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This is an analytical study of faith (saddha), devotion (bhatti) and worship (puja) in the Theravada school fo Buddhism. It elucidates these concepts and deals with their objects, viz., gods in general, and Buddha in particular, as described in the Pali canonical, post-canonical and commentarial literature. The first chapter of this book examines the conception of the Deities and “the supernatural; the attribution, knowledge, powers and ...
The monograph consists of two parts, of which the first examines the Buddhist devotional practices, from the historical and canonical perspectives of the evolution of the worship of caitya, stupa, relics, symbols and images. It provides a multi-dimensional account of caitya, stupa, relics, symbol and image worship in Theravada Buddhist tradition, in the Sinhalese Vamsa literature and as depicted in the records of the prominent Chinese travelers to India. It ...
Professor Rama Rao Pappu, who has been teaching philosophy in US Universities since the sixties founded the “International Congress of Vedanta†in 1986 at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Usa. Vedanta Congresses initiated and organized systematically and selflessly by Dr. Pappu during the past nineteen years heave played a very productive and positive role. Most of the essays included here are the papers presented by the contributors at the "Fifteenth ...
Discourses in Buddhist Classics is primarily designed with twofold objective viz., (a) to serve as the tool for post-graduate teaching of the Course in “Philosophy of the Buddhaâ€; and (b) to sustain the interest of the enterprising student by providing comprehensive understanding of Theravada and Mahayana schools of Buddhism. Divided into six chapters, the first chapters gives an account of the missionary life and object of Buddha’s teachings from Pali and ...