Greater Magadha - 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 Greater Magadha write by Johannes Bronkhorst. This book was released on 2007. Greater Magadha available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through a detailed analysis of the available cultural and chronological data, this book overturns traditional ideas about the cultural history of India and proposes a different picture instead. The idea of a unilinear development out of Brahmanism, in particular, is challenged.
Greater Magadha
Greater Magadha - 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 Greater Magadha write by Johannes Bronkhorst. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Greater Magadha available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Greater Magadha, roughly the eastern part of the Gangetic plain of northern India, has so far been looked upon as deeply indebted to Brahmanical culture. Religions such as Buddhism and Jainism are thought of as derived, in one way or another, from Vedic religion. This belief is defective in various respects. The book argues for the importance and independence of Greater Magadha as a cultural area until a date close to the beginning of the Common Era. In order to correct the incorrect notions, two types of questions are dealt with: questions pertaining to cultural and religious dependencies, and questions relating to chronology. As a result a modified picture arises that also has a bearing on the further development of Indian culture. The book is arranged in five parts. Part-I describes cultural features of Greater Magadha, under which there are three chapters-The Fundamental Spiritual Ideology, Other Features and Conclusions. Part-II: Brahmanism vis-a-vis Rebirth and Karmic Retribution has three sections- Hesitantly Accepted, Rebirth and Karmic Retribution Ignored or Rejected, and Urban Brahmins. Under section one there are chapters on„ Dharma Sutra, a portion from the Mahabharata and the early Upanisads. Section two features chapters on Rebirth and Karmic Retribution Ignored and Rebirth and Karmic Retribution Rejected. Section three is on urban Brahmins. Part-III dwells on the chronological issues, - linguistic consideration, the Vedic texts known to the early Sanskrit grammarians, to the early Buddhists, some indications in late-Vedic literature, urban versus rural culture, etc. Part-IV is Conclusion, while Part V has useful appendices-The antiquity of the Vedanta philosophy, a Carvaka in the Mahabharata, Vedic texts known to panini, the form of the Rgveda known to Panini, Vedic texts known to Patanjali, Brahmins in the Buddhist canon, Brahmanism in Gandhara and surrounding and Carvakas and the Sabarabhasya
Buddhist Teaching in India
Buddhist Teaching in India - 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 Buddhist Teaching in India write by Johannes Bronkhorst. This book was released on 2013-02-08. Buddhist Teaching in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The earliest records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death, and the body of teachings attributed to him continued to evolve in India for centuries afterward across a shifting cultural and political landscape. As one tradition within a diverse religious milieu that included even the Greek kingdoms of northwestern India, Buddhism had many opportunities to both influence and be influenced by competing schools of thought. Even within Buddhism, a proliferation of interpretive traditions produced a dynamic intellectual climate. Johannes Bronkhorst here tracks the development of Buddhist teachings both within the larger Indian context and among Buddhism's many schools, shedding light on the sources and trajectory of such ideas as dharma theory, emptiness, the bodhisattva ideal, buddha nature, formal logic, and idealism. In these pages, we discover the roots of the doctrinal debates that have animated the Buddhist tradition up until the present day.
Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism
Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism - 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 in the Shadow of Brahmanism write by Johannes Bronkhorst. This book was released on 2011-02-14. Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book deals with the confrontation of Buddhism and Brahmanism in India. Both depended on support from the royal court, but Buddhism had less to offer in return than Brahmanism. Buddhism developed in a manner to make up for this.
How the Brahmins Won
How the Brahmins Won - 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 How the Brahmins Won write by Johannes Bronkhorst. This book was released on 2016-03-21. How the Brahmins Won available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first study to systematically confront the question how Brahmanism, which was geographically limited and under threat during the final centuries BCE, transformed itself and spread all over South and Southeast Asia. Brahmanism spread over this vast area without the support of an empire, without the help of conquering armies, and without the intermediary of religious missionaries. This phenomenon has no parallel in world history, yet shaped a major portion of the surface of the earth for a number of centuries. This book focuses on the formative period of this phenomenon, roughly between Alexander and the Guptas.
