The Rajas of the Punjab: Being the History of the Principal States in the Punjab and their Political Relations with the British Governmen.

• Griffin, Lepel H.
• Munshiram Manoharlal
• viii,661p.
• 1998(1870)
• The rajas of the Punjab; being the history of the principal states in the Punjab and their political relations with the British government. / Griffin, Lepel Henry, 1840-1908. Contents The History of the Pattiala State The History of the Bhadour Chiefship The History of the Minor Phulkian famailies The History of the Jhind State The History of the Nabha State The History of the Kapurthalla State The History of the Faridkot State The History of the Mandi State

3,630円

Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism: meditation, metaphors and materiality. (Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies)

• O'Brien-Kop, Karen
• Bloomsbury
• xiii,263p. pap.
• 2023(22)
• Buddhism -- Hinduism -- Yoga -- Yogasūtra (Patañjali) -- Yogācāra (Bouddhisme) This book revisits the early systemic formation of what we now call yoga in South Asia. Karen O'Brien-Kop develops an alternative way of describing and analysing the history of yoga in South Asia that decentres the Eurocentric and imperialist enterprises of the nineteenth-century to reframe the cultural period of the 1st - 5th centuries CE using categorical markers from Indic intellectual history. Buddhist traditions were just as concerned as Hindu traditions with meditative disciplines of yoga. By exploring the intertextuality of the Pata jalayogasastra with texts such as Vasubandhu s Abhidharmakosa-bhaya and Asaga s Yogacarabhumisastra, this book highlights and clarifies the ideologically Buddhist concepts and practices in Pata jala yoga. Karen O'Brien-Kop demonstrates that classical yoga was co-constructed systemically by both Hindu and Buddhist thinkers who were drawing on the same conceptual metaphors of the period. This analysis demystifies early yoga-meditation as a timeless classical practice and locates it in a specific material context of agrarian and urban economies.

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The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the maritime links of early South Asia. (Oxford India Paperbacks)

• Ray, Himanshu P.
• OUP (India)
• x,234p. maps 古書
• 2000(1994)
• Buddhism -- East Asia -- Soiutheast Asia -- India Ocean -- Commerce -- History -- To ca.100 A.D. On maritime trade and seafaring in the early historical period with reference to support provided by Buddhist monastic establishments during that period. 1. Preamble 2. The Evolution of Trading Networks 3. Maritime Contacts With the West 4. Early Contacts Between South and Southeast Asia 5. Buddhism and Trade 6. Early Maritime Archaeology

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Dethroned: the downfall of India's princely states.

• Zubrzycki, John
• Hurst
• viii,337p. photos.
• 2023
• In July 1947, India's last Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten, stood before New Delhi's Chamber of Princes to deliver the most important speech of his career. He had just three weeks to convince over 550 sovereign princely states--some tiny, some the size of Britain--to become part of a free India. Once Britain's most faithful allies, the princes could choose between joining India or Pakistan, or declaring independence. This is a saga of intrigue, brinkmanship and broken promises, wrought by Mountbatten and two of independent India's founding fathers: the country's most senior civil servant, V.P. Menon, and Congress strongman Vallabhbhai Patel. What India's architects described as a "bloodless revolution" was anything but, as violence engulfed Kashmir and Indian troops crushed Hyderabad's dreams of independence. Most princes accepted the inevitable, exchanging their power for guarantees of privileges and titles in perpetuity. But these dynasties were still led to extinction--not by the sword, but by political expediency--leaving them with little more than fading memories of a glorified past.

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Defending Muhammad in Modernity.

• Tareen, SherAli
• Permanent Black/ Ashoka Univ.
• xxii,482p.
• 2020
• South Asia -- Religion -- Bareilly School (Islam) -- Deoband School In this groundbreaking study, SherAli Tareen presents the most comprehensive and theoretically engaged work to date on what is arguably the most long-running, complex, and contentious dispute in modern Islam: the Barelvī-Deobandī polemic. The Barelvī and Deobandī groups are two normative orientations/reform movements with beginnings in colonial South Asia. Almost two hundred years separate the beginnings of this polemic from the present. Its specter, however, continues to haunt the religious sensibilities of postcolonial South Asian Muslims in profound ways, both in the region and in diaspora communities around the world.

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Attendant Lords: Bairam Khan and Abdur Rahim: courtiers & poets in Mughal India.

