Book Description
Authoritative commentaries on 187 Indonesian bronzes, ranging from devotional icons, to jewelry, to items created for domestic use. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870996134
Authoritative commentaries on 187 Indonesian bronzes, ranging from devotional icons, to jewelry, to items created for domestic use. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780810964075
An exploration of one of the most important collections of Indian and South-East Asian sculpture ever assembled. The works discussed are drawn from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection, much of which is housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Author : Lola Williamson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0814794505
Yoga, karma, meditation, guru--these terms, once obscure, are now a part of the American lexicon. Combining Hinduism with Western concepts and values, a new hybrid form of religion has developed in the United States over the past century. Williamson traces the history of various Hindu-inspired movements in America, and argues that together they constitute a discrete category of religious practice, a distinct and identifiable form of new religion.
Author : Curtis R. Farmwald
Publisher : Trafford
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2004
Category :
ISBN : 9781412020299
The trip of the lotus- each is different, individual & unique, yet it's all the same trip the struggle up through the morass to the sunlight Some are longer Some are shorter Some are harder than others- & not all will make it...
Author : Phyllis Carey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781556129827
Wagering on Transcendence explores the question of ultimate meaning in literature. Through essays, Mount Mary College professors from various disciplines analyze several pieces of literature from a variety of genres and authors to show how each depicts the human struggle to find meaning. The essays analyze concrete examples of spiritual journeys, the ways in which nature can be an avenue of transcendence, the transforming effect that the search for meaning can have on the individual, how transcendence can be experienced through community, the roles of language and story in the quest for transcendence, and the wager itself: how our bets about the existence of the Divine determine how we live our lives.
Author : Alain Danielou
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120836383
Author : Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691189803
An essential companion to a timeless spiritual classic The Lotus Sūtra is among the most venerated scriptures of Buddhism. Composed in India some two millennia ago, it asserts the potential for all beings to attain supreme enlightenment. Donald Lopez and Jacqueline Stone provide an essential reading companion to this inspiring yet enigmatic masterpiece, explaining how it was understood by its compilers in India and, centuries later in medieval Japan, by one of its most influential proponents. In this illuminating chapter-by-chapter guide, Lopez and Stone show how the sūtra's anonymous authors skillfully reframed the mainstream Buddhist tradition in light of a new vision of the path and the person of the Buddha himself, and examine how the sūtra's metaphors, parables, and other literary devices worked to legitimate that vision. They go on to explore how the Lotus was interpreted by the Japanese Buddhist master Nichiren (1222–1282), whose inspired reading of the book helped to redefine modern Buddhism. In doing so, Lopez and Stone demonstrate how readers of sacred works continually reinterpret them in light of their own unique circumstances. An invaluable guide to an incomparable spiritual classic, this book unlocks the teachings of the Lotus for modern readers while providing insights into the central importance of commentary as the vehicle by which ancient writings are given contemporary meaning.
Author : Gary Edson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 078646531X
An in-depth look into the foundations of mysticism and alchemy, this book describes both physical and spiritual aspects of the various theories and practices of transformation, with attention to the beliefs of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sufism, Tantrism, Taoism and Yoga. The connection between early mystical pursuits and the development of alchemy from ancient China, India, and Egypt through Moorish Spain and into Latin Europe are illuminated, along with the activities of early alchemists. The book, which is heavily illustrated, describes the beliefs, experiments, and secret messages that drew the believers and dreamers of the world together in search of wealth and immortality.
Author : John Siudmak
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004248323
The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences is primarily based on the study of the largely unpublished corpus of sculpture, mostly of stone, in the Sri Pratap Singh Museum in Srinagar, and of other examples in situ elsewhere in the valley. The disparate nature and fragmentary condition of these sculptures as well as their artistic and iconographical influences have for long defied accurate analysis. The method used in the classification of these sculptures is based on close analysis of their style concentrating on recurring features such as facial and physical typology, modelling, dress and ornamentation. Comparisons are made with other examples of Kashmir bronze, ivory and stone sculpture in private and public collections both within India and abroad.
Author : Hiram Woodward
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9047407741
The first ever comprehensive survey work on the art and architecture of Thailand from the earliest times until the establishment of the Thai-speaking kingdoms. A systematic and elucidating history of pre-fourteenth-century Thailand in a volume indispensable to historians of art, religion, politics, and society.