This book is a multi-faceted, thorough, and yet compact introduction to Jainism. It presents the history and scripture of Jainism, a religion that originated in ancient India and still exists today....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Sep-2023, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003042419)
This book surveys the major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis. It explores diverse spiritual and religious practices within the Hindu traditions and Indic hermeneutical perspectives to understand the intricate culture of meditative...Loe edasi...
Purushottama Bilimoria, Cogen Bohanec, Rita D. Sherma
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Aug-2023, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003365624)
This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers scholarly viewpoints that reflect both the variegation in terms of spiritual practices within the Jain traditions as well as th...Loe edasi...
This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvrthdhigama (TA) & includes the first English translation of its oldest commentary, the Tattvrthdhigamabhya (TABh). It will be of interest to those studying Indian philosophy, Indian...Loe edasi...
This volume tests and contests the claim that the Global Ethics ethical directives can be found in the worlds religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions....Loe edasi...
With a focus on Asian traditions, this book examines varieties of thought and self-transformative practice that do not fit neatly on one side or another of the standard Western division between philosophy and religion....Loe edasi...
Through an analysis of the published archaeological data, this work explores some aspects of the social history of Buddhist, Brahmanical and Jaina temples and shrines, and Buddhist stpas and monasteries in early medieval Bihar and Bengal....Loe edasi...
This is the first book fully dedicated to Indian philosophical doxography. It looks at Indian doxography both as a witness of inter and intra sectarian dialogues, and as a religious phenomenon....Loe edasi...
This book explores the ways in which the ecologically centred Indian philosophy of Jainism could introduce a new and non-western methodology to environmental politics, with the potential to help the green movement find new audiences and a new voice....Loe edasi...
This book places Jain environmental philosophy in its cultural and historical context while comparing it with more familiar or mainstream forms of ecological thought. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental ethics, sus...Loe edasi...
For the first time, this influential study by Ludwig Alsdorf is made available to an English speaking audience, translated by Bal Patil. It focuses on two of the most pertinent issues in Indic religion, the history of vegetarianism and cow-veneratio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Apr-2010, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195385021)
John Cort explores the narratives by which the Jains have explained the presence of icons of Jinas (their enlightened and liberated teachers) that are worshiped and venerated in the hundreds of thousands of Jain temples throughout India....Loe edasi...
