John S Strong
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3768614 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John S Strong |
| NOMBRES | John S |
| APELLIDO | Strong |
| FIRMA | STRONG J S |
| AFILIACIONES | Bates College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Legend and Cult of Gavampati: Its Roots in Pali and Sanskrit Sources
Relics of the Buddha
The Buddha’s Funeral
The Legend and Cult of Upagupta: Sanskrit Buddhism in North India and Southeast Asia
The Buddhist monk Upagupta, who preached and taught meditative practices in Northwest India over two thousand years ago, is venerated today by the laity in parts of Burma, Thailand, and Laos as a protective figure endowed with magical powers. In this monumental work John Strong offers a systematic presentation of the Indian and Southeast Asian legends and rituals surrounding this popular saint. Once considered by Buddhist authorities as only marg…
The Buddha as Ender and Transformer of Lineages
This paper looks at three types of lineage in traditions about the Buddha. First, it traces the Buddha’s Sakya ancestry and shows how he puts an end to his genealogical lineage and transforms it into a Sakya monastic lineage. Second, it argues that the Buddha acts as a point of convergence for the synchronic lineage of his many past lives (Jatakas), and then as a dispersion point for the lineage of his many relics. Finally, it sees him as a pivot…
Explicating the Buddha’s Final Illness in the Context of his Other Ailments: The Making and Unmaking of some J?taka Tales
The Buddha’s final illness, brought on by his last meal prior to his death, was traditionally seen as one of a set of ailments suffered by him at various points during his lifetime. This paper looks at different Buddhist explications of the causes of these ailments and applies them to the episode of the Buddha’s final illness. In both instances, three explanatory strategies are detected: the first stresses the causative importance of the Buddha’s…
The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations
In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers the first comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet, and Burma. Its individual essays, representing a range…
Two Buddha Relic Traditions
This article surveys some recent work on Buddhist relics, but with a particular focus. Starting with the observation that the distribution of the Buddha's relics in the Mahparinirva sūtra violates the Buddha's own injunction to keep his remains together in a single stūpa, it goes on to examine the fluctuation, in Buddhist legend, between traditions that assert the togetherness of the Buddha's relics and traditions that assert their dispersal. It …
Aśoka's Wives and the Ambiguities of Buddhist Kingship
Cet article porte sur les épouses du roi Aśoka et sur les notions complexes de la royauté dans le bouddhisme indien. Il essaie de mieux saisir les dimensions du phénomène monarchique à la lumière des spécificités du contexte religieux indien et ainsi d'affiner les perceptions qu'avaient jusqu'alors les spécialistes des sciences religieuses. La figure des « reines » ou des épouses royales est l'une des clefs pour comprendre les ambiguïtés de la fo…
Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan . Brian D. Ruppert
Les reliques des cheveux du Bouddha au Shwe Dagon de Rangoon
According to local lore, the Shwe Dagon pagoda in Rangoon enshrines as relics some hairs of the Buddha Gotama, initially brought there by the merchants Tapassu and Bhallika. This article examines various Mon and Burmese versions of this "Shwe Dagon legend", featuring these merchants, their journey from India to Burma with the hair relics, their search for the hill on which to enshrine them, and their construction there of a stūpa (the future Shwe…
On Being Buddha: The Classical Doctrine of Buddhahood . Paul J. Griffiths
The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 . Caroline Walker Bynum
L'histoire des religions a-t-elle un sens? Correspondance, 1926-1959 . Mircea Eliade , Raffaele Pettazzoni , Natale Spineto
The Experience of Buddhism: Sources and Interpretations
This comprehensive anthology provides translations of texts illustrative of Buddhist philosophy and doctrine as well as descriptive, concrete accounts of Buddhist practices, rituals, experiences, and life situations. This approach does not neglect one dimension of the religion in favor of another and allows instructors to choose what they wish to emphasize in the classroom. The book also covers the development of Buddhism in a wide variety of geo…
A Text without a Community Women, Branch Stories, and Religious Rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist Text . Paula Richman
From Abhinavagupta to Zen
Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy . Stanley J. Tambiah
"The Legend of King Aśoka. A Study and Translation of the "Aśokāvadāna
An English translation of the Asokavadana text, the Sanskrit version of the legend of King Asoka. King Asoka had been studied in the West primarily from his edicts and rock inscriptions in many parts of the Indian subcontinent
Friedrich Max Müller and the Comparative Study of Religion
