Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9004488405
Volume IIa presents a critical edition of Adhayāyas 26-31.14 from the Skandapurāṇa, complete with synopsis and annotation. The editors also provide a lengthy introduction and commentary on the edited text, and discuss both philological problems and matters of interpretation.
Author : Hans Bakker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004277145
The World of the Skandapurāṇa explores the historical, religious and literary environment that gave rise to the composition and spread of this early Purana text devoted to Siva. It is argued that the text originated in circles of Pasupata ascetics and laymen, probably in Benares, in the second half of the 6th and first half of he 7th centuries. The book describes the political developments in Northern India after the fall of the Gupta Empire until the successor states which arose after the death of king Harsavardhana of Kanauj in the second half of the 7th century. The work consists of two parts. In the first part the historical environment in which this Purāṇa was composed is described. The second part explores six localities in Northern India that play a prominent role in the text. It is richly illustrated and contains a detailed bibliography and index.
Author : Steven Collins
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231541007
The Vessantara Jataka tells the story of Prince Vessantara, who attained the Perfection of Generosity by giving away his fortune, his children, and his wife. Vessantara was the penultimate rebirth as a human of the future Gotama Buddha, and his extreme charity has been represented and reinterpreted in texts, sermons, rituals, and art throughout South and Southeast Asia and beyond. This anthology features well-respected anthropologists, textual scholars in religious and Buddhist studies, and art historians, who engage in sophisticated readings of the text and its ethics of giving, understanding of attachment and nonattachment, depiction of the trickster, and unique performative qualities. They reveal the story to be as brilliantly layered as a Homeric epic or Shakespearean play, with aspects of tragedy, comedy, melodrama, and utopian fantasy intertwined to problematize and scrutinize Theravada Buddhism's cherished virtues.
Author : Sondra L. Hausner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253349834
Intimate portraits of the life of Hindu Sadhus.
Author : Hans T. Bakker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004412077
The 31 selected and revised articles in the volume Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet, written by Hans Bakker between 1986 and 2016, vary from theoretical subjects to historical essays on the classical culture of India. They combine two mainstreams: the Sanskrit textual tradition, including epigraphy, and the material culture as expressed in works of religious art and iconography. The study of text and art in close combination in the actual field where they meet provides a great potential for understanding. The history of holy places is therefore one of the leitmotivs that binds these studies together. One article, "The Ramtek Inscriptions II", was co-authored by Harunaga Isaacson, two articles, on "Moksadharma 187 and 239–241" and "The Quest for the Pasupata Weapon," by Peter C. Bisschop.
Author : Harirāma Jośī
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Nepal
ISBN :
History of Nepal.
Author : Michael Baltutis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 24,15 MB
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438493347
The Festival of Indra details the textual and performative history of an important South Asian festival and its role in the development of classical Hinduism. Drawing on various genres of Sanskrit textual sources—especially the epic Mahābhārata—the book highlights the innovative ways that this annual public festival has supported the stable royal power responsible for the sponsorship of these texts. More than just a textual project, however, the book devotes significant ethnographic attention to the only contemporary performance of this festival that adheres to the classical Sanskrit record: the Indrajatra of Kathmandu, Nepal. Here, Indra's tall pole remains the festival's focal point, though its addition of the royal blessing by Kumari, the "living goddess" of Nepal, and the regular presence of the fierce god Bhairav show several significant ways that ritual agents have re-constructed this festival over the past two thousand years.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 1984-07
Category : Art, Asian
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Author : Mary Shepherd Slusser
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Kathmandu Valley (Nepal)
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Page : 636 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 2000
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