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Author : Madhurika K. Maheshwari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book From Ogress to Goddess Hariti written by Madhurika K. Maheshwari and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Natasja Bosma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9492444682
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Dakṣiṇa Kosala written by Natasja Bosma and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the early development of Śaivism in ancient Dakṣiṇa Kosala, the region that roughly corresponds to the modern state of Chhattisgarh, plus the districts of Sambalpur, Balangir and Kalahandi of Odhisha (formerly Orissa). At the end of the sixth and the beginning of the seventh century, this region was under the control of the Pāṇḍava king Śivagupta alias ‘Bālārjuna’ hailing from Śrīpura (the modern village of Sirpur), who was a great patron of religion. Epigraphical evidence, supported by archaeological remains, has shown that by the time of Śivagupta’s reign, which lasted for at least fifty-seven years, Dakṣiṇa Kosala was already a rich center of early Śaivism. In the context of this setting the following research questions were formulated: what circumstances fostered the rise and development of Śaivism in this area, and did the Skandapurāṇa, an important and contemporaneous religious scripture, play any role in that development? An answer to these questions would not only shed light on the religious processes at work in Dakṣiṇa Kosala, but would also touch upon the interplay of political, social, economic and geographical factors.
Author : Daniel Michon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317324587
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Archaeology and Religion in Early Northwest India written by Daniel Michon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which past cultures have been used to shape colonial and postcolonial cultural identities. It provides a theoretical framework to understand these processes, and offers illustrative case studies in which the agency of ancient peoples, rather than the desires of antiquarians and archaeologists, is brought to the fore.
Author : Sree Padma
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199325030
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Vicissitudes of the Goddess written by Sree Padma and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on archaeological, artistic, sculptural and inscriptional sources and participant/observer insights, Sree Padma reconstructs a history of goddess worship in India from ancient times (before the rise of Buddhism and bhakti) to contemporary cults of deified women.
Author : Rebecca Harrison
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0648706621
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (487 download)
Download or read book Samsara - The Wheel of Birth, Death and Rebirth: A journey through spirituality, religion, Nepal, Bali, Cambodia and India written by Rebecca Harrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dr. Jyothi Susan Abraham (Assistant Professor, Baselius College, Kottayam) Dr. Kavitha Gopalakrishnan (Assistant Professor, Baselius College, Kottayam) Ms. Meera Elizabeth James (Assistant Professor, Baselius College, Kottayam)
Publisher : Co-Text Publishers
ISBN 13 : 8195225349
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Pandemic Reverberations and Altered Lives written by Dr. Jyothi Susan Abraham (Assistant Professor, Baselius College, Kottayam) Dr. Kavitha Gopalakrishnan (Assistant Professor, Baselius College, Kottayam) Ms. Meera Elizabeth James (Assistant Professor, Baselius College, Kottayam) and published by Co-Text Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Santi Rozario
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134471343
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Daughters of Hariti written by Santi Rozario and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hariti is the ancient Indian goddess of childbirth and women healers, known at one time throughout South and Southeast Asia from India to Nepal and Bali. Daughters of Hariti looks at her 'daughters' today, female midwives and healers in many different cultures across the region. It also traces the transformation of childbirth in these cultures under the impact of Western biomedical technology, national and international health policies and the wider factors of social and economic change. The authors ask what can be done to improve the high rates of maternal and infant deaths and illnesses still associated with childbirth in most societies in this area and whether the wholesale replacement of indigenous knowledge by Western biomedical technology is necessarily a good thing.
Author : Tan Chung
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788121206174
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Across the Himalayan Gap written by Tan Chung and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of 40 Indian authors that parades various Indian perspectives on China, her civilization, history, society and development. It is a fruition of a project launched by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) where Sino-Indian studies is a special window. A scholarly work.
Author : Rebecca Harrison
Publisher : Rebecca Harrison
ISBN 13 : 0648706613
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (487 download)
Download or read book Samsara - The Wheel of Birth, Death and Rebirth written by Rebecca Harrison and published by Rebecca Harrison. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along comes a global pandemic coronavirus, COVID-19, and our world is turned upside down. Can the idea of samsara shed any light on all this terrible suffering, turmoil and change? Are we all travelling around the ever-turning cycle of samsara, being born, dying, then reborn - again, and again, and again? Does our life, the things that happen to us, and our death, have any meaning? What do Hinduism, Buddhism, and samsara tell us about suffering, life and death? Could spiritual dimensions exist or do we live in a purely material universe? What is consciousness and does it die when our bodies die? Are rebirth or reincarnation even possible? Can we have spirituality without religion? What, if anything, might spirituality or religion mean in a turbulent and unpredictable twenty-first century? Do mysticism, psychedelics, science and quantum physics offer clues to any of these questions? Take a journey with the author through the fascinating cultures of Nepal, India, Bali and Cambodia and explore their rich traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism and samsara. Part exploration of spirituality and religion, part travel adventure to places of astonishing diversity, this book will get you thinking about your own beliefs, life and death, and where those might fit in to a bigger picture.
