Contents: (i) The system of the universe (ii) The various orders of sentient existence (iii) The Buddhas who preceded Gotama (iv) The primitive inhabitants of the earth; their fall from purity; and their division into four castes (v) Gotama Bodhisat; his virturs and states of being (vi) The ancestors of Gotama Budha. (vii) The legendary life of Gotama Budha (viii) The dignity, virtues and power...

Monastic discipline for the Buddhist nuns, an English tr. of the Chinese text of the Mahasamghika Bhiksuni-Vinaya

Hirakawa, Akira

Monastic life of the early Buddhist nuns

Barua, Subhra

The book covered a long period of history of the position of women in general, ascetic women found before the advent of Gautama Buddha and the women recluses in an well organised order called Bhikkhuni of Samgha of ancient India.;

Barhut Book 1: Stone as a story-teller

Barua, Benimadhab

ISBN: 9788182060562, 8182060567

The book is a detailed study on the architecture and sculptures of the Buddhist stupas of Bharhut, Madhya Pradesh. It deals primarily with three aspects of the stupas.

Myth and memory: untold stories of Bhutan

Tashi, Tshering

ISBN: 9789937589109, 993758910X

This is a collection of 67 absorbing articles on unwritten historical and cultural aspects of Bhutan. The author has managed to skillfully combine the journalist's eye for the unusual with the historian's eye for context. Every piece is brought to life by revealing pictures, including rare ones from India Office Library, British Library in London. ;

Nalanda, Srivijaya and beyond: re-exploring Buddhist art in Asia, ed. by Gauri Parimoo Krishnan

ISBN: 9789810999124, 9810999127

Focusing on ancient monastic centres and temples such as Nalanda, Mainamati, Kizil, Kedah, Dulesi, and Longxingsi Dabeige, papers in this volume offer newer perspectives on aspects of text-image-inscription correlation. This volume is an attempt at interdisciplinary study of cross-cultural trails that lead to localized Buddhist patterns and artistic diversities.

New light on early Buddhism

Gokhale, Balkrishna Govind

ISBN: 9788171545728, 8171545726

Contents: (i) On Buddhist historiography (ii) The Samgha and the laity (iii) Early Buddhism and the Brahmanas (iv) Early Buddhism and the urban revolution (v) The early Buddhist elite (vi) Bhakti in early Buddhism (vii) Aesthetic ideas in early Buddhism (viii) The miraculous, superhuman and supernormal in early Buddhism (ix) Early Buddhist kingship (x) The early Buddhist view of the state (xi) ...

Newar Buddhism: history, scholarship and literature

Thapa, Shanker (b.1957)

ISBN: 9789994685301, 9994685309

Contents: (i) Buddhism in ancient and medieval Nepal. (ii) Development of Newar Buddhist scholarship. (iii) Newar scholars and the Tibetan Buddhists. (iv) Buddhist manuscripts: the glory of Newar Buddhism.

Nirvana: Buddhist pilgrimages in India, photographs by P.K. De

Sen Gupta, Subhadra

ISBN: 9788129106674, 8129106671

The book presents the life and teachings of Buddha and brief introductions to the various Buddhist pilgrimage centres: Bodh-Gaya, Sarnath, Kushinagar, Lumbini, Kapilavastu, Rajgriha, Vaishali, Sravasti, Nalanda, Sanchi and Ajanta.

Buddha Rashmi Vesak volume: essays in Buddhism and Buddhist monastic archaeology

Gunawardhana, Prishanta et al.

ISBN: 9789556133301, 9556133305

Buddhism in Iran and Afghanistan through the ages

Haldar, Manikuntala

ISBN: 9789384721619, 9384721611

Buddhist Monasteries of South Asia and China

ISBN: 9789350981603, 9350981602

This volume contains 18 papers that were presented by leading archaeologists and art historians from South Asia and China at an international conference on `Buddhist Monasteries in South Asia and China' organised by the Society for Buddhist Art and Archaeology (SBAA) in New Delhi in December 2015.

Northern Buddhism in history

Thapa, Shanker (ed.)

ISBN: 9789937506137, 9937506131

A collection of articles written on various themes related to Buddhist history of countries where prominent tradition is the Mahayana.

On the Nalanda Trail: Buddhism in India, China & Southeast Asia

Krishnan, Gauri Parimoo

ISBN: 9789810595692, 9810595697

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