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Author | : Juhn Y. Ahn |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2018-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295743409 |
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Two issues central to the transition from the Koryo to the Choson dynasty in fourteenth-century Korea were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism, which had been the state religion. In this revisionist history, Juhn Ahn challenges the long-accepted Confucian critique that Buddhism had become so powerful and corrupt that the state had to suppress it. When newly rising elites (many with strong ties to the Mongols) used lavish donations to Buddhist institutions to enhance their status, older elites defended their own adherence to this time-honored system by arguing that their donations were linked to virtue. This emphasis on virtue and the consequent separation of religion from wealth facilitated the Confucianization of Korea and the relegation of Buddhism to the margins of public authority during the Choson dynasty.
Author | : Juhn Young Ahn |
Publisher | : Korean Studies of the Henry M. |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780295743387 |
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"Two issues central to the transition from the Koryo to the Choson dynasty in fourteenth-century Korea were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism, which had been the state religion. In this revisionist history, Juhn Ahn challenges the long-accepted Confucian critique that Buddhism had become so powerful and corrupt that the state had to suppress it, finding instead that the separation of religion from wealth facilitated the Confucianization of Korea and the relegation of Buddhism to the margins of public authority."--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Edward Joseph Thomas |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780486411323 |
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This scholarly work offers a fascinating examination of the lore surrounding the life of Buddha. From his ancestry, birth, and youth to his final days, it chronicles Buddha's preaching, his 20 years' wandering, the establishment of rival schools of philosophy, and much more -- including thought-provoking perspectives on Buddhism as religion and philosophy.
Author | : Edward Joseph Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Buddha (The concept) |
ISBN | : |
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A fascinating and authoritative account of all that is known of the life of the great teacher.
Author | : Edward Joseph Thomas |
Publisher | : Asian Educational Services |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788120609792 |
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GAUTAMA BUDDHA - BIOGRAPHY, CHRISTIANTY & OTHER RELIGIONS, BUDDHISM
Author | : Donald S. Lopez Jr. |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2013-04-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0226493202 |
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We have come to admire Buddhism for being profound but accessible, as much a lifestyle as a religion. The credit for creating Buddhism goes to the Buddha, a figure widely respected across the Western world for his philosophical insight, his teachings of nonviolence, and his practice of meditation. But who was this Buddha, and how did he become the Buddha we know and love today? Leading historian of Buddhism Donald S. Lopez Jr. tells the story of how various idols carved in stone—variously named Beddou, Codam, Xaca, and Fo—became the man of flesh and blood that we know simply as the Buddha. He reveals that the positive view of the Buddha in Europe and America is rather recent, originating a little more than a hundred and fifty years ago. For centuries, the Buddha was condemned by Western writers as the most dangerous idol of the Orient. He was a demon, the murderer of his mother, a purveyor of idolatry. Lopez provides an engaging history of depictions of the Buddha from classical accounts and medieval stories to the testimonies of European travelers, diplomats, soldiers, and missionaries. He shows that centuries of hostility toward the Buddha changed dramatically in the nineteenth century, when the teachings of the Buddha, having disappeared from India by the fourteenth century, were read by European scholars newly proficient in Asian languages. At the same time, the traditional view of the Buddha persisted in Asia, where he was revered as much for his supernatural powers as for his philosophical insights. From Stone to Flesh follows the twists and turns of these Eastern and Western notions of the Buddha, leading finally to his triumph as the founder of a world religion.
Author | : W. Woodhill Rockhill |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136379371 |
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First Published in 2000. The analysis of the Tibetan Bkah-hgyur by Alexander Csoma de Koros, struck its readers with the wonderful patience and perseverance of this extraordinary scholar. Csoma's premature death, prevented him examining as fully as we could have desired the Tibetan Bstan-hgyur, to elucidate the difficulties which so frequently beset the canonical works in the Bkah-hgyur. Throughout this volume no attempt has been made to criticise the texts which have been studied; they are only intended as materials for those who hereafter may undertake to write a history of the Buddha.
Author | : William Woodville Rockhill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Buddha (The concept) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert DeCaroli |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2004-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0198037651 |
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Early European histories of India frequently reflected colonialist agendas. The idea that Indian society had declined from an earlier Golden Age helped justify the colonial presence. It was said, for example, that modern Buddhism had fallen away from its original identity as a purely rational philosophy that arose in the mythical 5th-century BCE Golden Age unsullied by the religious and cultural practices that surrounded it. In this book Robert DeCaroli seeks to place the formation of Buddhism in its appropriate social and political contexts. It is necessary, he says, to acknowledge that the monks and nuns who embodied early Buddhist ideals shared many beliefs held by the communities in which they were raised. In becoming members of the monastic society these individuals did not abandon their beliefs in the efficacy and the dangers represented by minor deities and spirits of the dead. Their new faith, however, gave them revolutionary new mechanisms with which to engage those supernatural beings. Drawing on fieldwork, textual, and iconographic evidence, DeCaroli offers a comprehensive view of early Indian spirit-religions and their contributions to Buddhism-the first attempt at such a study since Ananda Coomaraswamy's pioneering work was published in 1928. The result is an important contribution to our understanding of early Indian religion and society, and will be of interest to those in the fields of Buddhist studies, Asian history, art history, and anthropology.