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11 produkter
Buddhist Magic
Divination, Healing, and Enchantment through the Ages
Häftad, 2020
187 kr
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A fascinating exploration of the role that magic has played in the history of Buddhism As far back as we can see in the historical record, Buddhist monks and nuns have offered services including healing, divination, rain making, aggressive magic, and love magic to local clients. Studying this …
Spirit of Tibetan Buddhism
Häftad, 2016
184 kr
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A leading writer and researcher on Tibet, Sam van Schaik offers an accessible and authoritative introduction to Tibetan Buddhism by examining its key texts, from its origins in the eighth century to teachings practiced across the world today. In addition to demonstrating its richness and historical …
Manuscripts and Travellers
The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim
Av Sam van Schaik, Imre Galambos
Inbunden, 2011
2394 kr
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This study is based on a manuscript which was carried by a Chinese monk through the monasteries of the Hexi corridor, as part of his pilgrimage from Wutaishan to India. The manuscript has been created as a composite object from three separate documents, with Chinese and Tibetan texts on them. …
Tibetan Chan Manuscripts
SRIFIAS Papers on Central Eurasia #1 (41)
Häftad, 2022
205 kr
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A complete catalogue of Tibetan Chan Texts in the Dunhuang Manuscript Collections
Tibet
A History
Häftad, 2013
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190 kr
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A timely and illuminating history of Tibet, from the seventh century to what it means to be Tibetan todaySituated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the twenty-first century can only be properly …
Spirit of Zen
Häftad, 2018
174 kr
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An engaging introduction to Zen Buddhism, featuring a new English translation of one of the earliest Zen textsLeading Buddhist scholar Sam van Schaik explores the history and essence of Zen, based on a new translation of one of the earliest surviving collections of teachings by Zen masters. These …
Tibetan Zen
Discovering a Lost Tradition
E-bok, 2015
240 kr
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Until the early twentieth century, hardly any traces of the Tibetan tradition of Chinese Chan Buddhism, or Zen, remained. Then the discovery of a sealed cave in Dunhuang, full of manuscripts in various languages dating from the first millennium CE, transformed our understanding of early Zen. This …
Precious Treasures from the Diamond Throne
Finds from the Site of the Buddha’s Enlightenment
Av Sam van Schaik, Daniela De Simone m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
561 kr
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The Mahābodhi temple at Bodhgayā in eastern India has long been recognised as the place where the Buddha sat in meditation and attained enlightenment. The site, soon identified as the ‘Diamond Throne’ or vajrāsana, became a destination for pilgrims and a focus of religious attention for more than …
Approaching the Great Perfection
Simultaneous and Gradual Methods of Dzogchen Practice in the Longchen Nyingtig
E-bok, 2013
346 kr
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Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, is the highest meditative practice of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. Approaching the Great Perfection looks at a seminal figure of this lineage, Jigme Lingpa, an eighteenth-century scholar and meditation master whose cycle of teachings, the Longchen …
Manuscripts and Travellers
The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim
Av Imre Galambos, Sam van Schaik
E-bok, 2011
2655 kr
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This study is based on a manuscript which was carried by a Chinese monk through the monasteries of the Hexi corridor, as part of his pilgrimage from Wutaishan to India. The manuscript has been created as a composite object from three separate documents, with Chinese and Tibetan texts on them. …
