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• Publisher : Westland
• By : Ravi Shanker Etteth
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2018
  
• Pages : 265 pages
  
• Weight : ‎ 449 g
  
• Size : 12.9 x 1.63 x 19.81 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9386850710
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9386850713
  

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It is a time of violence as well as calm. Men of peace are spreading the message of the Buddha even as monks are being tortured in the dungeons of Pataliputra. In Magadha, all talk is about the impending war against Kalinga. While King Ashoka plots the movements of his ships and cavalry, Queen Asandhimitra broods over the growing unrest in the kingdom. There is only one man they can both trust to take them through this period of uncertainty and looming danger: the enigmatically named Brahmin, skilful spymaster and custodian of Magadha’s best-kept secrets.Lush with historical detail and unforgettable characters, The Brahmin is an intricately plotted novel that seeks to recreate a near-mythical period in India’s past.

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• Publisher : ‎ HarperCollins India
• By : Samrat Choudhary
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2021
  
• Pages : ‎ 424 pages
  
• Weight : 390 g
  
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 939032758X
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9390327584
  

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The Brahmaputra is by some margin the largest river in India. After its confluence with the Ganga in Bangladesh, it becomes the largest in Asia. In The Braided River, journalist Samrat Choudhury sets out to follow its braided course from the edge of Tibet where it enters India down to where it meets the Ganga at a spot marked by the biggest red light district in Bangladesh. Along the way, he meets suspicious Indian spies, gets packed off on the back of a cement truck by soldiers, visit a shelter home for baby rhino and elephant orphans in Kaziranga, and hops from river island to riverside town meeting the locals. The tales of these encounters spice up a story that weaves in the history of the emergence of the border between India and China in Arunachal Pradesh, the formation of the Assamese identity -- a matter of great contemporary relevance owing to the National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act -- and the ecological challenges posed by proposed dams.This is a genre-bending book that touches upon several hot-button issues -- environmental, military and political -- as it blends travel, memoir and history with the present.

About the Book: The study of holy places and pilgrimages to them is treated in the Hindu tradition as a sub-field, called tirtha, of the Dharmasastra. The Tristhalisetu or "Bridge to the Three Holy Cities" of Narayana Bhatta, written in Varanasi in the 16th century A.D. is recognized as the standard and most authoritative text of the voluminous tirtha literature. The text is in four sections, of which only the last three were published in the Anandasrama edition of 1915. The first or 'General' Section, the Samanya-praghattaka, which was not included in that edition, discusses the concept, definition, and characteristic features of tirthas, and prescribes in detail the procedures and practices of a pilgrimage. The present volume consists of a critical edition of the text of the Samanyapraghattaka and an annotated translation. This text contains a wealth of information for the study of the pilgrimage tradition in Hinduism.

About the Author: Richard Salomon was born in New York City in 1948. He is presently Assistant Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Washington, USA. He studied Sanskrit at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the Degree of Ph. D. with Distinction from the latter institution in 1975. He has taught Sanskrit at the University of Pennyslvania, Minnesota, and Washington, and conducted research at Calcutta University, the University of Chicago, and Visvabharati (Santiniketan). He has published various papers and monographs on Sanskrit and Prakrit language and literature, Indian epigraphy, Paleography, and numismatics, and ancient Indian history.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :Jag Randhawa (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2016
• Pages :  276 pages
• Size :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-8184958676
  

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The author shares key insights on employee engagement and leadership such as including employees in crucial decision-making matters and improving services of the organization. He emphasizes the need for trusting employees with value-added inputs to motivate them and enable companies to overcome even the most difficult financial crises.

