Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal

The Fifteenth-Century Reformation of Newar Buddhism

Will Tuladhar-Douglas (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2006
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-35919-1 (ISBN)

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Will Tuladhar-Douglas sheds new light on an important branch of Mahayana Buddhism and establishes the existence, character and causes of a renaissance of Buddhism in the fifteenth century in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. He provides the basis for the historical study of Newar Buddhism as one distinct tradition among the many that comprise Indic Buddhism. Through a thorough study of the relevant texts in the classical Himalayan languages (Sanskrit, Newari, Tibetan and Nepali), the book puts forward a new thesis about how the Newars legitimated and reinvented their tradition by devising new concepts of canonicity, as such it will appeal to scholars of the history and philology of Buddhism.

Will Tuladhar-Douglas lectures in the history and anthropology of religion at the University of Aberdeen, and is Director of the Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research. He has conducted fieldwork in Newar, Tibetan and Western cities and monasteries and published articles on Himalayan history and rituals, religion and technology, and Buddhism.

1. Introduction 2. Form, Genre and Dating 3. Authority and Insecurity 4. Historical Considerations 5. Amoghapasa and the Posadha Vrata 6. Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.8.2006
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism - Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies
Zusatzinfo	4 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	521 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-415-35919-8 / 0415359198
ISBN-13	978-0-415-35919-1 / 9780415359191
Zustand	Neuware