Brides of the Buddha - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brides of the Buddha write by Karen Muldoon-Hules. This book was released on 2017-06-05. Brides of the Buddha available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For young women in early South Asia, marriage was probably the most important event in their lives, as it largely determined their socioeconomic and religious future. Yet there has been little in the way of systematic examinations of the evidence on marriage customs among Buddhists of this time, and our understanding of the lives of early Buddhist women is still quite limited. This study uses ten stories from the Avadānaśataka, the collection of Buddhist narratives compiled from the second to fifth centuries CE, to examine the social landscape of early India. The author analyzes marital customs and the development of nuns’ hagiographies, while revealing regional variations of Buddhism in South Asia during this period.
The Buddha in the Attic
The Buddha in the Attic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Buddha in the Attic write by Julie Otsuka. This book was released on 2011-08-23. The Buddha in the Attic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKER AWARD WINNER • The acclaimed author of The Swimmers and When the Emperor Was Divine tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” a century ago in this "understated masterpiece ... that unfolds with great emotional power" (San Francisco Chronicle). In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war. Julie Otsuka has written a spellbinding novel about identity and loyalty, and what it means to be an American in uncertain times.
Sayings of the Buddha
Sayings of the Buddha - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sayings of the Buddha write by Rupert Gethin. This book was released on 2008-10-09. Sayings of the Buddha available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edition offers a new translation of a selection of the Buddha's most important sayings reflecting the full variety of material: biography of the Buddha, narrative, myth, short sayings, philosophical discourse, instruction on morality, meditation, and the spiritual life. It provides an excellent introduction to Buddhist scripture.
The Woman Who Raised the Buddha
The Woman Who Raised the Buddha - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Woman Who Raised the Buddha write by Wendy Garling. This book was released on 2021-03-23. The Woman Who Raised the Buddha available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nautilus Book Award Winner The first full biography of Mahaprajapati Gautami, the woman who raised the Buddha--examining her life through stories and canonical records. Mahaprajapati was the only mother the Buddha ever knew. His birth mother, Maya, died shortly after childbirth, and her sister Mahaprajapati took the infant to her breast, nurturing and raising him into adulthood. While there is a lot of ambiguity overall in the Buddha's biography, this detail remains consistent across all Buddhist traditions and literature. In this first full biography of Mahaprajapati, The Woman Who Raised the Buddha presents her life story, with attention to her early years as sister, queen, matriarch, and mother, as well as her later years as a nun. Drawing from story fragments and canonical records, Wendy Garling reveals just how exceptional Mahaprajapati's role was as leader of the first generation of Buddhist women, helping the Buddha establish an equal community of lay and monastic women and men. Mother to the Buddha, mother to early Buddhist women, mother to the Buddhist faith, Mahaprajapati's journey is finally presented as one interwoven with the founding of Buddhism.
Buddhism
Buddhism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhism write by Peter Harvey. This book was released on 2001-07-05. Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays examines ten core themes from a comparative perspective and thus provides an integrated introduction to the social and spiritual values at the centre of Buddhist thought. Following an introductory chapter, the themes covered are moral decision making, worship, myth and history, the role of women, attitudes to nature, sacred writings, beliefs about human nature, rites of passage, sacred place and the depiction of the divine. Each chapter concludes with a list of recommended further reading.
