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  • Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics

    by Caesar Roberts ...
    In a developing country we require large amounts of energy to sustain our industries. Most of the energy required is generated in coal-fired power stations. In these power stations or power plants, available fuel (such as coal) is used to heat up large quantities of water to obtain steam. This steam is used to drive steam turbines connected to generators which supply our electricity. ... Read more

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  • Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales

    Wisdom and Compassion in Ancient Buddhist Tales

    by Various ...
    Translated by Robert Cæsar Childers, T. W. Rhys Davids ...
    Buddhist Birth Stories, commonly known as the Jataka Tales, is a significant collection of narratives that illustrate the moral and ethical lessons of the Buddha through the tales of his previous incarnations. Richly woven in a simple yet profound literary style, these stories serve as allegories, emphasizing virtues such as compassion, wisdom, and self-sacrifice. Set within the framework of ... Read more

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    by Philosophical Library ...
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    Discover the origins of Buddhism and its tenets from the seminal textsDrawn from the sacred books of Buddhism, this collection reveals the insights and beliefs at the heart of the world's fourth-largest religion. Siddhartha Guatama, a sixth-century Hindu warrior prince, renounced the world in his search for the meaning of life and became the Buddha, or "Enlightened One," while meditating at Bodh ... Read more

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  • The Kojiki

    by Yasumaro O no ...
    Kojiki ("Record of Ancient Matters") is the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century (711-2) and composed by O no Yasumaro at the request of Empress Gemmei. The Kojiki is a collection of myths concerning the origin of the four home islands of Japan, and the Kami. Along with the Nihon Shoki, the myths contained in the Kojiki are part of the inspiration behind Shinto ... Read more

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  • The Lotus Sutra (Saddharma-Pundarika)

    Edited by Jazzybee Verlag ...
    This is the annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids The Lotus Sktra is one of the most popular and influential Mahyna sktras, and the basis on which the Tiantai and Nichiren schools of Buddhism were established. This sutra is known for its extensive instruction on the concept and ... Read more

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  • The Garuda Purana

    by S. V. Subrahmanyam & Ernest Wood ...
    The neo-theosophists, among the great good they have done to the world, have revived the idea that Hell is a living reality, and not a superstitious fiction, created by a designing priestcraft, to keep Humanity on its good behavior. Among the educated, with the vanishing of the belief in an after-life, has vanished also the belief in Hell. But owing to the labors of the Psychical Research Society ... Read more

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  • The Path of Light

    The Bodhicharyavatara of Santideva, a Manual of Mahayana Buddhism

    by L. D. Barnett ...
    The Path of Light is Barnett's 1909 translation of an important text to Mahayana Buddhism. It is the treatise of the Bodhicharyavatara of Santideva--part of the Wisdom of the East series. Barnett gives a detailed introduction to Mahayana Buddhism and its significance. ... Read more

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  • Hindu Gods and Heroes

    by Lionel D. Barnett ...
    Let us imagine we are in a village of an Aryan tribe in the Eastern Panjab something more than thirty centuries ago. It is made up of a few large huts, round which cluster smaller ones, all of them rudely built, mostly of bamboo; in the other larger ones dwell the heads of families, while the smaller ones shelter their kinsfolk and followers, for this is a patriarchal world, and the housefather ... Read more

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  • The Questions of King Milinda

    by T. W. Rhys Davids ...
    I HAVE first to notice a few points as to the history of the Milinda book which have either come to light since the former Introduction was written, or which I then omitted to notice. Mr. Bunyiu Nanjio in his Catalogue of Chinese Buddhist Books1 mentions a Chinese book called Nâ-sien Pikhiu Kin (that is 'The Book of the Bhikshu Nâgasena' Sûtra)2. I have been so fortunate as to receive detailed ... Read more

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  • Buddhist Suttas

    by anonymous ...
    According to Wikipedia: "In Buddhism, the sūtra refers mostly to canonical scriptures, many of which are regarded as records of the oral teachings of Gautama Buddha. In Chinese, these are known as jīng. These teachings are assembled in part of the Tripitaka which is called Sutra Pitaka. There are also some Buddhist texts, such as the Platform Sutra, that are called sūtras despite being attributed ... Read more

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  • The Questions Of King Milinda Part I

    by T. W. Rhys Davids ...
    The Questions of King Milinda - Part I of IIT. W. Rhys DavidsThe Milinda Pañha (also Milindapanha, Milindapañha, or MilindapañhÄ; abbrev., Mil) (Pali trans. "Questions of Milinda") is a Buddhist text which dates from approximately 100 BCE. It is sometimes included in the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism as a book of the Khuddaka Nikaya.It purports to record a dialogue in which the Indo-Greek king ... Read more

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  • Tibet's Great Yogī Milarepa

    A Biography from the Tibetan being the Jetsün-Kabbum or Biographical History of Jetsün-Milarepa, According to the Late Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering

    Edited by W. Y. Evans-Wentz ...
    This life story of Milarepa--the important Tibetan religious leader who lived over 800 years ago--is part of a remarkable four-volume series on Tibetan Buddhism produced by the late W.Y. Evans-Wentz, all four of which are being published by Oxford in new editions. While there are many parochial differences among the several sects of Tibetan Buddhism, each holds the Great Yogi Milarepa in the ... Read more

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