A Handbook on the Three Jewels of Jainism
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9788188769407
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9788188769407
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Author: David Gordon White
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-06-26
Total Pages: 661
ISBN-13: 0691190453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As David White explains in the Introduction to Tantra in Practice, Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe, in creative and liberating ways. The subsequent chapters reflect the wide geographical and temporal scope of Tantra by examining thirty-six texts from China, India, Japan, Nepal, and Tibet, ranging from the seventh century to the present day, and representing the full range of Tantric experience--Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and even Islamic. Each text has been chosen and translated, often for the first time, by an international expert in the field who also provides detailed background material. Students of Asian religions and general readers alike will find the book rich and informative. The book includes plays, transcribed interviews, poetry, parodies, inscriptions, instructional texts, scriptures, philosophical conjectures, dreams, and astronomical speculations, each text illustrating one of the diverse traditions and practices of Tantra. Thus, the nineteenth-century Indian Buddhist Garland of Gems, a series of songs, warns against the illusion of appearance by referring to bees, yogurt, and the fire of Malaya Mountain; while fourteenth-century Chinese Buddhist manuscripts detail how to prosper through the Seven Stars of the Northern Dipper by burning incense, making offerings to scriptures, and chanting incantations. In a transcribed conversation, a modern Hindu priest in Bengal candidly explains how he serves the black Goddess Kali and feeds temple skulls lentils, wine, or rice; a seventeenth-century Nepalese Hindu praise-poem hammered into the golden doors to the temple of the Goddess Taleju lists a king's faults and begs her forgiveness and grace. An introduction accompanies each text, identifying its period and genre, discussing the history and influence of the work, and identifying points of particular interest or difficulty. The first book to bring together texts from the entire range of Tantric phenomena, Tantra in Practice continues the Princeton Readings in Religions series. The breadth of work included, geographic areas spanned, and expert scholarship highlighting each piece serve to expand our understanding of what it means to practice Tantra.
Author: Hemacandra
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Yogaśāstra and its voluminous auto-commentary, the Svopajnavrtti, is the most comprehensive treatise on Śvetāmbara Jainism. It was instrumental in the survival and growth of Jainism in India as well as in the spreading of Sanskrit culture within Jain circles. The present translation is the first of its kind in a Western language.
Author: Natubhai Shah
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9788120819382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jagmanderlal Jaini
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-06-20
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1107615674
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 1940 second edition of a 1916 original was written to provide an accessible English introduction to Jainism. Written by a member of the Jain community, the text gives an insider's perspective on the religion, allowing for an intimate treatment of its various aspects, whilst also maintaining a non-doctrinaire approach.
Author: Sherry Fohr
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-01-29
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1474227554
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jainism is arguably the most non-violent and austere religion in the world. While lay Jains attempt to never harm humans or animals, the strict non-violence followed by the highly revered monks and nuns also proscribes harm to any living being, even a microscopic organism. And while laywomen (and a few laymen) undergo long and difficult fasts, the longest being for one month, renouncers' austerities also include pulling their hair out by the roots two to five times a year, walking bare-foot throughout India most of the year, and, in the case of some monks, not wearing any clothing at all. Jainism: A Guide for the Perplexed is a clear and thorough account of this fascinating tradition, explaining many basic Jain values, beliefs and practices in the same way they are taught to Jains themselves, through the medium of sacred narratives. Drawing from Jainism's copious and influential narrative tradition, the author explores the inner-logic of how renouncers' and laypeople's values and practices depend on an intricate Jain worldview.
Author: Manju Bhashini
Publisher: Saraswati House Pvt Ltd
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ISBN-13: 9353624452
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A contemporary, thoroughly researched History & Civics series for class 6-8 based on the latest ICSE syllabus, this series provides an understanding of those aspects of the past that are crucial to understand the present global scenario.
Author: K. V. Mardia
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9788120806580
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