Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
The Sutra Route: the beyond within
This chapter describes The Sutra Route: the beyond within located on page 227 of volume Volume 3 in the book Cultural Horizons of India compiled by Musashi Tachikawa. This book comprises 50 years of research material of Lokesh Chandra and represents a thorough study of the ancient culture of India, dealing with Tantra, Buddhism, Art, Archaeology, Language and Literature in 7 volumes.
Volume 3 begins with a new perspective on the evolution of tantras, based on Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Indonesian, and Simhalese sources. It further shows that the deification of kings and colossi of the Avatamsaka in Afghanistan, China and Japan are a crucial stage in tantra development.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes The Sutra Route: the beyond within. Everything together represents a huge collection of writings related to languages such as Sanskrit, Iranian, Sino-Japanese, Tibetan, Thai, Greek, Latin, Celtic, and Slavic..
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Settlement in Early Historic Ganga Plain [by Chirantani Das]
It was too connected to a number of important routes and played a vital role as an important point and mediator of the route and in a way is profited by this large scale long distance trade. Important routes touching Varanasi were From Pataliputra to Lumbini, Varanasi to Sasaram, Varanasi to the Vindhyan scarp i.e. from Ganga valley to the Deccan, Varanasi to Surguja through Robertsganj, route from Deccan passing through Surguja, Varanasi and reaching Ayodhya and beyond....
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Triveni Journal
Understanding the profound doctrine culminating in Prajna and practising the requisite sila and samadhi, is not something within the competence of all. For such people there is an easy way....
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The Great Buddhist Emperors of Asia [by Shibani Dutta]
Among the most important texts translated by Kumarjiva are the Diamond Sutra, Amitabha Sutra, Lotus Sutra, the Vimalakirti Nirdas Sutra, Mulamadhymakakarika, Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra, Mahaprajnaparamita upades etc. By this time many Buddhist scriptures were rendered into Chinese language. But till then no one cared to prepare a Chinese version of Vinaya Pitaka. It is one of the three parts that make up the Tripitaka (literally. Three Baskets. )....
Read full contents: Chapter 4 - Chinese Emperor Yu Tee (502 A.C.–549 A.C.)
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[Volume 4 (summary)]
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