Visions of the Buddha offers a ground-breaking approach to the nature of the early discourses of the Buddha, the most foundational scriptures of Buddhist religion. Although the early discourses are commonly considered to be attempts to preserve the Buddha's teachings, Shulman demonstrates that these texts are full of creativity, and that their main aim is to beautify the image ...(展开全部)

【早期佛教社會：釋迦牟尼的世界】 佛陀時代印度人的日常生活可能是何種樣貌？與 #佛陀 交流互動的又是哪些統治者、僧侶、哲學家、信眾與醫師？傳播佛教的訊息和僧伽制度的建立過程包括那些內容？宗派分裂、與婆羅門階級反對佛教的本質為何？ 我們對佛教的宗儀與戒律已有相當豐富的瞭解，對佛陀本人生活的背景卻知之甚微。巴利文的早期佛教典籍以其他佛教文獻，包括 #婆羅門 階級的文學，皆未曾有過的方式揭露了一個社會。研讀這些典籍，包括最早的佛塔藝術作品後，刘欣如主張「歷史上的佛陀」其實並不存在於多數人的想像中，即便佛教徒亦然。她在本書中填補這個對佛教理解的落差，逐步說明並消弭許多錯誤的概念。性別、宗教與古印度的種姓制度在這本內容豐富的著作中變得活靈活現，同時對佛陀身處的社會有平易近人且別出心裁的描述。《早期佛教社會：釋迦牟尼的世界》（Early Buddhist Soc...(展开全部)

【早期佛教社會：釋迦牟尼的世界】 佛陀時代印度人的日常生活可能是何種樣貌？與 #佛陀 交流互動的又是哪些統治者、僧侶、哲學家、信眾與醫師？傳播佛教的訊息和僧伽制度的建立過程包括那些內容？宗派分裂、與婆羅門階級反對佛教的本質為何？ 我們對佛教的宗儀與戒律已有相當豐富的瞭解，對佛陀本人生活的背景卻知之甚微。巴利文的早期佛教典籍以其他佛教文獻，包括 #婆羅門 階級的文學，皆未曾有過的方式揭露了一個社會。研讀這些典籍，包括最早的佛塔藝術作品後，刘欣如主張「歷史上的佛陀」其實並不存在於多數人的想像中，即便佛教徒亦然。她在本書中填補這個對佛教理解的落差，逐步說明並消弭許多錯誤的概念。性別、宗教與古印度的種姓制度在這本內容豐富的著作中變得活靈活現，同時對佛陀身處的社會有平易近人且別出心裁的描述。《早期佛教社會：釋迦牟尼的世界》（Early Buddhist Soc...(展开全部)

Vinaya, one of the three main categories of Buddhist scripture, functions not only as a type of canon law, but also as a founding charter for Buddhist institutional practice in East Asia. In its role as a scriptural charter, vinaya has justified widely dissimilar approaches to religious life as Buddhist orders in different times and places have interpreted it in contradictory w...(展开全部)

Vinaya, one of the three main categories of Buddhist scripture, functions not only as a type of canon law, but also as a founding charter for Buddhist institutional practice in East Asia. In its role as a scriptural charter, vinaya has justified widely dissimilar approaches to religious life as Buddhist orders in different times and places have interpreted it in contradictory w...(展开全部)

Images of the Buddha are everywhere—not just in temples but also in museums and homes and online—but what these images mean largely depends on the background and circumstance of those viewing them. In Behold the Buddha, James Dobbins invites readers to imagine how premodern Japanese Buddhists understood and experienced icons in temple settings long before the advent of museums ...(展开全部)

Hanif Kureishi's first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention, a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the life of a young Pakistani growing up in 1970s Britain. Karim lives with his Mum and Dad in a suburb of south London and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big city. But his father is no ordinary Dad, he is 'the buddha of subur...(展开全部)

Buddhism is popularly seen as a religion stressing the truth of impermanence. How, then, to account for the long-standing veneration, in Asian Buddhist communities, of bone fragments, hair, teeth, and other bodily bits said to come from the historic Buddha? Early European and American scholars of religion, influenced by a characteristic Protestant bias against relic worship, de...(展开全部)

Buddhism is popularly seen as a religion stressing the truth of impermanence. How, then, to account for the long-standing veneration, in Asian Buddhist communities, of bone fragments, hair, teeth, and other bodily bits said to come from the historic Buddha? Early European and American scholars of religion, influenced by a characteristic Protestant bias against relic worship, de...(展开全部)

Hanif Kureishi's first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention, a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the life of a young Pakistani growing up in 1970s Britain. Karim lives with his Mum and Dad in a suburb of south London and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big city. But his father is no ordinary Dad, he is 'the buddha of subur...(展开全部)