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Speaking of Monks: Religious Biography in India and China
ISBN: 9780889625440 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The two essays in this volume explore how monks in medieval India and China wrote about themselves and their fellow monks. Phyllis Granoff translates and discusses biographies and auto-biographies of two Jain monks who lived in the 11th and 14th centure C.E. Dr. Koichi Shinohara tells us how a community of Chinese Buddhists viewed the life of the founder of their group, and how his biography reflected the changes that the community underwent. The essays are a result of a joint research project on religious biographies.
The two essays in this volume explore how monks in medieval India and China wrote about themselves and their fellow monks. Phyllis Granoff translates ...
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Images in Asian Religions: Text and Contexts
ISBN: 9780774809498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The study of images in Asian religions has tended to emphasize the centrality of image worship in both Hinduism and Buddhism. Little attention has been paid, however, to the arguments against such image worship in these religious traditions. This volume offers a comprehensive and balanced look at the role of images in Asian religions, and examines aspects of the reception of image worship that have only begun to be studied. Bringing together anthropologists, art historians, and scholars of religion with interests in India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia, Images in Asian... The study of images in Asian religions has tended to emphasize the centrality of image worship in both Hinduism and Buddhism. Little attention has ... |
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The Journey: Stories by K. C. Dasvolume 48
ISBN: 9780891480815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) K. C. Das is deservedly one of the most celebrated writers in India today. He writes primarily in Oriya, the language of his native state of Orissa, where he was born in 1924. A civil servant by profession, Das pursued a second career as a writer of stories, poems, and essays.
The stories in this collection take place in an urban setting. The characters are mainly middle class, making them more accessible to North American readers than other examples of contemporary Indian fiction. These are not simple stories. They are about "divides," about gaps between realities and imagination. In... K. C. Das is deservedly one of the most celebrated writers in India today. He writes primarily in Oriya, the language of his native state of Orissa, w...
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Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions
ISBN: 9780774810388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians on the subject of sacred place and sacred biography in Asia. The chapters span a broad geographical area that includes India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, and China, and explore issues from the classical and medieval periods to the present. They show how sacred places have a plurality of meanings and how in their construction, secular politics, private religious experience, and sectarian rivalry intersect. Contributors explore the fundamental challenges that religious groups face as they... This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians on the subject of sacred place and sacred biography i... |
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Sins and Sinners: Perspectives from Asian Religions
ISBN: 9789004229464 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Asian religious traditions have always been deeply concerned with sins" and what to do about them. As the essays in this volume illustrate, what Buddhists in Tibet, India, China or Japan, what Jains, Daoists, Hindus or Sikhs considered to be a "sin" was neither one thing, nor exactly what the Abrahamic traditions meant by the term. "Sins"could be both undesireable behavior and unacceptable thoughts. In different contexts, at different times and places, a sin might be a ritual infraction or a violation of a rule of law; it could be a moral failing or a wrong belief. However defined, sins...
Asian religious traditions have always been deeply concerned with sins" and what to do about them. As the essays in this volume illustrate, what Buddh...
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152,50 |
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Clever Adulteress and Other Stories: A Treasure of Jain Literature
ISBN: 9780889624351 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The stories in this collection span almost one thousand years of story-telling in India. Most originate in North India and all were written by Jain monks for the education and amusement of the faithful. Jain literature is both righ and varied. Stories were told in verse and prose, in Sanskrit and in vernacular languages. Some resemble simple folk tales while others are as sophisticated as courtly romances. The stories in Jain literature are about holy men and holy places, famous kings and courtiers and those not often heard in ancient and medieval India--women and toiling villagers. The...
The stories in this collection span almost one thousand years of story-telling in India. Most originate in North India and all were written by Jain mo...
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Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions
ISBN: 9780774810395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians on the subject of sacred place and sacred biography in Asia. The chapters span a broad geographical area that includes India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, and China, and explore issues from the classical and medieval periods to the present. They show how sacred places have a plurality of meanings and how in their construction, secular politics, private religious experience, and sectarian rivalry intersect. Contributors explore the fundamental challenges that religious groups face as they... This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians on the subject of sacred place and sacred biography i... |
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The Forest of Thieves and the Magic Garden: An Anthology of Medieval Jain Stories
ISBN: 9780140455236 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Lively tales of asceticism, wickedness, and virtue from one of India's great religious traditions
Beautifully translated from the Sanskrit, the stories in this volume reflect the vital tradition of Jain storytelling between the seventh and fifteenth centuries. Some of their characters find bliss by renouncing the world, others by living within it in peace and moderation. There are stories depicting the painful consequences of a loved one's becoming a monk and the triumph of Jain women who win their husbands over to their religion. The climactic story follows an unsuspecting... Lively tales of asceticism, wickedness, and virtue from one of India's great religious traditions
Beautifully translated from the Sanskrit... |
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Other Selves: Autobiography and Biography in Cross-Cultural Perspective
ISBN: 9780889625815 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) s the preoccupation with the self as important as people have assumed? This book explores some of the possible answers to this question by studying autobiographical and biographical writings outside the Euro-American tradition. The nine essays were written by six scholars from Canada and the United States. They include specialists in psychoanalysis, ritual studies, Chinese culture, India and Buddhism.
s the preoccupation with the self as important as people have assumed? This book explores some of the possible answers to this question by studying au...
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