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Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists

Book by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Nivedita, Abanindro NĀth Tagore; Dover Publications, 1967

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Mythology, Buddhist, Mythology, Hindu

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

MYTHS OF THE HINDUS BUDDHIST BY ANANDA K. COOMARASWAMY AND THE SISTER NIVEDITA MARGARET E. NOBLE OF RAMAKRISHNA-VIVEKANANDA WITH THIRTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS BY INDIANA ARTISTS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF ABANINDRO NATH TAGORE C.I.E. DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. NEW YORK
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An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values, and Issues

Book by Peter Harvey; Cambridge University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Buddhist Ethics

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Both are different from the Buddhist Middle Way, and both undermine...prescription for a positively Buddhist economics, but space does not...process of degeneration described in Buddhist creation myths. 20 He also advocates a kind...
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Buddhist Saints in India: A Study in Buddhist Values and Orientations

Book by Reginald A. Ray; Oxford University Press, 1999

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Buddhist Saints

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...74 n.40 hagiography. See Hagiography, Buddhist iconography, 13 nn. 14, 15 myths, 9 philosophy, 8 , 9 ritual, 8 , 9 symbolism...question of earliest, 7 , 9 relations with non-Buddhist Indian environment, 8 -9, 13 n.10, 20...
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Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia

Book by Juliane Schober; University of Hawaii Press, 1997

Subjects:

Buddhist Hagiography--History And Criticism, Buddhist Saints--Biography--History And Criticism, Gautama Buddha

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Trajectories in Buddhist Sacred Biography Juliane Schober...the arts, texts, rituals, myths, and religious practices in Buddhist traditions of South and Southeast...Asia. Through time, models of Buddhist practice -- exemplified in the...
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Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming against the Stream

Book by Karma Lekshe Tsomo; Curzon Press Limited, 2000

Subjects:

Buddhist Women, Women In Buddhism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...to speak at Honpa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple. 12 His talk, entitled...unorthodox message to the Japanese Buddhist immigrant population and other...integrate traditional Hawaiian myths and symbols with Theosophical and Buddhist beliefs. This amalgamation...

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Compassionate Violence?: On the Ethical Implications of Tantric Buddhist Ritual

Journal article by David B. Gray; Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Vol. 14, 2007

Subjects:

Buddhist ethics--Analysis, Compassion--Ethical aspects, Compassion--Religious aspects, Rites and ceremonies--Ethical aspects, Ritual--Ethical aspects, Rituals--Ethical aspects, Tantric Buddhism--Ethical aspects, Violence--Ethical aspects, Violence--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...are accused in the myths of being guilty of...Puranas that demonize Buddhists. These myths relate...category often applied to Buddhists (OFlaherty 1983). The Buddhist myths, in turn, demonize...specifically refers to the myth of the destruction...were powerful anti-Buddhist polemics. (44) This...his reference to the myths of Visnus military...
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Sacred Rocks and Buddhist Caves in Thailand

Journal article by Rasmi Shoocongdej; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 40, 2001

Subjects:

Sacred Rocks and Buddhist Caves in Thailand (Book)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...worshipped by the Thai, not exclusively from the Buddhist context, and he covers myths, animism, and other religious beliefs. "Buddhist caves" refers to caves with cosmogonic elements of the Buddhist landscape that are not commonly found in the...
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Musavada-Virati and "Privileged Lies" (1)

Journal article by J. Duncan M. Derrett; Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Vol. 13, 2006

Subjects:

Buddhist literature--Criticism and interpretation, Deception--Analysis, Renunciation (Philosophy)--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...attention. Lying Buddhists could distinguish...comparable with the Buddhist, save that certain...imaginary, reflecting myths, were understood...Lying Hindu and Buddhist precepts concerning...difference between the Buddhists and the Jews derives...Manu 3.235). Buddhists ignore this requirement...5. Truth and myth: .RV 10.85...
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Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an Age of Science

Journal article by Nancy R. Howell; Buddhist-Christian Studies, Vol. 30, 2010

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an Age of Science (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...justification for Buddhist--Christian...religious creation myths, current scientific...religious creation myths" (p. 5). A...statement: As any lived myth does, scientific...develop a new creation myth informed poetically...page 42: "Most Buddhists now writing about...agree that standard Buddhist doctrines are supported...appropriated by Buddhists and Christians...
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European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies

Journal article by John D'Arcy May; Buddhist-Christian Studies, Vol. 24, 2004

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Buddhists--Religious aspects, Christians--Religious aspects, Religion and literature--Analysis, Religious literature--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Critical Buddhism enabled Buddhists to adapt pre-Buddhist ideas such as the Tao...just as misguided as the Buddhists who ridiculed the Vedic myths. God was eventually conceived...problem of theodicy in the Buddhist-Christian context thus...

