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Author : Jw Boyd
Publisher : Peeters Pub & Booksellers
ISBN 13 : 9781655203053
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book A Persian Offering. the Yasna written by Jw Boyd and published by Peeters Pub & Booksellers. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A Study of Yasna I written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Firoze M. P. Kotwal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Persian Offering the Yasna written by Firoze M. P. Kotwal and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Céline Redard
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004500472
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Srōš Drōn - Yasna 3 to 8 written by Céline Redard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a multi-faceted approach to the Srōš Drōn, this work offers a critical edition of the Avestan text, a translation, a glossary, an in-depth methodological exposition, and a study of the performative dimension of the Srōš Drōn, in particular on the basis of the ritual directions
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Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Avesta. Yasna written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arash Zeini
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474442900
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity written by Arash Zeini and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Zoroastrian exegesis by investigating a late antique translation of an ancient Iranian textChallenges the view that considers the study of the Zand an auxiliary science to Avestan studiesViews the Zand of the YH as a text in its own right and investigates it within the wider Pahlavi leiteratureConsiders the so-called glosses in the Zand for the first time as an integral part of the textOffers a variorum edition of the Middle Persian text, refusing to establish an UrtextIn late antiquity, Zoroastrian exegetes set out to translate their ancient canonical texts into Middle Persian, the vernacular of their time. Although undated, these translations, commonly known as the Zand, are often associated with the Sasanian era (224-651 ce). Despite the many challenges the Zand offers to us today, it is indispensable for investigations of late antique exegesis of the Avesta, a collection of religious and ritual texts commonly regarded as the Zoroastrians' scripture.Arash Zeini also offers a fresh edition of the Middle Persian version of the Avestan Yasna HaptaA hA iti, a ritual text composed in the Old Iranian language of Avestan, commonly dated to the middle of the second millennium bce. Zeini challenges the view that considers the Zand's study an auxiliary science to Avestan studies, framing the text instead within the exegetical context from which it emerged.
Author : Michael Stausberg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047412508
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Zoroastrian Rituals in Context written by Michael Stausberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rituals play a prominent role in Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest religious traditions of mankind. In this book, scholars from a broad range of disciplines make the first ever collective effort to discuss Zoroastrian rituals in different historical contexts and geographical settings.
Author : Zoroaster
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781536939033
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Yasna: Sacred Gathas, Hymns of Zarathushtra written by Zoroaster and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoroastrianism, or more natively Mazdayasna, is one of the world's oldest religions, "combining a cosmogonic dualism and eschatological monotheism in a manner unique... among the major religions of the world." Ascribed to the teachings of the Iranian Prophet Zoroaster (or Zarathustra), he exalted their deity of wisdom, Ahura Mazda, (Wise Lord) as its Supreme Being. Leading characteristics, such as messianism, heaven and hell, and free will are said to have influenced other religious systems, including Second Temple Judaism, Gnosticism, Christianity, and Islam. With possible roots dating back to the second millennium BCE, Zoroastrianism enters recorded history in the 5th-century BCE, and including a Mithraic Median prototype and Zurvanist Sassanid successor it served as the state religion of the pre-Islamic Iranian empires from around 600 BCE to 650 CE. Zoroastrianism has no major theological divisions, though it is not uniform; modern-era influences having a significant impact on individual and local beliefs, practices, values and vocabulary, sometimes merging with tradition and in other cases displacing it. In Zoroastrianism, the purpose in life is to "be among those who renew the world...to make the world progress towards perfection." Its basic maxims include: Humata, Hukhta, Huvarshta, which mean: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds. There is only one path and that is the path of Truth. Do the right thing because it is the right thing to do, and then all beneficial rewards will come to you also. The most important texts of the religion are those of the Avesta, which includes the writings of Zoroaster known as the Gathas, presented here in this book which are enigmatic poems that define the religion's precepts, and the Yasna, the scripture. The full name by which Zoroaster addressed the deity is: Ahura, The Lord Creator, and Mazda, Supremely Wise. He proclaimed that there is only one God, the singularly creative and sustaining force of the Universe. He also stated that human beings are given a right of choice, and because of cause and effect are also responsible for the consequences of their choices. Zoroaster's teachings focused on responsibility, and did not introduce a devil, per se. The contesting force to Ahura Mazda was called Angra Mainyu, or angry spirit. Post-Zoroastrian scripture introduced the concept of Ahriman, the Devil, which was effectively a personification of Angra Mainyu. Included in this interpretation of the book is a list of Glossary terms for the reader to further understand one of the oldest religions in the world.
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Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Yasna I in its Avesta, Pahlavi and Persian texts written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William W. Malandra
Publisher : Dr Ludwig Reichert
ISBN 13 : 9783895009686
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Pahlavi Yasna of the Gāthās and Yasna Haptanhāiti written by William W. Malandra and published by Dr Ludwig Reichert. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pahlavi Yasna of the Gathas and Yasna Haptanghaiti is a critical edition of the Pahlavi text, with citations of parallel passages in the Denkard, accompanied by a complete glossary and an introductory text-critical treatment of the text. Also provided is a parallel Avestan and Pahlavi text designed to portray the near word-by-word dependence of the gloss on the original Avestan. Owing to the very nature of the Pahlavi gloss, which itself is not a translation, no English translation is attempted.
