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Māyā Divine and Human

Author : Teun Goudriaan
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120823891
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Māyā Divine and Human written by Teun Goudriaan and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1978 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of a projected three-volume work on the little known South Indian folk cult of the goddess Draupadi and on the classical epic, the Mahabharata, that the cult brings to life in mythic, ritual and dramatic forms. It focuses on the Draupadi cult's own double mythology, moving from its storieis about Draupadi's 'primal temple' near the capital of the medieval South Indian Kingdom of Gingee to its version of the Mahabharata war on the North Indian plain of Kuruksetra. Throughout, Hiltebeitel intertwines 'regional' data, gathered from both oral and written sources, with the 'epic', drawn from the cult's own performative traditions as well as from classical versions of the Mahabharata in both Tamil and Sanskrit. He re-examines many issues critical to Indological studies and takes up them while breaking new ground in investigating the further rapport between the Hindu goddess and the Indian epic. Future volumes will treat the rituals of the Draupadi cult and the Mahabharata as seen through a Draupadi cult retrospective.

Popol Vuh

Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684818450
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Popol Vuh written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most extraordinary works of the human imagination and the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, Popul Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life was first made accessible to the public 10 years ago. This new edition retains the quality of the original translation, has been enriched, and includes 20 new illustrations, maps, drawings, and photos.

Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Assam

Author : Maheswar Neog
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120800076
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Assam written by Maheswar Neog and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1980 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Krishna in History, Thought, and Culture

Author : Lavanya Vemsani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 161069211X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Krishna in History, Thought, and Culture by : Lavanya Vemsani

Download or read book Krishna in History, Thought, and Culture written by Lavanya Vemsani and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Krishna is a central figure in Hinduism, a religion that has been a fundamental force for thousands of years. This accessible encyclopedia covers texts, practices, scholarship, and arts related to Krishna from the earliest known sources on. As Eastern religions and related practices such as yoga become increasingly popular, there is a need for resources that explain where these practices come from and what they mean. This is one of those works. Krishna is central to Hindu philosophy, theology, art, architecture, and literature, and an understanding of Krishna will give students greater understanding of the role of Hinduism around the world. Yet this isn't just a book on religion. The encyclopedia also provides insights into Indian and world history and into contemporary concerns, fostering respect for religious and cultural diversity. Entries on a wide range of subjects related to Krishna cover India and other places where major Krishna religious centers and temples are established worldwide. Articles draw from classical Indian sources dating back as far as 1300 BCE and from folk and worldwide literature, including mythology from Jainism and Buddhism. The book's alphabetical organization, cross references in each entry that highlight related entries and further readings, and topical and thematic lists will facilitate in-depth research.

Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased

Author : Thomas G. Plante
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000418022
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased by : Thomas G. Plante

Download or read book Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased written by Thomas G. Plante and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased brings together cutting-edge empirical and theoretical contributions from scholars in fields including psychology, theology, ethics, neuroscience, medicine, and philosophy, to examine how and why humans engage in, or even seek spiritual experiences and connection with the immaterial world. In this richly interdisciplinary volume, Plante and Schwartz recognize human interaction with the divine and departed as a cross-cultural and historical universal that continues to concern diverse disciplines. Accounting for variances in belief and human perception and use, the book is divided into four major sections: personal experience; theological consideration; medical, technological, and scientific considerations; and psychological considerations with chapters addressing phenomena including prayer, reincarnation, sensed presence, and divine revelations. Featuring scholars specializing in theology, psychology, medicine, neuroscience, and ethics, this book provides a thoughtful, compelling, evidence-based, and contemporary approach to gain a grounded perspective on current understandings of human interaction with the divine, the sacred, and the deceased. Of interest to believers, questioners, and unbelievers alike, this volume will be key reading for researchers, scholars, and academics engaged in the fields of religion and psychology, social psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and health psychology. Readers with a broader interest in spiritualism, religious and non-religious movements will also find the text of interest.

Māyā Divine and Human

Author : Teun Goudriaan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Māyā Divine and Human written by Teun Goudriaan and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Depicted Deities

Author : M.L.B. Blom
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004646604
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Depicted Deities written by M.L.B. Blom and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the rules of art. More specifically, it treats of the unwritten rules of Nepalese religious art as laid down in ‘model books’. These can be seen as manuals for the artists, in which they can find the correct way to represent, in visual art, any of some 2000 godly figures. The representation of these gods, all of them with their particular attributes, was (and is) subject to more or less strict rules. These books, the kind of which is also found in Europe in the early Middle Ages, have developed into a special tradition in Nepal, where a unique number of model books was found to be in existence, the oldest of them going back to the 15th century. The author of this study (the first in its kind) has traced the development in time of some 150 popular Hindu deities to determine the meaning of these model books for the artists using them, and also to see if the representation of these gods is in any way related to changes in society.

