1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910493736103321

Autore

Hidas Gergely

Titolo

Powers of Protection / / Gergely Hidas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 pages)

Disciplina

294.3

Soggetti

Buddhism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This volume explores the most extensive tradition of Buddhist dharani literature and provides access to the earliest available materials for the first time. The Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha collections have been present in South Asia, and especially in Nepal, for more than eight hundred years and served to supply protection, merit and auspiciousness for those who commissioned their compilation.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910645986303321

Autore

Gunnink Hilde

Titolo

Grammar of Fwe / / Hilde Gunnink

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Language Science Press, , 2022

ISBN

3-96110-388-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 pages)

Collana

African Language Grammars and Dictionaries

Disciplina

496.39

Soggetti

Bantu languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a first-ever comprehensive overview of the grammatical structure of Fwe. Fwe is a Bantu language spoken on the border between Zambia and Namibia, by some 20,000 people. Very little previous documentation exists on the language, and the current description of Fwe is based exclusively on newly collected field data. It includes an analysis of the grammatical structure of Fwe, followed by basic cultural information on greetings, a Fwe narrative with its English translation, and a lexicon comprising some 2200 Fwe lexemes with their English translation. This book is intended as a resource for linguists, whether interested in African languages, Bantu languages, language typology, or general linguistics.