Mahayana 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 Mahayana Buddhism write by Paul Williams. This book was released on 2008-07-11. Mahayana Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originating in India, Mahayana Buddhism spread across Asia, becoming the prevalent form of Buddhism in Tibet and East Asia. Over the last twenty-five years Western interest in Mahayana has increased considerably, reflected both in the quantity of scholarly material produced and in the attraction of Westerners towards Tibetan Buddhism and Zen. Paul Williams’ Mahayana Buddhism is widely regarded as the standard introduction to the field, used internationally for teaching and research and has been translated into several European and Asian languages. This new edition has been fully revised throughout in the light of the wealth of new studies and focuses on the religion’s diversity and richness. It includes much more material on China and Japan, with appropriate reference to Nepal, and for students who wish to carry their study further there is a much-expanded bibliography and extensive footnotes and cross-referencing. Everyone studying this important tradition will find Williams’ book the ideal companion to their studies.
Outlines of Mahaŷâna Buddhism
Outlines of Mahaŷâna 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 Outlines of Mahaŷâna Buddhism write by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. This book was released on 1907. Outlines of Mahaŷâna Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Exploring the Life and Teachings of Mahayana Buddhists in Asia
Exploring the Life and Teachings of Mahayana Buddhists in Asia - 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 Exploring the Life and Teachings of Mahayana Buddhists in Asia write by Ampere A. Tseng. This book was released on 2020. Exploring the Life and Teachings of Mahayana Buddhists in Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Buddhism is one of the world's oldest and largest religions having about 490 million followers. Mahayana Buddhists represent approximately two-thirds of the total Buddhist population. A large portion of Mahayanists resides in East Asia. They cannot be said to follow an undivided doctrine and have a unified religious lifestyle. Mahayana Buddhism, rather, consists of a multitude of ideas and practices with its followers holding various behaviors and attitudes. This book explores the lives and teachings of Mahayana Buddhists, who reside in Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Myanmar, as well as in the ancient Gandhara region (today's north Pakistan and east Afghanistan). The time frame covered is from the beginning of the Mahayana movement in the Ancient Gandhara region in the first several centuries of the Common Era to the present-day lifestyle and practices of the Mahayanists as they respond to 2020's COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the historical and doctrinal views of Mahayana Buddhism, the book features thematic chapters on topics, such as pandemic responses, Mahayana scriptures and sculptures, modern Mahayana teachings, charity, suicide, and ethnicity. The book also considers such social constructs as family and community and modern Buddhist movements in reshaping the traditional structures and cosmological beliefs of Chinese Mahayanists. In sum, this book is a unique effort to define the nature of Mahayana Buddhist life in the past and in the present as well as its teaching in Asia. It does so from various multidisciplinary perspectives"--
A History of Indian Buddhism
A History of Indian 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 A History of Indian Buddhism write by Akira Hirakawa. This book was released on 1993. A History of Indian Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive and detailed survey of the first six centuries of Indian Buddhism sums up the results of a lifetime of research and reflection by one of Japan's most renowned scholars of Buddhism.
Power, Wealth and Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism
Power, Wealth and Women in Indian Mahayana 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 Power, Wealth and Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism write by Douglas Osto. This book was released on 2008-11-19. Power, Wealth and Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the concepts of power, wealth and women in the important Mahayana Buddhist scripture known as the Gandavyuha-sutra, and relates these to the text’s social context in ancient Indian during the Buddhist Middle Period (0–500 CE). Employing contemporary textual theory, worldview analysis and structural narrative theory, the author puts forward a new approach to the study of Mahayana Buddhist sources, the ‘systems approach’, by which literature is viewed as embedded in a social system. Consequently, he analyses the Gandavyuha in the contexts of reality, society and the individual, and applies these notions to the key themes of power, wealth and women. The study reveals that the spiritual hierarchy represented within the Gandavyuha replicates the political hierarchies in India during Buddhism’s Middle Period, that the role of wealth mirrors its significance as a sign of spiritual status in Indian Buddhist society, and that the substantial number of female spiritual guides in the narrative reflects the importance of royal women patrons of Indian Buddhism at the time. This book will appeal to higher-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars of religious studies, Buddhist studies, Asian studies, South Asian studies and Indology.
