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Author : Yukiyo Kasai
Release : 2019
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Book Synopsis Five Old Uyghur Abhidharma Texts Containing Brāhmī Elements by : Yukiyo Kasai
Download or read book Five Old Uyghur Abhidharma Texts Containing Brāhmī Elements written by Yukiyo Kasai. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Powers
Release : 2009-06-19
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis A Bull of a Man by : John Powers
Download or read book A Bull of a Man written by John Powers. This book was released on 2009-06-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The androgynous, asexual Buddha of contemporary popular imagination stands in stark contrast to the muscular, virile, and sensual figure presented in Indian Buddhist texts. In early Buddhist literature and art, the Buddha’s perfect physique and sexual prowess are important components of his legend as the world’s “ultimate man.” He is both the scholarly, religiously inclined brahman and the warrior ruler who excels in martial arts, athletic pursuits, and sexual exploits. The Buddha effortlessly performs these dual roles, combining his society’s norms for ideal manhood and creating a powerful image taken up by later followers in promoting their tradition in a hotly contested religious marketplace. In this groundbreaking study of previously unexplored aspects of the early Buddhist tradition, John Powers skillfully adapts methodological approaches from European and North American historiography to the study of early Buddhist literature, art, and iconography, highlighting aspects of the tradition that have been surprisingly invisible in earlier scholarship. The book focuses on the figure of the Buddha and his monastic followers to show how they were constructed as paragons of masculinity, whose powerful bodies and compelling sexuality attracted women, elicited admiration from men, and convinced skeptics of their spiritual attainments.
Author : Karl Brunnholzl
Release : 2016-12-13
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Heart Attack Sutra by : Karl Brunnholzl
Download or read book The Heart Attack Sutra written by Karl Brunnholzl. This book was released on 2016-12-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the famous Heart Sūtra that reveals the tenderness and compassion underlying the striking rhetoric of this popular Buddhist text The radical message of the Heart Sūtra, one of Buddhism’s most famous texts, is a sweeping attack on everything we hold most dear: our troubles, the world as we know it, even the teachings of the Buddha himself. Several of the Buddha’s followers are said to have suffered heart attacks and died when they first heard its assertion of the basic groundlessness of our existence—hence the title of this book. Overcoming fear, the Buddha teaches, is not to be accomplished by shutting down or building walls around oneself, but instead by opening up to understand the illusory nature of everything we fear—including ourselves. In this book of teachings, Karl Brunnhölzl guides practitioners through this ‘crazy’ sutra to the wisdom and compassion that lie at its core.
Author : Gerard Clauson
Release : 2005-11-04
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Rating : 124/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics by : Gerard Clauson
Download or read book Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics written by Gerard Clauson. This book was released on 2005-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, now back in print having been unavailable for many years, is one of the most important contributions to Turkic and Mongolic linguistics, and to the contentious 'Altaic theory'. Proponents of the theory hold that Turkish is part of the Altaic family, and that Turkish accordingly exists in parallel with Mongolic and Tungusic-Manchu. Whatever the truth of this theory, Gerard Clauson's erudite and vigorously expressed views, based as they were on a remarkable knowledge of the lexicon of the Altaic languages and his outstanding work in the field of Turkish lexicography, continues to command respect and deserve attention.
Author : Hendrik Boeschoten
Release : 2010
Genre : Turkic languages
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Book Rating : 131/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Turcology in Mainz by : Hendrik Boeschoten
Download or read book Turcology in Mainz written by Hendrik Boeschoten. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains contributions in English and German on various topics of linguistic turcology. All contributors are in some way associated with the turcological department in Mainz. The articles cover a broad specter of linguistic fields such as syntax, phonology, morphophonology, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, onomasitcs, socio-linguistics and language contact. All major branches of the Turkic languages are covered, with the focus of the individual contributions either on a single language or on several languages from a comparative perspective. Both synchronic and diachronic issues are addressed. There are contributions with either a descriptive or a theoretical bias.
