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Readings in Eastern Religions.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (412 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780889205284
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Readings in Eastern ReligionsDDC classification:
  • 294
LOC classification:
  • BL1055 -- .R42 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NAMES AND TERMS IN ASIAN LANGUAGES -- ONE: Hinduism -- Scripture in Hinduism -- Samhitas -- Rigveda -- Atharvaveda -- Brahmanas -The Shatapatha Brahmana -- Upanishads -- Legal Literature -- Laws of Manu -- Epics -- Bhagavad Gita -- Ramayana -- Devotional Literature -- Bhagavad Gita -- Ramayana -- The Goddess -- Indian Devotional Poet-Saints -- Manikkavachakar -- Appar -- Kabir -- Mirabai -- Hindu Ethics and Dharma -- Hindu Ethics and Dharma-Vasudha Narayanan -- Sources of Dharma -- Ages of Time -- Specific Dharma and "Universal" or Common Dharma -- Text and Practice -- Moral Paradigms -- Dharma and Liberation -- New Reproductive Technology and the Hindu Tradition -- Notes -- TWO: Jainism -- Jain Sutras -- Notes -- THREE: Buddhism -- Buddha, the Awakened -- Autobiographical Records -- The Great Passing Away or Parinirvana -- The Buddha Biography Told by a Narrator -- Buddha's Intrinsic Nature -- Dharma: The Teaching of the Buddha -- Ethics (Shila) -- Cultivation of a Spiritual Life (bhavana) -- The Development of Wisdom (prajna) -- The Community -- Selected Voices of Modern Buddhism -- Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907): A Voice of Revisionist Buddhism -- Thich Nhat Hanh (born 1926): Mindfulness and Engaged Buddhism -- Women's Voices -- Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935), the Fourteenth Dalai Lama -- Notes -- FOUR: Sikhism -- Hymns of Guru Nanak -- Rahit Namas -- Notes -- FIVE: Early Chinese Thought -- Book of Historical Documents -- Book of Odes -- Book of Changes -- Notes -- SIX: Confucian Thought -- Confucius -- The Analects -- Mencius -- Xunzi/Hsuntzu -- Neo-Confucians -- Zhu Xi/Chu Hsi -- Wang Yangming/Wang Yang-Ming -- Notes -- SEVEN: Daoist/Taoist Thought -- Daodejing/Tao Te Ching -- Zhuangzi /Chuangtzu -- Religious Daoism -- The Alchemical Tradition -- Notes.
EIGHT: Chinese Communist Thought -- Mao Zedong/Mao tse Tung -- Notes -- NINE: Shinto -- The Ancient Mythology -- Early and Medieval Shinto -- The Engi Shiki (Institutes of the Engi Period) -- Kitabatake Chikafusa (1263-1354) -- Shinto Resurgence -- Ichijo Kanera (1402-1481) -- Kumazawa Banzan (1619-1691) -- Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801) -- Hirata Atsutane (1776-1843) -- The Disestablishment of State Shinto -- Notes -- TEN: New Religions -- Tenrikyo -- Soka Gakkai -- Notes -- GLOSSARY -- A -- B -- D -- G -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- PERMISSIONS.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NAMES AND TERMS IN ASIAN LANGUAGES -- ONE: Hinduism -- Scripture in Hinduism -- Samhitas -- Rigveda -- Atharvaveda -- Brahmanas -The Shatapatha Brahmana -- Upanishads -- Legal Literature -- Laws of Manu -- Epics -- Bhagavad Gita -- Ramayana -- Devotional Literature -- Bhagavad Gita -- Ramayana -- The Goddess -- Indian Devotional Poet-Saints -- Manikkavachakar -- Appar -- Kabir -- Mirabai -- Hindu Ethics and Dharma -- Hindu Ethics and Dharma-Vasudha Narayanan -- Sources of Dharma -- Ages of Time -- Specific Dharma and "Universal" or Common Dharma -- Text and Practice -- Moral Paradigms -- Dharma and Liberation -- New Reproductive Technology and the Hindu Tradition -- Notes -- TWO: Jainism -- Jain Sutras -- Notes -- THREE: Buddhism -- Buddha, the Awakened -- Autobiographical Records -- The Great Passing Away or Parinirvana -- The Buddha Biography Told by a Narrator -- Buddha's Intrinsic Nature -- Dharma: The Teaching of the Buddha -- Ethics (Shila) -- Cultivation of a Spiritual Life (bhavana) -- The Development of Wisdom (prajna) -- The Community -- Selected Voices of Modern Buddhism -- Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907): A Voice of Revisionist Buddhism -- Thich Nhat Hanh (born 1926): Mindfulness and Engaged Buddhism -- Women's Voices -- Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935), the Fourteenth Dalai Lama -- Notes -- FOUR: Sikhism -- Hymns of Guru Nanak -- Rahit Namas -- Notes -- FIVE: Early Chinese Thought -- Book of Historical Documents -- Book of Odes -- Book of Changes -- Notes -- SIX: Confucian Thought -- Confucius -- The Analects -- Mencius -- Xunzi/Hsuntzu -- Neo-Confucians -- Zhu Xi/Chu Hsi -- Wang Yangming/Wang Yang-Ming -- Notes -- SEVEN: Daoist/Taoist Thought -- Daodejing/Tao Te Ching -- Zhuangzi /Chuangtzu -- Religious Daoism -- The Alchemical Tradition -- Notes.

EIGHT: Chinese Communist Thought -- Mao Zedong/Mao tse Tung -- Notes -- NINE: Shinto -- The Ancient Mythology -- Early and Medieval Shinto -- The Engi Shiki (Institutes of the Engi Period) -- Kitabatake Chikafusa (1263-1354) -- Shinto Resurgence -- Ichijo Kanera (1402-1481) -- Kumazawa Banzan (1619-1691) -- Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801) -- Hirata Atsutane (1776-1843) -- The Disestablishment of State Shinto -- Notes -- TEN: New Religions -- Tenrikyo -- Soka Gakkai -- Notes -- GLOSSARY -- A -- B -- D -- G -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- PERMISSIONS.

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