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    Religion: Buddhism


    nareshgupta kindly contributed:

    Buddhism in Modern India/D.C. Ahir. Delhi, Satguru, 1991, 201 p., US$11. ISBN 81-7030-254-4.

    Contents: Preface. 1. History of revival movement. 2. Historic sites and shrines. 3. The Himalayan Buddhists. 4. Bhikkhus and Viharas. 5. Societies and institutions. 6. Modern Buddhist literature. 7. Buddhist customs and manners. Epilogue. Appendices.

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    Click Read More... below A study of Vaisnavism in Western Orissa
    Religion: Hinduism


    tirtha kindly contributed:

    By- Tirtharaj Bhoi, ICHR, Doctoral Fellow, University of Hyderabad.
    Vishnu, the deity that encompasses the universe, is known in our country from the Vedic Samhitas. He is also well known as a deity in the trinity, as the one who maintains the universe. He is also worshipped as the supreme reality by the Vaisnavas.

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    Posted by Eurasia on 18.12.2009 @ 16:43:53 GMT (544 reads)

    Click Read More... below Model to test the operational mechanism of Non-Dualism
    Religion: Hinduism


    ramesam kindly contributed:

    ABSTRACT:

    Ever since a capacity for abstract thinking dawned on man, he has been questioning the ‘what and whys’ of his existence and his relationship with the universe. His quest had urgency because of the inexorable natural forces he was exposed to and his own interest in conquering disease, decay and death. Each organism developed its own techniques of survival against the evolutionary pressures and the sum total of that knowledge is available to the human being stored in his brain. Invention of a fictitious ‘self’ helped him to distinguish himself as a distinct individual from the other and it helped in his self-propagation and procreation. However, it did not redeem him of the physical body problems nor could he conquer death. A few realized a way to dissolve the ‘self’ of body identity in an ineffable, indestructible, infinite and eternal nameless entity. Such people are known as ‘Jivanmuktas’ and the nameless Oneness they talked about is Non-dualism. The process of this transcendence from an individuating ‘self’ is Enlightenment or Nirvana.
    Because enlightenment happens to an individual who still retains a body but with a changed ‘worldview’ of Universal Oneness, the change may have a correlate in his brain. Two distinct characteristics stand out as markers of Nirvana. One is the loss of a separating ‘self’ and another is ‘non-doership’ of actions. Modern neuroscientific techniques may help identify these markers either at a gross level of neuronal circuits or at a molecular level.

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    Click Read More... below Buddhism in Medieval Sri Lanka/H.B.M. Ilangasinha.
    Religion: Buddhism


    nareshgupta kindly contributed:

    Buddhism in Medieval Sri Lanka/H.B.M. Ilangasinha. Delhi, Satguru, 1992, xv, 260 p., YUS20. ISBN 81-7030-245-5.

    Contents: Preface. Foreword. 1. Introduction and sources. 2. Political background. 3. The Sangha. 4. The state and the Sangha. 5. Monastic education. 6. Relations with other Buddhist countries. 7. Cults, rituals ceremonies and festivals. Conclusion. Bibliography. Indexes.

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    Click Read More... below Call for Paper: International Congress of Bengal Studies, 2010
    Civilzation: Area Studies


    Amitava kindly contributed:

    Call for Paper

    International Congress of Bengal Studies, 2010
    25th-28th February, 2010
    University of Delhi, India

    Papers are invited for the International Congress of Bengal Studies, 2010. The theme of the 2010 Congress is ‘Bengali Literary Studies’. History of Bengali Literary Studies, Sociology of the development of the Discipline, Philosophical Orientation and Ideological Contestations involved in the development of the Discipline, Cultural Politics of Syllabi and Research Agenda, are some of the sub-themes on which papers may be proposed. Papers on other areas of Bengal Studies, including, but not limited to, Literature and Criticism, Comparative Literature, Linguistics, Folk Literature and Popular Literature, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, History, Economics, Sociology, Fine Arts, and, Philosophy, are also invited. Papers should be either in Bengali or in English.

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    Posted by Eurasia on 18.12.2009 @ 16:38:53 GMT (471 reads)

    Click Read More... below Health and Culture
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    hari kindly contributed:

    I am Surgeon practising medicine in a multicultural society for the 35 years.

     

    I would like to submit  how best the healthcare delivery can be done in a transcultural society and for that what is needed for a health practitioner.

     In the end I have shared my personal encounters in the healthcare delivery.

