Khenpo Sangye Tenzin and the Career of Serlo Shedrup Zungdrel Ling Gonpa, That Evolved Into One of The Most Important Monasteries Among The Sherpas of NE Nepal
The cover-diagram shows the tradition of the Buddhist "Dharma Character School" (Chin. Faxiang zong, Jap. Hosso-shu), as seen by the Japanese temple Kofuku-ji in Nara. In this school, studies of logic, especially questions of non-contradiction and valid inference, played an important role. These studies were part of the "Science of Reason" (Skt. hetuvidya, Chin. yinming, Jap. immyo), a Buddhist discipline that originated in India and later ...
Sakyamuni’s Return Journey to Lumbini (lumbiniyatra): A Study of a Popular Theme in Newar Buddhist Art and Literature
According to Newar Buddhists, Sakyamuni Buddha returned to his birthplace, Lumbini, after his enlightenment. Visual representations of his journey and visit to Lumbini date back to at least the seventeenth century and became especially popular in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Nepal. They show the Buddha riding standing up on a Naga (commonly identified with Sesa) while being attended by Hindu deities in service to him. Indra holds an honorific parasol steady ...
Searching for the Dharma, Finding Salvation : Buddhist Pilgrimage in Time and Space : Proceedings of the Workshop Buddhist Pilgrimage in History and Present Times at the Lumbini International Research Institute (LIRI), Lumbini, 11-13 January 2010
Lumbini, Kapilavastu, Sainamaina and Lumbini Tharu Museums help people to understand and appreciate the natural world, the history of Sakya and Tharu civilizations, and the record of artistic, scientific and technological achievements. Museums collect objects of scientific, aesthetic, or historical importance; care for them; and study, interpret and exhibit them for the purpose of public education and the advancement of knowledge. These museums offer many ...
A Descriptive Catalogue of Burmese Manuscripts in the Fragile Palm Leaves Collection (In 3 Volumes)
The manuscripts collections of Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation are a precious resource for the study of the Buddhist literary and ritual culture of Southeast Asia. The present volumes are the first in a Series of catalogues of Burmese-script palm-leaf manuscripts in the Pali and Burmese languages. The reasons for the large production of manuscripts in the mid-nineteenth century are not clear at present. Certainly, older manuscripts deteriorated, and eventually ...
The Relationship Between Religion and State (Chos srid zung ‘brel) in Traditional Tibet: Proceedings of a Seminar Held in Lumbini, Nepal, March 2000
This book describes, analyses and reproduces line drawings from two manuscripts and a related section from a third manuscript. These are: 1) Manuscript M.82.169.2, preserved in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (circa late nineteenth century) 2) Manuscript 82.242.1-24, preserved in the Newark Museum (from the later part of the twentieth century) and 3) A section from manuscript 440 in the private collection of Ian Alsop, Santa Fe, New Mexico (early twentieth ...
Building the Sherpas’ New Present in the Age of Globalization: The Construction of a Novel Tradition as well as Collective Sherpa Identity in a New Place Through the Performance of Tibetan Buddhist Ritual Celebrations
The dedicated study of South Asia, its classical culture in all its myriad forms, including its literature and religion and not least, its art, has distinguished the entire scholarly life of Dieter Schlingloff. With his vast panoply of interests and his insatiable curiosity, well reflected by his publications, both in their impressive number and their diversity, he has enriched the field of South Asian Studies to a momentous degree. This work is a Festschrift on ...
Plants in Early Buddhism and the Far Eastern Idea of the Buddha-Nature of Grasses and Trees
The present study has grown out of a lecture held in the winter term 2003-04, in which my aim was to present my view on the problem of the sentience of plants in early Buddhism to the participants of a series of lectures or various aspects of Buddhism, past and present, which were arranged by the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies of the University of Hamburg over about a decade.
Buddhist Iconography and Ritual in Paintings and Line Drawings from Nepal
This book is divided into three sections. The first section introduces one specific tradition of Siddhas transmitted by artists from Nepal. This artistic legacy, which is related to a corpus of texts that go back through Srisena and Bu ston, includes two paintings and an incomplete set of line drawings. One of the paintings is an early-sixteenth-century paubhª of Vajradhara surrounded by the eighty-four Siddhas (now preserved in the National Art Gallery, ...
The Places Where Siddhartha Trod: Lumbini and Kapilavastu
This volume is the outgrowth of a panel on Buddhism and violence at the XIIIth Conference of the international Association of Buddhist studies, held in Bangkok, December 2002. There is as yet no definitive work on the general topic of Buddhism and violence. There are, however, a growing number of studies of specific cases of violence in Buddhism, drawn from particular periods and places. It is hoped that the contributions to this volume, largely following the ...
Rare Texts From Tibet: Seven Sources for the Ecclesiastic History of Medieval Tibet
The texts presented here have been reproduced as found in the printed sources available, largely retaining all the orthographical peculiarities, although these occasionally display some faulty and defective renditions. The punctuation chosen in the present book generally follows the original texts too, both what concerns the division and lay-out of the texts into chapters but also into paragraphs, still a modicum of liberty has been taken by the editor and some ...
