Sanskrit Manuscripts in China
Author: Ernst Steinkellner
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13:
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Yoga in Transformation
Author: Karl Baier
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 631
ISBN-13: 3737008620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores aspects of yoga over a period of about 2500 years. In its first part, it investigates facets of the South Asian and Tibetan traditions of yoga, such as the evolution of posture practice, the relationship between yoga and sex, yoga in the theistic context, the influence of Buddhism on early yoga, and the encounter of Islam with classical yoga. The second part addresses aspects of modern globalised yoga and its historical formation, as for example the emergence of yoga in Viennese occultism, the integration of yoga and nature cure in modern India, the eventisation of yoga in a global setting, and the development of Patañjali’s iconography. In keeping with the current trend in yoga studies, the emphasis of the volume is on the practice of yoga and its theoretical underpinnings.
Hindu Monotheism
Author: Gavin Dennis Flood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-08-20
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1108605389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf by monotheism we mean the idea of a single transcendent God who creates the universe out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo), as in the Abrahamic religions, then that is not found in the history of Hinduism. But if we mean a supreme, transcendent deity who impels the universe, sustains it and ultimately destroys it before causing it to emerge once again, who is the ultimate source of all other gods who are her or his emanations, then this idea does develop within that history. It is a Hindu monotheism and its nature that is the topic of this Element.
Language of the Snakes
Author: Andrew Ollett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2017-10-10
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0520968816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the kavya movement and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring “language order” in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions—between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular—and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia.
Vienna journal of South Asian studies
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRitual Worship of the Great Goddess
Author: Hillary Rodrigues
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0791488446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring a nine-day period every autumn, Hindus in India and throughout the world worship the Great Goddess, Durgā--the formidable deity who is loved like a mother. One of the most dramatic and popular of these celebrations is the Durgā Pūjā, a rite noted for its visual pageantry, ritual complexity, and communal participation. In this book, Hillary Peter Rodrigues describes the Bengali style of Durgā Pūjā practiced in the sacred city of Banaras from beginning to end. A romanization of the Sanskrit litany is included along with an English translation. In addition to the liturgical description, Rodrigues provides information on the rite's component elements and mythic aspects. There are interpretive sections on puja, the Great Goddess, women's roles in the ritual, and the socio-cultural functions of the ritual. Rodrigues maintains that the Durgā Pūjā is a rite of cosmic rejuvenation, of empowerment at both the personal and social levels, and a rite that orchestrates manifestations of the feminine, both Divine and human.
Linguistic Archaeology of South Asia
Author: Franklin Southworth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1134317778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLinguistics Archaeology of South Asia brings together linguistics and archaeological evidence of South Asian prehistory.
Universals
Author: Frits Staal
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1988-03-23
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226769998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of articles and review essays, including many hard to find pieces, comprises the most important and fundamental studies of Indian logic and linguistics ever undertaken. Frits Staal is concerned with four basic questions: Are there universals of logic that transcend culture and time? Are there universals of language and linguistics? What is the nature of Indian logic? And what is the nature of Indian linguistics? By addressing these questions, Staal demonstrates that, contrary to the general assumption among Western philosophers, the classical philosophers of India were rationalists, attentive to arguments. They were in this respect unlike contemporary Western thinkers inspired by existentialism or hermeneutics, and like the ancient Chinese, Greeks, and many medieval European schoolmen, only—as Staal says—more so. Universals establishes that Asia's contributions are not only compatible with what has been produced in the West, but a necessary ingredient and an essential component of any future human science.
Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field
Author: Jörg Quenzer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2014-12-12
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 3110384825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScript and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of ‘manuscript studies’ has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally alongside the European manuscript tradition. This book, which aims to begin the interdisciplinary dialogue needed to arrive at a truly systematic and comparative approach to manuscript cultures worldwide, brings together papers by leading researchers concerned with material, philological and cultural aspects of different manuscript traditions.
Early Advaita Vedānta and Buddhism
Author: Richard King
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1995-08-03
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1438409044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an in-depth analysis of the doctrines of early Advaita and Buddhism that has important implications for the question of the relationship between Hindu and Buddhist thought. The author examines the central doctrines of the Gaudapadiya-karikain a series of chapters that discuss early Advaita in relation to the Abhidharma, Madhyamaka, and Yogacara schools of Buddhism. The question of the doctrinal diversity of Indian Buddhism is also discussed through an analysis of the concept of 'Buddha-Nature' and its relationship with Vedantic thought.
