One Hundred Tales For Ten Thousand Buddhas—this is an essential book. There exists no other quite like it. It is a collection of living moments with the living Buddha. It is not some events remembered and then adorned with reactions. These are tales vitally alive. These tales are a great gift for all of us—those who have sat with the living Master and those who haven’t. It is a book for all seekers. It is also a book for those who are not actively seeking, but surely have the same longing-the longing for a taste of that love which has no bondage.

"Buddhism in medieval Korea is characterized as “State Protection Buddhism,” a religion whose primary purpose was to rally support (supernatural and popular) for and legitimate the state. In this view, the state used Buddhism to engender compliance with its goals. A closer look, however, reveals that Buddhism was a canvas on which people projected many religious and secular concerns and desires. This study is an attempt to specify Buddhism’s place in Koryo and to ascertain to what extent and in what areas Buddhism functioned as a state religion. Was state support the main reason for Buddhism’s dominance in Koryo? How actively did the state seek to promote religious ideals? What was the strength of Buddhism as an institution and the nature of its relationship to the state? What role did Confucianism, the other state ideology, play in Koryo? This study argues that Buddhism provided most of the symbols and rituals, and some of the beliefs, that constructed an aura of legitimacy, but that there was no single ideological system underlying the Koryo dynasty’s legitimating strategies."

Edited by Vanessa R. Sasson, Little Buddhas brings together a wide range of scholarship and expertise to address the question of what role children have played in Buddhist literature, in particular historical contexts, and their role in specific Buddhist contexts today.

Two issues central to the transition from the Koryo to the Choson dynasty in fourteenth-century Korea were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism, which had been the state religion. In this revisionist history, Juhn Ahn challenges the long-accepted Confucian critique that Buddhism had become so powerful and corrupt that the state had to suppress it. When newly rising elites (many with strong ties to the Mongols) used lavish donations to Buddhist institutions to enhance their status, older elites defended their own adherence to this time-honored system by arguing that their donations were linked to virtue. This emphasis on virtue and the consequent separation of religion from wealth facilitated the Confucianization of Korea and the relegation of Buddhism to the margins of public authority during the Choson dynasty.

I am very glad to see the original poetic composition of dr. priyadarsini mitra, assistant professor, gautam buddha university which encompasses within each line the ethico-spiritual and philosophical teaching and altruistic ministrations of compassionate. we all know the buddha salvaged the entire mankind from mire and fire of existence and showed the path of salvation. dr. mitra has very effectible tailor the didactic garb through her fluid and florid philosophical words and phrases in very lucid way. i am sure thus poetic composition and collection of her writing will enable the readers to better understand the whole of buddhist philosophy and wisdom. in her introduction to this book she has well spelt the whole content of what she wanted to say about that sublime preaching of the buddha. she has tried here to dish out all aspect of buddha's teaching in a refreshing way. it gives me immense pleasure to write pursue words of appreciation in form of foreword for dr. priyadarsini mitra who had completed her ph.d doctoral dissertation under my supervision at university of jammu in 2002. in my opinion, this contribution of her is a sacred tribute to the divinity of buddha and also to the mankind at large. -priyadarsini mitra

Leaving an abusive father, eighteen-year old Christie marries Marine pilot Kenneth Doran just before his Vietnam assignment. There he joins a plot to steal U.S. Embassy money. As the war ends, Kens plane crashes. Injured and suffering from amnesia, he is befriended by northern Thai Hmong villagers. Concurrently, senior Vietnamese officials illegally transfer millions of state-owned funds to Swiss banks. The secret numbers are concealed in five Buddha statuettes to enable them to claim funds later. Working in a San Francisco gift shop, Christie accidentally acquires several Buddhas. An American journalist and the CIA, tracing the stolen money, pursue Christie. Discovery of Kens survival takes Christie to Thailand and involvement in searching for the hidden money and gold.

From 1935 comes this thrilling novel about five odd people who happen to buy tiny jade figurines of a non-smiling Buddha. Only Harry Stephen Keeler could have come up with this plot!

An exploration of subversive, ribald variations of the most important story in Theravada Buddhism.

'Kerr is the Bill Bryson of the Playstation generation' Billy had only gone out for a bacon roll but in his hungover state had vowed to find Buddha a more fitting home. The only problem was that the Buddhas new home happened to be in Bangkok. And so begins a journey that will transport Billy and his partner Ellen around the world and back again. Trouble is never far away from this hapless duo. They stumble across a Scottish themed brothel, buy hippo penis cream instead of malaria pills and highjack a stage to sing the Scottish Anthem. But all the fun of travel soon evaporates. An incident occurs that turns the couples's happy go lucky experience in to a nightmare and brings them close to death and even closer to madness. Startlingly honest, ridiculously funny and horrifyingly frightening, A Tale of Buddhas and Bandits is the true story of two years in the life of an itinerant couple.

This Open Access book explores heritage conservation ethics of post conflict and provides an important historical record of the possible reconstruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues, which was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in Danger in 2003 as “Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley”. With the condition that most surface of the original fragments of the Buddha statues were lost due to acts of deliberate destruction, this publication explores a reference point for conservation practitioners and policy makers around the world as they consider how to respond to on-going acts of destruction of cultural heritage. Whilst there has been an emerging debate to the ethics and nature of heritage reconstruction, this volume provides a plethora of ideas and approaches concerning the future treatment of the Bamiyan Buddha statues. It also addresses a number of fundamental questions on potential heritage reconstruction: how it will be done; who will decide; and what it should be done for. Moreover when it comes to the inscribed World Heritage properties, how can reconstructed heritage using non-original materials be considered to retain authenticity? With a view to serving as a precedent for potential decisions taken elsewhere in the world for cultural properties impacted by acts of violence and destruction, this volume introduces academic researches, experiences and observations of heritage conservation theory and practice of heritage reconstruction. It also addresses the issue not merely from the point of a material conservation philosophy but within the context of holistic strategies for the protection of human rights and promotion of peace building.