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Pramod Ranjan deposited किन्नौर में बौद्ध धर्म, जाति प्रथा और राजनीति in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 3 days, 3 hours agoखूबसूरत प्राकृतिक दृश्यों से परिपूर्ण किन्नौर का समाज व संस्कृति शेष भारत से अलग है। यह बौद्ध धर्म का इलाका है, जिसे हिंदूवादी संस्कृति लीलती जा रही है। आर्थिक संपन्नता के आगमन से जाति-आधारित उत्पीड़न और भेदभाव कम हो रहा है। प्रमोद रंजन ने इस यात्रा संस्मरण में किन्नौर की विशिष्ट संस्कृति, बहु पत्नी प्रथा, वहां के समाज और राजनीति…[Read more]
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James A Benn deposited Religious Studies 726 Topics in Chinese Religions: Death, Funerals, Burial in Chinese Religions McMaster University, Term II 2022–23 in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 5 days agoSyllabus for graduate seminar at McMaster University. In this seminar we will examine practices surrounding death in a variety of Chinese religions. We will explore the various understandings of the death process, preparation for death, and the afterlife. We will look at the post-mortem treatment of the body, changing funerary practices and…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited समय से संवाद: जन विकल्प संचयिता in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 4 weeks, 1 day ago‘समय से संवाद: जनविकल्प संचयिता’ नाम यह पुस्तक हिंदी मासिक ‘जन विकल्प’ में प्रकाशित प्रतिनिधि सामग्री का संकलन है। प्रेमकुमार मणि और प्रमोद रंजन के संपादन में पटना से वर्ष 2007 में प्रकाशित इस पत्रिका की जनपक्षधरता, निष्पक्षता और मौलिक त्वरा ने समाजकर्मियों और बुद्धिजीवियों को गहराई से आलोड़ित किया था। इस पुस्तक में जिन लेखों और साक्षात्कारों…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited एक सांस्कृतिक आंदोलन के चार साल in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 4 weeks agoदिल्ली के जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय में मुट्ठी भर अन्य पिछड़ा वर्ग और दलित छात्रों ने जब 25 अक्टूबर, 2011 को पहली बार ‘महिषासुर शहादत दिवस’ मनाया था, तब शायद किसी ने सोचा भी नहीं होगा कि यह दावनल की आग सिद्ध होगा। 2015 तक, महज चार सालों में ही इन आयोजनों ने न सिर्फ देशव्यापी सामाजिक आलोडऩ पैदा कर दिया था, बल्कि ये आदिवासियों, अन्य पिछडा वर्ग…[Read more]
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Lajos Brons deposited A Buddha Land in This World: Philosophy, Utopia, and Radical Buddhism in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 9 months, 4 weeks agoIn the early twentieth century, Uchiyama Gudō, Seno’o Girō, Lin Qiuwu, and others advocated a Buddhism that was radical in two respects. Firstly, they adopted a more or less naturalist stance with respect to Buddhist doctrine and related matters, rejecting karma or other supernatural beliefs. And secondly, they held political and economic vie…[Read more]
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Dr. Rakshit Madan Bagde deposited Thoughts on the Economic life of the Tathagata Buddha in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year agoThe economic system is the cornerstone of social development. Its economic system has remained at the root of the progressive development of human civilization. A country, society or caste; Social, political and cultural upliftment is mainly based on the progress of its economic resources and facilities. In a country without these facilities,…[Read more]
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Dr. Rakshit Madan Bagde deposited डॉ. आंबेडकर आणि मुक्त अर्थव्यवस्था in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoआपल्या देशाने 27 जानेवारी 1950 रोजी लोकशाहीचा स्वीकार केला. बहुमताने लोकप्रतिनिधींना निवडून त्यांनी गठीत केलेली शासनप्रणाली हीच राजकीय लोकशाही होय. राजकीय लोकशाहीचा पाया जर सामाजिक लोकशाहीचा नसेल तर ती टिकूच शकणार नाही. गौतम बुद्धाचे तत्त्वज्ञान स्वातंत्र्य, समता, बंधुत्व व न्याय ही मूल्ये प्रदान करतात. या शिवाय संपूर्ण मानवाच्या विक…[Read more]
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Steve McCarty deposited Essence of Womanhood in the Fable ‘Ama’: 「海女」の和英翻訳・歴史的研究・解釈 in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoThis paper renders the ancient folktale ‘Ama’ (Woman Diver) into English, investigates its origins, and interprets its timeless significance. From a prehistoric oral tradition, it evolved into a temple chronicle and a Noh play. The paper includes a summary in Japanese, and all the references are in Japanese. With a moving story and vivid…[Read more]
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Dr. Rakshit Madan Bagde deposited मुक्त आर्थिक धोरण आणि डॉ. आंबेडकरांचे तत्वज्ञान in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoमुक्त आर्थिक धोरण आणि डॉ. आंबेडकरांचे तत्वज्ञान
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Dr. Rakshit Madan Bagde deposited डॉ. आंबेडकरांच्या आर्थिक चिंतनावर बुद्ध तत्वज्ञानाचा प्रभाव in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoडॉ. आंबेडकरांच्या आर्थिक चिंतनावर बुद्ध तत्वज्ञानाचा प्रभाव
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Dr. Rakshit Madan Bagde deposited जागतिकीकरण आणि डॉ.आंबेडकरांचे शेतीविषयक तत्वज्ञान in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoजागतिकीकरण आणि डॉ.आंबेडकरांचे शेतीविषयक तत्वज्ञान
