Religions of Asia in Practice : An Anthology /
Religions of Asia in Practice: An Anthology gives an overview of how religions have been lived by people throughout the continent of Asia. These materials--many of which had never before been translated into any Western language--include ritual manuals, hagiographical and autobiographical writings,...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2002]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- RELIGIONS OF INDIA IN PRACTICE: Introduction: a brief history of religions in India / Richard H. Davis
- Bengali songs to Kali / Rachel Fell McDermott
- Women's celebration of Muhammad's birth / Marcia Hermansen
- Encountering the smallpox goddess: the auspicious song of Sitala / Tony K. Stewart
- Jain stories inspiring renunciation / Phyllis Granoff
- Mother Ten's stories / Ann Grodzins Gold
- The life of Guru Nanak / Hew McLeod
- The exemplary devotion of the "Servant of Hari" / Tony K. Stewart
- The origin of Linga worship / Richard H. Davis
- BUDDHISM IN PRACTICE: Introduction / Donald S. Lopez, Jr
- Consecrating the Buddha / Donald K. Swearer
- Sutra on the merit of bathing the Buddha / Donald Boucher
- The whole universe as a sutra / Luis O. Gomez
- The book of resolving doubts concerning the semblance Dharma / Kyoko Tokuno
- Auspicious things / Charles Hallisey
- Daily life in the assembly / T. Griffith Foulk
- Awakening the Zen Buddhist women / Sallie B. King
- Death-bed testimonials of the Pure Land Faithful / Daniel B. Stevenson
- RELIGIONS OF CHINA IN PRACTICE: Introduction: The spirits of Chinese religion / Stephen F. Teiser
- Laozi: ancient philosopher, master of immortality and god / Livia Kohn
- The lives and teachings of the divine lord of Zitong / Terry F. Kleeman
- A sutra promoting the white-robed Guanyin as Giver of Sons / Chun-fang Yu
- Body gods and inner vision: The Scripture of the Yellow Court / Paul W. Kroll
- Teachings of a spirit medium / Jean DeBernardi
- Spellbinding / Donald Harper
- Record of the Feng and Shan sacrifices / Stephen Bokenkamp
- The law of the spirits / Valerie Hansen
- Shrines to local former worthies / Ellen Neshar
- The Scripture in Forty-two Sections / Robert H. Sharf
- The Scripture on Perfect Wisdom for Humane Kings Who Wish to Protect Their States / Charles Orzech
- Stories from an illustrated explanation of the Tract of the Most Exalted on Action and Response / Catherine Bell
- RELIGIONS OF TIBET IN PRACTICE: Introduction / Donald S. Lopez, Jr
- The royal way of supreme compassion / Matthew Kapstein
- Guidebook to Lapchi / Toni Huber
- The Yogin Lorepa's retreat at Lake Namtso / Nalanda Translation Committee
- A fasting ritual / Roger Jackson
- The regulations of a monastery / Jose Ignacio Cobezon
- A prayer for the deliverance from rebirth / Donald S. Lopez, Jr
- Turning back gossip / Matthew Kapstein
- A prayer flag for Tara / Donald S. Lopez, Jr
- RELIGIONS OF JAPAN IN PRACTICE: Introduction / George J. Tanabe, Jr
- Kaibara Ekken's precepts on the family / Mary Evelyn Tucker
- A refutation of clerical marriage / Richard Jaffe
- The contemplation of suchness / Jacqueline L. Stone
- Chido's dreams of Buddhism / William M. Bodiford
- The Confucian monarchy of Nara Japan / Charles Holcombe
- Nationalistic Shinto: a child's guide to Yasukuni Shrine / Richard Gardner
- The founding of Mount Koya and Kukai's eternal meditation / George J. Tanabe, Jr
- Motoori Norinaga on the two shrines at Ise / Mark Teeuwen
- Sasaki Shoten: toward a postmodern Shinshu Theology / Jan Van Bragt
- Contemporary Zen Buddhist tracts for the laity: grassroots Buddhism in Japan / Ian Reader.