The two essays in this volume explore how monks in medieval India and China wrote about themselves with their fellow monks. The author translates and discusses biographies and autobiographies of two Jain monks, who lives in the 11th and 14th century CE. The book tells us how a community of Chinese Buddhists viewed the life of the founder of their ...
The stories collected in this volume reflect the rich tradition of medieval Jain storytelling between the seventh and fifteenth centuries, from simple folk tales and lives of famous monks to sophisticated narratives of rebirth. They describe they ways in which a path to peace and bliss can be found, either by renouncing the world or by following ...
This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians on the subject of sacred place and sacred biography in Asia. The chapters span a broad geographical area that includes India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, and China, and explore issues from the classical and medieval period to the present. They show how ...
Is the preoccupation with the self as important as people have assumed? This book explores some of the possible answers to this question by studying autobiographical and biographical writings outside the Euro-American tradition. The nine essays were written by six scholars from Canada and the United States. They include specialists in ...
The study of images in Asian religions has tended to emphasize the centrality of image worship in both Hinduism and Buddhism. Little attention has been paid, however, to the arguments against such image worship in these religious traditions. This volume offers a comprehensive and balanced look at the role of images in Asian religions, and examines ...
The stories in this collection span almost one thousand years of story-telling in India. Most originate in North India and all were written by Jain Monks for the edification and amusement of the faithful. Jain literature is both rich and varied. Stories were told in verse and prose, in Sanskrit and in vernacular languages. Some resemble simple ...
The book brings together 12 essays by leading scholars of chinese and Indian civilizations as well as from Europe, and North America. The essays cover a wide range of topics on their religion, culture and offers fresh insights into the study of different Asian traditions.
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