Pratibha Prakashan
144 books
With a view to find out the influences of the Vedas, the epics and the puranas on the society, culture and literature of North East India, the Department of Sanskrit, Gauhati University has taken up a project under special Assistance programme of the University grants Commission, New Delhi at the level of Department Research support-I from the year 2011 for five years.
As a part of the said project the Department of Sanskrit, Gauhati University has been ...
The discovery of ninety-two brinze icons, majority of which are Buddhism from Achutarajpur of Banpur in 1963 was rather unusual. Never before so many metal objects connected to Buddhism were found from any part of the state despite Odhisha being an important center of Buddhism. It is rather strange that no scholar ever tried to study the evolution of Buddhism images in the religion which started opposing idolatry. Though none of the bronzes bear any name on its ...
The book entitled Studies on Women in Buddhism is based on extensive primary source materials and garnished by significant theories and observations of eminent scholars of the east and the west. It offers an analytical as well as critical window to the deeper meaning of socio-religious values and doctrinal reflections of Buddhism in the Buddhist texts highlighting the contents of the Bhikshuni Pratimoksha composed by the Upasikas and the Bhikshunis before the ...
