Eastern Religions
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Doctrinal Backgrounds of Vipassana-Meditation: Insight in Current Methods and According to Canonical Sources [Paperback]
R.C. Van Oosterwijk (Author)
$27.00ISBN: 9789491431098
Published by : Barkhuis
Vipassanā-meditation (or practice) has become popular in South East Asia and the West. However, these practices aiming at reaching insight are taught in many varieties. The focus of this book is on the doctrinal sources of a number of vipassanā-pr... .... Learn More -
Tibetische Handschriften und Blockdrucke: Teil 15: Die mTshur-phu-Ausgabe der Sammlung Rin-chen gter-mdzod chen-mo, nach dem Exemplar der Orientabteilung, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Hs or 1. Gesamtindex [Hardback]
Saadet Arslan (Editor)
$104.00ISBN: 9783515098403
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD)
Volume: 11.15
English summary: The apocryphal literature developed over the centuries by the old school of Tibetan Buddhism was summarized in large part in the collection of Rin-chen gter-mdzod. Particular merit must be given to the 19th Century eastern ... .... Learn More -
A Unique Collection of Twenty Sutras in a Sanskrit Manuscript from the Potala. Volume I/1+ [Paperback]
Vinitia Tseng (Author)
$177.00ISBN: 9783700169062
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: SANSKRIT TEXTS FROM THE TIBETAN AUTONOMOUS REGION
Volume: 7
This collection is unique not only in that it preserves twelve codices unici of hitherto unknown sutras, but also in its thematic selection which leads to some interesting and hitherto unforeseen insights. Volume I includes critical edit... .... Learn More -
The Prajna-pa-ramita: Literature in Old Uyghur [Paperback]
Abdurishid Yakup (Editor)
$174.00ISBN: 9782503528885
Published by : Brepols
Series: BERLINER TURFANTEXTE
Volume: 28
The seven texts edited in this volume give new insights into the Prajnaparamita literature in Old Uyghur, an important corpus of Old Uyghur Buddhist texts. The volume presents each text with a transcription, transliteration and translation into... .... Learn More -
Im Osten des Meeres: Chinesische Emigrantenmönche und die fruehen Institutionen des japanischen Zen-Buddhismus [Paperback]
Steffen Doll (Author)
$57.00ISBN: 9783515097949
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Münchener Ostasiatische Studien
Volume: 84
English summary: Recent studies on Japanese Zen are often based on a mythological reading of its history. Thus, historical forms that run contrary to today's understanding of Zen are marginalized. Steffen Döll dedicated himself to one of th... .... Learn More -
Vagisvarakirtis Mrtyuvancanopadesa, eine buddhistische Lehrschrift zur Abwehr des Todes [Paperback]
J. Schneider (Editor)
$111.00ISBN: 9783700167228
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Denkschriften der Phil.-Hist. Klasse
Volume: 394
Vagisvarakirti was an Indian scholar of the 10th/11th century and one of the great Tantric masters of his time. He reckoned among the so-called "six doorkeepers," eminent teachers of the Buddhist monastery of Vikramasila. The Mrtyuvañcanopad... .... Learn More -
Alttuerkische Handschriften, Teil 10: Buddhistische Erzähltexte [Hardback]
Jens Wilkens (Author)
$112.00ISBN: 9783515096669
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD)
Volume: 13.18
English summary: From a numerical perspective and in terms of its substantive meaning, Buddhist narrative literature takes a special place amongst Old Turkic (Old Uighur) manuscripts. This volume for the first time catalogs all published an... .... Learn More -
Adhyardhasatika Prajnaparamita: Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts (Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region, No. 5) [Paperback]
Toru Tomabechi (Author)
$60.00ISBN: 9783700166535
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: SANSKRIT TEXTS FROM THE TIBETAN AUTONOMOUS REGION
Volume: 5
The Adhyardhasatika Prajnaparamita is one of the most influential and revered scriptures in East-Asian esoteric Buddhism. Known as the Rishukyo, this sktra, in its Chinese version by Amoghavajra, has for centuries been at the core of the Shin... .... Learn More -
Candrakirti's Vajrasattvanispadansutra (Vajrasattvsadhana) [Paperback]
Luo Hong (Editor); Toru Tomabechi (Editor)
$45.00ISBN: 9783700167969
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: SANSKRIT TEXTS FROM THE TIBETAN AUTONOMOUS REGION
Volume: 6
This is the first critical edition of the Sanskrit text together with the Tibetan translation of the Vajrasattvanispadanasutra (VS) ascribed to the Buddhist tantristic author Candrakirti. The text deals with the process of meditational ... .... Learn More -
Buddhist Stupas in South Asia: Recent Archaeological, Art-Historical, and Historical Perspectives [Hardback]
Akira Shimada (Author);Jason Hawkes (Author)
Regular Price: $60.00
Special Price: $19.98
ISBN: 9780195698862
Published by : Oxford University Press
Bringing together the latest research on stupas in South Asia, this volume includes new conceptual paradigms as well as new approaches to monuments, sculpture, material culture, and textual interpretation. The collection utilizes archaeological... .... Learn More