The Popol Vuh

Author : Lewis Spence
Publisher : New York : AMS Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Popol Vuh written by Lewis Spence and published by New York : AMS Press. This book was released on 1908 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies

Author : Karl H. Potter
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120803084
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies by : Karl H. Potter

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies written by Karl H. Potter and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This constitues the first volume of the series. It indicates the scope of the project and provides a list of sources which will be surveyed in the sebsequent volumes, as well as provide a guide to secondary literature for further study of Indian Philosophy. It lists in relative chronological order, Sanskrit and Tamil works. All known editions and translations into European languages are cited; where puplished versions of the text are not known a guide to the location of manuscripts of the work is provided.

Handbook of Hindu Mythology

Author : George M. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019533261X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Hindu Mythology written by George M. Williams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many other ancient mythologies, Hinduism thrives in the modern world. One billion followers and countless others have been captivated by its symbolic representations of love, karma, and reincarnation. Handbook of Hindu Mythology offers an informative introduction to this dauntingly complex mythology of multifaceted deities, lengthy heroic tales, and arcane philosophies-all with a 3,000-year history of reinterpretations and adaptations. Williams offers a number of pathways by which to approach Hinduism's ever-changing gods and goddesses (e.g., Brahma, Vishnu, Siva), spiritual verses (such as the vedas), secular epics (including the Ramayana and the Mahabharata), myths within myths, devotional and esoteric traditions, psychic and yogic disciplines, and magical practices. With this handbook, readers can explore the history of Hindu mythology, follow a detailed timeline of key episodes and historical events, and look up specific elements of historical or contemporary Hinduism in a beautifully illustrated reference work. It is the ideal introduction to the origins of Hinduism, the culture that shaped it from antiquity to the present, and the age-old stories, ideas, and traditions that speak to the human condition as eloquently today as ever. Including annotated bibliographies, a glossary of cultural and mythological terms, and numerous illustrations, here is a gold mine of information on Hindu mythology. "

Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument

Author : David Peter Lawrence
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438410204
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument written by David Peter Lawrence and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comparative philosophical study of the thought of the two principle theorists of monistic Kashmiri Shaivism, Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta, and also formulates a conception of the nature of philosophy as a means of intercultural and interreligious dialogue.

How Religion Evolved

Author : Brian McVeigh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351514830
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book How Religion Evolved written by Brian McVeigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did many religious leaders—Moses, Old Testament prophets, Zoroaster—claim they heard divine voices? Why do ancient civilizations exhibit key similarities, e.g., the "living dead" (treating the dead as if they were still alive); "speaking idols" (care and feeding of effigies); monumental mortuary architecture and "houses of gods" (pyramids, ziggurats, temples)? How do we explain strange behaviour such as spirit possession, speaking in tongues, channelling, hypnosis, and schizophrenic hallucinations? Are these lingering vestiges of an older mentality? Brian J. McVeigh answers these riddles by updating "bicameralism." First proposed by the psychologist Julian Jaynes, this theory postulates that an earlier mentality existed: a "human" (the brain's left hemisphere) heard voices of "gods" or "ancestors" (the brain's right hemisphere). Therefore, ancient religious texts reporting divine voices were recounting of audio-visual hallucinations—a method of social control when early populations expanded. As growing political economic complexity destabilized god-governed states in the late second millennium BCE, divine voices became inadequate. Eventually, humans had to culturally acquire new cognitive skills (modern religions) to accommodate increasing social pressures: selves replaced the gods and history witnessed an "inward turn." This psychological interiorization of spiritual experience laid the foundations for the world's great religions and philosophies that arose in India, China, Greece, and the Middle East in the middle of the first millennium BCE.