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Of Myth and Men

Magazine article by Robert M. Price; Free Inquiry, Vol. 20, Winter 1999

Subjects:

Gautama Buddha--Conduct of life, Jesus Christ--Conduct of life, Moses (Biblical figure)--Conduct of life, Muhammad--Conduct of life, Religion--Research

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Of Myth and Men by Robert...of devotional myths and pious object...founder of the Buddhist sangha (community...believing Asian Buddhists who chance to...Buddha, Maitreya. Buddhist doctrine even...it this way. Buddhists would say that...similarities in the myths of previous Buddhas...many if not most Buddhists. For Pure Land...popular family of Buddhist sects, Gautama...
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The Myth of Secularism: Religion Is a Natural Human Impulse, Which Our Society Tries to Repress Just as the Victorians Did Sex. That Is Why Atheists Are So Rancorous and Intolerant

Magazine article by John Gray; New Statesman, Vol. 131, December 16, 2002

Subjects:

Christianity--Influence, Mill, John Stuart--Attitudes, Mill, John Stuart--Religious aspects, Religion--History, Secularism--History, Secularism--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...cultures is that they are ruled by myths. It is a commonplace that...tandem with science is simply a myth. Here we have the paradox...done is substitute one set of myths for another. It is far from...an improvement. Christian myth has harmful aspects, not least...thriving among us -- Hindu and Buddhist, Jewish and Muslim, along...
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Fight Club: The Shaolin Monk Show Delivers Action-Packed Kung Fu Entertainment to Audiences around the World. but the Martial Art Is as Much about Serenity and Contemplation, as Speed and Aggression

Magazine article by Erling Hoh; Geographical, Vol. 74, June 2002

Subjects:

Buddhist monks--Conduct of life, Kung fu--Study and teaching, Martial arts--Practice, Yongchuan, Shi--Conduct of life

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...exercises and reading sacred Buddhist texts Empty Forever and his...withdrawn, well aware of the myths, created in the movies of...to other temples and holy Buddhist places in China, but the...money makes it difficult. In Buddhist countries such as Thailand...realise the potential of the myth surrounding its warriors...hands of the legendary Zen Buddhists. No, their heating pumped...
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Politics and the Pursuit of the Past

Magazine article by Heather Pringle; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 109, Spring 2002

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Afghanistan--Social aspects, Archaeology--Research, Art objects, Buddhist--Crimes against, Civilization, Ancient--Analysis, Gays--Crimes against, Germany--Social aspects, Himmler, Heinrich--Conduct of life, Political culture--Social aspects, Research--Moral and ethical aspects

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...international furore. The two immense Buddhist statues in question stood as sentinels...sandstone cliffs with immense skill and care. Buddhist artists had ornamented each with plaster...rooted in demonstrable facts, not in myths and halftruths. American archaeologist...
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Poisoned Arrow Pointillism

Magazine article by Chris Arthur; Contemporary Review, Vol. 287, October 2005

Subjects:

Biographers--Works, Neo-Impressionism--Myths and legends, Neo-impressionism (Art)--Myths and legends

Collections: Entire Library

...image of the Buddha at this stage in his life, a classic of Buddhist art, shows him as a terrifyingly gaunt, skeletal figure...suggests, the battle with Mara--another favourite motif in Buddhist art--can be seen as a mythologised account of a psychological...

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In Search of Shangri-La; the Myth of Shangri-La Has Enthralled the Modern Imagination. Now in a Fascinating TV Series, Historian MICHAEL WOOD Goes in Search of the Truth Behind Some of History's Most Elusive Legends

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 29, 2005

Subjects:

Andrade, Antonio

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Search of Shangri-La; the Myth of Shangri-La Has Enthralled...it had appeared before, in Buddhist texts of the 14th century...though it is now a Tibetan myth, it was first recorded in...behind the most ancient Tibetan myths and, ultimately, of the famous...lake in the Tibetan Shambala myth. We journeyed on over wide...
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Garden Myth Scotched; My Country Environment Editor Tony Henderson on Great Gardens Which Give So Much Pleasure

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), December 4, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Garden Myth Scotched; My Country Environment...Fraser, set out scotch the myth - prevalent outside the region...like the Alnwick Garden to a Buddhist monastery. "In Northumberland...house in 1870. Samye Ling: Buddhist monastery and Tibetan centre...
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Poisoning Paradise; Katherine Horton's Murder in Thailand Is a Tragic Reminder That the Idyll Peddled in Holiday Brochures Is a Myth. and Says a Writer Who Lived There, We Tourists Are Largely to Blame

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 7, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Reminder That the Idyll Peddled in Holiday Brochures Is a Myth. and Says a Writer Who Lived There, We Tourists Are Largely...prostitution. Its a strange paradox that this land of Buddhist calm and spirituality is also peopled by some of the most...
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Comic Books Published to Help Students English Skills

Newspaper article; Korea Times (Seoul, Korea), January 8, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...world. The bilingual books planned by the association include Bible stories, excerpts from Zen Buddhist texts, Buddhist parables, Greek and Roman myths and a collection of famous speeches. Song Sang-hyun, a member of the association, said...
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Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 15, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Millennium Park, 205 E. Randolph Drive, Chicago: "Modern Myths" program featuring the American debut of Delhi-born composer Param VirAEs "Hayagriva," the Chicago debut of Tantric Buddhist dance master Prajwal Ratna VajracharyaAEs "Vajrapani, Wielder...

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Japan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...party, and New Komeito, a Buddhist-influenced party. History...influence and the power of the Buddhist priesthood undermined the authority...barons (the daimyo ) and the Buddhist monasteries built up local...feeling ran high. The old myths of imperial and racial divinity...
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Shinto

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...cent. (when Chinese writing was introduced into Japan) the myths and rituals were transmitted orally. The written record of...a.d., it had some influence on Shinto. In many shrines Buddhist priests serve, and worship under their direction is more elaborate...
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Bible

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...variety of genres prayers, visions, ritual, moral codes, myths, historical narratives, legends, and revelatory discourses...religious traditions, e.g., the Jewish, Christian, and Buddhist faiths. Other traditions authorized their respective bodies...

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