Author: Mabel Haynes Bode
Publisher:
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Category : Buddha (The concept)
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera
Publisher:
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Category : Buddha (The concept)
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Hla Pe
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9789971988005
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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This selection of lectures by Professor Hla Pe, who has published widely in the fields of Burmese language and literature, and cultural studies, provides an insight into Burmese literature, culture, beliefs and way of life through the author’s own personal life and career. The lectures are divided into six parts: On Literature, On Historiography, On Scholarship, On Language, On Life, and On Buddhism.

Author: Erik Braun
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022600094X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see it as the Buddha’s most important gift to humanity. In the first book to examine how this practice came to play such a dominant—and relatively recent—role in Buddhism, Erik Braun takes readers to Burma, revealing that Burmese Buddhists in the colonial period were pioneers in making insight meditation indispensable to modern Buddhism. Braun focuses on the Burmese monk Ledi Sayadaw, a pivotal architect of modern insight meditation, and explores Ledi’s popularization of the study of crucial Buddhist philosophical texts in the early twentieth century. By promoting the study of such abstruse texts, Braun shows, Ledi was able to standardize and simplify meditation methods and make them widely accessible—in part to protect Buddhism in Burma after the British takeover in 1885. Braun also addresses the question of what really constitutes the “modern” in colonial and postcolonial forms of Buddhism, arguing that the emergence of this type of meditation was caused by precolonial factors in Burmese culture as well as the disruptive forces of the colonial era. Offering a readable narrative of the life and legacy of one of modern Buddhism’s most important figures, The Birth of Insight provides an original account of the development of mass meditation.

Author: Paññasāmi
Publisher:
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Category : Buddha (The concept)
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Author: K. R. Norman
Publisher: Wiesbaden : O. Harrassowitz
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Category : Buddhist literature
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Caroline a F Rhys Davids
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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his work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Nandapaññā
Publisher:
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Category : Buddhist literature, Pali
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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This Book Presents For The First Time A Critical Study And Translation Of The Gandhavamsa Or `Book History` Of Nandapanna Of Burma.

Author: Vilhelm Trenckner
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Category : Pali language
Languages : en
Pages : 758

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Author: Bimala Churn Law
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ISBN: 9788121299176
Category : Pali literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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