It has often been stated that Friedrich Max Müller, more than anyone else was responsible for founding the comparative study of religions. There is a considerable degree of truth in this assertion. Although his methodology and theoretical constructs are now quite outmoded and his opinions have been devastatingly and deservedly criticized, Müller's influence on his nineteenth-century contemporaries was great and it remains strong even today. No su…
The Legend of King Aśoka: A Study and Translation of the Aśokāvadāna
When King Asoka acceded to the Mauryan throne circa 270 B .C ., he inherited an empire that extended from Bengal in the East to Afghanistan in the Northwest.His grandfather Candragupta had founded the dynasty, conquering the whole of the Gangetic plain and successfully pushing back the satraps of Alexander the Great.His father Bindusára had campaigned in the Deccan Plateau, expanding the empire's frontiers as far south as Mysore.It was Asoka, how…
Regional variations in industrial performance
Strong J. S. (1983) Regional variations in industrial performance, Reg. Studies 17, 429–444. Regional differences in cycle experience are wider than would be expected on the basis of industrial composition alone. Spatial variations in economic performance within four industries are examined and found to be of considerable magnitude and persistence. Localized demand and productivity differentials are shown to be important determinants of these var…
The Legend of the Lion-Roarer
The Legend of the Lion-Roarer: A Study of the Buddhist Arhat Pindola Bharadvaja
Borderland Buddhists Tibetan Frontier Families: Reflections of Three Generations from D'ing-ri . Barbara Nimri Aziz Sherpas Through Their Rituals . Sherry B. Ortner The Cultural Heritage of Ladakh. Vo…
The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations
In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers the first comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet, and Burma. Its individual essays, representing a range…
"The Legend of King Aśoka. A Study and Translation of the "Aśokāvadāna
An English translation of the Asokavadana text, the Sanskrit version of the legend of King Asoka. King Asoka had been studied in the West primarily from his edicts and rock inscriptions in many parts of the Indian subcontinent
Regional variations in industrial performance
Strong J. S. (1983) Regional variations in industrial performance, Reg. Studies 17, 429–444. Regional differences in cycle experience are wider than would be expected on the basis of industrial composition alone. Spatial variations in economic performance within four industries are examined and found to be of considerable magnitude and persistence. Localized demand and productivity differentials are shown to be important determinants of these var…
Gandhakuṭī: The Perfumed Chamber of the Buddha
The Experience of Buddhism: Sources and Interpretations
This comprehensive anthology provides translations of texts illustrative of Buddhist philosophy and doctrine as well as descriptive, concrete accounts of Buddhist practices, rituals, experiences, and life situations. This approach does not neglect one dimension of the religion in favor of another and allows instructors to choose what they wish to emphasize in the classroom. The book also covers the development of Buddhism in a wide variety of geo…
Gandhakuṭī: The Perfumed Chamber of the Buddha
The Legend of the Lion-Roarer
The Legend of the Lion-Roarer: A Study of the Buddhist Arhat Pindola Bharadvaja
Borderland Buddhists Tibetan Frontier Families: Reflections of Three Generations from D'ing-ri . Barbara Nimri Aziz Sherpas Through Their Rituals . Sherry B. Ortner The Cultural Heritage of Ladakh. Vo…
Regional variations in industrial performance
Strong J. S. (1983) Regional variations in industrial performance, Reg. Studies 17, 429–444. Regional differences in cycle experience are wider than would be expected on the basis of industrial composition alone. Spatial variations in economic performance within four industries are examined and found to be of considerable magnitude and persistence. Localized demand and productivity differentials are shown to be important determinants of these var…
Friedrich Max Müller and the Comparative Study of Religion
It has often been stated that Friedrich Max Müller, more than anyone else was responsible for founding the comparative study of religions. There is a considerable degree of truth in this assertion. Although his methodology and theoretical constructs are now quite outmoded and his opinions have been devastatingly and deservedly criticized, Müller's influence on his nineteenth-century contemporaries was great and it remains strong even today. No su…
The Legend of King Aśoka: A Study and Translation of the Aśokāvadāna
When King Asoka acceded to the Mauryan throne circa 270 B .C ., he inherited an empire that extended from Bengal in the East to Afghanistan in the Northwest.His grandfather Candragupta had founded the dynasty, conquering the whole of the Gangetic plain and successfully pushing back the satraps of Alexander the Great.His father Bindusára had campaigned in the Deccan Plateau, expanding the empire's frontiers as far south as Mysore.It was Asoka, how…
