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Managing Monks
Administrators and Administrative Roles in Indian Buddhist Monasticism
Inbunden, 2008
1683 kr
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The paradigmatic Buddhist is the monk. It is well known that ideally Buddhist monks are expected to meditate and study-to engage in religious practice. The institutional structure which makes this concentration on spiritual cultivation possible is the monastery. But as a bureaucratic institution, …
Managing Monks
Administrators and Administrative Roles in Indian Buddhist Monasticism
E-bok, 2008
1082 kr
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The paradigmatic Buddhist is the monk. It is well known that ideally Buddhist monks are expected to meditate and study -- to engage in religious practice. The institutional structure which makes this concentration on spiritual cultivation possible is the monastery. But as a bureaucratic …
Materials Toward the Study of Vasubandhu’s Viṁśikā (I)
Sanskrit and Tibetan Critical Editions of the Verses and Autocommentary; An English Translation and Annotations
Inbunden, 2016
265 kr
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The “Twenty Verses on Manifestation-Only” of the Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu (c. 350–430?), his Viṁśíkā, is one of the most important treatises of the Yogācāra school. Accompanied by the author’s own commentary, the text lays out a vision of a “Buddhist Idealism” in which even one’s …
Buddhism in China
Collected Papers of Erik Zürcher
Av Erik Zürcher, Jonathan A. Silk m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
4304 kr
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Buddhism in China gathers together for the first time the most central and influential papers of the great scholar of Chinese Buddhism, Erik Zürcher, presenting the results of his career-long profound studies following on the 1959 publication of his landmark The Buddhist Conquest of China. The …
Buddhism in China
Collected Papers of Erik Zürcher
Av Erik Zürcher, Jonathan A. Silk
Häftad, 2014
1418 kr
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Buddhism in China gathers together for the first time the most central and influential papers of the great scholar of Chinese Buddhism, Erik Zürcher, presenting the results of his career-long profound studies following on the 1959 publication of his landmark The Buddhist Conquest of China. The …
"At the Shores of the Sky"
Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt
Av Paul W. Kroll, Jonathan A. Silk
Inbunden, 2020
1613 kr
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Albert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development and acquisition of manuscripts in Asian Studies for Brill. During that time he has shepherded over 700 books into print and has distinguished …
Chinese Buddhism and the Scholarship of Erik Zürcher
Av Jonathan A. Silk, Stefano Zacchetti†
Inbunden, 2022
2257 kr
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China has a long and complex history of interactions with the world around it. One of the most successful imports—arguably the most successful before modern times and the impact of the West—is Buddhism, which, since the first centuries of the Common Era, has spread into almost every aspect of …
Riven by Lust
Incest and Schism in Indian Buddhist Legend and Historiography
Inbunden, 2008
649 kr
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Riven by Lust explores the tale of a man accused of causing the fundamental schism in early Indian Buddhism, but not before he has sex with his mother and kills his father. In tracing this Indian Buddhist Oedipal tale, Jonathan Silk follows it through texts in all of the major canonical languages …
