Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia 9781317329381, 9781317329374, 9781138100015, 9781315657882

Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia: Rediscovering the invisible believers 1138100013, 9781138100015

This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the socio-cultural foundations of Buddhism. Moving aw

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Archaeology and Buddhism in South Asia 9781138304895, 9780203728543

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Garrisoned Minds: Women and Armed Conflict in South Asia

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Buddhism and Women

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Encountering Buddhism and Islam in Premodern Central and South Asia 9783110631685, 9783110629163

This volume brings together a variety of historians, epigraphists, philologists, art historians and archaeologists to ad

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Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia: A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture 9780823256907

This study of the intellectual culture of the women’s monasteries of the Main Valley during the eighth century, based on

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Christian Monastic Life in Early Islam 9781474479707

Explores the relationship between monastic communities and Muslim society in the early centuries of Islam Presents a sur

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Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism 9780226391144, 9780226391151, 9780226628233, 2018043832

Though fascinated with the land of their tradition's birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subc

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Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism 9780226628233

Though fascinated with the land of their tradition’s birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontin

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Institutions and Economic Change in South Asia

The book reflects a process of inter-disciplinary dialogue between historians, economists and anthropologists, at a time

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