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திருமந்திரம் / Tirumantiram

Author : ebooksusr
Publisher : Sri Ramakrishna Math
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1143 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book திருமந்திரம் / Tirumantiram written by ebooksusr and published by Sri Ramakrishna Math. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 1143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tirumantiram is one of the seminal texts of Saiva Siddhanta which has powerfully influenced millions of southern Indians for generations. Its author, Tirumular, was a legendary yogi who through his famous mantra ‘God is Love’ preaches that God is one and so is mankind. A Tamil classic of 3047 verses, Tirumantiram is categorised under 9 Tantras and each Tantra into chapters. The introduction gives a bird’s eye view of the text and detailed notes on Tirumular, Saiva Siddhanta and the Tantras. Apart from its literary merits, the book blazes a number of spiritual trails brimming with devotion. This English translation, along with some of the notes, are by Dr. B. Natarajan, a profound Tamil scholar. Sri M. Sundararaj has written a commentary incorporated in the introduction and some of the notes. Dr N. Mahalingam is the General Editor of the book. This book is meant for students of Saivism and devotional literature all over the world.

Tirumantiram, a Tamil Scriptural Classic

Author : திருமூலர்
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tirumantiram, a Tamil Scriptural Classic written by திருமூலர் and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of a Tamil canonical work of the Saiva Siddhanta school in Hindu philosophy, with interpretive notes.

The Roots of Tantra

Author : Katherine Anne Harper
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148890X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Roots of Tantra written by Katherine Anne Harper and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many spiritual traditions born and developed in India, Tantra has been the most difficult to define. Almost everything about it—its major characteristics, its sources, its relationships to other religions, even its practices—are debated among scholars. In addition, Tantrism is not confined to any particular religion, but is a set of beliefs and practices that appears in a variety of religions, including Hinduism and Buddhism. This book explores one of the most controversial aspects of Tantra, its sources or roots, specifically in regard to Hinduism. The essays focus on the history and development of Tantra, the art history and archaeology of Tantra, the Vedas and Tantra, and texts and Tantra. Using various disciplinary and methodological approaches, from history to art history and religious studies to textual studies, scholars provide both broad overviews of the beginnings of Tantra and detailed analyses of specific texts, authors, art works, and rituals.

Recipes for Immortality

Author : Richard S Weiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199715009
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Recipes for Immortality written by Richard S Weiss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in which siddha medical practitioners in Tamil South India win the trust and patronage of patients. While biomedicine might alleviate a patient's physical distress, siddha doctors offer their clientele much more: affiliation to a timeless and pure community, the fantasy of a Tamil utopia, and even the prospect of immortality. They speak of a golden age of Tamil civilization and of traditional medicine, drawing on broader revivalist formulations of a pure and ancient Tamil community. Weiss analyzes the success of siddha doctors, focusing on how they have successfully garnered authority and credibility. While shedding light on their lives, vocations, and aspirations, Weiss also documents the challenges that siddha doctors face in the modern world, both from a biomedical system that claims universal efficacy, and also from the rival traditional medicine, ayurveda, which is promoted as the national medicine of an autonomous Indian state. Drawing on ethnographic data; premodern Tamil texts on medicine, alchemy, and yoga; government archival resources; college textbooks; and popular literature on siddha medicine and on the siddhar yogis, he presents an in-depth study of this traditional system of knowledge, which serves the medical needs of millions of Indians. Weiss concludes with a look at traditional medicine at large, and demonstrates that siddha doctors, despite resent trends toward globalization and biomedicine, reflect the wider political and religious dimensions of medical discourse in our modern world. Recipes for Immortality proves that medical authority is based not only on physical effectiveness, but also on imaginative processes that relate to personal and social identities, conceptions of history, secrecy, loss, and utopian promise.

Dancing With Siva

Author : Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Publisher : Himalayan Academy Publications
ISBN 13 : 0945497962
Total Pages : 1270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Dancing With Siva written by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami and published by Himalayan Academy Publications. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1,008-page sourcebook answers many questions to quench the soul's thirst for God and Self-knowledge. Every spiritually-inclined human being will be enriched by the path revealed in this extraordinary book. India's tolerant and diverse vision of the Divine is all here: meditative, devotional, philosophical, scriptural and yogic. In question-and-answer style, Dancing with Siva guides the aspirant deep into the Hindu heart. Lavishly illustrated with 165 black and white reproductions of paintings from India. Resources include a Hindu timeline, comparisons of 12 world religions, a children's primer and more.

