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Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages (South Asia Research)
This book provides a general survey of all the inscriptional material in the Sanskrit, Prakrit, and modern Indo-Aryan languages, including donative, dedicatory, panegyric, ritual, and literary texts carved on stone, metal, and other materials. This material comprises many thousands of documents dating from a range of more than two millennia, found in India and the neighboring nations of South Asia, as well as in many parts of Southeast, central, and East Asia. The inscriptions are written, for the most part, in the Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts and their many varieties and derivatives.Inscripti... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0195099842
- ASIN: 0195099842
- ISBN: 0195099842
- Brand: Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit
Ideal for courses in beginning Sanskrit or self-study, this textbook employs modern, tried-and-tested pedagogical methods and tools, but requires no prior knowledge of ancient languages or linguistics. Devanāgarī script is introduced over several chapters and used in parallel with transliteration for several chapters more, allowing students to progress in learning Sanskrit itself while still mastering the script. Students are exposed to annotated original texts in addition to practise sentences very early on, and structures and systems underlying the wealth of forms are clearly explained to ... [Read More]
- ASIN: B0746MLP8P
- ASIN: B0746MLP8P
- Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Yoga and Psychology: Language, Memory, and Mysticism (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)
Explores the influence of yoga in the seminal Indian philosophy of Bhartrhari and in the Western psychology of Freud, Jung, and the transpersonalists, providing unique insights into the differences between Eastern and Western concepts of human nature.Harold Coward explores how the psychological aspects of Yoga philosophy have been important to intellectual developments both East and West. Foundational for Hindu, Jaina, and Buddhist thought and spiritual practice, Patañjali's Yoga Sutras, the classical statement of Eastern Yoga, are unique in their emphasis on the nature and importance of psyc... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0791455009
- ASIN: 0791455009
- ISBN: 0791455009
- Brand: Brand: State University of New York Press
- Manufacturer: SUNY Press
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Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573) (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies)
Explores Japanese literary Zen through the landscape arts of poetry, prose, painting, and gardens expressed in the writings of Japan's Five Mountain monks.Examining inscriptions on landscape paintings and related documents, this book explores the views of the "two jewels" of Japanese Zen literature, Gido Shushin (1325-1388) and Zekkai Chushin (1336-1405), and their students. These monks played important roles as advisors to the shoguns Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408) and Yoshimochi (1386-1428), as well as to major figures in various michi or Ways of linked verse, the No theatre, ink painting, ... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0791439100
- ASIN: 0791439100
- ISBN: 0791439100
- Brand: Brand: State University of New York Press
- Manufacturer: SUNY Press
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The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century
Yoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story of how they developed. This book is an interpretation of the history of Indic religions up to around 1200 CE, with particular focus on the development of yogic and tantric traditions. It assesses how much we really know about this period, and asks what sense we can make of the evolution of yogic and tantric practices, which were to become such central and important features of the Indic religious scene. Its ori... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0521695341
- UPC: 000521695341
- ASIN: 0521695341
- ISBN: 0521695341
- Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
- Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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The Doctrine of Recognition: A Translation of the Pratyabhijnahrdayam with an Introduction and Notes, by Ksemaraja (SUNY series in Tantric Studies)
"In this world there are some devoted people who are undeveloped in reflection and have not taken pains in studying difficult works, but who nevertheless aspire after the enlightenment that blossoms forth with the descent of Sakti. For their sake the doctrine of recognition is being explained briefly."--KsemarajaThe word pratyabhijna means recognition. All individuals are divine, but they have forgotten their real nature and are identified with their psycho-physical mechanisms. This teaching is meant to enable them to recognize their real nature. It offers the spiritual practice through which ... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0791401510
- ASIN: 0791401510
- ISBN: 0791401510
- Manufacturer: SUNY Press
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John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age (Great Lakes Books Series)
