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Book Synopsis Plant Myths and Traditions in India by : Shakti M. Gupta
Download or read book Plant Myths and Traditions in India written by Shakti M. Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third revised and enlarged edition, incl. 28 b&w ills. - Trees and plants play an important part in the myths and customs of India. Many are considered holy, often for reasons that are lost in the mists of antiquity - they are associated with gods, planets, months, etc...
Book Synopsis Plant Myths and Traditions in India by : S M Gupta
Download or read book Plant Myths and Traditions in India written by S M Gupta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1971-06 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Plant Myths and Traditions in India by : Shakti M. Gupta
Download or read book Plant Myths and Traditions in India written by Shakti M. Gupta and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1971 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sacred Plants of India by : Nanditha Krishna
Download or read book Sacred Plants of India written by Nanditha Krishna and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants personify the divine— The Rig Veda (X.97) Trees and plants have long been held sacred to communities the world over. In India, we have a whole variety of flora that feature in our myths, our epics, our rituals, our worship and our daily life. There is the pipal, under which the Buddha meditated on the path to enlightenment; the banyan, in whose branches hide spirits; the ashoka, in a grove of which Sita sheltered when she was Ravana’s prisoner; the tulsi, without which no Hindu house is considered complete; the bilva, with whose leaves it is possible to inadvertently worship Shiva. Before temples were constructed, trees were open-air shrines sheltering the deity, and many were symbolic of the Buddha himself. Sacred Plants of India systematically lays out the sociocultural roots of the various plants found in the Indian subcontinent, while also asserting their ecological importance to our survival. Informative, thought-provoking and meticulously researched, this book draws on mythology and botany and the ancient religious traditions of India to assemble a detailed and fascinating account of India’s flora.
Book Synopsis Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics by : Richard Folkard
Download or read book Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics written by Richard Folkard and published by London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington. This book was released on 1884 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pluralism and Identity by : Jan. G. Platvoet
Download or read book Pluralism and Identity written by Jan. G. Platvoet and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1995 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in this book discuss ritual behaviour, particularly of religious groups, in plural and pluralist societies and in ancient as well as modern times. The strategic use of rituals is highlighted. Several theoretical analyses and a broad range of historical and ethnographic descriptions are offered.
Book Synopsis Plants of Life, Plants of Death by : Frederick J. Simoons
Download or read book Plants of Life, Plants of Death written by Frederick J. Simoons and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines plants associated with ritual purity, fertility, prosperity and life, and plants associated with ritual impurity, sickness, ill fate and death. It provides detail from history, ethnography, religious studies, classics, folklore, ethnobotany and medicine.
Book Synopsis Sacred Plants of India by : Krishna Nanditha
Download or read book Sacred Plants of India written by Krishna Nanditha and published by Prhi. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants personify the divine- The Rig Veda (X.97) Trees and plants have long been held sacred to communities the world over. In India, we have a whole variety of flora that feature in our myths, our epics, our rituals, our worship and our daily life. There is the pipal, under which the Buddha meditated on the path to enlightenment; the banyan, in whose branches hide spirits; the ashoka, in a grove of which Sita sheltered when she was Ravana's prisoner; the tulsi, without which no Hindu house is considered complete; the bilva, with whose leaves it is possible to inadvertently worship Shiva. Before temples were constructed, trees were open-air shrines sheltering the deity, and many were symbolic of the Buddha himself. Sacred Plants of India systematically lays out the sociocultural roots of the various plants found in the Indian subcontinent, while also asserting their ecological importance to our survival. Informative, thought-provoking and meticulously researched, this book draws on mythology and botany and the ancient religious traditions of India to assemble a detailed and fascinating account of India's flora.
Download or read book People Trees written by David L. Haberman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People Trees is about religious conceptions of trees within the cultural world of tree worship at the tree shrines of northern India. Sacred trees have been worshiped for millennia in India, and today tree worship continues there in abundance among all segments of society. In the past, tree worship was regarded by many Western anthropologists and scholars of religion as a prime example of childish animism or primitive religion. More recently, this aspect of world religious cultures is almost completely ignored in the theoretical concerns of the day. Incorporating ethnographic fieldwork and texts never before translated into English, David Haberman reevaluates concepts such as animism, anthropomorphism, and personhood in the context of the worship of the pipal, a tree of mighty and ambiguous power; the neem, an embodied form of a goddess whose presence is enhanced with colorful ornamentation and a facemask appended to its trunk; and the banyan, a tree noted for its association with longevity and immortality. Along with detailed descriptions of a wide range of tree worship rituals, here is a spirited exploration of the practical consequences, perceptual possibilities, and implicit environmental ethics suggested by Indian notions about sacred trees.
