddhahood itself, and sometimes denigrated as the most...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-07-11
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In this groundbreaking collection of essays edited by Steven Heine, leading scholars of Buddhism from both sides of the Pacific explore the life and thought of Zen Master Dogen (1200-1253), the founder of the Japanese Soto sect. Through both textual and historical...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-02-01
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While academic and popular studies of Buddhism have often neglected race as a factor of analysis, the issues concerning race and racialization have remained not far below the surface of the wider discussion among ethnic Buddhists, converts, and sympathizers regarding...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
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2011-10-28
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The karma blueprint reveals the hidden laws that govern life and destiny. It explains how your thoughts, actions, and inner intentions silently shape your present circumstances and future path. This book takes you beyond surface-level spirituality and helps you...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2026-01-08
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You will see how energy patterns created by the imbalance in your chakras have invaded your belief system and corrupted your free will, leading you into a karmic matrix of your own making.
It will become clear to you, how this karmic matrix has predetermined the path of...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2025-12-29
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