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The biblical scholar Margaret Gibson (1843-1920) was credited with the discovery of a number of significant ancient manuscripts. This volume, the transcription of an Arabic manuscript from the monastic library of St Catherine on Mount Sinai, first published in 1901,includes the stories of Aphikia and Cyprian and Justa.

Apocryphal books --- Translations into English. --- Apocryphal literature --- Pseudepigrapha --- Sacred books

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L'importance du Mahabharata dans l'histoire spirituelle de l'Inde reste incontestable. Mais le récit qui lui sert de cadre reste largement méconnu. La raison de cette ignorance est la complexité d'une oeuvre qui défie l'imagination. L'auteur tente d'expliquer le rôle central que celui-ci joue dans la pensée et la religion hindoue. ©Electre 2015

Brahmanism --- Brahmanisme --- Sacred books --- Livres sacrés --- Mahabharata --- Criticism and interpretation

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'It is written ...,' says the believer in a sacred text, and proceeds to justify all manner of terrifying things. Or so runs a popular caricature of religious faith today. Religions that center around a revelation--around a 'good book,' like the Torah or Gospels or Quran, which is seen as God's word--are widely regarded as irrational and dangerous: as based on outdated science and conducive to illiberal, inhumane moral attitudes. The Good and the Good Book defends revealed religion and shows how it can be reconciled with science and liberal morality. Samuel Fleischacker invites us to see revealed texts as aiming to teach neither scientific nor moral doctrines but a vision of what life is about overall. Purely naturalistic ways of thinking, he argues, cannot make much sense of our overall or ultimate good; revealed texts, by contrast, do precisely that. But these texts also need to be interpreted so as to accord with our independent understanding of morality. A delicate balance isrequired for this process of interpretation--between respecting the uncanny obscurity of our sacred texts and rendering them morally familiar. The book concludes with an account of how believers in one religion can respect believers in other religions, and secular people.

Religion --- Religion And Ethics --- Truth --- Philosophy --- Religion and ethics --- Sacred books

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A monumental work in the history of religion, the history of the book, the study of politics, and bibliographical research, this volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the fourth century to the digital era. Approaching the subject from a historical perspective, it ties the religious, social, and textual practices of canon formation to the development of East Asian Buddhist culture and enlivens Chinese Buddhist texts for readers interested in the evolution of Chinese writing and the Confucian and Daoist traditions.The collection undertakes extensive readings of major scriptural catalogs from the early manuscript era as well as major printed editions, including the Kaibao Canon, Qisha Canon, Goryeo Canon, and Taisho Canon. Contributors add fascinating depth to such understudied issues as the historical process of compilation, textual manipulation, physical production and management, sponsorship, the dissemination of various editions, cultic activities surrounding the canon, and the canon's reception in different East Asian societies. The Chinese Buddhist canon is one of the most enduring textual traditions in East Asian religion and culture, and through this exhaustive, multifaceted effort, an essential body of work becomes part of a new, versatile narrative of East Asian Buddhism that has far-reaching implications for world history.

Buddhism --- Buddhist literature, Chinese --- J1820 --- K9071 --- S13A/0330 --- Religions --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Sacred books --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- scriptures (tripitaka) --- Korea: Religion -- Buddhism -- theology, scriptures, philosophy --- China: Religion--Chinese Buddhism: Sacred Books (incl. Chinese translations from Tibetan, Mongolian, Sanskrit and other languages) --- Sacred books&delete& --- History --- History and criticism

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This is a study of a scripture translated into Old Turkic from the apocryphal Chinese Bayangjing and preserved in the Berlin Turfan Collection. 0This study of a scripture translated into Old Turkic from the apocryphal Chinese Bayangjing contains the reconstruction of the Old Turkic text and a comparison of the reconstructed text with the extant original Chinese text, as well as the Tibetan and Mongolian translations. Judging from the quantitative and linguistic abundance of extant Turkic fragments and their rich content, there can be little doubt that this scripture circulated widely and over a long period of time among Uighur Buddhists from the 10th century onwards. 0In a collection of Buddhist essays (in China dating from 1155), “there are some three thousand copies of the fabricated Bayangjing”. This was probably a reference to the popularity of scriptures such as the “fabricated (i.e. apocryphal) Bayangjing” which was not included in the official canon because it did not go back to an Indian original but was composed in China. Despite its apocryphal nature, it should also be noted that the Bayangjing includes scathing criticism of the yin-yang theory and undue concern for good and bad fortune. Furthermore, according to a review, it may be a Buddhist gospel of liberation from taboos and divination.

Apocriefe boeken (Tripitaka) --- Apocryphal books (Tripitaka) --- Apocryphes (Tripitaka) --- Apocryphes (Trois corbeilles) --- Apocryphes du Tripitaka --- Art et symbolisme bouddhiques --- Boeddhistische kunst en symboliek --- Buddhist art and symbolism --- Buddhist cave temples --- Caityagrha --- Cave temples [Buddhist ] --- Cetiyaghara --- Enluminure -- Moyen âge --- Enluminure des livres et des manuscrits médiévale --- Enluminure du Moyen âge --- Enluminure médiévale --- Handschriften [Oudturkse ] --- Illumination of books and manuscripts [Medieval ] --- Livres apocryphes (Tripitaka) --- Manuscripts [Old Turkic ] --- Manuscrits vieux-turcs --- Manuscrits à peintures -- Moyen âge --- Manuscrits à peintures du Moyen âge --- Manuscrits à peintures médiévaux --- Medieval illumination of books and manuscripts --- Middeleeuwse verluchting van boeken en handschriften --- Miniature médiévale --- Old Turkic manuscripts --- Oudturkse handschriften --- Rotstempels [Boeddhistische ] --- Temples rupestres bouddhiques --- Tripitaka -- Apocriefe boeken --- Tripitaka -- Apocryphal books --- Tripitaka -- Apocryphes --- Tripitaka. Apocryphes --- Trois corbeilles -- Apocryphes --- Trois corbeilles. Apocryphes --- Verluchting van boeken en handschriften [Middeleeuwse ] --- Buddhist literature [Uighur ] --- China --- Early works to 1800 --- Asia [Central ] --- Criticism and interpretation --- Buddhism --- Sacred books --- Asia [Central]