Eastern Religions
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Buddhism: History and Diversity of a Great Tradition [Paperback]
John Lyons (Author)
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Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan [Hardback]
Hiromitsu Washizuka (Author);Kang Woo-Bang (Author);Tanabe Saburosuke (Author);Kim Lena (Author)
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ISBN: 9780913304549
Published by : Harry N Abrams B.V.
Comparing Korean and Japanese Buddhist art, this volume explores the cultural, ideological and artistic exchange between the two countries during the 6th-9th centuries, when Buddhism took hold throughout northeast Asia. Buddhist sculptures in g... .... Learn More -
Tibet: Kloester oeffnen ihre Schatzkammern [Hardback]
$63.00ISBN: 9783777431154
Published by : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Accompanying an exhibition of Tibetan Buddhist art from the 5th through the early 20th century, this catalogue shows
objects of art from collections and monasteries of central Tibet. It focuses on representations of the most important
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The Kilaya Nirvana Tantra and the Vajra Wrath Tantra: Two Texts from the Ancient Tantra Collection [Paperback]
Cathy Cantwell (Author); Robert Mayer (Author)
$98.00ISBN: 9783700136781
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Denkschriften der Phil.-Hist. Klasse
Volume: 349
The (rNying ma'i rgyud 'bum) contains many of the oldest examples of Tantric literature in Tibetan. It also contains many of the most important examples of Buddhist Tantric literature surviving in any language. Its contribution to Tibetan relig... .... Learn More -
Penser lautorité des Écritures: La polémique de Dharmakirti contre la notion brahmanique orthodoxe d'un Veda sans auteur [Paperback]
Vincent Eltschinger (Author)
$83.00ISBN: 9783700137825
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: BEITRäGE ZUR KULTUR- UND GEISTESGESCHICHTE ASIENS
Volume: 56
Seven works by the Buddhist philosopher Dharmakirti (ca. 600-660 CE) are still nearly completely extant in their original Sanskrit. For the most part they deal with logic, theories of perception and Buddhism. The Prama?avarttikam with its prose... .... Learn More -
Symbiosis of Buddhism with Brahmanism/Hinduism in South Asia and of Buddhism with "local cults" in Tibet and the Himalayan region [Paperback]
David Seyford Ruegg (Author)
$54.00ISBN: 9783700160571
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Sitzungsberichte der Phil.-Hist. Klasse
Volume: 774
This book is concerned with the complex and indeed difficult question of the relationship between Buddhism and Brahmanism/Hinduism (Vedism, Shivaism, Vishnuism, etc.) in India, and between Buddhism and local religious cults in Tibet and certai... .... Learn More -
Early Tibetan Documents on Phur pa from Dunhuang [Paperback]
Cathy Cantwell (Author); R. Mayer (Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9783700161004
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens
Volume: 63
The exact circumstances of the emergence of what are now known as the rNying ma traditions of Tibetan Buddhism remain among the least clearly defined areas of Tibetan history for modern scholarship. What has made the early history of rNying ma ... .... Learn More -
The Inception of Yogacara-Vijnanavada [Paperback]
Hartmut Buescher (Author)
$74.00ISBN: 9783700160991
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens
Volume: 62
Often designated as Yoga-ca-ra, Vijña-nava-da, or Yoga-ca-ra-Vijña-nava-da, the second comprehensive branch of philosophical development within Indian Maha-ya-na Buddhism generated a large textual corpus of considerable conceptual heterogeneit... .... Learn More -
Alttuerkische Handschriften: Teil 12: Die uigurischen Blockdrucke der Berliner Turfansammlung Teil 2: Apokryphen, Mahayana-Sutren, Erzählungen, Magische Texte, Kommentare und Kolophone [Hardback]
Abdurishid Yakup (Author)
$102.00ISBN: 9783515092333
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD)
Volume: 13.2
This volume publishes and describes Uyghur (Old Turkic) block prints from the Berlin Turfan collection, which form an important corpus of Central Asian Buddhist literature of the 13th and 14th centuries. They fall into six categories: apocrypha... .... Learn More -
Tibetische Handschriften und Blockdrucke: Teil 14: (Die mTshur-phu-Ausgabe der Sammlung Rin-chen gter-mdzod chen-mo, nach dem Exemplar der Orientabteilung, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Hs or 778, Bände 51 bis 63) [Hardback]
Karl-Heinz Everding (Author)
$109.00ISBN: 9783515073486
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD)
Volume: 11.14
Mit dieser Arbeit wird die fuenfbändige Beschreibung des Rin-chen gter-mdzod, der umfangreichsten Werksammlung tibetischer apokrypher Schriften (gter-ma), abgeschlossen. Sie eröffnet auch dem nicht-tibetisch sprechenden Interessenten erstmals e... .... Learn More