Author : Ehsan Yarshater
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780710090904
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia Iranica written by Ehsan Yarshater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1982 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leon Goldman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004357734
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Sanskrit Yasna Manuscript S1 written by Leon Goldman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sanskrit Yasna Manuscript S1 contains the facsimile images of the manuscript S1 together with an introduction written by Leon Goldman.
Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004460292
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran written by Bruce Lincoln and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran, Bruce Lincoln offers a vast overview on different aspects of the Indo-Iranian, Zoroastrian and Pre-Islamic mythologies, religions and cultural issues.
Author : Jenny Rose
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735489
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Zoroastrianism written by Jenny Rose and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoroastrianism is one of the world's great ancient religions. In present-day Iran, significant communities of Zoroastrians (who take their name from the founder of the faith, the remarkable religious reformer Zoroaster) still practise the rituals and teach the moral precepts that once undergirded the officially state-sanctioned faith of the mighty Sasanian empire. Beyond Iran, the Zoroastrian disapora is significant especially in India, where the Gujarati-speaking community of emigrants from post-Sasanian Iran call themselves 'Parsis'. But there are also significant Zoroastrian communities to be found elsewhere, such as in the USA, Britain and Canada, where western cultural contexts have shaped the religion in intriguing ways and directions. This new, thorough and wide-ranging introduction will appeal to anyone interested in discovering more about the faith that bequeathed the contrasting words 'Magi' and 'magic', and whose adherents still live according to the code of 'Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds.' The central Zoroastrian concept that human beings are continually faced with a choice between the path of 'good' and 'evil', represented by the contrasting figures of Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, inspired thinkers as diverse as Voltaire, Mozart and Nietzsche. Jenny Rose shows why Zoroastrianism remains one of the world's most inspiring and perennially fascinating systems of ethics and belief. 'Jenny Rose's lively and engaging account comprises a very readable, well informed survey of Zoroastrianism and its history. The book is a pleasure to read throughout, and the author's writing style is markedly beautiful, placing her very much within Mary Boyce's literary tradition. Rose has read widely round the subject, engaging with important primary and secondary sources and rendering her thorough treatment of Zoroastrianism fully up-to-date. I particularly welcomed her valuable discussion of Zoroastrianism in Central Asia. All in all, the book is a fine example of considered synthesis and compression. This is a book one wants to read from beginning to end without putting it down. It will find a warm welcome from students of the subject and their teachers.' - Almut Hintze, Zartoshty Professor of Zoroastrianism, SOAS, University of London
Author : Richard K. Payne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190493763
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Homa Variations written by Richard K. Payne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and Zoroastrian rituals, the tantric homa was formed in early medieval India. Since that time tantric Buddhist practitioners transmitted it to East and Central Asia, and more recently to Europe and the Americas. Today, Hindu forms of the homa are being practiced outside of India as well. Despite this historical and cultural range, the homa retains an identifiable unity of symbolism and ritual form. Homa Variations is the first volume to provide a series of detailed studies of a variety of homa forms. This collection of essays provides an understanding of the history of the homa from its inception up to its use in the present. The book also covers homa practice throughout a wide range of religious cultures, from India and Nepal to Tibet, China, and Japan. The theoretical focus of the collection is the study of ritual change over long periods of time, and across the boundaries of religious cultures. The identifiable unity of the homa allows for an almost unique opportunity to examine ritual change with such a broad perspective.
Author : Céline Redard
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004460985
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Gujarati Ritual Directions of the Paragnā, Yasna and Visperad Ceremonies written by Céline Redard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlocking the meaning and performative aspects in this first-ever edition in any European language, of these core Zoroastrian rituals in India, Céline Redard and Kerman Dadi Daruwalla open up the Indian tradition for future research and highlight its importance.
Author : Amir Ahmadi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317537459
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Daēva Cult in the Gāthās written by Amir Ahmadi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the question of the origins of the Zoroastrian religion, this book argues that the intransigent opposition to the cult of the daēvas, the ancient Indo-Iranian gods, is the root of the development of the two central doctrines of Zoroastrianism: cosmic dualism and eschatology (fate of the soul after death and its passage to the other world). The daēva cult as it appears in the Gāthās, the oldest part of the Zoroastrian sacred text, the Avesta, had eschatological pretentions. The poet of the Gāthās condemns these as deception. The book critically examines various theories put forward since the 19th century to account for the condemnation of the daēvas. It then turns to the relevant Gāthic passages and analyzes them in detail in order to give a picture of the cult and the reasons for its repudiation. Finally, it examines materials from other sources, especially the Greek accounts of Iranian ritual lore (mainly) in the context of the mystery cults. Classical Greek writers consistently associate the nocturnal ceremony of the magi with the mysteries as belonging to the same religious-cultural category. This shows that Iranian religious lore included a nocturnal rite that aimed at ensuring the soul’s journey to the beyond and a desirable afterlife. Challenging the prevalent scholarship of the Greek interpretation of Iranian religious lore and proposing a new analysis of the formation of the Hellenistic concept of ‘magic,’ this book is an important resource for students and scholars of History, Religion and Iranian Studies.