"The Legend of King Aśoka. A Study and Translation of the "Aśokāvadāna
An English translation of the Asokavadana text, the Sanskrit version of the legend of King Asoka. King Asoka had been studied in the West primarily from his edicts and rock inscriptions in many parts of the Indian subcontinent
Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy . Stanley J. Tambiah
From Abhinavagupta to Zen
A Text without a Community Women, Branch Stories, and Religious Rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist Text . Paula Richman
The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 . Caroline Walker Bynum
L'histoire des religions a-t-elle un sens? Correspondance, 1926-1959 . Mircea Eliade , Raffaele Pettazzoni , Natale Spineto
The Experience of Buddhism: Sources and Interpretations
This comprehensive anthology provides translations of texts illustrative of Buddhist philosophy and doctrine as well as descriptive, concrete accounts of Buddhist practices, rituals, experiences, and life situations. This approach does not neglect one dimension of the religion in favor of another and allows instructors to choose what they wish to emphasize in the classroom. The book also covers the development of Buddhism in a wide variety of geo…
Les reliques des cheveux du Bouddha au Shwe Dagon de Rangoon
According to local lore, the Shwe Dagon pagoda in Rangoon enshrines as relics some hairs of the Buddha Gotama, initially brought there by the merchants Tapassu and Bhallika. This article examines various Mon and Burmese versions of this "Shwe Dagon legend", featuring these merchants, their journey from India to Burma with the hair relics, their search for the hill on which to enshrine them, and their construction there of a stūpa (the future Shwe…
On Being Buddha: The Classical Doctrine of Buddhahood . Paul J. Griffiths
Aśoka's Wives and the Ambiguities of Buddhist Kingship
Cet article porte sur les épouses du roi Aśoka et sur les notions complexes de la royauté dans le bouddhisme indien. Il essaie de mieux saisir les dimensions du phénomène monarchique à la lumière des spécificités du contexte religieux indien et ainsi d'affiner les perceptions qu'avaient jusqu'alors les spécialistes des sciences religieuses. La figure des « reines » ou des épouses royales est l'une des clefs pour comprendre les ambiguïtés de la fo…
Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan . Brian D. Ruppert
Two Buddha Relic Traditions
This article surveys some recent work on Buddhist relics, but with a particular focus. Starting with the observation that the distribution of the Buddha's relics in the Mahparinirva sūtra violates the Buddha's own injunction to keep his remains together in a single stūpa, it goes on to examine the fluctuation, in Buddhist legend, between traditions that assert the togetherness of the Buddha's relics and traditions that assert their dispersal. It …
The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations
In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers the first comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet, and Burma. Its individual essays, representing a range…
The Buddha as Ender and Transformer of Lineages
This paper looks at three types of lineage in traditions about the Buddha. First, it traces the Buddha’s Sakya ancestry and shows how he puts an end to his genealogical lineage and transforms it into a Sakya monastic lineage. Second, it argues that the Buddha acts as a point of convergence for the synchronic lineage of his many past lives (Jatakas), and then as a dispersion point for the lineage of his many relics. Finally, it sees him as a pivot…
Explicating the Buddha’s Final Illness in the Context of his Other Ailments: The Making and Unmaking of some J?taka Tales
The Buddha’s final illness, brought on by his last meal prior to his death, was traditionally seen as one of a set of ailments suffered by him at various points during his lifetime. This paper looks at different Buddhist explications of the causes of these ailments and applies them to the episode of the Buddha’s final illness. In both instances, three explanatory strategies are detected: the first stresses the causative importance of the Buddha’s…
The Buddha’s Funeral
The Legend and Cult of Upagupta: Sanskrit Buddhism in North India and Southeast Asia
The Buddhist monk Upagupta, who preached and taught meditative practices in Northwest India over two thousand years ago, is venerated today by the laity in parts of Burma, Thailand, and Laos as a protective figure endowed with magical powers. In this monumental work John Strong offers a systematic presentation of the Indian and Southeast Asian legends and rituals surrounding this popular saint. Once considered by Buddhist authorities as only marg…
Relics of the Buddha
History (16 obras) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (16 obras) · Philosophy (16 obras) · Buddhism (13 obras) · Art (12 obras) · Archaeology (10 obras) · Gautama Buddha (9 obras) · Legend (9 obras) · Theology (9 obras) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (8 obras)