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Author : Gonda
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004645047
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Selected Studies of Jan Gonda, Volume 4 History of Ancient Indian Religion written by Gonda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Gonda
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004042285
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Selected Studies: Indo-European linguistics written by Jan Gonda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1975 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Gonda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004042285
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (422 download)
Download or read book History of Ancient Indian Religion written by Jan Gonda and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Gonda
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
ISBN 13 : 9789004042339
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (423 download)
Download or read book History of Ancient Indian Religion written by Jan Gonda and published by Brill Academic Pub. This book was released on 1975 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Olson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190225327
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Indian Asceticism written by Carl Olson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. A by-product of the ascetic path, power is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water or through dense objects, read minds, discern the former lives of others, see into the future, harm others, or simply levitate one's body. These tales give rise to questions about how power and violence are related to the phenomenon of play. Indian Asceticism focuses on the powers exhibited by ascetics of India from ancient to modern time. Carl Olson discusses the erotic, the demonic, the comic, and the miraculous forms of play and their connections to power and violence. He focuses on Hinduism, but evidence is also presented from Buddhism and Jainism, suggesting that the subject matter of this book pervades India's major indigenous religious traditions. The book includes a look at the extent to which findings in cognitive science can add to our understanding of these various powers; Olson argues that violence is built into the practice of the ascetic.Indian Asceticism culminates with an attempt to rethink the nature of power in a way that does justice to the literary evidence from Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain sources.
Author : Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400884519
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Elaborations on Emptiness written by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heart Sutra is perhaps the most famous Buddhist text, traditionally regarded as a potent expression of emptiness and of the Buddha's perfect wisdom. This brief, seemingly simple work was the subject of more commentaries in Asia than any other sutra. In Elaborations on Emptiness, Donald Lopez explores for the first time the elaborate philosophical and ritual uses of the Heart Sutra in India, Tibet, and the West. Included here are full translations of the eight extant Indian commentaries. Interspersed with the translations are six essays that examine the unusual roles the Heart Sutra has played: it has been used as a mantra, an exorcism text, a tantric meditation guide, and as the material for comparative philosophy. Taken together, the translations and essays that form Elaborations on Emptiness demonstrate why commentary is as central to modern scholarship on Buddhism as it was for ancient Buddhists. Lopez reveals unexpected points of instability and contradiction in the Heart Sutra, which, in the end, turns out to be the most malleable of texts, where the logic of commentary serves as a tool of both tradition and transgression.
Author : Shelli Renée Joye
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620558769
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Developing Supersensible Perception written by Shelli Renée Joye and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed guide to awakening your powers of supersensory perception • Details methods and techniques for the acquisition of supersensory powers distilled from Rudolf Steiner’s 400 published volumes and from Patañjali’s Yoga Sutra • Explores acquisition of these powers at birth (genetic) and through entheogens, mantra and prayer, effort and exercise, and nondual meditation • Includes a map of consciousness based on the work of neuroscientist Karl Pribram and physicist David Bohm According to philosopher Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), there exists within every human being the potential for developing supersensory powers and, with these powers activated, the ability to awaken the higher self and attain knowledge of non-physical higher worlds. Steiner himself worked diligently throughout his life to develop his faculties of “supersensible perception” and, scattered throughout his many works, he describes methods by which to activate and operate these supersensory-cognitive systems. Distilling techniques from Steiner’s more than 400 published volumes, Shelli Renée Joye, Ph.D., presents a practical, modern approach to acquiring, cultivating, and maintaining supersensible perception and developing higher consciousness. The five approaches she studies include acquisition by birth (genetic), entheogens, mantra and prayer, effort and exercise, and Samadhi--equated by many with nondual awareness. Adding another dimension to Steiner’s methods, the author shows how these steps are powerfully aligned with 4th-century South Indian sage Patañjali’s teachings in the Yoga Sutra. The author explores how to develop what you have acquired through imaginative, active, or intuitive thinking, as well as how to learn through inner guidance and how to transform knowledge gained from books into spiritual advancement. She also shares her own extraordinary experiences of supersensory networks of consciousness. Connecting Steiner’s ideas to modern advances in quantum physics, psychedelic science, and consciousness studies, Dr. Joye shows how each of us is capable of developing supersensible perception and expanding our awareness to connect with cosmic consciousness.
Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791413821
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Purāṇa Perennis written by Wendy Doniger and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-02-23 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, leading American, European, and Indian scholars including John E. Cort, Friedhelm Hardy, Padmanabh S. Jaini, Laurie L. Patton, A. K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao, and David Shulman discuss the subject of the Purāṇas, focusing particularly on the relationship between the "Great Puran'as" of the Sanskrit tradition and the many other sorts of Purāṇas. The Puran'as are essentially collections of stories dealing with all aspects of myth, ritual, science, and history, and the authors of these essays are all superb storytellers.
Author : Mikel Burley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628922265
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Rebirth and the Stream of Life written by Mikel Burley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A philosophical exploration of the meaning, diversity, and ethical and religious significance of beliefs in reincarnation or rebirth"--
Author : Heinrich von Stietencron
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447030281
Total Pages : 1116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Epic and Purāṇic bibliography: S-Z, Indexes written by Heinrich von Stietencron and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew I Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197693601
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Puruṣa written by Matthew I Robertson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puruá1£a: Personhood in Ancient India is a study of what ancient Indian traditions say about personhood. It describes a way of thinking that suggests that persons are deeply confluent with the world and indistinguishable from their environments. Dealing with classic works and addressing the fields of religion, politics, philosophy, medicine, and literature, this book brings ancient India into a new light, giving readers a novel perspective on what it means to be a person and what it means to be in the world.
Author : James Egge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136859225
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism written by James Egge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates that Buddhists appropriated the practice, vocabulary, and ideology of sacrifice from Vedic religion, and discusses the relationship of this sacrificial discourse to ideas of karma in the Pali canon and in early Buddhism.
Author : Jan Gonda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Selected Studies: Indo-European linguistics written by Jan Gonda and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. N. Madan
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120805279
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Way of Life written by T. N. Madan and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1988 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Kinsley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520917723
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine written by David Kinsley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindu pantheon is rich in images of the divine feminine—deities representing a wide range of symbolic, social, and meditative meanings. David Kinsley's new book documents a highly unusual group of ten Hindu tantric goddesses, the Mahavidyas, many of whom are strongly associated with sexuality and violence. What is one to make of a goddess who cuts her own head off, or one who prefers sex with a corpse? The Mahavidyas embody habits, attributes, or identities usually considered repulsive or socially subversive and can be viewed as "antimodels" for women. Yet it is within the context of tantric worship that devotees seek to identify themselves with these forbidding goddesses. The Mahavidyas seem to function as "awakeners"—symbols which help to project one's consciousness beyond the socially acceptable or predictable. Drawing on a broad range of Sanskrit and vernacular texts as well as extensive research in India, including written and oral interpretations of contemporary Hindu practitioners, Kinsley describes the unusual qualities of each of the Mahavidyas and traces the parallels between their underlying themes. Especially valuable are the many rare and fascinating images he presents—each important to grasping the significance of the goddesses. Written in an accessible, engaging style, Kinsley's book provides a comprehensive understanding of the Mahavidyas and is also an overview of Hindu tantric practice.
Author : Guy L. Beck
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120812611
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Sonic Theology written by Guy L. Beck and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nagendra Kr Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book International encyclopaedia of Buddhism. 44. Japan written by Nagendra Kr Singh and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