John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age follows the spiritual sojourn of John E. Fetzer, a Michigan business tycoon. Born in 1901 and living most of his life in Kalamazoo, Fetzer parlayed his first radio station into extensive holdings in broadcasting and other enterprises, leading to his sole ownership of the Detroit Tigers in 1961. By the time he died in 1991, Fetzer had been listed in Forbes magazine as one of the four hundred wealthiest people in America. And yet, business success was never enough for Fetzer—his deep spiritual yearnings led him from the Christianity of his youth to ... [Read More]
- ASIN: B079SWBKQP
- ASIN: B079SWBKQP
- Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press
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An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices (Introduction to Religion)
In this second edition of the best-selling Introduction to Buddhism, Peter Harvey provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of the Buddhist tradition in both Asia and the West. Extensively revised and fully updated, this edition draws on recent scholarship in the field, exploring the tensions and continuities between the different forms of Buddhism. Harvey critiques and corrects some common misconceptions and mistranslations, and discusses key concepts that have often been over-simplified and over-generalised. The volume includes detailed references to scriptures and secondary l... [Read More]
- ASIN: B00A8GYQZ6
- ASIN: B00A8GYQZ6
- Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism's Guide to Meditation (with Commentary by the Son Monk Kihwa) (SUNY series in Korean Studies)
A concise guide to the key practice systems of the East Asian Meditational schools Ch'an, Son, and Zen.The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, used in monastic education for more than a millennium, is a concise guide to the key paradigms of the practice systems of the East Asian meditational schools (Ch’an, Soán, and Zen). Contained in its twelve chapters are definitive explanations of the meaning of innate and actualized enlightenment, sudden and gradual enlightenment, the true nature of ignorance and suffering, along with numerous examples of methods of contemplation that accord with and refl... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0791441024
- ASIN: 0791441024
- ISBN: 0791441024
- Brand: Brand: State University of New York Press
- Manufacturer: SUNY Press
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Coffee Shop University: A book about cross-cultural differences
A book about cross-cultural differences... The place Bailey’s Gym, Los Angeles, California—6am—the fall of 1999… From a bourgeois neighborhood in Beirut to the schools of the streets of Europe and the United States, the story takes you on a journey of self-exploration and transformation that goes through weight rooms, boxing rings, libraries and the stock market. Relentless, unconventional and independent; these successive experiences yield immense benefits for personal development. Your life is not set in stone, it’s a gift for which the first page is carved in your DNA and the rest... [Read More]
- ASIN: B075GXYRQC
- ASIN: B075GXYRQC
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Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal (Contemporary Indian Studies)
[A]n excellent analytical study of a sensationally beautiful type of temple.... This work is not just art historical but embraces... religious studies, anthropology, history, and literature." ―Catherine B. Asher[A]dvances our knowledge of... Bengali temple building practices, the complex inter-reliance between religion, state power, and art, and the ways in which Western colonial assumptions have distorted correct interpretation.... A splendid book." ―Rachel Fell McDermottIn the flux created by the Mughal conquest, Hindu landholders of eastern India began to build a spectacularly beautiful... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0253344875
- ASIN: 0253344875
- ISBN: 0253344875
- Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Making Virtuous Daughters and Wives: An Introduction to Women's Brata Rituals in Bengali Folk Religion
An exploration of Hindu women’s folk religion focusing on goddess worship and women’s rituals.Exploring the folk religion of India and the role of girls and women within it, author June McDaniel focuses on the brata (vrata) ritual in which moral lessons are taught and goddesses are revealed. Bratas are performed to gain such goals as a healthy family, a good husband, and a happy life. They are also performed so that the performers (bratinis) develop such virtues as devotion, humility, and compassion.This book presents data from fieldwork, along with brata stories, songs, poems, and ritual ... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0791455661
- ASIN: 0791455661
- ISBN: 0791455661
- Brand: Brand: State University of New York Press
- Manufacturer: SUNY Press
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Selling Yoga: From Counterculture To Pop Culture
