Ancient Indian Asceticism
Author: M. G. Bhagat
Publisher: New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 394
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Publisher: New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Haripada Chakraborti
Publisher: Calcutta : Punthi Pustak
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 562
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: M.G. Bhagat
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9788121502818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9788120815513
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Author: Kenneth G. Zysk
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9788120815285
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The rich Indian medical tradition is usually traced back to Sanskrit sources, the earliest of which cannot much antedate the common era. In this book Kenneth Zysk shows that Buddhist scriptures some centuries older than this contain abundant information about medical practice, and are our earliest evidence for a rational approach to medicine in India. He argues that Buddhism and the medical tradition were mutually supportive: that Buddhist monks and people associated with them contributed to the development of medicine, while their skills as physical as well as spiritual healers enhanced their reputation and popular support. Drawing on a wide range of textual, archaeological, and secondary sources, Zysk first presents an overview of the history of Indian Medicine in its religious context. He then examines primary literature from the Pali Buddhist Canon and from the Sanskrit treatises of Bhela, Caraka, and susruta. By close comparison of these two bodies of literature Zysk convincingly shows how the theories delineated in the medical classics actually became practice.
Author: Carl Olson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-03-03
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0190266406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. A by-product of the ascetic path, power is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water or through dense objects, read minds, discern the former lives of others, see into the future, harm others, or simply levitate one's body. These tales give rise to questions about how power and violence are related to the phenomenon of play. Indian Asceticism focuses on the powers exhibited by ascetics of India from ancient to modern time. Carl Olson discusses the erotic, the demonic, the comic, and the miraculous forms of play and their connections to power and violence. He focuses on Hinduism, but evidence is also presented from Buddhism and Jainism, suggesting that the subject matter of this book pervades India's major indigenous religious traditions. The book includes a look at the extent to which findings in cognitive science can add to our understanding of these various powers; Olson argues that violence is built into the practice of the ascetic. Indian Asceticism culminates with an attempt to rethink the nature of power in a way that does justice to the literary evidence from Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain sources.
Author: Carl Olson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0190225327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using religio-philosophical discourses and narratives from epic, puranic, and hagiographical literature, Indian Asceticism focuses on the powers exhibited by ascetics of India from ancient to modern time.
Author: Ratanalāla Miśra
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9788190821292
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Author: Gail Hinich Sutherland
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Advocating vegetarianism according to Buddhism and Jainism.
Author: Piotr Balcerowicz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-09-16
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1317538536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ājīvikism was once ranked one of the most important religions in India between the 4th and 2nd centuries BCE, after Buddhism, ‘Brahmanism’ and before Jainism, but is now a forgotten Indian religion. However, Jainism has remained an integral part of the religious landscape of South Asia, despite the common beginnings shared with Ājīvikism. By rediscovering, reconstructing, and examining the Ājīvikism doctrine, its art, origins and development, this book provides new insight into Ājīvikism, and discusses how this information enables us to better understand its impact on Jainism and its role in the development of Indian religion and philosophy. This book explains how, why and when Jainism developed its strikingly unique logic and epistemology and what historical and doctrinal factors prompted the ideas which later led to the formulation of the doctrine of multiplexity of reality (anekānta-vāda). It also provides answers to difficult passages of Buddhist Sāmañña-phala-sutta that baffled both Buddhist commentators and modern researchers. Offering clearer perspectives on the origins of Jainism the book will be an invaluable contribution to Jaina Studies, Asian Religion and Religious History.