The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism
Author | : Uma Chakravarti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Uma Chakravarti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lars Fogelin |
Publisher | : AltaMira Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2006-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0759114447 |
How do archaeologists explore the various dimensions of religion? Lars Fogelin uses archaeological work at Thotlakonda in Southern India as his lens in a broader examination of Buddhist monastic life. He discovers the tension between the desired isolation of the monastery and the mutual engagement with neighbors in the Early Historic Period. He also sketches how religious architectural design and use of landscape helped to shaped these relationships. Drawing on historical accounts, religious documents, and inscriptions, as well as results of his systematic archaeological survey, Fogelin is able to shed new light on the ritual and material workings of Early Buddhism in this region, and shows how archaeology can contribute to our understanding of religious practice.
Author | : Greg Bailey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2003-11-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1139438905 |
Early Buddhism flourished because it was able to take up the challenge represented by buoyant economic conditions and the need for cultural uniformity in the newly emergent states in north-eastern India from the fifth century BCE onwards. This book begins with the apparent inconsistency of Buddhism, a renunciant movement, surviving within a strong urban environment, and draws out the implications of this. In spite of the Buddhist ascetic imperative, the Buddha and other celebrated monks moved easily through various levels of society and fitted into the urban landscape they inhabited. The Sociology of Early Buddhism tells how and why the early monks were able to exploit the social and political conditions of mid-first millennium north-eastern India in such a way as to ensure the growth of Buddhism into a major world religion. Its readership lies both within Buddhist studies and more widely among historians, sociologists and anthropologists of religion.
Author | : Hsiao-Lan Hu |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2011-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1438439342 |
Offering a feminist analysis of foundational Buddhist texts, along with a Buddhist approach to social issues in a globalized world, Hsiao-Lan Hu revitalizes Buddhist social ethics for contemporary times. Hu's feminist exegesis references the Nikāya-s from the "Discourse Basket" of the Pāli Canon. These texts, among the earliest in the Buddhist canon, are considered to contain the sayings of the Buddha and his disciples and are recognized by all Buddhist schools. At the heart of the ethics that emerges is the Buddhist notion of interdependent co-arising, which addresses the sexism, classism, and frequent overemphasis on individual liberation, as opposed to communal well-being, for which Buddhism has been criticized. Hu notes the Buddha's challenge to social hierarchies during his life and compares the notion of "non-Self" to the poststructuralist feminist rejection of the autonomous subject, maintaining that neither dissolves moral responsibility or agency. Notions of kamma, nibbāna, and dukkha (suffering) are discussed within the communal context offered by insights from interdependent co-arising and the Noble Eightfold Path. This work uniquely bridges the worlds of Buddhism, feminism, social ethics, and activism and will be of interest to scholars, students, and readers in all of these areas.
Author | : Vishwanath Prasad Varma |
Publisher | : New Delhi] : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Buddha (The concept) |
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Author | : David J. Kalupahana |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788120832800 |
Throughout the centuries, moral philosophers, both Eastern and Western, considered a permanent and eternal law a necessary requirement for the formulation of a moral principle. If such a law was not empirically given, it had to be determined through reason. In contrast, early Buddhism presented a radical theory of impermanence. Interpreters of early Buddhism have been unable to abandon the presupposition of permanence, however, and hence have persisted in viewing nirvana or freedom as a permanent and eternal state to be contrasted with the impermanent world of sensory experience and bondage. Ethics in Early Buddhism is David J. Kalupahana's balanced and brilliantly concise attempt to place the early Buddhist descriptions of the world of experience, the state of freedom, and the moral principle leading to such freedom within the framework of impermanence.
Author | : Kamala Tiyavanich |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2007-08-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0861715365 |
A preacher must have common sense, knowing how to turn everyday life experience into Dharma lessons, and assess an audience to maximize communications with them. "Sons of the Buddha" shows how three boys evolved into remarkable exponents of this ideal. Filled with lively anecdotes and illustrations, and brimming with local color, the book shows how each worked successfully to change moral attitudes and Dharma practices, restore Buddhism's social dimension, bridge the divide between laypeople and monastics, and champion tolerance toward other religions.
Author | : Trevor Ling |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 1979-03-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1349160547 |
Author | : Bodhi |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-12-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1614293732 |
In a world of conflict and strife, how can we be advocates of peace and justice? In this volume acclaimed scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi has collected and translated the Buddha’s teachings on conflict resolution, interpersonal and social problem-solving, and the forging of harmonious relationships. The selections, all drawn from the Pali Canon, the earliest record of the Buddha’s discourses, are organized into ten thematic chapters. The chapters deal with such topics as the quelling of anger, good friendship, intentional communities, the settlement of disputes, and the establishing of an equitable society. Each chapter begins with a concise and informative introduction by the translator that guides us toward a deeper understanding of the texts that follow. In times of social conflict, intolerance, and war, the Buddha’s approach to creating and sustaining peace takes on a new and urgent significance. Even readers unacquainted with Buddhism will appreciate these ancient teachings, always clear, practical, undogmatic, and so contemporary in flavor. The Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony will prove to be essential reading for anyone seeking to bring peace into their communities and into the wider world.
Author | : Hans Wolfgang Schumann |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788120818170 |
No man has had a greater inflience on the spiritual development of his people than Siddartha Gautama. Born in India in the sixth century BC into a nation hungry for spiritual experience, he developed a religious and moral teaching that, to this day, brings comfort and peace to all who practise it. This comprehensive biography examines the social, religious and political conditions that gave rise to Buddhism as we now know it.