• Raghavan, T.C.A.
• HarperCollins
• xiii,337p. illus.
• 2017
• Nobility -- Poets -- Mogul Empire -- Biography -- History Bairam Khan and his son, Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan were soldiers, poets and courtiers whose lives reflected the turbulent times they lived in. In telling their stories, Attendant Lords spans the reigns of four emperors - Babur, Humayun, Akbar and Jahangir - and covers over a hundred years of Mughal history, a time when these two noblemen were at the very heart of the court's labyrinthine politics. -- After Humayun's untimely death, Bairam Khan was regent to the young Emperor Akbar for four critical years. Bairam's own son, Abdur Rahim, became one of the most important generals of the Mughal Empire, but he is best remembered for his literary prowess, most particularly for his famous 'dohas'. Literature plays a large part in this story. -- This unusual dual biography traces the lives of these two noblemen against the backdrop of the courtly intrigues, brutal power struggles and the grand literary endeavours of the Mughal court. And it looks at their afterlives - how politics and the Hindi-Urdu debate reincarnated them as national heroes; how both men came to be seen as standing at the confluence of Hinduism and Islam; how their life stories have undergone subtle transformations; and how history, religion and literature combine in the broader context of nationalism and nation building

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The Loss of Hindustan: the invention of India.

• Asif, Manan Ahme
• Harvard U.P.
• ix,321p.
• 2020
• India -- Europeans -- Nationalism -- History The Loss of Hindustan presents a radical re-interpretation of how Europe came to see "India," and how "India" re-imagined history and in the process lost its identity of Hindustan as a home for all faiths. Asif uses Persian, Urdu, Sanskrit, English, French, Portuguese, and German histories about the subcontinent to demonstrate the work of history writing in the subcontinent before European rule, and how the practice of history writing changed as a result of colonialism. Turning back to the subcontinent's medieval past, the author focuses on the monumental history of Hindustan by Firishta, "Tarikh-i Firishta" which was written ca 1608 CE in the central, Deccan, region of the subcontinent. Firishta became the key source for European philosophers (Voltaire, Kant, Hegel) and historians (Edward Gibbon, James Mill) in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Introduction: The end of Hindustan The question of Hindustan An archive for Hindustan The places in Hindustan The peoples in Hindustan A history for Hindustan

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Archaeology in Northern India: recent trends and future prospects, essays celebrating 150 years of research.

• Milan Kumar Chauley, Manjil Hazarika (eds.)
• Research India Press
• xxxii,370p. photos. figs.
• 2021
• India, Northeastern -- Archaeology -- Antiquities -- civilization -- Art -- Congresses The Guwahati Circle of the Archaeological Survey of India, as part of the World Heritage Week celebration in November 2016, organised two symposiums in collaboration with the Department of Archaeology of Cotton University, first in the campus of North East Zone Cultural Centre in Dimapur on 22nd November ... The second symposium was held at the Vivekananda Kendra Institute of Culture, Uzan Bazaar in Guwahati on 25th November, 2016. The topic of the symposiums at both the venues was "Archaeological Research in Northeast India: Recent Trends and Future Prospects"

20,490円

The Idea of Ancient India : essays on religion, politics, and archaeology.

• Singh, Upinder
• Vintage
• xlviii,513p. illus. pap.
• 2023(16)
• India -- Archaeology -- Civilization -- Buddhism -- History This book engages with some of the most important issues, debates, and methodologies in the writings of ancient Indian history. Thematically structured into four sections, it critically addresses how the material remains of India's early past were discovered and understood in colonial and post-colonial times. The first section highlights the importance of a thorough empirical approach for understanding the process of social history and early medieval state formation. The second connects ancient and modern India, based extensively on archival sources. The third and fourth sections emphasize the important issue of ancient Indian intellectual history, underlining the significance of reconstructing the intellectual landscape of ancient India through a sensitive and yet critical historicization of its texts and inscriptions.

3,320円

Pramana-Laksanam: Nature and definition of knowledge and its means. English translation, commentary & critical study by P. Vinayacharya (Complete works of Śri Madhvācārya (The Sarvamūla grantha series), volume - 4)

• Madhvacarya
• Tara Prakashana
• xiv,354p.
• 2023
• Madhva, active 13th century -- Dvaita (Vedānta) -- Knowledge, Theory of -- Epistemology Pramāṇa-lakṣaṇam = Nature & definition of knowledge and its means / English translation, commentary and critical study by Vidwan Dr. P. Vinayacharya English and Sanskrit

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Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism : Yatidharmasamuccaya of Yādava Prakāśa. (SUNY Series in Religion)

• Olivelle, Patrick (ed. & tr.)
• SUNY
• x,457p. pap.
• 1995
• Asceticism -- Brahmanism -- Dharma -- Early Works to 1800 This translation of a twelfth-century Sanskrit text is the most comprehensive presentation of Hindu ascetic practices available in English with Sanskrit text. It is also the clearest. Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism is the critical edition and translation of a twelfth-century Sanskrit text written by Yadava Prakasaa, whose life and activities are of historical interest because, according to tradition, he was the teacher of the great Vais'n'ava theologian Ramanuja.

