Lives Lived Lives Imagined by Ulrike Roesler

Lives Lived Lives Imagined by Ulrike Roesler

From the Buddha in ancient India to a nun in modern-day Los Angeles, Lives Lived, Lives Imagined crosses time, traditions, and cultures to present fascinating depictions of lives lived on the Buddhist path. Buddhist biographies come to life in many forms; they come from known poets and anonymous compilers; they are told by bards and even enacted by performers; they may also be autobiographies, either public or secret. Equally diverse have been the purposes they have served - as models for emulation, as origin stories for a particular community or lineage, or as narrative explications of doctrine.

This book, a collection of papers presented at a conference at the University of Oxford, presents a multifaceted, multitradition portrait of Buddhist biographies. Part 1 deals with biographies of the Buddha, investigating Chinese and Pali sources and the Sanskrit dramatizations of Asvaghosa. Part 2 contains modern Buddhist life stories, including a rare autobiography from Burma. Part 3 explores the Tibetan tradition, including such well-known figures as Milarepa, Shakya Chogden, and Karmapa Mikyo Dorje. Together, these biographies and studies reveal the rich diversity of Buddhism's myriad incarnations over its long history and the dynamic scope of its thought and practice.

Contributor Biography - German Ulrike Roesler (*1963) wurde in Indologie an der Universitat Munster promoviert und habilitierte sich in Tibetologie an der Universitat Munchen. Sie lehrte Indologie in Marburg und Freiburg und ist seit 2010 als Lecturer in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies an der Universitat Oxford tatig. Ihre Forschungsinteressen reichen von den Liedern des Rigveda zur buddhistischen Literatur Tibets. Insbesondere interessiert sie sich fur die Geschichte der bKa'-gdams-pa-Schule, fur die Erzahlungsliteratur Indiens und Tibets und fur die tibetische biographische Literatur. Ihre jungsten Buchpublikationen sind Fruhe Quellen zum buddhistischen Stufenweg in Tibet (Reichert Verlag 2011) und Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Biographies in the Buddhist Traditions (ed., Wisdom Publications 2010).

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ISBN 13	9780861715787
ISBN 10	0861715780
Title	Lives Lived Lives Imagined
Author	Ulrike Roesler
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wisdom Publications,U.S.
Year published	2010-08-01
Number of pages	236
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