The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Ae…
The present volume contains twelve of the sixteen papers presented at the Linsuistics Section of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference (Helsinki, Finland, 13-18 July, 2003). The papers span a wide ran…
These ṭīkās on the Kaṅkhāvitaraṇī-aṭṭhakathā are written by Buddhanāgatthera, a desciple of Sāriputtatthera, 12th century
Judaism. The Bible: the origins of the Jewish people -- Tanakh: history and revelation -- Tanakh: canon and translations -- Interpretation of Torah: Mishnah and Talmuds, Shulhan Aruch -- Maimonides…
This presents the rare first and the oldest surviving MSS, written on birch-bark in Kharoshi script and Prakrit dialect, of Dharmapada, a narration of Buddha's actual utterance that constitute his …
Vinaya, the Vibhaiiga1. The Patimokkha the meaning of the name will be dis cussed later on seems to have owed its existence to the ancient Indian custom of holding sacred two periods in each month,…
Vinaya, the Vibhaiiga1. The Patimokkha the meaning of the name will be dis cussed later on seems to have owed its existence to the ancient Indian custom of holding sacred two periods in each month,…
Vinaya, the Vibhaiiga1. The Patimokkha the meaning of the name will be dis cussed later on seems to have owed its existence to the ancient Indian custom of holding sacred two periods in each month,…
Spirits of the Place is a rare and timely contribution to our understanding of religious culture in Laos and Southeast Asia. Most often studied as a part of Thai, Vietnamese, or Khmer history, Laos…
This engaging encyclopedia covers the religions and religious traditions of various Southeast Asian countries, including Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailan…
The book presents the history and the Doctrines of the Ajivikas who formed a third heretical sect besides the sect of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism and that of Mahavira Vardhamana, the tw…
The history of Christianity in Ladakh / George Mampillil --rnHistory of Buddhism in Ladakh / Prem Singh Jina --rnIslam in Ladakh / Prem Singh Jina & Zain-ul-Abidin.
In lucid and accessible prose, this book presents karma in its historical, cultural, and religious context. Initially, karma manifested itself in a number of religious movements-most notably Jainis…
An authoritative A-Z guide to the mythologies and legends of India, Tibet and Sri Lanka with over 140 entries that describe the central mythical figures of each religion or culture and their import…
Though India is no longer a Buddhist country, Buddhism held its place among Indian faiths for nearly seventeen centuries (500 B.C.--A.D. 1200). During this long stretch of time the Buddhist monks w…
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted t…