{"product_id":"collected-papers-on-buddhist-studies","title":"Collected Papers on Buddhist Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Padmanabh S Jaini\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Motilal Banarsidass\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2001\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 557\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8120817761\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, twenty-nine articles of Professor Jaini, encompassing some forty years of research on various facets of Buddhism, have been brought together for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor P S Jaini is renowned amongst Indological scholars for his unique analysis. In this volume, twenty-nine articles of Professor Jaini, encompassing some forty years of research on various facets of Buddhism, have been brought together for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor P S Jaini is renowned amongst Indological scholars for his unique and enduring contributions to the areas of Buddhist and Jain studies.  His reputation in the Buddhist field is based securely on his monumental edition of the important Vaibhasika text the 'Abhidharmadipa' with its 'Vibhasaprabhavrtti', which was written primarily to refute the 'Abhidharma-kosabhasya' of Vasubandhu.  He also has critically edited and translated the Pali apocryphal Jatakas, vital evidence for the ways in which the Buddha and his previous lives have been envisaged in Southeast Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this volume, a companion to the author's 'Collected Papers on Jaina Studies' (Motilal Banarsidas, 2000), twenty-nine of his articles, encompassing some forty years of research on various facets of Buddhism, have been brought together for the first time.  They cover a wide range of topics including comparative studies with Jainism, points to controversy within Abhidharma, the Bodhisattva career of Maitreya based on narratives from the Jatakas and Mahayana Sutras, and selections from Buddhist ritual texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Paul Dundas\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION I: INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHIST FAITH\u003cbr\u003eStates of Happiness in Buddhist Heterodoxy (1999)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION II: BUDDHIST STUDIES\u003cbr\u003eBuddhist Studies in Recent Times: Some Emi9nent Buddhist Scholars in India and Europe (1956)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION III: BUDDHISM AND JAINISM\u003cbr\u003eSramanas: Their Conflict with Brahmanical Society (1970)\u003cbr\u003eOn the 'Sarvajnatva' (Omniscience) of Mahavira and the Buddha (1974)\u003cbr\u003eThe Jina as a Tathagata: Amrtacandra's Critique of Buddhist Doctrine (1976)\u003cbr\u003eSamskara-Duhkhata and the Jaina Concept of Suffering (1977)\u003cbr\u003eThe Disappearance of Buddhism and the survival of Jainism in India: A study in Contrast (1980)\u003cbr\u003eValues in Comparative Perspective: 'Svadharma'' versus 'Ahimsa' (1987)\u003cbr\u003eOn the Ignorance of the Arhat (1992)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION IV: ABHIDHARMA LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003eOn the Theory of Two Vasubandhus (1958)\u003cbr\u003eBuddha's Prolongation of Life (1958)\u003cbr\u003eThe Vaibhasika Theory of Words and Meaning (1959)\u003cbr\u003eThe Sautrantika Theory of 'Bija' (1959)\u003cbr\u003eThe Origin and Development of Viprayukta-samskaras (1959)\u003cbr\u003e'Abhidharmadipa' (1961)\u003cbr\u003e'Prajna' and 'Drsti' in the Vaibhasika Abhidharma (1977)\u003cbr\u003e'Smrti' in the Abhidharma Literature and the Development of Buddhist Accounts of Memory of the Past (1992)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION V: JATAKA AND AVADANA LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of Sudhana and Manohara: An Analysis of Texts and the Borobudur Reliefs (1966)\u003cbr\u003eOn the Buddha Image (1979)\u003cbr\u003eSome 'niti' Verses of the 'Lokaneyya-pakarana (1984)\u003cbr\u003ePolitical and Cultural Data in References to Mathura in the Buddhist Literature (1988)\u003cbr\u003e'Padipadanajataka': Gautama's Last Female Incarnation (1989)\u003cbr\u003eThe Apocryphal Jatakas of Southeast Asian Buddhism (1990)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION VI : MAHAYANA\u003cbr\u003eThe 'Aloka' of Haribhadra and the 'Saratama' of Ratnakarasanti: A Comparative Study of the Two Commentaries of the Astasahastrika (1972)\u003cbr\u003eThe Sanskrit Fragments in Vinitadeva's 'Trimsika-tika (1985)\u003cbr\u003eStages in the Bodhisattva Career of the Tathagata Maitreya (1988)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION VII: RITUAL TEXTS\u003cbr\u003e'Mahadibbamanta': A Paritta Manuscript from Cambodia (1965)\u003cbr\u003e(Introduction to) Vasudhara-Dharani: A Buddhist work in use among the Jainas of Gujarat (1968)\u003cbr\u003e(Introduction to and Translation of) 'Akaravattarasutta: An 'Apocryphal' Sutta from Thailand (1992)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Padmanabh S Jaini \/ Motilal Banarsidass \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153490407792,"sku":"8645","price":46.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/8645.jpg?v=1793910299","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/collected-papers-on-buddhist-studies","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}