Healing across Boundaries

Author : Makarand R. Paranjape
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317324730
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Healing across Boundaries written by Makarand R. Paranjape and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume initiates a dialogue between bio-medicine and alternative therapeutics. Undertaking a multidisciplinary exploration of the science and spirituality of healing and wellness, it offers varied perspectives from doctors, medical researchers, Ayurvedic practitioners, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and cultural critics. It expands the horizons of health sciences in engaging with diverse traditions — bio-medicine, Ayurveda, Siddha, and Jaina bio-ethics. The book will interest scholars and researchers in social and community medicine, biological sciences, sociology and social anthropology, as well as cultural studies.

Auspicious Wisdom

Author : Douglas Renfrew Brooks
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791411469
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Auspicious Wisdom written by Douglas Renfrew Brooks and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooting itself in Kashmir Shaivism, Śrividyā became a force in South India no later than the seventh century, and eventually supplanted the Trika as the dominant Tantric tradition in Kashmir. This is the first comprehensive study of the texts and traditions of this influential school of goddess-centered, Śākta, Tantrism. Centering on the goddess's three manifestations—the beneficent deity Lalita Tripurasundari, her mantra, and the visually striking sricakra—Śrividyā creates a systematic esoteric discipline that combines elements of the yogas of knowledge, of devotion, and of ritual. Utilizing canonical works, historical commentaires, and the interpretive insights of living practitioners, this book explores the theological and ritual theories that form the basis for Śrividyā practice and offers new methods for critical and comparative studies of esoteric Hinduism.

Hindu Scriptures and Their Profound Teachings

Author : Amrahs Hseham
Publisher : Mahesh Dutt Sharma
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hindu Scriptures and Their Profound Teachings written by Amrahs Hseham and published by Mahesh Dutt Sharma. This book was released on 2024-01-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book, "Hindu Scriptures and Their Profound Teachings," is to provide readers with an overview of the most important Hindu scriptures and the teachings contained within them. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific text or philosophical system and offers a concise yet comprehensive summary of its key ideas and teachings.

The Transformation of Tamil Religion

Author : Srilata Raman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131774473X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of Tamil Religion written by Srilata Raman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the religious ideology of a Tamil reformer and saint, Ramalinga Swamigal of the 19th century and his posthumous reception in the Tamil country and sheds light on the transformation of Tamil religion that both his works and the understanding of him brought about. The book traces the hagiographical and biographical process by which Ramalinga Swamigal is shifted from being considered an exemplary poet-saint of the Tamil Śaivite bhakti tradition to a Dravidian nationalist social reformer. Taking as a starting point Ramalinga’s own writing, the book presents him as inhabiting a border zone between early modernity and modernity, between Hinduism and Christianity, between colonialism and regional nationalism, highlighting the influence of his teachings on politics, particularly within Dravidian cultural and political nationalism. Simultaneously, the book considers the implication of such an hagiographical process for the transformation of Tamil religion in the period between the 19th –mid-20th centuries. The author demonstrates that Ramalinga Swamigal’s ideology of compassion, cīvakāruṇyam, had not only a long genealogy in pre-modern Tamil Śaivism but also that it functioned as a potentially emancipatory ethics of salvation and caste critique not just for him but also for other Tamil and Dalit intellectuals of the 19th century. This book is a path-breaking study that also traces the common grounds between the religious visions of two of the most prominent subaltern figures of Tamil modernity – Iyothee Thass and Ramalingar. It argues that these transformations are one meaningful way for a religious tradition to cope with and come to terms with the implications of historicization and the demands of colonial modernity. It is, therefore, a valuable contribution to the field of religion, South Asian history and literature and Subaltern studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315794518 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

The Smile of Murugan

Author : Kamil V Zvelebil
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900464282X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Smile of Murugan written by Kamil V Zvelebil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Usman Report (1923)

Author : Dagmar Wujastyk
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9493194477
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book The Usman Report (1923) written by Dagmar Wujastyk and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Report of the Committee on Indigenous Systems of Medicine, Madras (1923), commissioned by the Madras government in 1921, was the first major health report to be published in India. It is commonly referred to as the Usman Report, after the committee's chairman Muhammad Usman. Its main purpose was to provide indigenous practitioners with an opportunity to put forward a strong case for state encouragement and financial support. The second volume of the Usman Report, titled "Written and Oral Evidence," mainly consists in written responses to a questionnaire relating to theoretical, practical, economic and institutional dimensions of medical practice. Practitioners' testimonies came from all over India and were submitted in English, Sanskrit, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannaḍa, and Oriya, providing a snapshot of the practices and sociopolitical positionings significant for those practicing traditional medicines in India at the beginning of the twentieth century. This volume provides the first English translation of the vernacular testimonies of this important document.