Premodern and early modern yoga comprise techniques with a wide range of aims, from turning inward in quest of the true self, to turning outward for divine union, to channeling bodily energy in pursuit of sexual pleasure. Early modern yoga also encompassed countercultural beliefs and practices. In contrast, today, modern yoga aims at the enhancement of the mind-body complex but does so according to contemporary dominant metaphysical, health, and fitness paradigms. Consequently, yoga is now a part of popular culture. In Selling Yoga, Andrea R. Jain explores the popularization of yoga in the con... [Read More]
- ASIN: 019939024X
- ASIN: 019939024X
- ISBN: 019939024X
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Early Tamil Epigraphy from the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. (Harvard Oriental Series)
This book presents the earliest South Indian inscriptions (ca. second century B.C. to sixth century A.D.), written in Tamil in local derivations of the Ashokan Brahmi script. They are the earliest known Dravidian documents available and show some overlap with the early Cera and Pandya dynasties. Their language is Archaic Tamil, with a few borrowings from Prakrit and influences of old Kannada, both resulting from the early presence of northern Jainism. The widespread occurrence of pottery inscriptions indicates that the Tamil-Brahmi script had taken deep roots all over the countryside, leading ... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0674012275
- ASIN: 0674012275
- ISBN: 0674012275
- Manufacturer: Harvard University Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
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Religious Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)
Explores the relationship between health and religion based on the model offered by the Hindu traditions of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra.Religious Therapeutics explores the relationship between psychophysical health and spiritual health and presents a model for interpreting connections between religion and medicine in world traditions. This model emerges from the work's investigation of health and religiousness in classical Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra--three Hindu traditions noteworthy for the central role they accord the body. Author Gregory P. Fields compares Anglo-European and Indian philosoph... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0791449165
- ASIN: 0791449165
- ISBN: 0791449165
- Brand: Brand: State University of New York Press
- Manufacturer: SUNY Press
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Hinduism : A Very Short Introduction
Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott offers a succinct and authoritative overview of this major
- UPC: 50092581
- Rating: 3.2
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On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high achieving.
- UPC: 55601383
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Religions of India : Hinduism, Yoga, Buddhism
This in-depth study explores the history and philosophy of India's major religions, explaining clearly the development of Buddhism, Yoga, and Hinduism over the centuries. A complete glossary of terms is included, as well as an
- UPC: 29511105
- Rating: 4.0
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An Introduction to Hinduism 1ed
This book provides a much-needed thematic and historical introduction to Hinduism, the religion of the majority of people in India. Particular emphasis is given to the tantric traditions, which have been so influential; to Hindu
- UPC: 413352
- Rating: 1.0
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Portuguese Language for Foreigners: The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Learning Portuguese and Traveling in Portugal as Presented by the World’s Best Universities - eBook
This book is a compilation of texts, exercises, and a vast amount resources as used in the best universities to teach Portuguese to Foreigners. It includes the most effective methods to learn the Portuguese Language,
- UPC: 558651576
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GCSE Religious Studies for AQA A: Hinduism (Paperback)
Books : GCSE Religious Studies for AQA A: Hinduism
- UPC: 919312411
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The Camphor Flame : Popular Hinduism and Society in India
Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans
- UPC: 2699524
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Unifying Hinduism : Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History
Drawing on the writings of philosophers from late medieval and early modern traditions--including Vijnanabhiksu, Madhava, and Madhusudana Sarasvati--Andrew J. Nicholson shows how influential thinkers portrayed Vedanta philosophy as the ultimate unifier of diverse belief systems.
- UPC: 24598547
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Reciting the Goddess : Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal
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- UPC: 510613201
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The Life of Hinduism
"Hawley and Narayanan have shaped the presentation of this volume in an elegant, graceful way; the framework is brilliant, original, and compelling. These articles are very accessible, informative, diverse, and complex in argumentation. The collection
- UPC: 5478463
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