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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Image Problems: The Origin and Development of the Buddha's Image in Early South Asia 9780295805795, 9780295994567

This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of th

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