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Author : K. Jamanadas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tirupati Balaji was a Buddhist Shrine written by K. Jamanadas and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S R RAMANUJAN
Publisher : PartridgeIndia
ISBN 13 : 1482834626
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book THE LORD OF VENGADAM written by S R RAMANUJAN and published by PartridgeIndia. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The temple for the Lord of Vengadam in Tirumala (Andhra Pradesh, India) is one of the richest places of worship in the entire world with ever-increasing popularity, the footfall of devotees on the Seven Hills touching a whopping figure of seventy thousand on weekdays and one hundred thousand during the weekends. The Temple's annual budget hovers around 25 billion rupees. This world record to fame and riches is not without its flip side. The temple has become the focal point for a variety of controversies-some created by the political class, some by historians with an axe to grind, and some more by Hindus with a sectarian outlook. The never-ending dispute is over the identity of the idol as a result of the age-old conflict between the worshippers of Siva and Vishnu, the two most important deities of the Hindu pantheon. Taking their cue from this, Neo-Buddhists joined the fray with the claim that the temple was a Buddhist shrine and that it was converted into Vishnu temple by "wily Brahmins." The book aims to unravel the mystery over the history of the temple, providing a historical perspective to the issue and thus establishing the real identity of the Lord, which is indisputably that of the Vishnu.
Author : S R RAMANUJAN
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482834634
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Lord of Vengadam written by S R RAMANUJAN and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The temple for the Lord of Vengadam in Tirumala (Andhra Pradesh, India) is one of the richest places of worship in the entire world with ever-increasing popularity, the footfall of devotees on the Seven Hills touching a whopping figure of seventy thousand on weekdays and one hundred thousand during the weekends. The Temples annual budget hovers around 25 billion rupees. This world record to fame and riches is not without its flip side. The temple has become the focal point for a variety of controversiessome created by the political class, some by historians with an axe to grind, and some more by Hindus with a sectarian outlook. The never-ending dispute is over the identity of the idol as a result of the age-old conflict between the worshippers of Siva and Vishnu, the two most important deities of the Hindu pantheon. Taking their cue from this, Neo-Buddhists joined the fray with the claim that the temple was a Buddhist shrine and that it was converted into Vishnu temple by wily Brahmins. The book aims to unravel the mystery over the history of the temple, providing a historical perspective to the issue and thus establishing the real identity of the Lord, which is indisputably that of the Vishnu.
Author : Sree Padma Holt
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791478149
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra written by Sree Padma Holt and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the importance of Buddhism as it developed in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra (modern-day Andhra Pradesh) and its influence.
Author : D. C. Ahir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Sites and Shrines in India written by D. C. Ahir and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S R Ramanujan
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1685383475
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Venkatachala Nilayam written by S R Ramanujan and published by Notion Press. This book was released on with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. Jamanadas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Decline and Fall of Buddhism written by K. Jamanadas and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate Lister
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783528060
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)
Download or read book A Curious History of Sex written by Kate Lister and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throughout time, as that would entail writing an encyclopaedia. Rather, this is a drop in the ocean, a paddle in the shallow end of sex history, but I hope you will get pleasantly wet nonetheless. The act of sex has not changed since people first worked out what went where, but the ways in which society dictates how sex is culturally understood and performed have varied significantly through the ages. Humans are the only creatures that stigmatise particular sexual practices, and sex remains a deeply divisive issue around the world. Attitudes will change and grow – hopefully for the better – but sex will never be free of stigma or shame unless we acknowledge where it has come from. Based on the popular research project Whores of Yore, and written with her distinctive humour and wit, A Curious History of Sex draws upon Dr Kate Lister’s extensive knowledge of sex history. From medieval impotence tests to twentieth-century testicle thefts, from the erotic frescoes of Pompeii, to modern-day sex doll brothels, Kate unashamedly roots around in the pants of history, debunking myths, challenging stereotypes and generally getting her hands dirty. This fascinating book is peppered with surprising and informative historical slang, and illustrated with eye-opening, toe-curling and meticulously sourced images from the past. You will laugh, you will wince and you will wonder just how much has actually changed.
Author : Anne Geldart
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 9781403470355
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Temples written by Anne Geldart and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a Buddhist temple? Who works there? Why is the shrine to Bodhgaya so important? Find out the answers to these and other questions in this fact-filled title.
Author : John E. Cort
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791437858
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (378 download)
Download or read book Open Boundaries written by John E. Cort and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open Boundaries provides a new perspective on Jainism, one of the oldest yet least-studied of the world's living religions. Ten closely-focused studies investigate the interactions between Jains and non-Jains in South Asian society, with detailed studies of yoga, tantra, aesthetic theory, erotic poetry, theories of kingship, goddess worship, temple ritual, polemical poetry, religious women, and historiography. Viewing the Jains within a South Asian context results in a strikingly different portrait from the standard models represented in both traditional Western and Indian scholarship.
