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The book entitled "The Eyes of the World" contains the biographies of sixty-one great Lotsawas (Translators) of the Snow Land (Tibet) who played a crucial role in opening the eyes and generating a good heart of the people of Tibet through the translation of the Buddhavacana from Sanskrit to Tibetan and enabling them to study and comprehend it.
The book titled The Torch Bearers contains one hundred and six biographies of the Indian Buddhist Personalities including the Sixteen Sthaviras, popularly known as the Sixteen Arhats, and the Seven Successors of Shakyamuni Buddha, and also an appendix containing the descriptive glossary of some important Buddhist terminologies as well as some Buddhist Pantheons which have been used in the book.
The twenty-five papers presented at an international seminar organised by the Centre for Buddhist studies, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan deal with contemporary topics in Buddhist studies. The papers in English, Hindi and Tibetan delve into Buddhism in Bangladesh, Buddhist meditation in the twenty-first century and Nikaya Buddhism in South-east Asia. They look into the scope of Pali and Buddhist Studies in Bangladesh, Ceylon and India and reception of Buddhism and ...
On the basis of presentations at a seminar, the volume presents articles on the bhikkuni samgha in Buddhism: the bhikkuni samgha in the past in India and bhikkuni samgha of different communities. The thirty-one articles view the concept of bhikkuni in Buddhism and bhikkuni samgha as an organisation of Buddhist women for socio-spiritual service. They discuss the eight chief rules for the bhikkuni in Buddhism and precepts of social intercourse for a bhikkuni in the ...
The works contain the scenario of the Ideology and Genesis of Buddhist Schools in India that developed from its inception upto 13th Century. This compendium of on the other hand, regarding the Genesis of these schools it happened on the basis of understanding the doctrine and philosophy taught by the Compassionate Master, the Buddha.
The book contains a number of 19 papers, presented at an international seminar, organized by the Department of ...