The places where Siddhartha Trod: Lumbini and Kapilvastu

Deeg, Max

ISBN: 9789993376989, 9993376981

Plants in early Buddhism and the Far Eastern idea of the Buddha-nature of grasses and trees

Schmithausen, Lambert

ISBN: 9789937217163, 9937217164

The present study has grown out of a lecture held in the winter term 2003-04, in which my aim was to present my view on the problem of the sentience of plants in early Buddhism to the participants of a series of lectures or various aspects of Buddhism, past and present, which were arranged by the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies of the University of Hamburg over about a decade.

Pondicherry inscriptions, Part II: translation, appendices, glossary and phrases by G Vijayavenugopal, preface by Emmanuel Francis et al.

ISBN: 9788184701791, 8184701799

This volume provides a complete English translation of the inscriptions of the territory of Pondicherry and Karaikkal, which were edited in Part I.

Morning calm and the pensive beyond: cultural interflow between India and Korea

Chandra, Lokesh

ISBN: 9788194085034, 8194085039

This book narrates the grand strategy of Korea to define its independent sovereign culture in the world of Chinese ideograms, and the palace culture and mandarin bureaucracy of Confucius. Korea's history begins when the Princess of Ayodhya sets foot on her soil in 48CE. The Korean chronicles say that the kings of Silla were ksatriyas and King Chinp'yong (579-632) and his queens had Sanskrit nam...

Pramanavartikam (Sanskrit), with the comm. 'Abhipraya Prakasika Pramanasiddih, Ist chapter, ed. with comm. by Ram Shankar Tripathi

ISBN: 9789380282336, 9380282338

Pratitya-samutpadastuti-vrittih subhasitamanikosa of Acarya Chankya Rolpai Dorjee, tr. into Hindi & critically ed. by Gyaltsen Nmadol (Tibetan, Hindi)

ISBN: 9789380282893, 9380282893

Primal spirituality: philosophical knowledge and plenary experience, Gen. ed. D.K. Rana

Balasubramanian, R

ISBN: 9789380864020, 9380864027

A good summarization of important thoughts on the pristine concepts of spirituality, knowledge and experience as presented in the Upanishads and literature of Advaita Vedanta.

Problems of ancient India

Sethna, KD

ISBN: 9788177420265, 8177420267

Contents: The location of Kamboja, The Aryans, the domesticated horse and the spoked Chariot-wheel, Rama, Ravana, Lanka: legitimate reconstructions and dubious speculations, The search for Soma: a book-review with comments on its theme, The time of Kalidasa, To Panini's time from Panini's place, What is the historical value of the Ceylonese chronology?, Mihirakula and Yasodharman in the light o...

Tibetan-Russian-English dictionary, 2 volumes, with Sanskrit parallels, by Y.N. Roerich

ISBN: 9788194085010, 8194085012

This dictionary by Y.N. Roerich was edited posthumously by Parfionovich and Dylykova, as a valuable guide to Classical Tibetan. It is a vade mecum to translate Tibetan historical and philosophical texts. It has new words which are not found in the dictionaries of Jaschke and S.C. Das. Roerich could not find words and expressions while translating The Blue Annals into English. He had to access t...

Rani ki Vav: the abode of Bodhisattvas and Dakinis

Rao, Rekha

ISBN: 9788177421354, 8177421352

Rani ki Vav--a seven storey stepwell in Patan, Gujarat, is a golden monument studded with beautiful sculptures of gods, goddesses and semi-divines, over 800 in number. The beautifully adorned male deities, hitherto acknowledged as various Brahmanical gods, have now been identified as Bodhisattvas of five Dhyani Buddhas because of the presence of a mini-Buddha on top of each figure. The goddesse...

Rare texts from Tibet: seven sources for the ecclesiastic history of medieval Tibet (Tibetan)

Sorensen, Per K et al.

ISBN: 9789994693337, 9994693336

Rauravottaragama, edition critique, introduction et notes par N.R. Bhatt, (in Sanskrit and French)

ISBN: 9788184700138, 818470013X

The book includes an introduction in Sanskrit and in French and an English summary of the introduction. The present volume deals with temples, images, characteristics of the linga and their installation.

Reading Himalayan landscapes over time: environmental perception, knowledge and practice in Nepal and Ladakh, transl. from French by Bernadette Sellers

Smadja, Joelle (ed.)

ISBN: 9788184701708, 8184701705

The relationship between religion and state (chos srid zung 'brel) in traditional Tibet: proceedings of a seminar held in Lumbini, Nepal, March, 2000

Cuppers, Christoph (ed.)

ISBN: 9789993376996, 999337699X

Rgyal ba dge 'dun rgya mtshos mdzad pa'i drang nges rnam 'byed kyi dka' 'grel dgongs pa'i don rab tu gsal bar byed pa'i sgron me dang, Rje btsun chos kyi rgyal mtshan gyis mdzad ..

ISBN: 9789380282817, 9380282818

... pa'i drang nges rnam 'byed kyi spyi don rgol ngan tshar gcod rin po che'i phreng ba.

The Rigveda and the Avesta: the final evidence

Talageri, Shrikant G.

ISBN: 9788177420852, 8177420852

The book is intended to conclusively complete both the historical analysis of the Rgveda as discussed in the author's earlier work, as well as examination of the Aryan Invasion Theory and the problem of the original homeland of the Indo-European family of language.

The Rigveda: a historical analysis

Talageri, Shrikant G

ISBN: 9788177421491, 8177421492

The Rigveda is the oldest and most important source of material for India, Indo-Aryan, and even Indo-European history. It is a text which has been part of a hoary and widespread living tradition thousands of years old. Naturally, a text which has remained alive, as part of a living tradition, for so long cannot and should not be analysed without reference to what that tradition has to say about...

Rin-Chen-Bzan-Po and the renaissance of Tibetan Buddhism around the millenium, tr. by Nancy Kipp Smith et al. with a preface by Lokesh Chandra

ISBN: 9788185179216, 8185179212

This volume is a detailed study of Rin-chen-bzan-po, the key figure in the later spread of Dharma after its persecution by Glan-dar-ma in AD 901.

Embedded narratives of Buddhism

Chandra, Lokesh

ISBN: 9788194085003, 8194085004

The volume begins with a unique Japanese scroll of Sudhana's pilgrimage in diaphanous colors. Ajanta and TransGandhara and the socalled Padmapani at Ajanta have been newly identified. The Four Past Buddhas include Bhama Konakamana of Bamiyan as the immediate predecessor of Sakyamuni. A volume that roams across centuries and climes of both the East and West, that fills our minds with thoughts of...

Sahaja: in quest of the innate, an esoteric fusion in Bengali poetry through the Charya and the Baul songs

Mukherjee, Prithwindra

ISBN: 9788193462126, 8193462122

Sahaja (sahajata) has been the contribution of Bengal on the heroic path of Buddhist Tantra. Behind an apparently primitive poetry, enigmatic words belonging to a twilight gamut of codes reveal a forest of symbols. Mostly composed earlier than the 9th century, the Charyapadas bear the signature of eminent Buddhist teachers like Saraha, Kanha, Luypada. There has been a possible interaction betwe...