Month: January 2024

  • Political Violence in Ancient India

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    POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN ANCIENT INDIA CONTENTS PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION CHRONOLOGY OF DYNASTIES CHRONOLOGY OF TEXTS‌‌ Introduction CHAPTER ONE ▪ Foundation CHAPTER TWO ▪ Transition CHAPTER THREE ▪ Maturity‌‌‌ CHAPTER FOUR ▪ War CHAPTER FIVE ▪ The Wilderness Conclusion‌ GLOSSARY ABBREVIATIONS NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX‌‌‌‌ Preface and Acknowledgments‌ MY HISTORICAL INTERESTS have been rather…

  • An Archaeological History of Indian Buddhism

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    An Archaeological History of Indian Buddhism Acknowledgments ix A Note on Transliteration xi Introduction: The Archaeology and History of Indian Buddhism 1 The Material of Religion 34 From the Buddha to Ashoka: c. 600–200 bce 70 The Sangha and the Laity: c. 200 bce–200 ce 104 The Beginnings of Mahayana Buddhism, Buddha Images, and Monastic…

  • Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism

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    Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism Handbook of Oriental StudiesEdited by Johannes Bronkhorst VOLUME 24 Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism By Johannes Bronkhorst Chapter One Introduction: Buddhism Before the New Brahmanism ……………………………………………………………….. 1 The original context …………………………………………………… 1 Interactions ………………………………………………………………… 6 Imperial help 12 Chapter Two Brahmanism 27 The new Brahmanism 27 The spread…

  • Sermon on 20240128

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    This sermon is a response to the following conversation: Helen De Cruz – Morality, Prescriptive Behavior, Evil, and Suffering The participants were:[Helen De Cruz] whose speech is labeled as [HDC] in the transcript and [Robert Lawrence Kuhn] whose speech is labeled as [RLK] in the transcript. 0:00 [RLK] Helen the importance of meditation uh 0:04…