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Accompanies the exhibition presented at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, April 17-July 31, 2016.
Author : Pratapaditya Pal
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 2016-04-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520288475
Accompanies the exhibition presented at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, April 17-July 31, 2016.
Author : Kanai Mukherjee
Publisher : Association of Grandparents of Indian Immigrants
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
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This book is compiled with the goal of explaining the hidden history, significance, and meaning of the mantras used in common Hindu puja rituals performed by the Bengalis to the Bengali immigrants.
Author : Paul Dundas
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Jainism
ISBN : 9780415266055
"This revised and expanded edition takes account of new research into Jainism as carried out over the last ten years."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Radha Goday Ch
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781533474131
Devotion towards God in any form is the key concept to human beings. Some people are devotional by nature. The modern generation has very low inclination towards God and Prayers to the God. God is present everywhere and we can feel the presence of God once we truly call him with our whole heartedness. Prayers in praise of God gives us immense peace of mind and we can achieve miracles through continues recital of his name. This book is extremely useful for Hindu students and also equally helpful for all age groups of the devotees all over the world. GOD BLESS YOU.
Author : John R. McLane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2002-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521526548
This book examines the politics and culture of eastern India's landed chiefs.
Author : Nabaparna Ghosh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1108883427
Calcutta, the centre of British imperial power in India, figures in scholarship as the locus of colonialism and the hotbed of anti-colonial nationalist movements. Yet, historians have largely ignored how the city shaped these movements. A Hygienic City-Nation is the first academic work that examines everyday urban formations in the colonial city that informed the broad global forces of imperialism, nationalism, and urbanism, and were, in turn, shaped by them. Drawing on previously unexplored archives of the Calcutta Improvement Trust and neighbourhood clubs, the author uncovers hidden stories of the city at the everyday level of neighbourhoods or paras, where kinship-like ties, caste, religion, and ethnicity constituted new urban modernity. Ghosh focuses on an emergent discourse on Hindu spatial hygiene that powered nationalist pedagogic efforts to train city dwellers in conduct fit for the city-nation. In such pedagogic efforts, upper-caste Bengalis were pitted against the lower-caste working poor and featured as ideal inhabitants of the city: the citizen.
Author : Gerry Stribling
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1614292442
A tough former Marine leads Buddhist basic training for the average Joe. In Buddhism for Dudes, Gerry “Strib” Stribling, former Marine and all-around good guy, answers questions on life and living with a healthy dose of Buddhist wisdom for the regular guy. Strib takes a good look at who the Buddha was, meditation, karma, and more. With good humor and without sentimentalism, he explains these down-to-earth insights in everyday language. Showing how Buddhism boldly approaches life’s problems head on, unflinching and alert—like a soldier in a forward listening post in the dark of night—Strib emphasizes the Buddhist call to moral action for the good of oneself and others.
Author : M. Whitney Kelting
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 2001-08-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198032110
While Western Jain scholarship has focused on those texts and practices favoring male participation, the Jain community itself relies heavily on lay women's participation for religious education, the performance of key rituals, and the locus of religious knowledge. In this fieldwork-based study, Whitney Kelting attempts to reconcile these women's understanding of Jainism with the religion as presented in the existing scholarship. Jain women, she shows, both accept and rewrite the idealized roles received from religious texts, practices, and social expectation, according to which female religiosity is a symbol of Jain perfection. This volume describes these women's interpretations of their religion, not as folklore or popular religion, but as a theology that recreates Jainism in a form which honors their own participation.
Author : Jinah Kim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520273869
In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacred explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book “manuscript” should be understood as a form of sacred space: a temple in microcosm, not only imbued with divine presence but also layered with the memories of many generations of users. Jinah Kim argues that illustrating a manuscript with Buddhist imagery not only empowered it as a three-dimensional sacred object, but also made it a suitable tool for the spiritual transformation of medieval Indian practitioners. Through a detailed historical analysis of Sanskrit colophons on patronage, production, and use of illustrated manuscripts, she suggests that while Buddhism’s disappearance in eastern India was a slow and gradual process, the Buddhist book-cult played an important role in sustaining its identity. In addition, by examining the physical traces left by later Nepalese users and the contemporary ritual use of the book in Nepal, Kim shows how human agency was critical in perpetuating and intensifying the potency of a manuscript as a sacred object throughout time.
Author : Abhinavagupta
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791401804
"I have prepared a trident of Wisdom in order to cut asunder their bondage." -- Abhinavagupta This is a long commentary on a short Tantra. One of the most authoritative and venerated texts in Kashmir Shaivism, it deals with the nature of Ultimate Reality and with methods of realization focusing on the theory and practice of Mantra. Abhinavagupta presents his metaphysics of language, of the Word (Vak), and its relation to consciousness. He calls it, "trikasastra-rahasya-upadesa: The teaching of the secret of the Trika doctrine."