Introduction to the Pāñcarātra and the Ahirbudhnya Saṃhitā
Author : Friedrich Otto Schrader
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Buddhism
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Author : Friedrich Otto Schrader
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Buddhism
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Author : Philip Lutgendorf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 1991-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520909348
The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text—the epic Ramcaritmanas—and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers interested in the culture of North India and the performance arts will find breadth of subject, careful scholarship, and engaging presentation in this unique and beautifully illustrated examination of Hindi culture. The most popular and influential text of Hindi-speaking North India, the epic Ramcaritmanas is a sixteenth century retelling of the Ramayana story by the poet Tulsidas. This masterpiece of pre-modern Hindi literature has always reached its largely illiterate audiences primarily through oral performance including ceremonial recitation, folksinging, oral exegesis, and theatrical representation. Drawing on fieldwork in Banaras, Lutgendorf breaks new ground by capturing the range of performance techniques in vivid detail and tracing the impact of the epic in its contemporary cultural context.
Author : Vyāsa
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Page : 563 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Bhakti
ISBN : 9788187812876
Author : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Page : pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : Ajay Mitra Shastri
Publisher : Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 1969
Category : History
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Author : Satya Pal Narang
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : S. Rangachar
Publisher : Hesperides Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1406735892
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Suvira Jaiswal
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Philosophy
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Author : Suvira Jaiswal
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : Vaishnavism
ISBN : 9788121501972
Description: This edition is revised and enlarged to update the material and impart more dept to author's strikingly original interpretations, especially those relating to Narayana and Vasudeva-Krsna. It questions the general assumption that the sentiment of personal devotion of bhakti formed a basic component of pre-Aryan aboriginal cults from which it was borrowed by later sectarian religions. The author argues that religious consciousness being an ideological reflex of man's real life process its structure also undergoes changes in conformity with the changing social relations. The adoption of the principle of ahimsa and of vegetarianism in Vaisnavism is explained in its social context. It is shown how Puranic Vaisnavism evolved in the process of revitalizing Brahmanism through assimilating a number of orthodox, non-conformist and tribal elements; the absorption of mother goddess Sri-Laksmi in the Vaisnava pantheon is a case in point. The revised edition throws fresh light on the Narsimha incarnation of Visnu and the remodeling of some Vaisnava rituals. Finally, it highlights the social role of this religion and indicates the extent of its influence in post-Maurya and Gupta times.
Author : His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Publisher : The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release :
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9171497382
A critical look at widely-believed assumptions and theories held by modern scientists about the origin of life. For people who have come to accept every pronouncement of modern scientists as tested and proven truth, this book will be an eye-opener. Life Comes From Life is an impromptu but brilliant critique of some of the dominant policies, theories and presuppositions of modern science and scientists by one of the greatest philosophers and scholars of the twentieth century, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada's vivid analysis uncovers the hidden and blatantly unfounded assumptions that underlie currently fashionable doctrines about the origins and purpose of life. This book is based on taped morning-walk conversations between Srila Prabhupada and his disciple Thoudam D. Singh, Ph.D., an organic chemist.