Book Synopsis Religious & Useful Plants of Nepal & India by : Trilok Chandra Majupuria
Download or read book Religious & Useful Plants of Nepal & India written by Trilok Chandra Majupuria and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Imagination of Plants by : Matthew Hall
Download or read book The Imagination of Plants written by Matthew Hall and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of plants in botanical mythology, from Aboriginal Australia to Zoroastrian Persia. Plants have a remarkable mythology dating back thousands of years. From the ancient Greeks to contemporary Indigenous cultures, human beings have told colorful and enriching stories that have presented plants as sensitive, communicative, and intelligent. This book explores the myriad of plant tales from around the world and the groundbreaking ideas that underpin them. Amid the key themes of sentience and kinship, it connects the anemone to the meaning of human life, tree hugging to the sacred basil of India, and plant intelligence with the Finnish epic The Kalevala. Bringing together commentary, original source material, and colorful illustrations, Matthew Hall challenges our perspective on these myths, the plants they feature, and the human beings that narrate them. “Whether or not we believe that any plant actually has an imagination, the rhetorical flourish in Matthew Hall’s title sends us into his book with a serious interest in what he has to say. This is a valuable addition to our knowledge about mythic tale-telling and awareness of those elements of the animate world that science, since the Renaissance, has always placed on the lowest scale of value. Hall wants to redress this imbalance, and he does so by revealing just how essential (to Indigenous cultures) the plant kingdom was to humanity’s place in the universe.” — Ashton Nichols, author of Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting
Book Synopsis Plants in Indian Temple Art by : Shakti M. Gupta
Download or read book Plants in Indian Temple Art written by Shakti M. Gupta and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era by : Stephen Forbes
Download or read book A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era written by Stephen Forbes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era covers the period from 1920 to today - a time when population growth, industrialization, global trade, and consumerism have fundamentally reshaped our relationship with plants. Advances in agriculture, science, and technology have revolutionised the ways we feed ourselves, whilst urbanization and industrial processing have reduced our direct connection with living plants. At the same time, our understanding of both ecology and conservation have greatly increased and our appreciation of the meanings and aesthetics of plants continue to suffuse art and everyday culture. The modern era has witnessed a revolution in both the valuation and the destruction of the natural world - more than ever before, we understand that the vitality of our relationship with plants will shape our future. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Plants presents the first comprehensive history of the uses and meanings of plants from prehistory to today. The themes covered in each volume are plants as staple foods; plants as luxury foods; trade and exploration; plant technology and science; plants and medicine; plants in culture; plants as natural ornaments; the representation of plants. Stephen Forbes is an independent scholar and writer, based in Australia. Volume 6 in the Cultural History of Plants set. General Editors: Annette Giesecke, University of Delaware, USA, and David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK.
Book Synopsis The Night Life of Trees by : Bhajju Shyam
Download or read book The Night Life of Trees written by Bhajju Shyam and published by Tara Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual ode to trees rendered by tribal artists from India, in a handsome handcrafted edition.
Book Synopsis Plant Lives by : Ellison Banks Findly
Download or read book Plant Lives written by Ellison Banks Findly and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines, for the first time, those threads in Indian thought that present a prolife view of plants. Using texts from Vedic, Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions, the author argues that there is strong support in early materials that plants are thought to be alive, to be sentient (and have the one sense of touch), to feel pleasure and pain, to have an interior consciousness, and to be bearers of karma. Moreover, while plants are traditionally thought to be of tamasic quality with their immobility and dullness, they are sometimes described as sattvic, with their calmness, even mindedness, and service to others. In fact, the author argues, plants are frequently used to provide a model for the practiced ascetic-in that they bend but don't break with the wind, aren't distracted when buzzed by a mosquito, and flourish in their steadfastness. Given the theoretical discussion of plants within the range of sentient being, the book then focus on the intimate life humans have with plants. Texts devoted to botany, medicine, law, art, literature, and religion, for example, depict human conversation with trees, humans marrying trees, and humans delineating their responsibilities for the well being of plants in the greatest detail. Most difficult is the problem of eating, and in that ahimsa or non-violence towards plants would be the ideal in the extreme, vegetarianism shows up the compromise that is made once plants are brought into the sentient realm. Finally, the author explores the founding premises of several current environmental leaders and movements in India that focus on plants - e.g., tree protection, tree planting, seed saving, biodiversity - to examine whether contemporary plant-oriented ecological activism in India reflects older, traditional ideas about plants. Asking whether new Hindu, Jain, or Buddhist movements reflect respective older ideas, the author finds that contemporary Indian practices remain, on the whole, authentic reflections of their older roots.
Book Synopsis Sacred & Ritual Plants of India by :
Download or read book Sacred & Ritual Plants of India written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Botany written by Walter H. Lewis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-09-04 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized by body system and ailment makes it easy to locate appropriate therapies. Includes background on the physiology of major systems and ailments so readers can understand how and why a pharmaceutical, botanical, or dietary supplement works. Broad coverage includes green plants, fungi, and microorganisms. Includes extensive references and citations from both conventional and complimentary-alternative medical systems when natural products or their derivatives are involved.