7,096円

Contemplative Studies and Hinduism: meditation, devoltion, prayer, and worship.

• Sherma, Rita D. & P. Bilimoria (ed.)
• Routledge
• xiv,213p pap.
• 2023(21)
• Hinduism -- Samādhi The chapters in the volume cover themes in Hindu contemplative experience from various texts and traditions including classical Sāṃkhya and Patañjali Yoga, the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, the role of Sādhana in Advaita Vedānta, Śrīvidyā and the Śrīcakra, the body in Tantra, the semiotics and illocution of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava sādhana, mantra in Mīmāṃsā, Vaiṣṇava liturgy, as well as cross-cultural reflections and interreligious comparative contemplative praxis.

10,482円

Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste.

• Gokhale, Pradeep P. (ed.)
• Routledge
• xx,306p. pap.
• 2023(21)
• Buddhism -- Caste -- Navayana Buddhism -- History This book examines the interface between Buddhism and the caste system in India. It discusses how Buddhism in different stages, from its early period to contemporary forms—Theravāda, Mahāyāna, Tantrayāna and Navayāna—dealt with the question of caste.

9,821円

Words for the Heart: a treasury of emotions from classical India.

• Heim, Maria
• Princeton U.P.
• xxi,347p.
• 2022
• Emotions -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism -- Terminology A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional experience *Brings to light a rich lexicon of emotion from ancient India *Uses the Indian genre of a “treasury,” or wordbook, to explore the contours of classical Indian thought in three of the subcontinent’s earliest languages—Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit *Features 177 alphabetical entries, from abhaya (“fearlessness”) to yoga (“the discipline of calm”) *Draws on a wealth of literary, religious, and philosophical writings from classical India

6,545円

Conjuring the Buddha: ritual manuals in early Tantric Buddhism.

• Dalton, Jacob P.
• Columbia U.P.
• viii,334p. pap.
• 2023
• Tantric Buddhism -- Rituals -- History Conjuring the Buddha offers a history of early Tantric Buddhist ritual through the lens of the Tibetan manuscripts discovered near Dunhuang on the ancient Silk Road. Jacob P. Dalton argues that the spread of ritual manuals offered Buddhists an extracanonical literary form through which to engage with their tradition in new and locally specific ways. He suggests that ritual manuals were the literary precursors to the tantras, crucial to the emergence of esoteric Buddhism.

6,545円

Social Thought in Indic Civilization.

• Roy, Himanshu (ed.)
• Manohar
• xi,324p.
• 2023(22)
• India Civilization -- Philosophy -- Intellectual life -- History This book explores a range of key themes such as non-violence in religious praxis; dharma in Indic social traditions; medicinal concepts and institutions; ideas and praxis of Shastrarth; knowledge traditions and institutions; music traditions; and Stritva in texts and praxis. This study highlights the impact of colonial rule on the 'construction of knowledge' from a Western (colonial) perspective and how it ignored the importance of Indian political thought of the pre-colonial period.

6,270円

The Hidden Lives of Brahman: Sankara's Vedanta through his Upanisad commentaries, in light of contemporary practice. (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)

• Dubois, Joel Andre-Michel
• SUNY
• xxvii,423p. pap.
• 2013
• Brahman -- Upanisads -- Criticism and interpretation -- Śankaracarya -- Vedānta Hidden lives of brahman become visible when analysis of Śaṅkara's seminal commentaries is combined with ethnographic descriptions of contemporary Brāhmin students and teachers of vedānta, a group largely ignored in most studies of this tradition. Du Bois demonstrates that for Śaṅkara, as for Brāhmin tradition in general, brahman is just as much an active force, fully connected to the dynamic power of words and imagination, as it is a transcendent ultimate.

6,348円

The Ethnography of Tantra: textures and contexts of living Tantric traditions. (Tantra, Ethnography, Anthropology of Religion, India And South Asian Studies)

• Lorea, Carola E. & Rohit Singh (ed.)
• SUNY
• xv,364p. pap.
• 2023
• Tantric Buddhism -- Asia -- Case studies This is the first collection of essays to approach the topic of Tantric Studies from the vantage point of ethnography and lived religion, moving beyond the centrality of written texts and giving voice to the everyday life and livelihoods of a multitude of Tantric actors. Bringing together a team of international scholars whose contributions range across diverse communities and traditions in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan region, the book connects distant shores of Tantric scholarship and lived Tantric practices.

