Monks and Magicians New Age Books Masato Fujii and Stanley Insler

Masato Fujii and Stanley Insler were initially planned to be the editors of this volume

Balachandra RaoDeccan Herald Magazine

for we can clearly trace them in the hymns of the Rgveda which were composed by the Aryans not long after they had settled in their new home about the middle of the second millennium before Christ

It is the only original collection of legal maxims that are purely juridical in character

both in terms of Indian thought and the new global culture arising today

Monks and Magicians New Age Books Masato Fujii and Stanley InslerGathers essays about the lives of Jain and Buddhist figures in India and Buddhist kings and monks in Tibet and China, and covers pilgrimage sites, funerary customs, and the spread of religious ideas. About the Author(s) PHYLLIS GRANOFF teaches Sanskrit and Indian Religions at McMaster University in Himilton, Ontario. She has written extensively on Jain literature, particularly Jain religious biographies. She has also translated a collection of short