Keywords for India

Author : Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135003925X
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Keywords for India written by Rukmini Bhaya Nair and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What terms are currently up for debate in Indian society? How have their meanings changed over time? This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts. Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony, gender, technology and economics, past memories and future imaginaries, these entries introduce some of the basic concepts that inform the 'cultural unconscious' of the Indian subcontinent in order to translate them into critical tools for literary, political, cultural and cognitive studies. Inspired by Raymond Williams' pioneering exploration of English culture and society through the study of keywords, Keywords for India brings together more than 200 leading sub-continental scholars to form a polyphonic collective. Their sustained engagement with an incredibly diverse set of words enables a fearless interrogation of the panoply, the multitude, the shape-shifter that is 'India'. Through its close investigation and unpacking of words, this book investigates the various intellectual possibilities on offer within the Indian subcontinent at the beginning of a fraught new millennium desperately in need of fresh vocabularies. In this sense, Keywords for India presents the world with many emancipatory memes from India.

Fully Human- Fully Divine

Author : John Martin Sahajananda
Publisher : PartridgeIndia
ISBN 13 : 1482819554
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Fully Human- Fully Divine written by John Martin Sahajananda and published by PartridgeIndia. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully Human-Fully Divine: Integral Dynamic Monotheism, a Meeting Point between the Vedic Vision and the Vision of Christ is the latest book of John Martin Sahajananda. This books deals with finding the answer to the fundamental question: Who are human beings? He looks for the answer to this basic question in two categories of spiritual traditions, viz., prophetic tradition and wisdom tradition. The wisdom tradition seems to focus on our oneness with God and the prophetic tradition on our humanness. He proposes a view that integrates these two views in an inclusive way. We are fully human and also fully divine. He looks at spiritual life as a dynamic process of evolution in relationship with God. This process he describes as Integral Dynamic Monotheism. In the second part of the book, he explains to us about similarities between the spiritual awakening and spiritual evolution in the Vedic tradition and the biblical tradition. He shows how close these great traditions can come, and when they come close together, they realize what they need from one another to make them richer and fuller. Thus he says that the challenge of Upanishadic tradition to Christianity is to open the nondualistic experience of Jesus, which is the radical love of God for all the Christians. In the same way, the challenge of Christ to the Vedic tradition is to translate its nondualistic wisdom of God, which is the radical love of God, into nondualistic action and social transformation that is the radical love of one's neighbor.

The Aztecs, Maya, and their Predecessors

Author : Muriel Porter Weaver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315418916
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Aztecs, Maya, and their Predecessors written by Muriel Porter Weaver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Edition of this highly successful introduction to the archaeology of Mesoamerica includes full coverage of the Aztec and Maya areas in one volume. Beginning with the settling of the New World and continuing through the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in 1521, this completely updated textbook includes the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphs, the dynamic history of the Maya, the new royal tomb excavated at Copan, Honduras, important new discoveries at Rio Azul and Naj Tunich in Guatemala, and Caracol in Belize, ritual sacrifices on a massive scale revealed at Teotihuacan in central Mexico, and new material from Tula (Toltec capitol) and from the heart of Mexico City.

Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata

Author : Lavanya Vemsani
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030731650
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata written by Lavanya Vemsani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mahabharata preserves powerful journeys of women recognized as the feminine divine and the feminine heroic in the larger culture of India. Each journey upholds the unique aspects of women's life. This book analytically examines the narratives of eleven women from the Mahabharata in the historical context as well as in association with religious and cultural practices. Lavanya Vemsani brings together history, myth, religion, and practice to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the history of Hindu women, as well as their significance within religious Indian culture. Additionally, Vemsani provides important perspective for understanding the enduring legacy of these women in popular culture and modern society.

Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities

Author : Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226618552
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities written by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-02-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty . . . weaves a brilliant analysis of the complex role of dreams and dreaming in Indian religion, philosophy, literature, and art. . . . In her creative hands, enchanting Indian myths and stories illuminate and are illuminated by authors as different as Aeschylus, Plato, Freud, Jung, Kurl Gödel, Thomas Kuhn, Borges, Picasso, Sir Ernst Gombrich, and many others. This richly suggestive book challenges many of our fundamental assumptions about ourselves and our world."—Mark C. Taylor, New York Times Book Review "Dazzling analysis. . . . The book is firm and convincing once you appreciate its central point, which is that in traditional Hindu thought the dream isn't an accident or byway of experience, but rather the locus of epistemology. In its willful confusion of categories, its teasing readiness to blur the line between the imagined and the real, the dream actually embodies the whole problem of knowledge. . . . [O'Flaherty] wants to make your mental flesh creep, and she succeeds."—Mark Caldwell, Village Voice