Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang
Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang

Author: Jacob Paul Dalton

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13:

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This heavily indexed descriptive catalogue provides an indispensable doorway into the Tibetan Dunhuang collections. Its publication promises to make possible many further studies of these long-neglected treasures, particular those relating to the esoteric traditions of tantric Buddhism.

Sanskrit Manuscripts
Sanskrit Manuscripts

Author: Rangacharya Rangacharya

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019603567

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Sanskrit Manuscripts is a book written by Rangacharya Rangacharya that explores the richness and complexity of Sanskrit literature. The book provides a detailed analysis of different Sanskrit texts, including poetry, drama, and philosophy. This work is an important contribution to the understanding of Indian culture and literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Theatre and Its Other
Theatre and Its Other

Author: Elisa Ganser

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-02-14

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 900446705X

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What is Dance? What is Theatre? What is the boundary between enacting a character and narrating a story? When does movement become tinted with meaning? And when does beauty shine alone as if with no object? These universal aesthetic questions find a theoretically vibrant and historically informed set of replies in the oeuvre of the eleventh-century Kashmirian author Abhinavagupta. The present book offers the first critical edition, translation, and study of a crucial and lesser known passage of his commentary on the Nāṭyaśāstra, the seminal work of Sanskrit dramaturgy. The nature of dramatic acting and the mimetic power of dance, emotions, and beauty all play a role in Abhinavagupta’s thorough investigation of performance aesthetics, now presented to the modern reader.