6,909円

Rethinking Buddhism: text, context, contestation.

• Singh, Anand (ed.)
• Primus
• xxx,448p.
• 2023
• Buddhism -- Doctrines -- Dharma -- History The essays in this volume envision, explore, and challenge some of the well-established views to investigate Buddhist sources and contemplate alternative theories on origin, development of early Schools, and other fundamentals. On the one hand, there are reassessments and reinterpretations of the established hypotheses; on the other, new voices are raised to re-examine the traditional opinions on narratives of understanding the philosophical and literary approaches. This volume examines real historical contexts and finds whether any kind of contestations occurred in different sects of Buddhism and with other existing religion. * Buddhism in Context * Contestation and Accommodation * Texts and Traditions Contributors: David R. Loy, Julia Shaw, R. Mahalakshmi, Johannes Bronkhorst, Asanga Tilakaratne, Gregory Schopen, Kenneth Zysk, Seema Bawa, Aiswarya Biswas, Nathan Katz, Alexander Wynne, ... et al.

8,250円

Radical Nonduality: Ju Mipham Namgyal Gyatso's disccourse on reality. (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde. heft 106)

• Forgues, Gregory
• Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien
• 382p.
• 2024
• Mi-pham-rgya-mtsho, ʼJam-mgon ʼJu, 1846-1912 -- Truth -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism Ju Mipham (1846-1912) was one of the greatest scholars of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He spent his life in Kham and is considered to be part of the Rime (ris med) tradition of the late nineteenth centuiry. Mipham was one of Tibet's greatest polymaths, his works covering a wide range of subjects including art, language, and science. Mipham's influence on Tibetan Buddhist philosophy somewhat eclipsed his other contributions to Tibetan culture. Two thirds of his works consist in subjects connected with philosophical topics such as epistemology, ontology, and metaphysics.

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Saving the Dead : Tibetan funerary rituals in the tradition of the Sarvadurgatipariśodhana Tantra. (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde. heft 105)

• Lindsay, Rory
• Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien
• xiv,283p.
• 2024
• Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies -- Tibet This book explores Tibetan funerary manuals based on the Sarvadurgatipariśodhana Tantra (SDP), focusing on the writings of the Sa skya author Rje btsun Grags pa rgyal mtshan (1147-1216) and the diverse forms of agency--human, nonhuman, and material--articulated in his texts. It also examines the polemical responses evoked by Grags pa rgyal mtshan's manuals from Bo dong Paṇ chen Phyogs las rnam gyal (1375/6-1451) and Go rams pa Bsod nams seng ge (1429-89), elucidating key points of contention including methodologies for site preparation in funeral rites, visualization practices involving objects representing the deceased, and the relationship between tantric narrative and ritual enactment. Finally, the study analyzes A mes zhabs Ngag dbang kun dga' bsod nams's (1597-1659) attempt to integrate advanced bardo practices characteristic of highest yogatantra into the yogatantric rites delineated in the SDP, underscoring divergent assumptions about postmortem agency reflected in works classified as yogatantra and highest yogatantra.

6,402円

To the Heart of Truth: felicitation volume for Eli Franco on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Part I & II (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde. heft 104/1-2)

• Matsuoka Hiroko, Moriyama Shinya & Tyler Neill (ed.)
• Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien
• xliii,806p. in 2 vols.
• 2023
• Buddhism -- Hermeneutics -- Religious aspects -- Mādhyamika (Buddhism) -- Buddhist logic -- History This felicitation volume in honor of Eli Franco on the occasion of his seventieth birthday is a tribute to an exceptional scholar of pre-modern Indian philosophy and Buddhism. It consists of two volumes: Volume I contains a wide variety of articles on Abhidharma and Madhyamaka, Sanskrit grammar and literature, Śaivism, Buddhist hermeneutics, and Buddhist Art history; Volume II contains articles on the Buddhist logical–epistemological tradition.

13,444円

Buddha Nature Across Asia. (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde. heft 103)

• Mathes, Klaus-Dieter & Casey Kemp (ed.)
• Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien
• 495p.
• 2022
• The Tathāgatagarbha or Buddha nature doctrine is centered on sentient beings' potential for buddhahood - sometimes understood in the sense that all being already contains a "buddha within". This notion is found through various strands of early Mahāyāna sources that, notwithstanding their complex and interwoven development, came to share enough common features to summarize them under the doxographicsl category of Tathāgatagarbha, a position distinct from those of Madhyamaka and Yogācāra. From the symposium "Tathāgatagarbha across Asia: the reception of an influential Mahāyāna doctrine in Central and East Asia, which was held in Vienna from July 16-19, 2019.

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