Mahayana Myths and Stories - 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 Myths and Stories write by Sangharakshita. This book was released on 2017-03-20. Mahayana Myths and Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sangharakshita introduces us to the wonderful world of three of the best-loved Mahayana sutras - a world from which we emerge with treasures in the form of teachings and advice that are a great support in how to live our lives in the everyday world. From the transcendental critique of religion and the means of unification offered by the Vimalakirti-nirdesa to the light shed on economics, ecology and politics by the Sutra of Golden Light, these commentaries offer a unique and deeply meaningful perspective on the value of human existence.
Drama of Cosmic Enlightenment
Drama of Cosmic Enlightenment - 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 Drama of Cosmic Enlightenment write by Sangharakshita. This book was released on 2014-05-13. Drama of Cosmic Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the White Lotus Sutra, bursting with symbols, imagery and myths, we meet the Buddha as a story-teller. This sutra tells the greatest of all stories, that of human life and human potential. This great story takes the cosmos as its stage and all sentient beings as its players. This delightfully illustrated commentary on one of the most influential, revered and well-loved Buddhist scriptures brings these stories vividly to life and shows how they relate to our own spiritual quest.
Nagarjuna in Context
Nagarjuna in Context - 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 Nagarjuna in Context write by Joseph Walser. This book was released on 2005-05-11. Nagarjuna in Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Joseph Walser provides the first examination of Nagarjuna's life and writings in the context of the religious and monastic debates of the second century CE. Walser explores how Nagarjuna secured the canonical authority of Mahayana teachings and considers his use of rhetoric to ensure the transmission of his writings by Buddhist monks. Drawing on close textual analysis of Nagarjuna's writings and other Buddhist and non-Buddhist sources, Walser offers an original contribution to the understanding of Nagarjuna and the early history of Buddhism.
Myths and Fictions
Myths and Fictions - 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 Myths and Fictions write by Schlomo Biderman. This book was released on 1993. Myths and Fictions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Myths and Fictions" - the third in a series of books on comparative philosophy and religion - is a collection of original essays, none previously published, on the theory and the actuality of myths and fictions in the different cultures of the world. Through all the essays there runs the question of the relation of literal truth to truth conceived in other ways or dimensions. Taken as a whole, the book makes a serious attempt to get beyond the confines of any single culture and enter into the mythical imagination of the ancient Hindus, Chinese, Hebrews and Christians, and by this act of imagination to escape (in Italo Calvino's words) "the limited perspective of the individual ego, not only to enter into selves like our own but to give speech to that which has no language..."
Myths and Legends [of] Hindus and Buddhists
Myths and Legends [of] Hindus and Buddhists - 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 Myths and Legends [of] Hindus and Buddhists write by Sister Nivedita. This book was released on 2014-03. Myths and Legends [of] Hindus and Buddhists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Is A New Release Of The Original 1913 Edition.
