{"product_id":"encyclopaedia-of-buddhism-volume-x","title":"Encyclopaedia of Buddhism:  (Volume X)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: M G Chitkara\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: APH Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2000\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 680\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8176481890\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs part of 21-Volume series, this book points out that centuries pass but the stupa and its legends endure. Because legends and folk tales of divinity are so much more readable than a thousand scriptures though they both signpost a path to that which is everlasting. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScriptures require the skills of interpreters. Legends need only a mother and a child and a story. Faith follows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMyth is from the Greek term mythos meaning legend. The history of Buddha is not a myth. Myth is a sacred narrative, from which legends and fairy tales are not always clearly distinguishable. In a common tradition of analysis, myth is above all explanatory is myths. The anthropological study of myth links with psychological, literary, and classical studies, and with political science and sociology. In the latter, myth is often no longer a sacred narrative but, so to say, a whole value-bestowing area of belief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMythology relating to Lamaism is fascinating field for exploring the primitive conceptions of life, and the way in which the great forces of nature become deified. IT also shows the gradual growth of legend and idolatry, with its diagrams of the unknown and fetishes. And how Buddhism with its creative touch bodied forth in concrete shape the abstract conceptions of the learned and, while incorporating into its pantheon the local gods of the country, it gave milder meanings to the popular myths and legends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSacred space, as a place of crossing over, a tirtha-which means a ford, either as it exists in a permanent or semi-permanent location or as it is set up for the short duration of a  ritual ceremony, or as a place to visited : is a microcosm, it is a reflection of the whole. The whole exists within each small space, within each significant fragment, because each of these reproduces the whole. So we see that while ordinary space does not, cannot allow for this. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryday time, through ritual, becomes transfigured, consecrated; remembered because repeated and therefore repeatable forever. The periodic recurrence of anything signifies primarily that a mythical time is made present, and then can be used indefinitely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eMyths Illuminate \u003cbr\u003eLegends, Myths \u0026amp; Folklore\u003cbr\u003eLiving Power Behind Symbol \u003cbr\u003eEvery Religion Has Distinct Mythology\u003cbr\u003eA Revolutionary Concept of Socio-spiritual Engineering\u003cbr\u003eThe Pathless Path to Truth\u003cbr\u003eSiddhartha to Buddha\u003cbr\u003eCreation of Universe\u003cbr\u003eShambhala: A Mythical Land\u003cbr\u003eThe Jataka Legend: Some Reflections\u003cbr\u003eAppraisal \u0026amp; Sum up\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"M G Chitkara \/ APH Publishing Corporation \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153508266352,"sku":"7073","price":121.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/7073.jpg?v=1793910598","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/encyclopaedia-of-buddhism-volume-x","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}