Children of the Earth Goddess
Children of the Earth Goddess

Author: Roland Hardenberg

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-12-18

Total Pages: 683

ISBN-13: 3110531763

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The whole world is changing with incredible speed towards something radically new, yet people across the globe also show resistance to the forces that homogenize our lives. This book deals with a community that has found its niche in the remote Niamgiri mountain range of Odisha (India) and is struggling to preserve its way of life: the Dongria Kond. In recent years, they made the headlines as the real “Avatars” because they successfully fought a multinational company’s plans to mine the mountains. From the perspective of the Dongria Kond, these mountains are the seat of gods, and the whole environment is animated by spiritual forces. This highly complex cosmic order includes humans and non-humans and rests on a divine law (niam). This book captures the viewpoint of the Dongria Kond and provides deep insights into their vision of the world. It offers elaborate accounts of how the Dongria relate to the outside world, conceive of their own society and engage in complex rituals in order to (re-)establish the cosmos. The book confronts the reader with radically different imaginings of familiar human concerns: love, fertility, wealth, status and well-being.

Errorless 10 Year-wise Odisha OPSC/ OAS Civil Services General Studies Prelims Previous Year Solved Paper 1 (2006 - 23) & Paper 2 (2020 - 23) 2nd Edition | PYQs Question Bank
Errorless 10 Year-wise Odisha OPSC/ OAS Civil Services General Studies Prelims Previous Year Solved Paper 1 (2006 - 23) & Paper 2 (2020 - 23) 2nd Edition | PYQs Question Bank

Author: Disha Experts

Publisher: Disha Publication

Published:

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9355649193

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Errorless 10 Year-wise Odisha OPSC/ OAS Civil Services General Studies Prelims Previous Year Solved Papers consists of:
✍ Past 10 years Solved papers of Odisha PSC Exam Paper 1 from 2006 - 2023 along with 3 sets of Prelim Paper 2 of Aptitude from 2020 - 2023.
✍ Consist more than 1240+ MCQs with detailed explanations.
✍ All questions have authentic and errorless solutions
✍ All Previous year Preim question paper answer keys are validated and verified with OPSC.
✍ A useful handbook for OPSC, OAS, UPSC and other various State PSC Exams.

How to Read Buddhist Art
How to Read Buddhist Art

Author: Kurt Behrendt

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2019-11-29

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1588396738

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Intended to inspire the devout and provide a focus for religious practice, Buddhist artworks stand at the center of a great religious tradition that swept across Asia during the first millennia. How to Read Buddhist Art assembles fifty-four masterpieces from The Met collection to explore how images of the Buddha crossed linguistic and cultural barriers, and how they took on different (yet remarkably consistent) characteristics in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Himalayas, China, Korea, Japan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia. Works highlighted in this rich, concise overview include reliquaries, images of the Buddha that attempt to capture his transcendence, diverse bodhisattvas who protect and help the devout on their personal path, and representations of important teachers. The book offers the essential iconographic frameworks needed to understand Buddhist art and practice, helping the reader to appreciate how artists gave form to subtle aspects of the teachings, especially in the sublime expression of the Buddha himself.

India–Vietnam Relations
India–Vietnam Relations

Author: Reena Marwah

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-04

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 9811678227

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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the close cultural links between India and Vietnam. It discusses the issues of trade negotiations under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Indo-Pacific construct. Issues such as strengthening the economic partnership, contemporary development challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, including weakening supply chains, and geo-strategic tensions are explored in this book. It enriches understanding of the potential of the two countries to develop as manufacturing hubs for the region and beyond. Given the more aggressive posturing by China in 2020, the concluding chapter includes the policy prescriptions with a futuristic vision, for India and Vietnam to catalyze their strategic and bilateral partnership. Well researched and analytical, the book draws extensively from several interviews of experts, diplomats, journalists, businesspersons, and members of the diaspora. It is a must read for students, researchers, think tanks, area study centers, and all institutions engaged in Asian studies, encompassing narratives extending from the developmental to political, from the bilateral to the multilateral and from the geo-economic to the geo-strategic.

Middle Land, Middle Way
Middle Land, Middle Way

Author: Shravasti Dhammika

Publisher: Buddhist Publication Society

Published: 2008-12-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9552401976

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A comprehensive guidebook to the places in India made sacred by the Buddha’s presence. Beginning with an inspiring account of Buddhist pilgrimage, the author then covers sixteen places in detail. With maps and colour photos, an essential companion for pilgrim and traveler.

Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia
Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia

Author: Andrea Acri

Publisher: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

Published: 2016-09-05

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9814695084

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This volume advocates a trans-regional, and maritime-focused, approach to studying the genesis, development and circulation of Esoteric (or Tantric) Buddhism across Maritime Asia from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries ce. The book lays emphasis on the mobile networks of human agents (‘Masters’), textual sources (‘Texts’) and images (‘Icons’) through which Esoteric Buddhist traditions spread. Capitalising on recent research and making use of both disciplinary and area-focused perspectives, this book highlights the role played by Esoteric Buddhist maritime networks in shaping intra-Asian connectivity. In doing so, it reveals the limits of a historiography that is premised on land-based transmission of Buddhism from a South Asian ‘homeland’, and advances an alternative historical narrative that overturns the popular perception regarding Southeast Asia as a ‘periphery’ that passively received overseas influences. Thus, a strong point is made for the appreciation of the region as both a crossroads and rightful terminus of Buddhist cults, and for the re-evaluation of the creative and transformative force of Southeast Asian agents in the transmission of Esoteric Buddhism across mediaeval Asia.