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Dr. Rakshit Madan Bagde deposited “An Evaluation of Dr. Ambedkar’s Economic Thought on Agriculture in the context of Globalization” in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoBharat Ratna Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: an eminent socio-economic thinker and epoch-maker shaped the economic destiny of India by introducing many tenets of the State Socialism into the Constitution of free India. He was a post-graduate of Columbia University (U.S.) and obtained his doctoral degree in economics from there in 1917 and D.Sc. degree in…[Read more]
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Joel Bordeaux deposited The Goddess Tara, Buddhism, and ‘Chinese’ Ritual in Hindu Tantra in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months agoPublic talk for International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University (February 24, 2021) https://youtu.be/77oz4tb8r0Y How did Hindu devotees come to worship an Indian goddess in the ‘Chinese Way?’ What was allegedly Chinese about these rituals and how is this related to the goddess’s Buddhist origins? When did Hindus start to think of Ch…[Read more]
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Marcus Bingenheimer deposited On the Use of Historical Social Network Analysis in the Study of Chinese Buddhism: The Case of Dao’an, Huiyuan, and Kumārajīva in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThis paper is part of a larger research project that attempts to apply historical social network
analysis to the study of Chinese Buddhist history. The underlying research questions are
whether social network analysis (SNA) metrics can be gainfully applied to Buddhist history,
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James A Benn deposited Religious Studies 718 Topics in Buddhist Studies: Recent Scholarship McMaster University, Term II 2020–21 in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years agoCourse Description
In this seminar we shall read and discuss a selection of recent important works on and around Buddhism and material culture (in English). In addition we shall survey trends in recent Buddhist Studies scholarship produced in other languages (Chinese, Japanese, French, German, etc.). Students will be required to write regular,…[Read more] -
James A Benn deposited Health, Healing and Religion: Comparative Views in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoSyllabus for a level 2 course on Health, Healing and Religion: Comparative Views. To be taught online Fall 2020.
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Marcus Bingenheimer deposited The General and the Bodhisattva: Commander Hou Jigao Travels to Mount Putuo in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMount Putuo, the Chinese Potalaka, is located in the Zhoushan archipelago not far off the coast from Ningbo. The abode of Avalokiteğvara/Guanyin was not only a popular pilgrimage site, but also played a strategic role for the naval control of the archipelago, especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In late imperial China, a number of military…[Read more]
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Marcus Bingenheimer deposited Stylometric Analysis of Chinese Buddhist texts – Do different Chinese translations of the Gaṇḍavyūha reflect stylistic features that are typical for their age? in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoBelow we develop a method to determine whether the use of grammatical particles in Chinese Buddhist scriptures is characteristic for the period of their translation. The corpus consists of three different Chinese translations of an early Indian Mahāyāna text from two different periods. We use the results of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to d…[Read more]
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Marcus Bingenheimer deposited Who was “Central” in the History of Chinese Buddhism? : A Social Network Approach in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoHidden in the Buddhist biographical literature on eminent monks is a large amount of information about who knew whom. It is especially rich for the time between 300 and 1000 CE, when the four major collections of “Biographies of Eminent Monks” (gaoseng zhuan) allow us to date and locate the relationships of individuals to a degree unimaginable for…[Read more]
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James A Benn deposited Religious Studies 726 Topics in Chinese Religions: Health, Healing, and Medicine in Chinese Religions McMaster University, Term II 2019–20 in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoIn this seminar we will examine representations of health and accounts of disease in a variety of Chinese religions. We will explore the various vectors of disease, including the so-called “winds” and various types of demonic infestation. We will identify modes of
healing that employ therapies such as mineral, animal, and vegetable drugs, exo…[Read more] - Load More