     


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    Click Read More... below Dhirubha Professorship at Stanford
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    Stanford University seeks to develop its program in South Asian studies in the humanities and social sciences. As a first step, Stanford invites applications from senior scholars for the Reliance-Ambani, Dhirubha Professorship. The appointee must have a strong record of research and teaching in a humanistic or social scientific field focused on South Asia (including but not limited to economics, anthropology, political science, history, art history, literature, religious studies, and film). He or she should also have a demonstrated capacity for academic leadership and program-building. Stanford is committed to developing its South Asian program through additional faculty recruitment across disciplines. Applicants will also be expected to teach courses in South Asia at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

    Applicants should send curriculum vitae, bibliography, and a brief statement of research interest to The School of Humanities and Sciences Deans Office, Attn: Debby Angus,450 Serra Mall, Building One, Main Quad, Stanford, CA 95305-2070. For full consideration, materials should be submitted as soon as possible and no later than October 31st, 2008. The term of appointment would begin September, 2009. Stanford University is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty. It welcomes nominations of, and applications from, women and minority groups, as well as others who would bring additional dimensions to the university's research and teaching missions.

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    Posted by Eurasia on 18.09.2008 @ 04:35:57 GMT (1703 reads)

    Click Read More... below Buddhist Art: Form & Meaning
    Creativity: Visual Arts


    shailesh kindly contributed:

    Buddhist Art: Form & Meaning
    Pal, Pratapaditya (Ed.)
    2007, 30 cm., pp. 1132 (full of coloured and b/w photogrpahs), US$58.82

    Both spatially and temporally, the scope of this book is expansive. Spatially, the essays cover a vast swathe of Asia stretching from Mathura in India to Thailand in Southeast Asia, including the Himalayan region. Temporally, the period covered is over a millennium from the 1st century BCE to the 10th century CE. Conceptually, the essays cover issues of iconology and styles of Buddhist art, offer new insights and interpretations of both symbols and images, and explain the interrelationships of Buddhist art and literary traditions of the subcontinent, the Himalaya, and Southeast Asia.


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    Posted by Eurasia on 09.02.2008 @ 10:03:11 GMT (2894 reads)

    Click Read More... below Thought, the Natural State and the Body
    Wisdom: Philosophy


    MOORTY kindly contributed:

    Deconstruction of Spirituality in UG Krishnamurti

    -- J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty

    [Paper presented at the International Vedanta Conference on September 21, 2007 at Oxford, Miami,]

    Abstract

    After 40 years of teaching, UG Krishnamurti died in March of this year. After all his demystification of spirituality and spiritual experience, his scorn of thought, culture and civilization, and his derision of human love, compassion and morality, one wonders if he has made any positive contribution to our understanding of the human condition. This paper assesses UG’s contributions as well as the relevance of his teachings, and concludes that his emphasis on being free from all the values that the culture around us has imposed upon us as a necessary condition to returning to our ‘natural state’, a state which does not need any transformation and cannot be antisocial or destructive, is a teaching which could indeed throw light upon our present condition. Whether his teaching presents any solutions or not, it certainly opens our eyes to why we can’t seem to solve basically the problems we face.

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    Posted by eurasia on 16.12.2007 @ 19:00:40 GMT (1903 reads)

    Click Read More... below Why Teach or Study Sanskrit?
    Language: Sanskrit


    John C. Huntington writes:

    I cannot believe, that I am writing this after all the discussion that has taken place on the net. I am neither a "Sanskritist" nor a "Linguist"— Just an cranky, old, art historian who has specialized in Buddhist Art for nearly 45 years.

    As "humanists" we study those essential activities that define our humanity. Regardless of whether it is our inborn nature to kill each other, make self-realizing and defining art, interact socially, or discuss human goals and ideals, we are ever so slightly different than other members of the animal kingdom in many respects. Language has long facilitated speculation about human potential. Undoubtedly the rich burials of the paleolithic era were brought about through the speculation about the nature of death and the potential of an after life. By the time recorded (regardless of whether it is written or remembered) language enters the world arena the entire panoply of religious and philosophical speculations are extant. Chinese, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit carry within their gleaming traditions, the fundamental underlying ideas of humanity at the highest level. Speculation on what the human mass and what the individual human can and or should become are explicated by some of the most profound thinkers the world has ever known. Whether we speak of Confucius, Plato, or Shakyamuni we speak of persons who altered their world and changed the shape of humanity.


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    Posted by Eurasia on 05.01.2007 @ 06:46:40 GMT (4066 reads)

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