Kalpakam Sankarnarayan
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This includes thirty-five papers presented by eminent scholars at the Seminar. The reason for organizing this Seminar on Buddhism emanates, perhaps, from the ambitious quest for an integrated culture or mankind in transnational and comparative perspective, utilizing the inputs made by the various disciplines concerned.
This volume provides thus an international and interdisciplinary group with the backgrounds as Philosophy, Religion, History, Sociology, ...
This compendium of 23 papers, presented at the 6th Biennial International Conference, organized by K. J. Somaiya Centre for Buddhist Studies, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi, attempts to examine the different aspects of Buddhist meditation. It explores how the Theravada school of Buddhism has little formal divisions within it, apart from monastic fraternities with slightly different traditions, and yet there are significant differences with ...
Buddhism was born on the Indian soil in the 6th Century B.C. But today Buddhism is the way of life for many world around. It has exercised a tremendous impact globally and is therefore indispensable for the understanding of culture, religion and philosophy. For many individuals and groups religion provides a sense of identity. `Buddhism- In Global Perspective' seems to be the key for human transformation. It enables people to recognize that the well-being of ...
Still there is lust for power, or desire to dominate are barely restrained by fear the fear of man’s own vastly improved instruments of destruction. Fear, however is not a very reliable brake on man’s impulses, and it constantly poisons the atmosphere by creating a feeling of instruction which again fan the fires of hate. The wrath of nature experiences in recent times leaves us bewildered and helpless. The phenomena is not new. The magnitude has increased. ...
Buddhism believes that inward extinction of the self and the senses culminates in a state of illumination beyond suffering and existence which seem to be inseparable. While leading the common people to achieve the state of illumination, the Great Master also touched upon cosmology or the study of the Universe. For almost two thousand years, his words on cosmology, better known as Lokaprajnapti of Prajnapti Sastra, were available only in Chinese and Tibetan ...
Contents: Volume I. Foreword. Preface. Key to transliteration. Inaugural address/Hyosuke Yasui. Keynote address/Geshe Nawang Samten. Special address/Fritis Staal. Presidential address/S.K. Somaiya. 1. Yoga in Buddha Dharma and Abhidharma/Amara Srisuchat. 2. Abhidharma texts in Chinese and in Tibetan/Anandamayee Ghosh. 3. Buddhism in Campa/Anne-Valerie Schweyer. 4. Mechanism of Vipassana/Angraj Chaudhary. 5. Understanding of Dhamma through a disciplined mode of ...
Contents: Editor's note. Preface. Inaugural address/M.G. Dhadphale. Keynote address/S.R. Bhatt. Presidential address/S.K. Somaiya. Special remarks/Kanchana Mahadevan. Valiedictory address/Meena V. Talim. 1. Universe is a seamless integrated whole: a positive exposition of Pratiyasamutpada/B.V.S. Bhanusree. 2. The Buddhist epistemology of Pratiyasamutpada and Sambandha Pariksa of Dharmakirti/Buddhadev Bhattacharya. 3. Paticcasamuppadam - Bhavacakkam to ...