Author : D. Venkat Rao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351234927
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Critical Humanities from India written by D. Venkat Rao and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally addressed the questions of what is proper to man, rights of man, crimes against humanity, human creativity and action, human reflection and performance, human utterance and artefact. The university as a philosophical-political institution transmits this humanist account. This European humanistic legacy, which is little more than Christian anthropology, barely received any questioning from cultures that faced colonialism. In such a context, this volume attempts to unravel the ‘barely secularized heritage’ of Europe (Derrida’s phrase) and its fatal consequences in other cultures. The task of Critical Humanities is to explore the ways in which the question of being human (along with non-human others) today from heterogeneous cultural ‘backgrounds’ can be undertaken. The future of the humanities teaching and research is contingent upon the risky task of configuring cultural difference from non-European locations. Such a task is inescapable and urgently needed when tectonic cultural upheavals have begun to show devastating effect on planetary coexistence today. It is precisely in such a context that this collection of essays on critical humanities affirms, ‘without alibi’, the urgency of collective reflection and innovative research across the traditional disciplinary and institutional borders and communication systems on the one hand and Asian, African and European cultural formations on the other. Critical Humanities are at one level little more than communities on the verge (critical) but whose centuries long survival and resilient creations of cultural (and /as natural) habitats are of deeply enduring significance to affirm the biocultural diversities of living that compose the planet. Topical and timely, this book will be useful to scholars, researchers and teachers of cultural theory, literary studies, philosophy, cultural geography, legal studies, sociology, history, performance studies, environmental studies, caste and communalism studies, postcolonial theory, India studies, and education.
Author : Prabha Kotiswaran
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691142513
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor written by Prabha Kotiswaran and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular representations of third-world sex workers as sex slaves and vectors of HIV have spawned abolitionist legal reforms that are harmful and ineffective, and public health initiatives that provide only marginal protection of sex workers' rights. In this book, Prabha Kotiswaran asks how we might understand sex workers' demands that they be treated as workers. She contemplates questions of redistribution through law within the sex industry by examining the political economies and legal ethnographies of two archetypical urban sex markets in India. Kotiswaran conducted in-depth fieldwork among sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata's largest red-light area, and Tirupati, a temple town in southern India. Providing new insights into the lives of these women--many of whom are demanding the respect and legal protection that other workers get--Kotiswaran builds a persuasive theoretical case for recognizing these women's sexual labor. Moving beyond standard feminist discourse on prostitution, she draws on a critical genealogy of materialist feminism for its sophisticated vocabulary of female reproductive and sexual labor, and uses a legal realist approach to show why criminalization cannot succeed amid the informal social networks and economic structures of sex markets. Based on this, Kotiswaran assesses the law's redistributive potential by analyzing the possible economic consequences of partial decriminalization, complete decriminalization, and legalization. She concludes with a theory of sex work from a postcolonial materialist feminist perspective.
Author : Sir Jadunath Sarkar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book India Through the Ages written by Sir Jadunath Sarkar and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jagajyoti Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Birth Centenary Volume, 1991 written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles on the political and social views of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Indian statesman.
Author : Bruno Dagens
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8178224976
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (782 download)
Download or read book Mayamata written by Bruno Dagens and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mayamata is a Vastusastra, that is to says a treatise on dwelling and as such, it deals with all the facets of gods temple dwellings, from the choice of a site to the iconography of temple walls. It contains many precise descriptions of villages and towns as of temples, houses, mansions and palaces. It gives indications for the selection of proper orientation, of the right dimension and of appropriate building materials. It intends to be a manual for the architect and a guidebook for the layman. Well thought of by the traditional architects (sthapatis) of South India, this treatise is of interest at a time when technical traditions, in all fields are being scrutinized for their possible modern application. The Mayamata has so far been translated into Tamil and into French. The present English version is based upon the edition, with French translation, previously published by Dr. Bruno Dagens in the Publication Series of the French Institute of Indology (Pondicherry).
Author : D. C. Ahir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Buddhism in South India written by D. C. Ahir and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dr. Priyanka Joshi
Publisher : Nyra Publishers LLP
ISBN 13 : 8197376948
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (973 download)
Download or read book Heritage Studies - A Compendium written by Dr. Priyanka Joshi and published by Nyra Publishers LLP. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Heritage Studies - A Compendium" is a comprehensive compilation of ideologies and facts related to Heritage Studies, meticulously designed for students under India's New Education Policy (NEP). This book emerged from the recognition that no single resource currently covers the entire syllabus comprehensively, making it an invaluable reference for students. Crafted to be both informative and accessible, this essential guide is ideal for anyone studying Heritage Conservation, Heritage Management, or any other aspect of Heritage Studies. It encompasses a broad spectrum of topics, providing detailed information and thorough discussions on various terms and notions. Readers will explore the local heritage of Maharashtra, the national heritage of India, and world heritage. The aim of this book is to offer a deep understanding of our rich and diverse heritage, presenting complex concepts in a student-friendly manner. Whether you are a novice student or an enthusiast seeking to expand your knowledge,