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Jag Randhawa is a technology executive, professional speaker and executive coach. Born and raised on a farm in rural India, Jag developed a sense of appreciation for doing the best with what you have, which he successfully applied to business when he entered the corporate world.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : Narada (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2006
• Pages : 532 pages
• Size :  14 x 3.2 x 21.6 cm
  
• ISBN-10:  8179926176
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8179926178

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The Buddha was the first most active missionary in the world. He wandered from place to place for forty-five years preaching His doctrine to the masses and the intelligentsia. Till His last moment, he served humanity both by example and by precept. His distinguished disciples followed suit. Penniless, they even travelled to distant lands to propagate the Dharma, expecting nothing in return. This treatise, written by a member of the order of the Sangha, is based on the Páli Texts, commentaries and traditions prevailing in Buddhist countries. The first part of the book deals with the Life of the Buddha, the second with the Dharma, the Pali term for his Doctrine.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : Gil Fronsdal (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2017
• Pages : 192 pages
• Size :  20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-13:  978-9386867292
  

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Don’t chase the past Or long for the future.
The past is left behind; The future is not yet reached.

For one who knows, who has no agitation,
There is no karmic accumulation.
—from ‘The Discourse on Being Violent’, The Book of Eights

Gil Fronsdal’s The Buddha before Buddhism is an elegant translation of Buddhist poems from the Atthakavagga or The Book of Eights, which is believed to be part of the Buddha’s first teachings. In this anthology, reality is not divided into a conditioned, worldly realm and an unconditioned, transcendent realm far removed from ordinary human life, which is a deviation from the usual Buddhist texts. Instead, the teachings point to peace that can be found in this life, in this world.

This collection of 16 poems points to a direct and simple approach for attaining peace without requiring an adherence to any specific ideology. In contrast to later Buddhist teachings that are predicated on the belief in rebirth, this book’s central theme is the joy that comes from recognizing and letting go of attachment to the illusory views that create suffering.

This a revised edition of the book, first published in 1995. It deals with crucial though controversial question in Buddhist art: the origin of the Buddha image– its transformation from aniconism to anthropomorphism– and the iconography of the Buddha images.

The earliest Buddhist art of Sanchi and Bharhut is anicionic; the Buddha is represented in symbols only. In the later Buddhist art of Gandhara and Mathura, the Buddha is represented in human from; he is the principle subject of sculptural art. The book seeks to explore the geographical area in which the image of the Buddha first emerged and whether ideology of the Buddhist doctrines–Hinayana or Mahayana –had anything to do with this transformation and whether anthropomorphism of the Buddha image is of Greek inspiration.

The Buddha image, as developed eventually at Sarnath, became the model for the Buddha images in whole of Asia–Southeast, Central, and Eastern.

The iconographic features of the Buddha images are superficially an aberration, being in apparent conflict with the doctrine. The Buddha had cut off his hair at the time of his renunciation; the rules of the order enjoin that a monk must be tonsured and must discard and eschew all ornamentation. However, in his images, the Buddha has a luxuriant crop of hair on his head; later he also came to be endowed with a crown and jewels which, strictly speaking, are a taboo for a renunciant.

After an exhaustive examination of the views of various scholar, the book answer these questions and resolves the controversies on the basis of literary, sculptural, numismatic, and epigraphic sources. More importantly, it makes use of the valuable evidence from the contemporaneous and parallel religious tradition–Jainism and jaina art: aniconism of early Jaina art and the iconographic features of later Jaina images. The implications of this study are also important: does India owe idolatry to Buddhism? Was this of foreign inspiration, Greek to be precise? Was the Buddha image fashioned after the Vedic Brahma and whether the Buddha’s usnisa and Buddhist art motifs are rooted in the Vedic tradition?

The book is profusely illustrated and provides rich and stimulating fare to students of Indian art in general and of Buddhist art in particular.

About the Author : Y.Krishan is a scholar in Indology –Indian history, religion, philosophy and art. He has published over 150 research papers on these subjects in leading journals in India and abroad.He has also published a book Audit in India's Democracy.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Theosophical Publishing House Adyar, Chennai
• By : Henry Steel Olcott
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2007
• Pages : 116
• Weight : 180 gm.
• Size : 6 x 4.5 x 0.5 inches
• ISBN-10: 8170590272
• ISBN-13: 978-8170590279