Homegrown Gurus

Author : Ann Gleig
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438447914
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Homegrown Gurus written by Ann Gleig and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring homegrown movements and figures, proclaims American Hinduism as a distinct religious tradition. Today, a new stage in the development of Hinduism in America is taking shape. After a century of experimentation during which Americans welcomed Indian gurus who adjusted their teachings to accommodate the New World context, American Hinduism can now rightly be called its own tradition rather than an imported religion. Accordingly, this spiritual path is now headed by leaders born in North America. Homegrown Gurus explores this phenomenon in essays about these figures and their networks. A variety of teachers and movements are considered, including Ram Dass, Siddha Yoga, and Amrit Desai and Kripalu Yoga, among others. Two contradictory trends quickly become apparent: an increasing Westernization of Hindu practices and values alongside a renewed interest in traditional forms of Hinduism. These opposed sensibilitiesinnovation and preservation, radicalism and recoveryare characteristic of postmodernity and denote a new chapter in the American assimilation of Hinduism.

The Tyāgarāja Cult in Tamilnāḍu

Author : Rajeshwari Ghose
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120813915
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Tyāgarāja Cult in Tamilnāḍu written by Rajeshwari Ghose and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiruvarur in the Thanjavur district of Tamilnadu was the centre of Saiva and Sakta worship from very ancient times. The Saiva cult revolved around the Tyagaraja icon enshrined in a temple bearing the name of the image. Interestingly, Tyagaraja is not the principle deity but a processional icon and is in fact an amalgam of three deities--Siva his consort Uma and their child Skanda. Tyagaraja is a Somaskanda and the first visual representation of this composite deity can be traced to the time of Pallava rule.

The Philosophy of the Tamil Siddhas

Author : T. N. Ganapathy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of the Tamil Siddhas written by T. N. Ganapathy and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Śaiva Dharma Shastras

Author : Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Publisher : Himalayan Academy Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Śaiva Dharma Shastras written by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami and published by Himalayan Academy Publications. This book was released on with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Śaiva Dharma Sastras is a potent edict, an irrevocable commission to my Acharya successors, detailing their future duties and responsibilities. Further, it is a Dossier describing for Church members and the public our international headquarters, monasteries, missions and extended families, our Himalayan Academy, ministry and initiations, our family and monastic paths, articles of faith and conduct. It explains our World Outreach Mission: to protect, preserve and promote the Saivite Hindu religion, to foster the growth of all sects of Hinduism through Hindu solidarity and to teach monistic Saiva Siddhanta for the spiritual unfoldment of the individual and the family through temple worship and daily sadhana. How members live, conduct themselves, raise their families and perform their dharma is all elucidated here. This shastra portrays a fellowship that is a one body of belief, worship and allegiance. Each member has studied and upholds the same scriptures and creed. Each worships God Siva through the traditional ceremonies and sacred observances. Each is well versed in the teachings of our sampradaya, a tradition that values practice above learning. Each finds authority in our religious hierarchical lineage, or parampara. Each performs the potent sadhanas of the Saiva Neri, regular disciplines which yield spiritual transformation through self-effort. Each looks to the spiritual preceptor, or satguru, as the supreme guiding force.

Yoga's Forgotten Foundation

Author : Subramuniya (Master.)
Publisher : Himalayan Academy Publications
ISBN 13 : 0945497911
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Yoga's Forgotten Foundation written by Subramuniya (Master.) and published by Himalayan Academy Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ancient secrets from the yoga tradition for building good character and self-discipline, the seldom-taught but essential first steps for knowing God within."--Cover.

Like a Tree Universally Spread

Author : Keith Edward Cantú
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197665470
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Like a Tree Universally Spread written by Keith Edward Cantú and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book reconstructs the tantalizing tale of Sri Sabhapati Swami (ca. 1828-1923/4), today a little-known swami who was originally from Tamil Nadu in southern India, and historically contextualizes a fascinating type of yoga that Sabhapati claimed would lead to an experience of being "like a tree universally spread." The practical method of having this experience, in technical terms called the samadhi or "composure" of sivarajayoga or the "Royal yoga for siva," was published in English and multiple Indic languages and lavishly illustrated in diagrams on subtle and physical bodies. This book is the first book-length treatment on Sabhapati Swami, scholarly or otherwise, and uses critically-edited sources printed in Tamil, Devanagari, and Bengali scripts to reveal the expansion of his literature across South Asia and globally, the vast majority of which has never before been considered in any scholarly work to date. The book shows how intertwined Sabhapati's yoga is with historical Tamil saiva and Siddha movements, including the mythos of the rishi Agastya, and also with Hathayoga and mantra-based ritual. It also takes into account his and his followers' wrestling with the Victorian scientific worldview and their rationalization of Hindu philosophical discourses in the colonial period. Finally, the book demonstrates the extent to which Sabhapati's teachings were integrated into esoteric religious movements such as the Theosophical Society, the Thelema of Aleister Crowley, and New Thought, and suggests that a reappraisal of scholarship on the roots of yoga in these movements is long overdue"--