T. W. Rhys Davids

Buddist India

Nyanaponika Thera

Various

Narada Thera

Nyanamoli Thera

Piyadassi Thera

O. H. de A. Wijesekera

K. N. Jayatilleke

E. A. Burtt; 

Bhikkhu Kassapa

Paul Dahlke

Bhikkhu Silacara

L.R. Oates

G. Constant Lounsbery

Soma Thera

V. F. Gunaratna

This book contains 14 numbers of the renowned Wheel Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha’s teaching. Wheel Publication No. 47: Buddhism and the God-Idea by Nyanaponika Thera; 48– 9: The Discourse on the Snake Simile by Nyanaponika Thera; 50: Knowledge and Conduct by O. H. de A. Wijesekera, K. N. Jayatilleke, & E. A. Burtt; 51: Taming the Mind by Nyanaponika Thera; 52–3: Pathways of Buddhist Thought by Nyanamoli Thera; 54: The Mirror of the Dhamma by Narada Thera & Bhikkhu Kassapa; 55: The Five Precepts by Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Silacara, L.R. Oates, G. Constant Lounsbery; 56: Ordination in Theravada Buddhism by Piyadassi Thera; 57–8: A Discourse to Knowers of Veda by T. W. Rhys Davids; 59: Stories of Old by Nyanaponika Thera, Nyanamoli Thera, & Soma Thera; 60: The Satipatthana Sutta and Its Application to Modern Life by V. F. Gunaratna.

Numbers 47–60

Collected Wheel Publications Volume IV

The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has come to indicate the power of music to unsettle, subvert, and ultimately bring down oppressive realities in order to liberate the soul and expand human life without limits. The liberating effect of music has been a particularly important theme in twentieth-century African American literature. The nine original essays in Black Orpheus examines the Orphic theme in the fiction of such African American writers as Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, James Baldwin, Nathaniel Mackey, Sherley Anne Williams, Ann Petry, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones, and Toni Morrison. The authors discussed in this volume depict music as a mystical, shamanistic, and spiritual power that can miraculously transform the realities of the soul and of the world. Here, the musician uses his or her music as a weapon to shield and protect his or her spirituality. Written by scholars of English, music, women's studies, American studies, cultural theory, and black and Africana studies, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection ultimately explore the thematic, linguistic structural presence of music in twentieth-century African American fiction.

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Buddhist Birth Stories

T. W. Rhys Davids

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