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Found 5 from your keywords: subject="Buddhism"
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Songs on the Road : Wandering Religious Poets in India, Tibet, and Japan
Larsson, Stefanaf Edholm, Kristoffe

The chapter proceeds from the sense of mutual dependence that existed between rudimentary warrior-elites and specialized supp-liers of prestige in archaic Greek and Indo-Iranian societies. While this tension was fraught with the danger of bankruptcy and disloy-alty, it also fostered new modes of antinomian religiosity. The Greek and Vedic comparanda revolve around the notion of sacrif…

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ISBN/ISSN
9789176351369
Collation
154pg
Series Title
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Call Number
808.819382 LAR s
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Impermanence : exploring continuous change across cultures
Geismar, HaidyOtto, TonWarner, Cameron David

Nothing lasts forever. This common experience is the source of much anxiety but also hope. The concept of impermanence or continuous change opens up a range of timely questions and discussions that speak to globally shared experiences of transformation and concerns for the future. Impermanence engages with an emergent body of social theory emphasizing flux and transformation, and brings this in…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781787358690
Collation
xiii, 364p. ill;
Series Title
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Call Number
294.342 IMP H
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A Buddhist approach to international relations : radical interdependence
Long, William J.

This book is an open access book. Many scholars have wondered if a non-Western theory of international politics founded on different premises, be it from Asia or from the “Global South,” could release international relations from the grip of a Western, “Westphalian” model. This book argues that a Buddhist approach to international relations could provide a genuine alternative. Because o…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783030680428
Collation
xi, 107p. : ill.
Series Title
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Call Number
327.101 LON b
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Rewriting Buddhism : Pali literature and monastic reform in Sri Lanka, 1157-1270
Gornall, Alastair

Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform (1157–1270) shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and also Southeast Asia and even today continues to define monastic intellectual life in the region. Alastair Gornall argues that the long century’s literary productivity was not born of po…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781787355156
Collation
XIII, 269 p.
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Call Number
891.37099549309021 GOM r
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Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia : Comparative Perspectives
Feener, R. MichaelBlackburn, Anne M

This volume aims to foster interaction between scholars in the subfields of Islamic and Buddhist studies by increasing understanding of the circulation and localization of religious texts, institutional models, and ritual practices across Asia and beyond. Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia scrutinizes religious orders (here referring to Sufi ?ar?qas and Buddhist monastic and other rit…

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ISBN/ISSN
9780824872113
Collation
VIII, 220 p.
Series Title
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Call Number
294.365095 BUD b