Author : Thomas B. Coburn
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120805576
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Devī-Māhātmya written by Thomas B. Coburn and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devi-Mahatmya is well-known to both devotees and scholars of the Indian Great Goddess. It is the first comprehensive account of the Goddess in Sanskrit, and it has maintained its centrality in the Goddess (Sakta) tradition to the present day. Like so much in that tradition, however, the text has until now resisted careful study from an historical perspective. It is this study that the present volume accomplishes.The central task here is to explore how an anonymous Sanskrit text articulates a view of ultimate reality as feminine when there is virtually no precedent in the Sanskrit tradition for such a view. To accomplish this task, an appropriate method of scriptural analysis is developed. This involves an examination of Hindu understanding of the Puranas in general, and of the Devi-Mahatmya in particular, along with consideration of several recent scholarly discussions, in India and elsewhere. Subsequently, a comprehensive inquiry into the Goddess's epithets in this text is undertaken, followed by examination of the earlier history of the myths that the Devi-Mahatmya associates with her. The study culminates in translations of the text's hymns, which are annotated so as to indicate the synthesis that is here being accomplished. The resulting illumination of Sanskritized form of Goddess worship is what Daniel H.H. Ingalls calls in his Foreword a notable scholarly achievement.
Author : Martin Lerner
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870994018
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Flame and the Lotus written by Martin Lerner and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1984 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adhira Mangalagiri
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023155611X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book States of Disconnect written by Adhira Mangalagiri and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an interconnected world, literature moves through transnational networks, crosses borders, and bridges diverse cultures. In these ways, literature can bring people closer together. Today, as hopes for globalization wane and exclusionary nationalism is on the march, can literature still offer new ways of relating with others? Comparative literature has long been under the spell of circulation, contact, connectivity, and mobility—what if it instead sought out their antitheses? States of Disconnect examines the breakdown of transnationalism through readings of literary texts that express aversion to pairing ideas of China and India. Focusing on practices of comparison, Adhira Mangalagiri considers how these texts articulate the undesirability or impossibility of relating with national others, tracing portrayals of violence, silence, and distance. She proposes the concept of “disconnect”: a crisis of transnationalism perceptible in moments when a connection is severed, interrupted, or disavowed. Despite their apparent insularity, texts of disconnect offer possibilities for relating ethically across national borders while resisting both narrow nationalisms and globalized habits of thought. Reading a variety of largely untranslated twentieth-century Chinese and Hindi short stories, novels, and poems, Mangalagiri develops three new strategies for comparison—friction, ellipses, and contingency—that together comprise a critical vocabulary of disconnect. Foregrounding transnationalism’s discontents, States of Disconnect offers a different path by which literary texts can cultivate a critical sensibility for making sense of a world rife with division.
Author : V. Hari Saravanan
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 9384391492
Total Pages : 837 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Gods, Heroes and their Story Tellers written by V. Hari Saravanan and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We can hear Urumula Naganna’s drum roll during the rendition of the Sri Akammagaru Kaviya. An oral tradition which is as old as the hills is captured in the book Gods, Heroes and their Storytellers. Do you know the story of how the Madiga community came to inherit the right to skin cattle carcass and produce leather articles? How are contemporary Folk Oral Literatures connected to the Ramayana and the Mahabharata? There are many such stories and tradition bearers who doggedly go on in spite of the onslaught of the digital media. The author here has tried his best in keeping these traditions alive by not only telling the stories but also by living with the story tellers themselves. The rich details give us a window to a world which is not only very far away for our everyday mundane existence but also makes us retrospect on what we are missing out. Each of the tradition bearers are different and so are their stories and the region to which they belong. These are not merely stories but a way of life for these oral narrators who are fast disappearing in today’s consumerist landscape. The need of the hour is to keep alive these traditions and the tradition bearers.
Author : A. Getty
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 1177376865
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (773 download)
Download or read book The gods of northern Buddhism written by A. Getty and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their history, iconography, and progressive evolution through the northern Buddhist countries
Author : Charles Russell Coulter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135963975
Total Pages : 1190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities written by Charles Russell Coulter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the divine is the history of human thought. For as long as men and women have pondered the mysteries of their existence, they have answered their own questions with stories of gods and goddesses. Belief in these deities shaped whole civilizations, yet today many of their names and images lie buried. The Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities makes those names available to the general reader as well as the scholar. This reference work lists all the known gods through recorded history. Alphabetically arranged entries provide the name of each deity (with alternate spellings), as well as notes on names that may be linguistically or functionally related. The tribe or culture that worshiped the deity is identified, and the god's origins and functions are explained. An extensive bibliography provides opportunities for further research and an exhaustive index provides access to the entries through virtually all names, forms and kinds of deities.
Author : Alice Getty
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486255750
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (557 download)
Download or read book The Gods of Northern Buddhism written by Alice Getty and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invaluable reference covers names, attributes, symbolism, representations of deities in Mahayana pantheon of China, Japan, Tibet, etc. 185 illus.
Author : Alice Getty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Gods of Northern Buddhism written by Alice Getty and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
